snovv_crash (u/snovv_crash)

snovv_crash commented on Making games in Go: 3 months without LLMs vs. 3 days with LLMs marianogappa.github.io/so... · Posted by u/maloga

nine_k · 5 days ago

When you tweak game mechanics several times every day, keeping the tests useful is a large task. Basics can be tested. Map integrity can be tested. Most "normal UX" is hard to test, and even main functional tests tend to drift. (Source: a short involvement in actual gamedev recently.)

snovv_crash · 5 days ago

I've heard the same excuses from ML engineers before introducing tests there, embedded engineers, robotics engineers, systems engineers, everyone has a reason.

The real reason? It's because writing tests is a different skill and they don't actually know how to do it.

snovv_crash commented on New executive order puts all grants under political control arstechnica.com/science/2... · Posted by u/pbui

burnt-resistor · 21 days ago

As it stands currently, it's important to disambiguate the nuance that the Senate currently has enormous power while the House has very little real power.

In the current context, gerrymandering only serves to prevent impeachment at this point, but it could permit even more extreme executive-dictated, legislative rubber-stamping. In the long-term, it would stack the deck for partisan cheating.

Perhaps an amendment is needed to insist on independent, non-partisan district map commissions for every state at the federal level.

PS: I used to live in Greg Casar's ultra-salamander TX-35, but now it bypasses me down I-35 with an umbilical or tiny body from SATX to ATX. TX-15 ® an TX-28 (D) run through my ZIP Code now.

snovv_crash · 20 days ago

IMO rather put a maximum circumference^2:area ratio so they just can't be too long and skinny.

snovv_crash commented on MakeShift: Security analysis of Shimano Di2 wireless gear shifting (2024) usenix.org/conference/woo... · Posted by u/motorest

crabbone · a month ago

Tube is the rubber "doughnut" that goes inside the tire. The part that you usually need to replace if you run over a sharp object and puncture a hole. It's probably called different things around the world.

snovv_crash · a month ago

Why on earth would the wireless shifting need to be taken apart for a flat tyre?

snovv_crash commented on The US dollar is on track for its worst year in modern history semafor.com/article/07/03... · Posted by u/harambae

snovv_crash · 2 months ago

From outside the US, all the 'stock market gains' have actually been zero or negative because of this. I wonder how long before inflation hits...

snovv_crash commented on Social anxiety disorder-associated gut microbiota increases social fear pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/... · Posted by u/thunderbong

esperent · 2 months ago

> Athletes consume 50g of fructose (and 50g of glucose) per hour

...while actively competing in endurance events. They don't do this while sitting on the couch in the evening. And it's very specifically only endurance trained athletes who do this, sprinters would never need to consume that much sugar.

It's a valid point though, a sugary snack or sports drink directly before hitting the gym for a hard workout session is probably fine, as long as your blood wasn't already saturated with glucose from earlier sugary foods, and as long as you don't have insulin resistance.

snovv_crash · 2 months ago

Sure, but that all has nothing to do with digestion, that has to do with blood sugar levels and what your body does with the energy afterwards. Digesting 30g of fructose per day is not any kind of biological limit, in contrast to what GGP claimed.

snovv_crash commented on Social anxiety disorder-associated gut microbiota increases social fear pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/... · Posted by u/thunderbong

reliablereason · 2 months ago

You say sugar, but are you referring to glucose or fructose?

There is a meaningful amount of scientific literature connecting fructose and inflammation.

The AVERAGE human can only digest about 30g of fructose a day. Some substantially more, some substantially less.

A can of soda or three apples is about 30g of fructose.

Inflammation (high- and low grade)then being a second step linking to anxiety.

snovv_crash · 2 months ago

Athletes consume 50g of fructose (and 50g of glucose) per hour. It's actually fairly easy to train yourself to this level.

snovv_crash commented on How Georgists Valued land in the 1900's progressandpoverty.substa... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

rcpt · 3 months ago

The linked article by Jerusalem Demas is worth reading.

And, yeah, community input is bad.

snovv_crash · 3 months ago

It's an incentives issue, not a community input issue.

If the only value you are able to hold onto is the development you do yourself, then you aren't going to block your neighbours from building up their property.

snovv_crash commented on Technical analysis of the Signal clone used by Trump officials micahflee.com/tm-sgnl-the... · Posted by u/micahflee

wmf · 4 months ago

Using separate apps for government and external communication might have prevented the recent scandal.

snovv_crash · 4 months ago

It wouldn't actually. The contact in his phone (incorrectly added by Apple AI from a forwarded email) would be the same regardless which app he was using.

Instead, Signal (and this forked version) would have to do its own independent contact management, maybe based on in-person scanning of QR codes plus web-of-trust.

snovv_crash commented on Why our waistlines expand in middle age: aging stem cells shift into overdrive medicalxpress.com/news/20... · Posted by u/gmays

tekla · 4 months ago

> But from the practical diet approach, CICO is oversimplification.

No, CICO IS the practical diet. Satiety, microbiome, none of that shit matters. All excuses to not properly stick to the diet. You weigh your food, calculate the macros, and that's it. Zero thought required past that.

It is literally impossible to not lose weight even if you are eating nothing but 500 calories of pure corn syrup every day (Though you may feel pretty sick)

snovv_crash · 4 months ago

Some people can do macro tracking, others don't have the discipline for it. For those people, shifting to foods with a higher satiety to calorie ratio is a better strategy, or intermittent fasting, or cutting out a food group. As you said, what matters is CICO, not how you achieve it.

I like to compare it to programming. If you tell a C++ developer that their software should have good uptime, your advice here is the equivalent of saying "don't have memory leaks, null pointer dereferces or use-after-free". Yes, all true, but everyone know that. What we need are behaviour patterns like RAII, an extensive test suite, running those tests in valgrind/ASAN, etc. that actually help in a forward looking perspective achieve this goal of not making those mistakes which lead to poor performance.

snovv_crash commented on LLM-powered tools amplify developer capabilities rather than replacing them matthewsinclair.com/blog/... · Posted by u/matthewsinclair

vlovich123 · 4 months ago

And the article is overstating it as well. My confidence in the LLM's ability to reduce the "how" part is primarily based on "am I doing something the LLM is good at?". If I'm doing HTML React where there's a million examples of existing stuff, then great. The more novel what I'm asking is, the less useful the LLM becomes and the more stuff I need to handcode is. Just as with self-driving cars, this is a challenge because switching from "the LLM is generating the code" to "I'm hand-tweaking things" is equivalent to self-driving disconnecting randomly and telling you "you drive" in the middle of the highway. Oh and I've caught the LLM randomly inserting vulnerabilities for absolutely no reason (e.g. adding permissions to the iframe sandbox attribute when I complained about UI layout issues).

It's a useful tool that can accelerate certain tasks, but it has a lot of sharp edges.

snovv_crash · 4 months ago

> Oh and I've caught the LLM randomly inserting vulnerabilities for absolutely no reason (e.g. adding permissions to the iframe sandbox attribute when I complained about UI layout issues).

Yeah, now get the LLM to write C++ for a public facing service, what could possibly go wrong?