How Samba Was Written

Yeah, that's the HN "anti-clickbait" feature that (amongst others) removes the "How" from titles like "How we managed to run Doom on a mechanical typewriter", but in this case it doesn't make sense at all...

If anything, it made it more clickbait-y due to being an unusual title.

Yes, it's imperfect that way.

How does removing the word "how" make a title less of a clickbait?

"I made 40,000 dollars in a week with one simple trick" is exactly as bad as "How I made 40,000 dollars in a week with one simple trick"

I sort of get it, but overall I still get the impression this particular filter is hurting more than it helps.

Samba was written …instead of vibe-coded. ;)

I would say in this case it makes it enigmatic.

There should be luminaries to whom this does not apply, and tridge is certainly among that small pantheon.

Rehowed. Thank you!

I see a future where some humanoid robot mows the lawn, picks up trash, puts the bins outside weekly, vacuums the house, loads the dishwasher, does the clothes washing. While not actively doing those things, it will plug itself in and be passive security.

They will need help doing the finer control things, and they won't do everything. But definitely useful enough, especially for older folk.

Not sure if you'd count it as social, but the dancing spiders certainly put effort into courtship: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qkzwG2lLPc Peacock spiders, dance for your life! - BBC

Katy Herzog has written a book about her successful experience: https://www.drinkyourwaysober.com/

Reminds me of the cave X11 games. For game play I'd suggest slowing it way down.

good feedback! I'm seeing people really struggly with the control lag + speed.

I'm always biased since I test locally with no delay when developing :)

are there any affordances for prediction or replay? you could try to help network latency by having the server resimulate a small period of time roughly equivalent to the client's network delay - it's not perfect without client-side prediction but it could help

It's possible, but harder than traditional client/server paradigm since the client here is generic so the predictablity should be based on something other than heuristics

I'm thinking about simple ML to predict inputs and feedbacks. Since the amount of data generated in the streaming is massive and well structured, it looks like a possible approach

Yep, to demonstrate, tilt it (swap x and y) and do it again. Maybe this is what TLS does?

>(swap x and y) and do it again.

This is a great diagnostic check for symmetry.

> Maybe this is what TLS does?

No, swapping just exchanges the relation. What one needs to do is to put the errors in X and errors in Y in equal footing. That's exactly what TLS does.

Another way to think about it is that the error of a point from the line is not measured as a vertical drop parallel to Y axis but in a direction orthogonal to the line (so that the error breaks up in X and Y directions). From this orthogonality you can see that TLS is PCA (principal component analysis) in disguise.

You should write it up and submit it to some journal officially. Doesn't matter if it mostly duplicates your own (technically unpublished) work.

I also like to bind N to next-file. Really burns my britches that MacOS doesn't have lesskey.

Crazy to think that the first HP9000 (PARISC) computers used GP-IB (aka HP-IB) for accessing disks!

I used one of those (and an even older little workstation that I forget the name) to program GPIB ("HPIB") systems.

This is my first ever engineering project, as a newly-minted electrical engineer (downloads a PDF): https://littlegreenviper.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/TF30...

I need Notice (between Info and Warning), for important events such as start and shutdown, and successfully connecting to the database, and ready to start serving. These otherwise would be in Info; and enabling Info level produces a torrent of uninteresting muck.