mwkaufma

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by mwkaufma 11mo ago
My kingdom for a UI toolkit that can be used to make real CAD programs, and not yet-more things that just look like webviews and could just be a webpage.
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
Insincere article. (1) cattle farming should _also_ be reined in on eco grounds. (2) At least cattle ranching has outputs people actually _want_.
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
I was wrong that they're private (genuine misunderstanding lol), but by market cap they're competing with sony, microsoft, and tencent, who are all relatively-larger. Even Roblox is in the same neighborhood at 75B -- it's not
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
Nintendo has to compete in the world that English Common Law made where lawsuits are _the_ mechanism for detailing regulations, renewing ip copyrights, and establishing contract language. Furthermore *relative to other major game corps* Nin
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
A little strange to write up a bug hunt that was resolved by the ffi upstream already, and not by the hunt itself. OP didn't fix the bug, though identifying that the upgrade was relevant is of some interest. Writing could have been cle
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
No
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
"Here's What to Do Instead" misleading title, no alternatives suggested. Just hand-wavey GenAI agitprop.
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
>> Cyberpunk is a genre of science fiction about high tech, urban sprawl, and do-it-yourself counterculture. Those are the superficial signifiers, not a constructive definition of the genre.
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
The open-source comparison is confused. Lots of open-source projects do offer optional commercial licenses or support contracts. And the truly free-as-in-beer projects either have some kind of grant financing or else the maintainer shoulder
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
"presumably" doing a lot of heavy lifting
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
It requires a Canva login now, so they'll smuggle it in through there. If it not already in the language it's inevitable because it's set up for enshittification now.
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
Many comments here that this "makes sense." Free does not make sense! If I'm not paying for it I'm not the customer anymore.
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
Ten years away, just like it was ten years ago and will be ten years from now.
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
Early 2025: we're going to create god. Late 2025: we have a chatbot that sexts and a counterfeit tiktok where you can deepfake dead celebrities who can't sue us.
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
Or in my case, 68K assembly for genesis/megadrive homebrew -- mostly to do VDP display interrupt tricks.
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
"Assembly is Brutal" Counterpoint: I picked it up in high school and I was Not That Bright(tm). Certainly, some complex instruction-set extensions or sprawling SIMD mnemonics are more challenging that what I was reading in the 90s
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
This was answered in the article. >> It is often fortunate that the OpenGL matrix array is laid out the way it is because it results in those three elements being consecutive in memory.
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
Let them perish.
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
more like "pi"thon
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
Coding for the reviewer, not the user.
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
Even when they're not AI slop, these kinds of "paranoid sanity checks" are the software equivalent of security-theater.
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
"if they fall into the wrong hands" dog whistle!
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
No it didn't, no it isn't.
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
Don't speak it into existence.
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
What is $20B, but just the same dollar, exchanged back and forth, 20 billion times.
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
No subscriptions, no subscriptions, no subscriptions...
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
>> Cheerleaders such as Sam Altman, OpenAI’s boss, argue that the risks of underbuilding are at least as serious as those of overbuilding, because of the long-term economic potential of generative AI. Pure hucksterism.
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
Recalls old turn-of-the-century Japanese typewriters with a 2D mechanical "picker" and a single hammer lever, instead of individual keys. More Info: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_typewriter Notable
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
Apologies, I didn't mean "standard" as in the C++ language standard, but standard as in provided-by-your-app-framework's-foundation-library.
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
Yes in 1994 I had these exact judgements, at age 11 :P

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