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The opposite problem can happen- the CEO uses the product all the time and becomes blind to problems. “It has always worked that way”, or “who would want to do that!?”” are much mo…

They also get massive subsidies and tax breaks for building these data centers. They require the negotiations be done in secret and often fight to keep the agreements secret to mak…

Kind of a fun toy problem to play around with. I noticed you had thread coarsening as an option to play around with - there is often some gain to be had here. I think this is also …

> I'm surprised you're not touting the "save on your power bill" benefits. At ~$600/kWh for capacity, the ROI isn't great. I have a pretty big differential on my rates because I ha…

Are you sure they ditched CUDA? I keep hearing this, but it seems odd because that would be a ton of extra work to entirely ditch it vs selectively employing some ptx in CUDA kerne…

I've only done the CUDA side (and not professionally), so I've always wondered how much those skills transfer either way myself. I imagine some of the specific techniques employed …

So many fond memories of this game - it was a really fun blend of railroad sim and economic sim that I haven't really found since. I'll never forget the "ding ding ding" sound that…

I was having trouble finding an E Core die shot, but that helps put it into perspective a bit anyway. Thanks!

My non-expert brain immediately jumped to double-pumping + maybe working with their thread director to have tasks using a lot of AVX512 instructions prefer P cores more. It feels l…

Having dabbled in CUDA, but not worked on it professionally, it feels like a lot of the complexity isn't really in CUDA/C++, but in the algorithms you have to come up with to reall…

This would have been so useful this past week while we debugged something that ended up being a weird combo of Comcast/Cloudflare/http3 - only some people could reliably reproduce …

Kind of funny, I was just looking at adding similar functionality to an internal Chrome plugin I built because we struggle to get enough useful info in bug reports (being able to l…

GAR - Generation-Augmented Retrieval? I've actually had some success with getting ChatGPT to create Redshift queries based on user text and then I can run them and render results, …

Sorry, I used the wrong terminology. They are called “spans” in Go’s GC. There are different sizes of spans that allocations end up in, which helps avoid fragmentation.

Yeah, I think any bytecode interpreter ends up with a giant switch in the critical path at some point :) Around the time that change was made to Go, Andrew and I were looking at th…

Can you elaborate more on this? > E.g. Haskell has an awesome concurrent GC that’d work like crap for Java, because it assumes tons of really short-lived, really small garbage and …

It is kind of interesting to look at some of the differences in GC approach in the JVM vs Go - the different goals, different tradeoffs, different approaches, etc. Go's is definite…

I think it depends a lot on the other details, especially how expensive the extra GC will be vs the wasted space. Hard to give a rule that will work in all contexts. In our case, i…

It's one of those things where you usually have to let profiling and other observations guide your approach. 99.9% of the time it doesn't really matter and the default behavior is …

I'm not the author, but I have contributed a few things to the project over the past year. The performance isn't anywhere close to the vanilla JVM - several times slower at best. I…

Your last 2 sentences highlight the crux of it, I think - in the first sentence, you say "C developer" and in the second just "developers". This actually does seem like a great ice…

I think a lot depends on the context, the job, and the languages involved. Of course there is a trivial solution in pretty much any language, for example something like str(Decimal…

I agree that the goals and means to get to them are fuzzy and it feels frustrating at times, and things like affirmative action felt like trying to make two wrongs equal a right. B…

That's a good point - where I live it is pretty dry, but in a more humid area you definitely want air moving around more too.