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Scientific computing. I can't just write a "for" loop and expect it to perform. I have to use whatever is provided by packages which weren't written in it, or make a similar package myself.

I can't imagine any technical reason for this situation. Only perceived convenience and some kind of social dynamics.

Speaking for myself, utility plays a big role in how I perceive a tool in terms of aesthetics. It's not only about a language's grammar fitting in a business card and stuff like that.

Python and JavaScript are two languages that have been used for stuff they are obviously unsuitable for, at a vast scale.

The only similar game I've played is Infinifactory, but it's a series of puzzles and you don't have one giant factory which you develop continuously.

Satisfactory is more similar to Factorio. It's a 3D game with nice graphics, and there aren't monsters trying to destroy your factory.

These should both be perfectly fine for a 12-year-old, but I'm not sure about a kid as young as 5. Infinifactory can certainly be quite challenging even for adults.

You knew all this before you decided to use it. Next time make better calls instead of blindly pulling shit like an idiot.

This is a very dangerous line of thought, and frankly, appalling.

Which factors are more important? I can't think of any.

Yeah, it's not rocket science. It's also not about objectification or diversity or whatever, the picture is 100% innocuous. But if the model does not want to, just don't fucking use it, your paper will be fine.

I don't think in-band signaling is the problem. You can describe anything with a sequence of symbols and I find it elegant to be honest. It's just that the protocols are outdated and fragmented.

Another recently posted cool volumetric display project which did not receive much attention:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38406824

> This is hard to communicate ...

True. I think that the best way to explain this to someone who does not know about the phenomenon is to start with the phrase "existing space continuously creates new space" and everything should follow from this fact.

> It’s not like the universe is just expanding everywhere uniformly, ...

I thought this is exactly what most modern physicists believe.

The wavelength of photons travelling in space is supposed to scale perfectly with the expansion of the universe, like an ink dot on a balloon getting wider as the balloon is being inflated.

This is why we have the Cosmic Microwave Background consisting of photons that would have been maybe in the UV range when emitted by excited atoms back when the universe became "transparent".

You can still easily disable and uninstall anything you want on Ubuntu through systemctl or apt. Windows is much more opaque and messy in that regard.

Won't we have to do so anyway at some point in order to stop suffering from stupid diseases like cancer and solve other hard problems? Can we not mess it up? If yes, fine. If not, that's too bad but we have to try anyway IMO.

But the cost of you watching the video you want to watch is on their dime, and the person who made the video gets nothing for their work either.

> I love that they brought back the software renderer (and allowed you to disable texture filtering). There's something about that style I find charming.

You are definitely not alone. There are quite a few released and upcoming indie retro FPS games on Steam now and some are quite popular. I think this is one reason they decided to add these settings.

We have gone from living to caves to quantum computers and curing several types of cancer, and we are several orders of magnitude away from any kind of hypothetical energy usage limit imposed by the known universe. This could grow to hundreds of orders of magnitude easily as we learn more.

In the everyday life, there are negative-sum, zero-sum and positive-sum situations and events all over the place.

So, I don't get what your comment is supposed to mean and what it is exactly that you are tired of.

Out of curiosity, how much of that FPGA did that configuration occupy?

> Imo, having "on call" rotations is a clear red flag and bad software practice that has somehow made it in the mainstream.

"Just throw more humans at it!"

Why would you think so? Assembler is what it has always been, i.e., mnemonics for machine instructions. Unless you are thinking about microcode, which is nothing new and I am not sure it should count as a "level" from the perspective of a programmer anyway.

> I 'm curious if anyone else has that happen.

When I am still fully conscious but drifting off, with my eyes closed, I can make some image actually replace the "black" we normally see when we close our eyes.

The image just quickly fades in and replaces the "black". This started happening involuntarily a couple of years ago and, shortly after, I could also do it voluntarily. It is not completely effortless and it lasts for a few seconds though.

I did a bit of searching and it seems that this is a normal experience while being in a so-called "hypnagogic state".

So, what you are describing might also be a result of being in that state.

When I am fully awake, a visualization is more like an imaginary overlay on top of whatever my retina is actually sending to my brain (thankfully :P).

They are more like a chef who asks the waiters to not add salt or pepper to the dish before serving it to customers, because the customers will blame the chef then. If the customer adds a ton of salt, then it's clearly their fault and the chef says he is fine with that.

Sounds reasonable to me.

> Should OP just bask in Stallman's glory and not notice things that were bad etiquette even in the Victorian era?

No. But I 'm not sure whether you 've read OP's other comments in this topic (about Stallman's cancer), some of which are hidden due to downvotes.

The rapid growth of the software industry is both the reason for the unsalvageable mess and for companies being able to spend obscene amounts of money to somehow keep shit together. At least that's how I feel about it.

Yeah you 're petty, we get it.

> Stallman has a long history of advocating for womens' rights ...

I 'd like to add that he regularly posts political notes on his website which make this pretty clear to anyone who cares to take a look.

> "We need to see pain in the economy."

Says the person who has been allowed to accumulate $912M under the very same economy.

> "We need to remind people that they work for the employer, not the other way around."

The people work for themselves. Too bad the free market is slightly inconvenient for you right now.

> "There’s been a systematic change where employees feel the employer is extremely lucky to have them, as opposed to the other way around."

So they 're supposed to believe that they are so lucky to be able to have a job at all and (most importantly) behave accordingly.

The nerve of that shithead...

I am an avid fan of the i3 way of managing windows but I unfortunately encountered some serious bugs last time I tried Sway. I have used it in the past and even contributed a few patches but it seems that for many people's use cases it is not mature enough yet.

Not to be confused with the other "RTL" which stands for "register-transfer level". [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Register-transfer_level

My understanding is that downscaling basically throws away the effects of font hinting and of any type of algorithm aligning glyph edges to the pixel grid to make them look sharper.

So depending on the user's personal tastes, their vision, their monitor's DPI and the font rendering algorithms used, the difference might range from clearly perceptible to none.

This is not about Wayland support. It is about "true" fractional scaling support via the protocol mentioned in the article, instead of apps rendering at integer scales and then the compositor scaling them down to achieve a fractional overall factor. I guess this should make fonts look better and save some resources.