Victor Baybekov

[Victor Baybekov @buybackoff]

@Petr_Kovalev No, just a simple struct in C. With C weird syntax for multiple field on the same line, but that would lead to a smaller offset. I literally pasted this: https://t.co/ZqoRlhWmgL

[Victor Baybekov @buybackoff]

While they spread myths and fables about #AI, it cannot calculate field offsets from a pasted simple C struct definition, and then failed 2 times when I was suspicious that part was not working as expected and asked to review. Offsets, Karl! 56 not 60!

[Victor Baybekov @buybackoff]

LOL #French https://t.co/AtvDJvjG0O

[Victor Baybekov @buybackoff]

@BlockBiker @davidfowl Hm, I do clean my bike chain just because I see it's dirty, without measuring power vs speed or noticing any impact. The same is true often for code. Then just seeing it must be a metric already.

[Victor Baybekov @buybackoff]

Published a new blog post and a small library for measuring .NET code performance with cycles precision and analysing results with a new HDR histogram implementation. #dotnet #csharp https://t.co/NKfYKUB7V3

[Victor Baybekov @buybackoff]

@Kuinox_ @xoofx They raised prices right after their last financing round, it's not a coincidence. Almost like 1 day between the 1st line on HN. If they were profitable already, they would not need so much financing and neither they would need to raise prices. They are bleeding money.

[Victor Baybekov @buybackoff]

@AlTi5 D'accord, le cycliste s'est retrouvé sur la voie opposée. Mais ce n'est pas de ça dont parle ce pédant.

[Victor Baybekov @buybackoff]

@AlTi5 Le cycliste a respecté le code de la route, ce n'est pas lui le connard. Il n'y a eu aucun conflit, si ce n'est celui que ce prétentieux a lui-même provoqué. #M12 https://t.co/q3psCI5BGh

[Victor Baybekov @buybackoff]

@davidfowl After C# in VSCode in text-only mode + AI I thought how terrible that would be with a dynamic language. Codex produces decent code, but it knows to compile before telling it's done, and often does stupid typo-like mistakes and corrects. So types + compile speed are best for AI.

[Victor Baybekov @buybackoff]

It has happened N times already, I erase an unposted HN comment or delete one right after posting, because it will have either no disucssion or take time for engaging. So instead of a heated debate why Windows is so bad lately, an API Proposal to #dotnet https://t.co/Au9idOiBER

[Victor Baybekov @buybackoff]

Despite having been very skeptical on actual AI usefullness for non-trivial coding, based on my own experience, I want it to succeed. It's usefullness has been growing very gradually, but then suddenly #codex seems to actually save time.

[Victor Baybekov @buybackoff]

@ben_a_adams @DamianEdwards @davidfowl @danroth27 @shanselman @axboe Cool stuff! Can it be extracted to a standalone library that does not depend on the runtime release cadence and the fate of PR, and falls back to normal sockets and exposes minimal socket-like high-perf API?

[Last Coin Standing @LastCoinStandng]

@EmmanuelMacron For an employer to pay/incentivize an employee a salary of €39,000, the employer has to pay €95,000; the difference is confiscated by the French government.

[Daniel Lemire @lemire]

Many of the best engineers are from Eastern Europe. It is obvious to anyone who has worked in tech. So why hasn’t a country like Poland been a leading economic power?

If you have work experience in dysfunctional environments, you know the answer.

Technical excellence means nothing without the proper culture. The number of excellent engineers stuck, unable to deploy and gain expertise, is enormous. It is probably the greatest obstacle to prosperity.

Look at what happened to Poland since 1990. Why 1990? It marked the fall of socialism in Eastern Europe. Poland got its first freely elected president since 1926.

Economists talk about resource allocation and so on…
But it wasn’t free elections that freed Poland. We know this because communist China is rising fast—its engineers do great work. Singapore isn’t exactly a democracy, yet it is one of the richest countries on Earth.

It is entrepreneurship that wins the day. Take young (or not-so-young) promising engineers, get them out of dead-end jobs, and put them in a culture where innovation is rewarded.

It is related to politics, but really more cultural than political. Does reality trump your feelings? Can I tell you your design sucks, build a new one, and shame you for your shoddy work?

A good rule of thumb is: would Elon Musk be welcome in your organization ? Would he be at ease in your country ? My bet is that, increasingly, people like Elon Musk would be welcome in Poland, but back in 1985, he would not have been.

[Victor Baybekov @buybackoff]

I rarely see that. Self-host they say, avoid the cloud.

[Victor Baybekov @buybackoff]

@Velib It's not about the reimbursement. I would pay reasonably more if only that would help Velib be more reliable than @RERE_SNCF (low bar), and not have issues with every other ride even with 80+k numbered bikes. Even RER E has improved over the last 1-2 months, so there is a hope.

[Victor Baybekov @buybackoff]

Grand Palais, Concorde bridge and Luxor obelisk, the tricolor, the banks of the Seine, and a nice rental bike in the new 85k number range. The weather is perfect. Almost everything is perfect... just some small things are not in their right place. Can you spot it, @Velib !?

[Victor Baybekov @buybackoff]

Nice, only over the last several days. Old stock from Amazon was still available, and no more. I thought no one wants 4800, myself included even for an oldish SFF box that only supports 4400, so wanted to take time to review later.

[Victor Baybekov @buybackoff]

@Windows @Microsoft I hope @gnome realizes that their RDP work is vital to enable LoD for a big niche of Windows users, who lough at VNC and similar invalid solutions. Gnome 48 is very close to make RDP usable, but still a lot to do. 49 with persistent sessions should be much better, if it works.

[Victor Baybekov @buybackoff]

FFS @Windows @Microsoft why RDP settings were disabled after a routine update, all my firewall rules evaporated, and I cannot re-enable RDP host with outbound connections blocked? This day has come, the pile of garbage has grown too big and stinks too much to continue to tolerate

[Victor Baybekov @buybackoff]

@Windows @Microsoft The only thing that Windows still does better than others is RDP. And I depend on it both for work and home. For more than a decade I have a powerful workstation and a thin Mac laptop client. Used to be Bootcamp, now it's a Win VM just for RDP, as Mac's client from MSFT is bad.