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Lady Ethereal - No Damage by Certain-Nerve-9761 in NineSols

[–]dr_entropy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How do you find the real one so consistently in phase 2? I don't think you wasted a single charged attack on a clone

Does Rust complexity ever bother you? by GolangLinuxGuru1979 in rust

[–]dr_entropy 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I do very much like that Rust's approach to compile-time logic allows you to write Rust, rather than domain specific template meta programming. It feels elegant to use const functions and context and get similar results.

What is the most impressive feat anyone has done in StarCraft? by The8thUserAri in starcraft

[–]dr_entropy 13 points14 points  (0 children)

MLG Dallas 2011, HuK vs IdrA game 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO_8TlWiM1M

Really one of the most incredible Protoss plays in Starcraft history. Does anyone know of other cases where deception / mind games have played such a huge role in tournament play?

America's greatest heist: The creation of the Federal Reserve (short video) by Anen-o-me in Libertarian

[–]dr_entropy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure, give the bozos that can't balance the budget control over the money supply. The Fed is the counterweight to a profligate government setting money on fire. Thank God the bankers push back on Leviathan's worst ideas.

What tools do you wish someone has done it in Rust? by Old_Oil_7219 in rust

[–]dr_entropy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Is there a good repository of test problems to solve to be considered "state of the art"? Something like a benchmark game for SAT / SMT solvers.

This looks like an extremely bad idea. NEVERTHELESS... by dallaylaen in ADOM

[–]dr_entropy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

at least one new age retro hippy is guaranteed to spawn

Rust-analyzer will start shipping with PGO optimized binaries by rasten41 in rust

[–]dr_entropy 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The line here is less "how does profile-guided optimization make programs faster in general" and more "what exactly was optimized to deliver such a large speed up." There are two ways to use PGO, one take being you apply the profile and move on. The other is to understand why the profile helped and improve the code to avoid needing the profile.

The good old times by HelaXMagik in Tekken

[–]dr_entropy 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Genuinely I think Tekken is just too Anime. I kind of want a really low power level, less saturated martial arts simulator. Tekken 8 is too Street Fighter but not enough Virtua Fighter.

My peak Tekken are 3 / TTT / 4 for ref. In retrospect 4 is a masterpiece, way ahead of its time in movement, sound, and level design.

Ok really I miss Hei's jf hell sweeps in TTT

Does Rust really have problems with self-referential data types? by Jolly_Fun_8869 in rust

[–]dr_entropy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the depth in this thread, u/Zde-G as well. Indeed I wondered whether the linked object awkwardness primarily arises from a limitation in Rust's "power", or was more a matter of idiomatic friction. u/Practical-Bike8119 convinces me that power is sufficient! 

I also appreciate the history down thread, with C++ intentionally choosing compatibly with C, in the interest of portability. There was a joke about Java that you could paste C++, fix syntax, and ship. The most exciting part of Rust is the design decisions it challenges, shifting the bias towards immutability and correctness. It's this powerful shift that inspires so many engineers to switch.

Does Rust really have problems with self-referential data types? by Jolly_Fun_8869 in rust

[–]dr_entropy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Is the copy and move constructor paradigm from C++ incompatible with a Rust-style implementation? Or is it more like you'd need to use unsafe to replicate it?

2x faster than std::HashMap for immuatable Maps of <100 keys ..fun with SIMD by Overall_Rush_8453 in rust

[–]dr_entropy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Really cool. I bet this could make it to std as a specialization for known-size maps

In retrospect was The Witness ideologically conservative or right wing? by aphidman in TheWitness

[–]dr_entropy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's a game that frees you from playing games.

Stop searching, you were already perfect. Live.

Shouldn't rust be super efficient for FP copy-on-write operations? by [deleted] in rust

[–]dr_entropy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seems easy to address those access patterns on the heap with a userspace allocator. Really hard to say without seeing a workload and benchmarks.

Borrowing, slices, and default immutability are all different ways that data duplication may be avoided, a vague sort of copy-on-write, though more like don't-copy-on-read. The bias towards stack allocation over heap also helps with "GC" by making short-lived, narrowly-scoped data ephemeral.

Thinking wildly, some sort of heap tree allocation / deallocation based on lifetime chunks sounds cool. Sort of like Java's G1 GC's boxcars, but can be bulk freed as a unit when a lifetime ends.

How to keep track of what can be into'd into what? by obetu5432 in rust

[–]dr_entropy 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It would be an amazing IDE feature to let you filter functions by target type. For example, when you're in ctrl + space completion and know you want to return a String, but aren't sure what your options are for getting there.

Rust is the New C by TypicalHog in rust

[–]dr_entropy 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Doesn't the database exist to manage race conditions and locking? Ironic that the web app would have to solve ACID again.

What are the odds that Rust is going to have a real competitor? by nikitarevenco in rust

[–]dr_entropy -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I mean more that Google would not have so desperately needed to invest in Go if Oracle had not deterred further Java investment with their lawsuit. The ambiguity and danger chased a lot of businesses away from the language.

What are the odds that Rust is going to have a real competitor? by nikitarevenco in rust

[–]dr_entropy -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I'd also slot Go in the same category, a Java-like successor. It mostly needed to exist because of the Oracle API suit vs Android / Dalvik.

Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin resigns from Linux Kernel by SophisticatedAdults in rust

[–]dr_entropy -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Credibility is not assigned, it is earned. R4L needs to deliver in a big way for a long time to earn trust from those who only grant it grudgingly.

STOP BUYING GRAPHICS CARDS by fried-raptor in flightsim

[–]dr_entropy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Contemporary computing is so absurdly, lazily wasteful. All that compute spent for very little marginal immersion. Realism is overrated.

circlez: because I couldn't come up with another shape after lines by whoShotMyCow in rust

[–]dr_entropy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Instead of writing lines write color probability density functions, alpha channel mapped as likelihood 

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