Sharlin

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2251.
by Sharlin 3y ago
Xorshift has the best bang for the buck, easily. Literally three xors and shifts per generated number, no extra state, long period, reasonably high quality. But admittedly it would be trickier on a 8-bit platform…
2252.
by Sharlin 3y ago
Besides vowels, nanoid excludes 0, 1, 3, 4, 5, I, l, x, X, v, V, and other lookalikes, so the chances of generating something naughty in any language are close to zero.
2253.
by Sharlin 3y ago
Which is, evidently, why nanoids also excludes x and X, as well as v and V (fvck).
2254.
by Sharlin 3y ago
Yeah, the first thing that came to mind. One of the gems of the 90s Finnish shareware gamedev scene. Edit: Huh, I had no idea it has a sequel, released by 2006: https://www.mobygames.com/game/30613/triplane-turmoil
2255.
by Sharlin 3y ago
Omit vowels and you're 90% of the way there; omit the vowel-looking digits 0,1,3,4 and you're probably >99% of the way there.
2256.
by Sharlin 3y ago
Microwave relay links predate spaceflight and even when comms satellites became a thing, it made (and still makes) little sense to beam regional TV/radio/phone up to geosynchronous and back, due to cost and latency. There was no g
2257.
by Sharlin 3y ago
Only from lunar orbit.
2258.
by Sharlin 3y ago
If telescopes were named like Culture ships
2259.
by Sharlin 3y ago
Oh, right. So what actually happens is that the offshoot must first be rebased on top of the trunk, and then trunk can be fast-forward merged/rebased (same thing, really) to the offshoot's head.
2260.
by Sharlin 3y ago
Well, famously the halting problem is undecidable. As a consequence (via Rice's theorem [1]), all nontrivial semantic properties of computer programs are undecidable. That is, there's no algorithm that can answer "does prog
2261.
by Sharlin 3y ago
No, Java enums can contain data but do so in a manner orthogonal to Rust enums. Java enums are not sum types; each variant is simply a (`final`) instance of the enum type which, mostly, is just a regular class type with a private constructo
2262.
by Sharlin 3y ago
No, the HEAD ref points to whatever branch is "active", that's how the active branch is defined. Indeed `git checkout branchname` does nothing except make HEAD point to the commit that `refs/heads/branchname` points
2263.
by Sharlin 3y ago
But... If you have a rebase workflow, then `git checkout trunk; git rebase branch` is exactly how you "merge" an offshoot branch into a trunk branch! That's what Github does when you rebase-merge a PR, for example.
2264.
by Sharlin 3y ago
I definitely can't work without `git add`. Other commands I use daily or almost-daily (frequently enough that I have aliases for them) are `git add -p`, `git commit --amend`, `git rebase`, `git rebase -i`, `git stash`... Then there&#x2
2265.
by Sharlin 3y ago
I don't think it needs much of a hidden base prompt to tend towards poetry, plants, finance, and so on, given that it's trained on, and to be helpful with, things that humans find interesting like poetry, plants, finance, and so o
2266.
by Sharlin 3y ago
DACH = Germany, Austria, Switzerland
2267.
by Sharlin 3y ago
Huh? It's the less wealthy in particular who benefit the most from choosing paths less traveled, finding places to eat where the food doesn't carry a 2x or 3x tourist markup and the ATMs are not rigged to scam you. Often these p
2268.
by Sharlin 3y ago
Humans are biased towards grokking two-dimensional information arranged in grids because that's how vision works. (Non-V) GPT is not. Its natural gestalt has a vast number of dimensions. It is, and it should, be able to find correlatio
2269.
by Sharlin 3y ago
> DALLE3 suffers a similar problem where it has trouble with concepts like "upside down" and consistently fails to apply them to generated images. This has nothing to do with having "no body, no world" and everything
2270.
by Sharlin 3y ago
Rather ironic that a service named REPLit doesn't support Lisp well…
2271.
by Sharlin 3y ago
Well, the page briefly explains each effect. Many are indeed just a couple prerendered frames page flipped in a loop.
2272.
by Sharlin 3y ago
If the compute is paid with imaginary hype money? Doesn’t matter how useful a service is if providing it turns out to be unsustainable.
2273.
by Sharlin 3y ago
Walking is probably the most efficient from a (public) health viewpoint. Given that the major problem in the West is lack of physical activity and excess calorie input.
2274.
by Sharlin 3y ago
Well, yes, if by "not making commuting miserable" you mean "build a lot of transit, convert roads and motorways to streets, and somehow cure people of their car addiction". But yes, you also have to cure people and plann
2275.
by Sharlin 3y ago
False dichotomy. Far from being conflicting, those goals are fundamentally aligned and you can't have one without the other!
2276.
by Sharlin 3y ago
Cigarettes are heavily regulated for adults too.
2277.
by Sharlin 3y ago
Yeah. Their perspective correct texture mapping did a perspective div only every 16 pixels drawn – in itself a considerable optimization with almost imperceptible loss in quality – but the big deal was that on the Pentium specifically , th
2278.
by Sharlin 3y ago
Ah, on second thought you're probably right.
2279.
by Sharlin 3y ago
(Edit: this is wrong – see comments) And this water is supposed to be fed directly into the homes of hundreds of thousands of customers through the existing district heating network which obviously isn't built with seawater in mind. A
2280.
by Sharlin 3y ago
Yes, but the problem, as discussed in TFA and this thread, is that it’s really common among non-experts to believe the entire medieval period was somehow "dark" in the sense of being backward, primitive, culturally and technologic

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