tomjen3

Control. Its a replacement for C that is a lot nicer to work with.

So basically if you either need your Python code to interact with a native library or need more control in a specific place, you can use Zig there.

Zig makes it trivial to control which part of the code e.g allocate memory, so you can guarantee that your rendering or audio loop has no stuttering.

I would still keep Python as the main driver for where dev speed is the most important part.

You can discard a variable like so:

_ = variable_to_discard

I am sorta unsure why Zig doesn't have multiline comments, but its also not at version 1 yet, so that will likely come, along with better IDE support.

That is interesting. And it's an AI critique I haven't heard before.

Would you consider it possible that the way non-intentionally placed items break the game immersion for you is because they appear in such a way that you think you can interact with them in a certain way, but you can't?

Like if there's an extra door in the house you're trying to get into, but that door doesn't really open, then in your mind that breaks the integrity of the game's systems. If so, I think the LLM response is that there are no more doors that don't open and that the world can be generated as needed.

No computer can handle the complexity of even a small town. But it would be possible, at least in the future, to generate the part of the world you interact with, which would heighten the emersion.

I believe the world would be better of without alcohol for consumption, yes.

The only real benefits are not being the one outside the group, and the downsides include liver damage, social damage, massively higher risk for falling, drunk driving,...

More to the point, alcohol would never be permitted if it was invented today. Marijuana might.

Project Gutenberg is awesome and amazing.

I was visting the ruins of a monestary the other day, and one of the texts listed that it had a library of 320ish books.

I chucked because I have almost 200 books in my personal Kindle library, but I was wrong. I actually have 75000+ books, thanks to Project Gutenberg.

I just haven't downloaded them all yet.

Its meaningless to decriminalize using it, since it does not give big benefit of replacing narco terrorists producers with pure, controlled stuff from legal pharma companies.

The world is obviously better of without drugs, but given that is not going to happen, the question to decide is: is the world better of with drugs from legal pharmacutical companies, or (somewhat) restricted access to drugs through an illegal system?

Decrimininalizing drug use is the worst of both worlds: you get more drug access, but it still happens through the illegal system and benefits narco terrorists.

If you don't want to put drug users in jail (you cannot reasonably fine homeless people), you can offer drug courts and diversionary programs.

You need the federal government to do what it did with Marijuana (which is still federally illegal), to be able to try the other choice.

How many died because they were cut of from the supply that they had been told by doctors did not cause addiction?

It certainly involved a lot of skill and expense, but how many more lives could be saved if the same money had been spent on improved traffic safety or NHS in general?

Okay, fair. I am using the API to scrape it.

If email matches owner of repo, pull now. If not verified, ban and restore later.

I've used this text autocomplete to autocomplete me a Python setup and to autocomplete automatically running it.

It that scrapes Hn it works. Ironically, it's why I'm here.

Proton has calendars, drive and meet.

And is not a US business, which is an important selling point to several companies and public institutions here in Europe.

I have done as OP suggested and the main benefit is that I can move my email elsewhere.

For now my email is with Apple, since they offers email hosting as part of the icloud+ (or whatever its called). If they decide to die/enshittify, then I can move to another host without having to change any contacts.

One the other hand, since I did use my bare gmail for some years, I am still stuck with it, in case I have some service that depends on it.

That's certainly an interesting idea - mostly everybody should know someone who has a gmail account, so if you get a couple invites a month, that should be plenty and the setup would

Well I was about to say destroy scammers, but I just realized that they would send out spam to places where you could gamble your invites for Real Cash(TM) or just straight up buy them.

This would lower the creation of accounts, but then they would be rarer and worth more to spammers, since a spamming gmail would be rare.

And we would hear sob stories of people getting their accounts closed for inviting spammers.

They properly do, but then conclude that it would be more costly to implement and create those workarounds than not getting the extra 0.01% of users.

I am not sure the backslash would be big if Gmail said that a year from now you would have to pay $9.99 per month to use your Gmail ($12.99 ad-free). I mean people would complain, but would that actually give a backslash? Especially if they made it easy for people to move their account elsewhere? People are used to paying a lot more for things outside of tech.

I suspect what is really holding them back is the loss of data, and the loss of the assumption that ~everyone has a Google account that they are logged into, which means they can be traced around the web. Google also benefits from this, since its anti-bot tool will be more accurate and less fustrating to users.

Being nerdy.

But also you don’t build these things when you need them (it will be too late), you need to build them before you need them.

The questions are much improved, but there is another issue I didn't think about: I got ChatGPT to correctly solve the coin in pockets puzzle.

There may be a near complete overlap with AIs and (reasonably) smart users here.

Thats what I am interested in - Etherium does it, and I believe Chia(sp?) does too.

I had hoped this would describe a system that did not use very large amounts of power. Sadly it does.

They had to design a specialized verification function, which I imagine would be the easy way to break it.

The brilliant part of Bitcoin is that it uses very widely known crypto primitives - verification is the same as getting the right seed (you just happen to be told what the right seed is, rather than having to pay for it to be discovered).

>let's you protect your time and peace of mind

Not even close.

I will happily stop and chat with you if you demonstrate that it is worth the time and interruption (if I was lost in thought, that will take at least 5-10 minutes to get back to).

If not, I will not let you know. I will just fume, blame and judge you for some time after.

As a stranger - its also super annoying when random people want to talk to you.

At this point it should almost be news when it works.

I am not sure that works - imagine that the next shellshock had been found. Would you want to wait 7 days to update?

We need to either screen everybody or cut of countries like North Korea and Iran from the Internet.

Because the world is run by people who don't know anything, but have to pretend they know everything, so they can't ask those of us who have some idea about how IT security works.

I can make a new password, hard to get a new eyeball.

There was an Edit button in one of the images in the livestream

And that is fine and I do the same.

In Germany in many places you can only pay with cash.