TillE

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by TillE 3y ago
The presentations were really fun when it was Steve up there, with his unique charisma. Without him it's just another corporate event, so the videos are fine, and probably better.
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by TillE 3y ago
This has been the weirdest part of the current wave of AI hype, the idea that you can build some kind of real business on top of somebody else's tech which is doing 99.9% of the work. There are hard limits on how much value you can add
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by TillE 3y ago
You can get to a pretty clean modern C++ by convention and compiler warnings and static analysis. Carbon is a completely new language, and that's the point. Part of the language design is making compilation a lot faster, for example,
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by TillE 3y ago
Visual Studio Community is free to any company whose annual revenue is under $1 million USD. It's fully functional, unlike the ancient Express versions.
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by TillE 3y ago
Lots of people I know have half-migrated to Bluesky or totally moved to Mastodon, so my feed is much emptier than it used to be. I'm pretty optimistic about the fediverse in the medium term, certainly for many communities. But right no
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by TillE 3y ago
Binary size on a desktop OS is almost totally irrelevant in practice. Memory size matters a little more, but your OS will generally do a good job of loading what it needs (ie, huge binaries can still start quickly) and paging out what it do
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by TillE 3y ago
Yeah it took me a while to adopt this common practice when I need to "comment out" a large block of code. Just use the preprocessor, it's much simpler.
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by TillE 3y ago
For the sake of argument, let's say a computer where you can install Debian 12 and run a WM and a browser, and it's not excruciatingly slow. I think you'd want to aim somewhere around the Pentium 4 / Athlon XP era. The d
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by TillE 3y ago
It's still crazy to me that forced arbitration is a thing. It should not be possible to sign away legal rights like that.
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by TillE 3y ago
I am similarly baffled that any GUI library could be noticeably laggy on modern hardware when you're just displaying a few hundred widgets at most. Even with ImGui, you have to draw a lot to drop below 120fps on an M1 Mac.
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by TillE 3y ago
Games. The attack surface for third-party input is very limited, and you can just secure those bits rather than adopting a new language for the entire program. Like, you need to be able to sandbox mods if they're a thing, and Rust&#x27
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by TillE 3y ago
Five years is an extremely optimistic timeline for EU-Russia relations returning to anything close to normal.
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by TillE 3y ago
I sympathize to some extent with their reasoning here, that developers for good reason want to sell separate macOS and iOS apps, and that they don't want a lot of customers complaining about a lousy UX. But there are plenty of cases wh
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by TillE 3y ago
The problem with a convertible MacBook is that you'd have to move the battery to behind the display, at which point you're really just making an iPad that can be attached to a keyboard dock and run macOS. I think the latter is a p
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by TillE 3y ago
Yeah there's always a massive difference between who's posting a lot online vs who's just playing and enjoying the game. But you have to calibrate Steam achievements based on who's played the game for more than a few min
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by TillE 3y ago
In addition to their very informative blogs, you can infer a lot based on their extensive Lua modding API: https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/ They also ship a full .pdb file with the Windows binaries (presumably for
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by TillE 3y ago
I think even just losing the ability to prompt an LLM with "...in the style of the New York Times" would be interesting. You'd probably end up drawing from parodies of the Times, which is quite different. Of course OpenAI pro
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by TillE 3y ago
I think the conclusion is slightly wrong: they're not trying to hide the training process. They'll probably wind up vigorously defending that in court however they can, they're in big trouble if they can't train like tha
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by TillE 3y ago
Any number of cloud services will give you a terminal on a web page to access your VM. You don't need to touch the hardware if you have a web browser.
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by TillE 3y ago
Apple is very interested in deterring theft. That's the primary reason for component security, not exotic espionage scenarios.
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by TillE 3y ago
Private individuals owning self-driving vehicles won't really be a thing in the longer term, it doesn't make economic sense. There are countless advantages to having a company or local government run and maintain a fleet.
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by TillE 3y ago
Big agree. Tinkering with code to some specific end is gonna teach you a lot more than just scrolling through files, unless you're just curious about the basic architecture or how they implemented some specific thing. Either way, have
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by TillE 3y ago
It would be trivial for Microsoft to strictly enforce their CPU "requirements" on install. They've chosen not to. The workaround for that isn't some weird hack, it's an explicit registry value that they made.
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by TillE 3y ago
Developers writing XP-compatible software today aren't the ones choosing to use XP, our clients are doing that.
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by TillE 3y ago
You can still write code that targets Windows XP and it will run on Windows 11 just fine. There's no compatibility break. The problem is that newer versions of Windows offer plenty of features which make library implementation simpler
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by TillE 3y ago
Visual C++ still looks basically the same though? There's (by default) another column on the right now, and I guess a few more toolbar buttons, but really it's extremely similar.
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by TillE 3y ago
Re: that last quote, I'm not sure they could have done a better job of copying the Macintosh at the time, except in a very crude way. Microsoft was targeting 16-bit Intel CPUs which required a coprocessor for floating point support.
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by TillE 3y ago
Prices are high, but the cards are fantastic. The only thing you can really complain about is that they're stingy with VRAM. Supply issues should be gone too; I got a 4070 Ti shortly after launch, no problem.
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by TillE 3y ago
The only filesystem I've ever completely lost to corruption was btrfs, and that was about a year ago. btrfs-restore completely failed, so if I really needed that data I guess I'd have to do some manual surgery. I got to the point
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by TillE 3y ago
Seems trivial enough to do client-side on modern hardware, especially if you exclude attachments.

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