Is "solves" used like that in the wild? Haven't heard that one.
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pastaguy1 commented on John Carmack on inlined code (2014) number-none.com/blow/blog... · Posted by u/bpierre
Yes! I work with many folks objectively way younger and smarter than me. The two bad habits I try to break them of are abstractions and what ifs.
They spend so much time chasing perfection that it negatively affects their output. Multiple times a day I find myself saying 'is that a realistic problem for our use case?'
I don't blame them, it's admirable. But I feel like we need to teach YAGNI. Anymore I feel like a saboteur, polluting our codebase with suboptimal solutions.
It's weird because my own career was different. I was a code spammer who learned to wrangle it into something more thoughtful. But I'm dealing with overly thoughtful folks I'm trying to get to spam more code out, so to speak.
This isn't meant to be taken too literally or objectively, but I view YAGNI as almost a meta principle with respect to the other popular ones. It's like an admission that you won't always get them right, so in the words of Bukowski, "don't try".
What's the background on doing a soft layoff (or w/e) and hiring at the same time? Many of us have seen one of these close-up, just wondering what the case is here.
I'm confused by this sentiment I've seen repeated by some.
AI/LLMs are radically expanding my abilities, and as I adapt to this new power, I'm using it more frequently in everyday life.
Sure, Nvidia stock may be overpriced, but AI is empowering. I can't imagine not continuing to expand its use. As its abilities expand, I'll use it even more. I will have much further use even as a few bugs are fixed and integrations become more frictionless.
I suppose people might be wondering what happens when this small number of big players finish their buildouts.
pastaguy1 commented on Neofetch developer archives all his repositories: "Have taken up farming" github.com/dylanaraps... · Posted by u/Y444
Maybe they have saved enough from working in tech that they can grow vegetables for themselves in a very low scale way. Its nice to escape from the career you've had for decades. Sometimes its not even an escape from the career, but the career and the city you've lived in. Moving to the forest and growing some vegetables and raising chickens isn't that difficult. You certainly don't need "millions in equipment". Its exactly what I did.
I found it difficult to get a job in tech at the start of COVID after working in it for ~25 years. I moved to Michigan, and now live in the woods. My Cost of Living is a fraction of what it was. My mortgage is only 80% of what I was paying for rent in the SFBay area. Its peaceful and quiet here. It actually gets dark too. I no longer hear BART screeching on the rails at 2am or the constant flow of traffic. I.. do once again work in tech though at a much 'smaller' scale. My company is small and work demands don't dominate my life. I have balance.
This year I've planted ~200 onions, ~100 potatoes, ~100 garlic, ~60 strawberry. I have blueberry from a few years back starting to flourish. I have wild blackberry, and mushrooms galore. "touching grass" is a daily activity as we manage our small flock of chickens.
Funny comment about it being dark in Michigan. My feeling here in the summer is like, will the sun ever set (somewhat light out until almost 10pm depending on location)? I know what you mean, of course.
pastaguy1 commented on An interview with AMD CEO Lisa Su about solving hard problems stratechery.com/2024/an-i... · Posted by u/wallflower
Most bachelor's and master's level CS is comparatively easier than EE because EE requires much more hard math. The theory at least, but project-wise CS is more demanding. I had two EE roommates in college, their exams were HARD, but their home-projects were easy compared to CS (less projects overall as well).
I remember one exam my roommate complaining about was about getting all the formulas he needed into his scientific calculator before the exam even started. If you understood how to derive all the formulas and knew how to put them in the calculator and how to use them you passed the exam. I think it was analog circuit processing exam but I might be wrong.
Research-level in computer science can get very hard as well though. A lot of it is more pure mathematics than engineering.
> I had two EE roommates in college, their exams were HARD, but their home-projects were easy compared to CS (less projects overall as well).
Maybe that's just a result of EE take-home projects being less practical? Hold on, let me walk on over to my wire bonding station ...
In my applied EM class in college, we had a year-end project in which we built an antenna of a specified type (e.g., helical, corner reflector, etc ... ). The final exam was essentially a do or die transmitter hunt. We had a lot of open lab time to do it. But that project was an exception, not the norm.
pastaguy1 commented on AMD's MI300X Outperforms Nvidia's H100 for LLM Inference blog.tensorwave.com/amds-... · Posted by u/fvv
AMD has better seemingly better hardware - but not the production capacity to compete with Nvidia yet. Will be interesting to see margins compress when real competition catches up.
Everybody thinks it’s CUDA that makes Nvidia the dominant player. It’s not - almost 40% of their revenue this year comes from mega corporations that use their own custom stack to interact with GPUs. It’s only a matter of time before competition catches up and gives us cheaper GPUs.
Can you explain the cuda-less stack a little more or provide a source?
> I am wondering if this is some generational divide at play where some slice of the population had been conditioned that the only valid interactions are those that happen online.
I think it's likely some of that is at play, yeah. A less confrontational way to phrase this could be: perhaps people who were raised with the Internet feel they find sufficient socialization through talking with their friends online, and don't go looking for it elsewhere.
In any case, I wouldn't read too much into it, or take it personally. I'm 35 and have lived in my house for 10 years and have only really met three of my neighbors beyond "hi". If we were neighbors, maybe you would think I think you're intimidating or unsocial, but that's not the case, I'm just shy and have a hard time being around new people. Talking with strangers is a major event for me, and I'm usually not up to the task without a lot of mental prep work. I wish I was more social, but well, I've tried, and I'm just not comfortable with it. It is what it is.
I agree.
I'm not quite so shy, but on that same side of the spectrum for sure. The deal with me these days is that I've got a couple kids; one thing that comes along with that is quite a bit of social interaction with people you're not 100 percent at ease with. So, that energy - the same type id use to do some small talking with the neighbors - is almost always on E for me.
For office jargon, it's maybe not a practical matter, but I could see a friend being a little put off by someone speaking in office jargon to them. Office jargon is sort of impersonal by design