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by dkersten 3y ago
> It’s probably not all of it When someone says they “know” some other language, it’s rarely all of it either. Take Python for example, I know some very good Python programmers who have been using the language for 20 years and yet woul
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by dkersten 3y ago
This is essentially what rubber ducking is.
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by dkersten 3y ago
Same. I can’t stand their web version or their own app. It’s Apollo or nothing for me.
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by dkersten 3y ago
I should have said: I don’t want VR for metaverse/virtual worlds, outside of pure entertainment. I don’t mind the negatives I mentioned for short bursts of entertainment, but for “serious” use, work/business and multiple hours per
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by dkersten 3y ago
That may be the technical reason, but end users don’t care about the why, when they can get superior visuals on even last gen game consoles. Sure, that’s not VR, but I would argue that VR actually needs better visuals to be compelling to
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by dkersten 3y ago
Sleepsort just pushes the sorting task to the task scheduler, which uses sone other algorithm to do the sorting.
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by dkersten 3y ago
Superior, sure. I’m not saying that better graphics aren’t, well, better. But I am saying that it’s unnecessary for a deep immersive experience. I was equally immersed 20 years ago playing Gothic and Oblivion as I am playing recent games, g
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by dkersten 3y ago
> I would imagine that vectorization is behind the advice to use linear searches on small arrays. I always thought a core part is that searching linearly is simply very cache efficient due to easy prefetching of linear data and that this
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by dkersten 3y ago
> > more detail doesn't make a game better > Have you played red dead redemption 2? The detail elevates the game to one of the greatest masterpieces of all time. Absolutely. Graphics do have their place, but most games don’t n
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by dkersten 3y ago
I agree. The problem is that a human has ethical deterrents to avoid copying data while a machine doesn’t, so we have to rely purely on legal incentives to avoid copies from being produced.
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by dkersten 3y ago
I didnt try stadia, but I did try a PlayStation Now trial some time ago. I only played single player games, but some were first person shooters where you’d expect lag to matter. My experience was also very good and I didn’t have any issues
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by dkersten 3y ago
That sounds like a team problem. In my team, contents get addressed and team members don’t approve PR’s they don’t feel meet standards even if there are deadlines.
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by dkersten 3y ago
Yeah. I trust my team mates, but we use PR’s and approvals as a means of doing code review to make sure things don’t slip through and that everything has had multiple eyes. It’s not about trust, but improving quality, because we’re humans a
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by dkersten 4y ago
I don’t know. I’m just telling my experience. Whatever release I thought I needed at the time was huge.
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by dkersten 4y ago
It also isn’t really clear to me that humans aren’t also interpolating between complex existing concepts when we come up with novel thoughts or ideas. Our minds are complex, our pre-existing knowledge base is complex. It’s impossible to k
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by dkersten 4y ago
It’s also fast. I clicked the don’t allow button and it responded instantaneously. Many cookie banners are (probably purposely, at least when should don’t allow) slow as hell.
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by dkersten 4y ago
That seems like a rather uncommon definition of processing. Certainly not what people mean when they generally talk about processing a message. You’re right that if the business-processing is a long heavy-weight operation then that should b
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by dkersten 4y ago
I once tried to use a library that used boost and since I didn’t want to require my code to need the entirety of boost (which is gigabytes in size!) I tried to extract just the parts of boost that were needed. There are so many interdepende
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by dkersten 4y ago
It only requires one user to prompt it to not require a user, though.
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A malicious user prompts it to.
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by dkersten 4y ago
Model size will double every 18 months?
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by dkersten 4y ago
Too late to edit: “because it was nested strangely”
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by dkersten 4y ago
Flexbox makes it a lot easier, but it’s not fool proof. I’ve had situations where even flex refused to center something because it was ensured strangely (but out of my control), or because the containers size wasn’t being inherited correctl
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by dkersten 4y ago
This experience taught me that sometimes making a complaint to the correct organisation is worth the minor effort. Most people (and me in the past too) would probably just be annoyed but ignore it. It also emboldened me to make complaints a
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by dkersten 4y ago
I forced a book publisher to re-host videos on a particular CDN using the exact same URL’s because they advertised that the book came with videos, but the QR codes stopped working. Can’t imagine that was fun or cheap to fix. I made a compla
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by dkersten 4y ago
It’s very good at fixing problems, but I think even beyond that, money can be used in ways that increase happiness. Some things off the top of my head that money could buy that would increase my happiness or decrease my unhappiness due to t
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by dkersten 4y ago
I used a blank DAS to learn to touchtype. I now use a non-blank Kinesis Advantage2, but it has qwerty keycaps while all my devices are colemak so it has a similar effect to blank with the added bonus of confusing other people even more beca
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by dkersten 4y ago
Care to elaborate? Without context, your comment doesn’t really tell us anything useful to make a decision or verdict on.
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by dkersten 4y ago
I found these Ben Eater YouTube videos very useful to understanding what microcode is and how it works: 8-bit CPU control logic https://youtu.be/dXdoim96v5A 8-bit CPU reprogramming microcode https://youtu.be&#x2
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by dkersten 4y ago
I guess I meant from the Qt.io website, as when I looked last it wasn’t clear where else I could get it. The link LorenDB posted seems like it would help me with that, though!

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