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by sho_hn 6mo ago
Indeed. Also, if their product ever does enshittify, the shit would truly hit the fan.
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by sho_hn 6mo ago
It's luxury watch engineering for gamers. You do not need it, but it's kind of charming when anyone competently takes a niche to its extreme, imho. That said, on my last PC build I ended up buying Pure Wings 3, which are quite c
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by sho_hn 6mo ago
I don't fit the hypothesis - the two cities I've lived in (Berlin, Seoul) have excellent trains. So it's perhaps overfitting in the other direction.
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by sho_hn 6mo ago
I haven't done the math, but I wouldn't be surprised if cost/passenger over useful lifetime still shakes out better for the trains, and that's before you consider that people developing and building a train line get to e
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by sho_hn 6mo ago
I'd say "a verifier" here is a loose term. A great testsuite is a verifier. I've done reverse-engineering projects that involved generating trace logs from the object under test, having a reimplementation emit the same l
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by sho_hn 6mo ago
Salient on the value of the verifier. Matches my experience in the last two quarters. Nice detail on the encountered failures. Very similar experiences with my own loops against testsuites. Great post. A snapshot in time.
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by sho_hn 6mo ago
This sounds like massive centralization on GitHub and super ugly product coupling, instead of rolling open standards. I'm now glad Mitchell doesn't run GitHub.
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by sho_hn 6mo ago
> Github has always been non-free software hosted by someone else, and run according to its owners' rules and for its owners' benefit, not ultimately the end user. This was true in 2008 and it's true today. Yup. At KDE we
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by sho_hn 6mo ago
> I think we keep changing the goalposts on AGI Isn't that exactly what you would expect to happen as we learn more about the nature and inner workings of intelligence and refine our expectations? There's no reason to rest our
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by sho_hn 6mo ago
I do the same :-) I have an offscreen screenshot path, as well as a CLI arg for world pos/camera view vector, and scripted benchmark runs with a simple text-based input format that has rows of named segments of n game ticks length with
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by sho_hn 6mo ago
Love it, especially your choice of digit display. Very nice hack! I'd wear that.
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by sho_hn 6mo ago
This is mean-spirited and daft. This is a product aimed at a very specific hobbyist segment of the smart tinkerer, who will probably get more joy out of it than most buyers get out of their Apple Watch. Is that a smaller market? Yes. That d
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by sho_hn 6mo ago
I have some relevant experience. I built this a few years ago: https://imgur.com/a/diy-automatic-e-ink-newspaper-using-rust... After careful optimization, the v1 got about 6 months out of a 1100 mAh battery. Later impr
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by sho_hn 6mo ago
> those guys can build bullet trains while you Yanks are finding it hard to even keep the old ones you have running This is an argument in the lane of "at least he built the Autobahn". Speaking as a German.
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by sho_hn 6mo ago
> Only a minority of programmers would understand how to write an operating system. Only a tiny number of people would know how a modern CPU logically works, and fewer still could explain the electrical physics. I'd say this is true
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by sho_hn 6mo ago
I did mean engineers in general (I work with and have great respect for mechanical engineers, for example, and my folks were in construction), but I don't it's necessarily self-aggrandizing, either. I've worked on chat softwa
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by sho_hn 6mo ago
This is why a worker's rights movement is important. You shouldn't have to rely on your employer's goodwill. Reasonable privacy rights on work equipment should be guaranteed by law, and any large company should have a Euro-st
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by sho_hn 6mo ago
> I like to imagine they’ll mostly capture meta employees using AIs to do work. This will also give them data on which employees aren't using AI enough, and then they'll be PIP'd or let go.
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by sho_hn 6mo ago
They were employee-friendly when they wanted to hire. It's been years of layoffs, with another 10% from May onward.
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by sho_hn 6mo ago
In most civilized countries you absolutely do have significant rights to privacy on a work computer.
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by sho_hn 6mo ago
Engineers build tools for other people. The profession exists in support of human life. We make the substrate that civilization runs on. If humans are the point, this also goes for keeping work environments humane.
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by sho_hn 6mo ago
That's a trained skill, and they presumably have focused on other skills.
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by sho_hn 6mo ago
In 5 years and 3 months between DALL-E and Images 2.0 we've managed to progress from exuberant excitement to jaded indifference.
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by sho_hn 6mo ago
You can definitely do that, and it's really not too bad. Grab SDL or Qt (underrated; gets you a nice menu and HUD layer) for windowing/input, basic event loop, etc. Write a renderer, e.g. on top of wgpu or bgfx depending on how m
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by sho_hn 6mo ago
e.g. https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/as-nasas-voyager-1-surveys-int... [2021]
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by sho_hn 6mo ago
Yes.
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by sho_hn 6mo ago
> Is QT actively being maintained, and is KDE able to incorporate (or better - steer) those changes The relationship between the two orgs is currently healthy. They have different needs, but collaboration innl the Free Qt Foundation has
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by sho_hn 6mo ago
And yet you managed to center AI in the discussion.
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by sho_hn 6mo ago
Can't disagree, that's how I did it too :-)
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by sho_hn 6mo ago
Now imagine someone else reading this and genuinely considering 20 minutes a long time to wait :-)

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