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Would love some more info, maybe sources.

DEI isn’t only focused on race. And even if so, if there are more statistically distributed poor people of one race getting by than another, that is a problem.

https://www.texastribune.org/2016/06/23/race-and-admissions-...

> Black and Hispanics make up just 14 percent of students admitted from outside the automatic threshold, even though they make up 60 percent of Texas high school graduates. Meanwhile, white and Asian students make up 73 percent of non-automatically admitted students, while they make up 39 percent of Texas high school graduates overall.

Can you explain what is bad about DEI offices, using tangible examples? Who do they hurt?

How do they legally ban DEI offices? Aren’t universities basically businesses in the US? (Not an American.) Even if not, aren’t they allowed to do as they see fit?

Really surprised the government has the ability to do this, but I’m not super well educated here.

Disclaimer: this is not my domain.

But wouldn’t the blockchain give a decentralised record of ownership that was protected from corruption? If a single entity owns this database, how does it fare against attacks/bad actors, or highly capitalists companies like EA going in and editing it in their best interests.

You need a truly good organisation to host that single DB and I’m not sure I tryst any of them at the moment.

(Also thought I have a cursory knowledge of blockchain technology, so please correct me if I’m off.)

We have the equivalent of HOAs in Norway, I think, for large buildings. You usually buy, not rent, an apartment, and the building has a board, or group of residents that manages the property, carries out infrastructure work (sewer and water plumbing, facade repairs, common area maintenance).

Usually when you buy the apartment you’re made aware of the outstanding balance on the building’s maintenance fund and everyone pays an equal share of this each month.

Sometimes they get a little picky on things but never to the craziness that I see in the US. Mostly it’s handled with common sense and the lives (and finances) of the residents in mind.

Yeah. That’s all I was trying to say. I’m not speaking about anything related to shitty recruiters, how hard it is to be a man online (??), or how much it sucks to be the target of sex-based scams.

Just. Saying it sucks to be a woman in tech and statements and sentiments like this are part of the reason why.

Still no one answered my question: “What does a software engineer look like then?”

I think it was a combination of me being not explicit enough and touching on an obviously sore subject for others. But I don’t have the energy to unravel it or debate.

Yes? I just migrated from reddit.

Read my comments. I have been discussing my job in Europe and my work with vectorised optimisations.

Seems like a lot of work for sowing discord, but you make the call.

> Two, they look more like models than software engineers. Completely bullshit.

Can I push back against this? It’s toxic as fuck. Being a woman in tech blows. You can’t be pretty or you’re considered incompetent and shallow. You can’t be ugly or you’re treated poorly for that.

It’s a loose-loose.

What does a software engineer look like to you, then?

Godbolt doesn’t accurately show runtime speed of algorithms on input data, which is what you need when discussing simd performance. And often these are proprietary industry algorithms that are the core of a business’s model.

I’m all for transparency but I’m also not about to get fired for posting our kernel convolution routines, or least squares fit model.

> It should be part of these discussions to proof what you claim

Further - these aren’t subjective claims that need to be proven on a forum for legitimacy. It’s the literal state of vector based optimisations in the compiler world right now. It is a hard problem and for the time being humans are much better at it. This is quite a large area of academic research at the moment.

If someone is so uninformed of this domain that they don’t know this, the burden is on that person to learn what the industry is talking about. Not the people discussing the objective state of the industry.

Just a heads up, as far as I know that’s more of a porting/learning tool than a production tool.

I remember us looking deeply into this and decided to hand write the SSE intrinsics. They usually map 1:1 but we had some unexpected differences in algorithm output between the x86 binary and the ARM binary when compiled with this.

But this was also back in 2019 or so, maybe it’s better now!

For debugging you can actually use gdb in assembly tui mode and step through the instructions! You can even get it hooked up in vs code and remote debug an embedded target using the full IDE. Full register view, watch registers for changes, breakpoints, step instruction to instruction.

Pipelining and optimisations can make the intrinsics a bit fucky though, have to make sure it’s -O0 and a proper debug compilation.

I have line by line debugged raw assembly many times. It’s just a pain to initially set up. Honestly not very different from c/c++ debugging once running.

Not OP but also work with this.

There’s some tutorials but honestly the best thing is to just use them.

Write an image processing routine that does something like apply a gaussian blur to a black and white image. The c++ code for this is everywhere. You have a fixed kernel (2d matrix) and you have to do repeat multiplication and addition to each pixel for each element in the kernel.

Write it in C++ or Rust. Then read the Arm SIMD manual, find the instructions that do the math you want, and switch it over to intrinsics. You are doing the same exact operations with the intrinsics as the raw c++. Just 8 or 16 of them at a single time.

Run them side by side for parity and to check speed, tweak the simd, etc.

Arm has good (well ,okay) documentation

https://developer.arm.com/documentation/den0018/a/?lang=en

https://arm-software.github.io/acle/neon_intrinsics/advsimd....

* Edit: you also have to do this on a supported architecture. Raspberry pi’s have a neon core at least in the 3’s. Not sure about the 4’s but I believe so too!

I often hand write neon (and other vectorised architecture) intrinsics/assembly for my job, optimising image and signal processing routines. We have seen many many 3 digit percentage speedups from bare c/c++ code.

I got into the nastiest discussion on reddit where people were swearing up and down it was impossible to beat the compiler, and handwritten assembly was useless/pretentious/dangerous. I was downvoted massively. Sigh.

Anyways, that was a year ago. Thanks for another point of validation for that. It clearly didn’t hurt my feelings. :)

I never come across people in the wild that actually do this also, it’s such a niche area of expertise.

How does it compare to the rest of Sweden though?

That’s how I justify it here at least. I mean, I make 500.000kr less than I did in the US, but 900k also puts me in the top 5% of all earners in Norway. So I have a very good quality of life.

The middle class is so compressed here that it’s a super cozy income, and I will never have to worry about anything financially or healthcare related for the rest of my life.

I just have moments of «I want more», which is when I get anxiety and look elsewhere. But honestly not sure I need it in any real way.

Can I ask if you know how average costs in Scandinavia hold up to that? Working in Norway atm making ~90k€ equivalent after some time, but I took the paycut from the US because of quality of life/healthcare/state pension, etc. Still, it’s a very good salary here, I’m in the top few % of all Norwegians.

But it was a huge paycut. I’m definitely happier than I was in the US but I have been considering moving a bit further south. Bumping up to 120k and getting more sunshine would be very nice.

They have industrial-focused pi boards in a memory/dimm-slot format that have on board flash.

A company I was at used it in a product for the rapid prototyping capability.

Definitely. Might have been unclear but I was trying to speak specifically about the “blame the platform not the people” mentality I was responding to.

Fully in agreement extremism is on the rise and the internet aids this.

> Yet people blame Twitter when someone posts a tweet with hate speech. This is a dangerous direction for the world to be moving in.

Not to diminish the issue, but this is mostly an American problem as far as I see it. I realise these are also American companies, but conflating the entire world to be in danger is a bit disingenuous imo.

MANY European countries (speaking from a Scandinavian perspective) don’t suffer from this, and while there’s a danger of American policies trickling down, that has been severely diminished in the past decade as there’s a movement of all of us (that I’ve seen) sort of re-evaluating our admiration of the US that was built in the 90’s - 00’s.

From the outside this isn’t a direction the world seems to be moving in. Just more crazy US spiralling.

> we need to stop handing out education …stop training the enemy

Seems a little harsh and nationalistic? Not an American so maybe I’m way off base here, but in a country where people already pay exorbitant prices for higher education, what would you propose?

Unless I misunderstood you, I don’t think banning foreigners will solve your problem.

I know it’s sarcasm but the thought of a small 64x64 video auto-playing at 0.25fps is hilarious to me.

Thanks, yeah that makes a lot of sense. I do tend to conflate the two concepts.

Makes sense, and I guess it’s semantics, but if the language/interpreter is handling which numeric types to use for me, should it really be sold as “strongly typed” in the main tagline for the language?

Internally, float and int are completely different types, 2’s compliment vs ieee754. Conglomerating them to a “number” feels like weak typing.

(Disclaimer: I’m a grumpy C++ engineer.)

Edit: it does look like a neat/useable language though!

I want to believe it will be great but even when apple was x86, linux was barely functional on the modern systems (2018-).

Proprietary drivers for radio/sensors/audio were incredibly hard to get working and the blackbox security module they have made it nearly impossible to boot and use any peripherals. I was following somewhat closely for a long while and outside of hobby hacking, it was never a useable system from what I saw.

Do you know if it’s looking better in that regard for M1? I’ve been out of the loop.

It’s possible to be critical of Israel’s approach without being antisemitic, or as you put it, “scapegoating the Jews”.

Remote controlled munitions, “less than lethal” or not, are deeply concerning no matter who operates them.

On the topic of safety of LLMs, from the discussion of the study:

“In one report [25], over 13% of the cases resulted in moderate to severe injuries with surgical intervention being required in 8% of the cases and another 18% sustaining a traumatic brain injury. ”

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41314-022-00045-0

Not something I’m keen to see used anywhere. Much less in a robotic deployment situation.

The screentime report was jarring for me as well. It sounds silly, but I used the parental control on my iphone to turn it «dumb».

I can still use the internet, but blocked most social media sites and apps, reddit/etc. My good friend has the passcode.

If I need them I can use my laptop/desktop, but it’s not as gratifying and right there. My screentime dropped by 4-5 hours per day, it’s insane. Now I get bored occasionally and (unintentionally) frustrated my phone can’t solve that, but I do read more, and work on more hobbies.

That seems like a very confident statement. How are you reaching that? (Other than a magic AI.)

Quantum is not at that point, and won’t be in 3 years.