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by shoo 1y ago
the accompanying post "How It Works" is worth reading alongside this tutorial https://transactional.blog/copy-and-patch/ (key terms: abus[e|ing]: 4, force: 3, trick: 1, chance: 1)
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Rooms and mazes: A procedural dungeon generator (2014)(journal.stuffwithstuff.com)
2 points by shoo 1y ago|0 comments
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A whirlwind introduction to dataflow graphs (2018)(fgiesen.wordpress.com)
37 points by shoo 1y ago|0 comments
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by shoo 1y ago
Anchoring against the cumulative number of species that have ever existed is a strange baseline, that's a metric that will emphasise "hey, life on earth is old" but makes it very hard to say if there's anything unusual o
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Global Crossing Is Reborn(pracap.com)
1 points by shoo 1y ago|0 comments
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Beating the L1 cache with value speculation (2021)(mazzo.li)
47 points by shoo 1y ago|14 comments
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by shoo 1y ago
> International instant payment network map that's an interesting map, thank you for sharing it, but oh my it'd be easier to read if they'd decided to use more colours beyond two slightly different shades of green to encod
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by shoo 1y ago
Naive question, how do you incentivise customers to use it and grow adoption? My hazy understanding of the traditional credit card network businesses [1] is that a credit card network partners with a retail bank to design a credit card prod
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by shoo 1y ago
Remains to be seen if Meta's new VR technology has legs.
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by shoo 1y ago
A few people are discussing Newell Brands Inc (NWL)'s poor stock performance over the last decade, and how that makes it hard to sell as a success story. As bgwalter points out, there was a large drop of NWL's share price, particu
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by shoo 1y ago
You make a good point, I did a little digging and it looks like the historical share price drop around 2018 is superficially explained by a big decrease in revenue and a big drop in EBIT, and those two changes are explained by Newell restru
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by shoo 1y ago
Jennifer Senior wrote a great piece back in 2006 about burnout [1] titled "Can’t Get No Satisfaction". It's worth reading the whole thing. Here are some fragments that stuck with me: > we think of burnout as the gap betwee
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by shoo 1y ago
here's an AP news fact check article from 2022 if anyone is curious about what Goodall actually said: https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-jane-goodall-populatio...
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by shoo 1y ago
That was a great read, it's not often we get to read thoughtful retrospectives. Tangent: the author's older posts also contain some gems -- I very much enjoyed this one about heaps: https://probablydance.com/2020&#
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by shoo 1y ago
lots of good stuff in Warren Spector's 2017 GDC Deus Ex postmortem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tffX3VljTtI Warren's 6+2+1 questions before starting a game project; Team 1 & Team A (no one wanted to be Tea
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by shoo 1y ago
You wanted orange, but it gave you lemon lime?
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by shoo 1y ago
If you're doing semi-implicit Euler that's pretty good, per gaffer's article, semi-implicit Euler has the advantage of being symplectic, i.e. its an integration method that conserves the total energy of the system you are sim
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by shoo 1y ago
https://gafferongames.com/post/integration_basics/
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by shoo 1y ago
last month curl developer Daniel Stenberg gave a talk "AI slop attacks on the curl project" : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6n2eDcRjSsk
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by shoo 1y ago
"guaranteed the ten years" makes my mind leap: if you're guaranteed the ten years, you could take up ridiculous hobbies that are extremely non-survivable for mortals. like, go skinny dipping in a volcano or something. the
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by shoo 1y ago
Even without AVX it seems possible to do better than a naive C style for loop argmax by manually unrolling the loop a bit and maintaining multiple accumulators e.g. using 4 accumulators instead of 1 accumulator in the naive for loop gives m
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by shoo 1y ago
R was developed for and by statisticians, for better and worse. I used R a little bit 15-20 years ago, what I remember was that quite a few libraries and function interfaces seemed to be designed to be convenient for interactive use, but if
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by shoo 1y ago
What moral do you take away from this story?
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by shoo 1y ago
problem is, politically it is feasible for government to support policy that superficially appears to help home buyers, but also props up housing prices. like all these "give the first home buyers more money / access to loans &#x2
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by shoo 1y ago
Also: Taxation and government subsidies. Many countries tax systems give home owners preferential tax treatment for the primary home. I'll give an example from Australia: The Australian age pension is means tested - there's a test
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by shoo 1y ago
Interesting. Down here in Australia our economy has been doing OK, we've had a great run of dodging recessions, but due to house prices appreciating so much since the 90s, there's similar problems with house down payments being fa
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by shoo 1y ago
Agreed - adaptability to changing requirements is a very strong advantage for real-world work. The first attempt to formalise some practical problem into a mathematical optimisation problem is often not quite right. You discover new things
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by shoo 1y ago
you may also enjoy "Same mama, different species" - "Iberian harvester ant queens clone males of a different species in a never-before-seen case of reproduction and domestication. " https://www.404media.co&#x2
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by shoo 1y ago
> THE .EXPOSED TLD This TLD is attractive and useful to end-users as it better facilitates search, self-expression, information sharing and the provision of legitimate goods and services. Along with the other TLDs in the Donuts family, t
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by shoo 1y ago
I agree! But the US only adds about 1% new dwellings each year. So I'd naively expect that 99% dwellings are existing housing stock and so might not to be sensitive to increased construction costs, because they've already been co

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