the_gorilla

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1. 121.▲
   by the_gorilla 2y ago

   What are you talking about? You responded to the wrong person because this has nothing to do with what I said.
2. 122.▲
   by the_gorilla 2y ago

   I can tell everyone here has something in mind that they're all talking about, but don't want to say specifically what it is. I definitely agree that if you make any sort of substantial post, you're going to get a million low
3. 123.▲
   by the_gorilla 2y ago

   This is an awful mindset and I'm tired of people acting like tools only ever have pre-defined purpose and you need a special purpose tool to do anything. Also that's a dumb analogy. Here's a better one: A knife that breaks 20
4. 124.▲
   by the_gorilla 2y ago

   We don't really have to guess. Backblaze posted their stats for 4 TB HGST drives for 2024, and of their 10,000 drives, 5 failed. If OP's 2014 4 TB HGST drives are anything like this, then this is just snake oil and magic rituals a
5. 125.▲
   by the_gorilla 2y ago

   I was expecting them to say after introducing this, that they started with an intentionally bad example so they could improve on it. But instead they went on to talk about a 2.5x speedup on something that would already be 100x faster in any
6. 126.▲
   by the_gorilla 2y ago

   That's awfully convenient. You don't moderate the content, your flame war detector goes off, and the algorithm removes it for you.
7. 127.▲
   by the_gorilla 2y ago

   I didn't say it would fit in the cache.
8. 128.▲
   by the_gorilla 2y ago

   I'm not really convinced by this article. His complaint is that bloom filters are too slow for his purpose, and the cause is the large memory requirements and random memory accesses causing constant cache misses. So, he has 40 million
9. 129.▲
   by the_gorilla 2y ago

   I don't use godot and know more about its limitations than its advocates in this thread. Are they being disingenuous? Do they just not know basic information about their own tools?
10. 130.▲
    by the_gorilla 2y ago

    What about calling your project "GameMaker"? Is that taken?
11. 131.▲
    by the_gorilla 2y ago

    This is common among programmers. They come up with some insane, convoluted set of rules that they happen to like and then declare it simple and elegant. To anyone on the outside it looks schizophrenic in nature. Of course it has a componen