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Today I learned that economies of scale and specialization are not things.

Do you have a source for that claim? My understanding is the GPL based on copyright - and that copyright only protects a specific expression, not a general idea or concept. To sugg…

If you take a book, start photocopying it and giving away the copies you may well be. There are limits even there.

PullRequest actually reviews the reviewers (I actually became a better reviewer via this). 'LGTM' is considered a bad practise, and I've been pulled up on this several times. Inste…

I've gotten pushback on best practises, especially from more junior developers or developers on a tight deadline. I do C# and one common, yet trivial example is poor naming convent…

I'm a reviewer on PullRequest, and thought I'd share some perspective. Happy to answer any questions in comments. Background - I've built and led engineering teams at multiple fast…

> Perf/watt isn’t the same thing as task energy, it sounds like you’re the one confused here. How do you calculate Perf/watt if not Task/Task Energy? > As I said, task energy (whic…

I think you're getting a bit confused. The 3990x is not designed for energy efficiency, on an older node, and on an older architecture... uses 3kWh vs Apples 2kWh (using a very fla…