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Machado Presents Trump with Her Nobel Peace Prize Medal

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Im constantly surprised by the disk size required by rust builds. It takes over 50G to compile zed IIRC.

6일 전discuss

This is exactly how I feel about performance. Unrelated to any programming language, including my own optimizations. The higher the speedup the more we cheer, however most optimizations aren't clever techniques. They're just someone using a profiler to find "huh, radiator fluid shouldn't go in the fuel tank".

Most performance bottlenecks aren't inherent limitations of the hardware or the problem. There's some minimum amount of effort required to get the result, but that's never the reason why the application doesn't perform well. It's always the cruft we add on top.

9일 전discuss

> If someone was wrong, I wanted them to know it, and I wanted them to know exactly why. I collected counterarguments the way I collected patches. I believed that if I just laid out the logic clearly enough, the other person would have no choice but to come around. Truth would win.

This is probably how flat earthers think. If you engage in arguments without being prepared to be proven wrong, and you're hoping people to accept your argument as truth instead of both of you arriving at the truth together, you're not debating, you're being eristic (which is a fancy word I just found).

10일 전discuss

And they still find ways to drink themselves to alcohol induced comas. There's no real substitute for education and parental nurturing only best effort band-aid solutions. Children with problems at home are more likely to be targeted by bullies or child predators.

I'm not saying the government shouldn't do anything, they should and it should probably involve legislature around social media that positively affects adults as well. But raising a child, teaching it what's dangerous and what's safe and developing a relationship of trust so you're aware when there's danger lurking, that's a parent's job. No amount of legislation will help neglected children. They're tiny, curious, ingenious humans who will find ways to get what they want.

10일 전discuss

Protecting kids online requires attention from their parents, not from the government.

12일 전discuss

I would try to generate puzzles that don't involve plurals at all.

It happened twice that the word I missed was the plural of a word I already found. After finding a word I don't follow it again so finding the plural happened by accident twice, and it felt cheap.

17일 전discuss

Sure, and the article mentions the AI in elden ring is scripted in lua which is loaded at runtime, meaning it's not hardcoded.

17일 전discuss

LLMs can be described as "hardcoded weights for generating the next token". All code is "hardcoded".

I think AI for game NPCs is perfectly valid terminology. The actor senses the surroundings and makes decisions to achieve its goals within the constraints and events of the environment.

18일 전discuss

Ginger Bill, the Odin language developer, is openly hostile against package managers (he wrote a post called "Package Managers Are Evil") so he maintains his own wrappers of popular C libraries in vendor folder next to the compiler. That doesn't sound like a healthy ecosystem to me.

I think zig is also highly opinionated but it always seemed to me that Andrew started from solid pillars and made an excellent job of carefully considering each feature that was added to the language:

- No hidden control flow.

- No hidden memory allocations.

- No preprocessor, no macros.

Odin on the other hand is just some developer's personal taste marketed as "Programming Done Right". So, if you disagree with any choice Bill made, you're not doing programming right.

18일 전discuss

CEO of a company that failed to become an AI giant says we can't let the companies that succeeded take their slice of the pie.

22일 전discuss

    Q: Will this help me get hired?
    A: Having connected apps on your LinkedIn profile is extra proof of your practical experience with leading tools. While connected apps make your expertise visible, they are just one part of your profile. Think of it as a way to let your tooling speak for itself.

From wikipedia: "A rat race is a metaphor used to describe an endless, self-defeating, or pointless pursuit. [...] The term is also commonly associated with an exhausting, repetitive lifestyle that leaves no time for relaxation or enjoyment."

23일 전discuss

Oh, you have to look up him pretending to play Path of Exile 2 with best in slot gear and casualy saying he's looking to upgrade his items because he can't tell the difference between required level and actual utility of an item.

And yes, he obviously paid a human, GP was making a joke.

24일 전discuss

To be fair, game developers have been rendering text on the GPU for over two decades. I've done it in college a decade ago with bmfont [1] (nowadays the engine does rasterization during import). Whoever thought was making a case with "outputting text to a terminal emulator is a PhD level problem" was really out of their depth and was making a case for unnecessary inefficiencies. Kudos to Casey for proving a point.

1. https://www.angelcode.com/products/bmfont/

24일 전discuss

He and Casey Muratory make a lot of cool instructive content, but their condescending attitude towards the industry always made me thing "Huh, must be really nice working alone and making all the decisions yourself."

24일 전discuss

Git LFS has file locking, and no VCS can provide you with the tools for diffing binary assets. I don't see any meaningful difference between Perforce, Diversion or Lore and git + LFS + file locking. Unless there's a meaningful performance impact for large projects (I only work on small / medium projects), the capabilities are the same. However, I get excellent git support for code in any editor, as opposed to Diversion or Lore which have none.

24일 전discuss

How is their "Claude for Government" having such a good uptime? I thought they were a supply chain risk and banned from use by the government?

25일 전discuss

> there is more restriction than ever of the distribution of information.

There's an endless source of information if you look for it. Just because social media doesn't stuff them in your face doesn't mean they're censored.

On the other hand, you can shove proof in people's faces and they'll still find reasons to argue against it. Information availability is not the problem. It's more energy consuming to search and filter information so people largely avoid doing it.

There's a trope in movies where the antagonist is secretly recorded and broadcast so regular people finally see the truth and wake up. I've seen journalists risking their carriers to expose corruption only for people to shrug and look the other way.

25일 전discuss

We have abundant free flow of information today and yet I see a rise of tyranny.

"This is how democracy dies, with thunderous applause." feels more grounded in reality.

25일 전discuss

In my experience it doesn't take anything that ample to encourage far right extremism. It's enough to point at an existing problem and a convincing scapegoat. It works today not eventually and it works regardless of any reason or reality.

It's true though that multiple problems mean multiple propaganda seeds.

25일 전discuss

2x RTX3090 are around $4400. Without any electricity costs or other parts, that's 3.6 years of $100/m claude.