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by trashb 9mo ago
> "level should have an entry and the exit" You would be surprised how many new mappers don't include a clear exit in their levels. > heavily pierced with phrases like "ummm, hard to explain". Good vs bad leve
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by trashb 9mo ago
In my experience the quake mapping community is very welcoming to new mappers. There are a had full of quake mapping discord channels where new and old mappers are sharing screenshots very regularly, tips and where you can ask for feedback
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by trashb 9mo ago
Excel (or similar spreadsheet programs) is indeed great and has it's place. There are certain area's where there is no real replacement which is impressive. However I think that creating (interactive) applications is not one of th
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by trashb 9mo ago
There is a movement supporting small websites. The links below may inspire those interested in text or small websites. https://no-html.club/ https://no-js.club/ https://nocss.club/ https:&
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by trashb 10mo ago
I agree the ELIZA effect is strong, additionally I think it is some kind of natural selection. I feel like LLM's are specifically selected to impress people that have a lot of influence. People like investors and CEO's. Because a
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by trashb 10mo ago
> Edgar Dijkstra called it nearly 50 years ago: we will never be programming in English, or French, or Spanish. Natural languages have not evolved to be precise enough and unambiguous enough. Semantic ambiguity and language entropy will
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by trashb 10mo ago
> I have a Nikon Z8! I know what it is capable of! It seems to me you underestimate the amount of work your camera is already doing. I feel like you overestimate the raw quality of a mobile camera as well. > Modern mobile phones have
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by trashb 10mo ago
This post reminded me of the blog posts [0] regarding the "megapixels" camera app for the pinephone , written by Martijn Braam. For those interested it dives quite deep into the color profiling and noise reduction and more to make
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by trashb 10mo ago
A DSLR and mobile phone camera optimize for different things and can't really be compared. Mobile phone camera's are severely handicapped by the optics & sensor size. Therefore to create a acceptable picture (to share on socia
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by trashb 10mo ago
Spreadsheets are powerful, but often abused. They are great for economics but horrible for logic. Most medium to large complex spreadsheets are better implemented in a high level programming language. Spreadsheets seem useful for people tha
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by trashb 10mo ago
Don't worry the kid mode is coming on all devices, one thing you wouldn't want kids doing is sideloading applications after all. I think this is the wrong approach, an example is youtube kids. There seems to be a abundance of inap
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by trashb 10mo ago
Bold of you to assume that legislators know how any kind of implementation works. They just propose general rules like "kids underage can not access this content" and the technical implementation doesn't matter to them. I thi
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by trashb 11mo ago
> AI speeds me up a tremendous amount in my day job as a product engineer. Sure, there are specialized and non-specialized models. I was asking if you've measured your "tremendous speed-up" using AI or you just feel like i
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by trashb 11mo ago
Have you measured? https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09089
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by trashb 11mo ago
In general using natural language to feed into AI to generate code to compile to runnable software seems like the long way around to designing a more usable programming language. It seems that most people preferring natural language over pr
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by trashb 11mo ago
> Dark age was dark. Human rights, female! rights, hunger, thirst, no progress at all, hard lifes. There was progress in the Middle Ages, hence the difference between the early and late Middle Ages. Most information was mouth to mouth in
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by trashb 11mo ago
ok, just don't upgrade it, the focus is security by default anyway there are a lot of openbsd boxes online with a huge uptime running older versions.
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by trashb 11mo ago
> Why are OpenBSD people always so rude and defensive? Sheesh Because there is a limited amount of maintainers and a clearly stated goal/direction. There are also a lot of people requesting features that don't actually contribu
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by trashb 11mo ago
So to me it seems notifications of bugs is good, you want to create visibility of problems. The problem is the pressure to fix the bugs in x amount of time otherwise they will be made public. Additionally flooding the team with so many bugs
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by trashb 11mo ago
> It seems to always come back to the fact that people who get power always attempt to use that power to get more resources and power, violating all their supposed values and stealing resources from the public. Seems no different in capi
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by trashb 11mo ago
UK is not Europe since Brexit happened. You earn locally and spend locally. It's about local buying power and wealth, not about $197.644,50 > £60,000.
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by trashb 11mo ago
You seem to state that USA regulates production of a product where EU regulates what product and how a product is sold. As a consumer myself would prefer regulation on what is sold, laws only work within your borders so the USA can't r
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by trashb 11mo ago
"reken je niet rijk" > Salaries are way lower in NL, and housing is incredibly expensive. This is true, however there is so much that is already paid for with the Dutch salaries that you have to arrange individually in the USA.
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by trashb 11mo ago
A lot of (not all) European regulation is at it's core about trade. Things this author feels are "obstructions to trade" are to enable trade of the things we value. For example Europe might regulate what fish species you can
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by trashb 11mo ago
yes you can, there are European cultures where eating out more than once a week is common.
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by trashb 11mo ago
your general google search with operators or advanced search will do, however I won't guarantee google doesn't use a LLM in the background.
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by trashb 11mo ago
Exactly javascript is a higher level language with a lot of required functionality build in. When compared to C you would need to (for most tasks) write way less actual code in javascript to achieve the same result, for example graphics or
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by trashb 11mo ago
Sure but i doubt there is more image data in the delivered nextcloud data compared to doom2, games famously need textures where a website usually needs mostly vector and css based graphics. Actually Carmack did squeeze every possible ounce
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by trashb 11mo ago
The fact that it was written on a mechanical typewriter isn't very relevant as even today some writers prefer writing on those, in that time they where obviously still quite common (and more accessible compared to computers). Modems wh
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by trashb 11mo ago
I wonder what the numbers look like if you compare pre-pandemic to now. To me it feels like during the pandemic companies found out they can fire a lot of people without a lot of backlash as long as they have a weak excuse. I feel like AI t

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