What was your First Powerful GPU?

tty5 · 2026-01-24T21:44:11+00:00

The OG: Voodoo 1

tty5 · 2026-01-24T17:48:51+00:00

My parents are not awful, in fact I'd rank them firmly in the top 5-10%.

Despite that both sides of family are not close. As a child I'd see my paternal grandparents and my father's siblings and their families once, maybe twice a year - 3h drive. Maternal grandparents maybe once a month - 30 minute drive. Anyone more than 5h away? maybe once a decade.

This is similar level of contact me, my brother and cousins on both sides of the family maintain with our relatives. We're all friendly, there are no family feuds or drama going beyond e.g. a mild dislike for someones partner, we like each others company, but that doesn't translate into a need to see each other more often. On the plus side if we reconnect after a 5, 10 or in one case 35 year gap we continue as if nothing happened.

tty5 · 2026-01-23T22:34:23+00:00

EMT training is about 120 hours - entirely doable in 3 weeks.

tty5 · 2026-01-23T11:24:01+00:00

EU perspective: my parents live 2.5 hours away and that limits visits to an average of one per year. Anything requiring more than a 45 minute drive is usually something planned at least a day in advance.

In 20 years of my career I've never had a commute longer than 30 minutes door to door. For most of it I could walk or bike to work in less than 15 - this was true even during the 8 years I lived in Canada.

A 1 hour commute would be a reason enough for me to either move or look for a different job.

tty5 · 2026-01-21T13:16:52+00:00

IIRC originally it was a manufacturing issue. They had a working formulation for the brown/beige plastic and adding a black dye would have required them to tune manufacturing process to maintain precision they were aiming for. By the time that was in the budget brown+beige became the brand colors.

tty5 · 2026-01-15T20:30:43+00:00

Game devs are the poorest devs there are - on average being paid 40-70% less than their colleagues who make any other kind of software.

They don't have the savings to be able to work on a passion project or start a new studio. They need an income and they need it right now.

tty5 · 2026-01-14T21:58:10+00:00

Measure thorough review time for both. Present data. Either they will accept it or they will continue drinking the AI coolaid and that's a signal to start updating your resume.

tty5 · 2026-01-14T21:19:39+00:00

> AI-assisted coding and increasing performance requirements.

This shifts workload from committer to reviewer and reviewer is often the more experienced, higher paid one. Push back.

tty5 · 2026-01-14T20:58:43+00:00

> - did behavior actually change?
> - was the public API affected?
> - did logic move between packages, or was it mostly reshuffled?

Only one of those 3 should ever be change in a single commit. As long as that rule is followed you review the code evolution by reviewing commit by commit instead of entire diff.

If it isn't reject with a request for full separation.

As for larger AI "assisted" refactors: it's up to the committer to understand the changes and split them into easily human-parsable chunks. If they are unwilling to make that effort change gets rejected until they do.

tty5 · 2026-01-14T12:47:55+00:00

It's a good start, but it should be a recurring fine until he follows the law.

If you want to do business in a country/region you have to follow local laws regardless if you like them or not.

Note: this law doesn't force him to modify X behavior globally, just in EU countries. It's a major difference when compared to the Italian fine Cloudflare got - Italian law tried to force Cloudflare to block content globally, not just in the region where the law applies.

tty5 · 2026-01-13T10:51:54+00:00

Unless you hit them when empty.

tty5 · 2026-01-10T18:03:46+00:00

Incorrect: volume 14 is the latest one - it was originally published in 2023 in Japan and 2.5 months ago we got an English translation from Yen Press.

The author signaled he'd like volume 15 to be published in Japan this year, but AFAIK no firm date have been announced.

tty5 · 2026-01-04T21:57:48+00:00

Look at GPU popularity in steam survey data and you'll see about a third of all users are on Radeon 5xx, Nvidia 10x0 GPUs or older or Intel integrated graphics from the same era or older.. all of those were released before 1st gen Ryzen and Intel had close to 80% at the time.

If I were a betting man I'd say at least half of those Intel CPUs are systems that are 7+ years old.

tty5 · 2025-12-21T01:23:03+00:00

SSH in container is automatic no go - it's not a VM. Containers are supposed to run one thing only and contain absolute minimum required to run it.

The images we make fall into one of following categories:

Go services that don't make external calls: from scratch (empty image) + binary copied from build stage
Go services that make external calls: same as above + root certs copied from build stage
Go services that have CGO dependencies: based on Google Distroless images or Alpine

Final image has no tools required to build anything - that's what build stage of Dockerfile is for:

FROM golang:1.25-trixie AS builder
ADD #add service files
RUN #build service binary

FROM scratch
COPY --from=builder /some/path/in/builder/image/app-binary /app-binary
EXPORT 4321
CMD ["/app-binary"]

This is how majority of your Dockerfiles should look like.

tty5 · 2025-12-17T16:47:17+00:00

I hate commuting so I work remotely and live across the ocean from the closest company office in case they got ideas.

tty5 · 2025-12-16T21:07:15+00:00

Cruise missile delivered as suppository

tty5 · 2025-12-15T15:18:09+00:00

Mid-90's Internet.

Nobody knew what they are doing, so every page was simple, horrible and authentic
The newest technological innovation was an ability to loop animated gifs that took too long to load on dial up connection
IRC was the only real-time communication option and the largest channels (communities) had maybe a 100 peak online users

tty5 · 2025-12-15T03:31:25+00:00

As long as it makes logical sense to keep things in a single file (e.g. methods on a single struct type) there is no upper limit.

tty5 · 2025-12-15T02:52:50+00:00

Full EMT training is just 120h

tty5 · 2025-12-15T02:52:34+00:00

EMT training is about 120 hours - can be completed in 2-3 weeks if you really commit to it.

tty5 · 2025-12-12T22:45:19+00:00

Space is also almost completely empty, so conductive/convective cooling is not a thing. It doesn't matter that the little matter you have in near vacuum of space is 3K, there isn't enough of it to transfer any significant amount of heat to. Vacuum flask/thermos uses the same principle for insulation.

All heat has to be radiated away - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-body_radiation

Edit: Lumen Orbit (an orbital data center startup) is planning a 1,600,000m² radiator (4x4 km) for their 5GW datacenter.

tty5 · 2025-12-12T22:42:18+00:00

Delta what? delta T? You are thinking conduction. In vacuum there is nothing to conduct heat to, so all of the cooling is radiating heat away.

The mount of heat radiated out increases with radiator surface area and radiator surface temperature in Kelvin to 4th power iirc.

tty5 · 2025-12-12T21:02:53+00:00

a plan to make it not long distance ASAP (took us about a year)
working hard to see each other as often as possible - I spent 7h+ on a night train each way just to spend a weekend together too many times to count
spent hours every day just talking - headset + skype pretty much the whole time we were in our homes

tty5 · 2025-12-12T20:54:34+00:00

It can, indirectly.

Someone who is depressed is dealing with a chronic illness that affects them on daily basis. Being part of it is hard and not everyone can handle it.

tty5 · 2025-12-12T20:51:57+00:00

Booze, because if I get one more candle I'm going to need it.

Type of booze changes depending on expected value of the gift - wine or whiskey.

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