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New comment by korla in "Playing Pokemon Red with Reinforcement Learning"

korla — Sat, 14 Oct 2023 06:49:59 +0000

You are correct, there are ways to do so. There are also soft-locks which are states which are just incredibly hard to get out of (heat death of the universe type scenarios some times). Pikasprey yellow is one youtuber who chronicles things in that area.

But I think the commenter above meant that Pokémon was a game which was possible to complete in a twitch plays style because it doesn't result in game over like an FPS or platform we would for example.

New comment by korla in "Largest island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island (2007)"

korla — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 12:29:24 +0000

Further: e: dialectal version of "det", i.e. "it" öa, åa: adding an a on the end of a noun is a dialectal way of expressing "the 'ö'" and "the 'å'", respectively.

New comment by korla in "Why WhatsApp Only Needs 50 Engineers for Its 900M Users (2015)"

korla — Sun, 29 Jan 2023 09:17:16 +0000

Isn't the point that companies should be judged by the cost of their actions, and not the details of their implementations?

New comment by korla in "The computers are fast, but you don't know it"

korla — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 08:43:37 +0000

I think developer speed is more important than optimising clock cycles unnecessarily. Generally writing to dom is much much slower than evaluting a few thousand expressions.

For the cases when it's not, use memo.

New comment by korla in "Browse the web like its 1999"

korla — Thu, 30 Dec 2021 10:00:52 +0000

My reaction as well. I remember leaving for Google as a huge step in my childhood.

New comment by korla in "Mind-expanding books"

korla — Tue, 28 Dec 2021 10:06:28 +0000

I still recommend Name of the Wind. It's frustrating, but I would rather have loved and lost, than not loved at all.

New comment by korla in "Scan of the Month: Lego Minifigures"

korla — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 21:26:54 +0000

Killing flash was not about UX. The issues with it were technical.

Flash was not the UX for systems, but for fun little games and a means to tell a story in a way which wasn't available on the Web 20 years ago. This UX is fine as it is IMO. Cool even.

New comment by korla in "Scan of the Month: Lego Minifigures"

korla — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 21:23:44 +0000

DICOM is also the format used at hospitals for medical images. At least in radiotherapy.

New comment by korla in "Rich Harris joins Vercel to work on Svelte full time"

korla — Fri, 12 Nov 2021 06:38:02 +0000

I read it as: Svelte is faster in theory, but since people write bad Svelte code, it is slower than the React code the same developers would write.

My interpretation is that this can be attributed to either svelte being hard to write, or people being used to React. Both of which are a challenge to companies looking to switch to Svelte.

New comment by korla in ".NET Hot Reload Support via CLI"

korla — Sun, 24 Oct 2021 05:33:58 +0000

I agree, and the competition is at this point more between VS and other full-featured IDEs like JetBrains Rider, which is my tool of choice for .Net-development.

But, what I didn't know until this recent debacle, is how there is a theory that the reason the .Net-tooling in VSCode is so bad is the same reason we had this watch-debacle. There was some discussion on that in the other HN-thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28968231

New comment by korla in "Stop Equating “Science” with Truth (2017)"

korla — Mon, 18 Oct 2021 20:19:30 +0000

When I studied philosophy, we applied scientific methodology to understand complex topics, categorising them, and evaluating them against each other. The theories of moral philosophy are under scrutiny in a way very similar to the (other) natural sciences.

New comment by korla in "Stop Equating “Science” with Truth (2017)"

korla — Mon, 18 Oct 2021 20:16:36 +0000

I think you're equating the pro-mask side with some pro-science side. None of which has to do with the validity of science, or what truth is. You're talking about politics.

New comment by korla in "Stop Equating “Science” with Truth (2017)"

korla — Mon, 18 Oct 2021 20:13:55 +0000

What alternative methods do you suggest for the "domains it doesn't fit"?

New comment by korla in "The Skill of Org Design"

korla — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 13:44:49 +0000

When you can't measure what's important, what you can measure becomes important.

New comment by korla in "Piped: A privacy-friendly YouTube front end which is efficient by design"

korla — Sat, 17 Jul 2021 23:08:07 +0000

For me the biggest selling point is that the content I like is on YouTube. Everything else I can do without.

I consume it through their RSS, which is nice, I suppose.

New comment by korla in "Facebook still ‘secretly’ tracks your iPhone"

korla — Sun, 23 May 2021 08:54:37 +0000

I'm guessing here, but perhaps that is since apple revenue isn't ad-driven in the same sense Facebook is?

New comment by korla in "Cabal: A peer-to-peer, off-grid, community-first, hackable chat platform"

korla — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 06:14:59 +0000

Hate speech is when you promote violence or persecution in some other way against any of the groups you mentioned. I am not sure what point A has to do with what hate speech is.

New comment by korla in "Cabal: A peer-to-peer, off-grid, community-first, hackable chat platform"

korla — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 06:12:38 +0000

That is not what I am discussing. I am making a statement about how to design a stable society with humane values. From the perspective of the society. Instead you went to make judgements about my personal beliefs.

New comment by korla in "Cabal: A peer-to-peer, off-grid, community-first, hackable chat platform"

korla — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 06:06:23 +0000

I believe you are conflating the definition of minority in this context. It means a disenfranchised portion of the population.

New comment by korla in "Cabal: A peer-to-peer, off-grid, community-first, hackable chat platform"

korla — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 05:55:55 +0000

Are you suggesting it is not in a society's interest to limit hate speech against minorities? Because that is what is being discussed.