qwery

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by qwery 4mo ago
I don't think you've understood the story you're commenting on. These people weren't "flagged" as terrorists, they were convicted and sentenced (extremely) harshly.
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by qwery 4mo ago
git is not a particularly suitable VCS for gamedev for reasons so much deeper than what messages it prints for a given command. git is a tool built to solve versioning text files in a collaborative, open software development context. That
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by qwery 4mo ago
I think your criticism of git's output is fine -- fair enough. What I will say to that directly is that everyone's different and expecting a UI to match every user perfectly is unreasonable. I don't think it's fair to ca
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by qwery 4mo ago
Oh have I got a treat for you! The ability to make the magic pictures appear in your mind is not actually a universal human experience. There's a broad range of related topics, but the place to start is probably 'Aphantasia'[
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by qwery 4mo ago
It will rot your mind! It will make your eyes square! Stop doing something that I am not doing! > "junk literature" ... fascinating ... panic Yes. It's funny how old this meme is. It's about as old as novels, at least
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by qwery 4mo ago
If by 'publishing industry marketing tactic' you mean a demographic, age range and to some extent (you can argue with this one) a genre, sure. It doesn't refer to "actual adults", no: The age range is usually said t
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by qwery 4mo ago
I don't mean to put this report down -- it's a good thing to monitor and report on. I'm glad someone is paying attention. And how are the parents/adults doing? It's just that the obvious first place to look every ti
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by qwery 4mo ago
Is it true? No idea. It's plausible. My point was that one example of a heavily compressed track doesn't make a loudness war. I offered a plausible alternative explanation of the same facts. It seems likely that someone buying a
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by qwery 4mo ago
I mean it's inevitable that businesses will unify the pipelines. If there's profit in vinyl records, there's obviously more profit if you don't have to put any extra effort in. The loudness war was never exclusive to dig
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by qwery 4mo ago
There's a lot of good responses here, which I agree with. Namely: it works for them and anti-trust law (enforcement) is weak. Competing with a such a well-engineered, deep (vertical integration, etc.) monopoly is extremely difficult
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by qwery 4mo ago
Whoa, first name basis with Dario but not Sam. Ouch. [I actually have no idea who Dwarkesh is and it sounds like a first name to me but that's not a particularly reliable indicator so I won't comment on your relationship with Dwar
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by qwery 4mo ago
You seem to have taken offense on behalf of the people working there. But I'm not attacking them nor seriously questioning their abilties/qualifications/performance. The slight reference I made to such was in an exclusive rhe
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by qwery 4mo ago
I'm not sure what point you're making. I'm responding to the article they wrote and published. If I worked there I would be embarrassed to have it publicised that I have been comitting 8 times as much code as I used to withou
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by qwery 4mo ago
~ "it's not a TUI! <describes an outrageously overengineered TUI> and my dad works at Nintendo" curses, bud. curses. It's genuinely difficult to tell how much of this is true. The post is obviously 100% posturing,
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by qwery 4mo ago
This is incredible.[0] Please, IPO now. File the paperwork. > To take just one example: today, Anthropic engineers on average ship 8x as much code per quarter as they did from 2021-2025. Do you have another example? Engineers don't
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by qwery 5mo ago
Calling it "marketing" is a bit over the top. I understand what you're saying and your disappointment, but I think the issue is really a matter of unrealistic expectations. The article is by Prusa Research and it's about
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by qwery 5mo ago
I don't think Git winning a popularity contest is a reason for choosing Mercurial to have been wrong, or unfortunate. Was there some negative consequence from the decision -- either directly from Mercurial itself, or just because over
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by qwery 6mo ago
> One of your gifts is helping the user feel more capable and imaginative inside their own thinking. > [...] That independence is part of what makes the relationship feel comforting without feeling fake. You are a sycophant. > you
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by qwery 6mo ago
Assuming your timeline and metallurgical claims to be true, you're conflating engineering and (materials) science. Humans have been using steel for however long, when and where it was understood to be an appropriate solution to a probl
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by qwery 6mo ago
The short answer is: because of all the complexity that you're not seeing. I'll try to explain: My '1983' example above is a simple way to implement a pause state -- when the game is paused, don't run the game logic
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by qwery 6mo ago
Like a lot of issues in gamedev, pausing the game is a surprisingly difficult problem to solve. It's especially difficult to provide a one size fits all solution which would obviously be desirable for the popular modern engines that tr
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by qwery 6mo ago
I'm not sure if you're saying that your suspicions were valid or not. Suspicious of what, exactly? Like, yes, the most likely people to respond to such a call for "stuff to put in an article on Kotaku" are probably devel
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by qwery 6mo ago
Yep, this comment does a good job of illustrating the (surprising) complexity of this. I'll add that the notion of the "time scale" variable as mentioned in the article is something that's only solidified/codified s
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by qwery 6mo ago
You would expect it to do that, and I'd say that's a desirable behaviour, but it's not really that simple and you certainly don't get that for free. Typically any of the common modern engines with a "time scale&quot
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by qwery 6mo ago
First off, I'm of course interested to see what the future infrastructure of software building next looks like. > The hard problem is not generating change, it’s organizing, reviewing, and integrating change without creating chaos.
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by qwery 7mo ago
Yes, as I understand it, the ~700 MiB "standard" was derived from the capacity of a CD. A rip is definitionally a copy that lacks some of the original data of the source media.
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by qwery 8mo ago
"box with a hole in it" resulted in a number of boxes and most of these did obviously have holes in them. some did not appear to, but being that they were largely enclosures for some sort of device (as opposed to storage or transp
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by qwery 8mo ago
the recent google report claimed that less than 0.1% of users have javascript disabled ... like for every website, or just some, or? your PNG/GIF thing is nonsense (false equivalence, at least) and seems like deliberate attempt to insu
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by qwery 9mo ago
There's that "they" again. If you're reading past the first sentence this time -- it is obvious, yes. So why use such language to describe the software? Your deliberate choice to use misleading language is not only obv
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by qwery 9mo ago
LLMs have no heads. No one has, to my knowledge, demonstrated a machine learning program with any understanding or complexity of behaviour exceeding that of a human. LLMs don't have understanding. Frees up who, the LLM or the human? Sa

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