Replying to @lalisasaura
Over 50% of white women voted for Trump.
This isn’t a “men” thing, it’s an “American politics” thing
- Replying to @falconerdI die inside whenever I see an indie game that requires more than 8gb of vram. When I was making indie games we were lucky to have 512mb!
- Replying to @yacineMTB and @EsotericCofeAt meta we couldn’t run a copy locally, but we could 1 click spin up a private copy of fb/instagram/whatever to test and try changes… it was genuinely jaw dropping how good the infra was there
- Replying to @mynamebedanIn 2012 it wasn’t even leetcode mediums… I got my first job at Microsoft with: - Write atoi (no bad data and no overlap) - calculate overlap of two rectangles - insert into a sorted linked list And uh.. that was it. $120k + $20k a year of stock out the gate. From a no name
- I’m making a simple database both in C and Rust to compare what it’s like, bugs I encounter and what the codegen looks like. Interestingly, they are both about the same amount of code, but the rust version is 4x as many instructions. Ergonomics wise I think rust comes out a
- Replying to @TrisH0x2AC A detailed knowledge of C will help you with any programming language you want to learn and use later.
- This article by @phoboslab does a really good job of showing just how simple “making a game in C” can be. Reading it was one of the things that inspired me to do that this week.
- Replying to @zack_overflowThere *is* perf cost of the translation, it’s just that sys calls and scheduling on Linux are both *so much faster* than windows… you sometimes come out ahead.
- This is an interesting blog post that explains how zig addresses some of the shortcomings of C. I’ve seen several people I respect link this saying it convinced them to use zig. What’s curious is that I’m not sure it worked on me. I haven’t had many of the issues it brings up
- Replying to @hot_girl_springSalary readying log files and maybe getting to fix a race condition sometime in c++: $400k
- Replying to @zestularThe “elite guardrails” don’t apply to all of faang ime. Really only FB and Google have them. Amazon relies on you working overtime to fix the breakage and Apple has a world class QA org.
- Replying to @VladTheInflatorLooking at how section 8 is abused this is probably a good thing. My tenants (in section 8) have a brand new Mercedes suv parked out front. Something makes me think they can afford rent elsewhere.
- Replying to @JonSnyderHQ and @dvassalloI’d turn that around, I bet it’s pushed by everyone who works in a shop that can’t convince their boss to buy a stopsaw. The loudest people I’ve seen for blue collar safety regulations are union shops ime.
