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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baidu CEO warns AI is just an inevitable bubble — 99% of AI companies are at risk of failing when the bubble bursts⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  4o is also not really much better than 4, they likely just optimized it among others by reducing the model size. IME the “intelligence” has somewhat degraded over time. Also bigger Model (which in tha past was the deciding factor for better intelligence) needs more energy, and GPT5 will likely be much bigger than 4 unless they somehow make a breakthrough with the training/optimization of the model…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google looks to be fully shutting down unsupported extensions and ad blockers in Chrome, such as uBlock Origin – which might push some folks to switch to Firefox⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I have hopes, that servo as a little more independent web engine, will thrive in the future

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon cloud boss echoes NVIDIA CEO on coding being dead in the water: "If you go forward 24 months from now, it's possible that most developers are not coding"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They obviously have to sell something. I doubt that they honestly think that this will happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study: Congress literally doesn’t care what you think. The preferences of the average American appear to have only a miniscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean that is basically how social media and news etc. work. Negative emotions are the strongest, and possibly produce the most reactions. And that’s what all of this lives from. Probably one of the reasons why the human world is slowly gonig to shit (well there I did feed it^^). I think though it’s really difficult to combat this shitty political situation we’re in basically worldwide, it’s almost self-driving into a well not so human-friendly (nor life at all) world.

  But I obviously agree. Just actually do stuff that doesn’t feed this downward spiral. I.e. do stuff with friends, pursue hobbys, do sports etc. Be a good example for others (e. g. show that a more climate friendly life doesn’t need to degrade happiness, or could even be helpful). That IME leads to much more happiness, healthier life (physically and psychological), less misanthropism etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or buy (also) via something like bandcamp, when the artist is on it. They cut only 10% IIRC

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A tiny radioactive battery could keep your future phone running for 50 years⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah especially with just 0.001% of the estimated workload (~10W when gaming, but even when standby 0.5W, 100uW are still just 0.02% of that…). Needs a lot more research…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A tiny radioactive battery could keep your future phone running for 50 years⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Now play a game for an hour…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the biggest change you would like to see in computing/tech?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually that’s one of the few cases, where a (distributed/decentralized) blockchain really makes sense (trustless ledger which can be used for incorruptible/transparent political systems)…

  Ignoring all the buzzword bingo and hype.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the biggest change you would like to see in computing/tech?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Less consumerism, more focus on real social aspects:

  • Macro: robust (decentralized) political system, that’s not easily corruptible, e.g. via something like blockchain
  • Micro: more focus on direct interaction with other people, not via something like a screen, as another post here already said, we’re harming ourselves (promote psychiatric issues etc.) with the current state of technology (smartphone overuse). We have gone much less social (direct interaction with others) because of this I’m sure of.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the biggest change you would like to see in computing/tech?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This! I feel it myself, my ADHD was much better when I stayed in a relatively natural setting with only little technology. for a few weeks (I did some programming there though, and boy was I focused in complex problems without medication etc. had one of my best coding sessions there I think). I’m pretty sure that a lot of ADHD but also other psychiatric issues like autism or social anxiety etc. that is diagnosed these days is because of all this unhealthy environment we have created. Or in other words, our modern technology promotes psychiatric issues such as ADHD, autism, social anxiety etc.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's a mass extinction event⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  True, Fyrox often gets less love than e.g. Bevy (probably because the data-driven ECS pattern feels more idiomatic in Rust than OOP, and probably because it’s mostly a one-man-show as well)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's a mass extinction event⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Rust has exactly the same problems with depreciation as many Frameworks rely on experimental features which are subject to change.

  Rust has actually quite a good record with depreciation and backwards-compatibilty etc. They are changing the language in non-backwards compatible way over editions, but the changes are mostly very manageable.

  But to not end up being another C++ (syntax-wise it’s a disaster IMHO), a few non-backwards-compatible changes every few years are the way to go, when it’s manageable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's a mass extinction event⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Learning curve is steep in the beginning, I agree (I wouldn’t argue painful though, maybe if you have to unlearn bad practices, like interior mutability though etc.).

  But I think it pays off after some time. I’m now faster in Rust than in C# with similar experience, and the quality of the code is definitely higher as well (which can be credited to the strict kinda opinionated design of Rust IMO).

  It composes really well, better than most (non-functional) popular languages. I think this is probably the Sell for Rust, as it additionally works remarkably well over the entire stack (kernel -> frontend) (in each abstraction level might be better/easier to use languages to be fair though).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's a mass extinction event⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There are of course security flaws, we’re humans after all. Unless the compiler and the language can be proven mathematically correct at least.

  But as described above, in practice the security flaws are easier to isolate in Rust compared to C# IME. The current story of security flaws in Rust is quite good so far.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's a mass extinction event⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not speaking for Rust level performance. I’m using Rust nowadays, because it’s generally doing a lot right, that other popular languages struggle with IMO.

  Think about error handling. I think even Java is better here than C#. I think it’s quite a mistake, not being required to add all possible exception types that a function can throw to the function signature.

  Then the next thing, I really hate about almost every popular language is implicit null. To be really safe, you have to check every (non-primitive) variable for null before using it, otherwise you have a potential NullPointerException.

  Then take pattern matching, this is a baked in feature of Rust from the beginning and it does this really well (exhaustive matching etc.). There’s “basic” pattern matching in C#, but it just doesn’t really feel right in the language, and is not even close in capability compared to Rusts.

  All of this (and more) makes Rust the less error-prone language, which I can say with confidence after long experience with both of these languages (both > 5 years).

  I’m honestly not sure why exactly C# was chosen for most of the games, but it’s probably because it’s relatively good to embed, is relatively strong-typed, while being somewhat performant (compared to something like python or other scripting languages).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's a mass extinction event⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah me too, but I think it’s not there yet, when you think out of a less programmer focused perspective, as most of the stuff in games is of artistic nature (which takes time to make, even with all the AI stuff) and otherwise simple game logic for most of these indie games. So something like an interactive GUI editor to “debug” is a must have for artists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's a mass extinction event⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean why else would you want to use C# when there’s Rust 🦀 and all the awesome tooling and libraries around it…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The more they censor, bigger it gets⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean as the image obviously suggests, the community hasn’t forgotten all the previous actions of reddit (on command of u/spez)