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devnullbrainon Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled?

At another university I once had extenuating circumstances preventing me from taking an exam in one of the main exam halls. I was invited to take it in a normal classroom, where a session was being held at the same time for people who get additional time. I was able to start later and still finish with the normal allowance but without having a chance to collude with other students.

devnullbrainon Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm

Does that matter? I lean towards the yes-the-ISA-matters camp, but I'm also under the impression that most silicon is dark.

devnullbrainon OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race

Ironically, the thing that annoys me most about Gemini is the Discord-esque loading messages in the CLI. Twee is one thing: mixing twee with serious hints is worse.

devnullbrainon OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race

People who only care about this quarter don't donate to a non-profit in the hopes it turns into an investment in a private company.

devnullbrainon Moss: a Rust Linux-compatible kernel in 26,000 lines of code

It will be compatible for ~5 minutes:

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.10/process/stable-api-non...

devnullbrainon Gaming on Linux has never been more approachable

It's bad enough with what Red Hat push

devnullbrainon Gaming on Linux has never been more approachable

There are low hanging, unpicked fruit for Microsoft to make more money from selling desktop licences. It's still trivial to buy one for a third party for pennies on the dollar. It's still not possible to install officially without TPM 2.0.

In contrast, Microsoft have pushed the pricing of Game Pass up significantly and are in the process of unifying the next Xbox platform with PC.

Given that, I don't think it's consistent with Microsoft's current strategy to make selling games to gamers harder for the benefit of the OS division.

Now, that conclusion does depend on Microsoft acting rationally, which isn't a given, so I'll also add that I don't think it's actually an option for them: win32 already exists, the cat is out of the bag. And the cat can't get back in the bag to be extended/extinguished unless Microsoft convinces everyone to move to Windows 11.

devnullbrainon Gaming on Linux has never been more approachable

And changing your bootloader (every update) and timezone (every boot)

devnullbrainon Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders

This is a great idea. However, roughly 10 seconds after the first reports showing market penetration, a PM will suggest 'further monetisation'.

devnullbrainon Steam Machine

Your bio says you were formerly a game developer?

devnullbrainon Work after work: Notes from an unemployed new grad watching the job market break

As a candidate, it can be confusing to read application advice. You'll often see people say that they look for x-y-z when hiring, which conflicts with when you saw someone say they look for a-b-c the week before. How can both be true?

Because both are true, for what they look for. But what's considered standard or desirable differs massively from one market to another - region, industry, role. It even differs at the most granular levels: companies, departments, interviewers. At some point, the difference in what is desired is just differences in culture fit. Applications aren't an exam and you shouldn't expect to 'pass' them all any more than you should expect to 'pass' every date.

If you are a hiring manager, you know what it takes to get hired at one company. That's less than what someone knows if they go out and get two job offers. So, do us a favour, don't muddy the water.

devnullbrainon Work after work: Notes from an unemployed new grad watching the job market break

That's a really standard CV

devnullbrainon At the end you use `git bisect`

Yep.

Those 5% shouldn't be approving PRs without it.

Those 95% shouldn't be code owners.

Nice things can be had, you just have to work for them.

devnullbrainon John Carmack on mutable variables

So does 'parent'.

devnullbrainon John Carmack on mutable variables

I was part of the Carmack cult but the illusion was broken when I saw him use the same authoratative tone on a subject I'm more knowledgable about.

devnullbrainon AWS to bare metal two years later: Answering your questions about leaving AWS

1. large, homogenous domain where the budget for your department is large

2. niche, bespoke domain primarily occupied by companies looking to cut costs

devnullbrainon China has added forest the size of Texas since 1990

Yes, and it's a good thing.

Either way, you need to fit the needs of the same number of people. If they're in a dense city near everything they need, they use less space.

Policies to limit urban sprawl just an expensive way to create more sprawl elsewhere - and roads to it.

devnullbrainon YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs

I've not seen the claim you're satirising in years. But I am still seeing the satire years after Windows became the third most common user operating system.

The first is Linux.

The only reason Microsoft can afford to treat Windows with such disdain is that desktop operating systems became an afterthought.

devnullbrainon YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs

That may be true but, as you've not given any reason, it will come up again next time.

devnullbrainon Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout

You at least need some source of self-actualisation

devnullbrainon Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout

You have to be involved with making it golden: they don't have ride-alongs

devnullbrainon AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1

>So no, you're not very likely to be right at all.

Well 1/3 of the examples you gave were right.

devnullbrainon The Great Horse Manure Crisis of 1894: predictions of 9 feet of manure in cities

It can be quite the canine delicacy

devnullbrainon Claude Haiku 4.5

KWATZ!

devnullbrainon The cost of turning down wind turbines in Britain

Specifically, concern for house prices in a really myopic way. It's 'preferable' to hamstring the place you live in than to turn it into somewhere with a functioning economy that people want to live in.

devnullbrainon Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia

If it’s constantly happening, does that sound like an attractive market to work in? I’m very open to the idea of companies screwing up, but day-to-day operations shouldn’t look Kafkaesque.

devnullbrainon Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia

China's rules, present and historical, on joint ventures and banned investment sectors seem like a conspicuous omission in your comment.

devnullbrainon Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia

The Arm China CEO went rogue and spun it off as its own company. ARM HQ were unable to fire him, as he had physical possession of the company's seal stamp. Reading between the lines, the Chinese government chose not to intervene for multiple years.

devnullbrainon Windows Subsystem for FreeBSD

>This is a personal, experimental project and is not affiliated with Microsoft, the FreeBSD Foundation, or the FreeBSD Project. Use at your own risk.

devnullbrainon Memory access is O(N^[1/3])

https://en.algorithmica.org/hpc/external-memory/model/

Sometimes everything else is O(0)