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Hard agree. AFAIK Jon Blow's Braid couldn't be made with an existing engine (at the time) due to its time warping mechanics. That's a big reason I like developing games with framew…

That's interesting. Coming from C++ and Zig, the massive time "wasters" are metaprogramming features, i.e. Templates and comptime. Are Rust's macros the compile-time culprits?

I'm really sorry to be harsh but if you don't use programming languages and have never written a transpiler, why should anyone read your comment? You critique the approach as britt…

Right, that makes a lot of sense. Seems like reviewers can easily see and check those asserts to understand if the LLM has written something sensible (and I presume those asserts a…

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This is an interesting approach. When you say no abstractions though, what do you actually mean? I would count functions as abstractions but do you mean classes/structs representin…

I disagree with your definition of meaningful here. Society's willingness to pay is certainly a signal for meaning in an output but it seems quite inaccurate. Think of the number o…

I was surprised to find out that material science uses up a significant amount of the compute time on the big research machines, at least here in the UK. It's both potentially lucr…

I've found trying to find a distraction-free editor a distraction in itself. I'd bet money that most authors using an old word processor had some external reason to use it (cost, a…

> it'd be a bug if they diverge That's a very nice rule of thumb. I've often overabstracted when two pieces of code look similar at one point in time and then they diverge.

That's typical of models that use the anelastic approximation, where it's useful for a number of reasons to rewrite the equations replacing the true vertical with a vertically stra…

Interestingly, most large-scale atmospheric models I know of use a (mostly) incompressble fluid approximation, even though air is obviously compressible at human scales. It just is…

Newer emulator or even a recompilation of an old one. I'd bet there are a few modern compiler tricks that would help even on decades old CPUs.

If he was an entirely rational being I would agree, but he clearly wasn't and he did hold both views that Scottish identity isn't worth anything and Scots are essentially identical…

Disregarding genuine differences between cultures and intentially treating those cultures as identical is racist. Turns out he did come around later in life - https://www.thenation…

I fundamentally agree with you. I don't think responsibility is quite the right word. But if they don't seem to care about a massive portion of their users, why are they building g…

An important collection of essays but I struggled to get over his racist claim that the English, Irish, Welsh and Scots are essentially all the same. Probably a good thing since I'…

Or that gulf doesn't exist for the problems they are trying to solve?

Absolutely sublime attention to detail. Reminds me of the series on fonts in Josh Ge's blog on Cogmind ( https://www.gridsagegames.com/blog/2014/09/cogmind-fonts/ )

CUDA having had such a wide moat for so long has completely warped the GPU software ecosystem. There just isn't any incentive for Nvidia to meaningfully contribute to any external,…

Delightful, I'll play about with both, thanks!

My understanding is all of Google's AI is trained and run on quite old but well designed TPUs. For a while the issue was that developing these AI models still needed flexibility an…

Can't agree more. I hope someone puts some work into a less painful way to manage strings in std. I would but I don't manipulate strings quite enough to support usecases more than …

I ran a pretty vanilla xfce setup from about 2010 until 2024 until I moved to i3. Xfce is great generally, pretty easy to backup and share the whole config, ideal collection of app…

Ditto... I love Zig as a language but I worry the high-level community builders (including Andrew) are a little too antagonistic to foster a positive, tolerant, patient community i…