Aardwolf

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by Aardwolf 3y ago
> Adobe Flash. The fact that it got killed is literally an example of software being worse now than 10 years ago, thousands of fantastic little games were implemented in Flash, this was an easy way to create and distribute games causing
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
> Do you never work with tree data structures? Yes, you can use std::vector or array or similar as a stack, without using recursion (which has some easily reachable depth limit that is much smaller than what your full RAM memory allows,
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
Do medieval programmable music boxes count then? Or perhaps only things that can have branch instructions count
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
Unfortunately the first example already re-uses one of the less good parts of C++, the "<<" operator for std::cout, which always was a bit of a hack (including strange order of operations since << normally is left shif
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
Disappointing to see that they still didn't port it to other platforms after all these years. I thought that should be easy to do since .net is multiplatform. I can't say I understand the strategy, there are enough painting progra
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
More human like than in 1958 for sure, but back then they'd have said that e.g. playing chess is human like. And there's still a lot of opportunities to get more human like today: it can't empty the dishwasher or drive a car
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
Yeah, fully agree with that. To me this is akin to writing line numbers in old BASIC dialects. The language makes the user do something that ought to be automated.
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
I think dams are also used to control the water flow and prevent floods, how to solve that instead?
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
I hope there is some kind of middle ground, legally, here? Like say you use a piano that uses AI to generate artificial piano sounds, but you create and play the melody yourself: can you get copyright or not?
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
> Synthetically generating music (including music generated using Creator Music) What about music made with a synthesizer?
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
The first few rows of seats sometimes have those, but not all the rows after that
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
If an archeologist from the far future finds these, they'll be utterly confused
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
Sure, the analogy was a bit exaggerated perhaps :) I also of course didn't necessarily want to imply whether it's actually a good idea to have a 1000W hogging monster card, vs e.g. putting more memory on consumer cards
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
Why not have both software and hardware improvements? This is like saying we shouldn't have any new CPUs after the the PDP-1 because quicksort got invented
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
It got a bit strange when he suddenly got into web 3.0. Not sure what happened to that but I don't hear much about it anymore fortunately.
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
But momentum is also conserved over time, as far as I know 'conservation' of all of these things always means over time. "In a closed system (one that does not exchange any matter with its surroundings and is not acted on by
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
Is there any way to deduce which invariance gives which conservation? I mean for example: how can you tell that time invariance is the one paired with conservation of energy? Why is e.g. time invariance not paired with momentum, current, or
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
There is also a lawnmower mod for doom that you could then run on the lawnmower https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/140710-myhousewadlawnm...
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
The article seemed to imply such a system may be interesting as a "communication relay" for extraterrestrial civilizations. No matter what the system may attract anyone's attention
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
September literally means 7, october means 8, november means 9 and december means 10. Why did someone decide to move the beginning of the year from march to january and ruin this naming schema anyway?!
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
They made the correct decision here! Too bad they made the wrong decision in not supporting the expected floating point behavior of division through zero (python throwing errors, rather than return inf or nan)
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
SageMath looks cool, but the fact that it's a combination of many different existing tools all with their own syntax, and feature overlap, scares me off a bit since it seems like how you do things wouldn't be very internally consi
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
But doesn't Korean also have 40k+ other characters to learn? Since Korean is the K in CJK
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
> industrial cropland typically produces more carbon emissions than it absorbs over the long term Question about this: where does the extra carbon it emits come from? Is it already in the land beforehand?
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
> Currently, he says, the new discs have a writing speed of about 100 milliseconds and an energy consumption of microjoules to millijoules. Milliseconds is not a unit of writing speed though. How many bits in that time?
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
> That didn't work It worked in the British Post Office Scandal: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
I know that, but that's a rather elaborate way of doing the main thing sets do, and you have to repeat the name of the set twice. Fortunately C++20 added set.contains(x). Of course set.count(x) also already existed but some would prefe
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
C++ sets didn't even support 'contains' in the past
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
For emails you can register multiple different ones, that's not (easily) possible with phone numbers, and those are what everyone wants now
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
Is this the IEEE float16 type or the bfloat16 type? It doesn't say

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