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ekianjo commented on A 2k-year-old sun hat worn by a Roman soldier in Egypt   smithsonianmag.com/smart-... · Posted by u/sensiquest
deadbabe · 14 hours ago
Most people think ancient people were idiots. Romans could have invented steam engines if they wanted to.
ekianjo · 9 hours ago
> Romans could have invented steam engines if they wanted to.

You invent such things when you have resolved many other problems first. Like water and sanitation, and geopolitical stability. And no, steam engines took a lot more time anyway because advanced metallurgy was necessary to get there.

ekianjo commented on Valve Software handbook for new employees [pdf] (2012)   cdn.akamai.steamstatic.co... · Posted by u/Michelangelo11
jsheard · 9 hours ago
Yep, and that applies to Valve at two levels because Steam dwarfs the ROI of their games, and their forever-games like Counter Strike dwarf the ROI of any singleplayer game they'd ever be able to make. It's a miracle they even got Alyx out of the door, that was a special case since it was part of their larger VR initiative.
ekianjo · 9 hours ago
And Alyx was probably a huge failure, ROI wise, because nobody buys VR headsets. I know, not "nobody", but by far and large it has remained a super niche market.
ekianjo commented on Writing with LLM is not a shame   reflexions.florianernotte... · Posted by u/flornt
echelon_musk · 10 hours ago
Writing with LLMs is not a shame

Or

Writing with an LLM is not a shame

ekianjo · 9 hours ago
> Writing with an LLM is not a shame

Should be "Writing with a LLM is not a shame", no reason to put a "an" here.

ekianjo commented on Writing with LLM is not a shame   reflexions.florianernotte... · Posted by u/flornt
nicbou · 9 hours ago
I think it's fair to use AI as an editor, to get feedback about how your ideas are packaged.

It's also fair to use it as a clever dictionary, to find the right expressions, or to use correct grammar and spelling. (This post could really use a round of corrections.)

But in the end, the message and the reasoning should be yours, and any facts that come from the LLM should be verified. Expecting people to read unverified machine output is rude.

ekianjo · 9 hours ago
> message and the reasoning should be yours,

I think we havent realized yet that most of us don't really have original thoughts. Even in creative industries the amount of plagiarism (or so called inspiration) is at all times high (and that's before LLMs were available).

ekianjo commented on Valve Software handbook for new employees [pdf] (2012)   cdn.akamai.steamstatic.co... · Posted by u/Michelangelo11
andyferris · 10 hours ago
It interests me that it needs to be an "or".

A HL3 team could essentially function as an independent studio using the Steam platform, with some funding thrown from Valve. Assuming the ROI is positive what exactly is holding them back?

ekianjo · 10 hours ago
> Assuming the ROI is positive what exactly is holding them back?

The Google problem where every project that is not Search has a much worse ROI.

ekianjo commented on A 2k-year-old sun hat worn by a Roman soldier in Egypt   smithsonianmag.com/smart-... · Posted by u/sensiquest
ekianjo · 16 hours ago
> As it turns out, even the Romans understood the power of a good hat.

The author thinks Roman had low intellect or something?

ekianjo commented on Building A16Z's Personal AI Workstation   a16z.com/building-a16zs-p... · Posted by u/ProofHouse
transpute · a day ago
> personal AI Workstation delivers complete control over your environment, latency reduction, custom configurations and setups, and the privacy of running all workloads locally.

What's the recommended operating system with support for this hardware and local compute without cloud telemetry/identity?

ekianjo · a day ago
linux?
ekianjo commented on Why you can’t grow cool-climate plants in hot climates   crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
manoDev · a day ago
“Horse and buggy”. How dramatic.

If at least the US got in line with the rest of the world, we would be half-way there.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita

The problem is not the 8 billion people, is the handful that have an disproportionate impact.

ekianjo · a day ago
> If at least the US got in line with the rest of the world, we would be half-way there.

China and India would like a word with you

ekianjo commented on WebR – R in the Browser   docs.r-wasm.org/webr/late... · Posted by u/sieste
nomilk · a day ago
What does this mean in practice? Does this mean you could start with a blank .html file, and use html, css, and javascript (like normal), but then somehow run R too? e.g. to generate a ggplot using the browser (as opposed to server, as a shiny app may)?

Has anyone got a minimal reproducible examples (e.g. tiny html file that runs, say 2 * 2 in R)? The example linked to in the article has the key line <script type="module" src="repl.mjs"></script>, but that mjs file goes over my head.

Curious/eager/excited to know/see what kinds of real-world applications this has.

ekianjo · a day ago
Yes you can use R in the middle of HTML with this ( and even combine R and JavaScript). There should be a bunch of examples in a repo.
ekianjo commented on WebR – R in the Browser   docs.r-wasm.org/webr/late... · Posted by u/sieste
Qem · a day ago
Can you install it as a progressive web app, to work offline as well?
ekianjo · a day ago
Someone did a demo on mobile a while ago, offline, so yes it is possible but I have never seen an actual code example on how to do that.

u/ekianjo

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Interests: Everything GNU/Linux related, Video Games, R, Python, Open Pandora & DragonBox Pyra, Raspberry Pi. Data analysis with R is for professional purposes while I also enjoy casual Python programming.

I started my computing life on the ORIC-1, followed by the C64 and of course, the beast that was the Amiga (best memories ever).

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