boguscoder's comments

On: Velox: A Port of Tauri to Swift by Miguel de Icaza

[boguscoder]

He also wrote (or at least started) midnight commander!

[jimjimjim → boguscoder]

Thank you. I've used mc since my slackware days and still use it. I never new Miguel wrote it

On: Unrolling the Codex agent loop

[boguscoder]

I thought Eric Traut was famous for his pioneering work in virtualization, TIL he has Pyright fame too !

On: OLED, Not for Me

[boguscoder]

It will probably be microLED rather than OLED in current form

[modeless → boguscoder]

I've been waiting for microLED for years but it doesn't seem to be getting any closer.

On: Ÿnsect, a French insect farming startup, has been been placed into liquidation

[boguscoder]

Given that EU tech salaries are a lot more tame, it would be interesting to see how 600m were even used. Hopefully there’s some good R&D there and not some French alps retreats and Porches for founders

[MarcelOlsz → boguscoder]

They had 600 million employees!?

[well_ackshually → MarcelOlsz]

Yes. All of Europe was working for them, and we're now entirely jobless. The industries, governments, all refocused on insects, and now it's gone. We don't know what to do. Send help.

[wiether → MarcelOlsz]

> how a startup can go bankrupt despite raising over $600 million

On: Unity's Mono problem: C# code runs slower than it should

[boguscoder]

Good article but seems strange that author benchmarked debug builds first, that’s a huge “no-no” in any perf tweaking and it’s clear that authors knows this well

[iliketrains → boguscoder]

From my experience, performance gains seen in Debug builds in Unity/C#/Mono nearly always translate in gains in Release mode. I know that this is not always true, but in this context that's my experience.

Setting up release benchmarks is much more complex and we develop the game in Debug mode, so it is very natural to get the first results there, and if promising, validate them in Release.

Also, since our team works in Debug mode, even gains that only speed things up in Debug mode are valuable for us, but I haven't encountered a case where I would see 20%+ perf gain in Debug mode that would not translate to Release mode.

[mort96 → boguscoder]

I agreed with you initially, but is it really as big of a deal in C#? I'm used to compiled languages where "debug build" means "no compiler optimisations", aka every operation done with a variable is a memory load + store, trivial functions aren't inlined so even trivial accessors called in a loop carry function call overhead, etc etc. But this is C#, so the JIT presumably optimises just as much in a debug build as in a release build?

So in C++ terms, it's really just benchmarking "-O2" instead of "-O2 -DNDEBUG". This seems fine.

On: SHARP, an approach to photorealistic view synthesis from a single image

[boguscoder]

Requires email to view anything, that’s sad

On: Leaving Intel

[boguscoder]

Not being sarcastic here, a million a year is not a target compensation for engineer like him, 5-7 is probably where it starts and goes to the stars

[astrange → boguscoder]

His bio says he was an Intel Fellow, which is like a VP-level individual role, and yes that's what I expected too… but apparently not? These are kinda low.

https://www.levels.fyi/companies/intel/salaries/software-eng...

[boguscoder → astrange]

Id expect his comp even before Intel to be way above that (he came from Netflix), perhaps levels info is not entirely correct for Intel or doesn’t apply to exceptional hires, fellow level compensation at FAANG seems to be more accurate there though

On: Leaving Intel

[boguscoder]

Does he need it though? His name is literally a brand in many tech circles and very good brand at that

[forrestthewoods → boguscoder]

Always valuable to announce your availability and celebrate recent successes.

[boguscoder → forrestthewoods]

And how did I contradict that? My point was that he is not looking for vanity

[forrestthewoods → boguscoder]

You: does he need it? He’s famous!

Me: it’s always valuable!

That’s it.

On: Moss: a Rust Linux-compatible kernel in 26,000 lines of code

[boguscoder]

Sorry for nit but embassy is not a RTOS (or any OS), its a framework

[rcxdude → boguscoder]

The difference becomes a bit murky at this level. For example embassy comes with a lot more things I would consider OS-related than FreeRTOS does.

On: Samsung's 60% DRAM price hike signals a new phase of global memory tightening

[boguscoder]

Have you seen our debt recently?..