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by dgb23 1y ago
"Loss leader" sounds way better than "price dumping".
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by dgb23 1y ago
Even considering these inefficiencies, which are certainly to be taken seriously, there aren't a lot of things that have such a high ROI as research and education.
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by dgb23 1y ago
So far, automation has only ever increased the need for software development. Jevons Paradox plus the recursive nature of software means that there's always more stuff to do. The real threats to our profession are things like climate c
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by dgb23 1y ago
If this is the case, then I sincerely hope this will be attacked. My cynical side says that it will just be politicized, so some factions can say EU/state bad, while others jump through hoops to defend it.
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by dgb23 1y ago
Personally I rarely use or even implement interfaces except some other part needs them. My brain thinks in terms of plain data by default. I appreciate how they compose, for example when I call io.Copy and how things are handled for me. But
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by dgb23 1y ago
Same here. My native tongue is German, I live in Switzerland, but my settings on all devices are English. I do this on purpose, because I find everything is more searchable. I don't even know any German terms for most technical things
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by dgb23 1y ago
I recently read an article about the US having a relatively weak occupational training. To contrast, CH and GER are known to have very robust and regulated apprenticeship programs. Meaning you start working at a much earlier age (16) and go
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by dgb23 1y ago
AI might play a role here. But there's also a lot of economic uncertainty. It's not long ago when the correction of the tech job market started, because it got blown up during and after covid. The geopolitical situation is very un
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by dgb23 1y ago
Conceptually yes, thanks! But it seems like my implementation is more basic than that. I'm only using the graph part so to speak, because of other constraints.
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by dgb23 1y ago
A few obvious examples are the large gains in grid stability and efficiency, electric cars, the adoption and progress of solar panels. The latter is outpacing the expectations. And it’s not just engineering and manufacturing. These things h
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by dgb23 1y ago
The main point being: LLMs cost, but do something useful. Building slow applications just adds cost, but the utility is much more vague.
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by dgb23 1y ago
The patient is kicking and screaming, because they are an addict. Regardless, I’m not convinced by the parent comment. It basically suggests we solve this without analysis of costs and effects. Sounds insane to me. Especially since the most
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by dgb23 1y ago
I can’t decide whether this joke is stupid or clever!
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by dgb23 1y ago
I like this idea. One could imagine certain types to skew the costs for interesting reasons. Small animals might want to move in a sort of scanning, zig-zag way for example.
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by dgb23 1y ago
WC1 has fairly blocky movement and is grid based. It seems like units literally move from tile to tile so to speak. If this is actually the case, you could try the Lee algorithm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_algori
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by dgb23 1y ago
Neat article! This will depend on the type of game or application, but one thing I've been doing is to do the more rigorous pathfinding when the environment (collision map) changes in order to generate a sort of precomputed pathfinding
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by dgb23 1y ago
Bonuses make a lot of sense in the financial sector, because the whole endeavor is about making money. Intrinsic motivation and making more money align. Historically it got introduced in order to mitigate cheating customers for personal gai
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by dgb23 1y ago
> Software costs money to build, and performance optimization doesn't come for free. Neither do caching, operational/architectural overhead, slow builds and all the hoops we jump through in order to satisfy stylistic choices. A
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by dgb23 1y ago
You are comparing applications with wildly different features and UI. That's neither an argument for nor against performance as an important quality metric. How fast you can compile, start and execute some particular code matters. The
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by dgb23 1y ago
There are tricks one can use to mitigate some of the pitfalls when using either a conversational LLM or a code assistant. They emerge from the simple assumptions that: - LLMs fundamentally pattern match bytes. It's stored bytes + user
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by dgb23 1y ago
It's not wrong, it's just based on the assumption that the projects wants contributors. Quite obviously, any incidental friction makes this ever so slightly harder or less likely. Good contributions don't necessarily or only
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by dgb23 1y ago
> but the thesis of a large standard lib solving the dependency issue really isnt true, as (almost) every other usecase beyond web development shows. I don't think the dependency issue can be solved by a good std lib, but it certain
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by dgb23 1y ago
Free markets are wonderful, but they require free agents to participate in them. That includes consumers and workers. Noam Chomsky even described Amazon as a totalitarian employer once I think. I find it distasteful to use the ideal of free
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by dgb23 1y ago
There's also an issue that many tech savvy people miss: Most people have a very hard time using and understanding software, even if they use it regularly. The attack surface of people who are easy to manipulate or exploit by Big Tech i
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by dgb23 1y ago
Either one of us is in a bubble (or likely both), because I never heard of any company requiring a LinkedIn account for applications. I would consider this as a major red flag even. Where I live almost nobody uses LinkedIn. Many of our clie
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by dgb23 1y ago
Not all web servers deal in HTML or JSON, many don't have databases outside of managing their internal state. Even ignoring that, those are just common formats. They don't tell you what a particular web server is doing. Take a few
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by dgb23 1y ago
“Web server” is a pretty big use case though. But I agree that graphics is often overlooked in std libs. However that’s a bit of a different beast. Std libs typically deal with what the OS provides. Graphics is its own world so to speak. As
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by dgb23 1y ago
When I’m losing I always say “I play the long game”.
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by dgb23 1y ago
I can name several games from the top of my head that are built on in-house engines I have played and are reasonably recent: - The Witness - Overwatch (1/2) - Factorio - The Last of Us 2 - Baldur's Gate 3 - Stellaris I can't
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by dgb23 1y ago
> But the amount of money going by is so huge they can take a tiny percent of it to pay their server bills. I think that's an oversimplification that doesn't do justice to the complexity or difficulty of the issue. Both sides o

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