mojuba

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by mojuba 6y ago
> Clicking wifi tray icon while holding option is going to give you a lot more info and some hidden tools. Same for the Bluetooth icon: you can see for example your BT audio codec used, signal levels, MAC addresses and other info.
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by mojuba 6y ago
Wondered the same. I'm also curious if Apple's Accelerate framework uses AVX underneath when available. Sounds like an OK compromise if it's the case: maybe the compiler will miss a few opportunities to optimize some of your
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by mojuba 6y ago
I too always find the Intercom or similar bubbles incredibly annoying, intrusive and distracting, especially when a bot pops up saying something that I absolutely don't need to focus on. I think the purpose of this bubble is to promote
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by mojuba 6y ago
Tricking the mind though can lead to higher churn rates (poorer retention rates) later. Most people do realize what the true value of their purchase is sooner or later - it might take a few cycles, e.g. monthly subscription payments to make
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by mojuba 6y ago
I experience some sort of an illusion of existence. Then I look at other creatures that look like me and act like me and I generalize, I say: maybe they exist the same way as I do. Then I hear from others that the generalization seems to be
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by mojuba 6y ago
Self-awareness is paradoxical, I am aware of that. What I'm trying to model at least mentally for now, is something that has a chance of becoming self-aware unless we are missing something else. In other words, let's say these a
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by mojuba 6y ago
The barrel: no, you won't lose your self-awareness because you have a memory and a whole history of your self-aware moments before the barrel. However, staying in the barrel for long enough (say 30 years?) might affect your consciousne
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by mojuba 6y ago
> By that definition, a GPS module with an SSD is an "I". No it's not. I didn't explain what I meant by "knowing your place in space and time", sorry about that, but this needs elaboration. I think we'l
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by mojuba 6y ago
> quantum cloning may not be allowed by laws of nature It might be that the original should be destroyed, I understand. So be it, destroy the original and create N clones. But the thought experiment is an interesting one regardless.
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by mojuba 6y ago
> This shows how hard it is to be right about the future Back in 1995 I remember I was very skeptical about what was then called radio modems. I thought that radio wasn't reliable and that Ethernet cables were there to stay forever.
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by mojuba 6y ago
"I" is something that knows its place in space and time, the here-and-now, but also has a memory of here-and-now moments of the past. As such "I" is an illusion. If a quantum clone of you is created both I's will ha
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by mojuba 6y ago
DOTS is exactly what I said, as a matter of fact.
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by mojuba 6y ago
Two reasons like I said elsewhere: (1) using multi-core architecture more efficiently and (2) eliminate state machines and use functional style instead, which is possible when you have threads (green, pseudo, OS threads, whatever) each with
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by mojuba 6y ago
Thanks, that's very interesting. The benefit of threads - green or not - is also that you can maintain the state in the stack and benefit from functional style programming, which is generally more robust and easier to write compared to
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by mojuba 6y ago
In low level audio you have something similar: there's a thread that pulls audio data all the time and it can't stop; at the same time you have potentially lots of things happening in other threads, including the UI one. You can a
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by mojuba 6y ago
Doom and Quake were created in the single-core era. I was just wondering if modern game design is different.
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by mojuba 6y ago
Interesting. Something suggests a loop that does entities.forEach { $0.think(delta_t) } is essentially cooperative multitasking, whose efficiency is questionable in general and especially on multicore hardware - but I don't kn
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by mojuba 6y ago
I've never designed games beyond tetris, could someone explain in a few words, what the architecture of a RPG looks like? Some assumptions that may be terribly wrong: - The user input loop (keyboard, mouse) is still the main loop somew
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by mojuba 6y ago
> while ARM derived CPUs can just ignore those writes Could you elaborate why?
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by mojuba 6y ago
Retargeting is one of the stupidest things on the Internet that actually works, there's statistics on that. The only thing that's stupider is email spam where one hit justifies a million misses. Something similar happens here as I
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by mojuba 6y ago
I once rewrote a monstrous app that was in development for 5 years (!), in just one month. In terms of LOC it was 20 times smaller than the old codebase. Had the same functionality and then some more. It had zero bugs in the first release,
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by mojuba 6y ago
3rd party logins have the advantage that sharing content from within your app on those social platforms becomes less of a friction unfortunately - if that's what your app relies on. Email-only logins work fine with technical users, but
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by mojuba 6y ago
One of the greatest documentalists of our time. A favorite quote that has a double meaning in this context: Storyboards are the instruments of the cowards (For the record, I don't believe the above is true for iOS development :)
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Finding the max revenue price mark for digital products(medium.com)
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by mojuba 6y ago
I disagree. Should the resident of London, Ontario say it every time to a virtual assistant about the weather when it should be obvious they are interested in the place of residence? And so on, all the same context layers apply (British exp
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by mojuba 6y ago
Obviously virtual assistants should ask for clarifications. Now imagine every time you ask for the time, weather or a flight to London and you always mean only London UK, imagine how annoying that can be. Makes me wonder if VA's are mo
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by mojuba 6y ago
> Why on earth should someone living in a state specifically ask for the local time in a different location within that same state? True, and that's another contextual layer to deal with: that e.g. the state of Ohio is in a single
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by mojuba 6y ago
This example illustrates how difficult AGI is and how far we are from it. We, humans, tend to take advantage of the context to make communication simpler and shorter. Just think about all the implications of this one simple question: what t
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by mojuba 7y ago
At the expense of quality, at least it was Apple's argument against supporting webp. And no, they didn't ignore it, it was included in one of the previous betas of macOS and iOS and removed later. Don't remember which.
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by mojuba 7y ago
Not true, no. We all become more productive over time, then we develop even more productivity tools etc. That's real growth. There's of course the inflated component in it which gets corrected regularly.

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