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by whizzter 11mo ago
Compared to the JS ecosystem and number of users both Python and Rust are puny, also the the NPM ecosystem also allowed by default for a lot of post-install actions since they wanted to enable a smooth experience with compiling and installi
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by whizzter 11mo ago
I think it's that phrase, "leading by example". Blender went from a shitshow way worse than GIMP to almost killing the competition. Those working on GIMP took notice (and perhaps those that had felt sidelined before dared spe
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by whizzter 11mo ago
"Complaining neckbeards" are a part of the problem, but the bigger issue is often developer-users that has oversight (or preference due to "control") with shitty UI-decisions that have little interest or agency in fixing
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by whizzter 11mo ago
I don't think the issue is a skill one but rather giving a sane option. Going to Akamai's site I don't see a single mention of pricing, I don't want to be smooched by some enterprise salesman to get my pricing options. G
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by whizzter 11mo ago
1: It's not meant to be cute but rather incredulity at a statement of declaring something to having failed that still very much seems to be in progress of being rolled out (and thus indicating that it'd be nice to have some more i
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by whizzter 11mo ago
Huh? Qualcomm announced the X2 chips just 2 months ago with shipments for early next year. Looked at a local dealer site and there's MS, Dell, Asus and Lenovo WinArm machines (with current gen Elite X chips). Yes, Windows on desktop ha
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by whizzter 11mo ago
I wouldn't have thought so 5-10 years ago, but with Microsoft offering Windows on ARM the is really no OS that specifically targets x86 (Legacy MS products will keep it alive if the emulation isn't perfect). The thing is, x86 domi
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by whizzter 11mo ago
Ah that looks like a great tool, will try to keep it in mind if I run into those kinds of issues again. Couldn't have caught one of the worst bug I had to track down that was a memory corruption on the PS2, we had some dynamic async lo
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by whizzter 11mo ago
I don't envy these engineers having to trace through corruptions and other issues related to moving GC's, just keeping a simple regular toy GC from blowing up can be hard enough sometimes (Maybe they have some better tools, but me
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by whizzter 11mo ago
I created a Moq lookalike in an evening a few months back, it's not a hugely advanced project honestly (if you're used to working with the reflection system).
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by whizzter 11mo ago
I agree, but I don't think this work is for realtime creation (like those Google models) but rather offline authoring. So the fixups can be done later.
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by whizzter 11mo ago
Oh I agree fully, this is probably more created by researchers and/or "AI-bros" with less experience as actual game developers (that they have actually added a way of placing objects is after all far more than most other tool
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by whizzter 11mo ago
GS does 2 things that makes it great for _rendering_ and _world approximation_, it's a view-dependent "fuzzy" thing, so rendering-wise you don't need to fill in blanks of reconstruction, they also encodes view dependent
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by whizzter 11mo ago
I think it's a bit confusing when it comes to terminology, this seems more graphics focused while I suspect that a 10 year plan as mentioned by YLC probably revolves around re-architecting AI systems to be less reliant on LLM style net
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by whizzter 11mo ago
Games are still mostly polygon based due to tooling (Even Unreal Nanite is a special variation of handling polygons), some engines have tried voxels (Teardown, Minecraft genererates polygons and would fall in the previous category as far as
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by whizzter 11mo ago
Maybe she was given a huge signing bonus to avoid her working on making X86 irrelevant? Combined with perhaps some interesting project to work on for real.
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by whizzter 11mo ago
That brings you back to managing memory though, C++/CLI having access to managed C# handles/references for GC'd objects (and finalization) would greatly simplify any memory management at the same time as having first class ac
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by whizzter 11mo ago
Sure, legacy applications won't be easy to move over but Microsoft has been quite consistent in working towards making microservice applications easy to build and run with AOT by moving more and more components over to using source-gen
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by whizzter 11mo ago
Yeah pdf libraries are a bit of a mess, I work with a product that handles lots of PDF documents and I think we just recently added another PDF library dependency (I'm certain it's at least 3 now, but could be 4 or even 5 librarie
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by whizzter 11mo ago
Remember when people were selling COM objects in Dr Dobbs journal ads for Visual Basic in the 90s? I think it's the same culture (and partially people) that has been bought over to the .NET world via VB.NET as it was always touted as t
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by whizzter 11mo ago
Moq, lots of PDF libraries, Avalonia, Automapper, MediatR, MassTransit,Telerik stuff,etc. I'm not inherently against it, we have a problem with opensource being asymmetrically underfunded and if people going commercial is the cost perh
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by whizzter 11mo ago
I suspect he sees a lot of scattered pieces of fundamental research outside of LLM's that he thinks could be integrated for a core within a year, the 10 years is to temper investors (that he can buy leeway for with his record) and fine
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by whizzter 11mo ago
LLM's are probably always going to be the fundamental interface, the problem they solved was related to the flexibility of human languages allowing us to have decent mimikry's. And while we've been able to approximate the wor
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by whizzter 11mo ago
You're asserting that they're unscientific by sampling some random signatories. Looking through the signatories a bit closer there's a bunch of comp-sci professors and phd's, some of them had been working directly with n
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by whizzter 11mo ago
Drug dealers are going to be as upset at their style being stolen by hipsters as sailors were when hipsters decided that tattoo's were cool.
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by whizzter 11mo ago
That doesn't make them incorrect, investors, media and even many developers have been duped by the impressive linguistic human mimikry that LLM's represent. LLM/"AI" tools _will_ continue to revolutionize a lot of f
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by whizzter 11mo ago
100 metric tons is nothing really when it comes to trucking, logging trucks in Sweden are commonly hurling through down dirt roads at 70-80km/h with 70 ton loads (mostly limited to that because that's the maximum allowed weight wi
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by whizzter 11mo ago
Someone in the Mastodon thread mentioned the Andrew Tannenbaum "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway." So I wondered about a modern day equivalent, looked up 1tb micro-sd car
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by whizzter 11mo ago
More than anything, once people realize that they can be fine without MS because 5-10% of the non-Apple market has done so (and the alternatives has figured out the kinks with the mass influx of users) it could move from a trickle to an ava
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by whizzter 1y ago
Sounds like the culprit though, could be tons of small objects added for effects or something that still don't show up in memory usage but adds iteration time?

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