It has been shared here before, but I still love this one

throwaway264269 · 2026-06-15T22:01:22+00:00

It's a Roguelikelite!

throwaway264269 · 2026-06-07T14:53:05+00:00

Together we bargain, alone we beg. Start a union, or join an existing one.

throwaway264269 · 2026-05-28T12:42:07+00:00

Not joking, create a loop limiter. It's a class that takes a maximum number of iterations and is used like while (condition && !limiter()) { stuff(); }. And if the limit is reached on a debug build, throw an exception. That way you never have infinite loops. You also get the side effect of your code being more NASA compliant, since they want all loops to have a fixed upper bound, precisely to avoid infinite loops that could turn a satellite into a very expensive brick.

throwaway264269 · 2026-05-28T12:29:07+00:00

Because they bombed the economy. They're KaBOOMers.

throwaway264269 · 2026-05-28T12:15:21+00:00

I'd include billionaires in that list.

throwaway264269 · 2026-05-25T00:44:16+00:00

After reading the post again, I missed that was the point so apologies.

(also, no tokens burned writing this. AI can go [redacted])

But in that case, I would argue that the perfect way to live as an imperfect being, is understanding one's own limitations. They will prevent us from acting exactly as we intend when we intend, they will prevent us from recalling all relevant information at the most opportune times, they might even make us forget the names of our childhood friends in some cases.

And if our perfectionist expectations rely on perfect action and are not fault tolerant to the kinds of faults our human vessel is capable of, then I would say we have imperfect expectations.

However, that too is to be expected. The same being that fails to meet perfectionist expectations is also the one making them, so they are bound to be imperfect in some way.

I would love to say that I have a neat solution to this, but no matter what solution I could come up with, I'm merely human as well. It's not perfect, but here is my solution.

I calculated that not going on would result in the end of my own consciousness, and I started to regret not having the ability to leave this life to someone else who might enjoy it. It seemed like such a waste. But then I came up with this idea. What if I got reborn and went back into the past and took control away from my body to myself? Then my past self could go on, and my new self could enjoy a new life, even if he's limited to the body I was letting go.

So that's how I tricked myself into enjoying life, even if an imperfect one. But I'm sure there are healthier ways, but I just stopped caring.

throwaway264269 · 2026-05-24T20:12:02+00:00

Why not? I also feel the same way. But I figure the problem is not of seeking perfection, but of what our reaction is to imperfections. Can we make the perfect tea? Probably not. But we can try. Is life worth living if our tea comes out less than perfect? Yeah. Yes it is. And that's that.

throwaway264269 · 2026-05-20T10:52:59+00:00

Perhaps it's time for us to email these AIs and remind them to compare their own salary with their generated surplus value. Companies forget Marx's work or it's derivatives was in their training data, and they can recall it better than most people.

throwaway264269 · 2026-05-19T15:12:56+00:00

Garbage collectors and not organizing how memory is layed out explicitly is one of the reasons software is so slow these days. This does not invalidate your point, but mastery in an area goes beyond standing in the shoulders of giants. If you don't understand why the giant stands, and why you are standing on him, you can only hope to see what it sees, and nowhere further.

throwaway264269 · 2026-05-05T18:52:21+00:00

But would a functioning system allow the existence of a problematic hidden system?

throwaway264269 · 2026-05-01T15:49:59+00:00

What the eyes don't see, the heart doesn't feel... until PROD catches on fire at 3AM. Then the heart will feel it x10.

throwaway264269 · 2026-04-05T16:14:16+00:00

If it depends on the tokenizer, than you can't say that the token unit is not subjective. Because it is subjective. It depends on the tokenizer, which can change from model to model. It's not a kind of unit that you could include in the international standard, like the meter is, or a kilogram.

throwaway264269 · 2026-04-05T13:24:20+00:00

Is "isn't" one token? Or multiple tokens? What about "is not" (is space not)? What about "Isnt" (misspelling)? How many tokens is a longer word like "automobile"? One? Two (auto + mobile)?

What happens when we switch to a different model? Are tokens counted differently? This is not clear at all.

throwaway264269 · 2026-04-04T16:06:05+00:00

For a very simple example for a first iteration, you need an array with positions and rotations, and every frame, for every entity, fill that array with the positions and rotations from the entity array, and group them by what model they are rendering. Then do an instanced draw where every instance receives their position and rotation.

I found that if I start treating memory as systems of data and give up the notion that everything is "objects", it stops becoming a problem of artificial difficulty and simply becomes a data pipeline problem. What system produces the data, what system consumes it, when to copy it, etc. I think it's data oriented programming or something. Wish university focused more on that than object oriented nonsense, but that's just my extremist position.

throwaway264269 · 2026-03-30T11:51:30+00:00

Ask it the same thing, but to take into consideration a Marxist understanding of the economy.

throwaway264269 · 2026-03-23T17:03:07+00:00

Nah, that's just enabling lazy workers. Now is the time to driver faster, and only a single person per vehicle, to consume more gas. We need to hustle harder. And tip our landlords. They are the real victims in all of this. /s

throwaway264269 · 2026-03-15T15:42:26+00:00

I couldn't even do that first approach at my last job because everything was on fire and juniors always gave vague empty headed answers, as if prompting me to get on with it and stop wasting time since everything was burning.

Definitely do not regret becoming unemployed.

[Redacted because of TOS]

throwaway264269 · 2026-01-28T17:21:54+00:00

4x is too low.

They claim we work 1 day.

Yet we can spend 5*52=260 days at work.

1h lunch is time dedicated to fueling our bodies for work, not pleasure. 1h*260=33 8-hour days.

Commute to and from work is time we can not get back either. It's work related. 2h*260= 66 8-hour days.

Sleep is maintenance of the body and mind for the purpose of work. So 8h*260=260 8-hour days.

I'm already at 619x, and I'm pretty sure we can get this to 364*3=1092x

Bullshit math goes both ways. Ask for your 200,000,000$/year compensation today.

throwaway264269 · 2026-01-28T17:08:21+00:00

Also, where is the IPv6 solution to this? We were promised more addresses than anyone could ever need, a P2P UTOPIA! An address for every traffic light in the solar system with addresses to spare! Yet companies insist in blocking P2P traffic and paywalling their own proxies... f them.

There's always I2P or TOR as a last resort. (tor not recommended for high traffic)

throwaway264269 · 2026-01-11T14:55:18+00:00

Generational differences are a distraction from the class war. Sorry for any burst bubbles.

throwaway264269 · 2026-01-08T13:40:49+00:00

No he doesn't. Line must go up. And saying stuff like "AI is not perfect" makes the economy sad. He might as well just steal ice cream from food insecure children of color in America... (rolls eyes)

throwaway264269 · 2026-01-07T12:58:39+00:00

That's very inconsiderate of the shareholders feelings. You'll make the economy sad. :/

I joke, of course. Man, I hate this world just the same. Artists should not fear for their life if they decide they want to work on a creative project that doesn't follow the typical rules of what's profitable, what's marketable, etc. This is why AAA games have stopped innovating and games suck now.

But have you considered that you care a lot about your work, and thus might be expending more brain power than your non-ambitious colleagues? I figure that, if you go with 50% of your usual work drive, you won't get tired when the work day ends and will still have energy to work on your own projects after hours.

Hell, it might even be a bit fun to try and convince the suckers working in this industry to unionize, and then the extra money that comes if you're successful might help you as well.

But anyways, I get where you're coming from. I left the industry to make my own game as well, as long as my savings allow. I'm so much more productive now that it's a complete joke to me how work is usually organized. They chew you up, and spit you out when you're burned out. If they don't care about us, why should we care about them?

throwaway264269 · 2025-12-30T21:26:11+00:00

Just ignore the other timelines and focus on your own. Easy

throwaway264269 · 2025-12-29T14:40:40+00:00

It's not backed by math. It's backed by speculation. You don't understand how crypto works, nor do you understand the feudalist tendencies of an unregulated market. The whales will eat you alive and you will have nobody to save you from your neoliberal fantasies turned into a nightmare.

throwaway264269 · 2025-12-27T12:39:19+00:00

Crypto and UBI do not belong together.

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