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If you think that is bad, then you might think that it’s even worse that memcpy() was broken for years when running a 32 bit process on a 64 bit linux system. Also due to a hand optimised assembly function.

We had an issue for years where occasionally our backend database would fall over and we were just seeing strange corruption in the stored data sometimes.

Turns out that memcpy() didn’t handle data that was not aligned to a 4 byte boundary correctly in the 32 on 64 case. It took one of our sysadmins a very very long time to find it.

What blew me away is the idea that there can be a bug in something that is used literally everywhere all the time.

In addition, there was a pull request with a fix that someone had written that got ignored for years that we found. We just applied the diff in the pull request and it fixed our issues. The fix was eventually applied upstream a few years later.

Good leadership feels like a democracy while actually being a dictatorship.

Walk people towards the decision you want using a Socratic method and then let them take the credit for the decision making.

Of course sometimes you will get a situation where someone doesn’t arrive at the solution you want anyway so you need to excise a bit of hard power, but hopefully that is rare enough that people respect it when you do it.

I don't really like this kind of idea because it really goes against a kind of fundemental freedom. "If you don't like it, you can leave".

Instead, laws around making sure that the profits generated from a countries citizens are taxed by that country make more sense to me. A lot of laws around that already exist, and I suppose a lot of people would say that they have not been effective.

A lot of it comes down to the treatment of Intelectual Property. A lot of the tax games that companies play relate to licencing their IP around between different countries. I wonder what would happen if a country tried banning licencing of IP between related parties internationally?

Well Stable Diffusion did give back.

This doesn’t seem to satisfy the artists.

He certainly committed fraud, but it’s certainly unusual that he was prosecuted for it when nobody lost money. In fact, investors did well.

It’s hard not to feel like this is not a thing that would have been investigated had he not been a totally raging asshole.

Isn’t the tone of your comment the same as the article?

I know several science teachers in NZ and there is a very real problem. They are very angry.

In the last week my friend who is a physics teacher told me that the most recent offence of the ministry of education is that they will be removing the “data gathering” and “data analysis” parts of the science curriculum.

This hasn’t hit the news yet because it’s very fresh and they haven’t actually published the new curriculum yet.

It’s also getting a lot of push back from teachers, and so it’s possible that it gets walked back, but the fact that people in control there even think that such a thing is on the table tells you something about the current views of people in charge at the ministry.

Many experienced and excellent teachers are resigning because they have had enough.

If we lived in such a society I would imagine we would be a bit more careful as we drafted laws. It would also be a lot more equitable due to the lack of selective enforcement.

What is so bad about catching people taking unauthorised breaks?

I don’t think the problem is cost cutting. I think the problem is just the same problem that every human enterprise has.

Most people just don’t give a shit outside thier immediate responsibility.

Looking at the global view and actually making changes that require persuading other people is a hard and often thankless task.

Many people who do give a shit get this crushed out of them early in their career by the negativity you will face if you try.

Much easier to just accept the status quo.

Occasionally you get a group of people who really care and come together determined not to let things be crappy and they can form an organisation that is significantly more effective for a time. But once the rot of “We can’t fix things” sets in, it’s really really hard to turn things around.

Yes. This is how you get wrecked in the housing market. This is because buying a house is taking a risk. The question is just who is taking it.

In 2008 my mother had her equity completely wiped out due to the exact situation you describe. Underwater mortgage, unable to afford the interest, forced to sell at a loss, zero net worth at the end after paying off all her debt.

On the other hand, we didn't suffer the 2008 banking crisis and overall the economy was basically fine with only a minor recession, mostly due to worldwide conditions.

It makes the banking system more resilient to rate fluctuations..

In the case of this cooktop, it was not always on. You have to boot it up every time you go to use it.

I’m building a house at the moment and I have been insisting that I am able to actually test all the built in appliances with power to see if the software is garbage.

I have found that most of the high end brands have a completely horrible user experience. Miele is the worst I’ve tried, and I found that as you go up the price range even inside that brand the experience gets worse.

The top end Miele induction cooktop takes over 5 seconds to boot up before you can even turn a hob on. The interface has a second of latency on presses. It took me probably 20 seconds to work out how to turn a hob on. I happened to be with my mother at the time and I asked her to try to work out how to turn a hob on and she had failed after 1 minute of trying and gave up and asked me.

It looks nice though.

The thing I find the most infuriating about it is that my attitude towards this stuff is just not understood by designers at all. They complain at my choices because the Miele appliances which they specified are “better quality”. And yet I feel like they can’t have actually tried to use them because as far as I can tell the quality is total garbage.

We can only wish this is the case.

We are about to have a demographic crunch where we will have massive worker shortages. That is inherently inflationary, and we will need automation which is inherently deflationary if we want to keep the lifestyle we have.

I have never heard that expression used unironically. I feel like the idea that there are people out there saying it in earnest is itself a meme that was never true.

I used to use a doorbird, and for the same reasons as you, but I found the speaker and mic quality to be bad enough that I couldn’t live with it.

Usually I would try and talk to people over it and they wouldn’t even hear that I was talking. If I turned the volume up so that they notice, the over modulation was so bad that they couldn’t understand me.

I ended up just going with a Ring even though it goes against my cloud stance. At least it works.

Scaling up too much is a huge risk. Sure, people want a lot more EUV machines right now, but what if they don’t later? You can be left with a lot of expensive capital outlay that is going unused.

The semi industry is known for being very boom/bust so it’s best not to scale up too quick lest it kill your company.

I think the same is true of equity compensation schemes.

I understand the theory of aligning incentives, but in practice what I see is a bunch of perverse results. Rest-and-vest as well as all sorts of non-useful stress in times like these.

You would think that there would be something more useful to do with the money, like fixing the infrastructure.

I think your position is a pretty reasonable take but I’ll try to take it on as someone who still has the early 00s mentality.

I think the primary argument against it basically boils down to the fact that the internet hasn’t actually changed things as much as most people of our generation who grew up with it think, and many of the changes are better, not worse.

1) For harassment, it would be hard to do worse than the harassment we had in the past. Open racism has certainly declined since the 60s/70s. There was significantly more actual violence against people during that time than today.

2) Misinformation was certainly more prevelent in the past. Did you know that in 1970 30% of Americans thought the moon landing was faked? The number now is much much lower and has only gone down.

3) The idea that foreign powers were influencing America was certainly a lot bigger in the past. The “red scare” was a thing. People were mistrusting of thier neighbours and accusations of being communist abounded.

I think the main thing the internet has done is surface the craziness so that more people know about the fewer actual number of crazies.

Current RTX hardware is rather lame to only get to 1spp isn’t it?

It’s not even clear that it’s the right approach.

A graphics engineer I know has this to say about it. “Telling me you made hardware accelerated BVH is like telling me you implemented hardware accelerated bubble sort.”

There is a famous quote from Douglas Adams:

Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things. Apply this list to movies, rock music, word processors and mobile phones to work out how old you are.

These feelings are just the cohort of which we are a part getting older.

I’m quite suprised you are willing to hire people who you know are lying to you.

To me, someone like that has demonstrated that they can’t be trusted and I would remove them from the business ASAP.

You can fix a lot of things with an employee/employer relationship, but those things require trust. You just don’t ever know where you stand with someone who lies.

"Are you actually IO bound? I seriously doubt it."

https://twitter.com/rygorous/status/1423778960739950595

I would say Systems are Tables, Components are rows, and Entities are Primary Keys.

You say that like it’s bad thing.

This is really it right here. I actually find it amazing that such a significant percentage of people don’t actually understand what their job even is.

Your job is to work on what your manager wants done. It’s that simple.

Now if you have a bad mananger they may not be effective at communicating that to you. If that’s the case than it’s even easier to get ahead. You can be one of the few people that actually asks!

This issue is very bad, and I've had it on all 3 of the sets of AirPods pros I have owned.

Another issue I have had on all three is that the noise cancelling degrades over time. When you get a new set, it's kind of night and day how good they are at first. After about 6 months I would say that they noticably suck compared to how they are when you first get them, and they just continue to degrade over time.

My guess is just wax and gunk getting to the external microphone mesh over time, but there is no way to deal with it that I can see short of buying another pair.

The move from 9.1 to 8.6 is due to a single month of zero.

People forget that 11/12th of the data for the yearly number already happened when they see the new number each month.

It’s not impossible that inflation is just 0% from here on out and yet it will still take a while for the yearly number to come down.