tobiasSoftware

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by tobiasSoftware 4y ago
The author isn't confused, rather that is the point he is making. Often schools teach you to only focus on the big O and ignore the constant multiplier. Those same schools then teach vectors and linked lists as the two main data struct
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by tobiasSoftware 4y ago
This article doesn't go over my favorite reason why Linked Lists are bad. Their main use case is that you can insert into the middle in constant time, right? Well, how do you find the insertion point? If your answer is anything algebra
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by tobiasSoftware 4y ago
My understanding is that the legal system figured out a compromise for this type of issue during the Nixon trials. A leaker who signed NDAs and clearance forms and doesn't go through the proper whistleblowing channels (possibly for goo
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by tobiasSoftware 4y ago
Exactly. One of the more interesting things I've seen was when the streamer DougDoug used GPT-3 during a livestream to create a tournament where video game characters "fought" each other. While other content creators have gon
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by tobiasSoftware 4y ago
Youtube has a history tab, my advice is to go through it and remove videos that you don't want recommended. I learned this the hard way after watching a few videos about a particular person who had a fatal disease and then overnight my
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by tobiasSoftware 4y ago
I recently got into stories generated by GPT-3. What I notice is that it seems to be missing an understanding of state that causes constant inconsistencies. For example, a popular Youtube video has a battle between Link and Kirby in it: &qu
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by tobiasSoftware 4y ago
There's an excellent article that I've read multiple times about this exact idea called "What Colour are your bits". It's written in response to a company that tried to get around the legal system by pretending that
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by tobiasSoftware 5y ago
Same here. As well as Outer Wilds, I recommend Obduction, it's from the makers of Myst and is the most similar game I've seen to Outer Wilds. There are also Talos Principle and Antichamber, a couple games clearly inspired by Porta
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by tobiasSoftware 5y ago
I can confirm, I'm building a language with all sorts of crazy innovations and did not take the approach that this article does. However, now that I'm 80-90% of the way to v1 with my syntax and features finalized, I'm actuall
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by tobiasSoftware 5y ago
I'm creating a language and transpiling to C. At this point I'm about 80-90% of the way to v1 and transpiling to C is working well so far but I'm aware of the possibility that I may need to change it in the future. However, I
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by tobiasSoftware 5y ago
I think there's a difference between someone saying they are "a little autistic" when talking to someone who is definitely autistic as a form of self-identification, vs them trying to figure out if they have autism themselves
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by tobiasSoftware 5y ago
For anyone who likes the general format of Idle games but doesn't like the idling parts of them or the unbounded time they take, I recommend Forager. You can complete the game in a week, so it won't take over your life forever. It
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by tobiasSoftware 5y ago
The dislike button is extremely useful to indicate scams and erroneous information. Even outside of outright scams its still useful. For example, there's a Numberphile video (a high quality channel that explains math to ordinary people
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by tobiasSoftware 5y ago
> I too have watched Numberphile. Rest assured, there's little to no risk of their extremely popular videos being bad. I mean there's the Numberphile where they claim that the sum of 1 to infinity is -1/12, supporting thei
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by tobiasSoftware 5y ago
You actually don't need to connect it to FB for now as it's only the new systems such as Quest 2 that are forced to link it to FB. However, they have threatened to change that in a year or so even for the Quest 1 and Rift.
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by tobiasSoftware 5y ago
"According to the article, the barriers to cost-efficient manufacturing of lab-grown meat at large scale are fundamental, e.g., impossible to overcome according to the Laws of Thermodynamics and our current understanding of cell biolog
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by tobiasSoftware 5y ago
I am. I use a system where I have a complex master password that is memorized that I mix with a unique password that I write down. It's not a perfect system, but it protects me from the three main attack vectors: an online attacker usi
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by tobiasSoftware 5y ago
I have a similar story. I got married and my wife moved to my state and was in the middle of the process of getting a license when COVID hit. She had gotten a learner's permit to practice for the driving test, and it expired but got ex
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by tobiasSoftware 5y ago
For anyone feeling addicted to a particular game, I would recommend getting into single player games. Going from hundreds of hours of Overwatch to games such as Breath of the Wild, Subnautica, Nier Automata, and more is so much more fun. In
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by tobiasSoftware 5y ago
You should add one between 5 and 6, I'm sure plenty of people lean towards lab leak without being almost certain of it.
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by tobiasSoftware 5y ago
My problem was that there were other unspecified things that 2to3 couldn't deal with. Imagine the world where the upgrade guide was to run 2to3 and then it had explanations of how to address the remaining string issues. Instead, I foun
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by tobiasSoftware 5y ago
In my opinion, the issue was that they used this feature as an excuse to have other breaking features that weren't really needed. I think besides the string upgrade, every other breaking feature should have worked with 2 to 3. Then the
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by tobiasSoftware 5y ago
There are two use cases for laptops. The first is the normal one where you carry your laptop around wherever you go, and actually use it on your lap sometimes. The second is to view your laptop as a mobile desktop, where you have a few stat
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by tobiasSoftware 5y ago
I've seen that in professional decently built code. In the code that I am thinking of though, instead of 26, it is MAX_PATH, which is 260 and is used to specify the maximum length of a filepath. It is used to interface with specific Mi
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by tobiasSoftware 5y ago
Always nice to hear some Kirsty Hawkshaw, her two Opus III albums are some of my favorite music to program to.
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by tobiasSoftware 5y ago
I agree that input lag makes it niche, but niche and experimental can be okay. I think the real problem is their pricing model. Stadia is well set up for a Netflix style pricing model where you spend $X a month to try out an experimental id
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by tobiasSoftware 5y ago
For me personally, my wife is an immigrant so a paper trail is important. Before that though, I think there was a time where companies didn't email out the records, so they'd keep the records for a year or two and then you would l
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by tobiasSoftware 5y ago
The dark pattern I've been seeing a lot lately is billing services trying to make you go paperless. I've seen all sorts of dark patterns around it, from subtle things such as it being the second of three options where you need to
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by tobiasSoftware 5y ago
What really upset me was when my wife immigrated, she did so just before Trump passed some new immigration laws. Those laws would have required her to submit her credit scores as part of the paperwork for immigration. The idea that in order
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by tobiasSoftware 6y ago
I'm designing a programming language that started with the goal of being similar to a statically typed version of Python. What I've discovered is that by far the best argument against static typing is datastructure design. A dynam

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