jplusequalt (u/jplusequalt)

jplusequalt commented on No Graphics API sebastianaaltonen.com/blo... · Posted by u/ryandrake

wg0 · 2 days ago

Very well written but I can't understand much of this article.

What would be one good primer to be able to comprehend all the design issues raised?

A working understanding of legacy graphics APIs, GPU hardware, and some knowledge of Vulkan/DirectX 12/CUDA.

I have all of that but DX12 knowledge, and 50% of this article still went over my head.

jplusequalt commented on AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas' finalroundai.com/blog/aws... · Posted by u/birdculture

CuriouslyC · a day ago

I've learned a lot of shit while getting AI to give me the answers, because I wanted to understand why it did what it did. It saves me a lot of time trying to fix things that would have never worked, so I can just spend time analyzing success.

There might be value in learning from failure, but my guess is that there's more value in learning from success, and if the LLM doesn't need me to succeed my time is better spent pushing into territory where it fails so I can add real value.

jplusequalt · a day ago

>I've learned a lot of shit while getting AI to give me the answers

I would argue you're learning less than you might believe. Similarly to how people don't learn math by watching others solve problems, you're not going to learn to become a better engineer/problem solver by reading the output of ChatGPT.

jplusequalt commented on How OpenAI uses complex and circular deals to fuel its multibillion-dollar rise nytimes.com/interactive/2... · Posted by u/reaperducer

jplusequalt · 2 months ago

"Luddite" is the new "DEI" for tech-bros.

jplusequalt commented on Cancer survival rates are misleading allendowney.com/blog/2025... · Posted by u/speckx

deadfoxygrandpa · 2 months ago

this article is trivial nonsense. of course he's technically correct, but the article contains no useful information and boils down to just saying that people (including doctors) aren't looking at literally only 5 year survival rate charts.

like the colon cancer thing. he talks about how it would only be more effective to catch colon cancer early if you assume we have treatments for it that would work early. but we don't need to just assume blindly. we already know we do have those treatments!

jplusequalt · 2 months ago

Yeah, not sure what the point here is. Could see someone who reads this and comes away thinking that a cancer screening isn't worth it.

jplusequalt commented on Amazon confirms 14,000 job losses in corporate division bbc.com/news/articles/c1m... · Posted by u/mosura

JustExAWS · 2 months ago

I have been an employee for 30 years across 10 jobs - one of which was Amazon from 2020-2023. I never once considered my “main source of income” my current job. My main source of income was my ability to get a job. I always stayed ready to look for a job at a moments notice and it has never taken me more than a month to get a job when I was looking.

In fact, ten days after getting my “take severance package and leave immediately or try to work through a PIP (and fail)” meeting, I had three full time offers. I’m no special snowflake. I keep my resume updated, my network strong, skills in sync with the market, 9-12 months in savings in the bank.

Whether you are an enterprise developer or BigTech in the US you are on average making twice the median income in your area. There is usually no reason for you not to be stacking cash.

And equity in startups are statistically worthless and illiquid - unlike the RSUs you get in public companies that you can sell as soon as they vest.

As far as an “annuity”, you should be taking advantage that excess cash you get and saving it. But why would you want an “annuity” based on the performance of a specific company? I set my preference to “sell immediately” when my RSUs in AMZN vested and diversified.

Fortunately after the ACA, you can get insurance on the private market regardless of preexisting condition (I lost my job once before the ACA. It was a nightmare) or pay for COBRA. Remember that savings I said everyone should have?

jplusequalt · 2 months ago

>I never once considered my “main source of income” my current job. My main source of income was my ability to get a job.

Your "ability to get a job" is not what put money into your bank account twice a month. Your employer did.

jplusequalt commented on The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership openai.com/index/next-cha... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

healsdata · 2 months ago

> The two companies reportedly signed an agreement [in 2023] stating OpenAI has only achieved AGI when it develops AI systems that can generate at least $100 billion in profits.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/26/microsoft-and-openai-have-...

jplusequalt · 2 months ago

A sufficiently large profit margin is what constitutes AGI? What a fucking joke.

jplusequalt commented on AI will never be your friend msn.com/en-us/entertainme... · Posted by u/RickJWagner

anonzzzies · 2 months ago

A better AI then all these early gen ones, running on your own device, might definitely one day be your friend for whatever many or most people have as definition for friend.

jplusequalt · 2 months ago

That's deeply sad.

jplusequalt commented on Gravity can explain the collapse of the wavefunction arxiv.org/abs/2510.11037... · Posted by u/dboreham

jplusequalt · 2 months ago

Sabine Hossenfelder these days is a YouTube personality, who likes to discuss subjects she's not an expert in. I don't know if that's the metric for "crank", but anything I hear from her is taken with a massive grain of salt.

jplusequalt commented on OpenGL: Mesh shaders in the current year supergoodcode.com/mesh-sh... · Posted by u/pjmlp

barchar · 2 months ago

No, it is overly complex for modern hardware (unless you use shader objects). Vulkan forces you to statically specify a ton of state that's actually dynamic on modern GPUs. You could cut things down a ton with a new API. Ofc you'd have to require a certain level of hardware support, but imo that will become natural going forward.

Actually, it would be kinda neat to see an API that's fully designed assuming a coherent, cached, shared memory space between device and host. Metal I guess is closest.

jplusequalt · 2 months ago

>Ofc you'd have to require a certain level of hardware support

Have you used Vulkan? Specifying required hardware support for your physical device is literally one of the first thing you do when setting up Vulkan.