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DerSaidin··on Kinesis Advantage 360
I'm curious to see what price that one will be.
DerSaidin··on Kinesis Advantage 360
https://twitter.com/kinesisergo/status/1471885389329666048

> How many: 360

Good luck getting one in this first drop.

DerSaidin··on Bee-friendly urban wildflower meadows prove a hit with German city dwellers
I first read the title as "beer-friendly urban wildflower meadows", and thought that would indeed make a lovely beer garden.

Maybe these meadows could serve bees and beers? :)

DerSaidin··on The Future of RTS
> ultimately they all played pretty much the same

High level tournaments include civilization drafting before a best of N series of games. Occasionally, one player/team ends up with a civilization match up which gives them a clear advantage (because they successfully predicted their opponent's civilization pick - it the opponent had picked something else the advantage might swing the other way). Occasionally games are described as "civ win" when the advantage is large and wielded well.

DerSaidin··on The Future of RTS
AOE2 variety comes from many different map scripts with many different seeds, not so much from the civilizations/units/techs.

The doc talks about map generations in the AOE2 space section, but given the rational for prioritizing diversity, I expect this the variety in map generation should lead to a higher variety score.

I really enjoying watching the AOE2 tournament scene: https://liquipedia.net/ageofempires/Portal:Tournaments

DerSaidin··on Rewriting LaTeX in Pure Rust
I think the intent is: the previous discussions were some time ago and may be out of date, so those links may not be relevant.
DerSaidin··on Why I teach vim
https://kakoune.org/ is a vim variation which I think would be much better pedagogically. More predictable, and much more help and feedback as you edit.
DerSaidin··on Learn Vim (the Smart Way): a book to learn the good parts of Vim
If you're new to vim, also consider https://kakoune.org/
DerSaidin··on Why Apple believes it’s an AI leader–and why it says critics have it all wrong
https://ai.googleblog.com/2020/05/federated-analytics-collab...

https://federated.withgoogle.com/

DerSaidin··on NPhysics: 2D and 3D Real-Time Physics Engine for Rust
Stay in the main folder and run: cargo run --example foo
DerSaidin··on Designing the Perfect Date and Time Picker (2017)
It makes me sad how so many of those examples are Month-Day-Year.

Imo the perfect date and time picker should respect ISO8601.

DerSaidin··on Make LLVM Fast Again
This work is critical to compile times improving.

As the author of one of the changes which could have unknowingly causing a 1% regression, I really appreciate this work measuring and monitoring compile times. Thanks to nikic for noticing the regression and finding a solution to avoid it.

DerSaidin··on AI can detect coronavirus from CT scans in twenty seconds
CT scan room and machine is going to need a lot of cleaning.
DerSaidin··on Home in Nix – dotfile management
> Now, 1.5 year later, I like Nix as a language. It's just a small, functional language.

If nixos used a different language (e.g. gluon), do you think you would have become more comfortable quicker?

DerSaidin··on The Unison language
This is cool.

I've wanted to see a Merkle tree based AST for faster incremental compilation (and incremental static analysis).

I wonder if the source manager interface makes this easier to use than editing source files?

AST can still be the source of truth. To edit need to generate source text from AST, edit as text, parse to AST, save.

In other words, I think most of the benefits of this can live behind the scenes for other languages.

DerSaidin··on U.S. government limits exports of artificial intelligence software
Looks like a nice concise list of key features for someone to reimplement.
DerSaidin··on Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions?
Expectations for stability of systems software (OS, database, etc) increases. Rust grows in job market share vs C++ (which does not modernize quickly enough).

An ISA other than x86 starts to get traction in x86's current market.

Electric cars become the norm. ICE cars depreciate in value rapidly.

Growing food in isolated environments, clean from pollution and pesticides, will become a big business.

Renewables provide 80% of world energy.

Towards the end of the decade, younger generation comes into political power with very different perspective on the environment, but their new efforts are halfway too late.

DerSaidin··on Parthia: Rome's Ablest Competitor
The story behind https://ageofempires.fandom.com/wiki/Parthian_Tactics :)
DerSaidin··on Attorney General Barr and Encryption
Nice quote.
DerSaidin··on Why Do So Many Egyptian Statues Have Broken Noses?
To stop the Goa'uld from getting in?
DerSaidin··on Organizational Debt
> It becomes overwhelming and exhausting

> It becomes harder for users with genuinely new insights to participate because they can’t tell if their insight is new or not and may decide just not to post it.

> Working groups need a toolkit

I wonder if that toolkit might look something like: https://www.kialo.com/

Structuring and organizing discussions like this might make them more scalable.

One difference is Kialo only seems to support binary arguments. There may be more than two design options.

DerSaidin··on Show HN: TechYaks – Best of 50k tech talks ranked by confidence intervals
Would be awesome if they were tagged, so I could look at topics I'm interested in.
DerSaidin··on Understanding L1 Terminal Fault aka Foreshadow: What You Need to Know
https://millcomputing.com ?
DerSaidin··on Systems Neuroscience Is About to Get Bonkers
Very interesting, thanks.
DerSaidin··on The Mind: Most polarizing card game of the year?
With the limited information, what other option is there?

I would hope/expect each other player reaches the same conclusion: sleepsort is the most obvious plan, and 1 second is the most likely interval.

DerSaidin··on The Wrong Abstraction (2016)
Too much abstraction?... Or not enough abstraction?

  $project_folder = "/whatever";
  $input_folder = $project_folder . "/input";
  $output_folder = $project_folder . "/output";
DerSaidin··on Rules of optimization
> I’m specifically talking about cases with tight latency requirements after the request has been received.

Were these requirements only added/measured after working on the system for a year or two? Or were they there from the start?

DerSaidin··on Jeff Bezos Pledges to Expand His Space Ventures
If you need that material to be in space, for use in space, remember competing materials (from Earth) need to pay a large get-it-out-of-the-gravity-well tax. I think something currently in the order of $1k per kg.
DerSaidin··on Elon Musk reveals his productivity rules in a letter he sent to Tesla employees
– Don’t use acronyms or nonsense words for objects, software or processes at Tesla.

I like to minimize use pronouns like "it" or "that" in a technical discussion.

Communication becomes so much clearer by expanding "it" into something more descriptive and explicit.

Also minimize number of words, and complexity of words.

DerSaidin··on High-Level Rendering Using Render Graphs
Imo a group of Passes should be called a Stage or a Phase, not a module. The terms module is too easy to overload.
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