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Bratmon commented on I'm a Tech Lead, and nobody listens to me. What should I do?   world.hey.com/joaoqalves/... · Posted by u/joaoqalves
zenethian · 3 days ago
This seems kind of childish to be honest. Why not just fire the person?
Bratmon · 3 days ago
Because firing people in Germany is a multi-year process that requires (among many other things) paying for a complete training course in all job-relevant skills under the assumption that any incompetence is caused by insufficient training.
Bratmon commented on “Are you the one?” is free money   blog.owenlacey.dev/posts/... · Posted by u/samwho
codeflo · 3 days ago
> For wordle, «most probable» is mostly determined by letter frequency

I don't think that's a justified assumption. I wouldn't be surprised if wordle puzzles intentionally don't follow common letter frequency to be more interesting to guess. That's certainly true for people casually playing hangman.

Bratmon · 3 days ago
It's not an assumption- it's a factual statement about how wordle works
Bratmon commented on You used to be able to just create a Native GUI App in 10 seconds   twitter.com/tsoding/statu... · Posted by u/Ezhik
satiric · 9 days ago
Someone replied to that post "notice how fast everything is to launch", but did Visual Basic really start up that fast back in the day? I'm old enough to have used XP as a kid, and I remember the languorous boot times, but I never programmed on it. My guess is that XP is running in a VM on modern hardware in this GIF.
Bratmon · 9 days ago
I can confirm that it took way longer than that on actual contemporary hardware.
Bratmon commented on Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban   reuters.com/legal/litigat... · Posted by u/chirau
samdoesnothing · 9 days ago
Why would they do that? There are plenty of platforms that simply won't care, and there's stuff like Mastodon et al.
Bratmon · 9 days ago
The law tends to be pretty good at caring about you when you don't care about it.
Bratmon commented on Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban   reuters.com/legal/litigat... · Posted by u/chirau
about3fitty · 10 days ago
Besides this being ineffective for the motivated, it might have a subtle antitrust effect.

As kids find alternative platforms, perhaps they will be vendor locked to them instead of the Meta empire.

Bratmon · 9 days ago
I think you're 180° backwards on that.

How many alternative platforms are there really going to be that can afford to develope and operate the legally-mandated age-detection ML-models?

Especially after the bureaucrats see that the law isn't working and start looking for scapegoats without massive lawyer teams to make an example of

Bratmon commented on Deprecations via warnings don't work for Python libraries   sethmlarson.dev/deprecati... · Posted by u/scolby33
traverseda · 9 days ago
Wait, does urlib not use semvar? Don't remove APIs on minor releases people. A major release doesn't have to be a problem or a major redesign, you can do major release 400 for all I care, just don't break things on minor releases.

Lots of things not using semvar that I always just assumed did.

Bratmon · 9 days ago
+1

The industry has a solution for the exact problem the urllib is having (semver). Urllib just actively refuses to use it.

Bratmon commented on Eurydice: a Rust to C compiler   jonathan.protzenko.fr/202... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
bloppe · 12 days ago
Rust compiles to LLVM IR. I'm pretty surprised that building this transpiler was considered a better use of time than writing an LLVM backend for whatever "weird embedded target" might need this.
Bratmon · 12 days ago
I think you may not be familiar with how embedded development works.

Most teams who write code for embedded devices (especially the weird devices at issue here) don't have the hardware knowledge, time, or contractual ability to write their own compiler backend. They're almost always stuck with the compiler the manufacturer decided to give them.

Bratmon commented on GrapheneOS is the only Android OS providing full security patches   grapheneos.social/@Graphe... · Posted by u/akyuu
mcny · 13 days ago
Even the batteries are not interchangeable on phones. You'd think all phones should have the same exact battery, that this kind of standardization is beneficial for phone manufacturers as it helps them bargain with their parts suppliers but no for whatever reason we can't have that.

Edit: I am not saying just user replaceable. I mean standardized so the same cells in a 2024 phone also works on 2025...

Bratmon · 13 days ago
Why, of all parts on a phone, would you expect the battery to be the one that's already good enough that it should never need to be upgraded?

"Battery capacity" is like the one thing phone manufacturers still try to improve.

Bratmon commented on You can't fool the optimizer   xania.org/202512/03-more-... · Posted by u/HeliumHydride
Koffiepoeder · 16 days ago
Mhm, this is one of these cases I'd prefer a benchmark to be sure. Checking %2 is very performant and actually just a single bit check. I can also imagine some cpu's having a special code path for %3. In practice I would not be surprised that the double operand is actually faster than the %6. I am mobile at this moment, so not able to verify.
Bratmon · 16 days ago
But if % 2 && % 3 is better, then isn't there still a missed optimization in this example?
Bratmon commented on YouTube increases FreeBASIC performance (2019)   freebasic.net/forum/viewt... · Posted by u/giancarlostoro
ryandrake · 16 days ago
My objection is that merely visiting a website can invoke all kinds of unexpected things happening on my computer. As a web browser user, I don’t expect it to be modifying how timers work on my system, or accessing peripherals and radios, or programming my GPU or the memory of other processes, or my location, or writing to my filesystem, or basically anything else other than what is needed to draw text and images onto a browser window.
Bratmon · 16 days ago
I still don't get your objection. Changing system timer settings is required to show HD videos on a browser window in a smooth way.

Are you objecting to the fact that that's the case or that browser windows are being used to show HD videos?

u/Bratmon

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