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by dleslie 4y ago
> > It was Sun's corporate backing and muscle that enabled you to get their SDK for free. It was GCC being free, and on DOS thanks to djgpp, that made it successful; and it didn't need corporate megabucks to do it.
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by dleslie 4y ago
djgpp + allegro That combination was killer for a broke teenager in the 90s.
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by dleslie 4y ago
He's overlooking an incredibly important factor: Java and C++ had capable, even enterprise quality free compilers at a time when Common Lisp environments were typically either hideously expensive or poorly supported or both. You could
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by dleslie 4y ago
I'm happy to pay for quality services.
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by dleslie 4y ago
Or I could use a service that employs an army of content moderators to ensure that I am likely never to be placed at legal liability due to content someone else uploaded to the platform. I tried Mastodon about two or three years ago; I used
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by dleslie 4y ago
From decades of looking at interesting code. I take care to attempt to not duplicate code; it's why don't use copilot.
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by dleslie 4y ago
That's precisely the problem with it. AI, as it is, can be considered a lossy compression technique with multiple document recovery, convolution and interpolation ability.
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Sure, it's clever enough to swap identifiers correctly, but the shape of the code and techniques it uses were familiar to me from elsewhere, at times. It's not unlike copying code from stack overflow and swapping the identifiers a
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by dleslie 4y ago
When a Mastodon instance chooses to relay another it's like if your email provider could arbitrarily sign you up for mailing lists, in a way that bypasses your mailbox filters. This is something generally unheard of in email land.
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by dleslie 4y ago
That doesn't help if my host instance decides to relay from a questionable source, without my explicit consent.
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by dleslie 4y ago
Sure. I used it for about twenty minutes before I turned it off because it seemed clear to me that it wasn't much different than copying code from open source repositories.
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by dleslie 4y ago
In my experience, federation is like email, except in the early days before gmail was email, and if your ISP could arbitrarily and without notice subscribe you to a fire hose of illegal content.
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by dleslie 4y ago
If I were to memorize my employer's IP then reproduce it (almost) verbatim and give it to a competitor, then I would be setting myself up for a world of legal hurt. So yes, it is like how human memory is compression with extra steps.
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by dleslie 4y ago
It also means analytics for everyone at the table, not just the person who paid and not only their credit card number.
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Here in BC, Canada, many places don't even provide you a menu. You're expected to scan a QR code on the table, then use the website it leads you to. So the table fumbles around with their phones, using a website that usually has a
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by dleslie 4y ago
This is why I drifted towards game development for most of my career. Consoles, until the penultimate (antipenultimate?) generation, ran software bare or nearly bare on the host machine. I also spent time in integrate display controller dev
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by dleslie 4y ago
Final frame composition can occur on the home PC to avoid input latency concerns. I envision some combination of LFNs and diffusion; you could produce near approximations of likely desired scenes and have the client select and refine WRT it
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by dleslie 4y ago
I expect AAA games will move away from discrete rendering techniques and towards cloud-assisted AI rendering within the next five to ten years. Cards like this beast may be the Plymouth Barracuda of this PC era.
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by dleslie 4y ago
> What he said represents quite common black nationalist views and were espoused by most Black Power activists in the 60s. Those views are still highly relevant in the black community today, due to things like this[0], promoted by popula
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by dleslie 4y ago
This is fairly clear to me, I don't need to hear his later equivocations: > And what I'm doing, I'm calling out the Jewish community as a whole ... Imagine calling out an entire ethnicity for your woes, and being surprised
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by dleslie 4y ago
Ok, I bit. At 6:50 he explicitly decides to "call out" all Jewish people, and makes a claim that he's a victim of their behaviour. > "And what I'm doing, I'm calling out the Jewish community as a whole to sa
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by dleslie 4y ago
It's possible to be passionate about technology while being young, female and prosocial. Hell, she's expressing herself using the technology platform most popular with her generation. She should be taken seriously because many peo
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by dleslie 4y ago
> Making a startup is a LOT of work. People who are famous for doing that in college are mostly also famous for dropping out because they can't do both a company and their course at once. That really depends on many factors, like wh
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by dleslie 4y ago
> There's also a more subtle issue here than the lack of work. She talks like someone whose primary interest is her own looks, not anything to do with tech. She talks repeatedly about how cute she looks, how she spends time working
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by dleslie 4y ago
She mentions the times she works, but didn't show it; I don't see how one could have that impression unless they didn't pay attention to what she says. Which wouldn't be surprising.
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> this guy couldn't even get people back into the office, no-one would go What does this have to do with anything else you brought up? Most programmers I know would sooner quit than return to the office; that doesn't mean they
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by dleslie 4y ago
Yah, she even mentioned working during appropriate times; the video just showed the morning, lunch, and evening highlights. I can't help but conclude that the problem is that it's presented by a young woman.
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by dleslie 4y ago
Ha, perhaps. I work in game dev, and previously had a stint in integrated display controllers for feature phones. Anecdotally, most of my code is effectively thrown away once shipped.
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> Your software is going to need to change over time! Not so for anything shipped on ROM.
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FWIW, I know a few dozen people who have purchased a Steam Deck and not a single one of them seems to be disappointed; the consensus appears to be that it's causing people to experience their libraries with new eyes. That said, we&#x27

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