cultureswitch

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by cultureswitch 2y ago
Any big company is incapable and ultimately unwilling to bring meaningful security curation to an app store, exhibit 3843579401
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by cultureswitch 2y ago
I have never even seen a Taco Bell IRL and yet I would consider hanging a reproduction of one of these paintings because of the story. And they're not really ugly either.
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by cultureswitch 2y ago
Is there a reason a publication will write "Boeing workers falsified records" instead of "Boeing falsified records"? What do you think it is?
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by cultureswitch 2y ago
Mount & Blade 2 was released very early and despite constant improvement (they keep patching it at a strong pace), it's only slowly evolving. It was even downright unfinished on release, with many game systems claiming to be doing
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by cultureswitch 2y ago
I'm a Rust enthusiast and really surprised to discover so many people are apparently trying make games in pure Rust. I think Rust is an amazing language for building a generic game engine, but a pretty crappy one for actually implement
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by cultureswitch 2y ago
Hit the nail on the head. Unless you're really dealing with absurd numbers of simultaneous blocking I/O, async has entirely too many drawbacks.
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by cultureswitch 2y ago
> I don't think so, because there isn't a performance drawback compared to threads when using async. There is. When you write async functions, they get split into state machines and units of non-blocking work which need to be a
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by cultureswitch 2y ago
This seems strange to me. If you don't have millions of concurrent requests to handle at the same time, why would you bother with a whole async framework? Just straight up spawning OS threads to do parallel work when you need it is bot
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
People should stop pretending Apple products are secure in any sense of the word. Pegasus software and similar have been working just fine on iPhone. For literal _years_. Apple is fundamentally incapable and more to the point unwilling, to
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
When someone rents a small apartment in the center of Paris for 4k on the private market in all likeliness they're paying more than 3k of pure rent profit to the owner. The rent can be levied by the owner however the owner actually did
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
Been gaming on PC (and a little bit with consoles) for 20 years and the hubbub about Nintendo closing Yuzu made me want to try it to see what's this all about. And yes it's unbelievable how much better these games are on emulator,
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
Nothing is forcing any website to show these prompts. Only websites which abuse personal data have to do it. Why are you angry at the legislation and not at terribly designed websites?
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
The problem with that argument is that Apple is demonstrably incapable or unwilling of securing their devices, despite the walled garden. Pegasus and a dozen other spyware exploit iOS vulnerabilities which have remained open for at least a
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
Yes they did? Violating some company's ToS is completely irrelevant when it comes to actual laws. And more importantly, it makes no sense that Epic has to interact with Apple at all in order to sell software to owners of Apple products
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
Playing KSP is the reason why I empathize with the tipping over situation
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
I was faced with the same constraints a couple of years ago and came up with an almost verbatim solution. It's an interesting problem where a lot of very subtle bugs can happen, it's good to know that I went with the same solution
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
LLMs can remember their sources. It's just additional knowledge, there's nothing special about it. When you ask an LLM to tell you the height of Mount Everest, it clearly has a map of mountains to heights, in some format. Using ex
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
That is the argument we're having though. The central claim is that a machine which answers exactly the same thing a human would answer given the same input does not have understanding, while the human does. This claim is religious, no
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
Are you telling me that WW1 artillery crews didn't understand ballistics? Because they were using tables. There's no difference between doing something that works without understanding and doing the exact same thing with understan
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
Should it matter how the object of debate interacts and probes the external world? We sense the world through specialized cells connected to neurons. There's nothing to prevent LLMs doing functionally the same thing. Both human brains
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
> you can train the network to act as if it knows its knowledge limits Humans need more training to do the same. And this does not answer the question of whether there's self-reflection going on. Practical LLMs available today are p
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
> The answers are not comming from a thinking mind but a complex pattern-fitting supercomputer hovering over a massive table of precomputed patterns. It computes your input then looks to those patterns and spits out the best match Can yo
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
The internet did change things dramatically, but the change wasn't as dramatic as industrialization. And that one matured over two centuries.
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
Disconnecting the economic rent from the value of a piece of cultural to each individual is a horrid idea. Culture, like everything else, is subject to the pareto principle. A handful of works are so much better than the rest that they capt
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
We would be better off without copyright enforcement at all than whatever we have now.
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
Hans get the skull measurer
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
The DMCA forces them to act this way.
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
I think I follow the gist of what you're talking about and it doesn't sound all that advanced at all. Deliberately missing out getting blocked to make the opponent think they have an opening is not a particularly high level play i
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
Because despite significant variance, resisting to the lure of addiction using willpower is much more effective than using willpower to reconnect one's spine.
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
Actually, I pay taxes because I have to.

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