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by tombert 5mo ago
Yeah, I finally started thoroughly reading it this morning, and the lack of a guarantee of winning was one thing that stuck out to me as well. I do think Claude is getting better at this stuff but I will probably keep writing the specs myse
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by tombert 5mo ago
Claude has certainly been getting better with TLA+. It's not perfect yet but for laughs I got it to model the rules of Monopoly last night [1]. I haven't done any exhaustive checking on it yet, but it certainly looks passable. I
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by tombert 5mo ago
I think they were going for the lattermost point. The name 3DO was kind of a pun: Audio, Video, 3DO.
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by tombert 5mo ago
I actually do! tombert.com. Though it's more of a blog than anything else. I might add some GeoCities web 1.0 junk to it at some point.
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by tombert 5mo ago
I really feel like there are fewer websites now. When I was eighteen, I went to Something Awful, Newgrounds, ThatGuyWithTheGlasses, GameTrailers, Cinemassacre, YouTube, and SpoonyExperiment daily . Nowadays it's basically just YouTub
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by tombert 5mo ago
Rollerboy 2? https://www.retrogamesvault.com/rollerboy2/index.html
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by tombert 5mo ago
I don't disagree; I was coming from Java most recently, and a lot of the equivalents of "Sync" and "Send" were just mental notes I was making myself, and I wasn't really used to it being encoded into the type s
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by tombert 5mo ago
In some senses I actually find Rust a bit harder than Haskell. With Haskell the types are immutable and as such they can be happily shared everywhere. That required basically no rewiring in my brain. With Rust, I had to get used to single
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by tombert 5mo ago
I always wondered if the better approach would have been to have the 3DO company subsidize the development of the consoles in relation to how many games were sold, and maybe in relation to how many of those specific consoles were sold. e.g.
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by tombert 5mo ago
I think there are certainly different complications in Rust than C++. The RAII can be roughly the same in the naive sense, but there's having to worry about Send and Sync and Pin and fighting with the borrow checker and all that fun s
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by tombert 5mo ago
Fair, I guess I import core.async into every project implicitly so I forgot that it's a separate dep.
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by tombert 5mo ago
I'm not sure how I feel about this; wasn't part of the point of core.async to push all this stuff into channels? I'm not convinced that having a JS-style async keyword is an upgrade.
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by tombert 5mo ago
I haven't played with Zig yet, but it does look like what I want C++ to be; something unapologetically low level but given some high-level constructs for safety and ergonomics. I haven't had a huge impetus to learn it because Rus
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by tombert 5mo ago
Me neither. I have some very smart friends who think it's the perfect language, but I kind of prefer almost every language that has come out after C++. I feel like the language adds some very strange semantics in some very strange pla
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by tombert 5mo ago
I just assumed that this was a very elaborate and strange marketing stunt. Bravo, it worked. I am ordering your book right now.
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by tombert 5mo ago
Yeah, that's why I specified that it's relative. I honestly hadn't even heard of the Turbografx until I was a teenager, but I had a Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo.
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by tombert 5mo ago
I actually really liked Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu. The NES version is pretty ok too, but I think the TurboGrafx version is a bit better. There's also the Bonk games, Air Zonk, Alien Crush, and Legendary Axe: all pretty fun game
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by tombert 5mo ago
I agree; if the console had been half the price it might have faired better. Another issue is that pretty much every good game on there came out on other platforms, and often the other platform's version was actually better anyway. Re
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by tombert 5mo ago
I have to push back on that a bit. I played through the campaign for Alien vs Predator for both the Space Marine and the Alien campaigns in BigPEmu, and I really think it's a mediocre-at-best Wolf 3D clone. If it had been released on
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by tombert 5mo ago
I didn't grow up with the PC Engine or TurboGrafx, but I did start getting into it after I got the MiSTer. I find that the unsuccessful [1] consoles are generally pretty bad. The 3DO and the Jaguar and CD-i are mostly pretty crappy, a
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by tombert 5mo ago
In my experience it's the latter as far as I can tell. It has actually written like 99.99% of the time, but about 1/10000 writes it actually isn't writing. exFAT has the lovely feature of potentially not only corrupting the
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by tombert 5mo ago
I definitely understand why he doesn't want to merge it in and risk potential litigation from Oracle, but I think he's kind of wrong about the rest of what he says. I don't know what people on Solaris use, but I'm pretty
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by tombert 5mo ago
I guess some context; I'm not 100% sure it's solvable for the actual domain I'm working on, which is Micro SD cards; they have a tendency to lie about write success. I think that is at too low of a level for me to realistical
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by tombert 5mo ago
In my mind, in the year 2026, I don't really see the point in using a non-CoW filesystem; it would be nice if the Windows System Restore tool actually worked , and that could be achieved much simpler if there were filesystem-level sna
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by tombert 5mo ago
Everywhere exFAT is supported now. Windows, Mac, Linux, FreeBSD would be fine.
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by tombert 5mo ago
I am not sure the problem is actually fully solvable. I think SQLite helps at least a little.
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by tombert 5mo ago
On a recent project I have needed to use exFAT. exFAT is terrible for a number of reasons, but in my case the thing I had to deal with was the lack of journaling, which had the possibility to corrupt files if there were a power interruptio
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by tombert 5mo ago
Glad I'm not alone! I find having the actual asynchrony itself as an object I can play with to allow for for some nice fine-grained concurrency and allows me to be very explicit about when blocking happens. It makes sense that they wou
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by tombert 5mo ago
I believe that's actually how the virtual threads in the newer Java works. It's smart enough to notice IO and properly park it and move to another thread. I think it's still basically doing epoll behind the scenes [1], but y
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by tombert 5mo ago
How the fuck would this even be enforced? "AI model" is a pretty broad thing; in some sense basically anything involving weights could be considered "AI", and even more abstractly you could argue that even a runtime cond

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