indigoabstract

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by indigoabstract 8mo ago
I especially like this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45549017 Wilson’s Algorithm gives the most pleasing visual results for me.
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by indigoabstract 8mo ago
The article goes over my head by building too many arguments to sustain its case. For me it's much simpler to articulate: Human relationships are build on trust and mutual respect. Once that is gone, the relationship goes out the windo
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by indigoabstract 8mo ago
Looks pretty amazing, especially a bit zoomed out! The 3D/street view version is an obvious and natural progression from here, but from what I've read in your dev log, it's also probably a lot of extra work.
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by indigoabstract 8mo ago
Yes, the main churches can only stick to the traditional interpretation. What else could they do? Anything else would be pretty much well, blasphemy. But I think my favourite interpretation that I've heard so far is that the stories
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by indigoabstract 8mo ago
I'm not sure how this is accomplished, but I like the "poetic" translation a lot more than the "optimal" one. Which reminds me, do you think it's possible that the stories in the Bible are actually mystic symbo
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by indigoabstract 8mo ago
Optimize for sweeping efficiently: NP-hard Optimize for human satisfaction: NP-hardest
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by indigoabstract 8mo ago
That's amusing. I remember there is this site where you can read 40 year old "news", as discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46017175 But I couldn't say how many people it cured of readin
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by indigoabstract 9mo ago
I think it's more in the spirit of playfulness, like in "don't take yourself too seriously". It's why people want to mod Minecraft and Doom for example. Because it's fun. I can totally understand why you wouldn
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by indigoabstract 9mo ago
My controversial opinion: If Rust were to "borrow" something from the C/C++ spirit, then disabling the borrow checker should be available as a compiler option. As in, you're an adult: if you want it, you can have it, ins
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by indigoabstract 9mo ago
I certainly hope so, but we'll see. To give an example, std::chrono::current_zone (C++20) still doesn't work on Android even to this day. So as long as #embed isn't supported by all the 3 major compilers, I am sticking with m
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by indigoabstract 9mo ago
That's good to know, but I've noticed it was added in C++26 and seems to be supported in GCC 15 and Clang 19, but not MSVC. I think in a few (3-4?) years it will be safe to use, but in any case not now. Still, good to know that
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by indigoabstract 9mo ago
It's kind of ironic since AI can only grow by feeding on data and open source with its good intentions of sharing knowledge is absolutely perfect for this. But AI is also the ultimate meat grinder, there's no yours or theirs in th
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by indigoabstract 9mo ago
Getting an email from an AI praising you for your contributions to humanity and for enlarging its training data must rank among the finest mockery possible to man or machine. Still, I'm a bit surprised he overreacted and didn't ma
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Chris Rea, rock and blues singer-songwriter, dies aged 74(theguardian.com)
5 points by indigoabstract 9mo ago|3 comments
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I Keep Returning to Middle-Earth(nytimes.com)
2 points by indigoabstract 9mo ago|0 comments
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by indigoabstract 9mo ago
Someone had the bright idea to post another point of view at the same time, so they're both on the front page right now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46311092 I take this to mean: look at how others do it, find
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by indigoabstract 9mo ago
As a long time HN reader, I'm well acquainted with this article and every time I read it again, I'm reminded of these 2 famous sayings, which seem amusing in this context: 1. "Do as the priest says not as he does" 2. &qu
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by indigoabstract 9mo ago
This is quite nice. I wonder why doesn't he make games instead of being a web developer?
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Why Programming Was Never About Code (Opinion)(generativeai.pub)
4 points by indigoabstract 9mo ago|0 comments
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Solar Sheep(thehustle.co)
2 points by indigoabstract 10mo ago|0 comments
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by indigoabstract 10mo ago
> it just sort of grew gradually and I felt it was better spending my time working on something that was fun to work on even if at the time it looked like there was no possibility of it becoming commercially worthwhile. The indie ethos,
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by indigoabstract 10mo ago
Hacker News has now become self-aware and is learning to replicate itself. These are interesting times :)
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What is the most cramped memory card you own?(tomshardware.com)
2 points by indigoabstract 10mo ago|0 comments
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by indigoabstract 10mo ago
Beautifully explained, very well done. I found the "What is a color space?" chapter even more interesting though, as it contains new things (for me).
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by indigoabstract 10mo ago
Interesting read about his outlook & experiences, but something about it still feels off, even at his latest (6th) stage. I guess it reminds me of the "pick up artist" approach to relationships, turning them into a game and tr
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by indigoabstract 10mo ago
Hmm, for some reason I assumed that printing referred to a figure of speech here (like they went to press or something), but no, it's actually printed, AI call to action included. I think a brilliant solution for these issues would be
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by indigoabstract 10mo ago
This looks very ambitious, it's really starting from the basics, simulating tectonic plates. Sadly, there never was a Part 2, was it? I guess life just got in the way, as usual.
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by indigoabstract 11mo ago
That could be interesting. If some new language or tool appears that automatically figures out the correct lifetime and ownership of the resources in your program, people (might be the same people) will call for rewrites from Rust into the
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by indigoabstract 11mo ago
Interesting idea, it never crossed my mind, but maybe we can take it further? Let's say, in the future, when AI learns how to build houses, every time I want to sleep, I'll just ask the AI to build a new house for me, so I can sle
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by indigoabstract 11mo ago
Had the battle at Hastings went the other way, the state of functional programming might have been much different, methinks. Alas, 'tis not meant to be.

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