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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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GPUs: not even once
That is a good rule. The GPU programmers seem to think this is good code and that it's well-documented. I am still pretty out of my depth in this field, but it feels so silly to me. There is this historical bullshit about fortran only allowing 5 characters for a function name, and that (combined with some appeal to domain-specific knowledge) is used to justify stupid, freshman level shit like
edit: if memory serves, booleans were first discovered in 2011 by John T. Boole, which is why they don't show up in fortran