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by hot_gril 2y ago
Turing completeness isn't about having everything you need to build the physical computer, just about expressing program logic that can perform a certain class of unbounded computations. Like, given any C program's logic that take
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by hot_gril 2y ago
Also a lot of bitmaps on textures and stuff. It's fine though, it's a classic 3D game, no need to renovate it.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
On the practical side, I can think of one Turing-complete language people actually use that doesn't have loops or variables: Erlang.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
One of the nice side effects of not playing video games anymore is I don't have to touch anything from Microsoft with a 10' pole.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
Ah, game over
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by hot_gril 2y ago
It doesn't work in Wine? Or maybe that's too annoying to deal with.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
Honestly SM64 with new graphics in those demo videos looks worse than the original game. But Gamecube games running in an emulator look amazing because they use a lot more vector graphics, which the emu can scale up and apply antialiasing t
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by hot_gril 2y ago
That's how I played, and while the N64 joysticks aren't very good, it was alright. The much bigger problem was lag.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
Something's wrong with it, maybe related to the framerate. I can run and shoot a lot faster than before, but enemies take just as long as the old version to aim. I was able to beat levels on 00 mode with ease, mostly by sprinting past
850.
by hot_gril 2y ago
If Minecraft were a Microsoft product from the start, they probably wouldn't have made the Java version compatible with Mac or Linux (even though it uses JVM, there are some natives included), or wouldn't have made a Java version
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by hot_gril 2y ago
I was able to run 32-bit Windows games in Wine on Mac, even on Apple Silicon. GTA IV on my M1 mini. There's some kind of "32 on 64" emulation built into whatever version of the 32-bit Wine that PlayOnMac installs. Impossible
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by hot_gril 2y ago
The important thing in these convos is to be clear each time what you mean by "microservices," because there isn't a solid definition for that. I've seen too many debates at work over whether we should use microservices,
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by hot_gril 2y ago
Yeah, I can imagine SKIP LOCKED being faster if used that way. Just hasn't been an issue for me yet, so I haven't tested.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
Tbh I didn't know about SKIP LOCKED until now, but it looks like you have to hold a xact open the entire time the worker runs, which can be a problem. What I've done before is timestamp cols for start/end. A worker takes any
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by hot_gril 2y ago
Even staying within digital, GPUs are not totally designed for AI learning or inference. But the more important problem right now is standardization.
856.
by hot_gril 2y ago
Then yes
857.
by hot_gril 2y ago
It might have uptime requirements that they can't provide on their own.
858.
by hot_gril 2y ago
Are you saying that every company up to a certain size should have a single master DB?
859.
by hot_gril 2y ago
My department was in a bad single-DB position like this. The only way out was big rewrites, and generally each team had one service with its own DB in the end. Dunno if you'd call that microservices or not.
860.
by hot_gril 2y ago
It'd basically require rewriting everything, and even then, Spanner isn't necessarily a good way to do it.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
I really like the design of that webpage.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
With "old Macdonald" playing in the background, and disclaimer at the end that the cow was CGI
863.
by hot_gril 2y ago
The camera zooms in a lot on certain objects coming apart, so maybe they animated or even re-shot select parts of it, but the overall thing was real?
864.
by hot_gril 2y ago
Part of the reason I moved out of the Bay Area was I didn't want to be around so many ultra techie people, or for my kids to grow up that way. We'd be happier and even do our jobs better if there were more of a "human touch,&
865.
by hot_gril 2y ago
It happens, and maybe the ad was just CGI, but it doesn't mean I enjoy watching it. Like, the Burger King ads don't show a cow being butchered.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
I'm actually surprised how fake the fake violins still sound.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
I'm not bitter about it, it's just that college was the last time I was interacting a lot with people not in STEM fields. All my friends went into technical fields for some reason, even if they started off somewhere else. Nowadays
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by hot_gril 2y ago
Blocking out the sound and sights of real life with something digital is not what I call a thoughtful commitment to the human experience. Hardly anyone seems to remember how the iPhone used to be small enough to fit in one hand or in any po
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by hot_gril 2y ago
> Do you seriously believe there exists some us-versus-them division between "liberal arts" and "technologists"? Yes. It was obvious in college that the non-STEM majors didn't like the STEM majors or vice versa,
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by hot_gril 2y ago
It's simply uncomfortable to see a lot of valuable creative tools being slowly destroyed for no reason, especially a piano. I'm not even thinking about the symbolism.

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