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There’s tons of very profitable companies hiring right now - the “top-name” companies doing layoffs were all “growth-first, profit-never” types. We’re not in an industry-wide downt…

If you’re a top performer you bail as soon as there are layoffs anyways. I certainly do. It’s rarely a sign that anything good is in your future, they’re often performed poorly, an…

for one thing, zips are far less likely to destroy data than sourcesafe, which was famous for doing just that

> SVN had a great feature set, and a great way to handle merges, and sane defaults. Are you kidding? Subversion had a notoriously awful way of handling merges, which was a huge dri…

You’ll have to wait until 3rd parties do those comparisons? Apple has literally never posted “here’s a ream of benchmarks vs the Dell XPS XYZ and HP modelnumbersneeze738462” — pret…

> Finally, doesn’t the fact that apple has a fundamentally different rendering pipeline relevant? Is it still all that fundamentally different? All of the RDNA parts are tile-based…

You could equally conclude that one of the reasons that very few people used it was because of the input lag.

Nit: Zen 3 increased the CCX size to 8 cores.

> I mean, if you want to argue that the story is actually a substantive and intellectually interesting one, containing significant new information Why would I want to argue that? I…

An extremely partisan voting block heavily flagging something is a piss-poor signal for on-topicness, come on. That kind of sloppy logic is a great way to let organized voting ring…

It’s not just the number of points that matter, it’s points over time. 3 points very quickly will rocket you over 20 points in 4 hours or something. And comments factor in too, so …

You only have to look at Japan for the last few decades to see what the long term effects of deflation look like. Negative economic growth, few job opportunities for young people, …

At this point I’ve only got one non-arm64 container, and it’s solely optional support for testing some obscure cases that our CI infrastructure handles more robustly anyways. Your …

And yet, real world production rust programs exist and measured performance is generally excellent. People are acting like this graph they saw for the first time today means that R…

> It seems crazy to me that something as trivial as allocating heap space needs rust nightly and unsafe. It seems crazy to you because your spectacular misdescription of the proble…

No. TFA points out there isn’t a gigantic performance sink or anything, just an infelicity in the code they’re generating. >> Does this mean Rust is slower than C++? > No. You can …

> Inefficient? Underperforming sure but they're probably among the best in terms of "efficiency" TFA extensively demonstrates that they’re a far, far behind Apple’s 2 year old M1 s…

> I mean he single handedly pulled the future forward in two different industries so far. This is the single bizarrest and most literally inaccurate use of the phrase “single-hande…

No, I don't think that at all. Clearly. The Windows mandate was a colossal, world-historic fuckup that I think is indicative of his impulsiveness and representative of his capacity…

The point is that "he did a phenomenal job early in his career" rather misses that his early career is more "incredibly mixed bag containing disastrous missteps" than universally "…

Like when they had to force him out of PayPal before he destroyed the company with his “rewrite the entire backend for Windows Server” mandate?

> This is exactly the case for CD Projekt Red. They built their own engine (RED Engine) for Witcher 1 and built on top of it for the two Witcher sequels and also pushed it to its v…

What? I used an X daily until about two weeks ago when I bought a 14. Zero issues with it, and never even heard about any.