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by Demiurge 6mo ago
It should be at least cheaper if anyone can host it, no?
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by Demiurge 7mo ago
Im surprised this did not get any comments.
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by Demiurge 7mo ago
The question is, why has Apple been able to figure this out, but Lenovo and Microsoft haven't?
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by Demiurge 9mo ago
Is “neural computation” a thing, or a poetic metaphor?
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by Demiurge 10mo ago
That's what I just said. There is zero value to me knowing these numbers. I assume that all python built in methods are pretty much the same speed. I concentrate on IO being slow, minimizing these operations. I think about CPU intensiv
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by Demiurge 10mo ago
I agree. I've been living off Python for 20 years and have never needed to know any of these numbers, nor do I need them now, for my work, contrary to the title. I also regularly use profiling for performance optimization and opt for C
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by Demiurge 10mo ago
My first thought was that pixels are never square. Squares are an artifact of nearest sampling to another grid. I suppose pixel art assumes knowledge of this final grid, but most media doesn’t? Furthermore, the referencing of a raster can a
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by Demiurge 10mo ago
I wouldn't call advanced movement "speeding up Quake". Speed in Quake and other FPS is an important factor that influences what you based on the speed that you have. Bunny hopping, air control, rocket jumps are not as useful
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by Demiurge 10mo ago
I get GPT 5.2 responses on copilot faster than for any other model, almost instantly. Are you sure they’re slow as fuck?
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by Demiurge 10mo ago
Anytime this topic comes up, I ask: Why not both? I don't want to modify my SQL strings every time I change a column. Django ORM lets me combine custom SQL snippets with ORM code. I never hesitate to use custom SQL, but its just not a
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by Demiurge 10mo ago
I don’t see splashes of primary color as more artistic. Anyway, what if you just ask it “more coarse”? I see impressive depth in the latest outputs, but as with all technically proficient performers, you might just have to consciously scale
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by Demiurge 10mo ago
You would think, but not in a way that matters. Everyone still compresses their mixes. People try to get around normalization algorithms by clever hacks. The dynamics still suffer, and bad mixes still clip. So no, I don’t think streaming se
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by Demiurge 11mo ago
Is this, indeed, a fact? I've always had trouble getting ssh to work under WSL.
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by Demiurge 11mo ago
Yeah, it’s like forgetting that the point of money in life is living, rather than the money itself.
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by Demiurge 11mo ago
Perl is what killed Perl. I have never had as many "tear my hair out at 4AM" debugging sessions as I have had with Perl, because I missed some weird character somewhere.
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by Demiurge 11mo ago
> In the 60s it was possible for a man to work an ordinary job, buy a house, settle down with a wife and support two or three children. Every kind of a man, or woman? > Do people really think more technology is going to be the path to
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by Demiurge 11mo ago
I love Zed code. Sad that Sublime Text is not keeping up.
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by Demiurge 11mo ago
Part your point about enterprise and mission critical software is that Microsoft is well aware of their biggest customers. Whatever agentic bloatware they will be adding here, it will absolutely be configurable via group policy.
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by Demiurge 11mo ago
I agree that we should get a successor, but if it got deprecated way back, I think we would have more likely gotten one. For just downloads, I have used apache and nginx directory and file listing functionality with ease.
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by Demiurge 11mo ago
I'm genuinely curious about that. But, this says a lot more about how different these standards are. FTP really needed a good successor, which it never really got. So, there is a strong use case, but technical deficiency to the protoco
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by Demiurge 11mo ago
Also, the protocol is pretty much a holdover from the earliest days, before encryption, or complicated NATs. I remember using it with just telnet a few times. It's pretty cool, but absolutely nobody should be using FTP these days. I re
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by Demiurge 11mo ago
FFT was such a revelation to me when I was learning about the digital and analogue interaction. The Wikipedia page is really quite about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourier_series#Fourier_theorem... I love the vi
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by Demiurge 11mo ago
This is awesome. I wish we had real EQ on the iOS. Ideally PEQ.
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by Demiurge 11mo ago
Russia was primarily an agricultural exporter, but it was most certainly a capitalist society prior to revolution. It bought and sold many things, and was an industrial nation, on par with many others in Europe, with a capacity to build war
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by Demiurge 11mo ago
I completely agree, real world queries are complicated joins, aggregations, staged intermediary datasets, and further manipulations. Even if you start with a single coherent 650gb dataset, if you have a downstream product based on that, you
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by Demiurge 11mo ago
What if it was 650TB? This article is obviously a microbenchmark. I work with much larger datasets, and neither awk nor DBD would make a difference to the overall architecture. You need a data catalog, and you need a clusters of jobs at sca
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by Demiurge 11mo ago
Why have I been seeing a Zig post every day for the past week? Is there some kind of a marketing push?
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by Demiurge 1y ago
Is it better or worse than alternatives? Where else would a suicidal person turn, a forum with other suicidal people? Dry Wikipedia stats on suicide? Perhaps friends? Knowing how ChatGPT replies to me, I’d have a lot of trouble getting nega
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by Demiurge 1y ago
> If you really care about performance, probably best to avoid Python entirely This has been true forever. Nothing more needs to be said. Please, avoid Python. On the other hand, I’ve never had issues with Python performance, in 20 years
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by Demiurge 1y ago
That's a good example, yes. I think this one can actually be interpreted by multiple AI agents to do search on the algorithms, or could even train a model, and then run the model. How amazing would it be, if this could actually all hap

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