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   by sph 4mo ago

   And who knows what ‘gems’ might have been skipped by the machine.
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   by sph 4mo ago

   Is there a way not to participate and not be taxed? If there's no choice then it's a moot point
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   by sph 4mo ago

   I appreciate the apology (wasn’t necessary) but I am a dreamer at heart and I subscribe to Buckminster Fuller’s idealism: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/133403-we-should-do-away-wi... After all, he liked polyhedrons
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   by sph 4mo ago

   You have succinctly described the value proposition of divination books such as the I Ching. By giving a vague answer to the question, the reader will, through their confirmation bias, become indirectly aware of their internal emotional pro
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   by sph 4mo ago

   I am excited for Box3D because it’s written in C so it will have ergonomic bindings for other languages such as Odin. Someone tried to bind Jolt to C and then Odin, and the result is not very enjoyable.
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   by sph 4mo ago

   > You would encourage an individual to walk a path that is 90%(95%/99%) likely to damage their life horribly in the name of "progress" Are we still talking about graphics programming? Damage one’s life horribly, really? Th
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   by sph 4mo ago

   > Which kind of "graphics programmer" are you even going to be? If one follows OP's advice, none at all. > it is extremely fair to ward them off from the folly I completely disagree with this. It is a damaging and unpro
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   by sph 4mo ago

   I live after the motto of "always disregard the naysayers." If someone tells you a thing is a bad idea, you can safely ignore their advice. “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying
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   by sph 4mo ago

   Well, of course not, unless you are claiming that a future career in graphics is a bad idea, and there is no way you could say that with any reasonable certainty, I do not get the argument at all. The field is always changing. You could fin
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    by sph 4mo ago

    Thank you! I started recently as a greybeard engineer, and I found SDL3 GPU to be modern enough yet not too low level for a newbie compared to Vulkan. SDL in general is a fantastic framework. And if you use it from Odin, the dev experience
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    by sph 4mo ago

    I really dislike people that got into a thing and then try to discourage others. “Don’t be like me! I wasted my entire life” which is bullshit from a jaded person that lost passion. Telling people to stay away from graphics programming is n
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    by sph 4mo ago

    ‘Plot’ is one of those clickbait verbs like scheme and conjure.
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    by sph 4mo ago

    Is it? All I see is a ton of buzzwords and political slogans that mean whatever one wants them to mean.
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    by sph 4mo ago

    Human knowledge is abstraction piled upon abstraction. For the AI lovers, human brains run natural compression algorithms to maintain the context window small, which allows us to abstract further. The problem with err := function() if
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    by sph 4mo ago

    Beautiful work! I'm not even gonna wonder if any of it was AI-generated, because the code is clearly crafted meticulously by an experienced C engineer, very readable, and shorter than I expected.
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    by sph 4mo ago

    I believe barley coffee in Italy became popular during WW2 with coffee shortages, it retains a tinge of 'poor man's drink', but there are still fans of it and you can find it in any supermarket. I enjoyed it when I was younge
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    by sph 4mo ago

    This is known as the object lambda duality which Guy Steele wrote about. If you think hard enough, you reach this core idea that objects and closures are just yin and yang, inseparable. https://wiki.c2.com/?ClosuresAndObject
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    by sph 4mo ago

    Actors are great, but it’s just making objects large enough so one thinks carefully before architecting a whole hierarchy of them to solve a simple problem. As someone else said in this thread, OOP is fine for modularity, the problem is peo
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    by sph 4mo ago

    Linda: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_(coordination_language) By Syndicate you mean syndicated actors?
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    by sph 4mo ago

    We are on average losing control, but you individually can choose whether to lose control or not. Programming languages, UNIX, debuggers aren’t going anywhere. There is more to computing than what your boss demands and what is hyped on tech
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    by sph 4mo ago

    I am no economist nor work in sales so my opinion is worthless, but it’s both waiting to see where this AI nonsense leads us, the stock market being an absolute shitshow solely propped up by this AI nonsense while the rest of Europe is in a
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    by sph 4mo ago

    And we should solve world hunger while we’re at it.
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    by sph 4mo ago

    The effort of dealing with the increasing amount of software that expects systemd to run underneath makes all these initiatives not very worth it unless you buy heavily in the political, rather than technicals reasons, of avoiding systemd.
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    by sph 4mo ago

    Joking aside, there is a lot of contract work to help EU quasi-governative entities to move off US clouds. I have been on contract for the last 18 months to recreate some functionality of AWS on top of OVH for a client adjacent to the Europ
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    by sph 4mo ago

    I am leftist [1]. It’s not a coincidence that leftist groups in the world always devolve to infighting and splintering, while right-wing parties have no issue getting their radical ideas through because they don’t spend all their energy dec
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    by sph 4mo ago

    I wish there were more people like you in the world. Have a great day.
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    by sph 4mo ago

    I think the author meant something that can be used in practice for real work, not a cyclopean effort of clean room reimplementation of Windows as a hobby for part-time volunteers. The reality is as you said, only Microsoft can make Windows
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    by sph 4mo ago

    State-funded journalism - people complain of using taxpayers’ money Journalism funded by private interests - people complain of bias Journalism funded by customers - people complain of clickbait to sell more rags Not sure what your comment
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    by sph 4mo ago

    Thank you Mikhail. I'm reading a lot of metaphysics, and thinking hard about the nature of programming and object orientation, so I appreciate your philosophical approach to the problem. I wasn't aware of Ilyenkov. To answer your
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    by sph 4mo ago

    Hawaiians, Northern Californians, and New Yorkers and Georgians speak the same language, go to the same schools and watch the same TV shows. And even just Western Europe is larger than Germany, France, Italy, England. European countries hav