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Re:War Atlas: An interactive cartography of every named war in human h...
on Friday July 10, 2026 @06:59PM (#48866400)
Impressive that people still try to pretend there's any grand strategy here when it's easy to watch 100+ new Russians (mostly old dudes, not in a team, not at night) get FPV'd every single day now. Tell us about the 'Kyiv feint' next
Re:Sam Altman Won in Court Against Elon Musk. But, We All Lost
on Friday May 22, 2026 @11:41AM (#48237398)
Did an elon stan invoke being obedient to billionaires? Besides the one we all know, there is no other billionaire dickridden harder than elon. There's no terrible behavior that can't be justified as long as the memes keep flowing I guess. Although in this particular round sama is worse...
Re:CS Professor: To My Students
on Monday April 27, 2026 @11:22PM (#47930148)
So now we're downvoting the idea that people should have a strong understanding of how to code? We're cooked. A week does seem about right for getting to 90% of optimal AI agent use if you earnestly explore its boundaries.
Re:The Met Releases High-Def 3D Scans of 140 Famous Art Objects
on Thursday March 12, 2026 @12:27PM (#47353317)
Anyone know how the material roughness/metallic is captured? For instance here https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/253348. I've only seen basic albedo for 3D scans before. Maybe it's just hand-authored.
Re:It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country (1921)
on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @06:47PM (#47255635)
I think you underestimate just how well national pride works on people. It's an amazing proposition - you get to identify with the struggles and achievements of millions of people over decades just by being born in some spot. This can be useful/motivating in moderation, but it's obvious how dangerously easy it is to abuse by nationalists. Russians rather feel mighty dying in a pointless war than admitting they will never be a superpower. Americans would rather reminisce about the 1950s than doing anything to fix the many ways we've stagnated. Humans are willing to accept a lot of suffering instead of feeling humiliated.
Re:Show HN: A physically-based GPU ray tracer written in Julia
on Thursday February 19, 2026 @06:37PM (#47081391)
> arr[n..=m]
so you just need to overload the syntax of intervals even more to make it work
> arr[0..m], arr[m..]
now `m` refers to different things depending on which side of the interval it's on. less characters doesn't mean nicer
I get it though, I was skeptical about 1-based indexing when I started Julia. By the nature of indices vs length there will always be an off-by-one problem: either you have elements [n, m - 1] with length (m - n) or [n, m] with length (m - n + 1). Unless you're doing a bunch of pointer arithmetic type stuff, I find the symmetry of a inclusive-inclusive interval to be a better default.
As a final rebuttal I offer: range(n - 1, -1, -1)
Re:Facing a demographic catastrophe, Ukraine is paying for troops to f...
on Monday February 16, 2026 @10:28PM (#47043387)
big uptick in authoritarian bootlicking in this place unfortunately
Re:Facing a demographic catastrophe, Ukraine is paying for troops to f...
on Monday February 16, 2026 @10:26PM (#47043374)
Yeah and the rebels just found those T-72B3 tanks in storage somewhere. lmfao
Re:Scott Adams has died
on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @01:11PM (#46605146)
Not spending the last years of your life being a professional troll isn't a high bar that 99% of humanity doesn't clear. Nice monologue though.