vitiral

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by vitiral 2y ago
It was nice knowing you open internet!
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by vitiral 2y ago
Well, 2M of energy + opex at least
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by vitiral 2y ago
In those cases the bugs are more like advanced fighting moves. I don't think item dup or insta-kill bugs would be allowed, even if they did exist.
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by vitiral 2y ago
Satellite TV, being unidirectional, can hardly be called communication.
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by vitiral 3y ago
There's many things I don't know about AI, but I can almost guarantee very little about them is "simple"
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by vitiral 3y ago
A negative/positive feedback loop, depending on what you consider negative or positive. I'd go negative, with the y axis being "useful". Negative feedback loops all go to zero. Language processing differs from games like
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by vitiral 3y ago
Maybe they should have called it a "Web Crane" instead? Or heck, even go for "Spider Web Crane" if they love the word "spider" so much.
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by vitiral 3y ago
Glad we can find agreement, but sorry this is justified violence :D
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by vitiral 3y ago
Most deep discussions require some amount of discussing your terms. A surprising amount of insight can be gathered by playing with and altering previous assumptions of a word's meaning. For instance, by seeing violence as a spectrum yo
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by vitiral 3y ago
Not all violence is wrong or illegal, and not all screaming is violence. Words are defined by people. By seeing violence as a spectrum you can see the spectrum of possible responses to violence. We can then distinguish the different forms o
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by vitiral 3y ago
So screaming at someone is not violence? Definitions vary depending on context. I think of violence as a spectrum. Talking peacefully and negotiating is extremely low violence. Threats etc are more. All our war and atomics are about the lim
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by vitiral 3y ago
Because we all know who SBF is by now
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by vitiral 3y ago
Lying is a form of violence and so is stealing. Not physical violence mind you, but violence nonetheless.
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by vitiral 3y ago
Traditionally I believe tariffs and trade agreements were the typical approach at shoring up domestic production. I have very little knowledge over their current effectiveness or use.
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by vitiral 3y ago
So the article seems complete, but literally doesn't even mention continuous dilution due to employee compensation or related issues. It only mentions "issuing stock" like it's a single event instead of a continuous proc
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by vitiral 3y ago
I mean I get that argument too. But is what I said wrong? Isn't stock being continually issued, diluting the value over time? If buybacks were _never_ done, wouldn't it keep getting diluted forever? Edit: for instance, if Google h
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by vitiral 3y ago
Somebody correct me if I'm wrong. I always thought of "stock buybacks" as a form of "debt payment". Stocks are created by companies out of thin air, as a tech worker I am (partially) paid in stocks. Those stocks are
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by vitiral 3y ago
I love projects like this, but why S-expressions? Optimizing your frontend for the computer to parse (instead of the human) is the wrong tradeoff IMO unless you really really need an ultra-powerful macro language. Also, I'd call it &qu
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by vitiral 3y ago
I'm surprised C++ doesn't support it. I wonder how rust does (with Traits)
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by vitiral 3y ago
I don't believe the VTable can be so simple when you have, i.e. multiple classes implementing different mixtures of common interfaces and inherited methods. All lookups have to work the same across all the different interface implement
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by vitiral 3y ago
Yeesh, is he both defining the VTable _and_ dereferencing the pointer into his VTable? That's... terrifying
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by vitiral 3y ago
I'm amazed C++ defines a user-vieible struct of virtual methods but doesn't define a user-visible mechanism to retrieve it from a pointer. This hack of converting the pointer into the VTable seems.... concerning Why does C++ hate
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by vitiral 3y ago
That is a good point, and something I've actually (personally) used quite a bit when writing parsers
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by vitiral 3y ago
In Lua it's only the start/end of the string > A pattern is a sequence of pattern items. A caret '^' at the beginning of a pattern anchors the match at the beginning of the subject string. A '$' at the end o
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by vitiral 3y ago
Integer is a good point. I just learned about math.type in 5.3!
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by vitiral 3y ago
Love it but don't quite get it. Lua only has 5 "data" types: nil, bool, number, string, and table. There is also "userdata" (defined in C) Would this improve performance for functions that take in the non-table type
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by vitiral 3y ago
In general? Mostly ignorance. From cephalopods? I guess it's the seals
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by vitiral 3y ago
I really enjoyed this article, but I was really disappointed. For some reason I thought it was going to evolve into a Lovecraftian epic of how the grand and horrifying civilization of the ancient cephalopods and their relatives was thwarted
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by vitiral 3y ago
http://civboot.org is basically trying to answer exactly this question
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by vitiral 3y ago
Cleaning solar panels? Did you read the article? It's about solar pumps enabling aquifer exhaustion when used for agriculture

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