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by phaedrus 2mo ago
There was this persistent meme in bodybuilding discussions - I don't know if it's still a thing - to say about steroids "well they're just a shortcut". The justification that it just got you faster to where you cou
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by phaedrus 5mo ago
Someone should make a parody site asking whether shades of yellow are red or violet.
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by phaedrus 8mo ago
If we had super-smart AI with low latency and fast enough speed, would the perceived need for / usefulness of running multiple agents evaporate? Sure you might want to start working on the prompt or user story for something else while
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by phaedrus 8mo ago
Mindstorms and the original RCX were a huge part of my college memories; I had a professor who used them for one of our classes. I built a substantially large "dragon" robot where the head + neck were actually a robot arm that co
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by phaedrus 9mo ago
I once attended a talk by someone who is or was big in the node.js world. He opened with the premise, "a static type check is just a stand-in for a unit test." I wanted to throw a shoe at him. A static type check doesn't st
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by phaedrus 1y ago
When I was trying to improve compile time for my game engine, I ended up using compiled size as a proxy measure. Although it is an imperfect correlation, the fact that compiled size is deterministic across build runs and even across builds
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by phaedrus 1y ago
This framework is a good example of something I call, "there's plenty of room in the middle." (In analogy to Feynman's "plenty of room at the bottom" about nanotechnology.) Much like how Cosmic Inflation in th
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by phaedrus 2y ago
See also: https://github.com/nucleic/kiwi
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by phaedrus 2y ago
I want so much to be in the business of selling my own traditional downloadable software, that I've thought about (in the absence of an idea) just putting together a do-nothing application with payment, installer, configuration dialogs
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by phaedrus 2y ago
Four companies. The doctor's office which may be controlled by profit-optimizing administration, the big profit pharma corporation, the for-profit medical insurance company, and the company the insured works for who picks the availabl
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by phaedrus 2y ago
Not every case of reflux is caused by the same things. Some people's esophageal sphincter (such as mine does) just... decides to let go at random times. For me, that I can tell, the frequency of that happening isn't really affec
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by phaedrus 2y ago
50K context is an interesting number because I think there's a lot to explore with software within an order of magnitude that size. With apologies to Richard Feynman, I call it, "There's plenty of room in the middle."
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by phaedrus 2y ago
But the G in AGI stands for General. I think the hope is that there is some as-yet-undiscovered algorithm for general intelligence. While I agree that deferring to a subsystem that is an expert in that type of problem is the best way to h
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by phaedrus 2y ago
It's not hearsay; I have a few engineer coworkers whose original job and training wasn't in tower climbing who now climb a couple times a year as installations require. I have seen their Powerpoint presentations, with pictures.
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by phaedrus 2y ago
From the article: "Some broadcast engineering tasks are a bit too daunting for me to consider. Climbing the massive towers that power radio and TV stations is one of them!" I work for a team in a government agency that does engine
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by phaedrus 2y ago
When I was still in school I scored over 900 on a reading speed test. For those skeptical how this is possible, I don't read linearly my eyes make saccades and groups of words come piling into my brain like someone dumped a bucket of
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by phaedrus 2y ago
In context I assumed GP comment meant gut feeling is a lagging indicator rather than predictive.
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by phaedrus 2y ago
Orbiting has more to do with velocity than altitude.
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by phaedrus 2y ago
Can confirm female tortiseshell cats are, yes- lunatic is the best way to describe their personality. My family had several and they were all a combination of smart and crazy, mostly the latter. As a teenager I found it amusing to teach o
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by phaedrus 2y ago
I recently learned of this new-design PC XT clone motherboard, which comes with a VGA card. I imagine this software is perfect for that system. https://monotech.fwscart.com/product/nuxt-v2-0---microatx-tu...
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by phaedrus 2y ago
Does mind wandering in this context refer to daydreaming or does it refer to blanking out? As someone with late-diagnosed ADHD and likely also on the spectrum, I find myself struggling with both of these. I engage in a lot of Walter Mitty
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by phaedrus 2y ago
Iain M Banks: (spoilers) the narrator is secretly an AI
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by phaedrus 2y ago
I recently wrote an ANTLR4 parser for RC files, as part of software archeology on a legacy codebase I support. Considering how many programs over the last 30 (35?) years exist that use the Windows resource compiler, it's surprising ho
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by phaedrus 2y ago
Instead of an Overton window imagine an Overton amoeba. Microsoft, as a monopolist, has for two decades been pushing out pseudopods in all directions against the boundaries of acceptable behavior for an operating system. ("All"
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by phaedrus 2y ago
(With the caveat I haven't read OP article yet) I was enamored of using relational programming for a games engine for many years. Ultimately I concluded it would be better to code such an engine in C++ and write custom solvers for jus
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by phaedrus 2y ago
I wonder if this could be used in a build step to bring a Sqlite DB in a project's "bin/" folder up to date with a source-controlled copy without just overwriting the whole file. Size of the DB file is one issue, but al
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by phaedrus 2y ago
"Concurrency != parallelism" is an important distinction in this context. The base C++ coroutines feature is not about threads or parallel processing, but rather is a generalization of the concept of "subroutine" with r
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by phaedrus 2y ago
That's good, then. Honestly an integer rect for the viewport is, "not wrong."
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by phaedrus 2y ago
Does SDL3 still use integers for coordinates? I got annoyed enough by coordinates not being floating point in SDL2 that I started learning WebGPU, instead. This was even though the game I was working on was 2D. The issue is, if you want
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by phaedrus 2y ago
I have the "DF YouTube (Distraction Free)" Firefox extension installed, hiding anything to do with suggested videos. YouTube is working for me with Firefox on Windows 11 about the same way it has all month.

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