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2y ago

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What are some interesting thinking skills or strategies you've picked up from programming (or anywhere else, but try to stick to programming for now)
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AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦 @lemmy.world 2y ago

Loops and recursion or just thinking iteratively in general. If you get this, then mathematical induction gets much more intuitive if you're studying math.

2y ago

What sub Lemmy's should we all check out?

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AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦 @lemmy.world 2y ago

[email protected], obviously

2y ago

What free things online should everyone take advantage of?

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AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦 @lemmy.world 2y ago

Also, if you want to get in shape:

Couch to 5K: https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/exercise/running-and-aerobic-exercises/get-running-with-couch-to-5k/
the "8 Minute" guy: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSkOCul_mRMIVCSy0f3tqQoauOzKRsMWe

2y ago

How long will food be safe to eat if frozen immediately after cooking it?

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AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦 @lemmy.world 2y ago

The guidelines for freezer storage are for quality only—frozen foods stored continuously at 0°F (-18°C) or below can be kept indefinitely.

https://www.foodsafety.gov/food-safety-charts/cold-food-storage-charts

2y ago

What free things online should everyone take advantage of?

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AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦 @lemmy.world 2y ago

MOOCs.

They're free unless you want a "certificate", which has no practical value and is mostly useful if you want to motivate yourself a bit more and want to support their business model.

Go browse Coursera and edX and learn to your heart's content.

Also, if you're coding, watch recordings of conferences about your programming language, e.g. CppCon/C++Now/CppNorth for C++, PyCon/PyData for Python etc...

2y ago

ssa

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AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦 @lemmy.world 2y ago

Something you'll learn to live by once enter the workplace: your coworkers are not your friends. There might be a one in a thousand case that's an exception to this rule, but most of the time you should not think of them as more than coworkers you have to work with to get your job done. I've witnessed too many cases of coworkers backstabbing each other for their own professional ambitions or where a coworker dies and everyone just completely forgets about him a few days later.

That doesn't mean you should be overly pessimistic either. The idea is to be pragmatic. No one wants a toxic environment, so everyone will put in some effort to maintain a cozy facade, and you should too, as that minimizes tensions for everyone. The mistake would be forgetting that it's all a facade and starting to think of them as something like a family, that's a mistake most juniors make.

My motto is: smile at your coworkers but guard your damn ass when you turn your back to them.

2y ago

I finally nuked windows

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AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦 @lemmy.world 2y ago

For anyone wondering what Proton GE is, it's Proton on steroids: https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom

For instance, even if you have an old Intel integrated GPU, chances are you can still benefit from AMD's FSR just by pushing a few flags to Proton GE, even if the game doesn't officially support it, and you'll literally get a free FPS boost (tested it for fun and can confirm on an Intel UHD Graphics 620).

2y ago

Reddit API blew up and now I run Linux?

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AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦 @lemmy.world 2y ago

Congrats! Your laptop will be even happier with a lighter but still nice-looking desktop environment like Xfce and you even have an Ubuntu flavor around it: Xubuntu.

2y ago

ifn't

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AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦 @lemmy.world 2y ago

reminds me of #ifndef instead of #if !defined(...)

2y ago

CNN blocks Firefox with uBo

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AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦 @lemmy.world 2y ago

TIL!

and it's mobile-friendly and distraction-free too

2y ago

CNN blocks Firefox with uBo

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AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦 @lemmy.world 2y ago

With how MS Teams and now CNN have been reported here to be blocking Firefox, you know that Firefox is doing things right. If web giants are ganging up against it, it's all the more reason to switch to it to make a statement and prevent big tech from making privacy violation the norm.

2y ago

Fedora 40 Looks To Ship AMD ROCm 6 For End-To-End Open-Source GPU Acceleration

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AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦 @lemmy.world 2y ago

Hard to tell as it's really dependent on your use. I'm mostly writing my own kernels (so, as if you're doing CUDA basically), and doing "scientific ML" (SciML) stuff that doesn't need anything beyond doing backprop on stuff with matrix multiplications and elementwise nonlinearities and some convolutions, and so far everything works. If you want some specific simple examples from computer vision: ResNet18 and VGG19 work fine.

2y ago

Fedora 40 Looks To Ship AMD ROCm 6 For End-To-End Open-Source GPU Acceleration

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AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦 @lemmy.world 2y ago

Works out of the box on my laptop (the export below is to force ROCm to accept my APU since it's not officially supported yet, but the 7900XTX should have official support):

Last year only compiling and running your own kernels with hipcc worked on this same laptop, the AMD devs are really doing god's work here.

2y ago

Fedora 40 Looks To Ship AMD ROCm 6 For End-To-End Open-Source GPU Acceleration

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AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦 @lemmy.world 2y ago

Yup, it's definitely about the "open-source" part. That's in contrast with Nvidia's ecosystem: CUDA and the drivers are proprietary, and the drivers' EULA prohibit you from using your gaming GPU for datacenter uses.

2y ago

Fedora 40 Looks To Ship AMD ROCm 6 For End-To-End Open-Source GPU Acceleration

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AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦 @lemmy.world 2y ago

ROCm is that its very unstable

That's true, but ROCm does get better very quickly. Before last summer it was impossible for me to compile and run HIP code on my laptop, and then after one magic update everything worked. I can't speak for rendering as that's not my field, but I've done plenty of computational code with HIP and the performance was really good.

But my point was more about coding in HIP, not really about using stuff other people made with HIP. If you write your code with HIP in mind from the start, the results are usually good and you get good intuition about the hardware differences (warps for instance are of size 32 on NVidia but can be 32 or 64 on AMD and that makes a difference if your code makes use of warp intrinsics). If however you just use AMD's CUDA-to-HIP porting tool, then yeah chances are things won't work on the first run and you need to refine by hand, starting with all the implicit assumptions you made about how the NVidia hardware works.

2y ago

Fedora 40 Looks To Ship AMD ROCm 6 For End-To-End Open-Source GPU Acceleration

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AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦 @lemmy.world 2y ago

HIP is amazing. For everyone saying "nah it can't be the same, CUDA rulez", just try it, it works on NVidia GPUs too (there are basically macros and stuff that remap everything to CUDA API calls) so if you code for HIP you're basically targetting at least two GPU vendors. ROCm is the only framework that allows me to do GPGPU programming in CUDA style on a thin laptop sporting an AMD APU while still enjoying 6 to 8 hours of battery life when I don't do GPU stuff. With CUDA, in terms of mobility, the only choices you get are a beefy and expensive gaming laptop with a pathetic battery life and heating issues, or a light laptop + SSHing into a server with an NVidia GPU.

2y ago

Cloudflare Employee records her final meeting where HR tries to fire her

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AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦 @lemmy.world 2y ago

This. I don't think people here realize that HR doesn't really have a say in this, they aren't the ones deciding on the firing and they aren't the ones who can undo it since they aren't the ones providing the team's budget.

HR's job in these situations is to do the dirty part: handle the announcement to each employee and damage control if necessary.

The girl in the video is saying that her manager was "pleased" with her work and she didn't understand why strangers in the HR department are doing the announcement to her: that's the whole point, it's very likely that it's that "nice" manager who threw you under the bus when he had to make a choice on which people he needs to keep after top management told him to downsize his team but he didn't have the guts to tell you that personally.

2y ago

I don't...

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AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦 @lemmy.world 2y ago

Wayland reduces bugs

As I have to give a few lectures, I can't say I'm pleased with how screen-sharing or using a projector in the classroom fails almost half of the time and always embarrasses me in front of everyone. I ended up purging the Wayland stuff and going back to good ol' i3 and I haven't had a display-related issue ever since.

X11 works, it may not be as sexy or modern as Wayland but it's battle-tested and just works and for the vast majority of people, excluding Wayland's bugs, the differences are not even noticeable.