Tassos Bassoukos

If my code runs fine on the first try, it's definitely broken. Currently moving out to Mastodon, as Twitter is becoming as useful as LinkedIn's feed.

[Tassos Bassoukos @abas]

@ImSh4yy @erulabs Oh man, I remember handling one of those. Weighted a ton.

[Tassos Bassoukos @abas]

@PiotrKafel If you can keep the tests around, you definitely did something with continuing impact.

[Tassos Bassoukos @abas]

@PiotrKafel @X This is why I switched to Mastodon, Twitter is dripping in quality recently. There's exactly 2 persons that is still follow on Twitter.

[Tassos Bassoukos @abas]

@PiotrKafel This is the seo-ed to hell and back, to the extent the experimental generative search experience that G now offers is much more useful than the main search (which is why it won't go anywhere, G isn't going to kill their golden goose)

[Tassos Bassoukos @abas]

@PiotrKafel Have you tried looking up anything nontrivial lately? Everyone is reblogging the same trivial tutorials, neatly stopping right where the complexity makes things interesting - and useful.

[Tassos Bassoukos @abas]

@PiotrKafel Sometimes I'm still like https://t.co/24U2tkDiOx but it's getting more rare in recent years...

[Tassos Bassoukos @abas]

@PiotrKafel My advice is to embrace the functional side. IntelliJ has some neat advices on when to switch to streams / sequences for performance, or when to use fused operators.

Also, beware of extension functions, as they are an easy footgun.

[Tassos Bassoukos @abas]

@PiotrKafel @TeamBlind It's a more or less toxic community where ones value is solely measured by that number.

[Tassos Bassoukos @abas]

@PiotrKafel A counterperspective: Groupon did not understand the enshittification cycle, mistimed it, and alienated both customer bases before Groupon grew big enough to effectively execute the value capture.

[John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack]

@crimebucket It is probably a surprise to many, but full stack reaction times on current self driving cars are quite a bit worse than a race car driver. This is one of the areas where optimization would help!

[Tassos Bassoukos @abas]

@PiotrKafel The counterpoint is that if you have a loan, your rates have jumped through the roof.

[Tassos Bassoukos @abas]

@panda_rocks2020 @GergelyOrosz And when I read a new piece of code, I always think wtf the author was thinking, and I can rewrite it so much cleaner and tighter - but if I dive deeper, there's _always_ some reason why things are as they are.

[Tassos Bassoukos @abas]

Would you like to be surprised? Go to the twitter homepage in incognito mode. Ingenious way to increase account numbers...

[Chris Jefferson @Azumanga]

@davidthomas426 @mitsuhiko @rishmishra So over time clang extended to compile all of C++, and in the process got as slow as gcc, and llvm got up to comparable speed, and number of CPUs as gcc, and got as slow at compiling.

The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend.

[Tassos Bassoukos @abas]

@PiotrKafel Congrats man, good to hear!

[Tassos Bassoukos @abas]

@PiotrKafel Yeah, I still get contacted by recruiters about opportunities in companies that have announced layoffs, and when pressed they claim that it's about a different department/vertical. TBH not even the rank-and-file within the company will know in advance of layoffs.

[Tassos Bassoukos @abas]

@PiotrKafel Hah, that view reminds me of all the Zachtronics games... Optimizations ftw

[Tassos Bassoukos @abas]

I need a way to filter out all the "Topic X is blowing up. Here's what you need to know/Here's N things you can do now" tweets that have started plaguing my twitter feed...

[Tassos Bassoukos @abas]

Consensus seems to be that ChatGPT/GPT-4 is getting dumber week by week (where "dumber" usually means loss of previously-available function). I'm reminded of this scene: https://t.co/yp5Fl0Te6h