alkonaut

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by alkonaut 7mo ago
Read my other response. It's about having 100% be the normal. There is a difference between having 99.99% all of the time, and having 100% all of the time and 99% in rare occasions. So "100% most of the time" actually makes s
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by alkonaut 7mo ago
The problem is that you can only meaningfully pair program with programmers. The people involved in architexture/design meetings might not be programmers. The questions that arise when 2 programmers work might not be resolvable without
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by alkonaut 7mo ago
I think it also depends on how people think. I might be able to sit can't sit in a meeting room/white board/documentation editor and come up with what the big problems is (where pain points in implementation will occur, where
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by alkonaut 7mo ago
That's not what I mean. I mean that anything but 100% is a "stop the world this is unacceptable" kind of event. So if there is a day when there is a flaky test, it must be rare. To explain further There is a difference betwee
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by alkonaut 7mo ago
I definitely have 100% pass rate on our tests for most of the time (in master, of course). By "most of the time" I mean that on any given day, you should be able to run the CI pipeline 1000 times and it would succeed all of them,
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by alkonaut 7mo ago
The thing is that if (f == 0.0) means "is f exactly zero so it's not initialized" 99 times for every one time it means "is f zero-ish because of a cancellation/degeneracy/whatever" I just found that I have
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by alkonaut 7mo ago
This falls for the famous "hours of planning can save minutes of coding". Architecture can't (all) be planned out on a whiteboard, it's the response to the difficulty you only realize as you try to implement. If you can
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by alkonaut 7mo ago
I think this makes an assumption early on which is that things are serialized, when usually they are not. If I complete a bugfix every 30 minutes, and submit them all for review, then I really don't care whether the review completes 5
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by alkonaut 7mo ago
It's really hard I think. I mean if we assume sports betting is never going away (Outside of the US at least, sports betting is barely controversial and is basically now, unfortunately the oxygen of a lot of the whole sports industry).
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by alkonaut 7mo ago
Yeah I'd argue that the beginner friendly version of the rule is probably "Never use exact == or != for floating point variables" and the slightly more advanced one is "Don't use it unless the value you are compari
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by alkonaut 7mo ago
I have a linter in my code that shouts at me if I use exact equality for floats. But I regret not making an exception for the constant zero, because it's one of the cases where you probably should accept it. I.e. if (f != 0.0) {...}
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by alkonaut 7mo ago
So Polymarket would settle the bet based on reporting from a single source? That seems to be very open to manipulation. In fact, for something as inconsequential as this, I'd just bet heavily myself if I were the reporter.
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by alkonaut 7mo ago
None of the pictures show people with coats on. My experience riding buses in South America was that operators run the AC on "freezing" for some reason. I never figured out why, but some said it was a competition for luxury where
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by alkonaut 7mo ago
I also always imagine that if I'm joined by a colleague on this task they might have to read through my conversation and I want to make it clear to a human too. As you said, that "other person" might be me too. Same reason I
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by alkonaut 7mo ago
Not if I can just leave that sandbox when I want to (boot another OS/mode/leave a sandbox etc) no?
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by alkonaut 7mo ago
Or we just boot into some console-esque gaming OS or mode to game. I’m not sure why this would be so controversial. The alternative is the one we see here.
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by alkonaut 7mo ago
I don’t need to game in the same OS that I do other things. But having two sets of hardware seems like a waste.
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by alkonaut 7mo ago
I don’t think a sandbox like a VM would work even if it could be done with only 5% perf hit? Wouldnt any game run in a VM be possible to introspect from the hypervisor in a way that is hard to see from inside the VM? And that’s why these an
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by alkonaut 7mo ago
No. No it can not. Unless you mean a 5070/80 is mid range.
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by alkonaut 7mo ago
I never played using a controller and I never will. And I do want a high end PC for other use cases.,
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by alkonaut 7mo ago
”Your game”? It’s a publisher making a game. If I’m kicking someone off my server I’m not asking EA/Ubisoft etc. I’m talking about normal old fashioned server administration now, I.e people hosting/renting their game infra and doi
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by alkonaut 7mo ago
Why do you feel someone has a right to play anywhere? If a community manages a server, it’s basically private property. And community managed servers are always superior to official publisher-managed servers. Anticheat - or just crowd manag
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by alkonaut 7mo ago
The order of things here is: 1) develop good systems for completely anonymous age verification. 2) now, potentially, use this in the places you think need age verification. Why are people accepting 2 before 1?
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by alkonaut 7mo ago
For competitive gaming this becomes a problem. But a good way of solving this in community managed multiplayer games is this: if a player is extremely good to the point where it’s destroying the fun of every other player: just kick them out
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by alkonaut 7mo ago
That’s what I want as a gamer. I want a PC that works as a console. Whether I want that for other use cases or this machine doesn’t matter. I’m happy to sandbox _everything else_, boot into a specific OS to game etc. The thing about gamin
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by alkonaut 7mo ago
What’s the point of trying to push through an income tax if it could have been an easy raise on payroll?
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by alkonaut 7mo ago
Why not just charge it on the paying end (payroll tax)? It would be the same thing but charged from employers. E.g my Employer pays about 125 to pay me 100 because of payroll tax. Then I receive 70 because the employer also pays my tax dire
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by alkonaut 7mo ago
Seems like this would be something for a Supreme Court to try. It was ordinary laws and cases (presumably) that had established the norms of equating income with property.
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by alkonaut 7mo ago
But simply changing the constitution to just allow an income tax is politically impossible? The majority isn’t big enough?
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by alkonaut 7mo ago
So if one has income tax and property tax separate (which I guess happens now) then presumably one has also codified that income is _not_ property (which I guess is the more common state of affairs )?

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