arduinomancer

I generally don’t really care about what programming language I’m using

To me algorithms and solving problems in the abstract sense are the actual interesting part of the job

If discussing language/framework choices is the most interesting part of the job, it means I have a boring job/project/domain

Not everyone is cranking out boilerplate web services/web apps

I don’t understand

I get that you can assemble a phone PCB with SMT parts yourself, that’s not that crazy

But is there actually an American made SoC that can be used for a phone?

Yep, fixing bugs/performance is just not valued by big companies

No one gets promoted doing it

Not sure about UE but I’ve worked on other engines and usually you just have an interface that abstracts platform APIs and each platform implements the same interface

The implementations get compiled in based on whatever platform you’re compiling for using a bunch of #ifdef statements

In that case it’s just a matter of not including certain .h/.cpp files

I think when you first start out as a programmer you’re impressed by complexity and complex solutions

But once you’re more experienced you realize complexity is arbitrary and anyone can make things more complex

What do you mean low level?

Do you think the Linux kernel could be written in a language without types enforced?

What makes you think they avoid it?

When I was in uni CS majors could take multiple gamedev classes but they were electives

The problem I find with the gamedev subreddit is it seems like it’s 90% beginners

And the focus is like all on 1-person indie projects with very little content from professional/AAA devs

I’m curious if this system would have some sort of checksum to know if the data was loaded correctly?

I guess a more general question: do barcodes have checksums? Or QR codes for that matter?

Not completely tech related but I think at the moment culture is very maximalist

Hyper-comercialization of music, social media, influencers, marvelification of movies, etc…

Feels very saturated and overproduced at the moment

I wouldn’t be suprised if in the coming decades the pendulum will swing towards more a cultural trend of minimalism and authenticity as a reaction to that

Doubt it

2D printers are not open source and you can still print pretty much anything

It offers first party titles, you said it yourself

There’s nothing worse than listening to the audio of someone else scrolling TikTok

Hearing the same 10 second clip of a song 20 times

This feels like one of the weakest PG articles

The writing quality feels like that of a university student

Just lots of assertions thrown out without any real backing

It’s covered if you major in computer engineering rather than CS

Digital circuits, FPGAs, microcontrollers, basic electronics, lots of making stuff on breadboards

One of my big undergrad projects was to build a CPU from scratch on an FPGA and write an assembler for it

Hot take: CE is a better foundation for programming than CS

Obviously OP didn’t mean literally nothing else to do

Wow that is a cool concept

Thanks for sharing

The end of this poem always sticks in my head

Another good one is The Tyger by Blake

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43687/the-tyger

I typed in “violin” as an interest and it suggested getting a “personalized violin pick” as a gift

Unfortunately thats not a thing, you don’t use a pick to play violin

Classic AI

(The actual links were to guitar picks)

It depends more on the team than the company

Working at Amazon on boring internal HR tech is very different than working on S3

At least someone filmed a tour before it closed a few months ago

https://youtu.be/OohnXELGQ74?si=UgHyjv6AKeaTF3kK

I feel like that’s unavoidable because once you get big company clients your PMs start prioritizing their feature requests

And those companies will inevitably want it to do everything

How does the model “remember” the whole state of the world?

Like if I kill an enemy in some room and walk all the way across the map and come back, would the body still be there?

Part of it is that rendering with triangles has been the standard for so long that it’s interesting to see an approach that uses a different primitive.

And the topic hasn’t been fully explored yet so there’s a lot of low hanging fruit

> Not buying it

What is there not to buy?

They tested it in mice and it increased lifespan, they never claimed it worked for humans in the study.

> To test whether taurine deficiency is a driver of aging in humans as well, long-term, well-controlled taurine supplementation trials that measure health span and life span as outcomes are required.

Did you read the abstract?

> Any goal scored in extra time would count as two goals

That seems like a really strange rule to have

Can we have a HN rule that any article headline containing "blasts" or "slams" is automatically removed?

This exists as a feature on iOS

You can long press on an image and it cuts out whatever thing it thinks you're pressing on

They also use it in interesting ways, like making stuff in the photo slightly overlap the clock on the lockscreen

Does anyone know if that works the same way as this?

This is so weird but cool

Is there a genre of art like this?

That focuses on seemingly mundane stuff?