flohofwoe

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by flohofwoe 3mo ago
> but the gaming experience is easier and less frustrating ??? It's not the early 1990s anymore where you had to fiddle with autoexec.bat and assigning IRQs to get your DOS games to run. The only "downside" of PC gaming is
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by flohofwoe 3mo ago
> The real plan is a containment and a slow economic collapse of Iran anyway. Quite optimistic to assume that there ever was a plan. Reminds me of the '4D chess' masterminds sitting in the Kremlin.
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by flohofwoe 3mo ago
> I don't want to know what life is like having xbox hardware It was pretty great up to the 360, but with the Xbox One everything went to shit. Game consoles were meant to be plug-and-play, today they are more hassle to setup than a
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by flohofwoe 3mo ago
Try Satellite Reign. It's also almost retro by now (2015), but it's essentially a modernized Syndicate.
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by flohofwoe 3mo ago
Not mentioned, but probably my favourite cyberpunk game of all time: Satellite Reign (2015). It's a modern Syndicate remake in spirit, and a relatively small indie game (to set expectations), but the gameplay loop is tight and rewards
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by flohofwoe 3mo ago
I mean, yes the technical problems have been fixed, but it's still the same old boring story, repetitive gameplay and a very abrupt ending. And for being a cyberpunk game there's definitely too little cyberspace and 'netrunni
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by flohofwoe 3mo ago
Steam games are not required to have DRM, it's entirely up to the game developer/publisher.
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by flohofwoe 3mo ago
> Also, humans are not deterministic either. And that's why it's usually a stupid idea to nilly-willy migrate large code bases to different languages (also I'm getting really tired of the "but humans aren't eithe
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by flohofwoe 3mo ago
That's the thing, bigger datatypes means less effective memory throughput. From that perspective 16-bit or even 8-bit floats are often more useful than 80 or 128 bit floats. Same problem with 64 bit pointers and why it's often bet
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by flohofwoe 3mo ago
Also arguably we already have 256 or 512 bit CPUs, what matters most for memory throughput is not the register width but essentialy the L1 cache line width (eg what in old CPUs was the databus width). As for address width, we're not ev
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by flohofwoe 3mo ago
> I sit in the middle a lot of the time as my opinion on code quality vary depending on how important the code actually is. This is really the key insight that most people on the extreme ends of the discussion don't seem to grasp an
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by flohofwoe 3mo ago
I would guess they have been confronted with an initial flood of newly discovered bugs whenever they added a new analysis tool or approach (e.g. automated static analysis, fuzzing, ...). Once working through that initial flurry of newly dis
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by flohofwoe 3mo ago
True, but at least IME, once you get beyond fixing the 'obvious bugs' (how many there are depends on the initial quality of the code base - but I agree that AI is really useful to find those), you'll get into a murky grey are
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by flohofwoe 3mo ago
> The place to find them would be performance profiles, query plans, telemetry. Tbh, once this information is available (which is the tricky part), in 99% of cases there's really no AI needed to analyze the data, since the 'low
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by flohofwoe 3mo ago
That's something those products need to figure out, not the users, one potential solution is to erect paywalls and find out how much those products are actually worth to their users ;)
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by flohofwoe 3mo ago
> You literally spend 99.999% og your time blindly trusting code ... Please don't be personal ;)
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by flohofwoe 3mo ago
> But the vast amount of software written, react components and rest endpoints, are very ripe to be entirely written by agents. In that I agree, nobody should be forced to write React code manually, that's almost a human rights viol
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by flohofwoe 3mo ago
Compilers also usually give you the same output for the same input. And fwiw I do spend quite a lot of time reading compiler output to check that it's not doing something stupid or unexpected (usually as part of optimization work). A
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by flohofwoe 3mo ago
I suspect that this was less about helping the US, but rather about gathering at least a bit of battlefield experience for the various European armies that took part, since at that time the thought was that the Cold War armies prepared for
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by flohofwoe 3mo ago
It has nothing to do with 'elite teams', it has to do with decades long and very careful maintenance. It's too early to say whether LLM generated projects will ever reach that sort of maturity, most examples I've seen so
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by flohofwoe 3mo ago
You sound like a webdev, e.g. the "let's just install 1000s of unvetted external dependencies" is nowhere else nearly as extreme as in web development land.
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by flohofwoe 3mo ago
Western Europe was much more integrated with the US during the Cold War than it was at any time after 1990 (just as Eastern Europe was thightly integrated with the USSR), and that process of disentanglement with the US has accelerated drama
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by flohofwoe 3mo ago
> with Vance's support of Orban Tbh, if that always plays out like it did in this case I'm all for US interference in EU elections ;)
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by flohofwoe 3mo ago
> But presumably burning all your early adopters is not a winning strategy. This topic is so old that most early adaptors probably have retired by now ;)
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by flohofwoe 3mo ago
I mean sure, from a purely 'is this program correct' pov you're correct, but then a hello-world is mainly about "how do I get some frigging text to show up on the terminal", and how likely is that to fail anyway (at
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by flohofwoe 3mo ago
Tbf, it's a useful indicator whether a language follows the "simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible" principle. The vanilla 'Hello World' should always be an example of the "simple th
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by flohofwoe 3mo ago
That's the 'official' hello world which is indeed a bit verbose (it's "correct" in the way that it generally shows how to stream formatted text to stdout though). Arguably this is the more beginner friendly ver
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by flohofwoe 3mo ago
IME dynamic libraries ever only add more problems on the pile but never solve anything (they're basically only good for plugin systems, or as userland operating system interface). Shared libraries work slightly differently on each oper
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by flohofwoe 3mo ago
Ugh, why are BOMs even still a thing in the 21st century? E.g. when will Windows finally arrive in the late 1990s and switch to UTF-8 for everything? The UTF-8 BOM is especially bizarre because UTF-8 is completely endian-agnostic (so this &
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by flohofwoe 3mo ago
It works on macOS too, I don't own any iOS devices.

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