GuB-42

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by GuB-42 10mo ago
Actually, you do. You can use all the math stuff like scientific notation, tetration, etc... but it won't help you make things smaller. Math notation is a form of compression. 10^9 is 1000000000, compressed. But the offset into pi is e
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by GuB-42 10mo ago
I suspect that the length of the offset of your input data in pi is equal to the length of the input data itself, plus or minus a few bytes at most, regardless of the size of the input data. That is: no compression, but it won't make t
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by GuB-42 10mo ago
The way he approaches the problem, which essentially uses voxels, it shouldn't be too hard: for each voxel, compute the distance to the closest triangle and you have your SDF. The thing is, you have a SDF and now what? What about textu
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by GuB-42 10mo ago
Funny how almost everybody hated the Windows 8 desktop environment. And to this day, Windows 8 is still seen as one of the worst versions of Windows for that reason, even if it was pretty decent under the hood. Projects like this show that
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by GuB-42 10mo ago
I used Mercurial before Git and found it way more intuitive. I don't have much to say about the documentation, I didn't have a problem with it, but that's not the reason. It is not just because the CLI is more intuitive, th
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by GuB-42 10mo ago
To each his own. I liked may company issued ThinkPad so much I ended up buying one myself and I have been pushing back getting a replacement (HP Elitebook). Some of your points are common, such as the touchpad being garbage, or that it runs
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by GuB-42 10mo ago
Not easy I would say. Safety improvement means larger crumple zones, reinforcement, etc... Which mean a bigger and heavier vehicle if you want to keep the same capacity. That in turn means a more powerful engine, brakes, wheels and tyres, e
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by GuB-42 10mo ago
Not only that but Markdown use the conventions people already used in text files (point 3 in the article). People wrote Markdown before Markdown existed, they just formalized it. In fact, I like to write notes and documentation in text form
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by GuB-42 10mo ago
There is almost never a single cause, here there was 12, it is often called the swiss cheese model. The root cause is a bad transcription, which probably happened many times, but for some reason, this time, all the safeguards failed. It hap
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by GuB-42 10mo ago
> What I then saw was him struggling for one hour with some simple extension to his project. He didn't manage to finish in the hour what he was planning to. And when I had some thought about how much time it would have cost me by ha
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by GuB-42 10mo ago
What the European Commission is doing is the right thing, then. It is a "call for evidence", not a directive. It can be summarized as: for our software needs, we depend too much on non-EU countries, we heard about this open source
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by GuB-42 10mo ago
When "free shipping" is what consumers expect, do you think people are ready to pay for better service? It the package is lost, it is often cheaper to write it off as a loss and send another item or refund. If you need overnight s
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by GuB-42 10mo ago
WTF is an "AI PC"? Most of "AI" happens on the internet, in big datacenters, your PC has nothing to do with that. It will more likely confuse users who don't understand why they need a special PC when any PC can acc
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by GuB-42 10mo ago
Using evolution in the context of Core War is not a new idea by far, it is even referenced in the paper. Examples here: https://corewar.co.uk/evolving.htm The difference here is that instead of using a typical genetic algor
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by GuB-42 10mo ago
> The lifestyle of constantly partying, drugs, sex, little consequences, money, excess, etc. I don't know how much truth there is to it, some musicians are famous for that, but touring is far from easy, musicians move a lot and have
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by GuB-42 10mo ago
> Comparing this site to Veritasium seems unfair to me. I don't see any evidence that this site generates direct revenue. He has a Patreon page, if you want to support https://www.patreon.com/ciechanowski All combin
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by GuB-42 10mo ago
I admit that I expected more. They really did the minimum, as in, anything less should have been illegal. It is praiseworthy, but it is unfortunate that it is. Seeing that, I expected the ability to build and run a custom firmware, like wit
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by GuB-42 10mo ago
This is edutainment. Kind of like YouTube channels like 3Blue1Brown, Veritasium or MinutePhysics. All good, it helps build intuition, and to better understand the world, but it is a bit lacking for actually using that knowledge. Notice how
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by GuB-42 10mo ago
I wonder if that's because so many people claim to have ADHD for dubious reasons, often some kind of self-diagnosis. Maybe because being "neurodivergent" is somewhat trendy, or maybe to get some amphetamines. ChatGPT may have
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by GuB-42 10mo ago
I consider the traditional food pyramid, with grain at the base, to make a lot of economic sense. The question is not "what's best for you", but "how to keep as many people as possible well fed and reasonably healthy&q
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by GuB-42 10mo ago
I have taken the stance to not argue with LLMs, don't give them any clues, and don't ask them to roleplay. Tell them no more than what they need to know. And if they get the answer wrong, don't try to correct them or guide th
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by GuB-42 10mo ago
The best way to get rid of spiders it to get rid of the files yourself then. If there is nothing in your house for the spiders to eat, you won't have spiders. If you remove the spiders but not their prey (flies, etc...), you will have
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by GuB-42 10mo ago
Maybe host your event in a cave if you can, no cell coverage, no Wi-Fi. There is a bar like that where I go sometimes, it is in a cave, some people got Wi-Fi from the staff, and you have some reception if you stand near the front door, but
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by GuB-42 10mo ago
It doesn't have to be appealing, it has to make you click. Car crashes are not appealing, and yet it is something most people are tempted to look at. Many people think of dopamine as the pleasure hormone, not really, it is the motivati
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by GuB-42 10mo ago
I suspect that Microsoft doesn't even care anymore. Windows is not at the core of their strategy anymore. With Azure, they are as much of a Linux company as they are a Windows company now, and most of their software runs in a browser n
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by GuB-42 10mo ago
Well, you have two distinct problems here. One is Microsoft releasing shitty software. The other is a deeper societal problem with healthcare and loyalty between companies and their employees. For me, they are unrelated problems. In a welfa
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by GuB-42 10mo ago
Actually we have a way to filter out that crap, that's what Google, Meta, TikTok, etc... have perfected over decades. The internet is huge and full of crap, and we get to see very little of it. Suggestions from, say, YouTube are genera
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by GuB-42 10mo ago
I think there is a big difference. You can go against your traits, but it will take effort. That is, it will feel like work, not fun. Many people are good at their job while not particularly enjoying it, they like the money, status, recogni
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by GuB-42 10mo ago
I am not convinced that you can change your personality just like that. In fact, I find it striking how little people change their core traits. However, people can learn to live with them, and I think it is the idea here. You don't bec
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by GuB-42 10mo ago
> At scale, even your bugs have users Also known as ossification. It is a term most often heard in the context of network protocols, but it applies more generally to every system where users depend on unspecified behaviors and even bugs.

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