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by bob1029 5d ago
I agree the response time is not fantastic, but if we are going for the effect of CRTs, it's not that far off the mark. Certainly higher latency than CRT and (properly driven) LCD.
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by bob1029 5d ago
It would seem that curl + jq represents most of the solution these days. I recently learned that jq programs can be used in the other direction to effectively patch a json document too. Putting both of these things together, I am running ou
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by bob1029 5d ago
I think plasma displays are a much better option. We really should bring them back. The latest generation of plasma TVs drove their active elements at frequencies in excess of 600hz. You could do a lot of clever things with these panels. Th
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by bob1029 6d ago
> 2/3 produced is garbage. This might not be far off the mark. You are irreversibly linking the fates of these devices after a certain stage of manufacturing. If something goes wrong at final packaging time, you lose all dies instea
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by bob1029 6d ago
It's not that there's a blocker. It's that it takes roughly 3x the manufacturing capacity to produce an HBM package at the same storage capacity as DRAM. We are sacrificing total bytes for bandwidth.
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by bob1029 6d ago
How do you feel about adjective ordering rules? I always wondered what this was like from the outside.
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by bob1029 7d ago
I struggle with FTS inside SQL (SQLite and MSSQL). There is often a fairly significant impedance mismatch between the relational concerns and how the documents need to be stored. I've always preferred to use SQL as the system of record
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by bob1029 7d ago
> If you need a benchmark that makes the PC look massively faster than the Mac, I'm sure those are available too. Go check out blender CPU scores if you need any reassurance that AMD still makes some kind of sense. https:/&#x2
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by bob1029 7d ago
Generative AI is actually pretty good at giving you rough concept sketches and iterating on top of existing renders. However, you must retain control over the scene graph and its composition. Use the output of the AI to guide how you work i
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by bob1029 7d ago
I am way more interested in the intentions of the author than anything that can be interpolated from the code or token space.
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by bob1029 7d ago
I am very curious about the tech stack for the core system and what the development process looked like.
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by bob1029 8d ago
There are HSMs that are effectively immune to this attack by way of their construction and packaging. You need an optical path to the secure device. The only way to get at this is to tamper with the tamperproof part of the system. Some very
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by bob1029 8d ago
We set off explosives to control avalanche risk.
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by bob1029 8d ago
I sometimes have a hard time figuring out what shouldn't be built. The next best thing is to rapidly build the crappiest thing that kind of works. Being a little bit bad on purpose usually helps. Getting trapped in clean code and test
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by bob1029 9d ago
All of the queries my agents use select fields like issue title, body, labels, createdAt, updatedAt, etc. That's about it. I would hope that stuff is cached and efficient to read. I do not think GraphQL is a good way to interact with g
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by bob1029 9d ago
If you are using LLMs to interact with sites like GitLab and GitHub, and you have the option to use a GraphQL API, you should jump on it immediately. GraphQL is absolutely terrible for human developers to interact with, but it's like F
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by bob1029 9d ago
https://docs.unity.com/en-us/unity-production-pipeline/local...
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by bob1029 9d ago
I think mDL is going to be a pretty big deal in some industries (e.g. banking). Apple announced an ecosystem around this at WWDC25. Very soon we are going to be in a world where you walk into a bank to open/maintain an account and the
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by bob1029 9d ago
> You need some sort of point-in-time snapshots to be able to recover from accidents and silent corruption. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/versio...
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by bob1029 9d ago
Buildings games in Unity feels like magic with frontier reasoning models. Assuming you are competent with scene work and the various art pipelines, the rest of the problem is significantly easier now. I've been using the Unity CLI to r
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by bob1029 10d ago
This appears to be a security problem in some contexts. I've been able to see issue counts for repositories that I have not been granted access to yet (the view with the invite accept button). I can't actually get to the issues bu
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by bob1029 10d ago
There is no way this could be reasonably framed as RSI. This iterative, online optimization of an exploration policy is not recursively intelligent in any way. It simply reallocates the available computational resources to more promising
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by bob1029 11d ago
> but hitting a precise target on the ground from space is really hard Guidance systems exist. Kinetic != unguided.
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by bob1029 11d ago
> If you go with the wrong one you may end up having to switch at some point, and that can be painful. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log4Shell https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core&
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by bob1029 11d ago
The future of level design is now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructive_solid_geometry If you are trying to rapidly iterate a level layout, nothing comes close to the power of a hierarchy of CSG brushes. You can
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by bob1029 11d ago
See also: the mass of starlink satellites over time.
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by bob1029 12d ago
To be really pedantic, it's a spin wait, not a spin lock in disruptor. You are waiting for a sequence, not mutually excluding some resource. Many threads can watch the same volatile at the same time without blocking each other.
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by bob1029 12d ago
I've never experienced a situation where a software design document meaningfully improved the overall process. At best, it helps to keep the business in sync at the expense of a much longer delivery timetable. Even high level software
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by bob1029 12d ago
I like how every time we have a codec fight no one seems to care very much about how long it takes to encode these files. Like I get it, the amortization schedule often works out, but there are scenarios where images need to be generated dy
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by bob1029 13d ago
> There's a variant of going full stack where you eat your way gradually through the customer by doing all their hardest work for them. One of my clients provisions front office applications for banks and the conversation has come u

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