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> There are reasonable arguments on both sides.

What are the reasonable arguments for using Rust[1] for game logic instead of a scripting language like Lua?

[1] Or C++, etc.
I'm not sure this distinction matters much to most people, though. People hear "defund the police" and draw their own conclusions as to what that means, and it's not a far leap to go from "defund the police" to "welp, guess they want to tie the hands of cops and take away all of their funding so they can't do their jobs"
Well, it’s not highly efficient, at all, except maybe chicken. The feed ratio (how much food it takes to get one unit of meat) on animals ranges pretty widely. Cows are an order of magnitude more than chicken, with pigs in the middle.

A lot of time, energy, and land goes to just keeping the animal alive and metabolizing. And you’re left with the problem of a lot of the parts of the animal are of low value.

Lab grown meat could, in theory, be much more efficient. Just quickly grow the muscles people actually want to eat.

There are also a lot of potential ethical issues with the way meat is raised at scale.

However the comment implying it’s an option currently is ridiculous. It’s nowhere near ready for scale. Might as well cite that Star Trek meal thingy (replicator?).
1Password is a platform, one that has gotten worse over the years. They've taken a bunch of venture capital, switched to rental pricing, and apparently now demand that everything be in the "cloud". No thanks. I prefer to be my own password manager.
No. I never made this claim. My argument is pedantic.
Believe Facebook was banned for a specific national reason in 2009. Hard to do business with a country that doesn’t have something similar to the bill of rights. All Chinese companies are the same as government, meaning their companies don’t have to respect human rights either.
For anyone else who feels similarly the genre "solarpunk" and specifically one of my favorite authors, Becky Chambers are worth checking out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Psalm_for_the_Wild-Built
Pray tell, who are these demonic MBAs? And why would the presumably technical leadership bow to their pricing demands?
Noam Chomsky on Where AI Went Wrong (2012)
While we're wishing, I'd like a BSD-like distro with a Linux kernel, GNU userland, and my choice of Motif/CDE or GNUstep as the desktop environment.
Tiny in size, a Cupertino home is selling for big bucks: $1.7M
I'm not familiar with the domain, but wouldn't 3D collision checking be considered backend 3D code? Even if it's not rendered, it still needs to be calculated.
In America, across the board, you could be as much as 50% capable of getting away with any murder you commit, of course, assuming that you don't directly implicate yourself somehow.

While the rate at which murders are solved or "cleared" has been declining for decades, it has now dropped to slightly below 50% in 2020 - a new historic low. And several big cities, including Chicago, have seen the number of murder cases resulting in at least one arrest dip into the low to mid-30% range.

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/29/1172775448/people-murder-unso...
Was it 'unprofitable' as in 'losing money', or 'unprofitable' as in 'not worth the time'? If it's the latter, I don't have enough information about the rest of J&J to draw any conclusions.
Fixing small errors in narration, voiceovers, or other recorded content.

Translation of recorded content with the original voice into new languages.

Comedy as long as it’s obvious that it’s a fake.

Actually intentionally selling your voice to be the voice of some text to speech product. Maybe I want Alexa to have the voice of Danny Devito, as long as he’s ok with it and getting paid.
One of the best parties I’ve been to in my life was the reception after a funeral for my wife’s great-aunt. Generations of relatives and family friends, some of whom hadn’t seen each other in thirty years, took over their house from after the ceremony at noon until 10pm that night. It was a rager.
Yifan is Brown's new girlfriend?

Pieces of the puzzle are now falling neatly into place. There were two blogposts written about Jon Pretty, insinuating bad behaviour on his part towards woman.

One by Yifan. One by Victoria Leontieva (AKA killnicole).

Victoria was Travis's girlfriend too.

So, both Victoria and Yifan dated Travis. That's way too coincidental to be coincidence, especially when Travis was known for systematically cancelling people based on his perception of their political opinions (e.g. https://github.com/travisbrown/cancel-culture, https://github.com/travisbrown/twitter-watch)
So what kind of cool/useful things could we make out of diamond if diamond were suddenly very cheap?
Here is my reasoning: immaterial objects (such as the soul) are by definition outside of the material world, and thus unobservable. We can't ever (dis)prove the existence of an unobservable object.

As for the other questions you mentioned, I still haven't found any reason to believe their answers are unkowable.

If anyone disproves my first reasoning, I will have to consider the question of the soul as worth pursuing again.

Just like in mathematics, if you have sufficient proof that a theorem is unprovable, it is useless trying to prove it!

So no, I don't trust my gut feeling about wether or not to seek the answer to something.
You're describing mining pools and they're incredibly popular for their profitability compared to trying to find a winning lottery ticket on your own.
In your example, if it did take a programmer 5 minutes, and they don't have any real accountability anyway (not like a real engineer), then why _are_ we paying them so much?
The problem is that it's the job of the government to ensure that private companies meet their consequences.

So, if you cannot trust government, you cannot trust private companies to not poison you either. I guess it's possible to have governments break down just enough to screw up the local water supply while not quite rolling in the bed with multinational companies yet, but I doubt such an arrangement would be stable for long.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koliva

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial_service_in_the_Easter...
Fair enough. I've heard 'abolish the police' and 'all cops are bastards' (whatever that means) too, so such a sentiment definitely exists. Either way, those usually espousing such things don't seem to have much of a concrete plan in mind (and don't have to, because offering concrete solutions isn't the purpose of such rhetoric).

> According to the New York Times, the slogan and movement failed to result in any meaningful policy change. This was attributed to the slogan having no clear definition of its goals.

(from the Wikipedia page you linked to)
Of course not. I agree that responsible disclosure works perhaps 10% of the time.

It's the 90% of the time, when it doesn't work, that's the problem.
In big-world high-detail games, the rendering operation wants so much time that the main thread has time for little else. There's physics, there's networking, there's game movement, there's NPC AI - those all need some time. If you can get that time from another CPU, rendering tends to go faster.

I tend to overdo parallelism. Load this file into a Tracy profile, version 0.10.0, and you can see what all the threads in my program are doing.[1] Currently I'm dealing with locking stalls at the WGPU level. If you have application/Rend3/WGPU/Vulkan/GPU parallism, every layer has to get it right.

Why? Because the C++ clients hit a framerate wall, with the main thread at 100% and no way to get faster.

[1] https://animats.com/sl/misc/traces/clockhavenspeed02.tracy
Animations are an example. I landed code in Bevy 0.13 to evaluate all AnimationTargets (in Unity speak, animators) for all objects in parallel. (This can't be done on GPU because animations can affect the transforms of entities, which can cause collisions, etc. triggering arbitrary game logic.) For my test workload with 10,000 skinned meshes, it bumped up the FPS by quite a bit.
>"wind up your current life and leave the country"

Isn't that what so many people do in their own country in order to come to the US on a work visa to begin with?
I would love to see a Star Trek doing more with the Maquis, just seems like such an interesting change from the regular "people on a ship"

The Lower Decks is really enjoyable too, funny to see the bureaucratic elements of Star Fleet joked about.
> If you give Apple a choice between China or the rest of the world, they're not going to pick China for manufacturing favors anymore.

> It's probably not China's preferred option, but whether they like it or not there's going to come a point where business relationships reach a tipping point and Apple will have to pick sides.

If you make Apple choose, they're probably going to get fucked, because (at this point) they can't not pick China: they're too invested and too dependent.

I read a long-form article maybe a year ago that talked about how Apple's efforts to reduce their dependence on China haven't been very effective.

But personally, I think forcing them to choose would be the right call. Tanking their share price and forcing them to burn their savings trying to save the company would send a strong message.
No but that one is interesting.

I believe Jeff is how I heard about Turing in the first place (or at least the first time I saw their stuff working.)

Sure enough he still has the old videos up and I was wrong; it had 7 slots not 6, which means the new one loses almost half its slots, and explains some of my remembered disappointment.

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/raspberry-pi-cluster-...
I think the point is that there are few "code related" dead ends in game code with good game play that can't be dealt with using enough effort. There are plenty of "game play related" dead ends that no amount of clean code can help out.

To that end, whatever can help you explore the game play the fastest is what you want.
A quick google suggests 3D printing records is possible depending on your expectations. My intuition is that an analog cutting process (e.g. wax cylinder would get equal or batter results more quickly and at lost cost). But I could be wrong.

https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/62pex5/could_yo...
I think it should make sense if you compare it to the alternative: nothing at all.
As building material, how are you going to waterproof or even join solar panels together to actually be useful as a roof or wall covering?

Also FYI - The cheapest siding you can get at your box hardware store is ~$1.30/sf (LP Smartside)
This is certainly not the case for the NPO BLM groups that clarified they want to abolish the police.
The thumbnails alone drove me to Tiktok. YT is an absolute lost cause when even 'good' channels resort to using them.

Youtube is now strictly a search engine, i.e. I already know what I want to watch -- no 'browsing', which will only expose me to more of those infuriating thumbnails .
Sure, but my point is that is true for all software, not just Minecraft. It becomes a moot point in the context. Non-tech savvy people do not know how to calculate risk of malware in any context. That's basically the definition of being tech savvy. It's tautological.

You could just as easily say that non-tech-savvy people will download malware trying to download the official minecraft client from google, and instead click a malicious "minecreft.com" ad link.
Unless I’m mistaken, Rhapsody (released 1997) used LF, not CR. At that point it was pretty clear Mac was moving towards Unix through NeXTSTEP, meaning every OS except windows would be using LF. Microsoft would’ve had around 6 years before the release of XP, and probably would’ve had time to start the transition with Win2K at the end of 1999.
Gluten? In my diamonds? It's more likely than you think
Namespaces in C [video]
There's more checks in place to assure that your government water is handled appropriately. A corporation will sell you anything and then declare bankruptcy to let the owners profit off the fraud.

A government can inefficiently check over and over again that the supply it is providing is pure. A corporation is only beholding to its shareholders, where inefficiency is always a negative, regardless of its positive externalities.
Is he not just saying that Palmer Luckey’s “idea” isn’t his own — Oppenheimer for example had it before? That’s hardly equating them
However, they didn't pass a law shutting it down, they passed a law about location of ownership. Therefore it is still the company making the choice to shutdown vs selling, moving, or taking another action to comply.
That's pretty gross. Why would a hospital/healthcare system even need all that tracking? They don't make enough from their primary business that they also need to sell patient data for advertising? I would guess some dev just slapped on a bunch of boilerplate that so many other projects use and called it a day.
There isn't going to be some killer AI running on GCP simply because you don't run classified data/software on public clouds.

We hear this disclaimer a lot -- but isn't the whole point of Project Nimbus is that it's effectively a private cloud environment? Per a recent press release:

As part of the "Project Nimbus", the cloud computing services will be provided from local cloud computing sites while the information will be processed and stored within the borders of the State of Israel under the provisions of Israeli law, strict information security guidelines, and under the guidance of the relevant authorities in the government.

Also, it doesn't have to be a genocide-as-a-service app like Project Lavender to be worrisome. It can also be some far more boring facial recognition tools making everyday life in the OTP incrementally more miserable, for example.

Google engineers reading this over your miso-roasted salmon & quinoa bowls are more than welcome to chime in with the relevant details.
Vibe Check
Do we have examples of non-market systems that have proven to be consistently more effective for developing drugs?
SWEs are massively overpaid. News at 11…
This isn't a good article. I would say that if you're trying to rely on `restrict` and autovectorization you're doomed and should write it yourself. Even if it works on one compiler version, it won't work on all of them.

(It could possibly work in a language that isn't C and is designed for it; Fortran or shader programs are easier to autovectorize, and something like ISPC starts out "vectorized" and gets "autoscalarized".)

This is why ffmpeg writes SIMD in assembly and is more successful than all the people constantly replying "um actually you never need to write anything in assembly" to them.
how is this different from sharing an anki deck?
How would one go about converting an old screen?
Rust, in my view, is easy to justify over C++: the Cargo ecosystem makes high-quality libraries accessible, you'll spend less time debugging crashes, the language is more modern so you don't have to deal with stuff like header files, etc.

Compared to a scripting language like Lua, the benefits of Rust are more situational. Rust code runs a lot faster, and it takes better advantage of parallelism. It also has no garbage collection overhead. Does that outweigh the downsides? It's entirely dependent on your game and which logic in particular you're talking about.
With microgrids, you have multiple days of storage. Maybe you have emergency backup generators, but that's unlikely. There's a cost tradeoff between extra solar capacity (on cloudy days you still get energy, after all) versus the cost of storage. It's all solvable, just takes money. As transmission would. And often, 3+ days of battery storage is going to be a looooot cheaper, particularly at the load levels that a lot of microgrids will see.

Though I don't think developing areas will necessarily have large industrial needs, it turns out that industrial can be easier than residential if most of the industrial need is process heat. Because we have super super cheap tech for storing high amounts of heat for many many days. Lots of storage startups are exploring this space now.

Having multiple days of battery storage is 5-15x more expensive than thermal storage at the moment, IIRC.
The paper and videos are here:

https://bertoldi.seas.harvard.edu/publications/shell-bucklin...

Note that this is not "gripper" like "five-fingered robot hand". A better description might be "vise" (like the kind in a woodworking shop). The egg gets pressed between two linear actuators each with one degree of freedom.
They have to be competitive. I've seen some nice prices on Toyota electric cars. They're just starting to pile up on the lots.
Crypto != the lottery or drug development.
> Speech is talky talky audible words.

Legally, it's much broader in scope.

At this point arguing further and not agreeing or acknowledging that basic truth is arguing semantics and nothing more, and not something I'm interested in continuing for the sake of it to to have a final say.

Cheers.
That's a thoroughly sensible proposition. However, right there in the Wikipedia article you post:

> some ["Defund the Police" advocates] seek modest reductions, while others argue for full divestment as a step toward the abolition of contemporary police services.

"Defund the Police" is my nomination for the worst political slogan of the 21st century (so far). It contains such multitudes that it's become a Rorschach test for both users and hearers. I wish the reformers (like yourself - whom I fully support) and the abolitionists (I think they're wack jobs) would decide to march under different banners.
“artificial diamonds are radioactive” (because of Carbon 14)
As basically every world religion has observed, human beings are plagued by pathological behaviors by our nature, as beautiful and enlightened as it can also be. Without a drastic shift in how we approach that problem, I would bet my life on that pathology continuing unabated, if not deepening.
If I first signup for a service on my iPhone, then want to login on a Linux desktop, for example, how would I login if the passkey is not on my system, and I can’t login on the desktop to say I’m me?

Maybe they sorted all this out so it “just works”, but there seems to be so many potential pitfalls, that I feel like I’d need to spend weeks researching stuff and testing edge cases before I could feel safe using it. No one is going to do that.

With a password, I know it works now, and it will work in 40 years. I don’t have that same kind of confidence with a passkey. Even if it’s great, if people don’t adopt it in mass, it will fade away and be removed, so how deep do I want to go? This isn’t something I want to be an early adopter on, at least not for anything I care about.
> Maybe it should be controversial.

Why should "huffing aerosolized pathogenic virus/bacteria in an enclosed space can be bad for you" be controversial?
> How could anyone know if their state government is competent?

One way of knowing would be that you can see trustworthy water testing. That there are consequences (political, legal) for public officials when there is wrongdoing. That society seems to function.

How would you know a company bottling water isn't incompetent?
"If there's one thing to learn from all of human history, it's that we've never learned a single goddamn thing from all of human history." - Robert Evans, a podcaster (Behind the Bastards)
If you're concerned about this kind of thing, the only rational way to go about it is to test your water regularly (whether you drink from the tap or buy it bottled). Everything else is basically putting your trust in a bunch of random people whom you don't really know.
But just imagine... sprawling suburbs as far as the eye can see, all of them printed out by robots. The American Dream.

Now all we need is some robots to clear-cut all the useless vegetation that's occupying the land that these future wonder-developments will sit on.
I agree. We almost have a paradox of choice nowadays because it's easier than ever to create new language platforms. Rust is something different because its thesis is safety and performance by default, more or less optimized for systems development primarily, but at the bargain of making dangerous things more complicated to accomplish somewhat intentionally. Unconventional languages are sometimes used as a conspicuous challenge to attract developers or to attempt to move some parts of an industry into new territory.
> What other subscription service are you legally required to be subscribed to merely for owning a television, computer or any other sort of appliance?

I have to pay road tax for owning a car :)
Audiobooks in the authors voice….. fine for non fiction, usually terrible for fiction.
Anyone else’s M1 1st gen still crashes when streaming audio/video through hdmi?
I just cannot get excited for this VC funded experimental piece of technology. 10 years ago, maybe. Node.js is not going anywhere anytime soon.
Absolutely! Any sort of multiplayer game needs a source of authority if you want to prevent cheats like a hacked client lying about its position, and a really good way to do that is load the geometry of your level and run physics checks server side at a lower frequency than once per frame. Godot and Unity both support headless builds for exactly this reason, it's basically the whole game engine, minus the renderer, audio, and UI systems, usually.
A private investigator could fill us in, but if you look at the different personal data services you'll see a lot of "check this box to agree that you have a valid legal reason to pay us $75 for your ex's info" type setups. Pirate Code law.
I forgot to put in my comment originally that I was thinknig of fences (I just added a fence which prompted me to make the comparison)

Siding would require a different style of mounting, but it's certainly not impossible. Nobody is really looking to do this at the moment, but give it 5-10 years and we may see more. Solar roofs have been mostly a boondoggle so far, but nobody has seriously tried them. Tesla/Musk don't count for "serious" on that axis of development.
Not social promotion, explicitly illegal in my state at least.

School year F -> STAR test minimum + intervention or summer school D -> graduates
Now Google takes the ad revenue before people get to the content generating sites.
The big question I have is are the keys device/browser specific?

Seems to me I need to be able to log in with a password from any place (my phone, my machine, my office, my wifes phone, her laptop, my friends laptop, etc.).

I mean, who knows when I'll want or need to get into Something.

Also, my wife and I share accounts (such as Amazon). So, it needs to work seamlessly across all of her devices.

Then there's always the "F-with it factor" that I loathe. At least I understand passwords. Can (mostly) always recover a password (I recall trying to recover my Apple ID password -- they bluntly said "ok, but you have to come back in 2 weeks", so I was locked out for 2 weeks).

And, of course the level of patience my wife has with Technology is less than zero.

I rely on my Safari auto fill, when I use another browser, I just copy the pw from Safari.

And I don't use any of the cloud services. I have an iPhone, but don't use iCloud.