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by TillE 3y ago
RenderDoc is amazing btw. I've only used it with Vulkan which has all sorts of custom debug hooks anyway, but RenderDoc makes it super fast and simple to just capture a frame and explore the whole pipeline to debug your shaders. Lots o
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by TillE 3y ago
Yet another example of an insane, unworkable internet policy from the UK which will never actually be implemented. I don't know why they keep doing this. Even if they were serious about it, they're a tiny country that lacks the cl
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by TillE 3y ago
Hell I've accidentally clicked the sponsored results on Amazon, because my adblocker didn't remove them and it took me a minute to realize Amazon had started doing that.
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by TillE 3y ago
I think there needs to be a more selective filter if this data is supposed to mean anything. The evaluated incidents include terrorist bombings, the deliberate Germanwings crash, etc.
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by TillE 3y ago
Same, I used LFS for a couple months in college until I got annoyed about manual updates and switched to Gentoo. And back in those days you had to do it on actual hardware, not a VM. I had a job interviewer at the time who asked which Linux
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by TillE 3y ago
A friend of mine recently observed how the NYT and other big papers, in their straight reporting, will rush directly to cover the "controversy" of any given issue while barely covering the details of the actual facts at hand. So b
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by TillE 3y ago
The most interesting thing is that a bunch of apparently smart people keep treating LLMs as if they were truly capable of something resembling problem-solving or logical thought, or even "understanding" a question. It should surpr
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by TillE 3y ago
It's unfortunate confusion, but a mistake from an employee is not a policy commitment. If Tim Cook said it, sure, but a low-level "representative" is just someone doing a job.
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by TillE 3y ago
If you're a software developer, cultivate deep expertise in one or two popular languages that are likely to stick around. Everything else - the hot new web framework or whatever - is downstream from the actual language, and is easy eno
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by TillE 3y ago
Honestly surprised to see so much chat about RHEL here. I'm sure there are reasons to use it, but it seems so niche. Like 90% of cloud stuff is running Debian or Ubuntu. Given their customer base, I certainly wouldn't be putting a
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by TillE 3y ago
I shared my dad's love of like Jethro Tull and Talking Heads, but uh there was also plenty of music I wouldn't want to talk with my parents about. There are endless examples in any era of popular music.
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by TillE 3y ago
There is no "single player mode". You will be playing with others in the overworld whether you want to or not.
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by TillE 3y ago
I think it's an example of cargo cult design, where you go with relative times because everyone else is doing it, and you don't really think about usability. Totally agree that once it's past "X days ago", it's
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by TillE 3y ago
There are a handful of mobile ports of desktop games which are fine, like Hearthstone if you're into that. It plays ok on a phone. But mostly they don't exist. And I'm convinced the root cause is that a tiny touchscreen is an
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by TillE 3y ago
I don't think so. I remember most of my required math (for a CS degree) was proofs, and I mostly hated it. Discrete math was great, and anything else with practical applications in CS would be good too. If you have a choice, I'd r
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by TillE 3y ago
I love projects like this. It's even simpler to just homebrew your own 8-bit computer / game console from widely available parts, and a great way to learn about and really understand how computers work. Computers have become far m
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by TillE 3y ago
Huge mistake to run as a Democrat. I think he would have a decent chance against DeSantis and Trump, though.
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by TillE 3y ago
I like the design concept of SFML a lot, but it's been neglected for so long that it's way behind modern C++. I see they plan to move to C++17 in SFML 3, and start using std::unique_ptr and such. Ultimately I just moved to Godot t
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by TillE 3y ago
This seems like a cynically clever way to turn a bunch of layoffs into a self-promotional story, rather than any kind of serious business plan.
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by TillE 3y ago
Same. I've got a very flexible, low-stress job with mediocre pay, but it pays the bills and I have a ton of time to work on projects that interest me. It's great.
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by TillE 3y ago
People - including politicians - have said for many years that the BBC should sell iPlayer subscriptions to international viewers, but they just...don't. They also have a massive archive of beloved content, enough to be a first-class s
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by TillE 3y ago
> To achieve ACI, Suleyman says AI bots should pass a new Turing test in which it receives a $100,000 seed investment and has to turn it into $1 million. As part of the test, the bot must research an e-commerce business idea, develop a p
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by TillE 3y ago
Make a README.md which clearly states this at the top, and a CONTRIBUTING.md. After that, it's just not your problem if someone opens a PR.
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by TillE 3y ago
It's all shades of grey. Look at C#, it's a statically-typed high-level language which runs in a VM, but can also be compiled to native code. It has a massive standard library and can do all sorts of script-y things (see eg, top-l
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by TillE 3y ago
That's because game design is an actual skill that needs to be cultivated, just as much as prose writing technique or cinematography or whatever. Making game software is only half the problem, everything from high-level concept to tw
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by TillE 3y ago
Tests are often extremely helpful, but I think the goal of 100% coverage has done much more harm than good, and leads to the kind of trivial tests you describe. TDD usually works well, and helps guide you towards designing a usable, testabl
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by TillE 3y ago
I've been lamenting for many years that the dream of an "information superhighway" has basically failed. There is so much deep information available in any large university library that is simply not on the internet at all.
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by TillE 3y ago
I remember having a similar argument with someone saying that your C code has to compile and work on every platform that exists, including weird CPUs with known bugs. Unless you're working on something like the Linux kernel, that'
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by TillE 3y ago
Obsidian works just fine with iCloud.
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by TillE 3y ago
> We don’t have to meet our deadline. We told folks hey, we need to come up with a plan, or we’re going to start billing you on July 1st. I don't understand why he keeps doing these interviews, he's just terrible at responding

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