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by dahart 7d ago
I’d guess the concern is performance, not what initializer value is used. And performance is a valid concern that is discussed in the proposal, and a reason there’s an escape hatch. Still, it might cause some confusion.
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by dahart 7d ago
They were saying the problematic philosophy started in C++ 20, not the variable initialization rule. Yes the reason is obvious, but it’s neither simple nor black and white. One huge problem is that this can cause serious performance regress
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by dahart 8d ago
Three of those four prompts are opt-in and configurable and aren’t the site’s fault, no? I disable the browser and OS password managers because I use 1Password… why do you have the Chrome and OS password managers enabled if you’re using 1Pa
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by dahart 9d ago
There’s not much evidence these are being used, only that they are dependencies for something else; that’s why the download numbers are so high. I wouldn’t say it’s broken, I’d say there are tradeoffs, and devs have known this and discuss
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by dahart 13d ago
Ah, now having the best model be expensive to use, and thinking the cash burn of both companies is insane and unsustainable I completely agree with. This, I think is likely the biggest reason they’re asking for government intervention and r
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by dahart 13d ago
> Cracks are starting to appear. Open Ai and Anthropic are publicly asking for slowdown in AI research. Translation: We see this technology not being any more useful than what it is now, no AGI is coming Predicting a usefulness plateau i
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by dahart 14d ago
Sure of course there will be some internal reason or some non-zero value behind doing any craft. But the analogy to AI & software engineering careers is that there are corporate for-profit tomato farms today. They have pushed out plenty
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by dahart 14d ago
> There is no amount of adaptation what is within grasp What are you arguing for ? What choices do have have?
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by dahart 15d ago
Aside from that not being what was said (the parent’s pull-quote is wrong in multiple ways), it is in fact not possible to tune a piano to any arbitrary set of 88 pitches without changing the design so dramatically and fundamentally that it
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by dahart 15d ago
There is a whole paragraph in the preface about why he titled it “21st-Century Classroom”. The first sentence contains one very good reason: it’s a full year college music theory textbook with an open license . The other reasons cited are:
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by dahart 15d ago
Those 22 notes are not evenly spaced, you know that, right? Primes are irrelevant.
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by dahart 16d ago
Check out spamgourmet; they came up with roughly the same thing over 25 years ago, and implemented it, and handed it out to all for free. ;)
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by dahart 18d ago
Sorry, ask Lucas what exactly? How would that support parent’s claim that practical VFX artists can’t tell when CG is bad? Lucas hasn’t directed anything for over 20 years, and he was a writer, producer, director, and studio exec. He had al
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by dahart 18d ago
> a lot of older practical VFX artists aren’t able to tell when CGI is terrible. Source? As a CGI VFX artist in a previous life, I disagree vehemently, and I think you’re spinning an untrue narrative. I’ve never met any VFX artists, whet
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by dahart 21d ago
Isn’t deciding what responsibilities there are in any text very much in the author’s side and not yours? Haven’t you dramatically overstated your case? Many expositions do not contain an explanation of their value at all. Works of fiction a
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by dahart 23d ago
Ah yes if all collections are explicitly listed in the list node type, that makes sense. I thought the suggestion was that you could somehow link any given payload entry into multiple independent lists each with their own list node type.
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by dahart 23d ago
I googled it and got the response that Bjarne Stroustrup first used “intrusive” in his 1985 C++ book. He was adding a new distinction between the older intrusive kind and the new ‘non-intrusive’ kind, because some people had started using C
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by dahart 23d ago
> It is awkward in C, where the implementation has to be macro-generated I assume this is why they are putting the list pointer and payload in separate structs and doing pointer math to access the payload, so that it’s easy to build a se
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by dahart 27d ago
It is likely I’m missing something, that’s why I’m asking. ;) I don’t have any experience with curvature Béziers. I don’t understand what you mean about the 5 point span, could you elaborate? With a symmetric tangent Bézier constraint, adju
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by dahart 27d ago
Ah hehe gotcha, I missed you’re author, and you were saying CatRom and B-splines have similar locality. I feel like talking about local control’s a bit iffy. In a spline with multiple cubic segments, I think a control point edit is going to
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by dahart 28d ago
Oh Béziers are great and not going anywhere, and I’m not suggesting they should. It’s all about your specific goals. I think B-splines are misunderstood and underutilized, and your comment might be exemplifying that a little. ;) For one, Ca
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by dahart 28d ago
Oh I didn’t know about Stockman-Sharpe, but FWIW the article acknowledges your point: “The sensitivity curves shown here are normalized approximations (for simpler visualizations and calculations), and are not accurate. In reality, the sens
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by dahart 28d ago
This is very fun and well done, great interactive illustrations, and I love the deep dive into curvature. I have to wonder - if you want smooth joins, why not use uniform B-splines instead of Bézier curves? With B-splines you don’t have to
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by dahart 28d ago
The author was having a little fun calling it a “lie”, it’s more like a popular simplification. The question is how to join Bézier curves smoothly, and it’s fairly common for people to join them by matching the velocity, which means if you
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by dahart 28d ago
By line you mean a Bézier curve with no acceleration? As opposed to (say) a cubic with control points [(1,1),(2,1),(8,1),(9,1)] which makes a straight line but has a non-uniform parameterization?
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by dahart 28d ago
Oh no! You’ve misunderstood. I wasn’t really talking about the benefits of degrees to individuals, I was talking about the benefits to the federal budget (in response to the claim that we’re taking on debt). And there, the average income of
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by dahart 29d ago
Why do you assume there’s debt involved? Whether BS or not, people with degrees have higher earnings (~2x on average according to the FED) and pay higher taxes (more than 2x on average); it’s very much in the government’s financial interest
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by dahart 1mo ago
Spotify pays musicians something , and tracks that go viral pay better and can occasionally lead to break out deals. Spotify may be putting price pressure on musicians, but it still depends on musicians directly . AI music doesn’t. AI doe
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by dahart 1mo ago
> People defending strong copyrights think they are protecting the little guy, but in fact they are defending the few winner-takes-all creatives. Copyrights do both, they protect all creatives, it’s not one or the other. > Banning AI
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by dahart 1mo ago
It seems like you maybe missed the part in the middle of the thread where I said you’re right about IQ scores and what we call intelligence not being a so called physical trait. I’m not arguing that at this point and haven’t been for a whil

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