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Microsoft account horribleness eg: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/my-daughters-school-t...

Win key being unbindable for app specific shortcuts.

Windows update undoing all user preferences https://twitter.com/rygorous/status/1504572255665201154?s=46...

Janky crashes: https://twitter.com/litherum/status/1279164544544157696?s=46...

Forced internet accounts: https://twitter.com/rianflo/status/1589346472335937536?s=46&...

I could go on. A lot of these i found just searching “windows update” amongst people i follow on twitter.

For undergrad level PL, I highly recommend Dan Grossman's MOOC[0] or recent class recorded lectures[1]. Dan's thesis work strongly influenced Rust's borrow checker.

Disclosure: Dan advised me in undergrad and Adrian is a friend.

[0] https://www.coursera.org/learn/programming-languages

[1] https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse341/19sp/ (ctrl-f "Videos")

And I get it in every interview. Somehow my brain just doesn't care to remember the gritty details for tough bugs. I'll spend days on a bug but soon after I solve it I'll only remember the actionable takeaways like "next time I should try using X tool sooner" or "check your assumptions on Y part of the stack".

I think it's because I never spend any time revisiting that bug in my mind. I've got new problems to solve. You need to revisit something to remember it.

Huh, they thought he was twice as valuable as Pichai at the time.

(simple proof is to turn everything into triangles.)

Of developers who use WakaTime, most use Windows.

Of developers who answer StackOverflow surveys, most use Linux.

These aren't contradictions.

They certainly don’t want you to disable deal notifications and make it very difficult to do so.

It’s like the old quote about fire extinguishers: if you don’t know where one is, it doesn’t exist. If a reasonable effort cannot find the setting, it doesn’t exist.

When the private sector consistently refuses to self regulate bad behavior, the law can and should step in.

For example, I have notifications enabled for Amazon because I need to know when a delivery is coming but they’ll use that channel to spam me about “deals”. There’s no reasonable way to disable all these ad-via-notifications.

One thing I've noticed is that pretty much every established bike company is placing the motor on the pedal crank, whereas Rad uses a much bigger (750w in my case) in-wheel hub motor. The acceleration with a hub motor is so much better and doesn't depend on what gear I'm in.

I don't doubt any of your experiences, but I mention this so readers can get more perspectives.

Perhaps one significant difference between us is that Rad has a showroom / repair shop in Seattle, although I haven't needed them for anything other than easier parts pickup (fenders and break pads.)

What was the most surprising thing you learned while working on Rosetta 2?

Is there anything (that you can share) that you would do differently?

Can your recommend any great starting places for someone interested in instruction translation?

Looking forward, did your work on Rosetta give you ideas for unfilled needs in the virtualization/emulation/translation space?

What's the biggest inefficiency you see today in the tech stacks you interact most with?

A lot of hard decisions must have been made while building Rosetta 2; can you shed light on some of those and how you navigated them?

My preferred way to learn about a new (to me) area of tech is to hear the insights of the people who have provably advanced that field. There's a lot of noise to signal in tech blogs.

In my experience, exceptionally well executed tech like this tends to have 1-2 very talented people leading. I'd like to follow their blog or Twitter.

Related rant to OP: compute power is so ubiquitously affordable nowadays that there is no excuse for apps to be slow even on these cheapest new devices.

I recently made a 3D game in my custom engine for the Ludum Dare 51 game jam[0] and I was shocked to see it run at a solid 50fps on a $118 IdeaPad 3[1].

50fps means every _20ms_ the game does at least:

- builds an oct-tree and auxiliary data structures for 1000+ physics objects, traverse this to find collisions, solve all physics constraints, compute new transform matrices for each obj.

- serialize and upload each object, view, and scene data to the igpu (no dedicated gpu)

- do vertex transformations on ~25k vertices + rasterize 30k triangles TWICE: once for the main camera, once for the shadow camera; rendering to 5 textures/gbuffers

- run two post processing passes over 1,049,088 pixels, doing outline + concavity detection, vignette, and gamma correction (18 texture samples per pixel).

- all the game logic including: reading inputs, character controller, firing cannons, updating projectiles, splintering meshes, updating game state, audio, UI, custom ECS query engine, etc.

The whole payload, unminified code + 3D assets + sound + textures, is 1.2mb over the wire. This is an engine I built over the last ~year in javascript(!), so it's not had nearly as much optimization as Unity etc.

And yet every day I encounter websites and apps that fail to be responsive to even basic button clicks. There's no excuse for this.

[0] https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/51/darkstar-sailor

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B087YW8FQB/ref=ppx_od_dt_b...

Windows Phone and Fire Phone.

One of my favorite articles is this one on hex grids: https://www.redblobgames.com/grids/hexagons/ it blew my mind the first time I noticed that all the interactions and code change when you toggle between "flat topped" and "pointy topped".

Killer Queen Black is shutting down due to GameSpark being sunsetted. The game was released 2019.

And even if some public universities are self-sustaining now, that doesn't lessen the fact that public money was the major cause that started that flywheel.

And regardless of funding, UW, like all public universities, has an explicit directive to operate for the "benefit of present and future citizens of the State of Washington"[2][3].

As for course lecture quality, if it's worthwhile to the students, it can be worthwhile for the public.

[0] https://www.washington.edu/opb/uw-data/fast-facts/ [1] https://educationdata.org/how-do-people-pay-for-college [2] https://www.washington.edu/regents/ [3] https://apps.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=28B.20.130

The hairiest issue here is when there's student participation. But you don't need each quarter to be online, just once every time there are significant course changes. The quarter that will be uploaded could be announced as such and students could consent to being recorded. But this isn't a big deal, MIT has a lot of open courseware with students being recorded. It'd be easy to survey and compare student experiences with/without recordings. But the benefit for the public could be enormous! Think about the public good of every publicly funded university's courseware being accessible online for free.

I found this to be an interesting example of generated art being used in the workflow of traditional art.