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by dahart 1y ago
Ads are vying for attention, true! I usually dislike commercial ads as much as anyone, especially online advertising, especially forced ads that block the thing I’m there for. That said, I don’t buy that they attack my agency and sovereignt
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by dahart 1y ago
I agree with you there. I wasn’t really arguing that there aren’t behavior or addiction problems, however you inserted the word “heavy” and it’s doing some heavy lifting here, and you brought up addiction and behavior which aren’t really th
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by dahart 1y ago
And? Are you imagining that these aren’t both true at the same time? If so, I’m happy to explain. Since nothing has been proven, there’s nothing “scientific”. And since there’s some disagreement, “consensus” has not been achieved yet. This
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by dahart 1y ago
This comment reminds me of the so called Dunning Kruger Effect. That paper had pretty close to the same participation size, and participants were pulled from a single school (Cornell). It also has major methodology problems, and has had an
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by dahart 1y ago
When you say something that contradicts his statements, it doesn’t mean he’s wrong, it most likely means you haven’t understood or interpreted his argument correctly. The Wikipedia page you linked to doesn’t use the word “algorithm”, so the
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by dahart 1y ago
You’re making more assumptions. There’s no “scientific consensus” that he’s wrong, there are just opinions. Unlike the straw man examples you bring up, nobody has proven the claims you’re making. If they had, then the argument would go away
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by dahart 1y ago
Oh that reminded me, in terms of cheating, you can use curl of a noise field to get completely fake incompressible flow. I used this in a Siggraph course once, and in some shots for a CG movie, but Bridson made it useful and way better by s
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by dahart 1y ago
> I cannot help but conclude that Searle argues that ‘understanding’ is only something that humans can do, which means… Regardless of whether Searle is right or wrong, you’ve jumped to conclusions and are misunderstanding his argument an
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by dahart 1y ago
Searle refutes your claim that there’s magical thinking. “Searle does not disagree with the notion that machines can have consciousness and understanding, because, as he writes, "we are precisely such machines". Searle holds that
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by dahart 1y ago
The only place I’ve seen technical debt and organic complexity come from in real life is from over-engineering (Einsteins over-engineer the code, and Elvises bring in too many dependencies) and, more importantly, from changing requirements
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by dahart 1y ago
Are they very different in terms of compute? Looks like Burgers saves maybe a couple of FMA per cell. I’m pretty sure you can get away with Navier Stokes on a CPU. (Depends on the resolution, of course, but the examples here are relatively
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by dahart 1y ago
I wouldn’t say archaic or historical definitions are improper, but you’re right - the primary meaning of decimate in English changed and now means to destroy the majority of. Maybe this is because decimate was always very damaging; threat o
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by dahart 1y ago
> there's essentially zero correlation between income inequality & wealth inequality Out of curiosity, how is this measured, and is it due to mega rich people not having taxable incomes? Do you have a source for this? Certainly
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by dahart 1y ago
> Are you assuming that loans don’t need to be paid back at some point? No, what I said is you don’t have to pay taxes on those loans. Obviously a loan is paid back. The tax avoidance scheme here is that a loan is not income and you can
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by dahart 1y ago
Your comment made me think Mort represents efficiency, Einstein represents quality, and Elvis represents risk. The ideal combination is difficult, and it changes over time. If anyone knew what the ideal combination was, companies would neve
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by dahart 1y ago
IMO doing both code and art at the same time is the best place to be, and it has served my career well, in both CG films and in games. The point of learning art isn’t necessarily to get a job making assets, it’s to be a better developer, an
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by dahart 1y ago
> It doesn’t matter how good of a developer you are, what complicated projects you’re working on or have shipped You’re bringing the topic of industry experience into a thread about how to get your first game dev job. If you have industr
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by dahart 1y ago
I suspect you’re referring to a gameplay programmer as opposed to a game engine programmer, even though your claim includes engine devs. There are more gameplay devs than engine devs, and gameplay devs will think about perf less and use a p
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by dahart 1y ago
> It’s so different, convoluted, mostly relying on tricks, clean code will slow you down There’s a seed of truth here, but at the same time, I’ve heard this mostly from people who learned certain programming patterns in school or in ente
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by dahart 1y ago
Low correlation (if that’s even true) isn’t a reason not to care about wealth inequality, that’s silly. It might be a reason we should focus more on wealth inequality than income inequality, but it’s pretty naive to frame wealth as “frozen”
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by dahart 1y ago
There’s a song about Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel, and there’s a monument to the Marion Steam Shovel in Le Roy, New York…
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by dahart 1y ago
If your ping is that high, you might be doing it wrong. Even Starlink is usually less than half that, usually a lot less. Most Remote Desktop setups I’ve seen are fairly and surprisingly responsive. It’s not quite as nice as a desktop 3 fee
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by dahart 1y ago
The comment wasn’t about web development. Lots of devs use TeamViewer / RDP / VNC / SSH, especially post-covid devs working remotely.
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by dahart 1y ago
Batteries naturally drain slowly when not used. What would this little experiment prove, exactly?
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by dahart 1y ago
I don’t doubt SoCs have their own micro-OS, but I too would love to see a reliable source showing phones connect to towers when powered off. Wouldn’t this, at a minimum, violate FAA/EASA rules? Google tells me the cellular radio in an
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by dahart 1y ago
It is true, but also funny to think back on how slow computers used to be. Even the run-of-the-mill cheap machines today are like a million times faster than supercomputers from the 70s and 80s. We’ve always had the issue that we have to
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by dahart 1y ago
Spinning hard drives were soooo slow! Maybe very roughly an order of magnitude from SSDs and an order of magnitude from multi-core?
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by dahart 1y ago
Maybe, but I can’t repro. Do you have a GPU? What browser? What web site? How much RAM do you have, and how much is available? What else is running on your machine? What OS, and is it a work machine with corporate antivirus?
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by dahart 1y ago
Note the date: 2016, almost 10 years ago. When I started doing actual web development in like 2014, I’d been using C++ for a couple of decades and it was somewhat of a surprise to me that JavaScript was a real language, because of the low r
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by dahart 1y ago
Personal Home Page is crappier than PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. :P Reputations take a long time to fix, and PHP earned a bad rep for its security problems around ~2006. It’s also a language that doesn’t worry about being pure and covering

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