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New comment by sadness2 in "What Universal Human Experiences Are You Missing Without Realizing It? (2014)"

sadness2 — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 11:00:44 +0000

Killing a larger animal really sucks, at least it did for me the first time and I hope never to do so again

New comment by sadness2 in "Intel’s palpable desperation on display with Rocket Lake"

sadness2 — Sat, 07 Nov 2020 03:55:11 +0000

There's always a loud contingent of AMD fanboys, but then there's the silent majority who don't care and just buy on raw gaming performance per $, which is reflected in market share.

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/market_share.html

New comment by sadness2 in "Intel’s palpable desperation on display with Rocket Lake"

sadness2 — Sat, 07 Nov 2020 03:51:14 +0000

This would not be a change in pricing strategy by Intel. Intel has consistently provided better price-to-performance ratio for gaming than AMD. Since AMD bumped their pricing with this launch, Intel arguably still holds this edge, especially if you account for overclocking and board prices.

https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i9-10900K-v...

https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i5-10600K-v...

New comment by sadness2 in "Intel’s palpable desperation on display with Rocket Lake"

sadness2 — Fri, 06 Nov 2020 23:18:49 +0000

For gamers, I expect these will be priced such that Intel will offer a better price-to-performance ratio than AMD. I've seen so many industry pundits talking about the defeat of Intel for the last 2 generations, but gamers just quietly look the frames-per-second to $ ratio and keep buying Intel and the cheaper Intel-based motherboards. I think Rocket Lake will allow this trend to continue while Intel prepares Alder Lake.

New comment by sadness2 in "John Gray: 'What can we learn from cats? Don't live in an imagined future'"

sadness2 — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 10:11:02 +0000

I recently watched a video where three cats waited half a day by the door, waiting for their owner's return.

New comment by sadness2 in "AI Is an Ideology, Not a Technology"

sadness2 — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 10:35:43 +0000

This article is an Idealogue, not Journalism.

New comment by sadness2 in "AMD Zen 3/Ryzen 5000 announcement [video]"

sadness2 — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 12:43:02 +0000

The performance is in the same ballpark for cost-performance as Intel 10th gen, and the 10th gen Intel platform will be compatible with Intel's 2021 chips, whereas if you get an AMD board now, this will be the last processor which it supports. The AMD boards are more expensive for comparable features. Intel 10th gen also has better all-core boosting, which might be important for upcoming games with better multicore support.

New comment by sadness2 in "Almost one-third of Florida children tested are positive for the coronavirus"

sadness2 — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 15:51:23 +0000

Fear of thousands of eventual deaths is very rational.

New comment by sadness2 in "Show HN: Terraform recipe for running Jitsi Meet on DigitalOcean"

sadness2 — Thu, 09 Apr 2020 22:08:01 +0000

Thank you for this generous offering! Do you have any tips around expected costs or power/performance requirement?

New comment by sadness2 in "Show HN: Excel-like table editing for Markdown"

sadness2 — Tue, 24 Mar 2020 06:48:44 +0000

I'd adopt this immediately if it could integrate with editors like vscode

New comment by sadness2 in "AutoML-Zero: Evolving machine learning algorithms from scratch"

sadness2 — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 07:48:50 +0000

I wonder whether you have some reason to think they haven't read that work, and this isn't them building on it

New comment by sadness2 in "Data-Oriented Architecture"

sadness2 — Mon, 09 Mar 2020 05:04:36 +0000

Yikes. You haven't reduced inter-component communication. You've basically got an interface distributed across all your components, and defined as a data schema. Any change to this can now potentially break communication between any two or more processes.

New comment by sadness2 in "Production-Oriented Development"

sadness2 — Wed, 26 Feb 2020 20:38:22 +0000

Radical! Some counter-points, though.

- Infrastructure as code and schemas as code make it easier to keep environmental parity, because everything can be rolled back/forwards/reset with easy source control and CD operations. Visual environment diffing and drift detection can make this even easier.

- Make your stage and prod into a blue-green situation, where if stage is ready to go, you flip users onto it. I can guarantee your stage and prod will both be respected as prod then. Failing that, just add load/stress tests to stage to make it more prod-like.

- Non-prod environments and attention are not necessarily debt, but they are expensive insurance premiums. You should only pay those premiums if you need the insurance. It's about risk management.

- As time passes, the people who wrote a specific part of a system don't know it anymore, so having them babysit 'their' code in production has diminishing returns. On the other hand, having a systems quality team who have a broad mandate to bugfix, put in preventative measure, reduce technical debt, improve observibility and establish good patterns for developers to do these things, can enabled these things to actually happen, when just telling devs who are busy making features that they should happen often doesn't make them happen. Also there are devs who enjoy creating new things, and others who love trouble-shooting and metrics.

New comment by sadness2 in "Screens Are Bad for Young Brains"

sadness2 — Tue, 18 Feb 2020 00:21:37 +0000

Context is everything

New comment by sadness2 in "Screens Are Bad for Young Brains"

sadness2 — Sun, 16 Feb 2020 22:52:06 +0000

Our kids would definitely be worse off without screens. We don't have time to give them their ideal levels and kinds stimulation, and screens are a tool which helps their parents' sanity. Us, as their parents being driven insane would adversely affect these children. One of them has special needs and the other 2 crave constant input. Overall screens are the lesser evil, and they're all doing just fine. It's all contextual and this article is nowhere near holistic enough.

New comment by sadness2 in "Screens Are Bad for Young Brains"

sadness2 — Sun, 16 Feb 2020 22:48:36 +0000

Failing to improve or temporarily affecting mood != damaging

New comment by sadness2 in "What Exactly is Docker?"

sadness2 — Sun, 02 Feb 2020 07:12:53 +0000

What is Docker? We just don't know.

New comment by sadness2 in "Not everyone has an internal monologue"

sadness2 — Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:06:32 +0000

It's our brain's job to give us lots of ideas. It's then our job to contextualize and filter those ideas, into "useful" and "discard".

You shouldn't feel guilty for having a brain which gives you outrageous ideas. You should only worry if you can't filter them appropriately.

My understanding is that part of schizophrenia can be experiencing those ideas as an external voice.

New comment by sadness2 in "Emergent dynamics of neuromorphic nanowire networks"

sadness2 — Tue, 31 Dec 2019 00:58:36 +0000

More like what conclusion are the reporters drawing, because usually it's a million miles from what the researchers are concluding, but much more exciting.

New comment by sadness2 in "Switching from Chrome to Firefox"

sadness2 — Mon, 30 Dec 2019 21:46:35 +0000

I don't do any of those things, and I find the experience nice. These are pretty specific customizations.