Dark Arc @ Dark_Arc @social.packetloss.gg

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Yeah if there is a nuke coming and you can't get to shelter, you want to be near where it hits not a few miles away IIRC

Radiation poisoning is a hell of a way to go

It's not just the US that has bland restaurants and/or is afraid of spice.

I've been to restaurants in the Czech Republic, Germany, Poland, Austria, and Bulgaria.

I'm sure there are places that spice things up more and some of the restaurants were really good, but some were also some of the most bland food I've had at a restaurant.

It's the same thing in the US; there are places that won't put any spice on and there are places that will leave you crying the food is so hot and everything in-between.

Also every "Mexican" food dish I've had in Europe has just been bad. Y'all are doing it wrong.

It's kind of funny because if you go look at the reply about soccer, several people are like "that wasn't the Europeans, that was the brits!"

It's the same thing here with different states doing different crazy things ... Not that we also don't do some stuff nationally that's crazy, like electing a certain felon, but ya know

Yes, it’s expensive as hell, and my suspicion is that long term the displays will be replaced with a waveguide (Stanford’s looks pretty good at this point), so it won’t need the external-facing display

Interesting; any more information on this? I tried a search but didn't turn much up.

I think that they saw what Google glass could become capable of, and thought that the phone as it is now (screen, etc) was going to become obsolete at some point, and they were terrified of losing that race.

That's very fair... I definitely think the only viable future here is lightweight AR glasses.

I mean you can't stay out of their "exact" blind spot, but vehicles aren't that different. The blind spot is typically in the range of behind the driver's side door to a few feet behind the rear bumper.

it's also in that exact situation that you'll be surprised to see that some fucker has been cruising in your blind spot for a long time.

An additional helpful tip is to get out of people's blind spots. Don't be the one driving in another person's blind spot for an extended amount of time because they are a lot more likely to turn into you.

Do you have a screenshot of what it looks like in 2024 (or I suppose 2025 lol)?

I want it to render things quickly and to support light & dark themes.

Both konsole and alacrity have failed me there.

If it has any window chrome, I want it to look good.

Ghostty ... actually does everything I want pretty well, modulo some rendering glitches I attribute to GTK and fractional scaling.

Edit: I do like smooth scrolling, but I can live without it. I've used emacs for so long ... I'm just used to not having it for walls of text, even though I think slight smooth scrolling majorly improves readability of motion.

I blame (in no small part) Hollywood and movies like Jurassic Park for pushing stereotypes about the field being dominated by creepy, obese, and gross "computer nerds."

Outside of a few niches like computer science this is increasingly true in the US as well AFAIK.

But 99.9% of code I write is safe rust - which most people just call rust.

That's true for your application maybe, but they go on to say how one should consider whether or not their problem is going to fit well within the rules of the rust borrow checker and that needs to be talked about more (vs just assuming Rust is the safest option).

The second time you write any project it will be easier and faster as you learn a lot form the first time you write something. If zig is always the rewrite it will come off better. Almost all rewrites are better or faster, even if you are moving to a slower language - the language makes a difference to performance and ease of writing. But far more does how you write things and the data structures/algorithms you use.

I'm going to agree to disagree with you there. I'd throw this in the category of persistent myth. Yes, ideally, you learn from your first experience and make everything better, but the reality is you often just end up with different mistakes.

Rewrites aren't often done outside of hobbyish projects because they're very expensive, stop new feature development, and you really can end up with something that's worse than what you started with (this is especially true if you've switched languages or frameworks).

Overall they seem to want to write as much unsafe as they can and are writing rust like it is C. This is not a good idea and why zig will be better suited.

They do explain with citations why it makes more sense (i.e. you end up with something more performance) to write their VM outside of the restrictions of the borrow checker.

But you can write a VM without large amounts of unsafe if you want to and it can be performant.

I think the claim is a bit of a stretch off the cuff. Ideally to retort this some rustacian would implement a mark and sweep VM in Rust with maximal use of the borrow checker.

Edit: Looking at their code, it's not all just one big unsafe block either. But it is something that they frequently had to drop down to, to implement this particular garbage collection strategy.

I think one of the computers in my basement is an ASRock board, and it's the flimsiest board I've ever had. Like the USB ports are really flexible.

Interesting; I've associated them with just making cheap boards. Is that changing?

Hmm... There's been a lot of quality of life patches (key binds, esc to close interfaces, clicking outside of interfaces closes them, smarter quantities on the withdraw screen, the option to have left click do a "default action" rather than opening the window, middle click drag, etc). He was pushing out changes every day for like two weeks, then weekly patches.

I haven't really seen anything I'd call a bug (it's actually one of the most stable games I've ever played).

It's definitely a true early access game (and they've said as much; they're open to a lot of potential changes and have been quite receptive to feedback with strong consensus), so I'd definitely check back from time to time if you like it in concept. They're talking about adding action queuing and reworking the combat to feel "better" in the near term. Player trading and PvP duels should come soon after as well along with a bunch of other stuff.

The game is designed to be friendly to touch screens and they do plan to have a mobile client eventually (similar to RuneScape). However, they have said they will not add any micro transactions or other predatory stuff ... and I believe them; the Gowers have been quite principled about that over the years.

Yeah? What wasn't clicking for you? I love it

I prefer Threema over Signal, but I do not think the US government recommending an app means that they have it backdoored. The US government needs to protect its own communications as well and while the left hand may be thinking encryption is bad for law enforcement the right have is thinking encryption is good for national security.

So... I don't think there's some larger conspiracy, just the normal government dissonance.

Threema

Me with a 7900 XTX playing brighter shores 🥲

The specs in the comic are just crazy. The top of the line option has expanded a lot too. In the past Nvidia wouldn't have bothered making a 4090 because the common belief was nobody would pay that much for a GPU... But seemingly enough people are willing to do it that it's worth doing now.

AMD also revived CPUs in desktop PCs from extreme stagnation and raised the bar for the high end on that side as well by a lot.

So it's a mix of inflation and the ceiling just being raised as to what the average consumer is offered.