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by gspr 5y ago
Even if Nintendo is OK with that (are they really?), that does not mean that someone else can grab one of those copies and claim copyright on it! That's what the author of the reverse-engineered Prince of Persia seems to be doing.
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by gspr 5y ago
I'll use this as an example for the point I'm trying to make in my comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29341727 Please don't take this the wrong way. It is not meant to be demeaning, and it is not me
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by gspr 5y ago
I hear this question asked quite often, particularly on HN. I think the question is quite backwards. There is little value alone in learning "math notation", even ignoring what many people point out (there is no one "math not
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by gspr 5y ago
Yeah, the author's "Copyright (C) 2013-2021 Dávid Nagy" seems ridiculous and meaningless. I can see the appeal of a project like this, but the author's pretending that that copyright and the GPL licensing mean anything i
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by gspr 5y ago
> Not the current discussion but just the general trend of discourse and observation. Seems like a strange place to vent arguments for an unrelated discussion, then. > And Why is this Intel Software activated Hardware Rent Seeking? It
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by gspr 5y ago
> 4 Downvotes in 1 minute -- exhibit A No. The downvotes probably come from the bullshit lies you're spewing: > Almost every open source project is being overtaken by social justice warrior leeches. False. Or at least it has to
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by gspr 5y ago
> Modern Day Tech people seems to have this traits where everything should be free. How do you conclude like that from the current discussion? People seem to be arguing that they should be able to own things. Not that the things should b
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by gspr 5y ago
I love my RM2. Been using it without their cloud thingy since I got it. If they ever start getting hostile to non-cloud users, I'm out.
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by gspr 5y ago
I love Rust, but it's particularly frustrating to me how it (nearly) forces you to use a single centralized package repository. Shameless plug for an issue: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/10045
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by gspr 5y ago
Does this mean that OpenCL is being phased out without any serious Vulkan-based replacements being actively worked on?
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by gspr 5y ago
It's even worse if you don't wanna draw a pixel, but rather want the compute world's equivalent of hello world (i.e. inner product)!
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by gspr 5y ago
Could you provide some pointers to where someone who's moderately familar with OpenCL should start looking to learn to do compute with Vulkan? I find the documentation quite fractured.
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by gspr 5y ago
How fast do you imagine that doctors and nurses can be trained? And it's not like they can just be recruited from elsewhere – demand is high everywhere.
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by gspr 5y ago
In some sense it's just using the entire atmosphere as a battery. Burn fossile fuels where it's the only reasonable option (currently), such as for planes, then spend energy to pull CO2 out of the atmosphere elsewhere.
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by gspr 5y ago
> What do you say to people who eagerly took the initial 2-dose vaccine series but aren't interested in perpetual boosters every 6 months? Are they antivaxxers? Do they need to be marginalized? I don't know. It's difficult
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by gspr 5y ago
No. The ones that don't want the vaccine (and don't have a real medical reason not to) have to take the goddamn vaccine. Their beliefs are objectively wrong, and if they want to live in society, they have to do their part. Bodily
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by gspr 5y ago
Rust's Cargo seems to suffer from the same. And the tooling to avoid the wild "grab things from the Internet" route is quite lacking (shameless plug for attention: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/
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by gspr 5y ago
> It's ability to solve almost any mathematical formula Let's not go wild here ;)
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by gspr 5y ago
> But which percentage do stay in academia? Why not everyone with good ideas? It seems to me, it's a system like any other rigged for the rich and connected, who can afford a degree+master+phd, I guess if your parents are supporting
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by gspr 5y ago
Likely one of the dimensions behaves differently.
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by gspr 5y ago
But in return you might get to do amazing research and discover things that our species did not know before. That's worth something to those of us who don't view life as a monetary optimization game. Sheesh, HN is depressing somet
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by gspr 5y ago
Ugh. I agree that the exploitative behavior of some big name universities is horrible, but I don't at all understand how you from this conclude that "academia is over", and in turn from that that people should avoid doing PhD
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by gspr 5y ago
It's lovely. Some elaboration: Waypipe takes a completely different approach from X forwarding. X forwarding entails shipping a bunch of X drawing commands across the network. This is incredibly inefficient for modern use-cases, where
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by gspr 5y ago
Issues? Depends on what you mean. Maybe not practical issues, but I for sure would be offended if my bank refused to use my actual name. I find this whole ordeal delightful, and applaud the intention of the GDPR and the ways the courts uphe
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by gspr 5y ago
What I don't understand when I hear stories like these is why the hell not just use someone else's solution ? Surely neighboring Québec had this sorted out ages ago – why not just duplicated whatever they did? Problem solved in n
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by gspr 5y ago
Sure, I agree. The point is that if the total corpus of Rust code is too isolated into too small islands, then the boundary effects of each island may eat up a lot of the benefit. I still think the project is really cool and worthwhile.
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by gspr 5y ago
Me too, but in my case it's despite of point 2.
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by gspr 5y ago
A practical problem is that in order to gain the benefit of linking Rust and C code, one has to give up Rust's wonderful guarantees at the interface. So until islands of Rust meet up, these interact through a C ABI, and have to expose
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by gspr 5y ago
Ok, so make the question one of `call sqrt` vs `sqrtss xmm0` + a test that sets errno in case of negative then? Or even simpler: do you demand that `x = sqrt(4)` entails emitting code that calls `sqrt`?
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by gspr 5y ago
You seem to underestimate how slowly logarithms grow.

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