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As a former AAA dev, this is spot on. At the end of the day, games are a business. Margins are not attractive and competition is fierce as the barrier to game development has lower…

This is awesome! Cigarette ads are so seductively cool, yet the embodiment of selling you a fantasy

Ah, walking across glued trees [1]! Not sure of its practical merits however, aha... [1] - https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0209131

They're not easily comparable since quantum complexity refers to the upper bound on queries to some black-box "quantum oracle", which exists on the gate-level. A classical parallel…

Possibly of interest, but I wrote a (hopefully approachable) report on quantum perceptrons a few years back [1]. Perhaps it's found elsewhere, but I was surprised by how, at least …

The bar for entry is surprisingly low, you just need to brush up on intro abstract algebra. I recommend the following: 1. Kaye, LaFlamme, and Mosca - An Introduction to Quantum Com…

As a young dev, interested in your point about 1996. Mind elaborating?

I've only been out of college for a few years, but my engineering friends who stay at a company for at least 4 years seem more the exception than norm. Was it like this in the pre-…

Nowadays, Amazon is often invoked negatively with phrases like "PIP", and "Amazon managers". But I'm curious how different the culture was during Amazon's early years. Anyone stay …

As a Tupac fan and lover of print news, I think this article encapsulates what's wrong with modern media: the selective use of context to engender a political stance, from which ou…

I wonder if layoffs will affect company loyalty in the future? I'm leaning towards not, given the frequency of turnover at big tech companies for higher TC

I would be inclined to agree, but I'm reminded of passages from Edwin Black's book [1] depicting the capriciousness of medical providers. E.g. a board of doctors was typically resp…

I like this. That said, I doubt we'll ever escape towards subscription-based social media models due to the prohibitive costs of CDNs, bandwidth, and storage for video/images. But …

Completely disagree: Yann LeCun, John Carmack, Rui Ueyama, Andrei Alexandrescu, Matt Goldbolt, Horace He, Tarun Chitra, George Hotz, etc.

Even more interestingly, Anthropic isn't traditionally structured: it's a Long-Term Benefit Trust [1]. That's not say shares can't be sold, but, rather, shareholders have very litt…

I'd agree. I'd say adversaries are unlikely to steal data now, wait a decade or two, and then decrypt on a quantum computer for _most_ private company ip. It's only relevant to gov…

As the child of blue-collar parents, I'd agree that there's a lot of price anxiety in their neck of the woods. I'd also add that the statistics can be misleading: of the jobs added…

I'd suggest changing the headline to the original, more sensationalized one. It certainly went against my initial impression that an Amazonian brought Amazon culture to a startup, …

Another cheeky comment from Meta devs: The location for pytorch's git repo is listed as "where the eigens are valued" : ^)

This discussion brings to mind the monastic practice of copying texts for the purpose of preservation [1]. An interesting practice I learned from the sci-fi classic "A Canticle for…

Any good alternatives to Google Photos?

I'd echo this. I'd also add (perhaps prematurely as a gen-z) that I see a lot less playfulness when it comes to side-projects. Rather, it seems projects start with monetary or care…

As an Audm subscriber, I got an email about this today. On one hand, I'm disappointed since I used Audm for listening to long-form journalism from a variety of papers, as opposed t…