EarthLaunch

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by EarthLaunch 3y ago
Physical work can be fun too! Neither as much when you're a slave of course.
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by EarthLaunch 3y ago
I've been using it for 'easy' queries like syntax/parameter questions, in place of ChatGPT 4. It's great for that. I am using a ~48GB version.
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by EarthLaunch 3y ago
For the curious like me, here's the script running on consumer gaming Intel hardware (i9 14900K, 2x 48GB DDR5 6600MHz CL32 XMP, Windows 11): 1 27.6 2 50.5 3 62.5 4 68.3 5 75.6 6 82.6 7 87.4 8 90.7 9 93.0 10 94.3
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by EarthLaunch 3y ago
The map is based on GIS data of Colorado :) Including terrain elevations, landcover, and water.
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by EarthLaunch 3y ago
Here's an original PNG exported from Stellarium. For the game this had to be reduced and compressed a lot: https://i.imgur.com/v3g219F.png Screenshot of how it looks in-game, this is Stellarium-generated and shown as
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by EarthLaunch 3y ago
Thank you. Right now it's a just explorable small section of Colorado. The premise is a post-earth world where players build up villages around trade, inspired by Ultima Online.
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by EarthLaunch 3y ago
I used Stellarium to generate the realistic (but somewhat over exaggerated clarity) skies for my web game. The day/night cycle only shows stars at :50-00 of each hour: earth.suncapped.com. I'll edit into this comment a link to th
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by EarthLaunch 3y ago
I think it's because the scammy techniques allow lower apparent princes. People who shop by price will end up at the scammy gym. Maybe people are sensitive to price when it comes to gyms, and/or the true cost of a gym membership
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by EarthLaunch 3y ago
> It's like if *humans* went around making all of the important decisions and only bothered to spin up a *machine* briefly for reproductive purposes. But then the sex *bot* got a bit out of control and got a job and an apartment and
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by EarthLaunch 3y ago
Thanks for mentioning this in a work context. It describes one of my parents, with the results you'd expect. Do you remember any of the thoughts or techniques you used to shake it?
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by EarthLaunch 3y ago
I did this with 24GB VRAM and 32GB DDR5, using LM Studio, and it was about as fast as I could read. (I read fast but I'd have to run it again to guess the token rate.) I'm upgrading to 96GB RAM now to run the larger models, but I
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by EarthLaunch 3y ago
The article mentions this choice being made in 2018. I don't know the ML industry, but as a gamedev I had been mystified about Nvidia's strategy since about 2018. It felt like they weren't leaning into crypto, which surprise
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by EarthLaunch 3y ago
I first recall it from the rise of AWS at least. "Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)" launched 2006 [0]. Google Trends [1]. 0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Elastic_Compute_Cloud 1: https:/&#
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by EarthLaunch 3y ago
I'm just disappointed that people go along with takeovers of useful words: x, meta, alphabet. If one was renamed "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" would people still go along with it? What's the limit?
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by EarthLaunch 3y ago
With those figures, that would be 1000 objects per year.
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by EarthLaunch 3y ago
And it's not judgmental. It will recommend a better way of doing things, but especially when you explain why you're doing a certain thing, it will help with actually doing it.
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by EarthLaunch 3y ago
The demons that apparently haunt you in academic papers are created by yourself with such a comment.
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by EarthLaunch 3y ago
> But [pessimism] promotes inaction. I don't know if there's evidence, but I find the point interesting because the idea occurred to me independently when I read this in the paper: > Unrealistically optimistic financial expe
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by EarthLaunch 3y ago
And Torth series. No punches pulled on the logical outcomes of superintelligence and powers.
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by EarthLaunch 3y ago
Maybe it depends on what you're prototyping. In web dev I see what you mean. But in game dev I'm often prototyping something to see if it works at all, or to check its performance. Ignoring types is faster when spending 1-2 hour
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by EarthLaunch 3y ago
The prices don't match the value except as a luxury item. Maybe that was a switch to make cars more profitable? I see little appeal in a new car. Huge money sink, long waiting lists, sketchy dealers, sketchy warranties, software-base
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by EarthLaunch 3y ago
> I have yet to find interdental toothbrushes whose use doesn't lead to ingesting nylon. Isn't that all toothbrushes, or are interdentals unique? (I haven't used them.) I always assumed that toothbrushes would shed microp
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by EarthLaunch 3y ago
It is such a better developer experience. My unfinished Three.js game[0] was on Unity a few years ago, but that became unbearable. The modern web platform is too new, it hasn't proven itself to big money, so it's going to be ind
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by EarthLaunch 3y ago
It's a requirement for any game that needs a reliable frame rate. Unpredictable delays during frame rendering cause jank. (This is not to say the OP has any such issues in its context.)
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by EarthLaunch 3y ago
> Through all of it, I’ve found myself noticing “accessibility” helpers more than ever before: that railing on the stairs, that ramp off to the side of the building, that elevator tucked away in the back. The title got me because I was f
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by EarthLaunch 3y ago
I'm making a UO inspired MMO and have been wanting to play more MMOs lately. Anyone similar up for experimenting with RS, WoW HC, Zenith, LiF, MO, UO player servers, or anything? Hit me up!
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by EarthLaunch 3y ago
I try to do this at home [eg 0] and it flabbergasted some coworkers when one such notation accidentally slipped into a day job PR last year. I didn't try to argue for it- but I like it personally, mainly for making control flow easier
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by EarthLaunch 3y ago
> Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills. > Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. From https:/&#x2F
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by EarthLaunch 3y ago
People aren't saying nice things about Apple to appease Apple from locking things down. People who rebelliously use non-Apple products are helping to keep the alternatives alive. It's a tradeoff of now vs future. That's the
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by EarthLaunch 3y ago
This is actually kind of genius: > To reduce transmission overhead, the Kermit protocol uses a simple, but often surprisingly effective, compression technique: repeated byte values are represented by a count+byte combination. > Analys

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