Now we just need Rigtoy, Animtoy and Rendertoy and we'll be able to make beautiful 3D animations in the browser
Readit Newsidrios commented on Geotoy – Shadertoy for 3D Geometry 3d.ameo.design/geotoy... · Posted by u/Ameo
idrios commented on Copilot Chat in VS Code is now open source github.com/microsoft/vsco... · Posted by u/ulugbekna
Copilot in vs code is kind of lackluster and really missing the sort of polish you’d expect from a company like Microsoft
Not sure what polish you're looking for but it's been great for me. Smart autocomplete algorithm and good chatbot that acts like a personalized Google / stack overflow. It's not good enough to vibe code full products or debug hard issues, but that's just limitations of AI.
Also it's all Microsoft, they made both the AI and the editor. I appreciate that they don't do anything extra in the editor to favor their own extensions.
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idrios commented on I decided to pay off a school’s lunch debt huffpost.com/entry/utah-s... · Posted by u/dredmorbius
This is why the wealthy should be required to use public schools.
The wealthy do use public schools. They pay huge amounts to live in upper class neighborhoods with wealthy peers, where a lot of tax money goes into the schooling system so the kids can take all sorts of extracurriculars and AP classes. It gets the same results as private school but the cost comes from living in that neighborhood rather than paying the school directly
idrios commented on Linux is now the best gaming system blog.fernvenue.com/archiv... · Posted by u/fernvenue
It's not at a point yet where I can recommend it to non-technical people but it's getting close.
I can play almost any steam game that I can find on it, but usually need to manually enable proton-experimental. Some Unity games have weird bugs and there are some other games I still can't figure out how to run at all.
I've run into weird errors due to incompatibility between Nvidia GPUs & their drivers with my OS. Haven't encountered the issue in 4 years but having your graphics driver break means you need to fix your crazy issue with only a terminal (hope you have another computer for googling).
My dad was becoming more pro-privacy so I got him Linux Mint, and something broke that put him in GRUB and it frustrated him so he asked me to change it back.
But Linux seems to be getting better as fast as Windows is getting worse so I still recommend trying it to anyone remotely interested
Anecdotally, a friend of mine works for a state department of transportation and has been trying to get a developer and a DBA to replace some people who've recently left.
He's been having an insanely hard time finding anyone for the role, and not because of salary requirements. He's required to vet candidates through approved sources and so his department uses a recruitment firm that keeps sending him resumes from people who are substantially lying about their experience and maybe also their identity. I tried recommending someone I knew who I knew had a lot of db experience and was job searching, and he said he wouldn't be able to interview the guy because he wasn't from an approved source.
His best recent hire was a woman who understood the system well enough to create her own firm, get it govt approved, and then get herself hired as a consultant.
Bear in mind I'm just recounting what my friend told me so I may have inaccuracies in this story.
idrios commented on Gamblers behind half of abusive posts to tennis stars bbc.com/sport/tennis/arti... · Posted by u/gnabgib
Is there any precedent for a killing like this in (I assume American) college football?
Not yet but there's a precedent for incredibly perverse incentives caused by sports gambling -- most iconically the White Sox throwing the world series in 1919.
idrios commented on A liar who always lies says "All my hats are green." theguardian.com/science/2... · Posted by u/ColinWright
I never liked this type of puzzle. It is not formal logic but more about the idiosyncrasies and conventions of the English language. I put this puzzle on par with Agatha Christie’s murder mysteries. It requires a suspension of disbelief and logic to be believable.
Someone who always lies means in the purest sense means you cannot trust anything they say. Even the word “hat” could mean they are talking about their pet cat that they like to carry on their head.
What the author would probably say is “All my hats are green” means the liar is either lying about All or Green. Either all their hats are some other color or only one hat is green. This means you have to assume the liar has a hat. How do we know that?
We only know that because of similar puzzles that came before. In other words this is not logic but more pattern recognition.
If a stranger told me "All of my cars are red" and then I learned that they didn't own a car, I wouldn't call them clever I'd call them a liar.