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by hgs3 4y ago
I could see a casual RTS working, one where you select groups of soldiers rather than individual units.
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by hgs3 4y ago
> Right....and all the people not working would get paid how exactly ? There's no money in this system. > Or does this system just assume they're all homeless and jobless? If people want "homes" then they democrati
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by hgs3 4y ago
My own pet idea for economic reform would be to have people democratically vote on the services they want and if there aren't enough volunteers/robots/AI to perform them then you draft people. In this scenario people will get
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by hgs3 4y ago
Exactly this. Advancements in technology should better peoples lives not destroy their livelihoods. We shouldn't suppress technology, but rethink the role of our economy.
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by hgs3 4y ago
What frustrates me about GitHub is that GitHub Sponsors does not provide controls for associating a users funding amount with anything. Say I want to sell support: I should be able to associate a users sponsorship level with their capabilit
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by hgs3 4y ago
Has WG14 considered adding slices to C? [1] Introducing slices would naturally give way to a better string library. [1] https://www.digitalmars.com/articles/C-biggest-mistake.html
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by hgs3 4y ago
Linux's strscpy addresses these issues.
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by hgs3 4y ago
Yup, there is also Linux's strscpy which doesn't require reading memory from the source string beyond the specified "count" bytes and the return value is idiot proof.
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by hgs3 4y ago
I agree with the sentiment, but not IA's risky approach. What did IA assume? That publishers would look the other way, that their actions would inspire copyright reform, that executive power would pardon them post-reform? Those are som
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by hgs3 4y ago
Being well connected is far more important than being rich. Consider Bill Gates: he came from an affluent family, is intelligent, and hardworking...but so are many people. What ultimately set him apart was that his mother knew the chairman
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by hgs3 4y ago
It's not discussed in the article but there is also coalesced hashing [1] which is a hybrid of separate chaining and open addressing. Coalesced hashing makes the best use of space as you can fill a table to capacity before resizing. Sp
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by hgs3 4y ago
The situation was even worse when Valve added custom skins players could buy. Some of those skins blended in with their background a little too well. Their initial "solution" was to add more lights to the maps to brighten them up,
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by hgs3 4y ago
The value of labor is subjective. Some of the most important service people, like educators, are some of the lowest paid and their accrued labor is worth less once inflation hits. Capital, in general, creates perverse incentives, e.g. mains
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by hgs3 4y ago
> I know many retirees who become restless and almost lose a sense of purpose upon retiring. I know many employed folks who are depressed because their wasting their lives in meaningless corporate wage slavery. Should we optimize for the
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by hgs3 4y ago
> I love the idea of never having to work another day in my life, but, lets be honest here, UBI is never going to happen. The system will collapse on itself if most are jobless. You can't sell products if no one can afford them. My
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by hgs3 4y ago
Isn't this the dream? A Star Trekian utopia where everyone is free to pursue their passions while we have AI and robots supporting our standard of living? The real concern here isn't the technology but rather how long it takes our
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by hgs3 4y ago
Does the book itself have more prose than what's found on the webpages linked from the table of contents? Those webpages are very sparse on actual explanation; they are mostly code dumps. I would expect a book on a key-value store to b
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by hgs3 4y ago
Completely agree. The joy is in the journey, not the destination. It's why I'm learning to draw despite AI advancements.
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by hgs3 4y ago
> It seems to consist solely of extremely online people who get a dopamine hit from both telling people they're doing things wrong and creating the most complex solutions possible. I've observed that certain programming languag
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by hgs3 4y ago
Even the FSF requires copyright assignment [1]. [1] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-assign.en.html
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by hgs3 4y ago
Clever. Seems so obvious in hindsight.
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by hgs3 4y ago
The biggest problem with this is that you cannot assign, pass, or return an "instance" of the array struct itself. That's because it's declared as an unnamed struct and in C two unnamed structs are not type compatible ev
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by hgs3 4y ago
Rather than releasing under the MIT license, I'm wondering if the authors had considered duel licensing their code under a strong copyleft license, like the GPL, and selling closed-source licenses? I'm considering doing this in ad
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by hgs3 4y ago
CMake is good enough for most purposes. Would it be better if its creators had gone with, say Lua, rather than their own DSL? Sure...and this may still happen [1]. Also, autotools does not require the GNU file structure if you pass "fo
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by hgs3 4y ago
Use of the Pinkerton agency for union busting was brought back curtsey of Amazon.
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by hgs3 4y ago
> I've been sneaking type hints into my code bit by bit, so is my program polyglot then? Gradually typed [1] is the recognized term. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradual_typing
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by hgs3 4y ago
I remember watching this Jetsons sketch [1] as a youngster and never thought I'd see the day when it would become reality. What's even more amazing is its a filter rather than something physical like in the sketch. [1] https:&#x2
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by hgs3 4y ago
> I know for C it’s unthinkable to standardize such a luxury like defer or destructors, so we’re going to relive arguments from 1968 for as long as C is used. There was a proposal for defer in C23 but it didn't make the cut [1]. The
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by hgs3 4y ago
A similar experiment was performed by horror author Stephen King. King wrote under a pen name to see if his own success was due to talent or luck. [1]. "The Bachman book _Thinner_ (1984) sold 28,000 copies during its initial run—and th
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by hgs3 4y ago
What's sad about AI is peoples reaction to it. The defensiveness from artists misses the point: Technology should better our lives and free us to pursue our passions. The real problem is under our current economic model, it has the opp

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