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by ablob 3mo ago
I wonder if it will feel significant. I can't remember being limited by the controller battery. The runtime on a single charge is probably still going to be measured in weeks, and at that scale I feel like it doesn't really matter
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by ablob 3mo ago
Douglas afaik. Boeing moved HQ and quite a few engineering practices were abandoned.
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by ablob 4mo ago
I wonder by which metric you measure these scripts. Clearly it can't be on pronounciation or information density. If "amount of letters" is your pick, then Latin might be "objectively" the best system - you'd j
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by ablob 4mo ago
You may not be able to mix encodings, but mixing languages has always been possible. If you used a French encoding you would be able to write in English, but not the other way around. I'd wager there are similar cases for cyrillic text
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by ablob 4mo ago
> Many users of CJK language would argue that CJK unification was a mistake. Luckily it's not a decision without turning back. In most relevant contexts you should know the input language and can select a Font specifically using sai
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by ablob 4mo ago
afaik this is a non-issue with modern text rendering engines. Modern font files include rulesets to determine the forms and shaping engines apply these rules to eventually reach the desired "shape" (i.e. order, position and which
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by ablob 4mo ago
The lovecraftian horror of pdf mostly comes into play through the sheer amount of software that supply almost correct pdf. It's not enough to be able to read pdf anymore, you also have to be able to deal with software that emits subtly
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by ablob 4mo ago
I'd like to add that there is almost no way of "running away" from it. If I search for anything on the internet I am almost guaranteed to be handed pages and pages of AI generated content. In lieu of that I found that directl
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by ablob 4mo ago
I personally stumble upon many topics where I only care about the what. In that case all the theory is just a distraction I'm just wading through to get to the point. If it's optional, then looking into the how and why is certainl
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by ablob 4mo ago
I feel like keeping the amount of molecules the same within the simulation needs to be justified. How would it look like if the average amount of molecule was the same across a um?
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by ablob 4mo ago
Isn't this just an issue with rsync? (or rather your ancient version of it) I think you'd run into the same issues when using an IPv4 address port combination. It was rsync's choice to use colon as an indicator in lieu of IPv
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by ablob 4mo ago
Two fields should be fine, actually. The way caches are organized you are very unlikely to thrash with the lookups (due to n-way associativity) while only keeping relevant data in the cache at the same time. You still have roughly the follo
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by ablob 4mo ago
According to the thread rsync broke for incremental backups and increases the cpu load heavily. The whole thread only started because people noticed regressions and were wondering what happened. Since I quite a few users are using distros t
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by ablob 5mo ago
If we're talking two's complement it's not undefined that is right. Having to emit checks though, that is where I beg to differ. A check is only useful if you want to actually change the behavior when it happens, otherwise it
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by ablob 5mo ago
Somehow I highly doubt that a small game company is going to run a "huge network of interconnected cloud services". I've also yet to find a small game company running their own big online multiplayer game.
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by ablob 5mo ago
http3 operates on a different OSI layer
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by ablob 5mo ago
I just feel like "you can do this with Kubernetes" is a slippery slope. "You can do X with Y, so use Y" is a great way to add a dependency, especially if it is "community vetted" already. Sometimes simple is be
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by ablob 6mo ago
afaik, you always have to break open abstractions for more performance. If you ignore cache-levels in your program you're gonna have a bad time - and depending on the system the layout (and with it how you should use it) is different.
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by ablob 6mo ago
So what would be such an HPC language that you're so fond of? A quick web search reveals only languages that use C++/CUDA code as a back end (python), are new and experimental (Julia) or FORTRAN. For what you're talking about
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by ablob 6mo ago
C++ by comparison doesn't stand in your way too much either. I feel like the biggest gripe Rust has is what happens when you do have to go unsafe. That seems to be a strong point of contention for many folks. Maybe all the reasons that
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by ablob 6mo ago
Anything that increases the entry time by a second or more is a pretty good way to make me (and probably others) just not bother with opening the website.
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by ablob 6mo ago
I think his point is that "form follows function". If you know what kind of semantics you're going to have, you can use that to construct a syntax that lends itself to using it properly.
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by ablob 6mo ago
I guess "back in the day" you had to be able to write an efficient parser, as no parser generators existed. If you couldn't implement whatever you wanted due to memory shortage at the parser level, then obviously it's g
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by ablob 6mo ago
So you trade the overhead of SQL with the overhead of JSON?
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by ablob 6mo ago
The question was not if it was possible within price boundary X, but if it was possible at all. There is a difference, please don't confound possibility with feasibility.
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by ablob 6mo ago
C# has had the reputation of not being viable for Linux for a long time. Therefore, the people already on Linux didn't have a reason to use it or even try it. If you're already doing stuff in other languages it's hardly worth
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by ablob 6mo ago
A game is finished at some point. You might not need to evolve the code any further. Why optimize for a use-case that rarely applies to indie-games?
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by ablob 6mo ago
If you're using all services, then any partial outage is essentially a full outage. Of course, you can massage the numbers to make it look nicer in the way you described but the conservative approach is better for the customers. If you
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by ablob 6mo ago
I think multi-cursors can be seen as an extension of macros, just that instead of defining the macro and navigating to the relevant places you instead navigate first and then execute the commands interactively (in essence skipping the part
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by ablob 6mo ago
> If the biggest flaw of a OS is the border radius of its windows, you've got yourself a pretty decent OS! This argument would also make Windows 11 a pretty decent OS by extension via "If the biggest flaw of a OS is the positio

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