Posts by seanmcbeth@arvr.social
(DIR) Post #Ab15vfSvf2PfcoVPIO by seanmcbeth@arvr.social
2023-10-22T04:11:38Z
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In the spirit of open source software almost always doing everything it can to undermine itself, this project should be named "AssMan".
(DIR) Post #AbJNwyYFi1xYZZLyj2 by seanmcbeth@arvr.social
2023-10-30T23:58:21Z
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@trevorflowers I'm on my first Linux daily-driver. I've ran Linux on my servers and old laptovers for a over a decade, but this is the first new PC I *started* on Linux.It's not even my most powerful PC right now and it's still the fastest at everything except gaming graphics. I wager, for 95% of people, fast process startup and fast file systems are way more important than gaming.I can barely stand to use my personal Windows PC for coding anymore. My work Windows PC is torture.
(DIR) Post #AbJObKWfQbKuJBr2cS by seanmcbeth@arvr.social
2023-10-31T00:05:39Z
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@trevorflowers it makes me kind of wonder just how fast a modern computer could be. Because modern Linux ain't exactly immune to generational bloat, either. We've just accepted that Windows grows every year "cuz bloat", but Linux grows at about the same rate. What is all this stuff? Where we have complete transparency on the system, what more is there to do in the OS that warrants 30gb base install space?
(DIR) Post #AbVKMkA8pZNyNvRQHY by seanmcbeth@arvr.social
2023-11-05T18:14:43Z
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Getting ready to build a work bench
(DIR) Post #AbVTSsKmGG1L3NPmkK by seanmcbeth@arvr.social
2023-11-05T19:56:41Z
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Cuts are all done. "Just" need to put it together now.
(DIR) Post #AbVTaHJZmYn0YZNo6C by seanmcbeth@arvr.social
2023-11-05T19:58:02Z
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Yes, I did a rough drawing first.
(DIR) Post #AbVbh6DSFEX3nLHcES by seanmcbeth@arvr.social
2023-11-05T21:28:54Z
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Done. Exhausted.
(DIR) Post #AbVeGhfxA7lS19iavI by seanmcbeth@arvr.social
2023-11-05T21:57:45Z
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Got it done in 3 hours
(DIR) Post #AbVeYjfEVZU5Ofyo1A by seanmcbeth@arvr.social
2023-11-05T22:01:01Z
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@brandonnedwek actually, technically it's not done. Still have another sheet of plywood to put in the bottom to make a shelf, plus going to stain it with deck sealer so I can leave it outside. But it's functional now, so those are just "upgrades" :)
(DIR) Post #AbVfRftWE0hHdIrJ9k by seanmcbeth@arvr.social
2023-11-05T22:10:57Z
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@brandonnedwek what's interesting is how it doesn't look like it will be sturdy until it's finished. You'll never get anything completely square using dimensions lumber, but that's kind of the point. All the small warps in the 2x4s act like springs pulling in every direction. Once everything is tied together, it creates a structural tension in the piece that *makes* it sturdy.
(DIR) Post #AbVfyjUZryowLaxKtM by seanmcbeth@arvr.social
2023-11-05T22:16:55Z
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@brandonnedwek honestly, it's how all my software projects go, too. 3 months of not having any good results to show, and then some quantum wave collapses and everything falls into place.
(DIR) Post #AbVgj9b98m8GdOADhI by seanmcbeth@arvr.social
2023-11-05T22:25:18Z
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@trevorflowers Thanks. Yes, quite solid. I can throw all 250lbs of myself on it and it barely shifts.
(DIR) Post #AbW7p17uFS2SrNVW2i by seanmcbeth@arvr.social
2023-11-06T03:28:50Z
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@mistersql sugar beets. I know how to ferment and distill.
(DIR) Post #AbqMxarrt4cG8WCtxw by seanmcbeth@arvr.social
2023-11-15T21:52:44Z
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Does the existence of excavators imply the existence of cavators?
(DIR) Post #AcPjht2ndew7M1Og8O by seanmcbeth@arvr.social
2023-12-02T23:22:26Z
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@dogzilla @mpesce that's the problem. When you consider the case of sociopaths, they don't see anyone as "people", other than just a word to refer to other entities that are not themselves.A person is more than just an answer-providing machine. The fundamental flaw of the Turing Test is that it reduces people down to just that.
(DIR) Post #AcQ9yWoe8Lms95NB3Y by seanmcbeth@arvr.social
2023-12-03T04:16:51Z
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@dogzilla @mpesce No, my point is that the Turing Test is not scientific, because it's not repeatable. The example of the sociopath was just an extreme.The results of the test fundamentally rely on the background of the tester. Indeed, the test probably says more about the tester than the testee.There are some people who have been convinced by the humaness of ELIZA-like AIs since the 1970s. It doesn't mean anything. The Turing Test is crap.
(DIR) Post #AckG84uu5zkG03fzfs by seanmcbeth@arvr.social
2023-12-12T20:59:20Z
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Honestly, if you had to learn one of [WebGL|WebGPU] from scratch today, with no prior exposure to either, I think WebGPU is the easier of the two.It's somewhat more verbose than WebGL, but I think it helps make sense of things. e.g. defining bind groups is tedious. But it answers the Q: "from where exactly is the data for my shaders coming? How does it know how my inputs map to things?".It doesn't. You tell it. But in contrast, WebGL magically hid those details from you. And I hate magic.
(DIR) Post #AckGR9sfrbsatijPwO by seanmcbeth@arvr.social
2023-12-12T21:02:56Z
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Actually, I kind of take that back. It's not really more verbose than WebGL, because you're not constantly having to switch modes and set the active buffer or texture unit or whatever. You just declare the buffers and send them on their way!I've had very, very few questions about order of operations. Still think there are a few cases of "why can I define invalid states? Why can't we have more interfaces to avoid inside state?" But it's far, far less often than WebGL.
(DIR) Post #AcoWG5tOjAl3F2eibQ by seanmcbeth@arvr.social
2023-12-14T22:19:37Z
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The level of tired that I have reached is the Sofa King level. Yes, I am Sofa-King tired.
(DIR) Post #AcroyQO1O6MNgMSqTg by seanmcbeth@arvr.social
2023-12-16T12:33:27Z
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@megmac that exact thing has already happened with old Blu-ray disks.