1. z3phyr Jan 3, 2026 parent

   The roman culture of old surely did. I don't see anyone trying to claim the temple of Jupiter anymore?
2. z3phyr Dec 16, 2025 parent

   But anything more than 1 vote assigned for your usage is quid pro quo (since you will get to enjoy policies that you "paid" for) when others only get a single vote.
3. z3phyr Dec 9, 2025 parent

   How does one get readings from large antennas? Are the streams public?
4. z3phyr Nov 27, 2025 parent

   There is another way. Irrationality. People spend a lot on religion. Like a whole lot.

   What if there was a faith system of ultimatley going to interstellar medium. You have faith, you automatically pay, like the rest of the people and you dont question it. You get tax breaks. It will help you in the end of times or something.

   Just decide the ultimate goal to be interstellar medium touching in all directions.

   You are a farmer? Well now you continue to farm to feed budding spacers. You are a game dev? Well, people are going to get bored in space, continue developing games for the ultimate goal.

5. z3phyr Nov 24, 2025 parent

   I think there is one more thing that sort of works. ASCII art is surprisingly hard for many llms.
6. z3phyr Oct 26, 2025 parent

   If you go at light speed across the universe, the scenery would also not change, until you collide with something.
7. z3phyr Aug 31, 2025 parent

   "Is this what you can conjure Saruman?"

   I have a strong belief that new mathematical tools and methods can be developed that can make it "easy" to break a lot of modern cryptography primitives without ever using a quantum computer.

8. z3phyr Jul 7, 2025 parent

   I guess massively is the relative word. But I will stand by the claim that we can discover/invent new mathematical methods that can aid in cryptanalysis, if not directly by cryptographers, then by some adjacent field.
9. z3phyr Jul 7, 2025 parent

   I think cryptanalysis as a discipline is not massively funded. All of the cryptography is only as strong as the collective failure of all human intelligence so far to break it.

   Most people consider cryptography as a "solved" problem, but I don't think it is. I am sure if enough cryptologists try algorithmic methods and are well compensated for it, they will likely find algorithmic weaknesses (and invent new kinds of mathematics) that can bring down complexity of solving such schemes, even before we have real and functional Shor machines.

10. z3phyr Jun 26, 2025 parent

    DirectX12 is still much better to use than Vulkan.

    Natively supports Xbox and PC. Can run on Linux with Proton. The Playstation API functionally resembles DX12.

    Vulkan is extension management hell (but has gotten much better, I concede)

11. z3phyr May 15, 2025 parent

    Do pure logic machine use some kind of higher order prolog, which currently does not exist?
12. z3phyr May 3, 2025 parent

    Hannibal determined that Rome received strength through the Socii, the allied city states of Rome. He wanted to isolate Rome and bring terms.

    However, he 1) Failed to turn most of the socii to his side. 2) Ignored the western roman allies who were slowly eating away at Iberia.

13. z3phyr Apr 23, 2025 parent

    This reminds me of the excellent CEPL library (https://github.com/cbaggers/cepl). You can write live shader like programs with cepl with an OpenGL backend.
14. z3phyr Apr 15, 2025 parent

    Bilbo crossed the Misty Mountains back during the spring.
15. z3phyr Apr 10, 2025 parent

    Most of the developers of the microcomputer revolution era programmed in Non-Unix environments.

    Even in workstation space, the cool lisp/smalltalk/... developers hated unix, but the small market was filled with unixes.

    Even today, most of the native developers use windows!

16. z3phyr Apr 1, 2025 parent

    In turn I will raise you the following: Why are GPU ISA trade secrets at all? Why not open them up like CPU ISAs, get rid of specialized cores and let compiler writers port their favorite languages to compile into native GPU programs? Everyone will be happy. Game devs will be happy with more control over the hardware, Compiler devs will be happy to run haskell or prolog natively on GPUs, ML devs will be happier, NVIDIA/AMD will be happier with taking the MainStage.
17. z3phyr Apr 1, 2025 parent

    A slope has two ends, even when it's slippery. People want to claim submarines swim, but they do not.
18. z3phyr Apr 1, 2025 parent

    > There were a million Doom clones, none of which were as good as Doom

    Sure, but there were some "Doomlikes" I would still rate as better than doom; like Build Engine games Duke Nukem and Blood/Blood 2 and other IdTech based games like Hexen.

19. z3phyr Mar 31, 2025 parent

    Always think from the users perspective. For a lot of applications, when a user does something, it should happen with minimal latency.
20. z3phyr Mar 22, 2025 parent

    On paper. But it is easier to get influenced by intelligent "Subject Matter Experts" and they usually know how to nudge the public representatives their way.

    This is a known and accepted flaw of rotating leadership in democracies.

21. z3phyr Mar 12, 2025 parent

    Subculture wise, SF is barely represented in computer graphics or high performance optimization circles, like gamedev or demoscene, arguably a class of field that produces top quality software engineers.
22. z3phyr Feb 26, 2025 parent

    The important thing is to be self aware enough to clearly differentiate between good and bad, even when doing bad stuff sometimes could be beneficial.
23. z3phyr Feb 23, 2025 parent

    Computer science evolved during the time when most people did not have a computer.

    The concepts of compilers, operating systems, databases, file systems, computer graphics all evolved from the 60s to the early 90s.

    After that, it was mostly scaling.

24. z3phyr Feb 23, 2025 parent

    But it is anti-alternative. It discourages alternative ways to do things.

    This is bad in the long term because alternative ways of doing things open other avenues of investigation and development.

    But all we get are improved versions of hammer when everything is made out as a nail.

25. z3phyr Feb 5, 2025 parent

    Are there any tutorials on writing custom microcode? I imagine it would be like ring0 driver programming on steroids! Pretty cool.
26. z3phyr Feb 3, 2025 parent

    Who do I want to work with? A person who can work with me, get stuff done and somewhat match vibe with their coworkers. They can be good in spelling bee, swimming, chess, marathon or leetcode, its on them. I do not get much useful information out of it.

    What I usually do is case study that I also do not know at the start of the interview. The case study does not imagine spherical cows and are not usually leetcode style. Its a case of role playing a problem. We brainstorm it together and I determine if I can work with them.

27. z3phyr Jan 28, 2025 parent

    I want the LLM to decide not to do anything, or write a new OS.

    Whenever I prompt: "Do not do anything"

    It always does <something>.

28. z3phyr Jan 23, 2025 parent

    Slightly offtopic: Is there a way to do create meshes and animate them directly inside blender, pragmatically? Sort of like shadertoy, but instead of drawing, sculpting and rigging manually, I write some code that generates meshes and run shaders on them for effect?
29. z3phyr Jan 22, 2025 parent

    I consider many successful military leaders and politicians to be geniuses as well. In my books, Caesar is as genius as Newton!

    Having said that, we do not to understand the world to exploit it for ourselves. And what better way to understand and exploit the universe than science? Its an endearment.

30. z3phyr Jan 20, 2025 parent

    Single player video games are not going to die. And the market seems to punish any push for always online model (which is obviously a scam). I say this because a bulk of market for personal computing is driven by video games.

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