plasticeagle

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by plasticeagle 3y ago
I think the true reason for this is that software is orders of magnitude more complex than civil engineering - and everything you build is pretty much a whole new thing. It's not like there's hundreds of years of bridge design, wi
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by plasticeagle 3y ago
I've been making software for thirty years, and this is the most impressive and insane thing I've ever seen anyone do. I think you might do quite well.
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by plasticeagle 3y ago
I have come to this comment section only to implore everyone to make sure that they watch "All Watched over by Machines of Loving Grace" - and in doing so, perhaps also discover Richard Brautigan's poetry. Brautigan's st
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by plasticeagle 4y ago
I suspect we can't even define social media, let alone ban it.
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by plasticeagle 4y ago
No, they do not. They would have been much better without any images at all. The longer AI-generated images are around, the easier they are to spot, and the uglier they appear.
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by plasticeagle 4y ago
People spend time running in races against each other, despite the existence of cars. People spend time lifting heavy weights, despite the existence of forklifts. People spend time climbing mountains, despite the existence of helicopters. T
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by plasticeagle 4y ago
They do, they also require that any server you connect to is IPV6 capable because they run all their testing on an IPV6-only network. It's just more hoops to jump through, so simply avoiding it is best if you can.
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by plasticeagle 4y ago
Well, I don't know about borrow checkers, but scoped memory was added to C++ over a decade ago. In fact, I led the charge to remove every single new and delete from our codebase, and cause add it to the list of things disallowed by the
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by plasticeagle 4y ago
Premake is left. We use it across our entire C++ codebase, which is reasonably large.
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by plasticeagle 4y ago
I know this is a typo, but I'm imagining that substraction is a form of abstraction where you take things away to make them simpler to understand.
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by plasticeagle 4y ago
Your writing is clear and concise. You don't indulge in run-on sentences, or hyperbole. It's an impressive piece of writing. You're definitely good at this.
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by plasticeagle 4y ago
> There is a lot that music fans can do to help the musicians they love, and it starts with understanding the musician's fight. For my part here, I go to (a lot) of local shows, and buy their merch/vinyl/tapes whatever. I
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by plasticeagle 4y ago
I feel like promoting your own music has always been a massively uphill struggle, and the successful ones still got there by playing hundreds upon hundreds of shows. There's a huge element of luck too, who happens to hear you, whether
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by plasticeagle 4y ago
Yes. They will defrost and bury them. Unless things have gotten really bad, in which case they'll defrost and eat them. One thing they won't bother to do, is defrost and re-animate them, because why?
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by plasticeagle 4y ago
I wonder what leads people to believe that anyone in the future will be interested in applying their staggering new re-animation technologies to centuries-old frozen corpses? There's a comment somewhere in this thread about perpetual m
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by plasticeagle 4y ago
I know, it's awful isn't it? The irony of an article about detailed low-level optimisation of memcpy (which is probably being used unnecessarily anyway), re-implementing scrolling in javascript... You've got to admire it, rea
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by plasticeagle 4y ago
There could be, but there are (at least) three parties involved in whatever's causing the slow monitor response. I find it irritating even without a switch, just plugging in my external monitor should not take what seems like thirty
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by plasticeagle 4y ago
"Sisters with Transistors" is a superb film. Before I watched it, the only one of the many extraordinary women presented therein that I knew of was Delia Derbyshire. I had no idea that the soundtrack to The Forbidden Planet (which
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by plasticeagle 4y ago
All practical jokes are essentially bullying. There are no exceptions to this rule.
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by plasticeagle 4y ago
I implemented this once, for an animation system prior to the existence of CSS animations. It was an obvious solution, hardly worth making a big deal about. It is a very well-written and beautifully explained article though.
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by plasticeagle 4y ago
Cast iron, stainless steel AND carbon steel. A carbon steel wok is my favourite cooking implement of all. Non-stick is not for people who know how to cook.
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by plasticeagle 4y ago
I bought Affinity Photo. The keyboard shortcuts don't work unless "focus" is on the image, I think. So often, they don't, and you have to click on the image to make them work. This rather defeats the purpose of shortcuts
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by plasticeagle 4y ago
For a while in the codebase I was working on, we had a set of distinct types for different units. You know, a type for meters, another for centimetres, etc etc. We had types for radians, types for degrees. We had conversion functions betwee
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by plasticeagle 4y ago
NZ does not have a zero covid strategy, and never did. Pretty much all of NZ's covid restrictions have been removed, and there are thousands of reported cases at the moment.