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by scratcheee 2y ago
I agree with most of this, but I’m not sure about tracking the size metadata becoming a required task for the caller. The cost of storing the size of every allocation is relatively high, at least some of the time, where it isn’t implied by
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by scratcheee 2y ago
One potential value of CC today is as a final and most flexible solution. Even with the limited and experimental technology of today, which is obviously economically insane, we have a way (with enough money) to make anything carbon neutral.
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by scratcheee 2y ago
I actually disagree, if it can be shown to be safer overall then I don’t think it should be required to be a strict superset of human abilities. AI will always behave differently to human cognition, we should expect them to have different i
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by scratcheee 2y ago
I think the value in art like this is that it isn’t a matter of skill but of dedication. Should art be something that only the 1% most skilled and well trained artists can ever hope to be celebrated for?
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by scratcheee 3y ago
giant tortoise was meant to be delicious, not considered ethical or practical these days
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by scratcheee 3y ago
Whilst I won’t deny that incompetent leadership and planning are involved, I think there are structural reasons for the game industry being uniquely problematic. Games have massive cost efficiencies from scaling. Studios are incentivised to
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by scratcheee 3y ago
Einstein already has special relativity, his legacy is safe. let’s give general relativity to someone else who had a similar idea 20 years later. I found the preceding argument more compelling.
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by scratcheee 3y ago
Actually took them longer than that even. They had to invent the computer first, and before that they had to create a universe capable of sustaining both life and computers.
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by scratcheee 4y ago
Yeah, pretty dubious phrasing. On the other hand, "protect food heritage" is so obviously a reframing that I didn't even concider that as the whole story.
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by scratcheee 4y ago
7. People wanting to get home from the pub legally and safely at 3am.
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by scratcheee 4y ago
any part of OOP that is "unique to the oop style" and not used by other programming paradigms is going to be the worst part of OOP. OOP has been around long enough that all the good ideas have been borrowed/copied/reinte
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by scratcheee 4y ago
All the bits of OOP I use on a daily basis in C++ seem to have made it into rust in ways that seem pretty obvious to me. It's true that a lot of the OOP ideas went into C++, but C++ has always been fairly agnostic to whether you actual
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by scratcheee 4y ago
>most of that complexity could have been avoided with a better language design Are you saying that the ownership/borrowing model for memory safety was a poor choice, or that it's possible to make a language on that model that h
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by scratcheee 4y ago
That does seem sensible yes, I'm also not particularly interested in preventing people from doing stupid things to their cars if they're that insistent on doing them, it just hurts everyone else. I guess the problem is how to enco
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by scratcheee 4y ago
Out of curiousity, what solution do you think would work (assuming you accept that enforcing any sort of emissions standards is a good idea overall). My best attempt: perhaps as long as systems to maintain emissions standards have failed, t
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by scratcheee 4y ago
I've yet to see a normally configured browser _not_ be uniquely identifiable many times over through fingerprinting. At some point it feels like trying to drain the ocean with a cup. Maybe we just need to accept that anyone who really
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by scratcheee 4y ago
It's generally true to be fair, reference counting could be used for every garbage collected language (and be much simpler). The only reason they switched to more complex schemes is they're faster on average. Even smart schemes th
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by scratcheee 4y ago
Technically yes, but if you only use it when you need it, it's often not a performance concideration. And for systems programming, the often overlooked truth is that people care far less about perfect performance than they do about con
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by scratcheee 4y ago
The textual information of all books ever written is around 10s of TB. So if the goal is to store all books for a rainy day, you can buy a grand of storage or you can build the largest library on earth. That said, a few books would be wise
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by scratcheee 4y ago
I believe they do not alter the colour in the region being focused on, they're trying to take advantage of the fact that our peripheral vision is primarily rod-based, and thus unable to discern colour. So in theory, assuming the displa
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by scratcheee 4y ago
>the person writing about the new discovered weird trick almost always fails to precede the article with a big, red, bold "Please don't ever do this" > It's has been explained enough times. It's just that look
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by scratcheee 4y ago
Whilst your point is fair, I do think the fitt's law benefits are pretty huge (ie the infinitely extending target because it's across the screen edge). It really depends on usage patterns I guess. If you have lots of _really_ smal
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by scratcheee 4y ago
The rich/poor divide does indeed exist and has always existed, but that floats separately to the poverty divide. changing one does not change the other. Imagine an ancient communist utopia where all the bread is split evenly - and the
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by scratcheee 4y ago
There's no doubt they help the poor a _little bit_ . The question is whether there exist alternative solutions that help the poor a lot more by not wasting so much helping the rich (or especially in this case - those buying and selling
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by scratcheee 4y ago
It would be a lot simpler if anti-competitive behaviour only encompassed clearly immoral and unfair behaviour, but it tends to be more nuanced than that. There's no simple rule and a court would probably have to spend a long time conci
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by scratcheee 4y ago
The <marquee> shall scroll again. Needs some <blink> to be True Art though.
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by scratcheee 4y ago
Feel free!
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by scratcheee 4y ago
I mean, I don't think they were claiming the rust way is the only possible form, but rather that any solution as expressive and safe as the rust method will be about as complicated, which doesn't seem to disagree all that much wit
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by scratcheee 4y ago
Better yet if the old tunnel was turned into pedestrian/cycle. Then you get proper bus options through the taller tunnel, and proper human-powered options with nobody to run them over, win win. And I guess we're not replacing lorr
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by scratcheee 4y ago
It's really "syntax classification by color" rather than highlighting. The goal is to make related parts of syntax the same color so the brain doesn't have to handle the classification itself (which it's bad at and

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