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The problem is not that GIMP has a different UI to photoshop. That's not a problem. Premier and Final Cut Pro have different UIs, and while there's some friendly banter about which…

I tend to look at the grinder and also the choice of the beans (roast level, consistency, chips). As another commenter pointed out you do occasionally get places that will buy a su…

There are a couple of notable examples of projects[0] and companies[1] that have got tired of it, and no longer use it. There's considerable difficulty these days extrapolating "re…

io_uring is in a curious place. Yes it does offer significant performance advantages, but it continues to be such a consistent source of bugs - many with serious security implicati…

Is there any way to have something like a distance blur? e.g. as rays travel further you reduce the number, subsample then apply a gaussian(or algo of choice) blur across those tha…

Do note though that AIUI these are all E-cores, have poor single-threaded performance and won't support things like AVX512. That is going to skew your performance testing a lot. So…

All the good commercial parametric CAD apps have an API that allow you to define models programatically to avoid repitition, or do more complicated things like ensure gear ratios a…

Unfortunately the index is the easy part. Transforming user input into a series of tokens which get used to rank possible matches and return the top N, based on likely relevence, i…

It's not quite as simple as that though - in most places, especially California, water shortages are not a simple natural imbalance between the amount of rain that falls and how mu…

If you want people to take your benchmark seriously, you'd need to provide a very great deal more information on how those numbers are generated. "It's complicated, just trust me" …

The standard is... well, it IS indeed a standard, I guess you can't really argue that, but it's a very great deal more permissive than many people might hope or expect. https://ijm…

I don't seem to be able to select "hard" AI - is this just not implemented yet? It'd be nice to have a stronger AI, but I do realise that this is a lot easier said than done.

It's a shame the article chose to compare solely against AMD CPUs, because AMD and Intel have very different L3 architectures. AMD CPUs have their cores oranised into groups, calle…

Plus one on the floating thing, on desktop it'd be great to be able to move it out of my way but still have it present. Also, while I assume/hope there are shortcut keys on desktop…

There's a lot of rumours flying around that HL3 might be coming soonish, and when it arrives it'll almost certainly support RTX. It's also possible that it'll be built on an evolut…

This is from 2017, errors.Join did not exist at the time. But yes, today you'd do it differently.

> Infra/Ops and programming are two different mindsets [...] HARD disagree on this. I've done both. Most of the really excellent programmers I've worked with have, at least a littl…

As long as that very description is spelled out clearly near the top of the job ad, it doesn't matter terribly much (within reason) what you call it - job searchers will try variou…

The months of R&D to create a workaround could simply be because the subset of motherboards which trigger this issue are doing something borderline/unexpected with their voltage ma…

It's definitely not working. Several of the channels I'm currently in (which are not private channels for the record) aren't listed at all, and it's not sorted by user counts at al…

Memory de-dup is computationally expensive, and KSM hitrate is generally much worse than people tend to expect - not to mention that it comes with its own security issues. I agree …

Generics in go, as they're implemented today, sadly have a fair bit of performance overhead. I haven't tried but my assumption would be that go generics are not fast enough to make…

High barriers to entry on the interview process don't mean as much as you may think. Even with the best interview process in the world, you're only going to have a small number of …

Not only is this complete and utter rubbish, it should have been obvious from context that we're not talking about desktop CPUs. 96-core desktop CPUs are not a thing, and neither o…

Clock speed isn't a particularly meaningful measurement anymore, and hasn't been for years. For example, an AMD Genoa chip, depending on SKU, may have fairly comparable base/boost …