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by qayxc 2y ago
> I do feel like programmers are a bit of a masochistic lot when it comes to AoC, though. Maybe. But for some it's really just the enjoyment of a good challenge that lets them explore and try out things. I personally love hardware l
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by qayxc 2y ago
> you don't have to add a compilation step to benefit from it: you just have to enable type checking in your IDE. It's similar for JS, believe it or not. Type hints via jsdoc can be just as easily configured for type-checking
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by qayxc 2y ago
The author seems to ignore the fact that type hints are a thing even with plain JS. Serious question: does the author "just say no to Python" as well? If lack of explicit typing is the issue, then his rant would apply to most scri
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by qayxc 2y ago
100% this. It's still absurd to me how codebases in some industries are still basically C++98 and haven't even begun to transition to at least C++17 (which forces new code that adds or changes features to be written C++98-style as
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by qayxc 2y ago
There's a huge amount of legacy code that cannot be replaced overnight. There's thousands of person-hours invested in such codebases and they need to be maintained. There's also a much greater number of experienced C++ progra
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by qayxc 2y ago
Compare to the PAST, not the present! As you can see, the trend is downwards and steadily at that: https://www.destatis.de/EN/Themes/Economic-Sectors-Enterpris... Rome wasn't built in a day and I find it hila
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by qayxc 2y ago
> No, germany is more renewable but it's also more coal, any time there's no wind the coal plants start up. Hm. The actual facts say otherwise, though: https://www.destatis.de/EN/Themes/Economic-Sector
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by qayxc 2y ago
> I'm that git that puts each param on a separate line I do that too :)
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by qayxc 2y ago
Some of their metric are dubios (number of published AI articles - wtf?) and the weighting seems arbitrary.
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by qayxc 2y ago
Unfortunately numerical stability is a very complex topic and depends entirely on the use-case. Sure, there's your usual suspects like subtractive cancellation, but iterative methods in particular can vary quite a lot in terms of stabi
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by qayxc 2y ago
Sure - and that'll work great on titles like Ratchet & Clank [1] or Tiny Tina's Wonderland [2] because art and style are dead and everything must be a mirror-like reflection of reality in order to be a fun game... [1] https:&
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by qayxc 2y ago
NVIDIA's RTX Remix [1] suite of tools already does that. It doesn't require any model training or dozens of hours of pre-recorded gameplay either. You can drop in low-res textures and have AI tools upscale them. Models can be repl
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by qayxc 2y ago
It's a research paper. Not everything that comes out of research has an immediate real-world application in mind. Games are just an accessible and easy to replicate context to work in, they're not an end goal or target applicatio
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I think you're missing the most important point: these models need to be trained on something and that something is a fully developed, working game. You're basically saying that game development would need to do the work twice: st
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by qayxc 2y ago
> Is this feasible at all? From an engineering perspective: absolutely! There's still some major hurdles when it comes to propulsion, communication, and station-keeping, but the basics are all there already. The sad part is that suc
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by qayxc 2y ago
That'll take a while. There's currently no way to detect solar system analoges with current technology and the amount of collected data. Radial velocity requires about two orders of magnitude better detectors, astrometry requires
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by qayxc 2y ago
The SEK/MEK (i.e. German SWAT equivalent) operates differently. Shocking, I know, different countries, different procedures. Their daily operations look pretty much like this.
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How do you know? We didn't see everyone involved and have no picture of the entire situation.
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It's not only difficult to verify the identity from phone companies or ISPs (worst case you'd need a court order), depending on the nature of the report and the situation, it might also be straight up dangerous for the caller. Bes
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The difference between swatting in the US and Germany is pretty shocking. No one was forced to the ground, the developer had a calm chat with the police and the whole incident didn't look all that terrifying. I loved how the police exp
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Hybris. Some people once they have reached a certain level of status and wealth see themselves as untouchable.
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by qayxc 2y ago
> Have there been any human trials of total liquid breathing? It's used on a somewhat regular basis in clinical settings (e.g. liquid ventilation). I'm not aware of any diving experiments, though. There might have been some cla
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by qayxc 2y ago
In principle liquid breathing is still an option. It's not great, but certainly better than oxygen + hydrogen.
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> I honestly don't know why the Germans are trying to turn an old Chain Home radar station in the Shetlands into an orbital rocket launch site. Well, they aren't. RFA is just one of many customers, which also include British an
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by qayxc 2y ago
> I suspect they're having an unusually positive experience with these tools due to working on a lot of new, short, programs. That's academia for you :) It also helps that he specialises deep learning models and LLMs and knows
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> Someday, knowledge of the actual functioning of these systems might become so obscure so as to, basically, be lost - kind of like (in a way) the Apolo project know-how is fading away ... We're already way past this point since the
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by qayxc 2y ago
You example is flawed. Static (a in non-interactive) content is not a program. As soon as data collection, tracking, and user metrics enter the picture, the simplicity of static content goes out the window (one more reason to dislike these
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by qayxc 2y ago
Kind of, yes. X-rays do interact with the visual system and cause perceivable effects especially with dark-adapted eyes. It's not like seeing actual colours, though and more of an added effect. Here's a fascinating article about t
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I think you forgot to account for lifespan. Relatively long-lived mammals have a tendency to raise their offspring over many years (e.g. Orangutans 6-8 years, ~9 years for Elephants, etc.).
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> What's the payoff here? Personal happiness? It's also more than short-sighted to assume that just because there is no immediately obvious overall benefit, that no such thing exists. The techniques and insights developed and f

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