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by hansvm 1mo ago
It's a trade-off, especially for longer paths, especially when you count the cost of server RAM cache misses.
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by hansvm 1mo ago
It's gotten pretty good (finally good enough that you can observe it in the game's macroeconomics), but if you're any good as a programmer then it's no work whatsoever to build something which can bypass it indefinitely.
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by hansvm 1mo ago
But... there weren't. The other "players," China included, had duck all to show for it. Did they have the same potential capabilities? Sure, maybe. It wasn't just a profitability thing though. Their models sucked. China
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by hansvm 1mo ago
I use it in a lot of places where I know the max capacity ahead of time -- ensureCapacity() followed by a lot of *AssumeCapacity()-styled commands. It's convenient for all of the ... convenience ... methods (append() requires some book
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by hansvm 1mo ago
I can answer your direct question if you'd like, but I'm actually missing what I think is some larger point in why you asked it. Would you be okay elaborating please?
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by hansvm 1mo ago
Fiat never works for linguistic shifts. That order is about as likely to work as telling a kid to stop saying "six seven."
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by hansvm 1mo ago
> they have the capability I think the whole problem is that they don't. Their systems are wholly unsuitable for _fully_ automated killing. Random schools and fishermen don't need to die because an administration stubbornly ref
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by hansvm 2mo ago
Not in the slightest. I didn't touch the voting functionality and tried to be as nice as possible. I saw an opportunity to make somebody's life better for reasons it didn't seem they were aware of, since their speech seemed s
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by hansvm 2mo ago
> can AI do <hard thing> Not yet. Maybe soon. I'm not placing bets on timelines. > What do CEOs do No clue. I'm not there yet. Maybe it's critical. Maybe nothing. > and other managers There are a lot of bad man
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by hansvm 2mo ago
> An <overinflated point> is XYZ. This matters. You're probably totally innocent, but this comes across as being AI-written, especially in the context of an AI problem and when your response is pro-AI. For the next 3-12 months
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by hansvm 2mo ago
The phrasing could have been better, but we've talked as a team about cancelling a $100k/yr contract nearly half a dozen times the last year, and the only thing keeping us from doing so is various "compliance" issues, an
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by hansvm 2mo ago
Per dollar recovered or per future fare-jumped dollar prevented? Edit: This plays into something I observe in most "data-driven" organizations. Having a statistic available about recovery costs makes it easy to shift the conversat
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by hansvm 2mo ago
I can give racknerd a +1 by the way (compute rental in my case, not email). Prices are good, machines are machines, support exists and is helpful even for off-the-beaten-path issues, and so far they still exist despite seemingly being a sma
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by hansvm 2mo ago
To be fair, the last time I had an issue with Google I just drove up to the Googleplex, and the front desk was very helpful routing me to the right real person. Proper support otherwise was impossible.
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by hansvm 2mo ago
I've had about the same level over the years. Early on, before I had a nest egg, I had little real autonomy, despite outward protestations top-down asking for risks and ideas. Afterward, maximizing average outcomes rather than worst-ca
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by hansvm 2mo ago
"Style" is complicated to copy in both cases if you don't know what you're looking for. In music, you have voicing sparsity, changes in voice count, preferred pitch ranges, tension/release cadences, embellishments,
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by hansvm 2mo ago
> how can I say that The exact way I did, with an additional clause afterward appropriately scoping the statement and thereby not stating something overly broad :) The point is that destroying evidence, by itself, is not a crime. Additio
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by hansvm 2mo ago
No, "knowingly" destroying evidence associated with that investigation is illegal. After a lawsuit is served, yes, it's probably pretty easy to prove ill intent. Opening an investigation may or may not suffice, and whether th
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by hansvm 2mo ago
Not necessarily, no, it's not clear that the person knew they had that duty. If you strongly believe the search is illegal, e.g. after being denied a lawyer, you might not think you're destroying evidence illegally.
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by hansvm 2mo ago
Destroying evidence is legal all day long, even with the law waiting out front, unless some other precondition is attached to that evidence destroying. One thing that makes it illegal is (over-simplifying) destroying it when you knew you ha
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by hansvm 2mo ago
The term "voter" seems relevant -- in my conversations with conservatives, they care quite a bit. In the way they conduct themselves (ignoring voting), they care quite a bit. It's only the voting in which there's an obvi
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by hansvm 2mo ago
Ha, I was explaining this just yesterday to a few people at $WORK (I'm not at TB, though we do use a bunch of Zig in prod). "Multiprocessing" (multiple CPU cores independently executing and only able to coordinate via some me
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by hansvm 2mo ago
Yep, that's right. Denominated in some fixed weight and any fixed fat percentage the delta is the same (e.g., if my weight is exactly 150lb or 200lb or 250lb and, at some concrete weight, I evaluate my real BMI at X and my naive BMI at
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by hansvm 2mo ago
> you can't possibly be saying XYZ...rant about XYZ, among other things No, obviously that's not what they're saying. There must be some reasonable interpretation then, right? Let's look at the chat thread and see wha
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by hansvm 2mo ago
That same idea applies very nicely to other ideas of math too. Take Konig's Lemma (every infinite, locally finite, connected graph has an infinite path) as an example. The nonstandard proof goes something like: 1. For every natural, yo
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by hansvm 2mo ago
In my mind, it's equivalent to subtracting a coarse estimate of how much extra muscle by mass I have compared to the median adult male they're using to construct BMI charts. My actual methodology is pretty crude though -- when I w
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by hansvm 2mo ago
The dominant discrepancies are "expected" fat (boobs, etc), and "unexpected" muscle (cyclists, body builders, hard labour careers, etc). I'm currently around 10-15lb overfat and 40-50lb overweight [0]. Only the form
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by hansvm 2mo ago
We have a few large Zig projects at $WORK, and the value prop for us was something like: 1. We need good C ABI compatibility to integrate with the Python ML ecosystem. 2. It's by far the easiest language I've used to write correct
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by hansvm 2mo ago
If we're going the hyperreal route, I quite like Goldblatt's GTM Lectures on the Hyperreals. You have to augment it with a paper or two if you want to work with other nonstandard objects, but when I was doing my graduate work it w
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by hansvm 2mo ago
> most are slop Is there any chance they meant most "real" indie games? If they did, does the observation about chances of rolling one's own engine change?

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