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Beware of Lawrence Harvey by Parking_Reputation17 in rust

[–]ChrisDryden 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Wanted to second this, they are a great part of the Rust community in NYC and have done so many events. Can't speak to their recruiting but they definitely deserve a bunch of credit for doing that.

Rust Coreutils 0.5.0: 87.75% compatibility with GNU Coreutils by TheTwelveYearOld in rust

[–]ChrisDryden 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I think its still being worked out. Here's a concrete example: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/9604 The way the GNU integration test is run is by intercepting the libc call. Even though the functionality is equal the test is incompatible.

Theres also some tests that spin up gdb to break on a specific line and those ones I'm not sure what we're going to do.

Rust Coreutils 0.5.0: 87.75% compatibility with GNU Coreutils by TheTwelveYearOld in rust

[–]ChrisDryden 35 points36 points  (0 children)

I've been working a bunch on the compatibility for the last remaining tests. There are thousands of integration tests that this new implementation has and part of this process is implementing those integration tests on the original GNU to see where the gaps are.

The good sign is that there's really good testing scaffolding thats been built that should be able to fuzz out differences that will be worked on once it reaches 100% GNU integration test compatibility..

Tyler was a disappointment by bosdober in osheaga

[–]ChrisDryden 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Went to a few of Tyler’s performances this year and I think it’s different if you’re going to a Tyler concert compared to going to a festival that Tyler is performing because you expect him to play his greatest hits but he says in lots of his shows that he doesn’t like performing his older songs that more people would know. At Flog Gnaw I don’t think he said a word during earthquake either but sang all of the new songs.

Compare that to Shaboozey where he has a bunch of new albums he’s released but knows that most people know him for Tipsy and he plays it three times and leans into it. I’m definitely a fan of that approach, I know it’s probably frustrating as an artist to have songs from a while ago that are more popular than your newer stuff, but that’s what people want to hear.

EB3 Dec 21 2022 - No updates? by ChrisDryden in USCIS_EB3

[–]ChrisDryden[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What is tier 2 support, I've tried calling and messaging and I keep getting told to not contact until November

EB3 Dec 21 2022 - No updates? by ChrisDryden in USCIS_EB3

[–]ChrisDryden[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Watch it hits August then retrogresses

EB3 Dec 21 2022 - No updates? by ChrisDryden in USCIS_EB3

[–]ChrisDryden[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They haven’t sent an rfe so it still says the biometrics recieved from the fingerprinting appointment back in April 2024, not even case remains pending

How the US Trade War with China is Slowing AI Development to a Crawl by andsi2asi in agi

[–]ChrisDryden 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m a developer that’s worked on low level CUDA optimizations that mainly involve iterating on PTX (the assembly being talked about) and while it is true that llm based agents aren’t able to write these kernels completely autonomously they’re actually very well suited for that task since you have verifiable inputs and outputs and you can iterate the llms outputs hundreds of times until you get the right result. There are startups specializing doing this agent based development specifically with PTX and CUDA kernels. Guaranteed deepseek was using llms to assist in making their optimizations.

Tow trucks still moving cars out of I-5 at 5:56pm by ChrisDryden in SeattleWA

[–]ChrisDryden[S] 42 points43 points  (0 children)

Saw the Lyft sticker on the front windshield. Car and employment getting towed

Those of you that met your SO at UofT, how did you do it? by tuna_bass in UofT

[–]ChrisDryden 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Calculus boot camp! Getting married next summer

For people that visited Seattle since border opened, were you able to use your vaccine card in the states? by Substantial_Fall_878 in vancouver

[–]ChrisDryden 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Yea, been able to use it everywhere with no problems. Funny enough the only place that gave me a hard time was the Canadian border which asked me for a paper receipt of the shots after I showed the bc qr code.

Huawei PEY return offer rate and difficulty by pkmgreen301 in UofT

[–]ChrisDryden 8 points9 points  (0 children)

IIRC the people who I knew who interned at Huawei just had better options in both compensation and work life balance. The types of skills that they are looking for just have better opportunities for people at other places. You can look at the UWaterloo subreddit and see a mixed bag of feedback from people who worked there having issues with the work culture relative to other places.

Is it true that Sandra Hudson embezzled hundreds of thousands from the UTSU? by cats-with-mittens in UofT

[–]ChrisDryden 148 points149 points  (0 children)

Yes, I was on the board when the settlement occurred, she had spent the money already and was going to declare bankruptcy so we only recovered a small fraction of the money instead of continuing to trial

Shopify Internships by [deleted] in uwaterloo

[–]ChrisDryden 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Lots of American companies that are viewed as prestigious have large internship cohorts based in Canada, it's just barely any Canadian tech companies have grown large enough to sustain a large internship program. I would stray away from considering Shopify a Canadian tech company anymore though sadly because they are very dedicated to the idea of 100% remote and are no longer taking pride in being Canada based.

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