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by NBJack 3y ago
It's what the gaming community primarily cares about, TBH. I don't blame them.
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by NBJack 3y ago
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/oil-companies-post-massive... An example from site itself: https://fortune.com/2022/03/31/us-companies-record-profits-2... It's absurd.
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by NBJack 3y ago
And whom is responsible by and large for working hard to influence those laws? It's a bit like saying it isn't Intuit's fault for how crazy it is to file taxes in the U.S., as it's all coming from lawmaker policy. The pr
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by NBJack 3y ago
I mean, information is dangerous. The trick is are we willing to examine it for whether it is true, and if so challenge our preconceived notions, accept the ramifications to our life, culture, society, etc. I suspect the answer for many
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by NBJack 3y ago
FWIW, maintaining a language is really, really hard. That said, this is going to kill adoption until it's either addressed or forked. While I doubt it is a major driving factor for D, no informed tech lead in their right mind should ap
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by NBJack 3y ago
Yes.
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by NBJack 3y ago
Windows XP and Windows ME have joined your party. They corroborate your story, but seem to be carrying a text only version that claims to be Windows 1.0, who asks in a wheeze where 2 is. Windows 2.1 hides their face and pretends not to noti
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by NBJack 3y ago
I agree with this sentiment. As much as it lags the competition, it would be doing even worse had they not marketed the ever loving crap out of their flagship Halo. Remember I Love Bees?
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by NBJack 3y ago
It's all fun and games in your quarterly earnings report until the superposition collapses and your net profit is just a dollar sign in front of a Bloch Sphere.
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by NBJack 3y ago
Mocks force you to be aware of how your method/function under testing operates at a low level. At that point your test is now tightly coupled to a specific implementation. YMMV, but I can safely say from working on large codebases acro
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by NBJack 3y ago
I invite you to give it a shot. Apps don't normally have to care that deeply about UI latency, high cpu usage, various quirks of performance hits across platforms, VRAM, controller variations, achieving a solid 30-60 FPS minimum, batte
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Now I wonder how much of their traffic isn't human. If only out of muscle memory, when I visited during the blackout period, there was little content of interest left.
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Consider an air monitor too. I worked in a small enclosed office, and I was surprised at times on how much the co2 levels fluctuated. When it got into 4 digits, I learned to open a window or something to encourage airflow.
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by NBJack 3y ago
As much of a fan as I am of Java, I have to agree. There are some real bombshells in the library that can either make your coding life or debugging a prod service miserable (sometimes both). Other additions are great, but have hurt readabil
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by NBJack 3y ago
Try JetBrains Rider, and be sure you are using a recent flavor of dotnet. When I migrated past 4.x to 6 of the .Net ecosystem, it dramatically improved my ability to work and deploy in C# with their rather delightful build system. For examp
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by NBJack 3y ago
Take some time to learn the navigation and refactoring abilities of the JetBrains family. It is IMHO unmatched by most. Using almost any other IDE feels like a downgrade, especially on large codebases with complex dependencies. Beyond Java
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by NBJack 3y ago
A tower defense game whose core concept was from a chance reading of a Game Programming Gems book in the university library. Large numbers of bad guys in screen with solid frame rates, home built engine, and an AI that always attempts to th
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by NBJack 3y ago
Oof. This is a very good point. And we were already dealing with a truth dilution problem in the web before these models became available.
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To be fair, at least Wikipedia offers a traceable history of those edits. Most, if not all sufficiently large LLMs, are effectively opaque boxes that even their creator can rarely explain how a specific answer was reached, much less how the
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An actual citation and a string that happens to be formatted to look like a citation are very different. I wish we were at the point that most LLMs could do the former.
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by NBJack 3y ago
Any takers on how long before we get a candidate that simply does whatever their LLM tells them to do? Pretty sure there's at least two short stories, five Doctor Who episodes, and one Star Trek A-plot that explores this. It usually di
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by NBJack 3y ago
The right combo for Nvidia/CUDA/RandomPythonML library is a nightmare at times. This is especially true if you want to use older hardware like a Tesla M40 (dirt cheap, still capable). And your maker hopefully be with you if you if
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by NBJack 3y ago
For better or worse, I agree with your sentiment, but that will probably change. Consider how many kinds of foods and clothing are mass produced; we often consider something made by hand to be precious, and even a higher value, but we have
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In a climate controlled office or cold climate? Probably not. In an area that has hotter climates or high humidity? It doesn't sound like a fun time.
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There is certainly a trend in processors as well as GPUs to push the hardware further by pumping more power into it. This (almost) always plays into the various workstation-grade laptops out there, which I suspect many won't unlock the
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Yes, hence the inventes "spatial computing" despite clearly providing hybrid AR. A.k.a. it's the same apps you already use, but now floating in front of you!
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There are some folks that got early access to the device for reviw. At least one certainly made it clear there's not much going on with it. Maybe they are trying to keep their killer app under wraps? That floating keyboard certainly is
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I disagree on the tech part. I suspect much of the raw onboard power is going straight to keeping those high density displays fluid with pixels. Ambient awareness is a nice trick, but really? A bunch of flat apps floating in front of you? I
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Pretty sure Mark was actually counting on it. It doesn't make it a good idea, but Apple tends to set the bar for status symbols. Smartphones existed before the iPhone. PC laptops existed before MacBooks. Portable digital music players
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The resolution might be sufficient, but all of my attempts across quite a few VR headsets has been sad when it comes to text. The crispness you really need is possible on static glasses (i.e. Nreal Air), but all of the anti aliasing on proj

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