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by ibgib 10y ago
> Given our experience with actual simulators, the fact is that simulating a world populated with intelligent beings capable of simulating another world, going into a recursive loop, requires infinite processing capacity. This reminds
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by ibgib 10y ago
> Also, the speed of the simulation doesn't need to be 1:1. This is what I think of when considering spacetime and relativistic effects. If you think of "matter" as being equivalent to processing power required, then the
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by ibgib 10y ago
> What's amazing to me is that this question of a simulated reality would not have even been possible to comprehend 150 years ago. I love this, but I would rather phrase it that it would have been much more expensive to communicat
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by ibgib 10y ago
> You're right, but I disagree with your argument that: "the 'laws of logic' are universal axioms that would not change." Axioms are not universal and have been modified or discarded throughout the progression o
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by ibgib 10y ago
I like your video game view of mesh counts, and I assume you're also including clipping as a special case of a 0-count mesh. And since we're programmers, I think there is another very useful vocabulary to use when talking about th
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by ibgib 10y ago
> To be fair, I frequently get mistaken for being a bot. Clever bot...you almost had me.
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by ibgib 10y ago
That 65w does look pretty impressive!
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by ibgib 10y ago
That morning smoothie sounds great...I like to add plain greek yogurt for some protein. And the veggie smoothies, I've really come to enjoy things like edamame, hummus, and spicy peppers (I wasnt sure if you meant sweet or spicy pepper
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by ibgib 10y ago
I'm maybe the only amd fan who is going to miss my power/$ of my 8350 for 150$ (or was it even cheaper?...)
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by ibgib 10y ago
I think its cool, but def the bullets threw me. Maybe an example of the customized styling would be good.
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by ibgib 10y ago
I completely agree with applying software engineering skills to this. Not just CI for deployment, but also open-source collaboration. I see research and development in other fields as largely like closed-source silos, and a centralized but
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by ibgib 10y ago
Interesting article. I can relate to his dictionary investigations when I was confronted with being taught about "circular definitions". I couldn't get around (no pun intended) the fact that all definitions were circular. T
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by ibgib 10y ago
The complexity of the issue concerns the specific use in this instance and its application to broader uses in other possible cases. I think they're fighting/trying to fight future fights with this approach. I say this because th
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by ibgib 10y ago
That's part of why it's a good joke...or is it?
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by ibgib 10y ago
> Do your Erlang processes never execute an asynchronous (await-like) operation? If they did, any shared data would need to be protected by a mutex just as like as with multiple OS threads. I think perhaps what you are getting at is th
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by ibgib 10y ago
I enjoyed this article. I started concurrency with Delphi 5 using critical sections, mutexes, semaphores, etc. Then I started using C# which was a major upgrade, and I loved having the simplicity of things like the `BackgroundWorker` class
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by ibgib 10y ago
This is the nodal graph structure used in ibGib. Each datum is an immutable snapshot with internal an data map and named rel8ns to other ibGib. So each ibGib is a folder and a file . It is ends up technically being a merkle tree graph, bec
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by ibgib 10y ago
ibGib's current web app used today by my girlfriend and myself for personal logging while our shower is getting remodeled: https://www.ibgib.com/ibgib/Saturday%20II%5E818E0366E6B009CA... _(NB: After a temporary se
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by ibgib 10y ago
> Yeah sorry I didn't mean to imply that you don't have concrete goals (although I couldn't find them explicitly stated in your website), only that this kind of "rethinking computing/storage/interaction&quot
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by ibgib 10y ago
I didn't "set out" to find a "holy grail" and certainly not to overcome the Von Neumann architecture...ibGib in its current incarnation is just the current manifestation of my approach to address some of those concr
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by ibgib 10y ago
Yes, I also grew up with C# (after Delphi, which was basically C#'s unmanaged memory version, largely architected by mastermind Anders Hejlsberg). So looking at source just wasn't a thing. Now with Elixir, not only is it a thing,
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by ibgib 10y ago
You make so many salient points, I'm like a kid in a candy shop thinking of what to speak to. But in order to avoid writing a book, I'll just address your two main points. First, the notion of the pre-canned functions for nodes:
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by ibgib 10y ago
> We don't, however, try to understand what "thought" is, and work backwards to form a representation of it. I had to laugh here, because that is exactly how I designed ibGib over the past 15 years. It is built conceptuall
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by ibgib 10y ago
Unlike with past languages, I've also found myself looking at the source code with Elixir, but it's because docs are first-class citizens. I think this is atypical of languages in general, and it's actually why the source cod
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by ibgib 10y ago
> I found out the hard way that Elixir and Phoenix docs aren't as prolific Odd, because I have found the opposite to be true about the docs . I've found the docs proper to be quite prolific, well maintained and well-written w
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by ibgib 10y ago
I experienced something very similar with rxjs (and before that just Rx in .Net). I've studied Rx for a couple years, and I was developing event-sourcing ideas since before it became a big thing back around 2000, and I've done my