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by Nition 2y ago
Really cool, I remember using this on a friend's computer in the early 90s. My only complaint is this has a smoothing alpha edge on the pencil and line tools, which gives that unfortunate white outline when using the paint bucket. KidP
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by Nition 2y ago
Maori is also another language that has the same vowel sounds as Japanese. Google is being generous in interpreting a nonsense word there though, Pokatata (as you saw when reversing the translation) is the correct spelling.
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by Nition 2y ago
One side preserving backwards compatibility through the past 30 years, the other replacing the taskbar and losing half the features.
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One thing about this song that the article doesn't really go into is that the chords are just insane, really unusual, and yet it works perfectly - it sounds very different to your average song but it doesn't sound wrong or off-key
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by Nition 2y ago
Good moderation is certainly a huge factor in keeping a large chat going. Hacker News is a pretty good example.
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by Nition 2y ago
I tested this myself in GPT4-o before submitting the link and immediately GPT4 told me that 3 is a valid answer because 3 = 9, among other wrong answers. Trying to help it towards the correct "no" answer seems to only drive it fur
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Current LLMs go crazy trying to handle "Are there primes whose digits sum to 9?"(twitter.com)
3 points by Nition 2y ago|2 comments
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by Nition 2y ago
> Another joked that perhaps Sakurada was simply engaged in his own kind of cybersecurity. > "If a hacker targets this Minister Sakurada, they wouldn’t be able to steal any information. Indeed it might be the strongest kind of se
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by Nition 2y ago
Would certainly be interesting to compare Crash Bandicoot playtime on failed vs. working units.
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by Nition 2y ago
Jason Rubin says this on the blog: > Our occlusion worked on a texture level. That is, if we had a giant polygon with a fern texture on it (think many leaves but lots of empty space) the occlusion could actually get rid of polygons behi
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by Nition 2y ago
70k per lifetime of the CD drive. 120k per complete playthrough of the game. A hit is reading from the CD.
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by Nition 2y ago
Weirdly the excellent devblog that I got all this info from[1] mentions crazy compression algorithms for the vertex animation and for the level files, but not specifically for the occlusion data. [1] https://all-things-andy-gavin
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by Nition 2y ago
Yes! And the best part of that feature: > Andy had given Kelly a rough idea of how we were getting so much detail through the system: spooling. Kelly asked Andy if he understood correctly that any move forward or backward in a level ent
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by Nition 2y ago
In the same game, for character animations, instead of just using bones like others were doing - often resulting in some big distortions with low-poly characters - they set up per-vertex animation, letting the artists manually position any
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by Nition 2y ago
For Crash Bandicoot (1996), Naughty Dog sidestepped the entire VSD performance problem. Since the camera is on rails and only moves forward and back, they pre-calculated the visibility for every position and stored it in the game's dat
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by Nition 2y ago
> the kid will stop you, point at a dog in the book, and ask "dog?" Of course for a human this can either mean "I have an idea about what a dog is, but I'm not sure whether this is one" or it can mean "Hey t
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by Nition 2y ago
Consider this scenario: Your friend sends you an image of some art they produced. It looks very impressive. You ask them how long it took them to create. They say oh, only a minute or so, I made it with a MidJourney prompt. Do you feel disa
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by Nition 2y ago
With my original bedtime story example, I was actually thinking about the kind of story you make up on the spot. Like the topic request comes at bedtime, and maybe the child even has feedback on how the story should go as you're making
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by Nition 2y ago
I don't truly agree with your take here, but let's assume you are correct and creating real things in your life only benefits you and no-one else. If you create a painting or story or piece of furniture, others prefer the more pro
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by Nition 2y ago
That's a very valid rebuttal to my comment. I think this kind of "force multiplier" use for AI is the most effective one we have right now; I've noticed the same thing with GPT-4 for programming. I know the code well eno
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by Nition 2y ago
I sometimes think the physical world has been going through a similar time, where most of what we own and receive is ephemeral, mass-produced, lacking in real significance. We have a lot more now but it often means a lot less.
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by Nition 2y ago
I guess the question is, is sending an AI Happy Birthday image better than sending a Happy Birthday text?
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by Nition 2y ago
Aside from the search and Siri improvements, I'm really not sure about the usefulness of all the generative stuff Apple is suggesting we might use here. If you spend an hour drawing a picture for someone for their birthday and send it
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by Nition 2y ago
The other comment is right that autotune is almost always present in recent pop vocals - even when the singer is excellent, a little bit is now commonly added to give it that certain sound. Having said that, I think what you might be hearin
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by Nition 2y ago
You'll usually stop hearing the CRT whine in your 20s, 30s if you're lucky. It's at nearly 16KHz and the highest frequency you can hear always drops as you age. Of course, these days people also regularly don't hear it s
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by Nition 2y ago
Yeah, that one's a bit lower. 15.625kHz or 15.75kHz depending on your region.
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by Nition 2y ago
There's also the excellent http://astronaut.io , which I found via Hacker News. It automatically plays short segments from YouTube videos with those default filenames, inevitably surfacing a kind of gallery of the mundane: T
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by Nition 2y ago
I titled this "How NASA fixed Voyager 1 from 15B miles away" but it seems the "How" was automatically removed.
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NASA fixed Voyager 1 from 15B miles away(usatoday.com)
2 points by Nition 2y ago|2 comments
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The Red Hand Files – "What can you tell me about love?"(theredhandfiles.com)
1 points by Nition 2y ago|0 comments

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