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by TomatoCo 2y ago
Sounds like a labor version of Jevon's Paradox, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox where increases in efficiency cause a resource to be consumed more, not less.
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by TomatoCo 2y ago
Is there a game in this genre where you script your character? As a kid I made a few RuneScape bots and found that getting the logic right like "the world is in this state, what actions do you perform?" was the fun part about that
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by TomatoCo 2y ago
To belabor the point and repeat a bit from Wikipedia, this was bar-none the absolute perfect flight crew possible. A flight crew with over 65000 hours experience and, riding as a passenger, a training pilot with a further 23000 who had spec
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by TomatoCo 2y ago
The ubershader is the thing that emulates Flipper at a low enough level to use the precompiled "shaders" directly. Prior to that the precompiled "shaders" were examined and recompiled into individual shaders, a process t
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by TomatoCo 2y ago
That's the trick, they actually don't provide precompiled shaders as you know them. The graphics hardware back then was fixed function pipelines with a tremendous number of options to configure how they work. The downside is that
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by TomatoCo 2y ago
I can't recall which standup comedian it was, but he had a bit about games where they're the only form of entertainment that tests you. A song doesn't make you dance along to continue. A book doesn't quiz you on its them
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by TomatoCo 2y ago
The article makes it sound like this sensor is only to avoid the handle itself heating up to the point that it would burn the user.
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by TomatoCo 2y ago
For all of these "how can we batch predicting the next n tokens?" the intuition is basically that it takes a buttload of math to predict some of the tokens, but that most tokens are actually easy to guess. For example, if I aske
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by TomatoCo 3y ago
To learn Go, I made a small app that supports encrypting files with a public key where the keypair is generated from a password. Because I want my backups to be encrypted but it offends me to keep symmetric keys lying around. With this you