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Written by Branch Predictor :mycomputer: on 2025-01-28 at 21:27

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Sleep well!

🇵🇱 Śpij studnio!

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Written by Branch Predictor :mycomputer: on 2025-01-27 at 18:22

If we trust whatever info is floating around about #DeepSeek, then this is classical example of what happens when "brute force" is no longer an option. This is what made 8-bit and 16-bit demoscene so beautiful too - those guys were producing graphical and sound effects deemed impossible on the machines of that era. Such is DeepSeek - it's better than ChatGPT at fraction of the cost sustained by OpenAI - something also deemed impossible.

And that probably wouldn't happen if China wasn't banned from most powerful AI chips in the first place.

[#]ai #llm #DeepSeek #chatgpt

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Written by Branch Predictor :mycomputer: on 2025-01-18 at 21:00

In a typical for Chinese communists fashion, they want to ban muricans fleeing off soon-to-be-banned Tiktok into their RedNote platform, because they're afraid that muricans will influence Chinese citizens.

This only proves that Tiktok ban should be worldwide, not limited just to US.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/rednote-may-wall-off-tiktok-refugees-to-prevent-us-influence-on-chinese-users/

[#]tiktok #TikTokBan #RedNote

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Written by Branch Predictor :mycomputer: on 2025-01-16 at 22:20

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsXh4n4gC_4

Pinky and Brain - Lala Lend Games

I'm not a fan of trance, but psytrance/fullon/goa... Well, different thing entirely.

[#]muzyka #music #NowPlaying #nowListening #psytrance #fullon

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Written by Branch Predictor :mycomputer: on 2025-01-02 at 15:20

To those who maintain their own (small, private) #mastodon instances - how difficult it is to maintain? What hurdles you have to go through to keep it running reliably?

[#]AskFedi

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Written by Branch Predictor :mycomputer: on 2024-12-21 at 12:31

[#]ubisoft na skraju bankructwa. I BARDZO, K***A, DOBRZE. Chciwy gigant który wepchnął ludziom siłą wymaganie bycia online nawet podczas grania w grę z definicji singlową - nie będzie mi ich szkoda. Co najwyżej szeregowych pracowników którzy nic nie zawinili.

https://ithardware.pl/aktualnosci/ubisoft_na_skraju_bankructwa_ostatnie_tytuly_i_poprawnosc_polityczna_dobily_firme-37476.html

[#]gaming #pcgamin #gry

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Written by Branch Predictor :mycomputer: on 2024-12-02 at 17:16

Junior: I'M 27, I HAVE A DEGREE, I WORKED HERE FOR TWO YEARS! I'M SUPPOSED TO BE SENIOR NOW! WHY I'M NOT A SENIOR!!!111!!!11oneoneoneeleven

Also Junior:

• always late for daily, sometimes absent entirely

• doesn't follow what's going on on daily

• none of his pull requests are accepted at first push, no matter how small

• easily gets emotional during code review

• asked to do X, does Y that's resembling X but it's still not what they were asked for

• needs to be nudged, otherwise doesn't have incentive to do his work in timely manner

• spends two man-days on solving issues that were solved long time ago and all that was needed was a short question on team chat

[#]programming #SoftwareDevelopment #SoftwareEngineering

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Written by Branch Predictor :mycomputer: on 2024-10-29 at 17:17

So I'm manually removing posts from my twatter account and found this pic.

This shows the full-text email search speed (in seconds) on SSD and HDD, when emails are searched in random order and sorted by physical position in folder's datafile. In this case, search speed on HDD was reduced from 527 seconds to 15, and on SSD from 41 to 11.

Non-obvious (for some of younger devs, at least) thing here is that even SSD benefits from in-order file processing because OS and SSD can provide read-ahead and SSD also has seek penalty (small, but it's still there).

[#]programming #SoftwareDevelopment #optimization #performance

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Written by Branch Predictor :mycomputer: on 2024-09-08 at 11:03

So "modern" (read - younger) devs might be framework and language whizzes, but what they lack are... basics of basics. Like, seriously, people really think deferring closing of file after buffered write is a good idea at all? Or that closing a file multiple times from different places in code is a Right Way™?

Sure, the post eventually mentions (f)sync() call, but it's just after updating it, meaning the post author was completely unaware of it.

That pretty much explains why "modern" software (especially web-centric software) was, is and will be unreliable and prone to random bugs, including totally unexpected and unnoticed data loss.

https://www.joeshaw.org/dont-defer-close-on-writable-files/

[#]programming #SoftwareDevelopment

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Written by Branch Predictor :mycomputer: on 2024-09-04 at 16:35

Have you ever caused a literal, three-way inter-company sh*tstorm with just a code review of shoddy pull request from your employer's subcontractor? How did that end up for you? #programming #coding #codereview

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Written by Branch Predictor :mycomputer: on 2024-08-21 at 17:47

Today I had to measure performance of some function running on some obscure ARM-derived hardware. Normally I'd just run it in a loop and measure how much it takes in total and per iteration, but due to its complexity and dependence on other factors, that wasn't an option. Since it took less than 1ms, I couldn't use regular timers and for odd reasons I couldn't use high-resolution clock. What did I do? I used a god damn oscilloscope to measure time the function kept debug pin in high state. It set it to high upon entry and reset it to low before exiting.

And it worked perfectly and gave me stable and reliable timings in μs.

[#]programming #embedded

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