datalus

This is why I refuse to buy anything after a certain date when it comes to cars. Luckily I have the ability and resources to maintain and fix my own vehicle.

Truly this is the year of Linux on the desktop!

The username definitely checks out.

Yeah... the crux is should electronic conversations be afforded the same rights, and by extension are they assumed rights for all communication? Where to draw the line? It's definitely murky.

And just when I was about to get into flow state...

The sibling comment has the right of it from snarf21. Rarely does a job bring you into a state of self actualization. If it does, you're very fortunate!

I'm coming up on my second decade in the tech industry, and all I can say is you gotta find out what fills you up and do that outside of work like the others have said. I started out in the game industry thinking I had finally arrived, but quickly burned out and moved into web dev for most of my career.

I find working on pixel art, music, and tech in concert very fulfilling, but I don't think I could ever cede this to a company for marketing/support/etc. or turn it into some sort of income to pay my bills. Ultimately I set clear boundaries around work for delivering on my workload inside normal business hours and outside of that is fully my time.

bruh the screen savers is such a blast from the past and peak late 90s/early 00s tech. It's crazy to think Martin Sargent co-hosted with Digg's co-founder Kevin Rose quite a bit on that show.

Not sure about your state's Obamacare, but all the plans offered in my state only cover in network providers. Whereas my employer's plan also covers out of network which I used for therapy. Now I'm stuck paying full price and unemployed for therapy as COBRA was way too expensive to keep going, even with my severance, because who knows how long it's going to take to get a job. It's been pretty slow so far and I've spent everyday sending my resume around and shaking down my network.

I hope startups focused on letting builders build is a net positive outcome of this and all the other tech layoffs.

I found this old blog article at a high level on how Dark Sky works... about 12 years old now. I always loved this app and was kind of sad when Apple acquired them... but to have Apple come in and just buy your app out is probably a great feeling for the founders :)

Anyhow, here's the url:

https://jackadam.github.io/2011/how-dark-sky-works

Exact same experience, except I've never gone back to a career in game development... although I've considered it at various points in my software dev career.

No, but all those people making "Netflix money" aren't really changing technology, are they? I'd argue FAANG is stagnating it, and telling themselves differently.

I guess if you want to make gobs of cash, fine. You could also just go into finance and make more than FAANG money if you're talented enough.

> The internet could have been like this.

It still can and like others have said it does exist in some places. I mean this site is an example, right? :)

You start/launch applications from the menu? That's my guess.

I like how this book makes the justification for just fixing it yourself.

I would say a lot of this confusion comes from the word engineer. Building software is not like building a bridge. You can't design it first and then go and build it.

So I would say engineer is a poor term, but also the only one we've got for now.

So does this also mean that the ISS is no longer able to get serviced, or are there projects to work on in-orbit service vehicles?

How specific is the Hubble that you can only repair it with the Space Shuttle? o_O

Is it ironic that Amazon uses leetcode for their programming screeners?

The question is... what is a sane amount of alcohol? It’s surprisingly carcinogenic. It’s just the alcohol industry, much like the tobacco industry of yesteryear, has successfully suppressed this info.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_and_cancer

This is what I keep thinking about. I feel it’s going to get even darker on the internet when these influencers have to begrudgingly hand the reins over as they get traded in for the newer models.

I started off as a Windows user, but in college I switched to I think OS X Tiger at the time. To me, it was a pretty impressive upgrade & I had a *nix terminal at my disposal. But imo macOS has been running on the same UX upgrade since it started calling itself OS X.

I think this sentiment largely comes from the era when Microsoft Windows XP was the dominant Windows flavor and also the ME/Vista debacles.

But what if your window cranking was charging your battery? :D

I just read the corporate memphis article, and oh look... Amazon is also using the style right here.

All I can do is sigh, and hope for a brighter future.

In my opinion, yes you should probably learn a higher level api than Vulkan first like DX11 or OpenGL if you have no experience. This is also still important for 2D, creating a simple textured quad in Vulkan is at least one order of magnitude more complicated/verbose than the higher level mentioned apis.

In Vulkan, you're going to be manually describing to the GPU every last atom of your graphics pipeline. You also need to worry about how it's all laid out in memory through a bunch of descriptor objects that you're building in tandem. Then there's syncing between the GPU and CPU via semaphores etc to transfer data, which can be error prone and hard to debug. This results in very verbose and hard to read code. If you've never touched a graphics api before, I think frustration starts to mount and you'd be more likely to just give up. The upside is you have total control over how the GPU interprets and executes your workload (most likely a triangle as a beginner :P)

Anyway, a lot of this is hidden away in DX11 or OpenGL, you call a few functions here and there and it will do all of these lower level concerns for you. I think once you get used to the jargon and feel of apis like these, you can then start to see how Vulkan or a similar low level api would fill in between the higher level procedures/objects.

Edit: For any graphics api, imo, if you're concerned about building a game you'd probably also not want to touch those apis directly from game code. In DX11 or OpenGL it's not too hard to wrap that up in a bit higher abstraction but in Vulkan you'd almost first want to wrap Vulkan into an api that can be used without writing a ton of manual setup and then use that api to write a higher level, more game appropriate abstraction to call from the game's code. (usually done as part of an engine/framework)

Edit 2: Having said all of this, you could ignore all of the nitty/gritty details and just copy paste the code from the tutorials and make a workable api for yourself to try to understand. Up to you and how you like to learn.

2nd post down... doxxed ooof.

There's certainly an entire industry of people selling useless shit to rich people, but when I heard about it was from a friend who worked at a call center when they used to reach them via phone :D

Same, I used to spend a week+ tweaking things ever so slightly. Now I just install a base system and use kde5 plasma. Easy to theme, has an app launcher. (Which Windows also just got, same shortcut weirdly enough alt + space).

Robinhood only allows you to trade for an hour into after hours. WeBull, another retail platform, and I believe thinkorswim (TDA's offering) allows you to trade the full after hours length of time which ends at 8pm EST.

edit: These are the only 3 platforms I have experience with, there are certainly others.

I also like the digital twin concept as it applies to sci-fi. Sometimes I daydream our universe is a digital twin built by an advanced civilization meant to simulate the universe's history looking for clues as to what lead to a calamity that they're trying to undo. Random thought :)