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by pdpi 2y ago
Take this bit of pseudocode: a = readLine() b = readLine() print(b) print(a) What order are the lines executed in? In a strict language, the answer is obvious. In a non-strict language, line 4 has a data dependency on l
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by pdpi 2y ago
According to their changelog[0], Clock was added to the standard library with Swift 5.7, which shipped in 2022, at the same time as iOS 16. It looks like static linking by default was approved[1] but development stalled[2]. I expect that it
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by pdpi 2y ago
Yup, you're right. From the link: > The prosecution of Sunderland greengrocer Steven Thoburn for selling bananas in imperial measures helped turn public opinion against the EU
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by pdpi 2y ago
And, presumably, I'd prompt copilot to write those things for me... from within powershell? Using what command? Generative AI can do a lot of fun things, but we're talking about a but it does not belong anywhere near an interactiv
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by pdpi 2y ago
Another couple of games in the same vein are Human Resource Machine and its "sequel" Seven Billion Humans (by roughly the same people who gave us World of Goo many years ago).
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by pdpi 3y ago
Hell, Portugal and the UK ceded control over their colonies in China (Macau and Hong Kong respectively) in the late 90s.
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by pdpi 3y ago
Funnily enough, in a world with WASM, we might actually have Java in the backend and C in the frontend rather than vice versa as it would've been likelier in the 90s.
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by pdpi 3y ago
I'm up to episode four and really enjoying it, but I got a sinking feeling when I noticed that it's a Jonathan Nolan/Lisa Joy thing. Westworld Season 1 was great, but it rapidly started going to shit, and I'm a bit afrai
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by pdpi 3y ago
The previous comment talks about founder and ceo Nirav Patel. Comment you're replying to says "I wanted to do this", and is posted by a user named nrp. It's not rocket science.
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by pdpi 3y ago
I commented to this effect on a previous post: I find that the old Atlas leaned much more into the uncanny valley because it was sort of human-like in its movement. This one has some horror movie robot vibes going, but not the uncanny valle
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by pdpi 3y ago
The original was at the edge of the uncanney valley in the way it moved. This one seems a lot less human-like in its movement so doesn't conjure up those feelings for me.
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by pdpi 3y ago
>> Upscaling for gaming or video. > Already exists on all three major GPU manufacturers, and it definitely makes sense as a GPU workload. "makes sense as a GPU workload" is underselling it a bit. Doing it on the CPU is b
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by pdpi 3y ago
> Especially for step 6, using a Vec as a Box, I would not expect that to save much. It's not that using a Vec as a Box saves anything at all. It's that generics require monomorphisation, and that eats up a bunch of space, and
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by pdpi 3y ago
One of the ways that I think Kotlin and Rust are objectively better than Java and C++ is in that they have saner defaults than their predecessors (like open/final and mut/const). I've lost count of how many talks I've wa
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by pdpi 3y ago
The payload is supposedly a corrupted xz file. An overzealous "replace spaces with tabs" formatter could easily cause this sort of corruption, so it seems like a perfectly reasonable test case.
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by pdpi 3y ago
My G502 isn't available as Bluetooth, and I just love that mouse. I'd be happy to deal with the cost if it means I can use it without eating up a port. For the target audience, the DIY aspect of this thiing is probably a feature,
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by pdpi 3y ago
> How is this a threat to their business? If you download Higan and play pirated SNES games, not much of a threat. If you download Yuzu/Ryujinx and play pirated Switch games, that's an altogether different picture.
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by pdpi 3y ago
That's not a puzzle, though. It's just testing whether we agree on what "elegant" means.
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by pdpi 3y ago
> such that a ball isn't going to turn left by itself as it does in puzzle three. I'm willing to deal with some trial and error with stuff like that, as long as it's predictable and cause-and-effect is consistent. What I&
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by pdpi 3y ago
> fowl play You probably meant foul play. "Fowl" means chicken-y (galliformes) or duck-y (anseriformes) birds.
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by pdpi 3y ago
The aeronautical safety culture specifically avoids blaming individuals, and prefers focusing on procedural and organisational issues. If one person made a mistake, why didn't the rest of the organisation around them catch it and preve
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by pdpi 3y ago
I’ve been playing around with Swift on Windows, building a small raylib-based game. The only raylib bindings out there are pretty outdated so I had to write my own, with little to no experience with either C or Swift. It was way easier to
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by pdpi 3y ago
In his position, train robberies aren't the first problem that comes to mind. Just somebody stealing my backpack with all my earthly possessions.
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by pdpi 3y ago
The Steam Hardware Survey is a survey on the population of a gaming storefront. Despite Valve’s own efforts, Linux is still very much a second-class citizen in the gaming world. StatCounter might not be the most accurate predictor ever but,
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by pdpi 3y ago
It's significantly faster than JS, but still has a solid security model that makes it appropriate for contexts where you're running untrusted code. More or less like a lower-level JVM.
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by pdpi 3y ago
I think they're saying that Microsoft uses features like group admin as differentiating factors between Windows variant so that they can sell professional/enterprise-oriented variants for a higher price than Home. So, same sort of
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by pdpi 3y ago
Hopefully the whole 737 MAX fiasco will lead to Boeing understanding that their current strategy is penny-wise but pound-foolish. At some point the extra money from cutting corners will be completely eclipsed by the monetary and reputationa
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by pdpi 3y ago
> there are so many special pieces that it does not spark your own creative fantasy (in my opinion) but limits it. Those pieces aren't anywhere near as limiting as you think. The Saturn V model uses the 64951 tub/barrel pieces
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by pdpi 3y ago
As I understand it: GraalVM is an alternate JDK that can, among other things, do ahead-of-time compilation for Java. Truffle is a framework for building languages, that sits on top of Graal. Futamura Projections are a particularly interesti
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by pdpi 3y ago
Yeah, AR is definitely the killer app for me — though the implementation might end up being like Apple’s AR-through-VR. Games like Horizon Zero Dawn or Cyberpunk 2077 have diegetic AR HUDs that highlight some of the stuff you could do, and

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