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capableweb··on When Linux Spooked Microsoft: Remembering 1998's Leaked 'Halloween Documents'
I think parents point still stand. Windows overwrites any boot related stuff to use it's own. You need to either install X after Windows, or disconnect the proper boot drive when installing Windows, otherwise your system will just boot Windows directly.
capableweb··on Northlight technology in Alan Wake 2
Funnily enough, both Colossal Order (Cities: Skylines 2 devs) and Remedy are Finnish companies, yet only one suffers from GPU performance issues.
capableweb··on Northlight technology in Alan Wake 2
> without having the 'every NPC has 10k-poly teeth in their mouth' problem that's currently sabotaging Cities Skylines 2's performance

Sad to see an otherwise good comment end with a misconception. The problems with the performance is much grander than just "teeth rendered but not visible" (https://blog.paavo.me/cities-skylines-2-performance/), although I guess it's a illustrative point. Missing LODs and lack of culling are the grander issues.

capableweb··on Vitess 18
Seems Vitess is a CNCF/Linux Foundation project?
capableweb··on A four year plan for async Rust
I'm not sure "percentage of usage" is a metric you can use to fully decide how "useful" something is. Take macros in Clojure for example, usually you just have a few of those, but the ones you have are really useful, they give a lot of functionality and practicality to the language. Maybe the same thing is happening with sync/async generators?
capableweb··on Videos of Godotcon 2023
Heh, yeah, my work is the opposite, so I've been sticking with Bevy for quite some time at this point. Tried Godot, but I really enjoyed ECS so hard to change now...
capableweb··on Waze will now warn drivers about crash dangers using historical data
Waze is a Google product, so yes, you are the product. Also, they sell ad spots. Published a few for a restaurant, worked OK actually as we got some customers who got there because of the ad.
capableweb··on LAPD considering stronger body camera policy in light of recent scandals
But don't you usually take those people with you to a station, in order to take a proper statement? Or that happens on the scene directly after the fact? One would think they'd at least get to go to a hospital to do a check before they have to talk with law enforcement.
capableweb··on The OpenAI Keynote
> It would be great if there was some kind of open decentralized protocol for agents as an alternative to being locked in to a few particular platforms.

If you're expecting a company with "Open" in it's name to want to make anything close to "Open", you've lost.

The new trend is to make the company name as different as possible from what you want. OpenAI is all about vendor lock-in, which should be clear from the name, so everything they do will try to lock you further into their ecosystem.

capableweb··on The OpenAI Keynote
Why would there be thousands of them? Wasn't the last GPT where the research actually was shared, GPT3? Hard to imagine that OpenAI suddenly will start releasing models more often than what they have been doing so far.

Edit: That's what I get for reading the comments before the article... "GPTs" is actually a new thing they introduced, where you can create your own "GPT" somehow, not just pluralization of GPT as we've know it.

That's some really messed up naming if anything. But regardless, parents comment makes a lot more sense now.

capableweb··on LAPD considering stronger body camera policy in light of recent scandals
> If its just the officer turning it off when entering a bathroom, all good

Why even allow them to turn it off for this? The footage will be automatically overwritten or deleted at one point anyways.

With great power comes great responsibility, and if you're not ready to sacrifice a bit of your privacy in order to be able to legally murder people, maybe you shouldn't be the one who gets put in that position.

capableweb··on Videos of Godotcon 2023
> Godot and Bevy

I'm guessing you're using these separately right? Not together?

capableweb··on Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?
Something I guess kind of fits with this is doing seed-bombs, we used to do that a bit when I was young. You basically forcefully plant colorful flowers in places that are not so colorful. Coolest thing we managed to get the flowers growing at was a roof where you could just barely see flowers on the top corner of the building.
capableweb··on Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?
> Or better yet, can we just push for peace talks so they can stay home?

Some of these people don't have any homes anymore, literally. Some places have been pretty so extensively damaged that you're not able to live there anymore.

We need both, help for refugees that have nowhere else to go, and more dialog to end the conflict.

This applies to all conflicts.

capableweb··on OpenAI DevDay, Opening Keynote Livestream [video]
All of the tooling they've done for ChatGPT folded into one tool instead of having to choose between evaluating code or browsing the web, would be a good one.

Tree history of chat messages would be great as well. Their data structures already seem to support it/made for it, so probably coming soon.

capableweb··on Cicada – Open-source cross-platform version of GitHub Actions and Gitlab CI
This is the syntax of the pipeline it seems: https://github.com/Cicada-Software/demo/blob/main/hello_worl...

Short answer: No

capableweb··on OpenAI DevDay, Opening Keynote Livestream [video]
Obviously you're gonna get eaten if you just add some fluff on top of their API and it ends up popular. People are smart enough to realise this right?
capableweb··on Admin unmasks self as sockpuppet of other admin who was banned in 2015
1TB doesn't come close to fitting Wikipedia + images, you'd need closer to 500TB to be able to fit it. Fitting just the text part is easy.
capableweb··on How Rust can facilitate new contributors while decreasing vulnerabilities [pdf]
Don't act like this verbosity isn't widespread in the Rust ecosystem already.
capableweb··on How Rust can facilitate new contributors while decreasing vulnerabilities [pdf]
Of course the verbosity is doing something, the same is true for Java as well, it's not like the verbosity is just useless characters doing nothing. Still makes it overly verbose for a lot of us. I still write Rust code daily, but I wish the language thought a bit more about read/write ergonomics.
capableweb··on Admin unmasks self as sockpuppet of other admin who was banned in 2015
All the text of Wikipedia fits on a thumb drive, yeah. But add in the images and suddenly it becomes hard to find a stick that could fit it.
capableweb··on Drunk grizzlies keep getting hit by trains in Montana
Yeah, not everyone have a local butcher and need to hunt food themselves, not common to come across folks like you here :)
capableweb··on How Rust can facilitate new contributors while decreasing vulnerabilities [pdf]

  MY_GPIO.borrow(cs).borrow().as_ref().unwrap().odr.modify(|_, w| w.odr1().set_bit());
or

  let mutex = MY_GPIO.borrow(cs).borrow().as_ref().unwrap(); mutex.odr.modify(|_, w| w.odr1().set_bit()); 
Both of those ways are really horrible, and differ almost nothing. I understand and know why it looks like it does, but having to jump through all that mental gymnastics just to understand/write one line is why Rust is just overly verbose for a lot of things.
capableweb··on Drunk grizzlies keep getting hit by trains in Montana
Thinking you were overreacting, I gave the video a look.

I'm not sure if that's a example from reality, it cannot be real that people are allowed and do drive trains over those "rails"?

capableweb··on Drunk grizzlies keep getting hit by trains in Montana
Pellet gun or a bow sounds like it could seriously hurt the animal, why would you prefer that rather than harmless water? They'll learn after a while to stay away with just water.
capableweb··on Admin unmasks self as sockpuppet of other admin who was banned in 2015
Not every country is setup to handle criticism in a way that doesn't punish the one who is sharing the criticism. Even in "modern" countries like Spain they can (and have in the past) punish you for criticizing the police or the monarchy.

So if you want to write/edit/admin Wikipedia articles about those "touchy" things, you might want to do so under anonymous identity, as otherwise it can really make things difficult for you.

capableweb··on Berlin's famed nightclubs, losing customers, face an uncertain future
Clubbing might be a young persons pass time, but techno and dancing is not just young people's pass time.
capableweb··on Berlin's famed nightclubs, losing customers, face an uncertain future
The problem is not being dressing up, the problem is dressing up and then doing photo ops in areas where usually you don't really wanna be photographed. There always been an expectation of privacy on the dance floor at more underground places, but people seem to be getting a bit more shameless regarding not caring about the privacy of others.
capableweb··on Why Cities: Skylines 2 performs poorly
Campaign mode? It's a sandbox game, like the countless of other sandbox simulators, you make your own goals :)

Otherwise I guess you could ask people for the savegames of almost broken cities and try to rescue them?

capableweb··on Why Cities: Skylines 2 performs poorly
> Can someone expand on exactly what is meant by "model LOD" in this context?

Back in the day, games just had one version of each model, that gets loaded or not.

Nowadays, games with lots of models and huge amount of detail lets each model have multiple different versions, with their own LOD (Level of Detail).

So if you see a tree from far away, it might be 20 vertices because you're far away from it so you wouldn't see the details anyways. But if you're right next to it, it might have 20,000 vertices instead.

It's an optimization technique to not send too much geometry to the GPU.

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