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by zoogeny 2y ago
> Just trust the people who have the best discernment. I don't like that kind of conclusion. For some reason (the context of the article?) it made me think of gold plated digital cables. It's like the old fairy tale of the prin
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by zoogeny 2y ago
Outsourcing, or even part-time contracting, is a totally valid option. The main reason I want to invest in in-house customer service is that I see the role as more than just customer service, but also as a means to build community. I think
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by zoogeny 2y ago
This comes at a decent time for me. I am pondering a new piece of software and customer service is the number one thing on my mind. I've mostly decided that the first hire I would make if it were to become any kind of success would be
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by zoogeny 2y ago
It's one of those quotes that gets attributed to a lot of different people. Here is goodreads claiming it was Ernest Hemingway [1]. “Every man has two deaths, when he is buried in the ground and the last time someone says his name. In
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by zoogeny 2y ago
Adding a new smart person to the team is one of those golden moments for a team, IMO. You get a tiny window of watching them struggle until the tribal team knowledge seeps into them by osmosis. During that time they don't yet know who
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by zoogeny 2y ago
Rendering is a general term that can apply to many things. For example, in JavaScript there is `CanvasRenderingContext2D` [1] where "rendering" is about applying drawing commands to a canvas context. So you are just proving my poi
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by zoogeny 2y ago
They were talking about imgui, so no. Unless dear imgui is secretly an immediate mode API on top of a retained mode renderer? Also, weren't you literally arguing in another thread that performance didn't matter? Some calculation a
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by zoogeny 2y ago
I don't recall being able to do the XML construction inline either, but that just might be my memory. However, the XML selector syntax was a godsend. Recursively parsing an XML tree is really a pain. E4X would allow you to do things li
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by zoogeny 2y ago
I find this is the same for me with writing in a journal. It is almost like an analogy with inertia. It takes a lot of effort to get started and then momentum kicks in.
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This is the kind of thing that can easily devolve into a semantic argument. React presents an immediate mode like API but internally (both in the virtual DOM of React and within the actual DOM of the HTML document) the actual rendering path
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by zoogeny 2y ago
I recently saw a tweet where a programmer demanded that all UIs (and presumably their frameworks/toolkits) should be immediate mode. So, yeah, there seems to be some desire for that kind of thing out in the wild these days.
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by zoogeny 2y ago
I've seen this feature used responsibly and to good effect in a few TypeScript projects so I understand why it would be desirable in Python.
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// CSINameTranslator can get the CSI Driver name based on the in-tree plugin name type CSINameTranslator interface { GetCSINameFromInTreeName(pluginName string) (string, error) } Do people actually find c
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by zoogeny 2y ago
I agree it is currently a pipe dream. But if I was looking for a doctoral research idea, it might be fun to work on something like that. Lots of potential avenues to explore, e.g. going from a high-level language to some IR, from some IR to
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by zoogeny 2y ago
Totally tangential, totally not related to the post (unless you squint your eyes and really blur things) ... I was thinking about the old canard of the sufficiently smart compiler. It made me think about LLM output and how in some way the o
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Extropic: Thermodynamic Accelerated Computing(twitter.com)
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by zoogeny 2y ago
> guilds also pushed back very effectively on the nobility in Germany snd Northern Europe If your argument is that exclusive initiatory societies were an improvement on hereditary nobility rule then you won't get much of a push back
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by zoogeny 2y ago
I think there is "anti-masonry" and what I suggested as skepticism. For example, nepotism and cronyism aren't de-facto bad (e.g. a father handing the family business to his son or a person hiring a trusted and loyal friend).
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by zoogeny 2y ago
> I believe such a society would quickly devolve into a dystopia and collapse. The main argument in favor of totalitarianism/authoritarianism is pretty much always law & order. And the main argument against the prevailing power
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by zoogeny 2y ago
It is important to note, especially given the positive view given to the guild system in this article, that it is written on a masonic philosophy page. The freemasons have a long and esoteric history that should be viewed with some skeptici
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by zoogeny 2y ago
I skimmed right by that. Have you done any feature comparisons against raylib?
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The next logical step is to port this to WASM so that it can run in the browser.
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by zoogeny 2y ago
I agree that System 1/2 doesn't map directly onto the right/left brain. One of McGilchrist's points is that our society has almost completely turned to relying on analytical and critical thinking. As a programmer, for ex
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by zoogeny 2y ago
I would say that the fact that LLMs are language models is what would make one argue that they are left brain (or whatever constellation of traits are associated with that half of the split). In general, the other side is considered non-l
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by zoogeny 2y ago
I think you may be underestimating the degree to which reviewers were captured by the publishers. It was a pretty big meme back in the day, where AAA titles pretty much always got a 7 or more. The incentive back in the days of magazines was
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Among the more mystically inclined there is a new metaphysic of consciousness that is emerging. It is based on the Bicameral Mentality [1] posited by Jaynes in 1976. It is strongly related to the System 1/System 2 theory of the psychol
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by zoogeny 2y ago
This article really feels like so much nit picking. I hate these kind of semantic debates. > How, I asked, does an AI system without the human capacity for conscious self-reflection, empathy or moral intelligence become superhuman merely
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by zoogeny 2y ago
I grew up with magazines (and demo CDs) before the Internet. I worked for a while in the game industry, so I've always kept up with it. I just don't have time to play another 100+ hour RPG or slog my way through a FromSoftware gam
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> No need to push out quality anymore At some point in my life I started watching people play games on YouTube far more than I play games myself. There are a handful of channels I follow where the creator (influencer?) plays a wide varie
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by zoogeny 2y ago
> What does "GPT-5" and "GPT-6" even mean? That is a short hand for "the next two generations of LLMs created by Open AI". It is not meant to be a forward looking statement on how those models will be brande

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