torlok

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by torlok 3d ago
Would love to see Carmack create a product with AI, instead of stealth promoting his shovel company on the worst website on the internet.
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by torlok 4d ago
My only issue with WASM is that it forces me to contort my platform abstraction later to terrible web APIs. Other than that it's great. I can compile C++ with plain clang or the WASI SDK, and it runs everywhere at near native speeds wi
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by torlok 9d ago
The reason Tesla acquired SolarCity was to bail Musk out. Same as xAI, and then SpaceX, bailed out his Twitter purchase.
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by torlok 9d ago
Solar Roof was vaporware when it was presented by Musk. It was blatant fraud. There's no "free energy" here. The roof was way more expensive than a regular roof covered in solar panels.
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by torlok 18d ago
Nobody's forcing you to buy products in plastic bottles. It would actually be better if you didn't. "Technology and progress" are so far producing mountains of trash and pollution that you're privileged to not have
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by torlok 19d ago
Europeans were blowing each other up 80 years ago. Now we have complete freedom of movement and trade. You're missing the forest for the trees. The EU is the greatest achievement of our parents' generation.
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by torlok 2mo ago
I don't think this is a solution. I do this often naturally, I walk around and "plan", and it feels like I'm just avoiding sitting down and doing the actual task. The author talks about it; when facing a difficult proble
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by torlok 2mo ago
OpenGL is still the simplest way to start learning hardware accelerated rendering, and it runs on all modern platforms.
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by torlok 2mo ago
Yes, OpenGL 4.1 is available, just deprecated. It's emulated through Metal, and so will work on M chips.
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by torlok 2mo ago
I maybe be a complete moron not familiar with Github, but I wanted to have a look at the code and it took me solid 5 minutes of going through the website searching for a link to the repository, and the only one I eventually found was when I
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by torlok 2mo ago
As I said, a slab allocator is included as part of general purpose malloc implementations. Rust is not going to be smarter here. I would bet it uses malloc underneath anyway. Using a fat pointer to address individual bits is a waste of memo
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by torlok 2mo ago
You mean 4 bytes? You can't even address 4 bits. Small allocations can be handled by a slab allocator. Most likely implemented via a free list. A general purpose malloc should have that feature. TBH, I would consider allocating such ti
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by torlok 2mo ago
DOGE gutted SSA, IRS, directly affecting seniors and other vulnerable people getting checks, gutted CFPB taking away fraud protection, not to mention gutting of USAID which caused countless deaths, though I'm sure you don't care.
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by torlok 3mo ago
Are AI comments allowed on HN?
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by torlok 3mo ago
There's a vague correlation between wind direction and sailing speed, but there's nothing real here. The mechanics of sailing upwind, downwind, or the cost of tacking are interesting mechanics that aren't explored here whatso
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by torlok 3mo ago
Reading titles like these makes me feel like I'm having a stroke.
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by torlok 3mo ago
I had the same mindset about wanting to be good at a lot of things, working on myself, not "wasting time", but now in my mid thirties I figured that if I really wanted to do something, I'd be actually doing it, and a lot of t
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by torlok 3mo ago
To who? There's no immediate benefit of holding a stock that doesn't pay out beyond voting rights, or a fraction of company assets. As parent said, you're just hoping to sell it to somebody down the line for more. It's s
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by torlok 3mo ago
Every time I try to explain this to people I feel like I'm talking to a brick wall. Even more frustrating to hear, otherwise reasonable, market analysts say that "dividends don't matter because the stock value goes down on pa
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by torlok 3mo ago
It didn't already happen. As you pointed out, people who funded the purchase of Twitter hold SpaceX shares, and this IPO is how they get their money back.
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by torlok 4mo ago
People who helped Elon buy Twitter want their money back. After all the share-swap acquisitions X shares are now SpaceX shares.
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by torlok 4mo ago
Europe is dealing with the US, just not via empty threats on social media. Things take time when you have a functioning democratic system with checks and balances.
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by torlok 4mo ago
It's there any evidence that trading off of headlines works long-term?
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by torlok 4mo ago
Sounds a lot like what Musk does, except maybe that Musk uses his companies to outright bail himself out.
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by torlok 5mo ago
I think you underestimate how little economic pressure matters when people are up against an invader who attacked amidst negotiations for bogus reasons, threatened total annihilation, and killed thousands, including a school full of childre
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by torlok 5mo ago
Beside posturing, modern China was only involved in skirmishes at the Indian border. What's delusional is blindly comparing China to Russia or the USA.
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by torlok 5mo ago
Russia is keeping their expensive equipment in the back since years now because they're afraid to lose it. They would be fire bombing cities if they could. Russia already used white phosphorous in this war. The only reason they're
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by torlok 5mo ago
Thanks Joe Rogan.
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by torlok 5mo ago
Thousands dead, millions displaced, Hegseth just quoted "Pulp Fiction" at a sermon, but perhaps this might make enough Europeans fed up with the US.
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by torlok 5mo ago
Hardly a surprise. This crack team of negotiators couldn't make Russia budge an inch after a year of negotiations, and only managed to put pressure on the victim country.

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