mwkaufma

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by mwkaufma 1y ago
The only time-tested rule for good style is "consistent with your colleagues and dependencies."
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
Structural-equality for arrays, objects, and function-closures by-default would be a performance... improvement? Might want to check that math, hoss.
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
Zeroing in on poor whites in the "rust belt" obscures the regimes base of support amongst affluent and propertied classes.
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
They're not "wrong" -- the error bars are well-defined. Signed Integer Overflow OTOH is Undefined Behavior, so it's worse.
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
100! OTOH - Constant factor scaling between game and render world space fixes a lot (gfx often need less precision than physics). - most view coords are in view or clip space, which are less impacted, so large world coords tend not to code-
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
Define boundary conditions -- how much precision do you need? Then you can compute the min/max distances. If the "world" needs to be larger, then prepare to divide it into sectors, and have separate global/local coordina
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
TL;DR -- allocation handling in Go and C# depend on a fat runtime library and the operating system. I'm not quite sure of the author's point -- you took those dependencies when you chose those programming languages. Superficially
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
When they're fleecing investors with hype the models are "very nearly artificial general intelligence" but when they're cutting costs the models are "just chatbots." Unfortunately, the author's takeaway is
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
No, the solution to a security problem is not to radically increase the vulnerable attack surface.
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
An argument-in-hindsight for Lua's single Table collection-type.
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
Scrape other people's content and slap your own ads on it. Oldest story on the web.
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
Sony forked FreeBSD, but Nintendo didn't. They have BSD license headers because of some BSD socket code they include.
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
Levels of cope in this thread many previously thought impossible.
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
(sound of a rubber balloon straining under high pressure)
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
New exhibit that "Abundance" is a reliable signpost of a weightless puff piece.
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
I brought my old 2012 MacBook air back with MATE instead of an old OSX version - same perf benefits and no half-measure security patch malarkey.
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
GenAI red flags.
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
"Unfortunately, many compiler authors would absolutely give our recommended advice a gigantic middle finger." Simmer down, now.
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
It's straight from C++ which has had them since 2011.
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
The plagiarism tumbler turns and turns.
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
Betteridge's law applies to editors adding question marks to cover-the-ass of articles with weak claims, not bloggers begging questions.
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
Title modded without merit.
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
Betteridge's law of headlines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
> They scan the unstructured web and build ephemeral semantic maps across everything. It's not knowledge in the classic sense.. or perhaps it is exactly what knowledge is? Betteridge's law
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
I'd expect something things like Chinese Writing to be a big upstream dependency, but here it's a terminus. Detecting a western-bias in the sourcing.
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
Making up a guy to get mad at [longform]
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
In principle it's not that different that deque, though: (1) deque uses fixed-sized blocks, not increasing-size blocks. (2) dequeue supports prepending, which adds another level of indirection internally.
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
Yes, you can see operator[] in the linked reference docs.
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
Lots of detail, little substance, and misleading section headers. GPT-generated red flags.
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
TL;DR clickbait climate denialism.

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