I'm always really shocked on hn when people getting called out for arrogance respond with accusations (of vitriol). What day job do you have where you can make proclamations like "It quickly seems that the low level C/Cpp is becoming obsolete" while simultaneously admitting being an amateur and not get checked. Must be very different from my day job where being precise and accurate and conservative is paramount. Moreover what kind of habit of thought are you in that being called out for that is read as vitriol?
When people post like this it's hard to tell if they are trying to have a conversation in good faith, or they are seeking pleasure in the form of belittling someone.
it was as condescending as the original comment was arrogant. what exactly is the confusion here? if you want to a community where people are allowed to make bold claims without doing sufficient research (hn) then you should also allow for those people to treated as such.
That’s as much a matter of personal identity as a ‘habit of thought’, friend. Otherwise, we could we comment on the basis of _your_ perspective as some mutable affectation, no?
You see, we are shadows of ourselves. An inquisitive play, or let’s say a “judgment” about Cuda economics: aspirational, errant? Then, the linguistic phalanx: honed no doubt by long running needs to be heard and seen and listened to.
My day job is optimization for logistics and multi-agent systems on edge deployments. We vary between heterogenous compute environment on-platform and occasional connections to cloud-like servers, but only occasionally. The system has a lot to do and we're pushing what it can do for itself.
I like these problems and am always trying to find new ways to solve them. That's really it, I'm wondering if it's best to focus on learning to work the hardware as is, or learning to twist existing libraries into new problems.
For example if you look at this: https://weightythoughts.com/p/cuda-is-still-a-giant-moat-for...
It actually denigrates anyone who would consider starting at low level CUDA kernels. I liked your message though, you had a great point: what do I imagine all those CUDA programmers do if not write CUDA?