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by milesvp 3y ago
My experience is that chatgpt consistently showed me API functions that don’t exist. But I tend to do very obscure things in embedded, that googling for can be tricky or impossible. At first I had high hopes, because the shape of the code i
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by milesvp 3y ago
you are certainly correct. But there is a sentence that stood out to me, one where he said that devs needed to wait up to a minute to see their changes. I’ve personally felt the slog of writing code that takes easily 2 minutes to see chang
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by milesvp 3y ago
Yeah, at one point big clive mentioned this about NiMH, and that they have really good slow discharge variants now. I now make sure that any of my expensive gear has NiMH so that I don’t have to worry about battery acid.
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by milesvp 3y ago
Yeah, seriously. More competition, and monopsony do not dwell in the same space. We’ve been very lax in our reigning in of big companies that destroy competition while claiming they’re competitive. It’s like bringing a gun to a track meet a
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by milesvp 3y ago
There was an important step prior to alpha go. At the time the combinatorics were in favor of Go. But someone had the bright idea to do a probabalistic search of the space. The key idea was to play a ton of random games and rate each positi
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by milesvp 3y ago
Please don't ever edit anyone's work with such terse comments. There is not one actionable improvement in this red ballpoint pen comment. If you want someone to do better at writing something, you need to give them things to at le
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by milesvp 3y ago
so at a fundamental level, there’s really nothing other time slicing and interrupts. anything a single cpu does that looks like it’s doing 2 things at once, usually there’s some loop somewhere that is moving data in and out of registers to
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by milesvp 3y ago
Interesting, the way other games have dealt with this problem, is a wait option. you roll to move first, decide to wait, now everyone with lower initiative must move before you do. It’s a version of first in last out, if everyone waits, the
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by milesvp 3y ago
It sure was fantasy to believe star trek universe wouldn’t have currency. It’s the one thing that irked me about the st universe, and part of why I loved Quark. He allowed the show to explore some of the ramifications of a universe that cle
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by milesvp 3y ago
Oh, sure. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to imply that I completely agree with the implication that you can't spend your way out to a cleaner future. I mean, you could certainly spend a lot of money today to avoid spending money in
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by milesvp 3y ago
You're not wrong. But I suspect you'd find inconsistencies if you looked hard enough. Situations where 2 things don't interact in some obvious expected way. And that's just the simple case. If you've played enough v
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by milesvp 3y ago
I mean, yes? There was a lot of talk years ago of the benefits of regenerative breaking. At the time the consensus was that for in city driving that could recoup a considerable amount of the energy. Add on top of that the efficiencies of bu
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by milesvp 3y ago
Oh, I don’t know. I mean conceptually a simulation is just a model that changes over some axis, time being a prime candidate. I’ve seen some goofy models that use an axis other than time to create some interesting visuals. There are definit
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by milesvp 3y ago
There is one key difference between reality and simulation. In reality you have to spend energy to remove noise. In simulation you have to spend energy to add noise. Or perhaps more accurately, all objects interact in reality and energy nee
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by milesvp 3y ago
I’ll take you one further. It’s generally understood in economics that the more expensive item generally has higher environmental costs. Which has implications that you can’t really spend your way to a cleaner future. It is a dismal science
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by milesvp 3y ago
I think you may underestimate how approachable flash was to non devs. There is something about an animation engine that triggers code on a given frame that upends how most devs think about code. The main reason to keep it around is I’m not
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by milesvp 3y ago
Oh man. I wish more directors knew this. I remember watching one of the fast and the furious movies. It had like a 30 minute long action sequence. That is long enough for the adrenaline to wear off and now it’s all just tedious. I think i l
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by milesvp 3y ago
No. Internet connectivity is now on the same level of utility as phone service was 30 years ago. As far as I know ma bell couldn’t disconect your phone just because you yelled at them. Utilities are held to higher standards (often because t
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by milesvp 3y ago
I really liked their talk about network prediction and server side simulation. Also talked about their entity modeling system https://youtu.be/zrIY0eIyqmI
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by milesvp 3y ago
It used to be a mecca for talent in gaming. Even activision acquiring it didn’t seem to sqaush that lure. I’ve watched numerous talks from their engineers, and the things they came up with to deal with the sheer difficulty of the problem sp
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by milesvp 3y ago
There seems to be a virtuous cycle with making money doing something, where you learn to be passionate for things because they make money. The opposite seems to happen with passion projects trying to make money, and I wonder if it comes dow
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by milesvp 3y ago
Sounds high to me too. I wonder how much people like me skew this percentage. All I do professionally is deal with obscure technical problems in niche areas that don’t tend to be mainstream adjacent. Course, the number can be further skewed
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by milesvp 3y ago
My experience with cloud migrations was that you could migrate and forget about it. This was for a high traffic metro newspaper, that was easy to cache for external users but needed to handle a large newsroom using wordpress to manage the c
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by milesvp 3y ago
There is a third option that most people don’t seem to know about, which is to slow down to speed up. I find there are many instances where if I slow down I not only accomplish more, but the things I work on are more important. It can be re
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by milesvp 3y ago
Classic history lesson is mensa musa, who was so wealthy (at least in terms of gold), wherever he travelled inflation followed in his wake. That said, I’m not sure there is much literature on the negative economic side of tourism, or work t
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by milesvp 3y ago
My understanding is that Fox is continuing to pay Calson so that he can’t compete. I know in my state that’s a requirement once let go, else non competes are not binding.
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by milesvp 3y ago
fun story. I know a guy who designed a high precision refrigerator for storing vaccines. These fridges need to be able to maintain temperature to within some relatively small margin to avoid destroying the vaccines, and they needed to be ab
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by milesvp 3y ago
You may want to check out the healthy gamer youtube channel. He’s a psychiatrist who specializes in burnout. Seems to know his stuff best as I can tell. I’ve found I like when he geeks out on some of the physiological effects related to psy
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by milesvp 3y ago
Yeah, I worked with a former cop. He got out because he was getting very jaded from constantly interacting with people at their worst. He was a good guy, the type you’d want to be a cop too.
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by milesvp 3y ago
IMDB tried this at one point and the quality of the moderation plummetted. Same people, they just decided to pay them. It seems to be related to some phsych behavior I’ve read about in behavioral economics. Similar to daycares that add moni

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