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What an interesting tale. But I feel like an anime character described it to me. I'm totally fine with it (I'm grateful the story is being told at all), but it is surreal tone for technical writing.
https://youtu.be/SDJCzJ1ETsM?t=1179
How can people watch this?
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Why does she have so much clout when the latter has been working on this for much longer? I feel like there's some fanboyism happening here. This person basically just joined the project.
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Wait really? So they swapped their gender with a voice changer as well? Do you have some evidence of this?
Though it would certainly explain how a developer who "just joined" somehow was allowed to co-opt the project name without any push back.
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Did dinosaur / do reptilian blood cells live longer?
No idea about dinosaurs but some reptilian red blood cells live much longer as in 500+ days for turtles vs 120 for humans. However, it varies widely with mice and chickens having much faster turnover. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000649712... Five species of salamanders have similar enucleated red blood cells, but I can’t find out how long they last in comparison. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov…
What an interesting tale. But I feel like an anime character described it to me. I'm totally fine with it (I'm grateful the story is being told at all), but it is surreal tone for technical writing.
I'm actually very happy about the rise of VTubers/live avatars. I imagine that there are a lot of people that would love to interactively share their knowledge/skills on youtube/twitch but avoid doing so because they're not conventionally attractive or just too shy.
Vinesauce has been streaming since well before twitch, and their content got significantly more "Twitch"-y after they embraced the current system. It's obvious why, because if you play into the chat begging, the surface level """interaction""", then you get more money from the parasocial twelve year olds with mom's credit card.
But I don't want my content full of ten second interruptions as a robot voice reads off the same tired joke somebody paid ten dollars to get read off.
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And all that engineering resulted in a floppy drive that was slower and more expensive than comparable units for other home computers. I'm not sure if there is a lesson there...
Probably not a fair comparison in some ways but this reminds me of that story of Woz making a disk drive controller with far fewer chips by being clever and thoughtful about it all. I’m probably misremembering this.
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I don't know. This sounds very computer-sciency-ish. We build smaller tools to help build big things. Now the big things are so good and versatile we can replace our smaller tools with the big things too. With the more powerful tools, we can build even bigger things. It is just compiler bootstrapping happening in hardware world.
The problem is that there's so much unexplored territory in operating system design. "Everything is a file" and the other *nix assumptions are too often just assumed to be normal. So much more is possible.
The Unix ‘everything is a file’ has done well because it works pretty well.
It also isn’t generally a security issue, because it allows application of the natural and well developed things we use for files (ACLs, permissions, etc), without having to come up with some new bespoke idea, with all it’s associated gaps, unimplemented features, etc.
Hell, most people don’t even use posix ACLs, because they don’t need it.
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Have to say as much as I want to watch their streams, I can't get passed the annoying voice.
This shouldn't be controversial to say, but it's blatantly obvious that it's a voice changer.
watching a virtual persona stream their development of their M1 GPU drivers is one of the most cyberpunk things I've ever seen! it's easy to forget that this world is looking closer and closer to those dreamed up by Gibson, Stephenson, etc. what a time to be alive.
> watching a virtual persona stream their development of their M1 GPU drivers is one of the most cyberpunk things I've ever seen! What would really push it into cyberpunk territory is if it turns out this is not an actual human but an AI-controlled virtual person.
Damn, I hope someone gets this into a script soon.
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And all that engineering resulted in a floppy drive that was slower and more expensive than comparable units for other home computers. I'm not sure if there is a lesson there...
Probably not a fair comparison in some ways but this reminds me of that story of Woz making a disk drive controller with far fewer chips by being clever and thoughtful about it all. I’m probably misremembering this.