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by TillE 3y ago
Yeah I can't think of a single case where any city deliberately and successfully discouraged tourism to a significant extent. It's possible to do by like, jacking up hotel taxes 100x, but nobody actually does that. Maybe some li
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by TillE 3y ago
Once you have the basic concept of a filesystem, mapping names to chunks of data, I think directories are a natural extension. It's an aid to both the human and the computer.
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by TillE 3y ago
Eco himself joked that Brown was one of his "Diabolicals". But I agree, they're radically different books which bear no comparison aside from the theme of secret societies. I adore Foucault's Pendulum, it's one of m
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by TillE 3y ago
"Please leave now" sounds like terrible UX, especially if you've gone off to eat somewhere while your vehicle charges. Most of the time, the vast majority of your charging should be at home. For edge cases like this, well, it
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by TillE 3y ago
AI-generated porn is a weird hobby with some very vocal supporters. Everyone else is pretty happy with real porn or rule34 or certain artists with Patreons. People use Stable Diffusion because it's free. I don't really want to pay
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by TillE 3y ago
"Safe" doesn't mean non-pornographic, it means not artistically interesting.
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by TillE 3y ago
The only reason people think smoking "looks cool" is because of decades of aggressive advertising from cigarette companies, which seeped into the culture.
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by TillE 3y ago
I wish Copilot did something like this. I've found it'll regularly invent C# methods which don't exist, an error which seems trivial to catch and hide from the user. No output is better than bad output.
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by TillE 3y ago
I've found it extremely similar to IntelliCode for C#, which is not very impressive. Surprisingly I've found it does a better job of writing accurate comments than generating useful code. Maybe it's good for some languages, o
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by TillE 3y ago
Do you need to install software really quickly? Performance is nice, but I understand why it's a low priority. I guess it can save you a few billable minutes with CI runners, but otherwise speed probably isn't a huge deal for most
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by TillE 3y ago
Given that they were originally cranking episodes out in less than a week, yeah probably. I remember being astonished when their Elian Gonzalez episode aired four days after the raid, directly referencing it.
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by TillE 3y ago
Does Apple do general-purpose web APIs? The only one I can think of is WeatherKit. Seems like any AI stuff will be designed to add value to its hardware exclusively, probably in conjunction with its on-device Neural Engine (tm).
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by TillE 3y ago
I watched the WWDC session with the guy from Unity, and it's pretty clear that the Vision Pro will be a fully capable VR gaming platform, with good hand tracking. So it's an interesting choice from Apple to totally avoid the subje
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by TillE 3y ago
"Artificial Intelligence of Things" is also total gibberish.
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by TillE 3y ago
A phone is fine for brief communication, but awful for eg, searching/reading documentation.
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by TillE 3y ago
I can't imagine that America's byzantine visa system is accomplishing any useful policy goal, it's just a mess. Compare to a country like Germany, where you can get a work visa, extend it indefinitely, and then roll it over i
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by TillE 3y ago
It's gonna be really funny if we've looped all the way back to the Yahoo Directory circa 1998. It's hard to argue against the basic idea of human curation as a necessary component. I'm envisioning something like a search
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by TillE 3y ago
We already have plenty of non-AI autogenerated spam which is apparently good enough to please Google, LLMs just make that slightly better. So the scale already exists, and we're really just talking about quality.
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by TillE 3y ago
If the stuff you're doing allows a design where you can just loop over POD, sure, that's the ideal. But lots of stuff isn't that simple, and you end up messily reinventing inheritance with a lot of switches and if statements.
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by TillE 3y ago
It's a pointer to a chunk of memory which contains an array of characters. You pass around the pointer because copying an array is expensive and wasteful. I think (or hope) the concepts are pretty clear if you understand what a pointer
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by TillE 3y ago
> create a proper C binding to the C++ interface That's the generally recommended way of exposing your C++ library to any kind of non-C++ code. I'm not aware of any software which directly helps with that, unfortunately. You ei
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by TillE 3y ago
Much like Theranos, basic immutable laws of nature make the whole idea absurd. Namely, that it requires a ton of energy to keep an object aloft. It's just wildly inefficient, and will never see serious usage outside of tiny niches. Not
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by TillE 3y ago
I was just looking into this issue myself, to see how long I'd realistically have to keep shipping chunky universal binaries. I can imagine that Apple drops Intel support in say macOS 16, but keeps patching macOS 15 for a good long whi
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by TillE 3y ago
Windows for ARM64 runs just fine, and has its own x86 emulation layer. There are scenarios where you genuinely need Intel hardware (running x86-64 binary drivers, I guess), but it's a pretty small subset.
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by TillE 3y ago
Yeah it's real easy to avoid getting sick if you don't work a service job and stay away from crowds.
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by TillE 3y ago
The trouble with Wikipedia is that it's an inch deep. For any given topic, especially history, there's a trove of information in scholarly books from good publishers, but the corresponding Wikipedia article is like three pages lon
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by TillE 3y ago
To really exploit zstd you'd want all major browser vendors to agree on some standard, updateable dictionaries for HTML/CSS/etc.
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by TillE 3y ago
Seems doomed to failure. Football/soccer has had some success because it's a fast, exciting game that's easy to follow. Cricket occupies the same ecological niche in the Commonwealth that baseball does in America, a slow movi
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by TillE 3y ago
Oh it's absolutely true that game design is difficult and underappreciated. But the development side of it really isn't harder than any other software project of a similar scale. If you know how to build complex software, you ca
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by TillE 3y ago
Nobody under 35 wants to use email for anything. I'm older than that and I certainly don't want the hassle of setting up a mailing list. You can make a Discord server with a few clicks.

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