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Frotag
2y ago
Oh awesome, first time I've heard of AO3. And To the Stars + Commonweal also sound super interesting, thanks!
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Any specific recommendations? I've looked through royalroad a few times but most amateur sci-fi are more about power-fantasies rather than logically exploring / exploiting an idea. Out of the few dozen top-rated stories I've
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2y ago
Last and First idol is a parody of otaku (Japanese) culture. https://j-novel.club/series/last-and-first-idol It's really 3x short stories (~200 pages each) but here's a synopsis for the first: The story
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2y ago
On the bright side, its easy to mod. If you don't like whatever UI customizations or just want cheats, it's usually possible to drop in a simple .py script to fix it.
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A nerdsnipe led to a fast implementation of Game of Life
(binary-banter.github.io)
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2y ago
DaisyUI offers zero-JS components https://daisyui.com/ I used it for a small form + search result list recently and it works well enough for simple / static stuff. But I think I'll still be reaching for a JS lib f
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2y ago
Any recommendations for ONVIF-compliant cameras for home use? I've tried a handful of used hikvision / dahua in the ~100usd range but they don't play nice with anything other than the vendor's software. Like VLC / o
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Analyzing a Baking Recipe
(cookingforengineers.com)
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2y ago
https://i.redd.it/vh37k2ep2bcc1.png https://old.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/1963h4k/cs...
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Indeed kills their RSS feed
(old.reddit.com)
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3y ago
I've listened to about half of each and I think I believe the spotify / Lustig argument more. For example, around 25:00 Lustig claims... "[fructose in] fruit is okay because of the fiber and the fiber is what mitigates
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3y ago
Been asking myself the same question for months. So Egan's stories are basically a mathy whodunit -- start from first (fictional) principles and eventually solve some universe-scale question or crisis. His characters are basically walk
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Toontown Online used to be a fairly popular mmo in the 2000s. The game itself is gone but the game engine was open sourced as Panda3d (C++ with Python bindings). The project is still active too, with modern features like PBR still being add
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3y ago
Bleh, took like 2 hours to scan every file. Anyways, overall stats are here https://gist.github.com/anon962/26bedc907e1f85123ae92df194de...
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3y ago
Sorry I should clarify, the 250 shows + movies estimate comes from number of shows / movies listed on MAL for this season times 4. But since I also auto-download "related" releases for each thing airing (like seasons / m
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3y ago
> Can you explain what mpv offers over vlc ? People have complained about VLC's decoding quality in the past (no specific source but lots of google results). I'm sure there's valid bugs that have been patched over and some
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3y ago
Personally anime uses around 30TB for me. For the best quality (mostly 1080p + bluray) of everything released in the last year (~250 shows / movies), but also including older releases for the same franchise (eg past seasons / rela
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Sixth update on Framework Laptop 16 shipment timing
(community.frame.work)
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"Non-Player Character"
(yudkowsky.net)
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Oh wow, I just binged Paranoid Mage and it was really good (especially books 1-3). Thanks for the recommendation!
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Some people call this genre rational fiction. Personally I really liked Harry Potter: Methods of Rationality. The MC was super narcissistic and nitpicky, a true engineer. For example he was often looking for ways to create perpetual motion
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Yeah, it's still bad for you – but see how good it can look
(fancyfastfood.com)
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Building an ECS in TypeScript, Dirty Component Optimization
(maxwellforbes.com)
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Sadly that's another author I'm already caught up with. His SCP series was really memorable though.
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Anyone have recommendations for similar authors? I love how his stories grow in scope (one discovery plausibly leads to another and eventually interdimensional travel). I know Adrian Tchaikovsky is a popular recommendation around here (espe
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3y ago
Lenovo laptops tend to be best bang for buck but ime poor build quality and support. I've sent each of the three I've owned in for warranty repair at some point. It took at least a month for all of them and two of them still died
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I personally prefer more meat-y plots and stay away from series with scenes that are cute (or stylish) for the sake of being cute (or cool). That said, here are some of my favorites: https://myanimelist.net/anime/13125&
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> meaning 20% accuracy is equal to 80% accuracy, Only if your model is outputting a yes/no answer right? And that your definition of accuracy is "class with highest probability" (and not "N classes with highest prob&q
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I've run into this once. IIRC the workaround was to add a n=n arg to the lambda
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If you order everyone alive from youngest to oldest on that date, you'll be older than 5 billion people.
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