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snarfy commented on Nvidia Tilus: A Tile-Level GPU Kernel Programming Language   github.com/NVIDIA/tilus... · Posted by u/ashvardanian
FilosofumRex · 10 days ago
seriously!!! there is so much more Nvidia and its billionaire managers can do to improve developers experience with CUDA/nvcc/PTX, instead of yet another barely functional, sparsely documented, rarely tested DSL
snarfy · 10 days ago
"...made incremental improvements to CUDA" just doesn't get you promoted like "creator of GPU Kernel Programming language Tilus"
snarfy commented on The surprising geography of American left-handedness (2015)   washingtonpost.com/news/w... · Posted by u/roktonos
kazinator · a month ago
Why is it that right-handed people play stringed instruments such that the strings are actuated with the right hand (finger picking, flatpicking, strumming, bowing), and fingered with the left? Many left handed players reverse the arrangement.

On the other hand (pun inteneded) left-handed pianos are almost unheard of.

snarfy · a month ago
> Many left handed players reverse the arrangement.

This is untrue and actually uncommon. Not every instrument is a guitar. Left handed cello players don't string their instrument upside-down. They play it right handed.

snarfy commented on Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share in USA   ostechnix.com/linux-reach... · Posted by u/marcodiego
voidUpdate · a month ago
Out of interest, what do you need visual studio for that you cant get on linux?
snarfy · a month ago
Of course, there are always alternatives, but as a professional software engineer there are times I need to use genuine Visual Studio for one reason or another.

Why use Photoshop when Gimp is available? Fusion360 when there is FreeCAD? etc.

snarfy commented on Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share in USA   ostechnix.com/linux-reach... · Posted by u/marcodiego
snarfy · a month ago
Someone pinch me when VisualStudio runs under Wine/Proton with at least a silver rating. It is quite literally the only app keeping me on Windows.
snarfy commented on Nvidia won, we all lost   blog.sebin-nyshkim.net/po... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
snarfy · 2 months ago
I'm a gamer and love my AMD gpu. I do not give a shit about ray tracing, frame generation, or 4k gaming. I can play all modern fps at 500fps+. I really wish the market wasn't so trendy and people bought what worked for them.
snarfy commented on Being too ambitious is a clever form of self-sabotage   maalvika.substack.com/p/b... · Posted by u/alihm
thrwwXZTYE · 2 months ago
There's no lesson. It's hard. Your brain will search for the silver bullet to skip the boring self-improvement work and feel good NOW. It'll likely detach your current self from your past self (I was bad, I discovered this, now I'm great, exceptional and heroic again). Then you'll again avoid the boring day-to-day work (becaue you feel exceptional again) and fail again.

Everything you know is material for your brain to make excuses and rationalizations. So no lessons work.

What works is retraining the part of the brain that distorts the reality and directs all your thoughts towards these patterns.

It's a lot like debugging. There's a callback in your brain that is harmful. It triggers every time you have to sacrifice some future potential for uncertain reality. It is subconscious. Put a breakpoint in that callback. Try to notice every time it triggers. At first just notice it, notice what it urges you to do.

When you have it nailed down - try to change it. At that point you'll realize the urge and where it comes from. Then it's a matter to making the decision and committing to sth, no matter what. It doesn't only have to be big things, it can be small things unrelated to work. It's the same "code". If you do it every time - you'll retrain it eventually.

At least that's the theory, I'm not there yet.

snarfy · 2 months ago
Physical exercise does wonders for this. The results you achieve are a 100% determined by the time and effort you put in. It's hard to start, as its asking for more self-improvement, but if you can get this one thing, the rest fall into place.
snarfy commented on Thnickels   thick-coins.net/?_bhlid=8... · Posted by u/jxmorris12
bigyabai · 2 months ago
If it was emoticon-sized then you wouldn't be able to appreciate the tasteful thickness of some wide wampum.
snarfy · 2 months ago

    ()_)

snarfy commented on HDMI 2.2 will support 16K video at 60Hz   theverge.com/news/692052/... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
simoncion · 2 months ago
> A 2025 monitor with DP 1.4 from 2016. Shame.

Sure, that's fuckin stupid... if HBR3 can't handle the monitor's native resolution, refresh rate, and bit depth.

But, on the gripping hand (and with the greatest of respect) why the hell did you buy the crappy thing? There are many DP 2 monitors out there. This is a little glib... but if someone's selling something that's bad, don't buy it. The dire video card and monitor situation has kicked me off of my regular upgrade cycle for at least five years. I'm not happy about it, but it's better than getting something that's not fit for purpose (and signaling to the manufacturers that it's okay to manufacture unfit products).

snarfy · 2 months ago
It's not crappy, other than that connector.

For the curious - https://rog.asus.com/us/monitors/27-to-31-5-inches/rog-swift...

snarfy commented on HDMI 2.2 will support 16K video at 60Hz   theverge.com/news/692052/... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
snarfy · 2 months ago
I'm still salty about the lack of DisplayPort adoption by manufacturers. I have a new video card with DP 2.1 and new monitor (2025) with only DP 1.4. I'm forced to use hdmi if I want full bandwidth without dsc.

A 2025 monitor with DP 1.4 from 2016. Shame.

snarfy commented on Selfish reasons for building accessible UIs   nolanlawson.com/2025/06/1... · Posted by u/feross
shakna · 2 months ago
Thanks for telling me I deserve to eat glue with my pizza, for being born.

Who do you build for, so I can blacklist them?

snarfy · 2 months ago
It's not what I do. I was making an argument. I do build accessible UIs. It's a requirement. My PRs wouldn't pass automation if they weren't.

u/snarfy

KarmaCake day6779May 3, 2010View Original