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And because of that we are a few steps away from WarGames [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarGames

I guess it's not the kind of instrument that one can turn on and off? TFA says "keep the [probe] warm"; I'm not sure if it's poetry or a necessity; on Earth electronic components g…

You don't need swap, you need "apps" that take back the "memory is cheap anyway" crappy culture.

The whole paragraph describes quite well what I feel at the company I currently work for. I think it is more accurate to say that it is interference (rather than micromanagement) a…

According to [1], around 2022 nuclear was shut down, coal/lignite increased, imports increased, and consumption decreased - if I interpret those charts correctly. [1] https://www.c…

Well if one assumes "Never attribute to malice..." for a moment here, it's quite understandable that they'd like to kill 3 birds with one stone, and one would agree that having way…

Here some types of small motorize vehicles can be used by persons under 16. Of course, they have built-in speed limiters. What if we had this kind of distinction for mobile devices…

"think dynamically" is the type of discourse TFA denounces, though. The thing designated by "think" is already largely unclear when you think about it, "think dynamically" sounds l…

> How much does it matter whether or not we can accurately observe, characterize, and validate the processes at work inside large reasoning models If you don't or cannot, then it's…

No worries, I simply took the chance to give a more detailed picture.

Yes, the engine handles shaders, networking, DBMS backends (Sqlite, Postgres,... to store "worlds"), entities (mobs/items/vehicles...) to name the obvious things, but the logic of …

> people hate change Not related, but this is an assumption one should automatically reject as soon as it comes to mind. People do like change, when it is for the better. People ha…

Codeberg already had relatively strong opinions before that; their Terms of Use also says: "the right to use the content for any purpose, including both commercial and non-commerci…

Tangential, but sometimes real images can also seem unreal. I remember seeing a photo of Earth and the Moon with the Moon on the foreground that looked like a bad CGI. But it was a…

The "crypto" Greek root can mean "hidden" indeed [1]. [1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%BA%CF%81%CF%85%CF%80%CF%8...

> your self has been fragmented Unless you are more after acknowledgement than sharing/helping others (and be on the receiving end sometimes), this is non-problem .

Even earlier than that. "Pseudonymity" (not using your real name online) were adopted very early on Internet. Facebook is the big exception. This first claim seems weak to me, and …

Well, I was one of those "armchair" specialists until I got a system why could sustain 60 FPS and I couldn't deny there was a difference between 30 FPS and 60 FPS, even though on t…

Yep. More generally the correct reason to prefer UDP over TCP is the fine-grained control you gain. When you want that and have to use TCP, you're in for a deadly fight against the…

tbh, I'm not sure if we need "more clever" CPUs since they cause more and more unpredictable performance outcome -- and more pressing issues like Spectre. Besides, looking at the e…

Yes. Civilizations relying on tin were basically quite vulnerable because tin is uncommon [1]. The coincidence between late bronze age collapse and the transition to iron age seems…

Yes. I'm moving the goal post a bit here, but I was actually thinking about design mistakes and dangerous constructs - the kind of thing you do when you write in a "hacky" way - ei…

I'll paraphrase someone who commented on HN once (about dynamic vs static typing, IIRC): permissive languages are enablers for solo programmers, but you need more restrictive langu…

> is in fact set in a fictional region of Japan, but is created so lovingly that you’ll believe it’s real life. This is actually a major cheat. Realism is expensive, and exposes yo…

Hardcore fans may like the BVE train sim [1]. A lot of Japanese fan-made lines (add-ons) with custom sounds. Generally speaking, the game is far from AAA, but the "hand-made" feel …