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by hatthew 2y ago
sorry to have bothered you
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Go look at https://www.protondb.com/explore?sort=mostBorked . In the first 50 games, there are 5 that I play that appear to be completely unplayable on linux at the moment. Is it behind the times to prefer an OS where litera
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by hatthew 2y ago
Sorry, I'm very confused here. What's your point? Yes, at least one gave me problems, but specifically more than one gave me problems. Both graphics driver options did, and other unrelated drivers did as well.
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by hatthew 2y ago
Yes. That's my point. They didn't work well, and caused issues when trying to game on linux, whereas windows was fine in that respect.
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Last time I tried gaming on linux it explicitly made me choose between two options. One was the nvidia driver and one was not, and both had problems.
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by hatthew 2y ago
Yeah, I agree that bias is an important factor here for general day-to-day usage issues. But even beyond subjective bias, there are things that are _literally impossible_ to do on an OS without manually porting some tool from its original O
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by hatthew 2y ago
There are a lot of games that work well on linux. Maybe even most games! But there are also many games that do not work on linux. It's not fun to tell my friends "hey I'll be sitting this one out, let me know when we move on
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by hatthew 2y ago
In my experience, there were no linux drivers that work as well as the first-party drivers on windows
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by hatthew 2y ago
I'm not sure what your point is? Coding works well on linux, games work well on windows. Neither works as well on the other.
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I do all my development work on linux. I have a self-hosted linux server. I used ubuntu as my main desktop computer OS for a full year, and in that time I struggled with compatibility issues, games that wouldn't run as well as people s
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by hatthew 2y ago
https://www.w3fools.com/
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The claims are a lie. The tool is still useful. Even if the hammer doesn't increase productivity by 25%, if it feels more comfortable to hold and I can use it for longer, I'm going to be happy with it, independent from any marketi
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by hatthew 2y ago
DIY telescope discussion on HN 2 weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43351988
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I am not saying that follows from the formal UAT, I'm saying that in general, if we assume that the human brain is simply producing outputs in response to inputs, I have no reason to believe that a neural net couldn't be construct
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Computers can compute anything, with the only limitations being time, space, energy, programming, etc. So far, it seems like all of those things can be increased without bound. I see no reason to believe that there will be some fundamental
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I think I would prefer that, yeah. I think it's a bit buried in the menu considering how relevant it is to the actual gameplay.
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I agree there are issues with the UAT, but I feel like my conclusion is still valid: a neural net, given the memories and senses that a humans has, is capable of approximating a human's response accurately enough to be indistinguishabl
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by hatthew 2y ago
Would it be possible to list incorrect guesses? In case I make a typo, or I forget a previous guess.
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Yeah, I have always firmly maintained that there is less fundamental difference between LLMs and human brains than most people seems to assume. Going a bit further, I'll speculate that the actions made by a human brain are simply a fun
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Agreed, it's eloquent without being loquacious, and has a good amount of engaging anecdotes backed up by research.
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Competitive games are complex. It's hard to be 95% percentile. There are so many mistakes one can make, even if each individual mistake is unlikely, it's likely that a mistake will be made. I participate in Dota 2, and litera
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by hatthew 2y ago
I don't know if this is an artifact of what I grew up on (paint shop pro), but personally I found Krita vastly more intuitive than GIMP, to the extent that I no longer use GIMP, and instead use Krita even for tasks that are objectively
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by hatthew 2y ago
Very cool! I love the interactive map, but have a couple UX suggestions: I usually expect most features of a map to be zoom invariant, with the exception of level of detail. Having the colormap change is surprising, particularly that longer
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by hatthew 2y ago
This is like saying "the human brain is just some chemistry." You have the general idea correct, but there's a lot more going on that just that, and the emergent system is so much more complex that it deserves its own separat
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> American citizens were asked to guess how much US federal spending goes to foreign aid. ... The average guess was a whopping 31%. What? I'm very curious how people arrived at such a number. I wouldn't be very surprised if p
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Yeah, I just find the framing very weird. It's talked about as if it's somehow worse than diesel. But then isn't the issue that hydrogen fuel is less economical than diesel in general, regardless of whether the fuel is used f
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> Fuel cell buses do produce sufficient waste heat, but here’s the problem: it’s exceptionally expensive heat. Every degree of warmth comes from hydrogen — a fuel that’s costly to produce, store, and transport. Unlike diesel, heating wit
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by hatthew 2y ago
Yeah, I'd love it if mpl could be optimized. I do think that it has a lot of weird design decisions that could justify burning it down and starting from scratch (e.g. weird mix of stateful and stateless api), but I've already le
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For me, one of the most annoying things in my workflow is when I'm waiting for the software to catch up. If I'm making a plot, there's a lot of little tweaks I want to do to visually extract the maximum amount of information
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It's not that we think we're the only one who thought about some implication, it's that that implication seems important and nobody has explicitly mentioned it yet, and maybe other people who have also though about this impli

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