Corey Sharrah

Father; Husband; Proud Arizonan; Staff Eng @ (...); Previously @brandyourself @oddballio @gpsinsight @bankofamerica; Minor gamedev fan, raging Halloween nerd

[Corey Sharrah @invayn3]

NGL, @odinlang does some cool sh*t.. But really struggling with the carat positioning for pointers :P I read, and understand, why it was implemented the way it is... but man my brain can't type "obj^" without mentally seg-faulting for a second..

[Corey Sharrah @invayn3]

Haven't written Go in >2 years; haven't written Odin -- ever. Was a nice little Fri night code jam objective to [re-]learn them and scratch that gamedev itch -- I mean c'mon, Odin has raylib _in the box_ .. that's wild!

[Corey Sharrah @invayn3]

"Anyone going to Google Next this April?" he shouted into the aether..

[Corey Sharrah @invayn3]

Don't get me wrong: Staff Engineer sounds great n' all but they keep throwing around the phrase "Lord Of Infrastructure" and I wouldn't object to that becoming official..

[Corey Sharrah @invayn3]

@CathJanzen "crabby" -- well done :)

[Corey Sharrah @invayn3]

hah entirely accident TIL in [node.]js you can use BigInt notation (42n) in conjection with hex notation (e.g. 0x2an). I was converting all my literals to decimal and that makes the math much harder to follow at-a-glance. Not to go back and fix 200+ such instances :D

[Corey Sharrah @invayn3]

"TypeError: Do not know how to serialize a BigInt" .. sigh for some reason it didn't occur to me that this would happen ;) I _really_ don't want to introduce superjson :sadface.gif:

[Corey Sharrah @invayn3]

I couldn't fathom living in a tornado-prone area of the US. That constant existential threat would put me in an early grave 🌪 Mad respect to those millions who do esp the ones who just rebuild and keep living life :) I wish I had that caliber of "chill".

[Corey Sharrah @invayn3]

Looks like the end of double-digit temps has finally arrived 🥵.. a bit later than typical so I can't complain much. Doubly so after all the tornado / flood footage I've seen on YT these past few weeks :\ "Hot" is a minor dent to one's comfort vs. "everything I own is gone."

[Corey Sharrah @invayn3]

Once I took down my "green banner" in September, the cold pings seemed to _increase_ in frequency.. Could be any number of other factors (or just plain old entropy) but it did have me wondering how those months on the hunt might've gone had I left the banner off..

[Corey Sharrah @invayn3]

I'm guessing engineering budgets were finalized in the last 1-2 weeks as I have gotten a true barrage of recruiter calls / LI pings after near radio silence since Nov 2023.. Nice to see at a minimum the ML models are still classifying me as "relevant" :)

[Corey Sharrah @invayn3]

I know its hard to draw conclusions with a data point of "me", but I've heard ppl suggest that being open-to-work actually hurt their engagement: the notion seemed ludicrous to me (why wouldn't recruiters want to hire ppl who are available ASAP) -- but my exp seems to match..

[Corey Sharrah @invayn3]

@paullelujah @Spotify Heh I only use Spotify for participating in my company's @MusicLeague3 -- I don't quite "get" how to use it otherwise.. I think I'm just too old-school: wanting 100% control of what plays and when.

[Corey Sharrah @invayn3]

I'm a 110% believer in the premium subscription model and dutifully subscribe to several -- the only tangible benefit I see in that list of garbage-no-one-would-want is 0 ads -- but not nearly at the price point for what amounts to an RSS feed w/ animating GIFs..

[Corey Sharrah @invayn3]

Lol I think you need to look at some other premium offerings out there and workshop your value proposition a little, "X"..

[Corey Sharrah @invayn3]

I feel the biggest hitch in the whole process is that Nvidia locks some of their library downloads behind a registration wall -- otherwise someone probably would've put up a shell script that does everything in one motion..

[Corey Sharrah @invayn3]

woof.. finally got Tensorflow.js using my GPU in WSL2 (the only machine I have w/ an Nvidia GPU is a Lenovo Legion Win10 gaming laptop.) Literally took ~20 combined hours of piecing bits of instructions and docs together to get the right combination of things :\

[Corey Sharrah @invayn3]

The YT ad blocker I use has worked for years and even after their recent changes continues works perfectly: it's called "Youtube Premium" :] My family collectively watches for 100s of hours a month - way better deal per hr than any other streaming svc..

[Corey Sharrah @invayn3]

I've always felt every Macbook Pro I've ever owned has been perfectly snappy -- but my new work-issued 12C/64GB M2 Max is on a whole different plane :)

[Corey Sharrah @invayn3]

Solving netcode bugs feels amazing at the finish line but daaamn if sometimes the tradeoff is a hard sell: having to read through (or write custom scripting to read through) >10MB frame buffer journals to just try to figure out what to even look for :\