isidor3

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by isidor3 10mo ago
I was hoping from the title that this would be about creating an audio representation so you could listen to the database work as if it were an old PC that had distinctive sounds for different tasks
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Destructive Convenience (thoughts on modern social and chat platforms))(volpeon.ink)
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by isidor3 1y ago
I do think it's important to raise issues like this, but I personally hope that it means people put more careful eyes on it and pitch in patches so the project succeeds rather than people avoiding it. (totally unbiased opinion from hav
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by isidor3 2y ago
I found this series to be a great read on some of the history of Galileo and the status of scientific understanding at the time I believe part of it has made the rounds on hn before: http://tofspot.blogspot.com/2013/10
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by isidor3 2y ago
An author at Ars Technica has been trying to push the term "confabulation" for this
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by isidor3 2y ago
You build 9 different services in-house, obviously.
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by isidor3 2y ago
From playing games that get that distance wrong, it doesn't give me a headache or anything, it just makes the whole world feel bigger or smaller than reality. Really frustrating in games that try to replicate a real feeling. In a drivi
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by isidor3 2y ago
Plotting the average or top percentile latency of an API on the left axis and the number of calls to that API on the right is pretty much standard practice where I work. I would argue it makes things more clear. You get to see exactly how t
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by isidor3 3y ago
While this is an interesting project and work, I do want to call attention to the fact that this is a highly specialized AI that's trained and customized per-track that is being raced on. It's not a generic one that can beat human
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by isidor3 3y ago
Maybe some personal enjoyment?
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by isidor3 3y ago
From that same post, though, referencing the C 11 standard > "All pointers to structure types shall have the same representation and alignment requirements as each other." And so the concern wouldn't apply to this pattern?
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by isidor3 3y ago
Users of cars pretty routinely replace seals that are under a lot more extreme enviroments and abuse than a phone without issue. All of the ones I've dealt with pretty much are "just a gasket and a few screws" Sure, there nee
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by isidor3 3y ago
Sounds like the torpedoes were armed, but not yet fired. So the sub itself turning around in a circle triggered the self-destruct mechanism while the weapons were still in the tubes.
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by isidor3 3y ago
If you scroll down to the bottom of the post, there is a references section with a link to it.
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by isidor3 3y ago
Yes, and obviously ARM didn't chose the instructions in its reduced set optimally, if the best implementations require those instructions to be split into smaller ones. But that doesn't really speak to if that's because it&#x
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by isidor3 3y ago
It is interesting to me how both instruction sets have converged on splitting operations into simpler micro ops. The author briefly mentions RISC-V as having "better" core instructions, but it makes me wonder if having the best po
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by isidor3 4y ago
Looks like Leap is the new focus of their development: https://github.com/ggandor/leap.nvim/issues/3
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by isidor3 5y ago
Because the next move made by your opponent would trivially be to capture your king, ending the game.
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by isidor3 5y ago
I wrote a little solver for some programming puzzle. Thought I was being clever by using bitfields for an array of booleans to reduce memory usage and bandwidth, as they seemed a natural fit for the problem I was solving. Turned out that it
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by isidor3 5y ago
The most "complicated" part about operator overloading (in my opinion) is dealing with precedence rules. Some languages, instead of dealing with this complexity, treat all operators the same. Lisp-like languages, for instance, by
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by isidor3 6y ago
I've never played Diplomacy, only read about it. But, I feel like you don't have to convince your opponents that you're human to win. The players could know that their opponent is a bot and still attempt to strategize with it
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by isidor3 6y ago
> having one or two days per year which are part of no month is stupid > having one or two days per year with no day of the week is asinine These don't sound like real reasons to me. If it costs having a 13th month with just a fe
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by isidor3 7y ago
It actually is though! The force due to air resistance is the primary thing slowing down the bike and rider, and the force, which doesn't change with mass, slows down a heavier bike less, and so a heavy bike will be rolling faster than
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by isidor3 7y ago
Heavier things do gain kinetic energy faster when falling, it's easy enough to confuse "being hard to stop" with "moving fast." Intuitively, the heavier object has "more" of something but in casual conve
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by isidor3 7y ago
My go-to would be "Do you know if sshd would work?" To me, framing it directly as a knowledge question, and to not appear as if you're coming from a place of authority (unless you know both their problem and your solution bot
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by isidor3 8y ago
In APL and J at least, all operators have the same precedence, and always associate to the right, so there's never any ambiguity.
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by isidor3 10y ago
Yes, Lua was originally written as a language for rich configuration files and has grown out of that into a more fully featured language. It's also one of the easier languages to sandbox, since you can evaluate user provided code in a
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by isidor3 10y ago
Lua was written for exactly this purpose, and I personally enjoy writing with it, so it would be my first choice in most cases.
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by isidor3 10y ago
Ithkuil is my favorite conlang, it has an amazing amount of depth that can be presented in surprisingly few syllables. It was designed to be a sort of uber-language. Have the most amount of information in the least number of syllables while