disintegore

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by disintegore 2y ago
This is a slam dunk for free software. Even Oracle can't deny the benefits.
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by disintegore 3y ago
More precisely, it's not the standardized testing that's hurting, it's the underlying material conditions.
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by disintegore 3y ago
I expected Google Ultron
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by disintegore 3y ago
Why not just make Windows 10 better and have that be the last OS
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by disintegore 3y ago
Proton is amazing. I have no other words, it's just amazing.
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by disintegore 3y ago
Honestly at this point I am curious to see how far Microsoft can degrade the experience before its users discover the concept of self-agency.
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by disintegore 3y ago
Interesting. Would the differences in binary sizes be prohibitive for use on the internet?
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by disintegore 3y ago
For 99% of us that's just an implementation detail anyway. Although I remember reading that Firefox can compile wasm faster than normal network transfer rates so maybe AOT makes more sense there.
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by disintegore 3y ago
I didn't expect my descriptions to be included verbatim hahaha
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by disintegore 3y ago
I thought Planetary Annihilation was a spiritual successor to both TA and SC
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by disintegore 3y ago
I have two suggestions : TerraTech ( https://store.steampowered.com/app/285920/TerraTech/ ) for the vehicle building category. Very streamlined and surprisingly deep, although the campaign gameplay can be frust
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by disintegore 3y ago
Fantastic post. Your logic is a perfectly hermetic circle. I'm sure the OP can competently explain all of these things. What they can't do is justify them, or reconcile them with the principles that their society has instilled in
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by disintegore 3y ago
I have one major objection. It's easy to forget, due to the vast wealth of genuinely great volunteer-driven projects out there, that an overwhelming share of open source contributions are actually funded by capital. It's hard to i
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by disintegore 3y ago
I've noticed that a lot of industry practices demonstrate their value in unexpected ways. Code tests, for instance, train you to think of every piece of code you write as having at minimum two integrations, and that makes developers wh
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by disintegore 3y ago
That's probably the best heuristic for finding quality stories nowadays. The publishers and their readership are stuck in a taste-affirming feedback loop and it seems most of the big literary awards are administered by people who have
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by disintegore 3y ago
Over the years I've seen so many variations of this. "u mad", "triggered", "seethe", "rent free", etc. I don't know why the internet insists on deriding anyone that reacts strongly to anythi
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by disintegore 3y ago
More or less. It has precisely zero selling points other than "this software vendor I rely on doesn't support anything else".
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by disintegore 3y ago
Cheap bad faith answer
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by disintegore 3y ago
> They did get the credit, just not for the code, and rightly so. They received credit for reporting the issue, which is a fraction of what they did. They provided the entire solution, full stop. The maintainer only restated it.
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by disintegore 3y ago
That's a 40mb runtime that's probably already on your system
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by disintegore 3y ago
Pragmatic genius
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by disintegore 3y ago
I resent how much we've trained developers to value concision over everything else. I can't tell you how many times I've seen people use DRY as a justification to alias stuff that's already heavily abstracted by the fram
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by disintegore 3y ago
Scrum gives me the same impression as liberal economics. An intellectual tradition centered around quantifying things that can't reliably be quantified, as well as projecting incomplete models on top of reality in service of economic i
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by disintegore 3y ago
Oh, the memories. There was a guy in my RuneScape clan who was known for doing exactly that. Walked me through setting up a vHost and bouncer on a shell account at one time so that I could be 1337 like him, or get us logins for obscure adul
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by disintegore 3y ago
That third point is so odd and shoehorned in. If you're talking about AGI and immortality, why not dream a little bigger? How about achieving actual democracy anywhere in the world? Not just in state elections, but economic democracy
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by disintegore 3y ago
To my knowledge, computers can be designed without any transistors
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by disintegore 3y ago
Sadly this is still a market segment in which a proprietary stack dominates. From the perspective of AMD, they could be looking at a situation in which they can either throw billions of dollars at a monopoly protected by intellectual proper
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by disintegore 3y ago
Looking at the pricing, if you only spin those instances up when you need them, you can go a while before you break even. Otherwise it only takes a few months depending on the GPU. I would imagine that someone really serious about training
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by disintegore 3y ago
Probably the least belligerent superpower in history, internally and externally. They're no saints. Anybody can see that. But by my estimation 90% of the discourse around China in the west is just pure consent manufacturing.
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by disintegore 3y ago
It was always a farce to begin with. Inventing scarcity where there is none because there was zero willingness to organize production around anything other than markets. It was a bad but understandably necessary move back when the printing

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