HelloNurse

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by HelloNurse 8mo ago
Powerful, "capable" plugins are obvious; NSA cannot stop people from writing them, and they have little reason to restrict their use. I think what NSA is likely to keep confidential are in-house plugins that are so specialized and
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by HelloNurse 8mo ago
Generally, the nth roots of 1 form a cyclic group (with complex multiplication, i.e. rotation by multiples of 2pi/n). One of the roots is 1, choosing either adjacent one as a privileged group generator means choosing whether to draw
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by HelloNurse 8mo ago
A worrying choice of words. "Losing sleep" implies an actual problem, which in turn implies that the mentioned mitigations and similar ones have not been applied (at least not properly) for dire reasons that are likely to be a mor
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by HelloNurse 8mo ago
Yes, but it is a meaningless syntax sampler. Good examples should be complete music pieces and they should be commented: where is important information? How are the numbers computed? How are commands organized? What is the practical workflo
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by HelloNurse 8mo ago
> ÆTHRA is output-oriented: you write a script → run it → get a WAV file. You are competing with traditional noninteractive usage of CSound. What do you think you can do better than CSound? More generally, what are the peculiar
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by HelloNurse 8mo ago
Indeed. If a test runner embedding the Godot engine is now feasible on paper a proof of concept implementation seems deserved: if there are fatal bugs or limitations they will be eventually corrected (sooner if properly discovered, reported
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by HelloNurse 8mo ago
Taking feature lists and plans at face value is offensively shallow; the typical Rust fan arrogance pattern can be an explanation (if the Rust rewrite is "better", it doesn't have to be compatible with the rest of the world w
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by HelloNurse 9mo ago
These would be differences between two different monitors sharing the same panel. But if one is Nano IPS Black and one isn't, they don't have the same panel.
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by HelloNurse 9mo ago
Progress would be a respectful experiment to hack an implementation of vector indexing, or some other actually useful feature, into the actual SQLite, preferably as an extension. That would be a valid experiment and, if it goes well, a cont
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by HelloNurse 9mo ago
If you think this discussion is antagonistic, you should see how antagonistic "entrepreneurs" and VCs become when they are in charge of open source projects. Risk aversion is good. In this case, the familiar "rewrite it in Ru
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by HelloNurse 9mo ago
Not only any computer of last resort would have software installed in advance and easily prepared redundant archives to install it again, but "pip install" is perfectly fine for other use cases: testing Reticulum, regularly updati
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by HelloNurse 9mo ago
"Lastly, if you're set on 6K, there's also the Asus ProArt PA32QCV to consider. I haven't tested it yet, but it's $600 cheaper than LG's model, despite using the same 6K panel. [...] The biggest difference is t
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by HelloNurse 9mo ago
It might make sense to reduce curve size adaptively. Suppose the first control point of each candidate curve is randomly distributed anywhere in the image (weighted by error at each pixel might be more efficient than a uniform distribution)
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by HelloNurse 9mo ago
The problem is that treating the incorrect simplification as good can be very tempting for teachers. For example, in an introductory physics course teaching Newtonian dynamics without the brutal complications of special relativity and gener
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by HelloNurse 9mo ago
Typically, what's nicer is the absence of other features that interfere with the important ones. For example, Prolog isn't a general purpose functional or imperative language: you can assert, retract and query facts in the automat
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by HelloNurse 9mo ago
Meaningless toy examples have the problem that they can appear to make sense, planting the seeds of terrible ideas. If in a course example Dog extends Animal, it can be an arbitrary demonstration of language mechanisms (with an uncontrovers
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by HelloNurse 9mo ago
> This one also depends on political stability. Canada is going to be seen as similar to USA, but open to immigrants and not fascist. Will it develop enough opportunities?
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by HelloNurse 10mo ago
Delusional rockstar engineers might really have this kind of opinion of their LLMs and their colleagues. With less sarcasm, how bad is Microsoft as a workplace? The source of this kind of naively arrogant proclamation can be anything from a
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by HelloNurse 10mo ago
The important metric is how many tests need to be written to trust those lines of code (in one month, and more ludicrously by one engineer). Maybe the plan is not testing because they think that Rust is "safe" and automatic transl
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by HelloNurse 10mo ago
And hardware raytracing is on the same trajectory as hardware rasterization: devs finding ways to repurpose it, leading to pressure for more general APIs, which enable further repurposing, until hardware raytracing evolves into a flexible h
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by HelloNurse 10mo ago
It is unreasonable to expect to run the same graphics code on desktop GPUs and mobile ones: mobile applications have to render something less expensive that doesn't exceed the limited capabilities of a low-power device with slow memory
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by HelloNurse 10mo ago
You don't need a "proper" random selection: if your points are sorted deterministically and not too adversarially, any reasonably unbiased selection (e.g. every Nth point) is pseudorandom.
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by HelloNurse 10mo ago
Why do you think the mentioned "color-centric" image processing operations deserve a specialized file format, rather than building and using a transient index in memory when it is useful? Do you have some special use case in mind?
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by HelloNurse 10mo ago
Weapons and violence in Jane Austen's novels include characters hunting with shotguns and (remotely implied) armed Navy ships. Nothing comparable to treating a mobile suit like an extension of the body, or killing people, or both at th
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by HelloNurse 10mo ago
Aren't the notes adjacent enough on consecutive lines? 2.0 note Cmaj7 ch=1 2.0 note D ch=1 2.0 note C dur=0.15 ch=2 2.1 note C ch=2 2.1 note Cmaj ch=1
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by HelloNurse 10mo ago
The best place for such a cache is a GPU texture, and in a shader that does simple texture mapping instead of rasterizing shapes it would cost more memory reads in exchange for less calculations.
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by HelloNurse 10mo ago
> seems fairly clearly to be talking about icons of known sizes, in which case that advantage disappears. That's the point: obliviousness to different concerns and their importance. Among mature people, the main reason to use SVG is
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by HelloNurse 10mo ago
We are talking about an application file format, so "type errors" are about who's right: the application (even better, multiple equally right implementation of a specification) or random hackers altering the file in incorrect
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by HelloNurse 10mo ago
For many web services it would be more often 200 KB of schema (many possible request and responses, some of them complex) tacked onto a less than 1 KB message (brief requests and acknowledgements without significant data inside).
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by HelloNurse 10mo ago
The blog seems to contain other similar misunderstandings: for example the parallel article against using SVG images doesn't consider scaling the images freely a benefit of vector formats.

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