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by serf 11mo ago
>At what point of optimization does it turn into 'real' high performance programming? somewhat past optimizing the frame count of an entirely empty scene. on that matter : is it a game engine if there isn't a game? I total
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by serf 11mo ago
The wearos devices can do all that stuff too, and fitbit is kind of getting blended into those devices piece by piece -- so after years of Fitbit use I can say that the best fitbit device i've had is ... a Pixel Watch 4. I mention this
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by serf 11mo ago
>What is the proof for that, especially considering events like Ariane 5? Ariane 5 is a nice anti-ada catchphrase, but ada is probably the most used language for war machines in the United States. now the argument can be whether or not t
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by serf 11mo ago
it's all whimsy and adventure -- but the reality is that you're not just risking your own lives but also the lives of potential rescuers. just food for thought. I'm not about to say one should lead a safe and sterile life, bu
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by serf 11mo ago
>So many things in life require you to grind, and the only way to gain this is to practice. getting a kid who doesn't deserve entry to pass a prestige university with as little effort as possible is an effort to short-circuit that c
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by serf 11mo ago
>I think by vibe coding he means taking these things at face value instead of rigorously looking if they are up to the standard. Yeah, exactly -- which is why it's a stupid phrase for what happened here. Not every negligence is some
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by serf 11mo ago
>It's funny your warning about QR codes goes onto warn about PDF exploits. Yet you clicked the link to this article, by your own definition opening you up to "a whole different world of possible exploitations via whatever file
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by serf 11mo ago
almost every distro that offers an i3/sway/awesome install option seems to do a really poor job of it. I don't know why. Last time I started an endeavoros install with a default i3 it borked the login manager and set no syste
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by serf 11mo ago
Palahniuk and Bourdain both talk about the fringes of 'punk' topics, but they have a totally different voice and objectives for doing so. To me it sounds something like pairing up Brian Cox and Neil Degrasse Tyson, I mean they bot
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by serf 11mo ago
this is one of those HN style comments where business acumen and pertinent sarcasm are wholly indistinguishable .
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by serf 11mo ago
This is called a drop or anchor line, spiders use them often for climbing smooth or difficult surfaces slowly and for quick escapes. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider_silk#Uses
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by serf 11mo ago
> I've been wanting to have an AI play Kerbal Space Program because I think it would just be pretty hilarious. people have been experimenting with this since early Opus days. Check out kRPC. Get it running (or make your agent get it
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by serf 11mo ago
>Once you have access to the developer preview, please use developer docs and discord to figure stuff out. Yes, I hate that every community is moving to discord and no-one uses forums anymore too, but it's the way the world is. that
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by serf 11mo ago
>"Linux" does not force anything on you right? >It's the community that has by and large decided to move to maintaining other solutions. If you still want to use fvwm you can still run it on arch with x11 until x11 is n
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by serf 11mo ago
the post office has utility even if the messages have very high latency. also if this probe network reduces the transmission costs to normal terrestrial levels (and not requiring , say, a 400kw tx dish..) it could drastically increases the
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by serf 11mo ago
to be perfectly fair though, this isn't a new failure mode when SSDs arrived on the scene. drive controllers on HDDs just suddenly go to shit and drop off buses, too. I guess the difference being that people expect the HDD to fail sudd
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by serf 11mo ago
Labubu , to me, was nothing more than a consumer spending false-scarcity based trend exactly like Beanie Babies, but even more short-lived. It told me nothing unique about humans or internet trends -- these kind of things seem to pop up reg
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by serf 11mo ago
the decent models will (mostly) decide when they need to write code for problem solving themselves. either way a reply with a bogus answer is the fault of the provider and model, not the question-asker -- if we all need to carry lexicons ar
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by serf 11mo ago
i'm old enough to have a few of the old McMaster-Carr yellow/green books on a shelf which came before the CD-Rom catalog which got disappeared by the website. I wonder if the source images were from the cd-rom?
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by serf 11mo ago
>Buying things takes infinitely less time than building things from scratch. > financial suicide. man i'm sick of exaggeration. anyway , generally speaking I don't try to hyperoptimize for producing cash. I'm not a mach
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by serf 11mo ago
so by this rational a person can be abused without even being aware of it and seeing no comparable ill effect? Where is the line drawn? Am I abusing my spouse when I decide that we're a bit too over-stretched financially and that we&#x
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by serf 11mo ago
>My first thought was the comment in the thread from the other day about Zork and hooking up an AI image generator to that. I have done this in the early GPT days with 'Tales of Maj'eyal' and to a lesser extent RimWorld. I
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by serf 11mo ago
>It’s a fun demo but they never go into buildings, the buildings all have similar size, the towns have similar layouts, there’s numerous visual inconsistencies, and the towns don’t really make sense. that's 95% of existing video gam
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by serf 11mo ago
it's not just that, it's the creation of a sorta status symbol, or at least of symbol of normality. there was a point (maybe still) where not having a netflix subscription was seen as 'strange'. if that's the case i
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by serf 11mo ago
nostalgia is pretty powerful. I get the same feelings whenever I am near an interface that looks anything like NT4.0.
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by serf 11mo ago
yeah, and it's still one of things in Windows that is a pleasure to use when you need it.
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by serf 11mo ago
having a full stomach has a moderating effect on most drug uptake.
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by serf 11mo ago
it's lazy to dust off the major advantages of a pseudocode-to-anylanguage transpiler as if it's somehow easy or commonplace.
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by serf 11mo ago
laws and enforcement are different things. I get your overall point, but conflation of the two is inaccurate.
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by serf 11mo ago
what's the drive to use a nix but 'actively dont want to know' about things? just need to fulfill some software necessity? The two most major OSs out there specialize in catering to users that don't want to know how th

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