stephc_int13

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by stephc_int13 7mo ago
Got Jetbrains Mono. Not a surprise as I used this font for a long time and I still use it for my terminal font. But I prefer (and use) PragmataPro (not free) and it is not part of the test, sadly.
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by stephc_int13 7mo ago
I also feel that a good solution of the Fermi Paradox is that interstellar travel is either impossible or too unpractical at scale and that humanity may be trapped in this system forever.
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by stephc_int13 7mo ago
I am in the same situation. French citizen living in the UK. I never owned a credit card and I have no use for it. I can't pass the age-verification. I am 49. This alone is quite irritating, but the overall developer-hostility of Apple
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by stephc_int13 7mo ago
Coding assistants/agents/claws whatever the current trend is are over-hyped but also quite useful in good hands. But the mistake is to expect a huge productivity boost. This is highly related to Amdahl's law, also The Mythica
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by stephc_int13 7mo ago
The management of the whole Reality Labs thing was incredibly bad, and this is Zuck's fault, I agree. But my take is that, given the efforts of other big player in the same field (Hololens, VisionPro, the VR stuff from Valve, Sony, Sam
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by stephc_int13 7mo ago
I think that Kinect and Hololens, or Magic Leap, or the VisioPro and the numerous other attempts are not simply adjacent, they are parts of the same ontology. The goal is to replace displays and interactions by something new, more immersive
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by stephc_int13 7mo ago
This one should be studied in management schools. I'm not sure I have ever witnessed such a comprehensive industrial failure in the software world. There were some discussions about Facebook's ability to pull it off, but not that
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by stephc_int13 7mo ago
I will happily re-evaluate on the next breakthrough, but for now, for an aspiring gamedev, this is likely a waste of time. Models can be used more efficiently, at the moment, but you have to understand what you are doing, and not trying to
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by stephc_int13 7mo ago
Gamedev here. I looked at the video, awful results, better start with a template.
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by stephc_int13 7mo ago
Of course, but this lineage should indeed encourage some scrutiny.
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by stephc_int13 7mo ago
My experience with headphones: Passive noise cancellation beats active hands down. (no weird air pressure, reliable, no need for batteries, less expensive) Analog and wired beats bluetooth if you care for sound quality, portable DACs are ve
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by stephc_int13 7mo ago
How much of this article was AI written? I can sense the AI smell all over the place, also I found it way too long with little substance, but maybe that’s just me.
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by stephc_int13 7mo ago
My favorite tool to experiment with math approximation is lolremez. And you can easily ask your llm to do it for you.
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by stephc_int13 7mo ago
This is very early. If there is an AI boom, what we're seeing is its infancy. Semi-autonomous coding is the first and most natural use case, thanks to vast amount of training material, opportunities for closed-loop RL with minimal huma
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by stephc_int13 7mo ago
They are back in their villain arc. For a while now.
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by stephc_int13 8mo ago
Thiel.
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by stephc_int13 8mo ago
This name is turning radioactive. Not a bad thing.
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by stephc_int13 8mo ago
Could not approve more a I use near identical naming convention in my C codebase. Not using the standard C library to avoid inconsistencies and the awful naming habits of that era.
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by stephc_int13 8mo ago
ai;dr
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by stephc_int13 8mo ago
Of course, writing a bootloader in Matlab or a MMORPG in Visual Basic would be masochistic. But these days people are writing CLI tools and TUI in Typescript...
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by stephc_int13 8mo ago
C.
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by stephc_int13 8mo ago
I think that their culture of trying to invent their own standards is generally bad, but it is even worse when it is a programming language. I believe they are painting themselves into a corner.
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by stephc_int13 8mo ago
Then you should consider Lindy effect. Newer languages have counter-intuitively a shorter life expectancy than older ones.
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by stephc_int13 8mo ago
Next was more or less an Apple spinoff, that was later acquired by Apple. Objective-C was created because using standards is contrary to the company culture. And with Swift they are painting themselves into a corner.
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by stephc_int13 8mo ago
The best tool for the job is the one you know and love.
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by stephc_int13 8mo ago
I meant no Swift experts in the Ladybird team. Their expertise is C++, you may think the transition is easy, and it can be pretty painless at first, but true language expertise means knowing how to work around its flaws, and adapting your p
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by stephc_int13 8mo ago
The fact that Swift is an Apple baby should indeed be considered a red flag. I know there are some Objective-C lovers out there but I think it is an abomination. Apple is (was?) good at hardware design and UX, but they pretty bad at produci
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by stephc_int13 8mo ago
I remember mocking the switch to Swift back then. Swift is a poorly designed language, slow to compile, visibly not on path to be major system language, and they had no expert on the team. I am glad they are cutting their losses.
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by stephc_int13 8mo ago
The "AI voice" is everywhere now. I see it on recent blog posts, on news articles, obituaries, YT channels. Sometimes mixed with voice impersonation of famous physicists like Feynman or Susskind. I find it genuinely soul-crushing
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by stephc_int13 8mo ago
Sad that even obituaries are written by AI these days...

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