Highly anecdotal (small sample size) but I would say around 20% of our recent senior candidates say one of the reasons they applied was they wanted to help building custom tech
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With a recent cold snap I was able to empirically test how biking feels in cold weather :) -6-8C it is still quite pleasant, -15C - you do need good gloves and something for the legs
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I spent some time trying to fix a mysterious bug some of our WINE users were having (we'd lose focus and not get it back properly...), narrowed it down to GetDeviceState somehow pumping a message loop and finally found this little gem in the Wine sources. Do I get to blame Morrowind?
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...how did I learn that, you ask? Well, I wasted a few hours today trying to see why Switch behaves differently than Windows and turned out Switch was using fmin (not fminm) and it's not the same as minps...
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Huh, TIL ARM has 2 flavors of min/max, fmin which makes NaNs flow through and fminm which tries to be helpful
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Uh, say I have a crash dump from Wine... which does not completely resolve the callstack because of binary mismatch ("Windows" DLLs like user32.dll not matching the ones in MS Symbol Server). Is there an easy way to obtain matching Wine binaries.. one that does not end up with me wanting to scratch my eyes out?
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Wow people were not kidding, I updated my VS and now every single context window has some Copilot AI option
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Philosophical question. I make a change, it affects some metric (it goes up)... Do I present it as new = 1.07 of old, old = 0.93 of new or 7% increase?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtX7WnFhxtQ
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https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/oct/09/demis-hassabis-from-video-game-designer-to-nobel-prize-winner-google-deepmind-ai- -- he has come a long way since Elixir Studios/Bullfrog days.
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I never noticed, but it's quite cute Intel's D3D vendor ID is 0x8086 :)
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Visual Studio's version of Kobayashi Maru - "Cancel Build" doesn't work, but can't exit the app either because "the build must be stopped before the solution can be closed"
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Great article: https://macleans.ca/politics/quebec-french-language-laws/
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Ugh, I was looking at how hard would it be to add try_emplace to my hash map but it seems like I need almost entire piecewise_construct for this and uh, no...
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Hot take: if someone moved Montreal to a place that is not -40C in the winter, it would be the best city in North America
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