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by smosher 13y ago
It certainly fits the profile of GC stutter. I'm told it makes some bad decisions about handling objects, triggering pathological behaviour in the collector but that's second-hand info at best.
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by smosher 13y ago
I think it may be about 2 years before the games industry even starts to pick up Rust (or possibly a post-Rust language instead), but I think it will happen eventually. As someone else mentioned, C# is a big deal now and comes with a degree
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by smosher 13y ago
> Would this open the possibility of configuring schedulers ... I've been assured that it's the plan. I have no idea how much of it works right now though. I've only done one build with the new rt and it doesn't invol
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by smosher 13y ago
Chaitin's work is genius, but one thing bugs me: he uses a Cantor space in exchange for Gödel's countable numbering. I haven't found any commentary on that, but I find it suspicious. The problem with Cantor space is you simpl
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by smosher 13y ago
I haven't looked at the others, but Minecraft stuttered very badly for me. I got the distinct impression that real performance wasn't considered.
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by smosher 13y ago
I was literally asking someone what they were talking about. Instead I got an answer from someone else about some thing else. It's just some asshole who has one little nugget of information they want to spout at someone.
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by smosher 13y ago
Not helpful. My question demands an answer from the person making the claim, unless you happen to know what they're thinking. Besides, this sounds nothing like what they're talking about. Worse, I don't think you're prep
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by smosher 13y ago
> something complex about thought Can you elaborate on this class of 'something'? There are intelligent behaviours that can be reproduced this way, so without more specifics I feel like you're making the same mistake you&#
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by smosher 13y ago
> Articles like this -- even if they have errors or arguable non-best-practices -- should be recommended because they drive conversation. I disagree. You could use the same argument to admit any old troll. As someone who's often cri
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by smosher 13y ago
> I'm not clear on why undermining compile time type safety is an feature. I think this is what people will ultimately focus on when considering Go. Many of the complaints are a product of type weaknesses in the language, voiced by
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by smosher 13y ago
It's not nearly as bad as it seems. GC is rarely needed and you won't write a lot of *s (I think bindgen will write virtually all of the ones you do need anyway.) That leaves ~ and & which you don't normally need to think
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by smosher 13y ago
I admit this tripped me up for a minute. After blinking a few times, I realized that any object that's difficult to initialize manually is going to be a constructor provided for it anyway. But, see also: the Zero trait Patrick mentione
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by smosher 13y ago
Old fucking news.
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by smosher 13y ago
Were they research positions?
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by smosher 13y ago
> In Canada, IP assignment only is for work done on company time & equipment unless otherwise assigned in your employment contract. That's true, but it's usually part of the boilerplate. I'm not suggesting it's re
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by smosher 13y ago
> It does, however, form a structure which when evacuated of air has a lower average density than air. Yet apparently it collapses at that point. Unless that's solved we might as well be talking about birthday balloons here.
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by smosher 13y ago
I have a good bit of information about neurology, and that's exactly what my intuition draws from. I am extremely thankful I don't have the attitude you're endorsing.
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by smosher 13y ago
And you can't just rely on natural mending processes and neural plasticity to make up the difference. I wonder about that. I can see healing and plasticity going a very long way over time, but intuition is telling me there's not
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by smosher 13y ago
As far as I can tell, ghostwriting doesn't really impact the quality of music people are listening to. Sure, frontperson du jour may have no discernible talent, but someone had to have enough to get it played, right?
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by smosher 13y ago
I don't see it as a problem. As a consumer and amateur producer of EDM the only surprise that registers is that someone thought this was newsworthy. The practice doesn't bother me and I'm not sure anyone should feel threatene
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by smosher 13y ago
Wow. I do wish these filtering tools we have would give an indication of just how obnoxious the site is. I didn't see anything either, but I might have linked it on twitter or something if not for your parent comment.
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by smosher 13y ago
The neural correlates might not clarify what consciousness is, but they might yield answers to precise scientific questions I don't deny that at all, in fact it is quite precisely what I endorse. Notice that the term consciousness li
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by smosher 13y ago
The physics has obvious relevance to the experience and leaves no experiential questions unanswered. There's no problem with gravity. I'm not looking for a why —the common complaint about gravity—I just want all the what s to ma
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by smosher 13y ago
I think you're confused. I'm not asking for philosophical proofs end-to-end, I'm asking for the framing. If you look at the formulation it starts out as a magical-seeming property, yet the definitions and processes do nothing
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by smosher 13y ago
The gene does, just as everything else, but we don't ascribe magical properties to the gene which are not readily accessible and coherent with the philosophical context. If you tried to use the gene to define God, then you would have t
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by smosher 13y ago
The problem is without any philosophical backup the neural correlate is entirely uncompelling—it's merely a clinical definition of a measure of... nothing meaningful. One that can be just as easily applied to a recording device, modulo
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by smosher 13y ago
It's easy to blame PHP (edit: not that I think the author meant to suggest that PHP or Windows is at fault), but LCGs are quite common in standard libraries and really bad at this particular task: https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by smosher 13y ago
I completely agree, but Wayland Jr. has none of that because the Waylands committed infanticide the first time the baby went dookie. They still keep a photo. (I don't think stretching the analogy will be very productive.) The fact is W
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by smosher 13y ago
X's worst-case isn't ever the whole picture. Even if most applications do a lot of drawing in the worst-case mode that doesn't rob them of the richness of communicating more useful detail as well. Even when you're "
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by smosher 13y ago
You shouldn't believe everything you read. The tone of the article is very suspicious: the author will admit nothing bad about Wayland. In particular you might want to examine the claim that VNC style remoting is better than what X doe

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