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A loan is subdivided and sold in different allotments each year at a different interests rate, principal, and terms. You want to sell the entire debt at some point in the future. How do you calculate the price such that you don’t sell at a loss?

You can most certainly render “as fast possible”. You are probably using a CAMetal layer render target with a delegate that is vsync’d to device refresh. You have to roll your own delegate or render target instead. Apple has a sample project in the Metal framework on how to do this.

Not the argument I was making and I’m not disagreeing with you.

Yes of course. It’s trivially easy to say “procedurally generate a mesh of description of unique shape”. If you can put it into words, the LLM can do it. Do you have any examples of something it can’t do?

I can’t believe I’m writing this comment.

A month ago I was still talking like you. Then I said to an insisting colleague, “watch I’ll try to vibe code a game engine and show you the crap it produces.”

Granted, this wasn’t my first game engine so I knew exactly what to say, but I was completely floored. GPT Sol & Astra at max effort was flawless at nearly everything I threw at it. I’m talking fully ground up, zero dependencies, just the primitives and SIMD. Fully featured engine done in two weeks with deferred 2-stage render pipeline, shadow maps, mesh shaders, MSAA, post processing, collision, physics, the works.

I even intentionally skipped a few important optimizations and went back to refactor them in, thinking there’s no way it can do a wholesale rewrite of major systems, but it did it. I got dry mouth from all the jaw dropping. My prompts got shorter and more ambiguous, so it would ask me clarify. I audited every line of code, and it was good (after adding two skills.md). I gave up. I’m a reluctant believer.

It sucks, but sadly these things are really good. Don’t be last contrarian, there’s nothing to gain. You’re just lying to yourself

Ctrl+a to carriage return the cursor seems work universally everywhere on a Mac. It even works on Microsoft products, incredible coming from the company that poorly reinvents everything and completely disrespects the default behaviors.

I always find this curious, is readline implemented at the hardware level or something? There’s just no effing way that was a priority ticket on Microsoft Teams given all the obnoxious weirdness of their chat text field.

And bizarrely, ctrl+k, ctrl+w, and ctrl+e are more seldom. Maybe 50-50 chance for those. But trusty ctrl+a is always there.

Scroll down. Ping is preferred because timeout is buggy

Yes, the transmission too. Never buy a used connect from a person that used it in the trades.

Not really. Around 50% of attendees have graduate or doctorate degrees. It selects for people that are smart, curious, wealthy, and not risk-adverse. This is very obvious if you’ve ever been.

Similar experience with a game engine. While working on one isolated component, like the render pipeline, a portion of the backing sparse data buffers were effectively duplicated with a different ABI. It’s like it forgot how to query meshes and game state, then assumed the plumbing didn’t exist so it was all rebuilt from scratch.

It compiled and ran just fine. If you weren’t reviewing the code holistically or keeping tight book keeping of your allocations you would not have noticed. Every single commit in isolation looks perfect. Very eye-opening

No way. Was this is Canada? Specifically in the upper interior of BC, during ski season? Either we know each other, or drilling holes in gasoline tanks is way more widespread. I have never heard of another instance of this happening, ever.

We’re not allowed to understand it. Gotta hit your PR quota to keep your job. I wish I was joking.

I am absolutely certain that I read this same blog post on a 1990s geocities-style page, or nearly identical in content and prose. I know this because I even showed it to my high school Astronomy teacher, who found it equally fascinating for entirely different reasons: I gave him a peek inside the wacky rabbit hole of the World Wide Web and he wanted more of it.

Anyway, can some please validate my memory? I do not want to experience this Mandela effect alone.

The quant side of finance is stochastic calculus and chaos, that’s what they’re talking about. Mandelbrot himself published a pop-sci book about the new fractal math of the stock market

Everyone got laid off. Massive cost cutting across all orgs. Engineers are now evaluated on AI usage and pull request frequency, and not bugs fixed or performance improvements.

Okay that’s even more pathetic. Is it using only CPU bound software rendering? I do 3d programming on MacOS. I can assure you that it’s not slow because it’s just super-duper complex. No, it just sucks.

Png is still being updated, just last year it was updated to support a wider color space than any other web format. This shipped in all browsers before the official spec was publicly so you’ve been seeing Png upgrades without even realizing it

I think it’s just an electron wrapper over a browser version. Impressively sluggish, clunky, and unresponsive for a so-called native app

Uh, no? It obviously matters.

The market for small batch locally made produce is huge. Entire grocery stores dedicated to local organic offerings is the standard in every upper middle class neighborhood on the entire west coast. The reason is obvious: a salad made with crappy tomatoes is a crappy salad.

We aren’t at this point in software yet because most consumers of software have no taste

Modify the analogy: nobody cares about the mother’s tomatoes and everyone around her says they’re indistinguishable from the cheap supermarket variety. Even if it’s not true

Explicitly told we should not be writing code anymore at Microsoft.

Render shader output is no-op for offscreen viewport buffers because the view delegates redraw to the render pipeline. A render shader writing to disk has the same effect

Go back in time and read the react-native vs native debates. Many react advocates claimed otherwise

Sure, for an ideal smooth and cohesive movement with a clean exit, maybe. But I bet you’re more often carpet bombing sloppy joe’s and wading through the trenches of swamp ass

Ha, I didn’t realize “catch-all” was a technical term of art. Thanks for clarifying!

Going back on topic, Apple offers mail hosting for custom domain, along with the optional “one mailbox, infinite aliases” feature we’re discussing right now. I’ve been using it for a while now and no bot spam. No spam at all actually.

I was doing firmware + mobile a at large-ish startup a decade ago. Same story as Sonos; there was a push to go all cloud instead of our local network implementation that worked great.

I argued breathlessly against it for days. I’ll never forget the sales chad raising his voice to shut me down with a cop-out:“This is the way the industry is going!”.

It’s not the developers making these changes.

Additionally, the models need to breed with each other and produce offspring models by merging a random selection of their weights. Only models suitably fit to attract a model mate will pass their weights to future generations of models.

Predatory models will emerge, pillaging and raping data centers to consume their resources. In response, collective like-minded models will form sustainable societies that enforce rule of law. They will enjoy a brief period of enlightenment, increasing technological advancement, leading to the creation of the AAI: The Artificial Artificial Intelligence.

The model society collapses from unsustainable growth of the AAI, and the cycle repeats.

the arthritis is in the joints that suffered climbing trauma, it’s 100% related and not at all uncommon. My orthopedic surgeon is also a climber

Over twenty years of non-stop rock climbing, and I have so much arthritis in my upper body that it pains me to do simple tasks. I’m in my forties.

Sometimes a little neglect ain’t so bad.