p1necone

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by p1necone 2y ago
Music isn't getting worse. Popular music has always been mostly garbage, and the further back in time you go the less garbage gets remembered. There's always been enough music for the good stuff to still make up a large body o
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by p1necone 2y ago
Pressure cookers are magic. I get similar results making chicken stock in a pressure cooker for ~45 minutes as I do in a regular pot for ~4-6 hours. And you can properly make stock from beef bones in a couple of hours, which normally takes
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by p1necone 2y ago
Random amateurs digging stuff up is next to useless from an archaeological perspective - once you've disturbed the earth and taken stuff out of the ground you've already destroyed so much contextual information. Even professional
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by p1necone 2y ago
For basically all the existing data we have, efficiency improvements always result in more work, not less. Humans never say "oh neat I can do thing with 10% of the effort now, guess I'll go watch tv for the rest of the week&
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by p1necone 2y ago
Someone hire this person please.
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by p1necone 2y ago
Sounds like they bring the chicken out after simmering it the first time, then take it back to the kitchen and carve it up and serve it. So you've probably got another 30 minutes or so while the guests are eating that to chuck the ca
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by p1necone 2y ago
I would never develop software on top of a proprietary language that I have no control over. The only way I would consider using a closed source language would be if there was a source available contract with some sort of "you own it p
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by p1necone 2y ago
I agree with this - ECS lets you write totally decoupled, composable bits of game logic very easily, which is super powerful. But in my experience if you're not careful you end up with a hundred perfectly decoupled little things and it
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by p1necone 2y ago
Async/await is a language semantics thing. It's not really relevant whether there's a "real" OS thread under the hood, some language level green thread system, or just the current process blocking on something - the
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by p1necone 2y ago
> One can just infer lifetime by reading the code. For trivial cases sure, for complex ones though this is akin to saying "you can know if there's any bugs by reading the code" which we all know is not true for any reasona
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by p1necone 2y ago
Is that actually common? I assumed most shopping malls would just charge rent.
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by p1necone 2y ago
Cyan is just another shade of blue to me. The colour you get when you google image search "cyan" is definitely more blue than green to my eyes.
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by p1necone 2y ago
If you do this for green and yellow we can solve the "what colour are tennis balls" debacle once and for all.
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by p1necone 2y ago
It would be amazing to have a single authoritative server in an mmo for the EU, USA, Asia, Oceania etc regions and only have bad latency if you were actually directly interacting with people from far away.
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by p1necone 2y ago
I can see applications in multiplayer gamedev - imagine being able to run the whole game simulation on a clients machine and have them assert back to you that they killed 7 goblins, looted a rare sword from a chest, and died 3 times - and y
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by p1necone 2y ago
I think the general issue here is that you can't observe successful businesses or individuals and copy their processes to be successful, because their processes are largely a symptom of their competency, not the cause.
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by p1necone 2y ago
> where would you discover truly hard problems? You take simple problems and solve them in truly hard ways ;)
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by p1necone 2y ago
> which is proven to be impossible. 'Technically' intractable problems are solvable just fine in a way that is almost as useful as solving them completely if you can achieve one of two things: * Reliably identify when you'
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by p1necone 2y ago
No there isn't. There was some discourse around a pretty weirdly worded set of T&Cs sent to early reviewers (they were instructed to not include 'feminist propaganda' in their writing, whatever that means). There is no &#
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by p1necone 2y ago
> I often wonder if, unbeknownst to me, I am writing similarly over-complicated software. If you want to know, and you have a project that you can do this with - pick a reasonably complex project, back it up, don't touch it for a ye
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by p1necone 2y ago
(phones are an obvious choice but I suspect you could jam significantly more power into the same form factor if you didn't need screen, speakers, mobile modem etc)
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by p1necone 2y ago
You already can in something the size of an old cassette walkman, run an extra flexible USB c cable to the glasses or something and problem solved
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by p1necone 2y ago
Sure, and copying someone's style != building software to automatically copy someone's style.
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by p1necone 2y ago
Yes I was making the point that the CPUs in PS4/Xbone were terrible (seriously look up benchmarks - they're basically underclocked pre ryzen AMD) and that didn't matter for performance because video game workloads are so he
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by p1necone 2y ago
This argument seems ridiculous to me but it's hard to explain exactly why. People are people, LLMs are... not people - it seems pretty obvious to me that humans learning from seeing things is a basic fact of nature, and that someone f
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by p1necone 2y ago
This kind of hardware makes sense for video games, and I guess GPU heavy workloads like AI might be similar? Most games have middling compute requirements but will take as much GPU power as you can give them if you're trying to run at
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by p1necone 2y ago
I imagine sales numbers and profits are publicly available information, whereas actual # of units produced is likely not an easy number to find?
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by p1necone 2y ago
> Adding generics was too much, and while I think there are some important small cases when it's valuable, in practice people are using it when they shouldn't. Strongly disagree. Beyond very simple codebases lack of generics me
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by p1necone 2y ago
Wow, that discussion is infuriating. I'm shocked that many people on there don't seem to understand the difference between compile time checks and runtime checks, or the very basics of type systems.
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by p1necone 2y ago
> Unlike regular businesses, software scales infinitely and delivers immediately. In theory? Maybe. In reality? Your scale and delivery depend on the competence of your devs and your processes and there's a very good chance you coul

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