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by zmmmmm 3y ago
As others have commented, it's a shame there isn't a proof of work that doesn't also hurt the planet. It makes me wonder if there would ever be a way to actually do the opposite - your "proof of work" is somehow lin
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
I think people who love math expressed in nomenclature well never understand those who don't ... K-L divergence is the pretty much really dumb, obvious thing you would probably think up if someone asked you to compare two probability d
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
> guest languages eventually fade away I actually think Groovy sits a bit different to other JVM languages in this respect, because it never was at its core, pitched as an alternative to Java (for a brief moment it was considered in that
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
A similar vein but muuuuch simpler for anybody who isn't up for weights. Each day, before anything else: 1. 3 mins stretching 2. 20 (real) situps (3 mins) 3. 10 pushups (2 mins) I actually usually do a good bit more exercise more than
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
JDK21 hasn't even hit general availability yet according to its own schedule [0]. It seems a little impatient to get upset that tooling isn't 100% there before it's even released. Naturally tool vendors aren't going to r
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
Yes from a pure functional perspective, it's really down to null handling at this point. But kotlin has a lot of nice syntactic sugar still. Same with Groovy.
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
But then they complain they had to manually type an import statement ... before going back to their opinionating on how bad IDEs are. I find the whole notion of software engineers rejecting software applications being useful as a concept wh
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
Because concurrent calls are confusing and create bugs. The point this train wreck of an example is trying to make (and failing) is that it's fine to write sequential blocking code in your request handlers. They can take as long as the
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
i've thought of this more often in terms of putting natural brakes on otherwise problematic activities that are too hard to control other ways At low levels the friction doesn't matter, but when the undesirable activity gets out o
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
The bad news is the initial build is peak of the experience with Python - it's all downhill after that, since Python and other dynamic languages are mainly optimised for code creation rather than code maintenance. It's fascinating
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
How "edgy" can real PostgreSQL be? Seems to me that this is all in lieu of using real PostgreSQL replication, on the basis that real Postgres is too heavy / complex to run on the edge. Can a true PostgreSQL replica be config
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
this keyring USB connector: https://www.amazon.com/inCharge-Six-One-Portable-Compatible/... Amazing how often I end up whipping this thing out to charge something or connect data end points together. Being on my keyrin
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
If they simply acknowledged that and said "we are making a tax on tech social/search companies" and then that they were distributing the proceeds of that to news/media? I'd be fine with it. It's the theatrics
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
This seems a subtle shift in general with AI is people feel entitled to treat it as an end in itself or a black box. The agreement says they can use "User Content" for: > the purpose of product and service development, marketin
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
The problem with all of these laws is the lack of integrity in the underlying logic. The laws are written because ad revenue is no longer supporting news. But the laws are written as if somehow this is connected to social media and search l
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
See Epic games / fortnite
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
well, that's why I said "no real interest" They delivered a product, but it's clear they simply don't have the commitment required to actually see it through. Quest Pro is actually great for what it is, but they see
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
I just said above they aren't truly open ... so I'm not sure why you're premising your statement on me believing the opposite? But in terms of how they are are "more" open, you can side load any app you want, and th
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
Firmware, no unless you are ultra hard core. But above that layer there are pretty big distinctions. Meta is fully on the record that they are all in on making Quest completely use OpenXR as the primary API to the point of deprecating the o
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
literally no idea what you are talking about. I have no connection to facebook, Meta etc whatsoever.
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
It doesn't solve the problems. Apple has actually issued developer guidelines for AVP that Apps should only render UI / static content at a fixed position from the headset in space corresponding to the fixed focal distance for thi
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
> 20M lifetime is not mass market I agree, that's why I said "what mass market there is". Because the whole thing is completely speculative that there can be mass market here ever, and that applies as much to Apple as Meta
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
> showing off half-finished vaporware They have videos of actual people using the actual built devices at the conference. They are letting conference attendees at SIGGRAPH put these on and try them out. I get the need to downplay anythi
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
> Apple is going to beat them to market with a mass market product ??? Meta already shipped 20M headsets. Apple won't get more than 400k of these in the field until 2025, and even then they will be so expensive barely anybody can af
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
> to scoop up important patents Or perhaps to refine that, to scoop important patents Apple is aggressively out there patenting obvious things that have been basic public knowledge / in use for years to try and lock up the field (
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
It's such a fascinating difference in approach between Meta and Apple. Meta literally invites journalists in to walk around its lab, shows off their latest advances in academia (including all the limitations and problems). Meanwhile Ap
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
Oh man, there's a <dialog> element?! There are probably occasions where that is the whole reason I pulled a JS framework in, since default alert boxes are horrible and anything better is a heap of work to do in a nice looking yet
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
PlantUML does Gantt charts too completely off line if you want. Kinda ugly but surprisingly powerful. I have managed whole giant projects this way.
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
This headline is far more inflammatory than anything written in the post it points to.
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
Fine tuning seems to me to be dangerously close to a new snake oil of AI these days. The narrative goes, "look how awesome ChatGPT is, imagine how good it would be trained on just your company's documents". Which 1000% misses

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