Yet, it's not GOD it's a parrot.
squaaauk there are THREE b's in blueberry!
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The "AI" that won Go was Monte Carlo tree search on a neural net "memory" of the outcome of millions of previous games; this is a LLM solving open ended problems. The tasks are hardly even comparable.
And then they created AlphaGo Zero, which is not trained on any previous games, and it was even stronger!
https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/alphago-zero-starting-...
It's also a big difference in your environment. A desktop with spare power, decoding a video from an untrusted source? You probably want the safe version.
A farm of isolated machines doing batch transcoding jobs? Give me every single % improvement you can. They can get completely owned and still won't be able to access anything useful or even reach out to the network. A crash/violation will be registered and a new batch will get a clean slate anyway.
I think you're taking the term "safety" in rust a bit too literally. It's got bounds checking in it man. That's all. You can also write totally safe programs in C, or if you really want to be serious about it, write the program in F and use formal verification like this crypto library does: https://github.com/hacl-star/hacl-star
But I don’t understand. Why not both? You can have a short answer and rebuttal and still be kind and nonaggressive.
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You can "rebut bullshit" without being aggressive or nasty. If someone else is wrong, it's enough to provide correct information respectfully. Putting others down, or slamming their work in a hostile way, doesn't help and degrades this community badly.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Btw, it's quite common for commenters to underestimate the provocation in their own posts and overestimate the provocation in other people's posts. Those two factors can multiply into quite a skew in perception (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...). I wonder whether this might be a bit of a factor here, if you really don't see how aggressively your comments were coming across.
In my experience providing detailed information in a response in the comment section on this particular topic (game development and networking) in hacker news comments simply creates more surface area for nitpicking and arguing in response, so I keep to short responses and rebuttals.
In the future, I don't feel that writing anything more here on this topic is a worthwhile use of my time.
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Excuse me Tom, please stop with ad hominem and attack the topic not the poster.
Tom I'm afraid you're misreading the tone of my posts and their character.
I could post anything objectively true in this thread like "the sky is blue", and some idiot will post a one sentence response that in fact it's not. This idiot likes to be the last person getting snark in responding to a completely reasonable statement of fact or opinion by an expert in the space.
What I do differently is that yes, I do reply to the snark with a rebuttal. Is this rebuttal snarky? Potentially, but is it earned? Definitely.
You're moderator so let me speak to you that way. If you don't let people rebut bullshit in this comment section, you'll just end up with a bunch of uninformed discourse, where the final word is made by some idiot, who doesn't even make multiplayer games and everyone ends up thinking the sky is fucking green. This has real world consequence when future game developers try to build games on poorly made technology, which ruins game studios and people's lives.
Then again, it's hacker news, and what do a bunch of wannabe startup guys know about making games in the first place. Unskilled and unaware of it. Moderate away sir!
IMO at the very least we should have free catastrophic coverage covered by taxes.
Otherwise we end up paying more anyway. Someone needs to bail out hospitals.
This is exactly what is done in Australia. Medicare for all. Private health insurance optional on top of this for non-catastrophic care.
Why the fuck is he even hired there if you are not going to listen to him.
Dude has forgotten more things about game development than you will ever know...