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by bsdpufferfish 3y ago
It's unfortunate that most programmers only experience with make is automake/autoconf. This is fantastic.
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by bsdpufferfish 3y ago
> Has any AI passed it? Eliza in the 1960s, and all it does is parrot back words. The participants just didn't know about computers and used their best explanation that they were talking to a human. The Turing test aims to show that
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by bsdpufferfish 3y ago
I agree. However there is another trap with that. Engines which haven't made a game usually haven't solved the hard problems yet. It's just easy or fun code that works well in convenient circumstances.
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by bsdpufferfish 3y ago
A sure way to never finish a game is to start by writing an engine. You can absolutely make your own tech but at every step that tech should be tailored for your project, as opposed just a general game platform.
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by bsdpufferfish 3y ago
> how would they monetize it well enough to make the investment worthwhile? That’s the theme of this article. Nvidia invested heavily in GPUs even though the complete business model wasn’t always clear.
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by bsdpufferfish 3y ago
Yes, minus the deadline. You would be crazy to not see the long term value of literally being able to enter virtual worlds, like a Star Trek holodeck. Even something as simple as replacing TVs and monitors is a no-brainer. It's just a
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by bsdpufferfish 3y ago
Examples of things where this has worked for me: linux man pages, internet RFCs, ECMAScript spec, RDMS knowledge, math and science theory.
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by bsdpufferfish 3y ago
If this were true then solutions which required no code or a line of bash would be greeted with open arms. Having software to sell to VCs is valuable. So yes, sometimes you're payed to write code.
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by bsdpufferfish 3y ago
This is exactly it. It's fun to try out the new tools and how "effortless" they make it. It's a kind of tinkering.
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by bsdpufferfish 3y ago
> you have to create a separate schema ("api" or similar) to carefully pick what's exposed. Yep, but it's a CREATE VIEW instead of writing a route in python or ruby which also will likely hit an ORM... > Serving as
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by bsdpufferfish 3y ago
The quality of open source databases with views, partitions, etc as well as improvements in server hardware have made this approach much more appealing.
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by bsdpufferfish 3y ago
Stabbed in the back, doesn't explain why facism was a popular world view across Europe and Japan.
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by bsdpufferfish 3y ago
This is also why everyone has heard about Theranos.
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by bsdpufferfish 3y ago
Imagine you invested in the index minus Nikola. This isn't improbable as several hours of due diligence would have raised concerns. This shows that the choice of stocks included in an index is not arbitrary. You don't get "be
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by bsdpufferfish 3y ago
That’s true of corporations too. In practice there are patterns.
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by bsdpufferfish 3y ago
> he said what people wanted to hear after losing WWI In other words, they believed it. It wasn’t a false manipulation.
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by bsdpufferfish 3y ago
Does “inferior” mean statistically less likely to be good at logic games? Because I don’t believe people’s claim to humanity is defined by that.
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by bsdpufferfish 3y ago
Was there more emotional rhetoric than is otherwise used in politics? Personally the “hitler mind controlled everyone with his speach” theory that I was told in the 90s just isn’t convincing. Facism was in the zeitgeist around the world.
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by bsdpufferfish 3y ago
Have you ever read a news article about something you have insider knowledge of?
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by bsdpufferfish 3y ago
Accept that your job can disappear at anytime and for any reason, no matter how loyal you are. Your sense of security should come from your confidence in getting work if needed.
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by bsdpufferfish 3y ago
Unions tends to reward credentials and years of experience over performance or capability. For most people it lowers downside risk and lowers upside opportunity.
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by bsdpufferfish 3y ago
This kind of multithreaded code introduces great complexity. So who wants to pay the cost for that tradeoff? Since most performance sensitive ffmpeg uses are cloud services, I don't see the benefit.
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by bsdpufferfish 3y ago
> But it sounds great for the remaining 99.99%. I believe the vast majority of ffmpeg usages are web services, or one off encodings.
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by bsdpufferfish 3y ago
Yes. The kernel multiplies your efforts for you. It works great for web services.
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by bsdpufferfish 3y ago
Why would you think this is possible?
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by bsdpufferfish 3y ago
If I'm operating a cloud service like Netflix, then I'm already running thousands of ffmpeg processes on each machine. In other words, it's already a multi-core job.