Agingcoder

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by Agingcoder 8mo ago
Is the same mechanism at play with football ? Say Real Madrid gets so much money from champions league that they can buy all the best players and then keep winning ? And then only a small clique of elite clubs end up winning all the time? (
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by Agingcoder 8mo ago
That’s what struck me immediately - these are all typical tricks from the 90s. I remember demos ( I think complex/dope in 95) where the awesome ‘real time reflections’ where actually an animated texture. I was quite impressed when som
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by Agingcoder 8mo ago
Looks like typical demo scene tricks applied to gaming
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by Agingcoder 8mo ago
This is pretty standard ( or at least used to be 20 years ago ) in high performance chess programming, see https://www.chessprogramming.org/Bitboards https://healeycodes.com/visualizing-chess-bitboards
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by Agingcoder 8mo ago
This is weird - my mother very rarely drinks but she’ll be hard pressed telling you exactly when was the last time time . This doesn’t make her an alcoholic. Or should you start the rule with ‘you’ve been drinking everyday for a while’?
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by Agingcoder 9mo ago
Computer architecture a quantitative approach by Patterson and hennessy It’s the real life exchange rate for algorithms and data structures. Basically understanding your infrastructure and its performance characteristics will help you desig
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by Agingcoder 9mo ago
I used mplayer ( the ancestor to mpv as I’ve just realized ) in the early 2000s which I think could handle everything under the sun back then.
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by Agingcoder 9mo ago
Cloudflare, google project zero.
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by Agingcoder 9mo ago
This is a truly remarkable book, and a must read for any engineer who depends on a gc . And if you don’t need a gc, the book starts by talking about allocators, which are actually very important too !
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by Agingcoder 9mo ago
It’s pretty standard in many places I think - the point here is not the null gc but rather exact memory requirements being proved statically.
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by Agingcoder 9mo ago
I liked window maker and enlightenment, both of a which appeared a bit later.
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by Agingcoder 9mo ago
This title is very hard to parse
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by Agingcoder 9mo ago
It’s also not a solved problem unlike what the article claims, unless ‘solved’ doesn’t mean ‘works all the time ‘.
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by Agingcoder 9mo ago
Very nice post thanks - I didn’t know about cakeml and bootstrapping formally verified compilers.
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by Agingcoder 9mo ago
Which are both systems with a fair amount of theory behind them !
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by Agingcoder 9mo ago
They can actually - I thought they couldn’t , but the latest ones can, much to my surprise. I changed my mind after playing with cursor 2 ( cursor 1 had lasted all of 10 mins), which actually wrote a full blown app with documentation, tests
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by Agingcoder 9mo ago
> One objection I hear a lot is that LLMs are only good at greenfield projects. I'd push back hard on this. I've spent plenty of time trying to understand 3-year-old+ codebases where everyone who wrote it has left. Where I am,
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by Agingcoder 10mo ago
In my experience codex fails at that kind of task in many cases. I think it’s unlikely it will succeed at that task with a real world , old, large codebase. Now, the next release might work !
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by Agingcoder 10mo ago
This is very very very good advice, the same thing happened to me. Most importantly, I wouldn’t have enjoyed the job without coaching !
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by Agingcoder 10mo ago
Yes I did feel the same, and it boiled down to accepting I had to try something new that I thought I didn’t want or be happy with what I already had . You have several options I guess. - it’s very likely you haven’t mastered all layers of t
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by Agingcoder 10mo ago
Point taken, thanks a lot for playing along. I’ll do all the things if ever needed, but I get that if a cloud act request happens , your cloud provider will be able to get your stuff. I’m specialized enough in another field to know that I’m
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by Agingcoder 11mo ago
Ok I thought that was the whole point of things like Intel TDX , AMD SEV and various enclave mechanisms which provide full ram encryption and attestation ? The only issue left would be managed services though, which then I wouldn’t use, but
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by Agingcoder 11mo ago
Thanks. I get that FHE is not realistic today, but can’t I use ( if it’s really critical) a combination of confidential vms and an external hsm ? I understand I’ll be limited to traditional workloads , and not managed services though. I ask
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by Agingcoder 11mo ago
Maybe I’m misunderstanding something - if I store my data elsewhere , am I not supposed to encrypt it anyway, with my keys ? If the crypto is strong enough then surely cloud providers can’t do anything with it ?
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by Agingcoder 11mo ago
Yes - I tried the other platforms. Much to my surprise (and granted, I have the means to do so) I will favor steam whenever possible, it’s just significantly better.
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by Agingcoder 11mo ago
Comanche ( or at least an approximation of it ) on an Atari ST - that’s quite a feat!
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by Agingcoder 11mo ago
I see your point but … trees and blobs are an implementation detail that I shouldn’t need to know. This is different from files and directories ( at least directories ) in your example. What I want to know is that I have a graph and am movi
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by Agingcoder 11mo ago
This is exactly what I meant. https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Branching-Branches-in-a-N... The book says that ‘ To really understand the way Git does branching, we need to take a step back and examine how
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by Agingcoder 11mo ago
I disagree, but it doesn’t mean you’re wrong - we might just be looking for different things. My view is that if you’re going to talk like a bored robot, then I need a transcript or a paper which is much shorter than a talk. I distinctly re
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by Agingcoder 11mo ago
The git documentation is one of the nastiest docs ever just like the whole git ui. It’s technically entirely correct, but won’t help you understand how it works in any way. It’s exactly like folks in 1995 telling you to rtfm when you’re try

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