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by pdpi 2y ago
Only 10% disk space left. Peak memory usage at 90% available RAM. $CRITICAL_PACKAGE version update has been available for 2 months. Once you see the pattern, it can be used all over the place: Pre-programmed proactive reminders for all sort
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by pdpi 2y ago
> Moreover, panic!()’s are hiding even in the most innocious places like unwrap() and expect() calls unwrap and expect aren't "innocuous places where panic is hiding". The whole point of unwrap and expects is that you&#x2
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by pdpi 2y ago
At its most extreme, this crossover gets you things like arbitrary code execution on Super Mario World. EDIT: There was supposed to be a link here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnZ2NNYySuE
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> Realpolitik is (correctly) in vogue as a correction to bad policies, but ideas and justice still matter. Realpolitik is, first and foremost, about (arguably ruthless) pragmatism. What's going on — the US antagonising all its allie
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by pdpi 2y ago
> (Also, you are right, our country has lost almost all sense of empathy) From the outside, it looks worse than that. It seems more like the US has developed a weird active aversion to empathy, to the point where even enlightened self-in
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by pdpi 2y ago
“2+ assertions” could be read as “a precondition, a postcondition, and maybe a loop invariant”. The guideline should perhaps be more explicit about asserting your pre- and postcondition, but that’s a perfectly natural minimum standard. As f
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by pdpi 2y ago
An interesting peculiarity of the speedrunning community is that there is also a large component of "the community vs the game" mattering more than than "runner vs runner".
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> while 80486 has reached 50 GHz only in 1991, not in 1990. Your typo got me wondering — what would the performance of an actual 50GHz 486 look like compared to modern single-core performance? The lack of speculative execution combined w
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by pdpi 2y ago
> Is this new wave of criticism about AI/AGI valid? We will only really know in retrospect. One thing that should be completely obvious by now is that the current wave of generative AI is highly asymmetric. It's shockingly more
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Couching it in pseudo-scientific babble doesn't change the fact that it's an isolated data point, and you're vying for the olympic goal for jumping to conclusions.
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by pdpi 2y ago
It's a very difficult job to do right, but some of the ways you can get it wrong are pretty damn easy to avoid. Like, it should be obvious that you don't double down on strategies that produce no results other than distressing you
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by pdpi 2y ago
The argument isn’t “CRTs are better”. You’re right — they’re not. The argument is that pixel art from that era was designed around the specific limitations of CRTs, and takes advantage of the specific way that CRTs would mess with the pixel
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by pdpi 2y ago
Sure. The whole thing hinges on whether Google has a monopoly on whatever Google Books' market is (hence why I doubted it would stick). But given that some people seem to define "market" broadly enough to conclude that Apple
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by pdpi 2y ago
Leveraging their position in one market to get a leg up on another market? No idea if it would stick, but that would be one fun antitrust lawsuit right there.
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Yeah, it's definitely not for everybody, but the narrator/inner monologue VA work is one of my favourite things about the game.
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The writing is an exercise in how closely you can toe the line of turning into purple prose without ever crossing it. It's clearly written by somebody who likes words, for other people who like words.
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One of the important features of satire is that you kind of need to really, deeply, fundamentally get the thing you’re satirising. Which makes it even more insane how he managed to satirise so many different topics.
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by pdpi 2y ago
> Such abuse includes, but is not limited to, buying or selling one’s seat in a class, holding seats for another student, or otherwise registering for a section that one has no intention of taking." This bit is important. At a glanc
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by pdpi 2y ago
> On the face of it, JavaScript seems like a pretty solid trademark. It seems to me that it's the exact opposite of that: It's been so thoroughly genericised that it might as well not exist as a trademark. Also, I couldn't
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by pdpi 2y ago
And, if not you, your friends and family. “I know a guy who had it happen to him” is almost as bad for confirmation bias as “it happened to me”.
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by pdpi 2y ago
One thing that's not directly related to ray-tracing proper, so makes no sense in this book series, but is still a pretty natural (and fun!) next step (or detour) is embedding e.g. a Lua interpreter so you can use that as a scene descr
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by pdpi 2y ago
Both are true, but your phrasing shifts responsibility away from the government. Ultimately, it is the government, not the industry, that sets the rules, and it is the government, not the industry, that is accountable to us.
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by pdpi 2y ago
The source of that compression effect is the relative distances top the sensor of different elements in the picture - so a result of long vs short range, rather than long vs short focal length. At a long range, your nose is 1% closer to sen
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by pdpi 2y ago
One specific use Apple is making of homomorphic encryption as of iOS 18 (I think) is for spam callers. You get a phone call, your phone sends Apple the encrypted phone number, they run it against their spam caller database, and you get the
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by pdpi 2y ago
Exactly. They play chess for a living. You need to care about the bits around the actual chess playing, but regulations for these things are overwhelmingly made of "play nice, be reasonable, don't be a dick" rules. If you t
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> Think of a thin wrapper over a function, one that adds no behavior but adds an extra layer to navigate. You've surely encountered these—classes, methods, or interfaces that merely pass data around, making the system more difficult
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> They could in theory come off the same assembly line, that doesn’t mean the everything is identical. It could just come down to different binning of the same part, and it would still make a difference.
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At that point it would be an altogether different product.
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by pdpi 2y ago
That’s a good point. Apple’s game is deep vertical integration. That’s all fine and dandy for selling products, but helps not one bit for customers who aren’t all-in on Apple’s ecosystem. A third party who only does this sort of work, in a
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by pdpi 2y ago
One of the biggest issues with the book is that it is a Java-centric book that aspires to be a general-purpose programming book. Because it never commits to being either, it sucks equally at both. In much the same way, it's a "bus

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