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by astrobe_ 2mo ago
"think dynamically" is the type of discourse TFA denounces, though. The thing designated by "think" is already largely unclear when you think about it, "think dynamically" sounds like self-improvement-coach non
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by astrobe_ 2mo ago
> How much does it matter whether or not we can accurately observe, characterize, and validate the processes at work inside large reasoning models If you don't or cannot, then it's the kind of sufficiently advanced technology t
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by astrobe_ 3mo ago
No worries, I simply took the chance to give a more detailed picture.
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by astrobe_ 3mo ago
Yes, the engine handles shaders, networking, DBMS backends (Sqlite, Postgres,... to store "worlds"), entities (mobs/items/vehicles...) to name the obvious things, but the logic of the game (weather, mob AI, user/wor
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by astrobe_ 3mo ago
> people hate change Not related, but this is an assumption one should automatically reject as soon as it comes to mind. People do like change, when it is for the better. People have happily moved from SVN to Git, from Vi to Neovim, from
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by astrobe_ 3mo ago
Codeberg already had relatively strong opinions before that; their Terms of Use also says: "the right to use the content for any purpose, including both commercial and non-commercial purposes" "Note, however, that the Creativ
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by astrobe_ 3mo ago
Tangential, but sometimes real images can also seem unreal. I remember seeing a photo of Earth and the Moon with the Moon on the foreground that looked like a bad CGI. But it was actually a photograph taken by a space probe. Or, one can thi
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by astrobe_ 3mo ago
The "crypto" Greek root can mean "hidden" indeed [1]. [1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%BA%CF%81%CF%85%CF%80%CF%8...
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by astrobe_ 3mo ago
> your self has been fragmented Unless you are more after acknowledgement than sharing/helping others (and be on the receiving end sometimes), this is non-problem .
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by astrobe_ 3mo ago
Even earlier than that. "Pseudonymity" (not using your real name online) were adopted very early on Internet. Facebook is the big exception. This first claim seems weak to me, and the arguments made in TFA are generally weak IMO.
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by astrobe_ 3mo ago
Well, I was one of those "armchair" specialists until I got a system why could sustain 60 FPS and I couldn't deny there was a difference between 30 FPS and 60 FPS, even though on the paper 25 FPS "should be enough for ev
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by astrobe_ 3mo ago
Yep. More generally the correct reason to prefer UDP over TCP is the fine-grained control you gain. When you want that and have to use TCP, you're in for a deadly fight against the OS and its TCP/IP stack. Datagram is also quite o
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by astrobe_ 3mo ago
tbh, I'm not sure if we need "more clever" CPUs since they cause more and more unpredictable performance outcome -- and more pressing issues like Spectre. Besides, looking at the evolution of technology tells us that performa
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by astrobe_ 3mo ago
Yes. Civilizations relying on tin were basically quite vulnerable because tin is uncommon [1]. The coincidence between late bronze age collapse and the transition to iron age seems to be explained by the fact that once the disorganization n
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by astrobe_ 3mo ago
Yes. I'm moving the goal post a bit here, but I was actually thinking about design mistakes and dangerous constructs - the kind of thing you do when you write in a "hacky" way - either deliberately or because you don't k
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by astrobe_ 3mo ago
I'll paraphrase someone who commented on HN once (about dynamic vs static typing, IIRC): permissive languages are enablers for solo programmers, but you need more restrictive languages for team programming. This matches my experience b
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by astrobe_ 3mo ago
> is in fact set in a fictional region of Japan, but is created so lovingly that you’ll believe it’s real life. This is actually a major cheat. Realism is expensive, and exposes your creation to the equivalent of the "uncanny valley
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by astrobe_ 3mo ago
Hardcore fans may like the BVE train sim [1]. A lot of Japanese fan-made lines (add-ons) with custom sounds. Generally speaking, the game is far from AAA, but the "hand-made" feel makes up for that. The downside is that sometimes
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by astrobe_ 3mo ago
Let's go for "PearTube" then.
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by astrobe_ 3mo ago
> Using a Gregorian Date before the calendar was introduced is almost certainly an error. It's just an extrapolation; using the calendar being used at the considered time would be meaningless for us, e.g. the short-lived french repu
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by astrobe_ 3mo ago
And that's also why we are in the 21st century, not the 20th.
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by astrobe_ 4mo ago
ORMs and variations like Protobuf or things that have to be cross-plateform in the wide sense. The perspective that the same source will behave the same in various environments, and "velocity" trumps performance considerations. If
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by astrobe_ 4mo ago
It seems this -que was already a relic at that time, or maybe sort of literary, because it coexisted with et (as in etc , et cetera , &c ), which still exists e.g. in French. Or maybe one is from antic Latin and the other is from &
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by astrobe_ 4mo ago
Still romanian. "The common law—so named because it was common to all the king's courts across England—originated in the practices of the courts of the English kings in the centuries following the Norman Conquest in 1066" [1]
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by astrobe_ 4mo ago
You can have them in C/C++ at least [1] [1] https://en.cppreference.com/cpp/language/operator_alternativ...
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by astrobe_ 4mo ago
The title reads "too little, too late" to me.
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by astrobe_ 4mo ago
This only makes a difference in terms of memory size, not in terms of speed, because for decades processors and compilers have been optimized for moving bytes around. But one would note that in order to gain memory for this particular case
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by astrobe_ 4mo ago
We sill probably see an increase in the use of OS-level memory compression tricks instead - things like zwap on Linux, for instance. Because the trend is usually to cure the symptoms, not the cause, as it is generally easier to set up and g
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by astrobe_ 4mo ago
I think it was sarcasm. I have about as much experience as them in low-level C programming, and I was wondering why this is on front page. I've also discovered again a few things too, so I won't look down on OP. It's certainl
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by astrobe_ 4mo ago
If you like nitpicking, Poe's short story *The unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfall" [1] should keep you busy a couple of days ;-) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unparalleled_Adventure_of_...

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