bigfishrunning

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by bigfishrunning 5d ago
Almost zero. The party may still be, but the administration almost certainly won't.
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by bigfishrunning 5d ago
Programming encourages analytical thinking, and also if no-one learns to program it'll become magic, and that'll be a major societal step back.
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by bigfishrunning 5d ago
Irish twins! congratulations :)
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by bigfishrunning 6d ago
It seems like you're comparing "start from scratch in rust" to "start with an existing game engine in some other language". That's not really a fair comparison. there are popular game engines in rust (although
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by bigfishrunning 6d ago
I do think rust works there (as you clearly know), i just like Go's ergonomics for that exact task better, that's all.
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by bigfishrunning 6d ago
Yeah, you're still stuck with DSL's there, but not for lack of trying https://github.com/NVlabs/cuda-oxide
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by bigfishrunning 6d ago
Honestly, the only domains that I think rust isn't suitable for are: * rapid-prototyping, where javascript and python are still top-tier * adding scriptability to existing programs, where lua and scheme (and python) are popular * Ser
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by bigfishrunning 7d ago
This article was an indication that we're not going to make it. People, I mean. https://futurism.com/altman-please-thanks-chatgpt
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by bigfishrunning 7d ago
> --quiet suppresses compliments, never criticism. It's the only way to grow.
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by bigfishrunning 7d ago
> For many people the phone is the only computing device they use. I suspect the crossover area of the Venn diagram between people who spend what a foldable costs on a phone and people who have no other computing device is extremely smal
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by bigfishrunning 7d ago
> But under the context of "government has no concept of property and assigns resources to everyone" it is not you (or any single person) that decides that, Under every version of Communism, it's "the government"
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by bigfishrunning 8d ago
I think you misunderstand me -- perspective matters. If you have 12 cookies, and I have 2 cookies, and i say "it would be more fair if we each had 7 cookies", then i pretty transparently just want you to give me 5 cookies. "C
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by bigfishrunning 8d ago
Wouldn't the comrades want financial activity to be monitored, to make sure that nobody is getting more then everyone else? (unless they're a party official, of course)
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by bigfishrunning 8d ago
If "assigning resources to everyone" is a net gain (IE the voter doesn't have resources), then yes it is self serving.
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by bigfishrunning 8d ago
and now i'm bummed out
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by bigfishrunning 8d ago
Fair enough, both points are valid
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by bigfishrunning 9d ago
I'm not sure if I'm misunderstanding you, but the purpose of taxes isn't to "compel people to acquire their currency", it's to remove that currency from circulation and prevent the currency they've printed
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by bigfishrunning 12d ago
Not having a windows machine is one of the benefits of not having a windows machine! Using a console for gaming is cheaper, more secure, and more reliable then using a windows machine. The only downside is i don't have access to the wi
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by bigfishrunning 12d ago
Because my playstation spies on my games, not my whole life. It's limitation of scope.
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by bigfishrunning 12d ago
This is why I own a playstation
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by bigfishrunning 13d ago
Depending on the proctor, ELIZA passes a Turing test. The Turing test is an interesting thought experiment, but isn't really a good measure.
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by bigfishrunning 13d ago
Don't worry, they'll come up with a new acronym to mean really-real AI soon...
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by bigfishrunning 13d ago
We don't need to gatekeep the internet, cloudflare does that for us
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by bigfishrunning 13d ago
It's GPL; it would be forked immediately and business as usual.
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by bigfishrunning 14d ago
Sounds like something from https://sebpearce.com/bullshit/
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by bigfishrunning 14d ago
Yup, i'll believe the hype when Windows doesn't suck anymore.
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by bigfishrunning 14d ago
If you were monitoring the power coming into your house, why did you need claude to "put together a whole packet documenting brownouts"? Shouldn't you just have the raw data, maybe highlighted with the offending parts? Or was
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by bigfishrunning 15d ago
Unfortunately at the other end of that websearch is a bunch of slop, your agent can't save you from it.
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by bigfishrunning 15d ago
So you'll reduce that to just live experiences: abolish copyright, and watch 1 million bootleg Taylor Swift T-shirts suddenly blink into existence
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by bigfishrunning 16d ago
A missal generally has bible passages organized by mass date (instead of in the usual order), as well as some hymns and a reference to the order of mass (the things that happen when you go to church)

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