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by astrobe_ 1y ago
Maybe Mill' CPU [1] or GreenArray's CPU [2] ? The sad thing is that nobody is going to buy these chips aside from niche products. You won't see them run a desktop or a smartphone, because if a CPU doesn't have a C compil
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by astrobe_ 1y ago
Owning a private key is the best way to prove your identity. As for hosting, I think BitTorrent is the most rock-solid? So maybe store your content in a Git repo, sign your commits, and publish on Torrent. And NNTP or RSS to notify users&#x
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by astrobe_ 1y ago
I want to see that too; because OP is saying between the lines that "public school kids" are lazy dorks by birth.
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by astrobe_ 1y ago
The claim is just inept. There's no particular symbol that holds more anything than others. The Greek alphabet [1] as a whole is a cultural cornerstone of the "western" culture. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by astrobe_ 1y ago
This was on HN's frontpage previously too; I immediately thought that this comic would say more or less the same thing. Perhaps both came from an AI? :D But in another paragraph, the article says that the teacher and the students also
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by astrobe_ 1y ago
Beyond the satire, one is supposed to write code which is readable, and like often with written works, one has to think about the "audience", the readers. When you write technical documentation, you have to decide ahead of time th
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by astrobe_ 1y ago
The question is, which kind of environment pressure and context lead this ants to this adaptation. Perhaps a high mortality rate in their own species happened at some point? Maybe something like an STD? The other thing to note is that integ
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by astrobe_ 1y ago
The finite world is a problem in practice only for popular game servers. I think the base walking speed for characters is ~2m/s, so reaching the edge from origin would take at least 4 hours. Even free-falling from max altitude (10 m&#x
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by astrobe_ 1y ago
Minetest sort of officially rebranded itself as a game engine when it changed name, it already was a game engine before that. Most of the bugs are caused by games and/or mods themselves, in particular if you had a Lua exception. Among
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by astrobe_ 1y ago
Well, in this scenario the user isn't supposed to have access to the (DNS) configuration. But one could still enter a raw IP address in the browser - e.g. a friend who has an unlocked device could ping the site to get it. But if one ac
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by astrobe_ 1y ago
If we want to protect kids/teens, why not create an "Internet for kids" with a specific TLD, and the owner of this TLD would only accept sites that adhere to specific guidelines (moderation, no adult content, advertisement...
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by astrobe_ 1y ago
It looks more like an implementation error to me, and actually it looks more like a design mistake than an implementation choice because there are arguments in favor of using an abstract functor class for the comparison function (you&#x
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by astrobe_ 1y ago
> There is a prevalent culture of expecting users to not make mistakes. I think the older of us C/C++ programmers come from no-safety languages like assembly language. That doesn't mean that all of us are "macho programmer
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by astrobe_ 1y ago
Also, mechanical stuff eventually wears out - at best with good quality ones, the product becomes obsolete before they do. For instance potentiometers [1] used for volume control on stereos rust over time and eventually become unusable. So
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by astrobe_ 1y ago
Playing cards during breaks, reading a lot, interacting with others, listening to radio a lot, that was the student me when I went no tv, no computer (cause I was already addicted to programming, Internet wasn't yet everywhere) to forc
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by astrobe_ 1y ago
I agree with the author on the positive side of commenting. In addition to every they said, it learns you to accept being proven wrong, learn how ignorant you are, and is a great introspection tool. The point of commenting is not being soci
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by astrobe_ 1y ago
Not so strange. Just like communism slips to oligarchy, capitalism slips to plutocracy, and as such actively undermines democracy. It doesn't that campaign budgets are capped when you have the right media owners on your side. People de
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by astrobe_ 1y ago
Git presents things to you as patches, but it doesn't really uses patches internally [1], so having a specif diff program doesn't help - except maybe to get readable patches - because IIRC, this can be customized. A version contro
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by astrobe_ 1y ago
> It's not achievable in the USA because a very large chunk of our population is literally retarded. 70 mil voted for Trump for some reason. I am not an American citizen so I cannot feel offended by this sentence, but I think it doe
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by astrobe_ 1y ago
Flies do equally well, if not better. The only problem for earth life is that anything less intelligent than a human cannot leave the planet with significant chances of survival. Bacteria can however take a ride in our space probes and get
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by astrobe_ 1y ago
> Look at that stack wrangling! It's really hard to follow what goes where without the detailed comments showing the stack layout on the right of each instruction (a common practice for Forth programs). The proposed definition is no
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by astrobe_ 1y ago
> but power failures are basically a non existent threat anyways Not in the contexts sqlite3 is often used. Remember, this is an embedded database, not a fat MySQL server sitting in a comfy datacenter with redundant power backups, RAID 6
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by astrobe_ 1y ago
> These days, computers can easily recognize photos of cats, but that’s not because a clever programmer discovered a way to isolate the essence of “catness.” It could have been. It did happen in some cases as computer vision didn't
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by astrobe_ 1y ago
For me, it is more about the nature of the interruption. An easy question that only requires pulling something from memory doesn't cost much. A question that requires some thinking has a huge cost, even more so when you have to check t
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by astrobe_ 1y ago
I am mainly into Luanti [1], which actually is a game engine for Minecraft-like games but the community is slowly expanding so we are starting to see original games. Public servers run original games as well, which may or may not be technic
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by astrobe_ 1y ago
Thanks. Personally, I simply refuse to install games with anti-cheats, be it on Linux or on Windows. This mostly leaves me with FOSS games and small communities. For instance, Zero-K. Zero-K is curiously fine for large team games - you will
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by astrobe_ 1y ago
"Isn't it just temporary, and AI will get better?" There are 2 instances of the word "understand" in the first paragraph, 3 if you count the beginning of the second. In my book, "understanding" is a synony
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by astrobe_ 1y ago
It is strange to me that people obsess on programming in-game with "red stone" etc. That said I am dayjob programmer so the last thing I want to do on my free time and is to program stuff. I made a game that uses the Luanti "
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by astrobe_ 1y ago
You didn't get the memo? Vibe coding, obviously. Joke aside, I remember there was an article here a few weeks ago maybe about writing docs for bots about which commenters here said it was no different that writing better docs.
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by astrobe_ 1y ago
This inspired me to check on Cube2: Sauerbraten. Still alive? Yep, barely. I guess some online games never die. In the case of Cube2, the game isn't really competitive (servers have no lobby, players can join and leave games anytime, e

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