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kingds commented on Why fastDOOM is fast fabiensanglard.net/fastdo... · Posted by u/wicket

kingds · 6 months ago

> I was resigned to playing under Ibuprofen until I heard of fastDOOM

i don't get the ibuprofen reference ?

kingds commented on Apple's Software Quality Crisis eliseomartelli.it/blog/20... · Posted by u/ajdude

madeofpalk · 6 months ago

The entire settings app rewrite is the canary of how Apple's software development process is broken, especially for the mac.

kingds · 6 months ago

it's comically bad. the UI is a mess, the search functionality is broken, you can't resize the window horizontally. it's feels like a hello world first project in a new language type of app.

also - it's such a bummer that they have decided to shit the bed so hard on software at a moment when their hardware lineup is arguably at its pinnacle. like, the hardware has been firing on all cylinders since M1 but the software degradation is making it less and less pleasant to use.

kingds commented on Xcode Constantly Phones Home lapcatsoftware.com/articl... · Posted by u/lladnar

kingds · 6 months ago

apple’s software is shockingly awful across the board these days.

kingds commented on Two Grand Canyon-size valleys on far side of the moon formed within 10 minutes cnn.com/2025/02/05/scienc... · Posted by u/pseudolus

bena · 7 months ago

Yeah, they just did the conversion and slapped it on there. Should have said "about 2200 mph".

kingds · 7 months ago

2200 would improperly add an extra significant figure, "about 2000" would be okay.

kingds commented on macOS 14.4 causes JVM crashes blogs.oracle.com/java/pos... · Posted by u/kingds

xcv123 · a year ago

When a kernel update breaks all JVM versions starting from Java 8, the kernel devs fucked up. Even worse when the breaking change is in the final production release only and not the beta release. Completely obvious that this is a bug.

Segmentation fault should trigger SIGSEV, not SIGKILL. They changed the behaviour of the kernel which broke the JVM and any other applications that are designed according to the POSIX standards. https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/V...

kingds · a year ago

right, seems like sort of a no brainer that if a minor version bump of an OS completely breaks JDK8, that’s on the OS developer.

kingds commented on Write for others but mostly for yourself (2022) jack-vanlightly.com/blog/... · Posted by u/avinassh

kingds · a year ago

> My recommendation is that you don’t look at blog writing as just something people do to work on their “personal brand”. It can definitely help with that, but first and foremost it is a tool that people can use to up their game and take their knowledge and critical thinking to the next level.

These both seem like extremely bleak, unimaginative ways to view writing.

kingds commented on The built environment and the determination of fault in urban pedestrian crashes jtlu.org/index.php/jtlu/a... · Posted by u/luu

woodruffw · a year ago

Something that stood out to me in the Discussion:

> Yet notably, speeding as a behavior surprisingly did not show any effect on fault outcomes in our models. The only effects related to driver behavior to decrease the likelihood of a pedestrian being found at fault were driver distraction and vehicle turning.

In other words: speeding by drivers is normalized to the extent that it doesn't appear to factor into the likelihood of being found at fault for an accident.

This is a distressing finding, but not a surprising one given the urban environment surveyed (pictures in Figure 2): wide, straight streets with ample spacing between lights mean that drivers drive at an "intuitive safe" speed, not the speed that is actually marked (much less the speed that is actually safe for pedestrians moving through crosswalks).

kingds · a year ago

the simpler explanation is that speeding just isn’t as dangerous to pedestrians as distracted driving and sketchy intersections are, which certainly tracks with my experience as a pedestrian.

cars traveling in a straight line at any speed are pretty safe as long as they stop when they are supposed to.

edit: my second paragraph above is sort of stupid and makes the wrong point. my point, which i think is in line with this paper, is that it’s important to differentiate between “speeding” and “speed”. drivers are responsible for the former, DOTs are responsible for the latter, and the latter has more of an impact on pedestrian safety.