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Used to flip both ways... I.e. for a time, it became easier for talented people to find a better role. In the last 5-10 years though, between the race to the bottom and AI/Bot spam…

Not sure about that bit... What is well known however, is that a bunch of Alpha engineers wound up at AMD, and a lot of that DNA went into the OG Athlon

Its funny because I have been asked by some folks at work as to why I dont just 'allow all commands' and instead review each one, and then I let my colleague in infosec know who as…

Where it gets tricky is that, at least in past US case law, 'maps are facts' and thus cannot be copyrighted as easily (this is part of why published maps often have intentional, ho…

The RE thing may have been a false narrative, but tax abatements were a factor in at least one local company doing RTO; their business tax breaks were partially based on employees …

One of the things I ironically loved about my windows phone was that it was a PERFECT Phone [0], Sms [1], and Navigation device [2], good enough for music, but SUCKED the further y…

Part of me wonders, would 3d xpoint (if still around) be a viable option? Yeah it is slower than real RAM by a good amount for latency, but you can get similar bandwidth and the co…

There are some minor exceptions but agreed otherwise. Manufacturers have been excessively using VRAM limitations as a price point distinguisher.

Aka 'follow JSF guidelines that still apply to C and not just C++'. I.e. all alloc should happen up front, functions should have predictable execution time, etc etc

But can it do a better bad apple?

Lest we forget how they snubbed Bungie...

Depends a LOT on the res. E.x. notebookcheck indicates that FEAR (released a yearish later) could get 20-30ish FPS at 640x480 but chokes at 1024x768 (at numbers matching the HL2 lo…

Something to be said for branding. There's a pizza place by me called "slice of the 80's" that has tacky vaguely 80-s feeling styling. Surprisingly its been around for over 15 year…

Natural gas is cleaner to burn than coal, if I had to guess this is lazy half-done greenwashing, i.e. 'at least it's not coal!' Similar to California's measures for cleaner power g…

BEAM threads are kinda magicsauce tho, instructions have a cost and after a certain cost total (quantums) the scheduler can divert to another virt thread to guarantee forward progr…

> Of course it's also possible there is some detail I've missed. Can't speak too deeply for Go specifically, but I do know on .NET one of the big reasons generic methods where T is…

Strife

The weeds are the hard part. But as far as when I owned my own home, cutting the grass was just part of my routine and at least guaranteed some physical activity instead of working…

SO got awkward when the not-bad anti spam measures got cross wired with a mod mentality similar to wikipedia.

Be more afraid of the technocrat who doesn't even have a tell. It means they are better at manipulation.

AGS time!

> Lain is 10/10. Caught the BeOS fan ;) (I kid, mostly but remember Lain fans rabidly trying and espousing it)

In fact lumping xAI in that to cause a loss likely provides some tax benefits vs putting it with Twitter/X itself

Idk if the 75 was really that great tho, mostly in that it had a 50Mhz FSB rather than 60 or 66Mhz like most other parts. Another factor for the later P1s being better IIRC was imp…

Right... on the flipside its one thing to where it is X+minor overhead inclined lib calls Then a whole nother level of awesome where its literally just ASM