rambojazz (u/rambojazz)

rambojazz commented on The death of the PCIe expansion card kerricklong.com/articles/... · Posted by u/Kerrick

My PC I just built, a Ryzen 5950x with an X570S chipset, has the least PCIe slots I've ever had on a PC. (3) Plus... if you use the second slot, it cuts your graphics card down to x8 PCIe lanes, so no way !!! And if you use the third slot, it disables one of the on board NVME drive slots. This I had no choice. So, in the end I had room for the graphics card and a single 10 gigabit ethernet adapter.

rambojazz · 3 years ago

Cutting down lanes sucks, but your GPU should still work fine on x8, with only minuscule difference (or none at all).

rambojazz commented on Queen Elizabeth II has died bbc.com/news/uk-61585886... · Posted by u/xd

saberience · 3 years ago

It's weird, I've never considered myself a "royalist" but this news has affected me quite strongly. I just burst into tears unexpectedly on hearing this news and I don't quite understand why I feel so very sad. I guess I have grown up and lived my whole life (as a Brit) seeing and hearing the Queen, singing "God save the Queen" etc, and this news made me suddenly feel very old, very nostalgic, with the sense that all things pass in time, which makes my heart ache deeply.

rambojazz · 3 years ago

The same effect as watching a cartoon from your childhood.

rambojazz commented on Ask HN: Any open source stack exchange clone · Posted by u/yogrish

rambojazz · 3 years ago

Q2A

rambojazz commented on I'm an 18 year old developer. How do I become one of the best programmers ever? · Posted by u/owenpalmer

rambojazz · 3 years ago

This is such a weird and irrelevant request...

rambojazz commented on The GPU Banana Stand acko.net/blog/the-gpu-ban... · Posted by u/robin_reala

mdp2021 · 3 years ago

Not just that: few people are Steve Wittens or Farbrausch vetted, most are bewilderingly contented with the ugly and deformed. Even among professionals, and with decades long evidence. See for example the adoption of 3d in online maps, that brought from "good as expected" to "utterly unwatchable, unusable" (and it is fortunate that you can still access the past versions). And that is the big 'G', with nobody able to note, "look - and do look -, this is an unacceptable result".

Normally you need good illustrators and artists: with some approaches you need much better illustrators, artists and taste.

Related: a few weeks ago StackOverflow came out with a visual filter that made the page psychedelic, in the wrongest way. ...As a feature.

rambojazz · 3 years ago

I didn't notice any psychedelic filter? Where can I see it?

rambojazz commented on The GPU Banana Stand acko.net/blog/the-gpu-ban... · Posted by u/robin_reala

rektide · 3 years ago

I'd really really like to see 3d content start making it's way into the DOM. (Ideally in manners far far far far beyond showing one lone hovering item, as per Apple's <model> proposal.)

Seeing Steven use his Live library to provide such an implementation should be utterly unsurprising. His past works have been so exemplary & leading-edge: mathbox, TermKit, Live itself, & others. Live was an interesting exploration of what grounds really lay underfoot the latest emerged React patterns (hooks), with lots of new capabilities, and seeing it applied to such a holy grail of an idea (3d via dom) is thrilling to see.

> Live goes far beyond the usual React semantics, introducing continuations, tree reductions, captures, and more

There's a ton of incredible wonkery here. As usual for Steven, he's chased incredibly far reaching frontiers, applying this hyper-advanced computing toolkit to 3d, then hunting down a series of hard problems/demos to make expident work out of. The article talks to a lot of specific frontiers, but the "general" work of the underlying Live library (and it's tour-de-force proof-of-value by creating Use.GPU out of it) is quite the distillation of computing into a consolidated, clear form:

> The result is a tree of functions which is simultaneously: 1. an execution trace 2. the application state 3. a dependency graph of that state

Hardly the point, but one thing I'd like a little more affirmative on, to see more clearly- where my desires & Steven's intents might be mis-aligned is- what would it look like rendering environments & spaces here? Can this "dsl for dsls" help us craft landscapes, houses, & actors inside? What do situated spaces look like in this environment, if we can pull that off? Can we represent space in the DOM?

rambojazz · 3 years ago

Browsers are resource hogs, I'm not sure I'd want any 3D content more than is necessary. CSS alone is capable of hogging my CPU at 100%

rambojazz commented on Show HN: GraphJSON – Easily log and analyze events using ClickHouse graphjson.com/... · Posted by u/flurly

rambojazz · 3 years ago

Why is it called "Graph"? Sounds like a format for storing graph data.

rambojazz commented on Petnames: A humane approach to secure, decentralized naming (2018) github.com/cwebber/reboot... · Posted by u/simonpure

rambojazz · 3 years ago

I'm looking forward for the comments about this. I discovered/read about "pet names" a while ago, but I could not understand very well what problem they're trying to solve, and if they solve it.

rambojazz commented on The copy and swap idiom in C++ sandordargo.com/blog/2022... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

AlexanderDhoore · 3 years ago

I used to teach C++ courses as a consultant. This kind of thing was part of the gospel I was trying to spread. Educate my follow software developers on the merits of good C++ memory management. It all felt so powerful and cool.

But after some time you realise that nobody is smart enough to keep all of these idioms and arbitrary C++ rules in their head. The only reason I could do it was because I put so much time into preparing my courses. So all of your collegues will keep writing terrible C++ code. And you will be left frustrated that nobody is "doing C++ right".

I guess one could chill down and accept the chaos. I chose to leave C++ behind.

rambojazz · 3 years ago

I loved C++, for a while. I chose to leave its grammar's complexity behind too.

rambojazz commented on Arctic melting four times faster than rest of the planet, study says ft.com/content/9bb32c6f-b... · Posted by u/WithinReason

pcrh · 3 years ago

The real tragedy is that global warming was forecast decades ago. Even as far back as the 1912.

https://i.imgur.com/qT7iBSt.jpg

rambojazz · 3 years ago

"The effect may be considerable in a few centuries"

So optimistic! We F'ed up way before that!