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@croloris Thank you, and Andrew, for the clarifications ^.^

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@croloris @FlohOfWoe @rikarends @ziglang I don't know how it played out with previous proposals, but this will be a good indicator of how zig can survive community crises. So far I like that it's mostly civil discussion. Keep up the good work but try not to lose a third of your selling points advertised on the homepage.

@FlohOfWoe @rikarends @ziglang that said plenty of proposals from andrew never became a thing so no need to panic. the exploratory work for reducing our dependence on LLVM (eg arocc) is going to happen anyway, so there might be a happy ending for everybody still

@TylerGlaiel @caseyyano I'm fairly sure the facebook metaverse thing was more expensive.

@caseyyano and the best game ever made is star citizen

hackernews guy has opinions on indie games

@williamlegate For a guy who has racked up so many recent Ls, it is crazy that he is just getting rid of the only W he had

After using ChatGPT to help me code for a few days now, I am slowly seeing some potential in how it will change how we code: not necessarily replacing programmers, but enabling us to work at a different layer of abstraction. rolisz.com/chatgpt-and-th…

@_jsolly @debarghya_das Unfortunately, the point of AI seems to be to make money :(. At least as long as it's a product of a corporation. Their goal tends to be: make profit.

@debarghya_das Noooooooooo. The whole point of AI is to have an unbiased non-human helper who objectively finds whatever is best for the user.

Bing Chat now has Ads! It's going to be fascinating to see how the unit economics of Ads in language models will unfold and affect search advertising. 1/3

@EricLengyel @FeerQuinte I assumed it was the insane level of piracy 😢. I don't expect those numbers to be included in the sales stats.

@laserbeam333 @FeerQuinte Enlighten me.

Due to rampant, out of control, ridiculous, completely insane levels of piracy, my future books will not be published in electronic format.

@EricLengyel @FeerQuinte I have a feeling you know why only 9% of sales are electronic versions...

@FeerQuinte I sympathize, but it's just one more inconvenience honest people have to tolerate due to unchecked thievery in modern society. Fortunately, 91% of FGED sales are physical copies.

@gilessurname @TylerGlaiel You still need "path with less fire". The beauty of A* is that it can search arbitrary states. Example thing you can do with A* (and no need for other algs). Find the fewest moves between 2 chess configurations (obeying chess rules). It looks nothing like navigation, but is A*.

@laserbeam333 @TylerGlaiel So my solution does deal with that situation because it effectively produces "navigable area with fire" and "navigable area no fire", then you choose the no fire route if navigable else fire route. You're doing a* twice effectively but probably cache wise quicker.

Ok, can GPT-4 *actually* write code? I tested it a bunch with some real-world examples and constructed "simple but hard" problems. tylerglaiel.substack.com/p/can-gpt-4-ac…

@gilessurname @TylerGlaiel Other solutions involve not doing A* and having something custom that kinda looks like A*.

@gilessurname @TylerGlaiel You really have to solve that A, B, C problem described in the article. That A* must assume that you can continue from B regardless of how you got there. You can't do that with cost alone. The most common way to do it is change the state space to have multiple distinc Bs.

@gilessurname @TylerGlaiel Essentially fixes A to C doesn't always go through B in the article, by creating multiple versions of B (and C). Some where you touched 1 fire, some with 0... Each with different costs.

@gilessurname @TylerGlaiel Nope. You can't include the fire in the cost. You can include it in the state. You don't try to reach tiles, you instead reach "tile+count of fire". You need to search through more states (performance--), and more than 1 state is the end so it's harder to stop searching early.

@TylerGlaiel Here's the thing, if you could describe the problem better, then you'd already have the insight that you were hoping to get from GPT to help solve the problem. 😅

I have caused Discourse on hackernews. gotta love all the comments of the form "if you just described your problem better it could have done a better job solving it!" ok then prove it nerds

@tfolbrecht @tsoding It needs to pass the final display image to graphics hardware, but the final image is one texture with all the pixels already computed. The work of deciding those pixels could have been in the gpu but it's not. That's the main practical difference today between cpu/gpu rendering.

@tsoding Maybe I’m misunderstanding something wouldn’t chromium/blink be passing everything to opengl or vulkan under the hood? Sure it doesn’t use WebGL but blink is very fast.

How Fast is Your Computer?

@jaroslawjarosik @awesomekling They technically let you do it, as long as the files never touch Spotify servers... and they only get copied via LAN. I assume that's how they avoid licensing hell.

@jaroslawjarosik @awesomekling You can include your own files in spotify, but it's super convoluted. You need to show local files (in settings). Then add those files to a playlist, then make that playlist available offline on a different device while connected to the same wifi as your laptop/desktop.

Spotify circa 2010 was so beautiful 🤩🎧 The information density.. the pixel-perfect layouts.. and super responsive even on my crappy laptop at the time! I gush over Y2K software aesthetics a lot, but seeing old Spotify desktop clients gives me similar fuzzy feelings 🤩

@FoldableHuman You'd have to cut out the 3rd act of any of them to even get Tarkovsky to see them.

What do you think Tarkovsky’s favourite MCU phase 4/5 film would be?

Excited to see how the startup ecosystem is developing in Oradea. Come and join the Startup Weekend here: startupweekendoradea.com I'll be a mentor there

@AtomicGaryBusey @SteveSyfuhs Yeah... MS just changed the context menu API with win 11 with some extra features. It's not a backwards compatible change and the "more options" is just there for software that hasn't updated yet.

@SteveSyfuhs Wait does this mean I'll be able to have my 7-zip options in the right-click context menu back without having to go to "Show more options"???