Sharlin

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511.
by Sharlin 6mo ago
Yeah. It’s not like there’s a dearth of human-created music.
512.
by Sharlin 6mo ago
…But this goblin thing was a direct result of accidentally creating a positive feedback loop in RL to make the model more human-like , nothing about unintentionally surfacing an aspect of Cthulhu from the depths despite attempts to keep
513.
by Sharlin 6mo ago
That’s a rather weird and non-sequitur take of what the GP said.
514.
by Sharlin 6mo ago
Costs are externalized, profits are privatized. A tale as old as the society itself.
515.
by Sharlin 6mo ago
The point is that if you’re not doing perf analysis and logging/graphing but just want to display FPS to the player, last-frame FPS is pretty useless because the number changes too fast.
516.
by Sharlin 6mo ago
Didn't seem AI-generated to me. Just the short, three-word-sentence pithy style that's become really popular these days that LLMs have learned to ape. But IMO it actually works well here, it reminds me of Peter Watts's very h
517.
by Sharlin 6mo ago
And SUB is also always a single cycle on any practically useful architecture since the 70s. Theoretical archs where SUB might be slower than XOR don't matter.
518.
by Sharlin 6mo ago
"Windows subsystem" was an existing term of art on the NT architecture. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT_3.1#Architecture
519.
by Sharlin 6mo ago
You misunderstood the GP - they were criticizing the way some programmers use "code should be self-documenting" as an excuse when they actually mean "I’m too lazy to write comments even when I really should". Just like
520.
by Sharlin 6mo ago
I would expect pausing to bring a game’s CPU/GPU usage down to near-zero, which won’t happen if the game keeps redundantly rendering the exact same frame. A game engine can optimize this by special casing time scale zero to simply rend
521.
by Sharlin 6mo ago
Yeah, and even on CPU using doubles is almost unheard of in many fields.
522.
by Sharlin 6mo ago
x87 always had a choice of 32/64/80-bit user-facing floats. It just operated internally on 80 bits.
523.
by Sharlin 6mo ago
It's way too real, that's just how humans tend to work. Short-term personal benefit almost always outweighs long-term societal cost.
524.
by Sharlin 6mo ago
From a less self-centered viewpoint there are plenty of reasons to be critical of LLMs and their use.
525.
by Sharlin 6mo ago
Most SO snippets likely aren't unique or creative enough to count as works. If a hundred programmers would write essentially the same snippet to solve a problem, it's not copyrightable.
526.
by Sharlin 6mo ago
Skylab was literally a modified Apollo mission, the only part of the Apollo Applications Program that ended up actually implemented. As you may know, the Apollo 18–20 flights ended up cancelled, and any plans for continuation flights involv
527.
by Sharlin 6mo ago
I use computers for a plenty of fun, but those programs always were the digital equivalent of garden gnomes. Utterly kitschy. Just having a basic sense of aesthetics doesn't imply thinking that computers should be dull or just for work
528.
by Sharlin 6mo ago
Um, so your use cases are extremely narrow and limited. That's an astonising failure of imagination and a lack of understanding of real-world computer systems if you cannot understand why people have a real need of both the power of
529.
by Sharlin 6mo ago
The trend of making articles out of sequences of pithy three-word soundbites rather than proper sentences is infuriating. It's super LLMy, yes, but it feels like even human-written content is like that these days.
530.
by Sharlin 6mo ago
If you're looking for a backpack that can survive just about anything, and don't mind a "tactical" look, check out Savotta: https://www.savotta.fi/collections/backpacks They're expensive, but l
531.
by Sharlin 6mo ago
Am I? Why would you assume that? Do you think that usability and accessibility are only important for work?
532.
by Sharlin 6mo ago
Not sure if sarcastic…
533.
by Sharlin 6mo ago
Yeah, weird-shaped windows are definitely not something that should make a comeback. Just because you could doesn't mean you should . > Today, all Windows desktop apps look the same as they are the same; they are all built on cra
534.
by Sharlin 6mo ago
Building HVDC lines from North Africa to Europe, for example, wouldn't be a huge feat of civil engineering. Rather standard stuff, really.
535.
by Sharlin 6mo ago
Yeah, completely analogous. Physical tools aren't subscription-based and prone to outages. Except when they are, but that's – luckily – still something that people feel strongly negative about. And if my IDE or compiler (or comput
536.
by Sharlin 6mo ago
Sounds incredible to me if that's actually the case somewhere.
537.
by Sharlin 6mo ago
Yeah, the "3D Objects" thing is just surreal. You can't make this stuff up.
538.
by Sharlin 6mo ago
Yes, "Copilot" is not the first brand that MS has tried to stick to everything while being just as confused about it as (inevitably) the consumers. Although somehow they did manage to keep .NET mostly aimed at developers - besides
539.
by Sharlin 6mo ago
It was absolutely sold as a replacement. And it's gone now because literally nobody wanted it, used it, or understood why it existed. Sure, you could still find the old Paint in a disused lavatory behind a locked door with a sign &quot
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by Sharlin 6mo ago
I hope you get help. Mental health issues are not fun.

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