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by jdashg 2mo ago
I am compelled to point out how much "For uint64_t and UINT64_MAX you will be waiting a long time" really undersells it. If we assume that the uint32_t version runs in one second, the u64 version will take 136 years. In reality, o
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by jdashg 2mo ago
Disempowering deputies is how you end up with customer service that can't actually provide service to customers. Low-trust societies are a huge efficiency loss, and just a general pain in the ass if you are acting in good faith.
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by jdashg 2mo ago
We are not all selfish actors here. Who have you surrounded yourself with in your life, that you would end up believing that we're all self-interested actors here?
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by jdashg 2mo ago
It's better for five people to earn $100k than for one person to earn $500k and four people nothing. That is a societal negative that progressive and marginal income tax discourages.
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by jdashg 2mo ago
Claude: Solve this jigsaw puzzle for me...
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by jdashg 2mo ago
Because I believed in the product! (Firefox, in my case)
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by jdashg 5mo ago
I do, yeah. Hope that helps!
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by jdashg 6mo ago
As a VRChat regular, Meta's VR world efforts have been hilarious every step of the way. So long and thanks for all the headsets! :) Maybe not everything has to be the next big thing for everyone. Maybe it's valuable for smaller co
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by jdashg 6mo ago
You are not allowed to discard the more reliable source, but you're excused from, and basically forbidden from, asking for more info or for info from third parties.
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by jdashg 6mo ago
We all demand Windows but without ads, but that doesn't cause the market to spit one out. The OS market isn't a healthy market, and government is stepping in here in part because of that market failure to provide a satisfactory so
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by jdashg 7mo ago
2A just says that if the e.g. client request headers say the age bracket, the server (dev) can trust the reported age, but also shall not ignore it on purpose. No "just ignore the do-not-track flag" escape hatch here. "A bart
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by jdashg 7mo ago
I read Hyperion and I found it... alright, just not my thing. Maybe it is indeed a masterpiece but "that every fan of sci-fi ought to have read" oversells it. I honestly can't conscion the time to read the rest of the Cantos
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by jdashg 7mo ago
Absolutely!
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by jdashg 7mo ago
It's also true in a moral sense though. Choosing "defect" rather than "cooperate" shall not be excused by game theory rationalization, appeal to popularity, or "just following orders".
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by jdashg 9mo ago
We literally have to be willing to get taken advantage of sometimes, and we have to come down hard on the "don't hate the player, hate the game" f-you-got-mine assholes. It is not weakness, but strength, to make yourself (rea
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by jdashg 9mo ago
And the GPU API cycle of life and death continues! I was an only-half-joking champion of ditching vertex attrib bindings when we were drafting WebGPU and WGSL, because it's a really nice simplification, but it was felt that would be to
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by jdashg 10mo ago
I did indeed play in the era LanceH is talking about, and I agree with them! We had many thriving communities with no serious cheating problems because of community moderation. Yes, there were poorly moderated servers, but you could simply
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by jdashg 1y ago
Well unfortunately, the device pixel size of something does actually depend not just on the css size and dpr scaling, but also on position and iirc even potentially what else is on the page due to think like border and thin line dilation. U
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by jdashg 1y ago
A bunch of my friends in VRChat dropped $1500 or so on Bigscreen Beyond 2e orders earlier this year, and are ecstatic to finally be receiving their kits. I'm eagerly awaiting my own ship date email in the next few weeks. The people who
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by jdashg 1y ago
How it happened internally is irrelevant to whether Facebook is responsible. Deploying systems they do not properly control or understand does not shield against legal or normal responsibilities! There is a trail of people who signed off on
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by jdashg 1y ago
Once upon a time, we were told not to share our real name or personal info online with strangers. That remains wisdom!
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by jdashg 1y ago
Network effects and moats, sadly.
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by jdashg 2y ago
I always thought hacking scenes in sci-fi were unrealistic, but if you're cooking up AI-fortified code lasagna at your endpoints, there are going to be a mishmash of vulnerabilities: Expert robust thought will be spread very thin by
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by jdashg 2y ago
It's about clarity of intent at the call site. Passing by mutable ref looks like `foo`, same as passing by value, but passing mutability of a value by pointer is textually readably different: `&foo`. That's the purpose of the
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by jdashg 2y ago
> the WebGPU committee had to work backwards to justify Do you mean to allege "[the Apple delegates to] the WebGPU committee"? Because the committee as a whole has a ton of public minutes that show how strident the opposition t
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by jdashg 2y ago
It is not easy to write a safe and robust intermediate graphics driver from scratch that is secure and runs everywhere, even as the spec continues to change in response to implementation experience.
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by jdashg 2y ago
TOSs aren't nearly as binding as you would think, particularly if a reasonable person would click "agree" yet not at least roughly understand the terms. A general "You release the company from even negligent liability&qu
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by jdashg 2y ago
Same MPG but now with AC is a huge win!
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by jdashg 2y ago
I'm too much of a transhumanist to understand why, when you can choose to look like anything you could imagine, you would choose to look like your default human self!
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by jdashg 2y ago
Everyone I know who uses VR for more than a year, it's because they started socializing in VR. Like MMOs, it can be as social or asocial as you want it to be!

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