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While this is still bad, If you watch the video, the officers announce themselves and enter with empty hands... it's very different from videos of "raids" by US police that I've seen.

There's a lot of evidence showing that gambling as a child leads to gambling problems as an adult, and loot boxes are just gambling aimed to a large degree at children.

Valve games are even worse for this because Steam trading allows 3rd party sites to sell cosmetics directly for cash, and some of these cosmetics are worth tens of thousands of dollars. It's just children gambling money but with a thin veneer of video game over the top.

The idea that babies feel pain is only somewhat recently accepted

This is crazy to me, but I still believe it's very unlikely plants experience conscious suffering

Would you feel some way, or [...] chew [...] with the indifference

I'd probably be upset, accept that I needed to eat plants or starve, try to minimize the pain I did cause, and then grow numb to the knowledge over time because I couldn't practically do anything about it

I think you can pose many hypothetical scenarios where I'd be unsure what to do or do the selfish thing, but to me the important thing is that the world we do exist in has lots of "bang for your buck" choices like: trading getting to taste meat for animals not having to go through factory farms

play the same game .. where some line is drawn

Things could be better but they also could be worse

the moral arguments are sort of silly and illogical

You can use these to justify literally anything

Slaughter all the lettuce you want

Yeah because we don't have compelling evidence that lettuce experiences anything comparable to conscious suffering, and the only alternative to not eating plants is dying

Any time I've tried an "abliterated" model, heretic or other, it has always damaged the capabilities of the original model and will still often refuse or produce garbage at a lot of "unsafe" requests.

Every piece of KDE software I've tried has been buggy to the point that it's now a red flag to me: Spectacle (silently failed to copy/paste), krunner (refused to close), SDDM (refused to login), Dolphin (ffmpegthumbnailer loops lagged out whole system, SMB bugs), System Monitor (wrong information), KWallet (signal fails to open, data loss)

Google sold the company to Lenovo in 2014

It sounds like Blade is a cross-API graphics engine, by one of the original gfx-HAL (former QGPU name) creators?

My understanding is that wgpu has a lot of constraints and complexity imposed on it by all the backends it has to support (especially WebGPU) and that Blade is meant to be a much simpler closer-to-metal api for people who want more control (and know how to not shoot themselves in the foot)

I would be using eframe instead of WGPU as the backend.

Do you mean using egui-wgpu directly rather than through eframe? The default backend of eframe is wgpu (it used to be glow/opengl), and you can still use callbacks to directly render whatever you want with wgpu in an eframe app

EGUI and WGPU have great integration

Can confirm, it was stupid simple to integrate egui into my wgpu gamedev project

Am I missing something about Zed? I have tried and failed to get into it.

I also tried Zed after getting annoyed at Helix a few times, and thought "oh cool, this is like vscode but fast and even has a helix mode!" but then didn't find any killer features worth abandoning the synergies of having an all-in-terminal-workflow over

I often see people lament the lack of popularity for D in comparison to Rust. I've always been curios about D as I like a lot of what Rust does, but never found the time to deep dive and would appreciate someone whetting my appetite.

Are there technical reasons that Rust took off and D didn't?

What are some advantages of D over Rust (and vice versa)?

- It is possible to write Rust in a pretty high level way that's much closer to a statically-typed Python than C++ and some people do use it as a Python replacement

- You can build it into a single binary with no external deps

- The Rust type system + ownership can help you a lot with correctness (e.g. encoding invariants, race conditions)

their ideas where collected and documented

Yeah, documented *and credited*. I'm not against the idea of disseminating knowledge, and even with my misgivings about LLMs, I wouldn't have said anything if this blog post was simply "LLMs are really useful".

My comment was in response to you essentially saying "all the criticisms of LLMs aren't real, and you should be uncompromisingly proud about using them".

Moreover there is a strong pattern of the most prolific / known open source developers being NOT against the fact that their code was used for training

I think it's easy to get "echo-chambered" by who you follow online with this, my experience has been the opposite, i don't think it's clear what the reality is.

Are you against copyright, patents, and IP in all forms then?

No, in the same way that I wouldn't cite Euler every time I used one of his theorems - because it's so well known that its history is well documented in countless places.

However, if I was using a more recent/niche/unknown theorem, it would absolutely be considered bad practice not to cite where I got it from.

If you fork an open source project and nuke the git history, that's considered to be a "dick move" because you are erasing the record of people's contributions.

LLMs are doing this on an industrial scale.

Pre-training is, actually, our collective gift

I feel like this wording isn't great when there are many impactful open source programmers who have explicitly stated that they don't want their code used to train these models and licensed their work in a world where LLMs didn't exist. It wasn't their "gift", it was unwillingly taken from them.

I'm a programmer, and I use automatic programming. The code I generate in this way is mine. My code, my output, my production. I, and you, can be proud.

I've seen LLMs generate code that I have immediately recognized as being copied a from a book or technical blog post I've read before (e.g. exact same semantics, very similar comment structure and variable names). Even if not legally required, crediting where you got ideas and code from is the least you can do. While LLMs just launder code as completely your own.

HDR videos and games (both native and proton) work in both KDE and Gnome (and supposedly Sway and Hyprland, but I haven't tried either). I think support in KDE/Gnome landed in a stable release ~6 months ago.

The HDR experience on KDE is about as good as the Windows one. Last time I tried Gnome, there was no way to configure SDR and HDR brightness separately, but it was definitely still usable.

First time round, Trump would consistently say lots of worrying stuff, but people in the US administration would stop him from following through.

This time, it's become quickly evident that he is following through.

The sentiment in Europe has changed from "well this isn't ideal, but we can just wait it out" to "this is scary and existential, we need self-sufficiency as soon as possible"

Every operating system is in US hands

Desktop Linux is (becoming) usable for a normal person just in time, I was surprised how easily a non-technical friend switched over to Bazzite (immutable fedora with gaming extras).

Visa, Mastercard, Paypal

The EU has already been working on a "Digital Euro" for a while

all social media commonly used

I'm hoping more decentralized social media continues to pick up steam

My new favorite breed of commenters are AI bros who go around lamenting how trivial other peoples' work is, while they themselves fail to create anything that anyone else actually wants to use

Per capita, China and especially India emit far less CO2e than the US.

I started reading the Grokipedia page on the "Russian invasion of Ukraine". Immediately after the abstract, it starts talking about the "9th century Kyivan Rus" which seems like irrelevant information to a conflict over a millenia later, but then you realize it's exact same thing that Putin started with in his interview with Tucker Carlson to push the 'Ukraine isn't a real country' narrative.

hardware

Sure x86 is an absolute mess, but I don't think it's a primary bottleneck. High end x86 cpus still beat high end ARM cpus by a significant margin on raw performance. Even supposing x86/ARM are bottlenecks... yeah a bottleneck at double digit billion ops per second.

Languages unlock performance for the masses. Javascript will never be truly fast because it doesn't represent the machine.

C# and Go are already really fast (https://github.com/ixy-languages/ixy-languages) languages for the masses and at this point you can compile most things to WASM to get them run in the browser.

We measure computer performance in the billions and trillions of ops per second. I'm sorry but if it an app takes 200ms to hide some comments, the app or the tech stack it's on is badly made.

The web has complexity also of client/server with long delays and syncing client/server and DOM state, and http protocol. Desktop apps and game engines don’t have these problems.

Hugely multiplayer games consistently update at under 16ms.

I've been hearing about fights over JpegXL and WebP (and AVIF?) for years, but don't know much about it.

From a quick look at various "benchmarks" JpegXL seems just be flat out better than WebP in both compression speed and size, why has there been such reluctance from Chromium to adopt it? Are there WebP benefits I'm missing?

My only experience with WebP has been downloading what is nominally a `.png` file but then being told "WebP is not supported" by some software when I try to open it.

You can simply pick the minimum SDF value and get no blending at all.

While this true for traditional SDF rendering (e.g. raymarching), the method of "interpolating cached distances" used here means that you will always get blending between objects.

I've used Windows, Ubuntu, and NixOS all for longer than I ever used arch and never had an update leave my computer inoperable.

System updates obviously don't become less risky because of the OS they're updating

The last time I used arch, I ran an update and it broke my bootloader, meaning the next time I restarted it wouldn't boot at all.

Sure I could make a recovery USB and fix it, but at that point I was away from home, and just really needed to do the totally crazy thing of "using my computer to actually do work".

(To be clear, I didn't and I'm not recommending going back to Windows, just a more sane Linux)

Have you seen nushell? It lets me one-liner so many things that would have previously taken breaking out a "real" language to do

Contrived example:

  ls | where type == 'file' | sort-by size | take 4  | each {|f| {n: $f.name, s: ($f.size | format filesize MB) }} | to json

  {
    "n": "clippy.toml",
    "s": "0.000001 MB"
  },
  {
    "n": "README.md",
    "s": "0.000009 MB"
  },
  {
    "n": "rustfmt.toml",
    "s": "0.000052 MB"
  },
  {
    "n": "typos.toml",
    "s": "0.00009 MB"
  }

My "personal hypothesis" is that the ADHD/Autism/OCD are fundamentally related somehow. The comorbidity between them is much higher than general population incidence, there's large symptom overlap, on a personal level I've found that I relate to and get on along much better with people who have at least one of those conditions, and a good 2/3rds of the people I consider close friends do.

27% of Brits think it's acceptable to make jokes about trans people if you aren't trans yourself: https://yougov.co.uk/topics/entertainment/trackers/do-brits-...