correct_horse

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by correct_horse 14d ago
Did you ever try to ask a chatbot to rephrase your hint in its own words? If it prefers LLM generated text, surely that would help.
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by correct_horse 2mo ago
All of my gamer friends exclusively play Java edition and so do I. Also minecraft's most active speedrun category (any % glitchless, random seed) uses version 1.16.1 on Java edition. The biggest server of minecraft youtubers, hermitcra
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by correct_horse 4mo ago
Haskell, OCaml, Erlang lead the way and Rust, Zig and Go get all the mindshare. I feel like its a common pattern for more experimental languages to pioneer features and other languages to copy the features and bring them to a C style syntax
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by correct_horse 7mo ago
Mac minis are particularly suited to running AI models because they can have a pretty good quantity of RAM (64GB) assigned to the GPU at a reasonable price compared to Nvidia offerings. Mac minis have unified memory which means it can be sp
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by correct_horse 11mo ago
Just here to point out that the actor’s name is Bob Odenkirk not Odendirk. In a statically typed language this would be an error at compile time not hacker news comment time.
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by correct_horse 1y ago
Safe rust can leak memory, so a better question is "If someone wrote C code that made an invalid read or write, would rust do the same?" I can't answer the question, but ideally if the translated was safe, it would somehow el
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by correct_horse 1y ago
for when not to use a spreadsheet, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34968457 tl;dr when it involves automated processes
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by correct_horse 1y ago
I also got nausea from this game and I've never gotten nausea from a video game before. The style is amazing, but the camera controls need some work. I don't know what the camera needs besides a more standard mouse control.
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by correct_horse 1y ago
I think I agree. I’m curious what software would be in places 2-10. If we’re talking about HN, maybe excel/google sheets? Maybe C++? Recent versions of macOS always seem to get hate, but I think macOS is in a different category.
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by correct_horse 1y ago
Fil-C seems interesting, and I didn’t understand the details of how multi-threaded garbage collectors worked before reading it (I still don’t but I’m closer!). The tradeoff between a compacting garbage collector (Java) vs what you can bolt
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by correct_horse 4y ago
> Disable spotlight for everything except what you want to use it for My friend's mac would "take off" (fan spun up crazy fast) after every boot/login and I disabled full-text search of documents to fix it. There was
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by correct_horse 5y ago
Do you think an eventually open style spam filter could work? One where the implemntation is released say 2 years after it was first written (including modifications)
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by correct_horse 5y ago
The funniest part of this article (in the context of being posted on HN) is that the author separately mentions engineer and software engineer in her list of client professions. That settles it - normal people think they're different.
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by correct_horse 5y ago
Cloud gaming would lose practical consumers' control much more than Netflix did. At the very least, one could always point a video camera at the screen to copy video (suppose for one's own records). But with games, there is no cha
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by correct_horse 5y ago
Memory hole is from 1984. It is where they put papers to be incinerated and forgotten. Spotify removed a few Joe Rogan episodes IIRC.
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by correct_horse 5y ago
I'm not sure if the author of this blog visits hacker news to read this, but your code blocks are unreadable without javascript. They're black highlighted black text.
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by correct_horse 5y ago
Unsurprising, since the creator of rust, Graydon Hoare now works for apple on swift[0] in "a non-leadership position". [0] https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/7qels2/i_wonder_why_g...
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by correct_horse 5y ago
Most non-copyleft (permissive free software and proprietary software) tries to stay as far away as possible from the GPLv3 license. Because of this, macOS ships gnu nano 2.0.6 whereas the latest is 5.8. FreeBSD doesn't even have nano i
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by correct_horse 5y ago
Display Data Channel generally doesn't work through dongles. I'm not really sure how usb-c dongles work (block diagram, etc.), so I don't know why this is the case.
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by correct_horse 5y ago
I like rust, but don't use it for embedded. Here's a blog I read on how to make GPIO access safe https://www.ecorax.net/macro-bunker-2/ . In that article, they have three goals: verify that the pin is correctl
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by correct_horse 5y ago
I haven't found a good solution to a fallible constructor without exceptions. You might want this if you have a C++ wrapper around a file or some other OS primitive. I would love some allowance for constructors returning std::optional.
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by correct_horse 5y ago
The way tinder dealt with it, as I understand, is by dividing the world into a coarse grid. Users were placed in the grid, then distances calculated from the centers of the grid squares. Basically rounding of position, not rounding of dista
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by correct_horse 5y ago
"Let your ideas be second-hand, and if possible tenth-hand, for then they will be far removed from that disturbing element — direct observation." The Machine Stops, page 18
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by correct_horse 5y ago
I had the same reaction. I decided that those were examples that subverted the author's expectations instead of examples of contradiction.
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by correct_horse 5y ago
This article suggests a weird anti-synnergy between Google products. If android app makers knew that an adsense/admob ban led to a play store ban, they would use some other advertising platform on Android, which would lose Google money
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by correct_horse 5y ago
That wouldn't be the first time something like this happened. It comes to mind that the album titled "John Wesley Harding" is named after the outlaw John Wesley Hardin (no g). I'm genuinely not sure if these changes ar
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by correct_horse 5y ago
I think the Minecraft mod scene happened because java is easier to deobfuscate than C++. JVM bytecode doesn't have as many opcodes as x86_64 and JVM bytecode's opcodes are on average simpler. I suspect that modding a new unobfusca
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by correct_horse 5y ago
I'm looking forward to the next installment "Machine Learning Machine Learning for game development," the blog article written instructing general AI on how to generate better ML models for video games.
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by correct_horse 6y ago
> Every time you add an abstraction layer to a software stack you can expect a roughly one order of magnitude performance reduction, so intuition would suggest that a WebAssembly framework (based on top of JavaScript running inside a web
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by correct_horse 6y ago
This would most probably result in corporations laying off the lowest paid employees and paying contractors to do the same work.

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