Pup Biru

what kind of monster writes a script without a shebang?

i thought this too, and i just started actually working with it and DAMN is it fast… i agree that it’s kinda a technical “what the fuck are you doing?!?” but… yeah… i can’t even really explain why

absolutely! similar is true of node in v8 (though python imo is far more mature in this regard) and probably most other languages

exactly why things like numpy are so popular: yeah python is slow, but python is just the orchestrator

further to that, “demonstrably worse for the planet” i’d like to debate: considering a huge amount of climate science is done with python-based tools because they’re far easier for researchers to pick up and run with - ie just get shit done rather than write good/clean code - i’d argue the benefit of python to the planet is in the outputs it enables for significantly reduced (or in many cases, perhaps outright enabled) input costs

yeah we have a “supply charge” that’s ~$1/day on top of that base rate too, so roughly the same situation :(

we’ve got this crap because of privatisation so it’s not likely to change any time soon.

i hope your energy prices come down when energy things stabilise in europe!

just sayin’ this is still so incredibly cheap… 8c/kwh… australian electricity prices are 24-43c/kwh (obv usd vs aud but the aussie $ isn’t that weak)

enron sold plenty of gas and real things too: it’s the double handling that’s the problem; not the nature of the goods or services

openai has practically no value and that’s well known… nvidia is paying companies to buy their chips and playing bullshit shell games

the difference is openai is a pretty well known unprofitable company, and they aren’t doing quite as much of the bullshit shell games. nvidia is selling to basically everyone, taking stakes in companies, giving weird deals… it’s bloody impossible to track how much of their sales are real and how much those real sales are actually worth, or if those sales are loss leaders for some investment then those investments look a lot like openai

so nvidia not only is invested in a lot of very questionable AI bubble companies, but also their own sales figures are… unreliable

they’re making billions upon billions because they’re using their own money multiple times. it’s kinda like leveraged trading with all the risk and it’s incredible arrogant at the scale that nvidia is doing it

and then wide scale adoption across the globe

there’s a bunch of FOSS work happening. i believe GNU Taler is specifically this. it’s being funded by the EU

right? like oh you don’t want to use this service that only costs us money? so sad… NEXT!

perhaps… i guess the single directional execution model would help to prevent memory leaks, and components would help keep things relatively contained… and also javascript in general avoids whole classes of c/c++ bugs… but it’s also incredibly slow. imo it’s just not something you should write core system components in

to be clear, it’s not react that’s the problem here: its execution model is an excellent way of structuring UI… but something as core as the start menu just really isn’t something you should fuck around with slow languages with

and also, that’s not to say that FOSS shouldn’t do it - they’re open, and thus something like react makes it easier for devs to write plugs and extend etc… but that’s not an engineering concern for windows: they don’t get the luxury of using extensibility as an excuse

little measurable difference? the last time they rewrote something they replaced the start menu with fucking react

the difference will be measurable and enormous

that’s absolutely true, and i’m sure that as tooling and workflow gets better these solutions will become standard. for the moment it’s all pretty haphazard, and i just don’t think it’s necessarily malicious intent or lying exactly… i think it could have easily been just miscommunication and/or legitimate mistake

afaik there were 2 issues here: there was a placeholder asset left in the game upon release, and the rules of the award were no AI assets during development either. i think the first can be easily explained by it being accidental (they replaced the texture very quickly) and the second can easily be explained by miscommunication between teams

i can see how this would happen though: marketing team simplistically asks about AI assets, dev team says no because it’s not in the final product that they’re aware of, and that miscommunication is exactly that: neither team is trying to be dishonest, it’s just that some information got lost along the way

their award should have been rescinded for sure

but also that shouldn’t tarnish the reputation of the studio going forward as long as they apologise and it was legitimately internal miscommunication rather than an attempt to deceive

yeah i don’t even think the dishonesty was necessarily dishonesty… i just think perhaps the marketing team wasn’t fully informed. i can absolutely see dev teams saying no to “AI use” not having been told that the question applied to the whole dev process, and marketing not understanding that that information was important

i have no problem with AI placeholders. i think that’s the right way to use AI… and dishonesty is a problem… miscommunication is really not a problem

but i also think that rescinding the award is the right call! but that shouldn’t tarnish the studios reputation in the future if they apologise and explain what happened

yeah they do certainly exist, but bog standard “red light cameras”… ie single purpose cameras are not that kind of problem… imo, as long as they’re deployed to combat actual issues they’re very much a beneficial tool

i think it’s important to differentiate these new kinds of cameras from the single purpose cameras so that arguments against them can be made independently

going straight from nothing to 30g/day (RDI) absolutely causes diarrhoea because it irritates your gut lining

if you follow directions like metamucil has to increase by a g or 2 per week then you’ll be right

you also need insoluble fibre, and psyllium only has soluble fibre

adjacent YSKs:

• there’s soluble and insoluble fibre. you need both, and psyllium only has soluble fibre so it’s part of a larger fibre intake (carrots are pretty okay sources of insoluble fibre - snacking carrots, perhaps with hummus is great!)
• peanut butter also has surprisingly decent fibre in it: honestly insoluble fibre is everywhere
• if you plan on adding psyllium (or any fibre) to your diet, build up slowly! it can cause literally constant diarrhoea for weeks or more if you just whack 30g/day (RDI) straight into your diet all at once
• add some to pancake batter! you’ll want to add about 10-20% more liquid because it gels up, but it’s real easy to add and is basically unnoticeable

red light cameras - at least in australia - are stock standard canon DSLRs… they take images, but not video

there are some newer ones that do things like photos of people using their phones stopped at lights etc, but generally speed/red light and “single purpose” cameras will just be doing stills, and wouldn’t be too useful for anything other than a single photo when the sensor triggers it