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Errrrr... how is the first paper related to A* and path finding? It's about "planning" (ie. searching an action space) which does not generally have a heuristic, so it needs to do …

Choosing 8×8 blocks is very likely highly suboptimal when it comes to the quality of the codec. The point of the 4×2 tiles is exactly to avoid the blockiness artifacts of vector qu…

I didn't imply that you were being insincere... re: the greeting, I think introverts around the world do not necessarily appreciate being randomly greeted by strangers, they just g…

> Smiling at strangers is considered poor social form here and it doesn't matter if you're a foreigner or native. It's not. Insincerity and mindless, automatic smiles might be a li…

I think these esoteric workarounds required for what are trivial operations is why people use Jujutsu, which just has first-class "new", "squash" and "split" commands which can do …

Links to discussions about why WASM GC in its current state is not suitable for .NET: https://github.com/WebAssembly/gc/issues/77 What should be improved: https://github.com/dotnet…

The alternative has bad ergonomics, chained `.get`s which are the most common operation become: json.asObject().get("prop1").asObject().get("prop2")...

Misleading article. Probably partially AI written? Presents nonsense such as eg. the diamond inheritance example as valid-seeming argumentation. Quite a few points are plain wrong …

What's the advantage of this over Jotai / atomic state / computed signals, which seems to require 10× less code with mostly the same benefits?

Ugh, please don't read strawmen into other's arguments and try to follow the HN guidelines. Also, how about making proper arguments yourself? The vast majority of the training data…

Indeed, that's exactly why I replied - you omitted one side from the discussion.

...and the rest of the training data (ie. the entire corpus of copyrighted works) was not written by experts expecting compensation? Double standards.

Ideally, yes. Depends on the context. Same way you don't use unit algebra when doing trivial everyday math. At some level of complexity, it becomes worthwhile.

Unfortunately currently only supported by Chrome/Chromium: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/show...

This is like a type theory question - do you like it untyped or typed? In physics, values have units too. Analogously, you could say - why incorporate units into the algebra in phy…

Could you actually explain/exemplify any of the gotchas and what's been made better (or is this just handwaving)?

> -Linq is nice but has a huge caveat: if a Linq provider does not implement it fully to falls back to the .NET collections. So trying to 'Skip' and 'Take' on a ActiveDirectory wil…

I think this is a good example of complex lifetimes involving reference cycles that can not be safely modeled by eg. Rust. Is the next step formal methods (theorem proving) or is t…

You can generally configure the power button to require a 5s press or to suspend the computer in the motherboard's firmware UI (UEFI/BIOS).

Changelog: https://webassembly.github.io/spec/core/appendix/changes.htm...

Changing orientation affects which parts of the display processor are used. In general, the low power states on GPUs are very capricious. eg. from personal experience, on older Nvi…

The game originally used a "voxel" engine [1], but the final release switched to affine texture mapping (with a heightmap-based terrain, still). The voxel-style engines tend to fea…

There's still speculation though - if eg. most values are of 1 or 2-byte length, you can speculate that any control-valued byte is actually control. You can even do a compensation …

Right, I think we have a slightly different definition of SIMD: You mean byte-parallel, I mean "doable with SIMD instructions". I also didn't imply the performance would be better …