barkingcat

I completely understand resigning on principles. It's a reflection of an internal state where you cannot fight (due to reporting chain of command) and the idea that leaving to fight is a stronger position than staying and fighting within a corrupted/damaged organisation.

There is also the idea: you can order other people to do it, but I'm not going to do it - I resign.

In business/corporate world, it's more like: I can't fight the idiotic director level decisions, so I'm going to quit and either

1) start another company to directly compete

2) quit, join another company to compete or

3) quit, get more experience, and then come back years later at a much higher pay / position to fire the director who was braindead in the first place.

3) in particular plays out way more often than you'd think in silicon valley/tech industry, where by quitting and changing jobs, you can easily get a bunch of promotions and experience outside, so you can come back in to the company at a much higher level.

Think Intel and Pat Gelsinger. As an engineer, Pat couldn't get anywhere so left in 2009 to go lead VMWare. Then he returned to Intel as CEO in 2021. He still didn't get anywhere and got fired, but at least it was for executing his vision. If he stayed at Intel, he would have just been a peon engineer for the rest of his life. At least by quitting he got the CEO job later.

Same story re the current Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan, by leaving the board, he was signally his unhappiness with the conditions, and by rejoining as CEO, he gets to make the decisions.

Resisting and fighting from within is usually your weakest play in organisational change.

Instead of trying to make sense of the formula, it's much more likely the administration needed a global 30% and then they made up the formula (and the constants, etc) to get to that number.

Anyone who's trying to make arguments based on the formula itself is the dog being wagged.

Thinking pragmatically, the legacy systems where there is no current rust toolchain most likely do not need the drivers and components that are being written in rust.

Unless you somehow want to run Apple M1 GPU drivers on a device that has no rust toolchain ... erm...

or you want to run a new experimental filesystem on a device that has no rust toolchain support?

The answer to the "new and emerging platforms" question is pretty much the same as before: sponsor someone to write the toolchain support. We've seen new platforms before and why shouldn't it follow the same pathway? Usually the c compiler is donated by the company or community that is investing into the new platform (for example the risc-v compiler support for gcc and llvm are both getting into maturity status, and the work is sponsored by the developer community, various non-profit[1][2] and for-profit members of the ecosystem as well as from the academic community.)

realistically speaking, it's very hard to come up with examples of the hypothetical.

[1] https://github.com/lowRISC/riscv-llvm

[2] https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2016-August/103748...

nah, in a few years, they will be rich beyond your imagination, and they will be set up to be next in succession to be king of the us.

the same fund that's going to buy tiktok

SaaS vendors are insane these days.

some really dark patterns: block purchases (for ex. you can only buy 100 licenses, not 49 or 52), mandatory "upgrade" for security features like SSO, mandatory licenses for people signing up for accounts that you didn't specifically ask for, and the worst is asking for the "enterprise" plan (with egregious minimum license counts, even if you just use 50) in order to control / admin accounts (so you can audit for exited employees, etc).

the pattern is usually like you said, someone tries a tool for $10/month, and then gets their team on it, which let's say is 10 people. not bad. Then it gets out on the grapevine and other teams want to try - goes to 50 people ok still ok.

but then the sass vendor start using dark patterns and all of a sudden you're getting a bill for 1000 accounts (sorry, can't sell you any less!) at the "enterprise" price of $100/account/month.

and now you're fighting with the sass company to actually disable accounts of people who left instead of just keeping it "greyed out" but still visible, you just can't log in and can't control it ....

this just exposes the double standard and agism in tech industries. in tech, a lot of companies won't hire you in technical roles or as programmer because you're over 40.

a lot of doge/elon's team is from the various tech companies he owns, so of course, they're going to be teenagers and senior people are pretty much laid off.

think about the next tech layoff you hear in the news (facebook/meta, etc) and think about what portion of the layoff is younger than 20 and what portion are older than 40.

while not 30, the bulk of the line changes (around 688) are Documentation, Test, and build (like .gitignore update, build script update to include the updated tests, etc)

the kernel changes are around 118, and that includes header file updates.

I like that there are more doc and test updates than code changes.

Lining up to kiss the ring.

Igalia is self directed and one of the few organizations I can see taking on technical leadership of the entire chromium project if/when Google divests Chrome.

The technical talent at Igalia runs deep.

Igalia is a huge force in open source

They are self directed contractors.

They are also responsible for huge portions of chromium and fundimental/base opensource libraries.

If you can think of an open source library, it's highly likely Igalia had funded some development or bug fixes.

you need both #1 and #2 to be true.

It's kind of ridiculous that the actual title of the book isn't mentioned.

I believe it is 張忠謀自傳全集（上下冊) (for both parts)

https://www.books.com.tw/products/0011005571?sloc=main

There is no general purpose GPU development on Apple M series.

There is Metal development. You want to learn Apple M-series gpu and gpgpu development? Learn Metal!

https://developer.apple.com/metal/

... yes!

the wording reads like this response was outputted by an ai.

If you haven't started studying for your license yet just start it now!

I'm taking bets matt will just do a "I bet you my ego is bigger" and end up going to jail for contempt of court for 10 years.

And then the day he gets out he'll continue the feud.

No matter how few GPU cores the M4 has, it is still an extremely potent product on the whole.

Better than most of the pc's out there.

no, in fact, it sounds even more damning because client side was able to pick whatever was best on the market, and it wasn't intel. Client side could to learn and customize their designs to use another company's processes (this is an extremely hard thing to do by the way) faster than intel foundry could even get their pants up in the morning.

Intel foundry screwed up so badly that Nokia's server division was almost shut down because of Intel Foundry's failure. (imagine being so bad at your job, that your clients go out of business) If Intel client side chose to use Foundry, there just wouldn't be any chips to sell.

if you think intel has bleeding edge processes, that hasn't been the case for over 6 years ...

I use it to learn new languages - this year it's Ada -

https://blog.adacore.com/announcing-advent-of-ada-2024-codin...

for livestreams, individual events like the Olympics probably has a surge audience of 10x of netflix events.

Netflix events is small potatoes compared to other livestream stalwarts.

Imagine having to stream a cricket match internationally to UK / India / Australia with combined audience that crushes the Superbowl or a football match to all of Europe, or even something like livestreaming F1 racing that has multiple magnitudes of audience than a boxing match and also has 10x the number of cameras (at 8K+ resolution) across a large physical staging arena (the size of the track/course) in realtime, in addition to streaming directly from the cockpit of cars that are racing 200mph++.

Livestream focused outfits do this all day, everyday.

Netflix doesn't even come close to scratching the "beginner" level of these kinds of live events.

It's a matter of competencies. We wouldn't expect Netflix to be able to serve burgers like McDonald's does - Livestreaming is a completely different discipline and it's hubris on Netflix's part to assume just because they're good at sending video across the internet they can competently do livestreaming.

yup wanted to say that live stream stuttering has happened before on Netflix - I don't think the reputation is deserved.

From a livestreaming standpoint, netflix is 0/x - for many large events such as love is blind, etc.

From a livestreaming standpoint, look to broadcast news, sports / Olympics broadcasters, etc and you'll see technology, equipment, bandwidth, planning, and professionalism at 1000x of netflix.

Heck, for publicly traded quarterly earnings livestream meetings, they book direct satellite time in addition to fiber to make sure they don't rely only on terrestrial networks which can fail. From a business standpoint, failure during a quarterly meeting stream can mean the destruction of a company (by making shareholders mad that they can't see and vote during the meeting making them push for internal change) - so the stakes are much higher than live entertainment streaming.

Netflix is good at many things, livestreaming is not one of those things.

history repeats itself, and there are no perfect people or perfect sides.

Yesterday's terrorist will be tomorrow's heroes, and those deemed visionaries today will become despicable in the eyes of those to come. Such is the way since the beginning of human civilization.

this type of decoding doesn't use GPU cores.

Intel has QuickSync on their CPU cores and that has reigned supreme for many years. That's not a GPU block.

Wow love pixelmator! Great for team but Uncertain for product.

who decided names for models need to end with -a?

I've run the same freebsd system for the last 15 years just hosting a small site for some of my friends from back in university.

I've migrated it through system upgrades and security fixes, but nothing else needed to change. usual uptime is about 3 years between major release updates.

freebsd is an awesome server platform.

isn't this exactly the point?

from the viewpoint you've presented it's a bad idea to volunteer for basically anything.

even something like enlisting in a nation's armed forces is a bad idea since the risk is so high vs the monetary reward, and the only way people would become soldiers is to join mercenary armies where there is a price exacted that matches the performance.

for many people, they value the intangible more than the money.