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by astrobe_ 3y ago
At my nanoscopic scale (a game for Minetest), I don't give a shoot about that. What matters is that the game does what I want. I consider programming is an art and I get paychecks for more mundane programming, where doing Git right and
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
I think in the case of Mumble, the chat feature is intended to be used to let people fix sound issues, nothing more. This sort of is yet another data point related to a conundrum: on one hand, applications that integrate multiple functional
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
Not the first time the issue has been pointed out: > Simplify the problem you've got or rather don't complexify it. I've done it myself, it's fun to do. You have a boring problem and hiding behind it is a much more in
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
> Our results suggest that it can give large improvements when training for a specific benchmark. > improved the execution speed of the program for which the order was optimized between 0.8% and 23.0% with 7.7% on average. Single-digi
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
Long story short, the game with free services has always been to exploit them more than they exploit you.
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
> I just tried feeding GPT-4 some assembler as well, and while I did get it to make some optimisations, I also had to point out several mistakes it made My point of view on this is that this type of AI cannot reason, so it seems to me qu
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
As you seem to know well this thing, I'll ask you: they write type "ssh pi@raspberrypi.local" and voilà !", but I know that just enabling an IP stack over a USB link is not enough per se* normally, the device has to ha
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
> Note that C does have strong conventions, such as that strings are terminated by a zero byte Stated the same on HN earlier, but someone pointed out that literal strings are ASCIIZ.
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
As I said, application programmers expect and accept that their UDP packets might be lost or duplicated. This is sort of part of the contract. Even datagram integrity is in theory not guaranteed, as the checksum field of UDP is optional. So
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
Huh? It's an obvious thing to do. If you have to drop a packet because your queues are full, any engineer with an IQ over 50 will pick the victim from the UDP packets, because the sender expects it might happen, and also because it won
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
UDP is unreliable transport by specification , so I guess that if a network equipment such as a router cannot cope with the general workload, it would probably sacrifice UDP first without a second thought.
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
One often sees the STUN, TURN or ICE protocols around SIP-based VoIP, I believed they were supposed to help solve those issues?
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
But being able to fish in the ocean of JS devs for embedded is the dream of every manager.
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
Perhaps "off the beaten path" is more appropriate, although it has apparently (non native speaker) both the meaning of "less traveled" or "atypical".
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
Companies would never do something unethical - let alone illegal - or put their customers at risk in order to make more profits, right? xD
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
It's not just "that". Minetest is actually a "voxel game engine", and allows all sorts of things. A better showcase is the community's mod catalog, "ContentDB" [1]. Some mods/games even try to br
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
I would add that this town is in the general area of D-day (Normandy) which is (was) notable for its milk production and products: butter, cream... and TRUE cheese ;-)
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by astrobe_ 4y ago
Yes, and perhaps even more the MacGyver show. But those references are getting quite old.
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by astrobe_ 4y ago
Out of curiosity, why did it fail to decode correctly the first time? Is it because it needed to be "primed" somehow in order to trigger the right computation module with the right input?
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by astrobe_ 4y ago
Would cameras be accurate enough for this task? It seems to me that laser-based measures would be more fit to the task.
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by astrobe_ 4y ago
I have googled the binary sequence and found a couple of Youtube videos with that title. It is likely that the translation is in some comments. That's how it is "100% certain". Youtube comments. It's not the first time I
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by astrobe_ 4y ago
> That's an over-generalization I think most people here will interpret the word "can" in the sentence you're quoting as a caveat emptor ; and I would add the same applies to TFA. Loop fusion can etc. but measure if
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by astrobe_ 4y ago
I'm pretty sure git-daemon does work p2p, but maybe that's a different p2p you have in mind.
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by astrobe_ 4y ago
You both don't need to be condescending morons ("Windows-centric security", "It's written in C") on such a minor issue.
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by astrobe_ 4y ago
In other words, those estimates are as reliable as Drake's equation output. Someone who can't say "I don't know" when they know they don't know, is either a fool or a con artist.
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by astrobe_ 4y ago
> And so long as your arguments are reasonably factually based, it's never really possible to lose a debate, unless you choose to That's the trouble with the expression "losing a debate". There is the notion that you&
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by astrobe_ 4y ago
If you liked Elite, you should check out Oolite [1] too. FOSS, lots of mods. [1] http://www.oolite.org/
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by astrobe_ 4y ago
I guess he discovered himself the specimen bit by bit while doing it, which makes the job not boring.
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by astrobe_ 4y ago
... Which is kind of worrying; is it really a good thing that processors are so complex that you need "decades" to use them to fully. Bottom line, you end up with chaotic (in the "sensitive to the slightest change") perf
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by astrobe_ 4y ago
That's actually what Lua, Python and Shell are doing: the first language is the scripting language, the second language is C in some form. And obviously, that's a successful strategy. But most users won't dive in the C side.

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