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by fenomas 4y ago
Besides "spoony Bard" I think the other most famous one is probably the "What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets" line from one of the Castlevanias. Personally I like it, but I guess it's pretty notorious.
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by fenomas 4y ago
The NPC here is a little kid, so short pants would be standard both then and now.
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by fenomas 4y ago
"It only works well on inputs that are similar to what appeared in its training set" seems like a strange criticism to make about an ML project, no?
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by fenomas 4y ago
HN rewrites headline text by default, but if you edit and save afterwards it doesn't rewrite the second version. Maybe the same is true of the URL text?
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by fenomas 4y ago
Arguments against bundlers always sound to me like a person who lives next door to their job saying "I don't get why so many people commute by car, walking works just fine". That is - some projects don't need a bundler,
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by fenomas 4y ago
Hot [module] reloading refers to dynamically swapping in an updated module or asset without reloading the page. When building nontrivial stuff HMR is pretty huge for productivity. E.g. I do a lot of procedural music via WebAudio, and bein
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by fenomas 4y ago
Hmm, I don't agree at all on the reading - for an ad-hoc coinage, ～跡 is realistically always going to be ~ato . Like if you jokingly referred to a paw print as 犬跡, saying inuato would be clear to any listener, and saying kenseki d
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by fenomas 4y ago
Japanese has puns based on syllables that rhyme, like any other language.
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by fenomas 4y ago
Sure, the word here is presumably meant to be a portmanteau of "watashi" (私 I, me) plus "ashiato" (足跡 footprint). The ~ato suffix refers to the remains or evidence of something no longer present (e.g. the site where a ca
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by fenomas 4y ago
It's portmanteau word (watashi x ashiato) - the pun only makes sense in Japanese.
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by fenomas 4y ago
I think that the site auto-edits titles on first submit, but if you afterwards edit and save, it will use what you put in verbatim.
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by fenomas 4y ago
Looks great, congrats on launching! Are any of the demos interactive, apart from moving the camera? Two of them seem to have buttons, but they don't respond to clicks.
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by fenomas 4y ago
That's true for English roots, but for the WK radical names we're talking about here, many of them are just arbitrarily chosen words. E.g. they call 歹 "yakuza" and 各 "kiss", etc. There's not necessarily an
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by fenomas 4y ago
I only tried WK briefly, but I found it mystifying - the whole system where reading a word gets decomposed into a multi-step process (kanji -> radicals -> names for radicals -> mnemonic linking radical names into character meaning
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by fenomas 4y ago
It really is an amazing book - exhaustive and technical, but there's a lot of personality in the descriptions and commentary. A personal favorite quote: > The topsail halyard bend is said to be a yachting hitch, but it is possible
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by fenomas 4y ago
Sure, none of that is in doubt. But in my experience the performance cost of hot code getting deopted is so massive as to overwhelm virtually any other factor, so realistically, fixing the deopt is what solved TFA's problem. Of course
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by fenomas 4y ago
Basically, modern JS engines are fast because they do a lot of inferring about types. They do this both statically (by inspecting the code at compile time) and dynamically (by watching the code as it executes), and they do it for objects as
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by fenomas 4y ago
TFA is basically about a limitation in V8's compiler, circa 2013. Based on the bug report it looks like that limitation was gone a few years later, and either way V8 switched to a whole different compiler back in 2017 or so.
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by fenomas 4y ago
TFA doesn't cover any cases where switch statements got optimized. It starts with the relevant code getting deopted, then the author tries a fix but the code is still deopted, then he removes the switch statements. (Mind you I'm n
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by fenomas 4y ago
> the poor performance of switch for opcodes I think you've slightly misunderstood TFA. The issue there wasn't that the switch statement was slow, per se - it was that V8's optimizing compiler didn't yet support such
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by fenomas 4y ago
GP was quoting the next line in the movie, not disagreeing with GGP.
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by fenomas 4y ago
Since TFA is pretty light fare after the headline, check out this "oral history" of the series from several years ago: https://www.theverge.com/2015/4/2/8285139/max-headroom-oral-...
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by fenomas 4y ago
In addition to this, I believe it's also kosher to increment a semver major version even without breaking changes. Semver forbids breaking changes without a major version increment, but I don't think it forbids the reverse.
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by fenomas 4y ago
> An outsider ... could be more knowledgeable than the person who went through the experience If the outsider is making general claims about similar sorts of situations, then sure. If they're predicting the behavior of someone unk
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by fenomas 4y ago
I've noticed this - but for me it's not the comedy per se, it's that modern authors (particularly in the noir style) want their detective to be a constant source of witty comebacks. You feel like the other characters are just
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by fenomas 4y ago
At least on the image side I guess they can expect takedown notices, since OpenAI claims to own all images generated by DALL-E, and forbids all commercial use. (IIRC their terms say they won't claim any ownership of GPT-3 output though
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by fenomas 4y ago
I suppose the legal specifics are uncharted territory, but at least with DALL-E the operator explicitly claims ownership of all generated images. > 2. OpenAI owns generations created by DALL·E; you own your uploaded images. I suppose tha
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by fenomas 4y ago
You say that, but the two best-known generators (DALL-E and Craiyon/dall-e mini) both claim ownership over generated images. E.g. they both claim that generated images may only be used non-commercially, and that commercial use is restr
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Notes on a Genre(robinsloan.com)
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by fenomas 4y ago
No idea why an article in Japanese is getting upvoted here, but for those curious here's the gist: Domino's Japan is apparently doing a form of marketing research called a "fake door test", where they show some new produ

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