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by mcbrit 3y ago
I'm sure I'm butchering this, but... Alan Kay: an object should be just as powerful as the entire computer, ie an object is a recursive structure. The rest is implementation details. The implementation details chosen over the past
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by mcbrit 3y ago
If GPT4 spits out wildly different captions when prompted 'the caption should be descriptive' vs 'the caption should be obsessively descriptive', ie picks up on 'obsessive', then that's pretty funny. Also
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by mcbrit 3y ago
This is funny and interesting AND GPT4 gives such a bad photo for the prompt. Is this because GPT4 is out of a highly stylized space? I really haven't played with it. My objections include: water droplets on the mug, bad framing, B- la
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by mcbrit 3y ago
This was going to be a statement in support, read the classics / rfc793. Priors being you should definitely implement http from the RFC a la 199x, and: I assumed rfc793 was shorter than 9293; false. 9293 is significantly shorter. 9293
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Training (Running) / Summer of Malmo(letsrun.com)
1 points by mcbrit 3y ago|1 comments
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by mcbrit 3y ago
Malmo is a world class runner, offering training advice on a forum (letsrun) that is frequented by world class runners. It is interesting how a world class athlete thinks about training, particularly one that can write, because those though
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by mcbrit 3y ago
(edit: ECS doesn't solve networked gunplay. but it could be part of a solution, and even as part of a solution ECS can totally justify why it's there, because again: hard problem.)
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by mcbrit 3y ago
Overwatch has networked gunplay and uses ECS to deal with that hard problem. Cool. I get why ECS is used there. Hard problem, meet the formalism that I will use to think about you. A case board is not a hard problem. Using composition or a
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by mcbrit 3y ago
In much the same way that your run of the mill AbstractFactoryGeneratingFactoryGeneratorSingleton involves writing a bunch of not so useful code, and then someone comes along and "improves" it by changing that final Singleton to D
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by mcbrit 3y ago
The next section isn't better: We built a new Voxel-Based Character Control that enables smooth navigation in cramped, complex and dynamic environments; it makes character movement more natural and fluid. Fluid movement can be a proble
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by mcbrit 3y ago
From the first few sentences of the article: "ECS meant that iteration was quick because adding new or modifying existing systems or game objects was easy, and performance gains were clear when saving and loading the Case Board."
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by mcbrit 3y ago
? You haven't engaged with even ONE concrete argument; ideally, you would scan all arguments and engage with in good faith the very best argument. Or alternatively just say: nope, not interested. But you just strawmaned against nothing
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by mcbrit 3y ago
If you wanted the short story to be shorter: well, then, you have my comment. It’s not a story now, though, is it?
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by mcbrit 3y ago
There is an amusing juxtaposition between satisfying PC and satisfying current AI sandbox escapes. That’s all. An interesting idea, developed in under 5k words. You know: SF.
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by mcbrit 3y ago
160k=240k almost always, truth be told. That's 200k+-40k, or +-20%. If you are representing the difference between 160k and 240k as 50% and not as 20%, then that is a problem.
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by mcbrit 3y ago
160k=240k in almost all timelines given the experimental method. (taken from a 3rd grade math exam, in a better timeline)
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by mcbrit 3y ago
Experienced technical project manager here, used to dealing with lots of teams across lots of organizations involving lots of money. Also an architect! 5-10 teams and 1-10m$ can be managed with a 15 minute daily meeting and an email that is
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by mcbrit 3y ago
OK. It's a better map that can keep some state. (I scanned not read your doc and that was my takeaway; I have not thought about what I can do with state yet, particularly since I had never associated transducers with being able to keep
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by mcbrit 3y ago
Most folks on HN who are interested in PLs, including me, are familiar with transducers at a high level. Composable, performant, yada yada ya. What we (or maybe just I) do not have is a nontrivial example of advantage. Your comment sharpene
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by mcbrit 3y ago
What is generally missing from this category of article is a motivating statement, eg here is a problem that is easier or at least different (transformed into a different category of problem) given this idea. Up top. When I don’t see this u
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by mcbrit 3y ago
Apologies, but this actually sounds like a nightmare to me, if you have at least 1-10m+ loc over enough teams, enough teams being probably 5+ depending on org boundaries. Either you support the new version or you don't is more than eno
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by mcbrit 3y ago
Most people, and let me qualify them as serious people, have real problems figuring out how to accept higher training volume without injury in sport or tech or business or whatever. It's great that John is this monster endurance tech a
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by mcbrit 3y ago
What? You have conflated a thick pattern, checkerboard, with a special case, liberties at the edge. You have mashed some words together and they do not make sense if you know what you are talking about.
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by mcbrit 3y ago
Let me extend my rant, please, around bad analogies and go. A diagonal connection is a very thick connection. The major complaint about this connection is that it is not efficient; hearing someone say that the stones are not really connecte
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by mcbrit 3y ago
A checkerboard pattern is a horrifically inefficient way to claim territory in go. It might be useful to consider why checkerboards are good shape in legal systems, but bad shape in go. Also why the legal system rejected checkerboards after
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by mcbrit 4y ago
Here is a snippet of code from the Verse screencast (linked elsewhere in thread) that demonstrates a new idea (or at least a new variant) with new power. Basically, you set up a bunch of constraints for the do clause, and if any of the cons
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by mcbrit 4y ago
View top level chess as two super GMs playing a game in three rounds. * Round 1: negotiate the starting position, aka 'and now we have a new game of chess' * Round 2: play chess using prep. generally only one side fully benefits d
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by mcbrit 4y ago
I do not appreciate the structure of the question. Half the front page has not been taken over by this question; moreover, no one is trotting out standard morality (collective good) frameworks, eg an act is good/moral because of its fi
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by mcbrit 4y ago
Let me start by making the same point, but starting from a different place. When you see pi, you look for a circle. When you see an 8 or 12 or 24 or 60, you see a few small primes multiplied together, and you might look for things that like
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by mcbrit 4y ago
Let's talk about splitting things up in useful ways. 12=2 * 2 * 3. Splitting something in half is useful; splitting it half again remains useful. Splitting in half a third time is arguably less useful than splitting it into a third. So

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