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Re:4D Doom on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @09:48PM (#47595790)
If you're on firefox, go to about:config and set dom.webgpu.enabled to "true".
I believe it is under:

Settings->Copilot->Features->Privacy=>[ Allow GitHub to use my data for AI model training

Allow GitHub to collect and use my Inputs, Outputs, and associated context to train and improve AI models. Read more in the Privacy Statement. ]

Re:A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool on Saturday October 25, 2025 @10:10PM (#45708577)
They typically have a railing around them. The circumstances of this incident are unknown beyond a small set of details. The report indicates that the person who fell was wearing a life vest, it is likely they were doing work around the pool beyond the normal safety barriers.
Re:ChatGPT Atlas on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @02:41PM (#45659844)
I'm mostly just curious how that experience differs from using chatgpt directly and having it run searches and present the results?
Re:Should I choose Ada, SPARK, or Rust over C/C++? (2024) on Sunday October 05, 2025 @11:27PM (#45487375)
This was posted to about a day ago: https://github.com/johnperry-math/AoC2023/blob/master/More_D...

But a noteworthy excerpt: ```

Ada programs tend to define types of the problem to be solved. The compiler then adapts the low-level type to match what is requested. Rust programs tend to rely on low-level types.

That may not be clear, so two examples may help:

    Ada programmers prefer to specify integer types in terms of the ranges of values they may take and/or the precision of floating-point types in terms of digits. I ended up doing this at least once, where on Day 23 I specified a floating-point type in terms of the number of digits it should reproduce accurately: Digits 18. The compiler automatically chose the most appropriate machine type for that.

    Ada arrays don't have to start from 0, nor even do they have to be indexed by integers. An example of this appears below.
By contrast, the Rust programs I've seen tend to specify types in terms of low-level, machine types. Thus, I tried to address the same problem using an f64. In this particular case, there were repercussions, but usually that works fine as long as you know what the machine types can do. You can index Rust types with non-integers, but it takes quite a bit more work than Ada.

```

Re:Choosing death penalty by firing squad because it's safer on Saturday March 08, 2025 @04:55AM (#43298899)
They gave him three options though and chose this out of fear that the other methods would essentially torture him.

The only humane form of execution (if there is such a thing) is nitrogen asphyxiation, with the long drop being second in my opinion.

Re:Cognitive Behaviors That Enable Self-Improving Reasoners on Thursday March 06, 2025 @01:41AM (#43277147)
From what I have seen from split-brain experiments, I am of the belief that by vocalizing our thoughts, we are more fully engaging both hemispheres of our brain through the auditory pathway in addition to the Corpus Callosum.
Profit motivated laziness more like.
Re:The DIY Multideck on Saturday January 04, 2025 @03:29PM (#42597461)
Can't beat zettelkasten!
Re:Removing stuff is never obvious yet often better on Sunday August 25, 2024 @10:45PM (#41353564)
I believe the quote is to "Make things as simple as possible, but no simpler".
Re:U.S. Is Said to Open Criminal Inquiry into Boeing on Sunday March 10, 2024 @05:53PM (#39662806)
Hysteresis is a bitch.
This is the same dismissive, ignorant, platitudinal advice that the parent commentator was directly referring to.

I find it supremely hilarious that you refer to the person's own body as an external factor.

Re:BeOS: The Alternate Universe's Mac OS X on Thursday January 09, 2020 @07:38PM (#22007424)
Doom was a 2D space that looked like a 3D space due to rendering tricks. You could never move along the Z-axis though because the engine doesn't represent, calculate, or store one. That's why you can't jump, and there are no overlapping areas of the maps.
Re:Living Off the Land in Linux on Thursday August 08, 2019 @06:52PM (#20649705)
In this context, I believe it is the idea of compromising a system using nothing but tools/commands available on the target system.
Re:If PHP Were British (2011) on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @12:35PM (#20031749)
brexit() is when you try to break from a switch but accidentally leave the EU.
For the same reason that Tomatoes not treated as fruits "in practice."