Negitivefrags

If it takes a week to "ramp up" to produce a tiny change, then that itself is probably a broken process that needs to be improved.

With regard to HDR for display, I tried quite a while to be able to reproduce a situation where HDR had any benefits in a real time rendering context.

The only case I could really find where it makes a difference is in slow and smooth colour gradients on which you can see the increased precision. However, that can also be basically solved by adding (rand()-0.5)/255 to all fragments before output.

The increased brightness kind of doesn't matter since SDR content is usually just stretched to fill the increased brightness range.

The most interesting thing for me was the wider colour gamut that you get with the rec2020 colour primaries. Unfortunately I couldn't really reproduce anything looking actually different, let alone better.

I was doing my lighting in the rec2020 colour space, and I was producing out-of-gamut colours for rec709, so I really was seeing colours that SDR content would be totally unable to produce. Yet somehow my eye just couldn't preceive a difference when switching back and forth between the two images.

I am using an LG OLED which are supposed to be good for HDR so the display shouldn't be the issue.

I would be keen to see some references that really quantify the difference between HDR and non-HDR rendering where the HDR version doesn't just look darker.

Companies are frantically hiring and yet output is dropping. Output per worker is lower than ever before!

What possible massive shift in the way people work could possibly explain this?!

It’s so obvious but people just don’t want to hear it.

TMS gives me the creeps. I mean ultimately you are inducing current in the brain with magnetic fields.

It boils down to the same mechanism of action as electro-shock therapy. Presumably with a lot less destruction of neurons of course.

Now electro-shock is one of the most effective at treating depression, and I guess that might be why TMS might be effective too.

But I think the reason I ultimately wouldn’t do it is just that it feels like physically altering my brain and it’s a hard pill to swallow. Just like I would be hard pressed to accept a treatment like someone surgically excising a chunk of my brain matter even if a doctor told me it was 100% effective as a cure.

Perhaps this is irrational but I just can’t shake it.

This idea just shows the confusion most people have between resources and money.

No matter how much you take away from those 0.01% of people, it’s not going to do much to fight the inflation of the goods that people are worried about the inflation of.

Let’s take food for example. Perhaps the 0.01% might consume 10x more food than regular people at most (factoring in waste). Even if the 0.01% were to be taxed to the point where they can eat nothing, it’s not going to create very much more supply of food for everyone else.

Then there is fuel. The ultra rich probably do consume a lot more of it when you factor in things like jet flights and such. But even if it’s 100x more, it’s not really freeing up so much to actually affect the market for it.

Now what taxing those guys might do is reduce the price of the goods that they do in fact consume more of. Things like housing where the rich will own a lot in order to generate revenue.

And indeed these productive assets were inflated significantly due to the loose monetary policy regime that we have been living in for some time.

But these are not the resources that most are concerned about with regard to cost of living at the moment. That’s food, fuel, etc.

It doesn’t really matter. It’s more money chasing the exact same number of resources as existed before hand. The very definition of inflation.

It’s just bread and circuses.

A few hours of extra sleep can be the difference between a functional and non-functional household.

People don't often seem the grasp the variability of the difficulties that different babies can throw at parents. It really is just harder for some parents than others.

Edit: Yep, I misread this

A quick Google suggests Apple made 64 billion from the App Store in 2021 of the 378 billion in total revenue.

Some fairly large peanuts!

And that revenue is basically pure profit as it doesn’t require the creation of any actual physical hardware either.

Journalists at the NYT are probably feeling some schadenfreude about it because substack is often positioned as a kind of anti-mainstream-media website.

I don’t know why people are so keen to dismiss aesthetic value of gold as somehow not being relevant as a functional use.

We don’t just use gold for jewellery because it’s valuable, we also use it for that because it looks good. Better than many other materials we could use.

Now you could argue that we only think it looks good because it’s valuable, and maybe that is how it came about, but I think it’s been embedded into the culture deeply enough that gold as a material looks great to us on it’s own merit at this point.

Aesthetic value is real value, as we can tell due to peoples willingness to pay for artistic objects even if made from cheap materials.

Oh I’m sure that it feels like they are doing something.

But in a badly managed company each person is like a randomly oriented vector.

You sum them together and the end result is something near to zero.

The sad thing is that it’s a joke that many people don’t seem to be in on.

You get all these defenders coming out of the woodwork when people wonder what the hell all the programmers at say, Twitter, are doing. Supposedly you puny mind can’t comprehend the challenges of developing a website “at scale”

The real answer is, almost nothing. People are being paid very high salaries to do nothing.

Low interest rates and not enough building have causd prices to increase, of course, just like anywhere else but there was another factor.

For some inexplicable reason they decided to remove the LVR requirements for lending in response to covid.

This suddenly caused a huge surge in ability for people to buy houses that were previously not able to.

The same logic applies to literally any meeting for any purpose.

A meeting should only ever be between two or three people. Any more and it's just a waste of time.

Why is it that people on the modern internet seem unable to grasp the concept of an analogy?

Two things don't have to be exactly as bad as each other to be analogous circumstances.

You are supposed to apply to same chain of logical reasoning to the two situations.

Just expressing faux outrage with a "How dare you compare these two things" isn't actually defeating the argument in any way.

If you are saying you don't have a staging environment, what you are really saying is that your company doesn't have any QA process.

If your QA process is just developers testing their own shit on their local machine then you are not going to get as much value out of staging.

C++ for the most part.

I don’t use python much but I don’t know why it wouldn’t be possible build it statically and package your entire dependency set into a single directory.

We don’t use containers with a pretty large deployment. (1k or so bare metal servers)

If you statically link all your binaries then your deployment system can be rsync a directory.

The only dependency is that the Linux kernel is new enough. Other than that the packages we deploy will run on literally any setup.

This is the result of the "Us vs Them" mentality that so many developers have these days and boils down to a lack of trust.

If your CTO lacks context about your reality on the ground, then tell them the context. How else can they readjust what the priorities are? If you tell them and they refuse to adjust your priority then it's probably you that lacks context about what the goals actually are.

If you still disagree with that, then it's because you don't trust your CTO. If you don't trust your CTO then you should leave and find a better one.

If you have worked in a few places and have never trusted the CTO anywhere you have worked, perhaps you need to sit down and take a hard look at your yourself rather than others.

The idea of a monthly one on one scheduled meeting is rediculous.

If you are not talking to all your people every day as a matter of course, they are basically unmanaged. For the love of god don't schedule any meetings. You shouldn't need to since you are just part of your employees flow of work.

The employee / manager relationship should be one in which either party can feel free to just raise any concern the moment that it comes up. Meetings are not how that occurs.

I don’t know if I would say it’s the sunk cost fallacy.

If he pulls out now having not achieved anything except destroying the Russian economy then his government is surely doomed. It seems likely that he would eventually be killed or at least imprisoned for life after such an event also.

Therefore his only option is to carry on in the hopes of getting to the point where he can claim some kind of victory, however likely or unlikely that may be.

I have the opposite problem. I can't use modules because I need _ITERATOR_DEBUG_LEVEL=0 in debug builds.

The standard library modules really need to be built as part of your projects build so that you can compile them however you want.

We disable exceptions in video games due to lock contention when throwing exceptions on multiple threads in high core count situations?

No.

We disable exceptions in video games for dumb historical reasons that no longer apply.

I’m not sure I would agree that this is lying or manipulation in the way that you would normally define those things.

I do think Elon is a bit of a troll, and also that he is prone to saying things that he thinks are probably true without really verifying them fully.

I think that he says things on social media with approximately the same level of internal surety that you might apply to talking to a friend in a casual situation.

You might be quite willing to say to a friend “we are going to finish the X project in 6 months” without really calculating the odds of that actually happening, and without your friend calling you a liar in 6 months when that doesn’t happen.

Now you can argue that he should apply a larger degree of rigor when positing on social media because he is a famous person running a big company, and maybe so.

But he might also argue that why should he be held to a higher standard on Twitter than any random joe posting garbage to thier feed for friends to read?

I founded a company without a business plan. Raised money without a business plan. Ran the business profitably for a long time and then sold the majority of it without a business plan.

I don’t see the value in a formal business plan at all and so I would almost agree with your made up quote there.

I mean obviously you need to have a plan for your business. But writing it down in some formal way seems like a waste of time.

Perhaps there is value in writing one in order to coalesce your own thoughts if you are that way inclined, but it’s certainly not going to convince anybody of anything that wouldn’t be convinced by the conversation you would have instead.

Why would you not be able to enter into such an agreement?

Basically everywhere in business people negotiate bulk rate discounts. And why wouldn’t they?

Often businesses will only agree to a deeper discount if you agree not to tell others what rate you got.

It seems odd to me that this wouldn’t be allowed.

This would be rather like telling the Irish in 1847 that “This is a good thing because it will make you less dependant on a single crop”.

A somewhat callous attitude.

Generally speaking “woke” means people who believe that “equality of outcome” rather than “equality of opportunity” is the goal.

What reduces consolidation ultimately is a real recession. Not these fake ones we have had in recent times which get propped up with QE, but a real recession. The type that kills big companies.

Then in the ashes you will get a verdant crop of new companies started by fresh people and a new period of massive growth with follow.

Might not be a cost that people actually want to pay though.