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by torginus 3mo ago
Weird how things tends to devolve into culture war stuff. I don't really know anything about the article's author, but he claims he advocates for low-level programming as well, so in theory they should be on the same side. Also th
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by torginus 3mo ago
Honestly this article ends on a bit of an antagonistic note, but this whole situation is hilarious to me. GingerBill, a person who cares deeply and has very specific ideas about how some obscure stuff the public doesn't care about shou
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by torginus 3mo ago
Unfortunately what makes a programming language famous is usually not the thing that makes it useful. For example, Go got famous because of how much they pushed channels and launching thousands of green threads per app as the next big thing
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by torginus 3mo ago
Yeah I have a friend who does this as a livng, and it sounds insane. They do stuff like where a director approves a piece of concept art for a prop, before he gets on the plane for a 12 hour flight for the shoot. In the available time, they
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by torginus 3mo ago
> Also, how are we supposed to know that JangaFX is a real company, and its CEO a real person? From the page: https://jangafx.com/legal/end-user-license-agreement JangaFX, LLC, a North Carolina Limited Liabil
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by torginus 3mo ago
Most land is leased rather than owned - which means it depreciates over time. Imo it's a sensible system 70-100 year old buildings often have issues like Aluminum wiring, lead pipes, or asbestos, and can be in generally such a sorry st
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by torginus 3mo ago
> or even Geneva Oh yes the budget option for thrifty vacationers
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by torginus 3mo ago
I think you assume most people want to compete with Unreal on visuals. That's of course borderline impossible. But getting a basic renderer and game loop going isn't really that hard, and likely won't be the majority of your
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by torginus 3mo ago
Yeah the browser is sadly underused, especially for indie games. Js is plenty fast for most indie games, there are a ton of libraries, dev tooling is good, and all the APIs you could ever need are wired in. There's also an 'escape
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by torginus 4mo ago
Very surprisingly it's never mentioned that car turbos have very similar requirements - spin at 10K+ RPM at 10000K+ for or tens of thousands of hours with little expected maintenance. They are often made of superalloys, yet regular car
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by torginus 4mo ago
It seems the author started from a desiserd conclusion, and strung together fact(oid)s to support it without any understanding of them, sometimes making huge mistakes. For example the monocrystalline blades, which are touted as some holy gr
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by torginus 4mo ago
Either way, it's not a dramatic improvement. Thankfully I work in an environment where with little bureaucracy so my time is actually spent doing technical work. I do think AI has been a huge boon to productivity in many ways, but look
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by torginus 4mo ago
LLMs can produce bad code in ways no human ever would. I remember working on headscratcher problem of walking a tree while gradually building up state, and since LLMs are supposed to be good at algorithms, I asked Claude. It came up with a
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by torginus 4mo ago
This is true in the sense that if I sell water in the desert at $100 a bottle, at 900% profit margin, doesn't mean that if the government steps in and pays half of it, that the resulting system is somehow good, just because less people
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by torginus 4mo ago
What the US is doing is nonsensical. Modern Healthcare is an industrial system designed to handle large populations in bulk. But it only works if everyone can get timely access. This is true for things like mass screenings and medication.
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by torginus 4mo ago
The first example of generating home interiors fills me with indescribable hatred. Recently real estate agents have taken to running every dilapidated unsellable apartment through these AI filters, and you have to scroll through a dozen of
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by torginus 4mo ago
Meanwhile in the real world, these Math Olympiad AIs can't even take your fast food order correctly.
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by torginus 4mo ago
> Marx fails to imagine a world in which labor actually has little to no value. Marxism was an idea formulated especially as a reaction against a world where labor has lost almost all of its value. Which is precisely the origin of capita
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by torginus 4mo ago
The problem is we are one step beyond capitalist exploitation as described by Marx - basically the surplus which fatcat industrialists extract from the laborer does not really exist - you have to compete in the market with others who do the
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by torginus 4mo ago
We live in a world with a severe housing crisis - not shortage, as there are usually enough units, people just can't afford them. One would assume the difficulty of building housing has gone down with the general progress of technology
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by torginus 4mo ago
Yes by design. Basically just by designating one part of the economy as non-productive consumption economy, and the other part as production economy, they create the justification for inflation - so that the government can have free money a
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by torginus 4mo ago
I would describe that as having invested in an appreciating asset (like stocks), and their main income comes from the gains of the property prices as they go up in value. Moreover, they leveraged themselves via loans to acquire income even
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by torginus 4mo ago
The Roslyn C# has a very developed system for injecting code at compile time in a very similar manner to what you described. On the 'experimental' side you have Jonathan Blow's language, Jai, which has integrated codegen (AS
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by torginus 4mo ago
Yeah, but I think the recent explosion of both memory prices and stock prices of memory makers highlight that datacenter GPUs cost about 10x as much as the would in a healthy supply-demand situation. Gaming equivalents of datacenter GPUs (I
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by torginus 4mo ago
> The dollar as an instrument of offensive diplomacy is now weakened How strong was it in the first place? Anyone can just accept dollars without worrying they'll be able to spend them - the dollar spends just about anywhere, the US
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by torginus 4mo ago
It does not, but does appear on the party's English wikipedia page that they support 'remigration'. However when switching to Swedish, it seems they are pro (forceful) assmilation, rather than remigration. I don't know e
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by torginus 4mo ago
This is a retread of the 'animal-cat-dog' inheritance stuff we learned in our intro to OOP classes, where some people got together and put forward their own idea of programming as 'the way forward'. And me, like others h
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by torginus 4mo ago
And as always, the only people who will bother will be the few% who are involved in some sort of illegal activity.
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by torginus 4mo ago
Yes, you are right, the only two possible choices are to either give the government an absolute mandate to spy on every citizen, or to abolish the EU altogether, no other option is possible.
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by torginus 4mo ago
Fargate (with Firecracker/Docker) is hellishly complex and forces you into all sorts of AWS BS, first of which is it can't run without some sort of orchestration layer like EKS or ECS. To deploy on ECS, the simplest option, means

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