ahartmetz

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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
I mostly play games that have good gameplay mechanics, be it fast action games, strategy or racing sims. There are very few games that can even get close to movies regarding characters and story, so I don't bother. That includes GTA wi
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
Of course, Mark Zuckerberg is eager to disrupt the meatbag friendship industry: https://futurism.com/zuckerberg-lonely-friends-create-ai These guys are satirizing it quite well. https://www.thebeaverton.com/
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
It would be great to exclude the top 40 from the charts as well. Just call #41 #1. /s
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
I also see this as an antitrust case, but to see that, you need to be much more up to date on technology than anyone who decides such things. It's comparable to the biggest bank buying the biggest ratings agency.
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
AI is the current thing, HF does the current thing. Hype cycles in computing anyone?
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
TFA says you mostly aren't forced to pay that cost for uncontended writes.
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
That sounds like you should get in contact with Rui Ueyama. If anybody asks, someone on HN said it seemed like a no-brainer.
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
I think FTTC is just called (V)DSL in most places. IME it's uncommon to call anything less than FTTB (basement / building) fiber.
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
I think "bloat" was mostly about RAM at the time. MS went as far as writing new 16 bit code for Windows 95 to save memory.
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
Well, there are plenty of safety mechanisms that Python doesn't have and dangerous (usually powerful, occasionally badly designed) mechanisms that it does have.
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
I generally just "apt install" them. pyenv and pip (just pyenv really) are a little clunky, but work too.
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
Python is a language for "consenting adults". It doesn't try to prevent you from doing awful things so you can do great things. People who can't program well are given plenty of rope to hang themselves. It shares that wi
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
They made a really small attempt in Germany some years ago. Germany is tough for supermarkets.
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
Feynman was apparently a fan, too. His name for quarks was "partons". She just played the dumb showbiz blonde, or as she said "it takes a lot of money to look this cheap". Others in this discussion have more to say about
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
They aren't in the same category of supermarket though. Anyway, your name sounds Dutch. Please bring Albert Heijn to Germany. I'm not even sure why, but it's my favorite supermarket I've been to so far.
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
Btw, I just realized that "cannot use all cores" has become a similar performance handicap to "is interpreted". So many cores now!
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
FWIW, this is most likely not even fast enough to laugh at how slow it is - for that, you need to see something happening in less than an hour or so. It can only use one core at a time, but that is not the worst thing: CMake is interprete
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
Interesting, the internet confirms that. I recall reading in a PC magazine that something was inofficial about it - maybe it was wrong, or I misunderstood or misremembered something.
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
Oh for sure, the success if you want to call it that was to successfully implement the least bad option. Though it does seem that the king saw some good in Western culture, so at least from his POV it was presumably not all about losing the
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
It's not a weird angle but a "haven't caught on yet to what's happening" angle. I understand the article as trying to make the readers catch on to what's happening.
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
Always interesting to read how something very difficult was done very well. Understanding the West's true and purported motivations, bending their own culture - choosing what to adopt or not and how - without breaking, ceding some land
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
I have some doubts. For example, there is no software replacement for out-of-order execution: It is unknown before runtime in which cache level the required data will be or which values it will have (which changes the latency of a few instr
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
If you have watched The Substance, the transformation feels a bit like when things start falling apart in that one.
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
Windows games worked great on Windows 2000! There were officially inofficial packages of DirectX and such - I never had any trouble with them. I think DOS games also worked.
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
Pinging the absolute jerkwads at amutable.com who state that it's not their problem how their remote attestation technology will be used.
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
They didn't assume German pronunciation without reason. The umlaut dots aren't for decoration in German and ä, ö, ü only sound one way - including in Swedish, which has ä and ö, too. There is no ü in Swedish maybe because the Swe
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
Asking innocent questions often works better than confrontation, but yeah, this elevated importance of utmost free speech doesn't survive the Atlantic crossing and can be used to maliciously pooh-pooh Europe to an American audience.
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
By the EU and in Germany, really... What is censored in other member states isn't in the news, but for all I know it's also not much and not important. Which censorship do you consider problematic?
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
>typically your forced to sign paperwork saying your responsible for anything insurance refuses to pay Now that is some sick shit. Making every doctor's visit a gamble you might lose, discouraging people from seeing a doctor.
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
How about when the market fails customers, still no government involvement? Food and drugs regulation, environment stuff (you are here) and so on?

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