Jach

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by Jach 10mo ago
It was released February 2022, that's only almost 4 years ago. 4-5 years is a good target for a refresh, I'll be somewhat surprised if there's not a new one in 2027 (but I was surprised by the lifespan of the Switch, and even
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by Jach 10mo ago
The general term I prefer is test double. See https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TestDouble.html for how one might distinguish dummies, fakes, stubs, spies, and mocks. Of course getting overly pedantic leads to its own iss
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by Jach 10mo ago
Another useful page from the author is the one on bounding boxes for SDFs: https://iquilezles.org/articles/bboxes2d/
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by Jach 10mo ago
Zoo keepers sometimes experiment with giving their tigers or other big cats larger enclosures, but that can increase their stress because now they have a bigger territory to patrol.
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by Jach 10mo ago
Sometimes LLMs will give a "why not..." or just mention something related, that's how I found out about https://recoll.org/ and https://www.ventoy.net/ But people should probably more often e
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by Jach 10mo ago
X went back on that quite some time ago. Have a bird post: https://x.com/GuGi263/status/2002306730609287628 (You won't be able to read replies, or browse to the user's post feed, but you can at least see
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by Jach 10mo ago
I never liked these sorts of construction toys, or legos. I'd rank any of my old action figures higher on the 3 dimensions. Sometimes some stuffed animals joined in the play. And of course as I got older, video games.
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by Jach 10mo ago
Indeed, Adobe continues shipping their slop and by all accounts of those who keep using it continue to make it worse, this was all in motion well before modern AI tools. If anything, I bet AI tools are more likely to make things better. I r
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by Jach 10mo ago
There's not that much difference between diffusion models and other auto-regressive models ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc5NTeJbk-k ). But I'm of the opinion that Generative AI is a terrible umbrella term. It s
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by Jach 10mo ago
More context: https://blog.prusa3d.com/core-one-cad-files-release-under-th... To me it's another L from Prusa, and I'm tired of people continuing to abuse the phrase "open" for things that are not.
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Open Community License(github.com)
2 points by Jach 10mo ago|1 comments
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by Jach 10mo ago
This reminded me of a more whimsical old service that used real snails to send email at some indeterminate time. Looks like their home page is still up but it's totally defunct: http://www.realsnailmail.net/ The only m
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Giving Mars a Magnetosphere (2018)(medium.com)
8 points by Jach 11mo ago|0 comments
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by Jach 11mo ago
Sometimes those people aren't realizing that they're making things worse, they're just in a depressive spiral and can't see the other end, or see how much good is still being generated while other things are temporarily
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by Jach 11mo ago
Their "VP of Community" wrote this in 2020: https://kristoff.it/blog/addio-redis/ I didn't come across it until 2022. Still, particularly that and other writing from him and others convinced me the
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by Jach 11mo ago
Wake me up when MATE drops X11 support. I don't see it happening any time soon.
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by Jach 11mo ago
I'm going to have to tap the sign for distrowatch not being a measure of popularity: https://blog.popey.com/2021/01/distrowatch-is-not-a-measure-... A very small number of linux users have ever even heard of
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by Jach 11mo ago
I was thinking of the "perma-mint condition" issue of Radioactive Man. Spilled drinks fly off harmlessly onto lesser comics: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Mqe21Up4Vmo&t=14s
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by Jach 11mo ago
I think you're stretching your point too far if you think Grey Goo was just a SC clone... Grey Goo is clearly in the the C&C branch of RTS more than the StarCraft branch, and of course made by Petroglyph. It's macro-heavy base
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by Jach 11mo ago
They only recently rewrote their core in Rust ( https://blog.cloudflare.com/20-percent-internet-upgrade/ ) -- given the newness of the system and things like "Over 100 engineers have worked on FL2, and we have over
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by Jach 11mo ago
To me it's another specimen in the "demonstrating personhood" problem that predates LLMs. e.g. Someone replies to you on HN or twitter or wherever, are they a real person worth engaging with? Sometimes it'll literally be
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by Jach 11mo ago
Yeah I won't give a serious thought to anything that doesn't have full symbolic support. I gave my nephew-in-law my old TI-89 Titanium last year, he was entering 8th grade and I got it midway through 9th grade and it served me wel
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by Jach 11mo ago
Ironclad is also the name of the chief cryptographic library for Common Lisp: https://github.com/sharplispers/ironclad/
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by Jach 11mo ago
That's basically my complaint about all these AI translations being shoved around in places. If they were better, I'd complain less. I suppose they'll get better eventually, but that's not really guaranteed. Google Trans
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by Jach 11mo ago
Written communication is usually better and allows for more clarity, investigation, preparation, careful thought, and exploring of solutions. When it's not better it's usually because one party doesn't like to read or write a
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by Jach 11mo ago
Thanks for the details, I don't play those games. (Clair Obscur is on the list but I was planning on just bumming off a friend's xbox version.) Your nvidia complaints suddenly make a lot more sense after mentioning Wayland. I&#x27
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by Jach 11mo ago
What games do you play? I really wonder about experiences like these since they differ so much to my own. The only time I mess with linux-specific things like proton versions is if a newly purchased game doesn't launch with the default
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by Jach 11mo ago
The survey only shows Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS and Ubuntu Core 22 for 8.25% vs Mint's 22.1 and 22.2 at 9.21%. There's a whole 18.04% hiding in the "Other" category that I suspect contains a lot of other Ubuntu interim and olde
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by Jach 11mo ago
The third is close but it's even more likely that they just weren't prompted to survey at all rather than opting out. They're surveys, not automatic data harvesting, they don't represent things like Facebook's &quot
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by Jach 11mo ago
Sometimes also a game will have a native linux binary but the Windows version with Proton works better (or at all) anyway...

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