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New comment by jaunkst in "CDC team studying East Palestine train derailment fell ill during investigation"

jaunkst — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 23:34:40 +0000

There is no ownership when the repercussions are soft and deferred.

New comment by jaunkst in "AI converts between hundreds of programming languages"

jaunkst — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 02:49:11 +0000

I’ve written translators that also had to consider pattern changes. The amount of training to translate code effectively is enormous to be effective at scale. I assume this is segmenting separate models based on each language permutation.

I would love to see AI applied to predict algorithms and provide intelligent recommendations.

New comment by jaunkst in "I love my GPD Micro PC"

jaunkst — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 14:32:35 +0000

Waiting on my Win Max 2 now. It's shaping up to be an incredible device.

New comment by jaunkst in "Twitter data breach exposes contact details for 5.4M accounts; on sale for $30k"

jaunkst — Sun, 24 Jul 2022 00:38:43 +0000

Jokes on them 75% of them are bot accounts.

New comment by jaunkst in "A clip from Stray got me banned from Twitter"

jaunkst — Sat, 23 Jul 2022 16:08:14 +0000

That's a real issue. It's not just a monopoly in a competitive sense but also a monopoly on 'public squares'. Which is effectively against free speech.

When a company or moderator has the power to ban you from a public space your are ostracized by a non-democratic panel, with unknown agendas.

New comment by jaunkst in "Roguelike Tutorial in Rust (2019)"

jaunkst — Tue, 12 Jul 2022 22:55:43 +0000

That is one of the reasons why I got into programming. Not exactly because of roguelikes but MUDs. After playing muds, and wanting to make my own I started with Diku, and then started building them from scratch in many other languages.

The ECS pattern became something really interesting to me just because of the highly serializable state.

One of the MUDs my community was involved in had a great developer behind it. It was just so amazing how fast new features were added to the system. The idea that you don't need assets, animations, etc is critical.

I would love for a book series that would cover something like this in multiple languages.

New comment by jaunkst in "Design lessons from guitar pedals"

jaunkst — Sat, 02 Jul 2022 01:07:00 +0000

I recently acquired a Quad Cortex, and the rugged rotary stomp knobs combined with the 7" in display is awesome. The ML in that thing is sweet too. It's definitely a feat worth mentioning.

New comment by jaunkst in "[dead]"

jaunkst — Tue, 10 May 2022 02:58:22 +0000

Geekologie has shut down.

Thank you to everybody.

Now go be happy.

New comment by jaunkst in "Homes in 97% of U.S. cities are overvalued, Moody's says"

jaunkst — Fri, 06 May 2022 05:38:36 +0000

I’m up 125%. 10% loss would be a great consolidation.

New comment by jaunkst in "The Front-End Developer's Guide to the Terminal"

jaunkst — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 20:34:02 +0000

This isn't just a frontend problem. There are quite a few IDE's like IntelliJ Idea that have been the only interface for many developers.

New comment by jaunkst in "Impressions from a first-time Mac user"

jaunkst — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 00:23:24 +0000

So the UX is worse than Linux, and Windows? I don't believe that for one second.

New comment by jaunkst in "An Astronaut’s Guide to Mental Models"

jaunkst — Thu, 13 Feb 2020 02:21:54 +0000

When I hear mental model I am thinking more.of the lines of perception. The value of a mental model is understanding it. To the extent of replicating or teaching it. It is a model. A model is defining a set of relatable understanding to another. Finding a commen sense set of abstractions.

New comment by jaunkst in "RIP Syd Mead (Blade Runner, TRON Designer)"

jaunkst — Tue, 31 Dec 2019 02:54:57 +0000

Love them both. One is extremely organic and the other is a sort of macro greeble feel.

New comment by jaunkst in "Publish – A static site generator for Swift developers"

jaunkst — Tue, 31 Dec 2019 02:47:45 +0000

It's fast. It's static. CDN as mentioned. Nothing impressive here though. This wheel has been done.

New comment by jaunkst in "AirPods Pro Page Performance"

jaunkst — Sat, 02 Nov 2019 20:37:02 +0000

We have customers in industrial processes that care. Internet is questionable and they are not working overtime for bloated software.

New comment by jaunkst in "AirPods Pro Page Performance"

jaunkst — Sat, 02 Nov 2019 20:32:27 +0000

Didn't read but sounds like web components without a bundling concept.

New comment by jaunkst in "Swift Server Work Group Annual Update"

jaunkst — Thu, 31 Oct 2019 23:12:59 +0000

No thanks.

New comment by jaunkst in "What Happened to 'Miegakure,' the Game That Promised the 4th Dimension? (2018)"

jaunkst — Fri, 24 May 2019 23:18:19 +0000

It didn't disappearing

New comment by jaunkst in "Girl’s $143k bill for snakebite treatment reveals antivenin price gouging"

jaunkst — Wed, 01 May 2019 19:35:06 +0000

Yikes. Think I'm going to learn to do my own stiches.

New comment by jaunkst in "Sorting Algorithm Cheat Sheet"

jaunkst — Sat, 27 Apr 2019 03:15:27 +0000

I'm less worried about understanding of sorting algorithms than I am about understanding of patterns. With any team at scale my hardest challenge is about patterns. More importantly why a pattern is used. Efficiency of a sorting algorithm can be refactored. Is the implementation of the sorting composable? I'll hire without question someone who understands patterns and composablilty over someone who can site an ideal solution. Seriously at what cost does readability over complexity really mean anything to consumer value. I understand that in very limited scope computational efficiency is imperative but let's be pragmatic and say good programming and understanding of best practices trump perfect solutions.