Scarblac

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by Scarblac 9mo ago
Isnt this what Dwarf Fortress aspires to be? Simulated from the internal organs of dwarfs up, of course.
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by Scarblac 9mo ago
Things are upvoted because people feel like discussing the subject. The actual article is usually just a conversation starter, if it's read at all.
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by Scarblac 9mo ago
I think we know how to reliably make good software. E.g. NASA manages. The problem is that doing it like that is much too expensive and too slow for most businesses.
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by Scarblac 10mo ago
I was suffering from a burnout for much of the year and read mostly to relax. Reread a bunch of Discworld and read most of the Expanse series for the first time. Some Murakami. The Conway biography ("Genius At Play"), also a rerea
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by Scarblac 10mo ago
There is no person with enough agency to have that kind of thing as an end goal. It's effect of a lot of other things, mostly US dominance and globalisation.
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by Scarblac 10mo ago
Mass immigration has always happened over the millennia. Sometimes peoples are replaced, sometimes they end up mostly merged after a few generations. I don't think it's something that can be prevented or encouraged, it's too
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by Scarblac 10mo ago
Sometimes jobs are great streams of interesting work to do that also switch off at five.
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by Scarblac 10mo ago
I think it's called work because it _accomplishes something_, in a way that play or idleness doesn't. Something can be a work of love, your life work, et cetera and it doesn't imply anything about it being fun or for money or
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by Scarblac 10mo ago
It already seems that they blacked out more than the law allowed, so following neither. Not that it matters much what the law says if the goal is to protect the man who hands out pardons...
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by Scarblac 10mo ago
France's longest land border is the one it shares with Brazil.
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by Scarblac 10mo ago
How does the LLM get all the required knowledge about the domain and the product to ask relevant questions?
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by Scarblac 10mo ago
That's a factor four or five ir so, so still less than an order of magnitude.
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by Scarblac 10mo ago
> I honestly don’t know what the PO and TL gains with this absurd obscenity There are marketing campaigns that need to be set up, users informed, manuals written. Sales people want to sell the new feature. People thinking about road maps
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by Scarblac 10mo ago
Another reason is that figuring out what the software to be written should actually do, and how it should work, is work that is part of the project and the time it will take needs to be estimated. As well as the actual development work that
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by Scarblac 10mo ago
It could have used a good "Perl: the Good Parts" book. With a team where everybody wrote it in a similar style, Perl did perfectly well. Mod_perl was fast. I liked Perl. Then Django came out, and then Numpy, and Perl lost. But Pyt
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by Scarblac 10mo ago
The Norway wealth fund is a co owner of Microsoft, like everyone with shares. Google says they own 1.35%, worth 50 billion. If they want Microsoft not to provide "general compute" to the Israeli army then they can try to get a maj
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by Scarblac 11mo ago
It's amazing in person if you have four people who can play somewhat decent chess. The level of constant banter is something else.
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by Scarblac 11mo ago
Bughouse came before Crazyhouse. In Shogi the pieces are flat, and you can turn them over to change color. That doesn't work with chess pieces. Bughouse does work, and has been played at chess clubs for fun for a very long time. When I
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by Scarblac 11mo ago
> I can't wait until I can send a directed thought to someone else. Oh no, we're going to have ads inserted into our thoughts, aren't we?
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by Scarblac 11mo ago
Didn't that roughly end with "dying of cancer isn't doing the thing"? I distinctly recall it becoming a bit extreme in the last chapter(s).
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by Scarblac 11mo ago
What is the exact job of the mayor of London then?
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by Scarblac 11mo ago
Greg Egan at least is well known in hard science fiction and frequently mentioned on HN.
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by Scarblac 11mo ago
Dutch is the only language I know that uses the "ij" digraph, where other languages write "ei", "ay", maybe "y".
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by Scarblac 11mo ago
What a good post and what a sad decision.
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by Scarblac 11mo ago
Don't most people have their own base level of happiness? Some people are just always happier than others, regardless of circumstances. It's a personality trait.
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by Scarblac 11mo ago
Yes I do, because the HN comments are a big part of why I come here.
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by Scarblac 11mo ago
It's American small.
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by Scarblac 11mo ago
But from the viewpoint of a web app where you navigate between different (versions of) pages, the state of that app can be the address of the currently displayed page.
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by Scarblac 11mo ago
If you want to quickly edit a file, you can also open emacs in the terminal with "emacs -nw".
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by Scarblac 1y ago
That wouldn't necessarily compile though, eg if the fix involved changing a function signature or adding new functions.

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