nice_byte

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by nice_byte 1y ago
Author here. The final part of this series is still sitting in my drafts. It was nominally supposed to be about flow control instructions, but as it goes with those things, it spiralled and ended up touching on relocations, position-indepen
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by nice_byte 1y ago
Personally I prefer onestop.mid :)
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D.B. Cooper(en.wikipedia.org)
6 points by nice_byte 1y ago|0 comments
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by nice_byte 1y ago
watching people talking into these text boxes as if they were talking to a real person, and getting back these trite little bullet lists invokes feelings of sadness, second-hand embarrassment and mild disgust.
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by nice_byte 1y ago
Romania, judging from the blog URL. But this type of PhD experience feels like the norm in most of eastern-european/ex-soviet countries. In mine, getting a PhD was one of the ways to get out of compulsory military service. Both profs a
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by nice_byte 1y ago
> AGI is important for the future of humanity. says who? > Maybe they will have legal personhood some day. Maybe they will be our heirs. Hopefully that will never come to pass. it means total failure of humans as a species. > They
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by nice_byte 1y ago
simple, political stances do not exist in a vacuum. the same position taken in different contexts can be both "right wing" and "left wing". it depends on who's interests are being served. in this particular case, th
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by nice_byte 2y ago
this sounds like a bunch of people who make a living _talking_ about the technology, which lends them close to 0 credibility.
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by nice_byte 2y ago
at this point, what's even the point of immigrating here? if you're still young and haven't rooted yourself to this place (no family / house / significant other), I'd advise to leave and look to build a life in
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by nice_byte 2y ago
java classes have "abi". any binary representation of executable code that is supposed to be interacted with by other code necessarily defines an application BINARY interface.
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by nice_byte 2y ago
explain to me why the HELL should i be limited to only running binaries that my distro vendor has deigned to provide, or jump through endless hoops to obtain and build source code (which by the way might not even be obtainable OR buildable
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by nice_byte 2y ago
for those who use it, how do you deal with the fact that it stores mail on your hard drive un-encrypted? Do encrypt the entire volume?
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by nice_byte 2y ago
HL2 stuck with me for years and years exactly because of his art direction. It was the first time I ever saw a video game world that somewhat resembled my actual real-world surroundings. Incredibly sad he passed away at only 52...
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by nice_byte 2y ago
it's based on crazy amounts of evidence
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by nice_byte 2y ago
coherent branches are "free" but the extra instructions increase register pressure. that's the main reason why dynamic branches are avoided, not that they are inherently "slow".
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by nice_byte 2y ago
godbolt has rga compiler now, you can always paste in hlsl and look at the actual rdna instructions that are generated (what GPU actually runs, not spirv)
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by nice_byte 2y ago
> can you paint better and more imaginatively than that? the fact that you are seriously asking this question says a lot about your taste.
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by nice_byte 2y ago
it is, just like everything else, a manufactured purpose used to paper over the normal state of existential dread. just happens to be the one that most people default on.
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by nice_byte 2y ago
you're getting downvoted, but know that you are correct.
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by nice_byte 2y ago
you went to work for "doge"? Man don't take it the wrong way but you really are cringe.
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by nice_byte 2y ago
just document your api's thread safety and let me handle it. don't make me deal with this async/await bullshit. multithreaded programming is hard enough as it is.
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by nice_byte 2y ago
You only have about 70 years on this earth, out of which only about 50 are healthy and independent. Don't waste them being miserable. Don't waste your partner's time either.
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by nice_byte 2y ago
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
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Vulkan Synchronization Made Easy [video](youtube.com)
2 points by nice_byte 3y ago|0 comments
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by nice_byte 3y ago
forget grasping at straws, this is grasping at bose-einstein condensate :)
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by nice_byte 3y ago
feed it raw source code of what exactly?
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by nice_byte 3y ago
the point the grandparent was making was that GPT-4 can teach you how to use an under-documented API. that means the relevant docs are either sparse or non-existent, otherwise there wouldn't be a need to ask GPT-4 in the first place.
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by nice_byte 3y ago
> Tutoring me on how to use poorly documented APIs Good luck with that. GPT-4 is _incredibly_ bad at Metal (most under-documented GPU api I've ever worked with), but more importantly it's _even worse_ at Vulkan, which is comple
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by nice_byte 3y ago
what kind of problems are you trying to solve that make gpt-4 so helpful to you?
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by nice_byte 3y ago
I meant to say that I don't see anyone outright claiming that ai-induced poverty and dispossession is "actually a Good Thing" and those affected by it would "deserve it". Stating something like that would be way too

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