What about incentivizing switching the building from commercial to residential? Given that commercial brick and mortar are generally on a downward trend, and the need for housing continues to increase, it would seem better to switch the property zoning in the long run. Since I'm clueless about the financial details of commercial real estate, I'm sure this proposal is full of holes, but, as a rule, I prefer incentives rather than penalties to motivate change.

More details!? What are we looking at? Why is is breathing? I love these artistic uses of interactive 3D and want to know more about how it works and what motivated the artist.

I did some consulting for Jimmy at Apple Daily, and he took me out to the best street-food lunches I ever had. His car took us to a busy street corner, where four of us had a huge lunch for two hours while the car disappeared. When the car magically showed up at the end, Jimmy told me that he paid ~$20 for that amazing food for all of us. No pretense. A lovely man. Very sad.

For NVIDIA cards, you can use NSight. There's also RenderDoc that works on a large number of GPUs.

RenderDoc is very cool, but more of a high level debugger, I guess? It's also good to analyze performance issues, e.g. when working with QML and QSG_VISUALIZE=overdraw / batches (both very high level) don't cut it anymore, or to get a different perspective. Watching a scene getting drawn API call by API call is fun.

RenderDoc is mostly a frame debugger, although it does support stepping through shaders as well which can be super useful. But for real performance analysis I would use PIX if you target D3D12 or RGP and Nsight for Vulkan. I'm at a Vulkan and Metal only shop and I wish I could use PIX for my every day work, since it also has excellent support for Intel GPUs.

nsys and nvtx are awesome.

many don't know but you can use them without GPUs :)

That's true. It's pretty good for all kinds profiling. I especially like the python GIL profiler of nsys.

There are plenty of actual "technical problems" that have nothing whatsoever to do with "technical debt".

The title could maybe be more accurate if it read "Most Technical Problems IN BUSINESS Are Really People Problems", though I guess its less punchy.

Or, perhaps "Technical Debt Is Really a People Problem".

Agreed. No way to really test WebGPU, for instance. You can't really test GPU drivers under Linux or using the native Windows browsers. Lots of incomplete attempts to make this work, none of which are reliable or easy to use.

Excel is programming. Spreadsheets have been full of bugs for decades. How is Brenda any different from a developer? Why are people scared when the LLM might affect their dollar calculations, and less bothered when it affects their product?

+100 this. Programmers who work in Excel (and never even dream of calling themselves programmers) are still programmers.

I know couple of them that get paid C-level money too :)

If only this somehow resulted in fewer, better apps. <sigh>

> Where a great idea in a space once had 5-10 competitors

This article feels like it is targeted at drop shippers, competing on brand or maybe derivative features, rather than ideas.

Or, you can live a balanced happy life with relationships and touching grass where you are "in the moment", and not always distracted.

being passionate about something is not a distraction

Being passionate and obsessive are two different things.

> Turn idle time into mental rehearsal

Any psychologist would bash your head with a book for following this.

Good thing I would neither ever see a psychologist nor take a silly advise like that

It unironically is. Maybe if you can afford not working, it's fine, but with a regular job you simply don't have that much free time. In vacuum, there is a lot of it, in practice once you get a few commitments, it gets very challenging.

There are some tricks -- if you are already good at something, maintaining that good level is usually not that hard (you already know how and can recalibrate your level to the available time), but picking up new concepts is very time consuming.

I'd also say that the article talks about living through something, that's probably more involved than just passionate.