Mawr

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by Mawr 3y ago
You happen to remember a particular piece of knowledge, so you project that expectation onto others. Theory of mind. > yes, we expect professional software developers to have basic maths skills Skill != knowledge. "What is a prime n
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by Mawr 3y ago
> games are still coming out that only run at ~70 fps on a 3080, etc. Graphical fidelity in games improves until it maxes out current hardware. This is natural. You can always turn the settings down to get higher FPS, but you can't
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by Mawr 3y ago
Looks like you were specifically a console game dev? PC games have not aimed for 30fps either ever or at least for the last 2 decades. Consoles are hilariously far behind PC in this aspect. The whole "science says the human eye cannot
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by Mawr 3y ago
You can't just use an arbitrary game to test your hypothesis like that. You need to test with something that caps out the 4090 at 100% usage and then see how a 1070 performs in comparison. It's not quite that simple of course, so
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by Mawr 3y ago
Study, lol. Run the game with uncapped FPS and see your CPU vs GPU usage. Your modern GPU is probably going to be chilling at 30% while your CPU will be pegged in some way (most likely at least one core at 100%).
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by Mawr 3y ago
> you literally see top-scoring posts like "I felt in love with Rust, can't stop loving Rust, it's so wonderful" every month or so on r/rust That's expected on any forum dedicated to <subject>. People
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by Mawr 3y ago
It's not literally that simple, yes, but the general idea holds. Storing nuclear waste is trivial compared to any real energy problem, so conveying that sentiment through a simple statement makes sense.
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by Mawr 3y ago
> If we had these plants already because construction started in the year 2000, that would probably be a different story. "The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is today." I assure you people 20 y
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by Mawr 3y ago
How much of the current low cost is due to the currently low storage requirements? As the share of energy production from the unreliable renewables increases, the demand for storage will increase as well. How do the costs compare when you f
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by Mawr 3y ago
> A few things that always stand out to me... - the calm demeanor shown by both ATC and pilots. Even in situations that make me cringe sitting at my laptop, everybody involved is steady. I know it's their job, but it still amazes me
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by Mawr 3y ago
The design of channels is constrained by the need to support concurrency. If you do not need concurrency, using something designed to support it will be suboptimal. And because it's specifically concurrency, the overhead will be substa
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by Mawr 3y ago
> iterators can be easily implemented with current Go features. It's rare that can is relevant when it comes to language design. You typically can do anything in any language. Adding dedicated support for iterators would promote
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by Mawr 3y ago
Note that hearing is one of the first things that stop working when a human is under stress [1]. [1]: https://youtu.be/Dl-Fl66Jfao?t=1674
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by Mawr 3y ago
Also, TACA Flight 110 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TACA_Flight_110 Gliding skill highlight: https://youtu.be/H5UUr9RXfTY?t=1312
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by Mawr 3y ago
With linked controls the captain would have instantly been able to tell what inputs the copilot was making and could have taken appropriate actions. Aircraft UX should be made in such a way that there's never the slightest of doubts ab
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Go 1.21 Released(go.dev)
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by Mawr 3y ago
That "just" seems to mean "you'll need to take 10x the time to write the equivalent Rust/C++ program". What a language makes easy to accompish matters.
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by Mawr 3y ago
There we go, another perfect example: https://www.sainsburys.co.uk . Search for "walkers". Enjoy two pages of Walkers products randomly intermixed with other crisps. You'd like the "Walkers Baked" variety
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by Mawr 3y ago
That is to say, Discord's search actually works. It may not work great , but it will find all posts containing the word "dog" when you search for it. The search in windows explorer, on reddit and on most forums will often fa
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by Mawr 3y ago
Uptime isn't an important property of a backup solution, so I'm not sure where the expectation comes from?
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by Mawr 3y ago
It's very unlikely to have been largely luck -> it's likely it wasn't mostly luck -> no reason to bring up luck as an argument. There's no fallacy here either, the implication is he was repeatedly successful due to
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by Mawr 3y ago
It's not an alternative, you can't obviate the need for comments with code. What you're supposed to do is write the code as clearly as possible and then add comments for anything you couldn't manage to express in the cod
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by Mawr 3y ago
Would a Snowflake ID work for this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowflake_ID
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by Mawr 3y ago
It's true that the product should take priority over the code, but there's a limit to by how much. If the code is bad enough, its low performance, bugginess, and slow feature development will eventually be reflected in the product
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by Mawr 3y ago
I'm afraid "writing code is about tradeoffs" is just as much of a truism. It's not going to help anybody write beter code. You need to get into the specifics.
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by Mawr 3y ago
The thing about marketing is it can at best get people to check your product out. It can't make them keep using it. That's why I didn't mention it, it's boring table-stakes stuff. Obviously if you don't tell anyone
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by Mawr 3y ago
> I'm not sure why you think that quoting random HN users proves anything except personal opinions of specific people? These are fine, but other people have other opinions. They support my argument so I included them. I don't s
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by Mawr 3y ago
A classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf-BqAjZb8M (Raymond Hettinger - Beyond PEP 8 -- Best practices for beautiful intelligible code - PyCon 2015)
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by Mawr 3y ago
> Java's designers have consistently mentioned the approach they're taking that Java has the last mover advantage. There's nothing one can do to wiggle away from designing something. You can only make tradeoffs. In this ca
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by Mawr 3y ago
Correct, a new language feature doesn't magically inject itself into all existing code. This simple fact is sadly commonly missed by many.

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