elcritch

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by elcritch 1y ago
Indirection kills performance nowadays. I did a bunch of benchmarking a couple years back and found that you can parse MessagePack and CBOR faster than Protobuf if you know the types and serialize directly into them. Even if field order isn
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by elcritch 1y ago
This is great to see! I happen to be traveling in Wales when I saw this headline. I was listening to Welsh radio on the drive in for a bit just cause it's fascinating. It's a unique sounding language.
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by elcritch 1y ago
With more motors and joints also comes some degree of redundancy however. Having multiple fingers means one finger dying won't be as big of an impedement. It'd require feedback and the ability for the motion planner / AI to a
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by elcritch 1y ago
I try! Ok I’m not blaming the people now for being descendants. The lead character in the story was an American foreigner anyways. When I took on of the boats around Venice I had a European couple going on about it. They kept calling it a c
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by elcritch 1y ago
A bit ironic in my mind that people enjoying living in a city infamous for gaining much of its historical wealth and art by betraying the Byzantines and sacking Constantinople under the guise of helping it [1] are now complaining about ultr
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by elcritch 1y ago
Not to mention the lack of discoverable shortcuts on desktop. On touchscreen devices you get random gestures that are hard to do half the time.
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by elcritch 1y ago
> Can you explain to us what the genocide in Gaza is? A population caught up in a horrible conflict. In part due to the choices of the leaders they've supported for decades now. > I need a thorough explanation of the images I see
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by elcritch 1y ago
> Why do you think that’s true? You can take an average person globally and more or less realize it takes very little to make someone anti-Israeli foreign policy. It doesn’t take some large brainwashing operation. In fact, one could argu
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by elcritch 1y ago
Nothing in most of their beliefs. They’re both monotheistic and similar in many regards as Islam largely inherited its tenants from both Judaism and Christianity. Jews were often well treated and flourished in the earlier Islamic caliphates
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by elcritch 1y ago
That’s the point of my comment. Israel and several other nations like Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, etc have all been undergoing attacks by Iranian funded proxies for decades.
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by elcritch 1y ago
Even if you believe Israelis don’t have a right to the land, it’s still not a colonial outpost. That’s just lazy European and American self important intellectualizing in my opinion. First a colony is one controlled by a foreign nation. Nex
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by elcritch 1y ago
> end up like Libya, Syria or any other country Israel considers a threat. You imply here that those countries woes are primarily due to Israel. They are not. Syria was embroiled and toppled by Islamic Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham backed b
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by elcritch 1y ago
I have a rule of thumb that the more a piece of software costs, the crappier it will be.
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by elcritch 1y ago
I recommend perusing the code. Since it’s in Nim it’s pretty approachable (and performant). There’s still lots of gnarly bits like implementing HTML DOM and web specs, but it doesn’t take you days to grasp the basic setup.
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by elcritch 1y ago
> And in any event, evolution always selects for the fitness of the individual, not the species— group selection is a very controversial topic in evobio, but the general consensus is that it does not happen To me that seems more to me li
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by elcritch 1y ago
> It's an embarrassment that the leading video platform, belonging to a multi-billion-dollar company, has a worse user experience than a simple video file with only the web browser's built-in UI controls. You're surprised
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by elcritch 1y ago
Exactly, capitalism isn't about putting capital to work doing things. It's only concern is share holder profit!
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by elcritch 1y ago
It seems to me European software dev market is doing better than the states currently. That's just my anecdotal data of looking at them the last few months.
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by elcritch 1y ago
Wow, those are pretty major flaws in Wayland. Just as I was thinking Wayland must've improved on these sorts of things for it to start becoming the default.
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by elcritch 1y ago
Reason can be distinct from sapience.
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by elcritch 1y ago
Yep, but the other article on the front page covering the exact same topic AFAICT does include that in the headline. I initially thought this was the same article and that the title had been changed.
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by elcritch 1y ago
And of course the news headline I saw first mentioned nothing about Italy but rather “US backed Israeli company hacks European journalists!”. Yeah gotta love the clickbait titles.
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by elcritch 1y ago
Out of curiosity, what sort of numbers of elements onscreen do you consider to be high?
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by elcritch 1y ago
What's difficult with font SDFs on the CPU? The bezier paths? I made myself a CPU SDF library last weekend, primarily for fast shadow textures. It was fun, and I was surprised how well most basic SDFs run with SIMD. Except yeah Beziers
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Show HN: SDFY: Fast 2D Vector Shapes and Shadows with Signed Distance Functions(github.com)
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by elcritch 1y ago
I hadn't looked for a while, but Harris was out raising and out spending Trump substantially when I'd last read up on it. Much of that seemed to come primarily from big donors. Sure the more of the top richest people may have dona
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by elcritch 1y ago
Shouldn’t the quality of the content be what matters? Avoiding articles with low grade effort or genuine content either made with or without LLMs would seem to be a better goal.
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by elcritch 1y ago
You might try out Nim. It has a low annotation noise level. The python like syntax feels odd for a systems language at first but since it’s statically typed it works well. The simpler syntax seems to work very well with LLMs too. Basically
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by elcritch 1y ago
Not that both the Republicans and Democrats are very pro large business. Remember Harris raised at least _twice_ as much money from billionaires than Trump. They're just pro different big businesses, largely based on their demographics
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by elcritch 1y ago
It's sarcasm I believe, they used to call this exceptions. ;)

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