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by duskwuff 5d ago
> There are still some types of CRT-related vacuum tubes in production for applications digital equivalents are objectively less performant in. Like what? The only significant applications I'm aware of for vacuum tubes nowadays are
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by duskwuff 5d ago
> I was wondering how you could possibly sync up something like a Carrier that has multiple fighters. Same way as everything else - you play out the simulation and see what happens. The behavior of the interceptors is as deterministic as
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by duskwuff 5d ago
Replay files are streams of the orders given by players. They generally can't do anything which would be impossible in game.
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by duskwuff 5d ago
Not feasible. The VODs are from a spectator's perspective; there's a lot of action happening "off camera" (like players building units) which affects what's seen on camera later, and which would be extremely difficu
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by duskwuff 5d ago
What you're describing is a casual game, not competitive play. And, of course, all bets are off if you're playing with additional rules like "no rush" which remove the element of tempo from the game.
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by duskwuff 6d ago
Yes, e.g. https://github.com/gulshngill/bwrepanalysis . But I doubt an agent would learn much from them without a lot of additional processing - the replay files are little more than a stream of the orders given during
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by duskwuff 6d ago
This is not a viable strategy in competitive play. It's a huge resource/time investment with a dubious payoff. If you could win as Protoss by building Dark Archons, raiding your Zerg opponent's base to capture a worker, build
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by duskwuff 9d ago
> They've gone with a lesser known company Kioxia. Formerly known as Toshiba's memory division. They spun off the business as Kioxia in 2017.
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by duskwuff 9d ago
> So why not set up a simple grid (say, Pages on a mac or Libre Office or Scribus) and pair the best photo you can grab with a description opposite it, on a nice background? Or, for that matter - skip the photos, just do text, maybe with
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by duskwuff 10d ago
> It's also nice that it translates directly to the file system. On the other hand, this means that it's bound by filesystem naming rules - e.g. you can't have an object named "abc/", or a pair of objects na
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by duskwuff 10d ago
> The problem with ebooks is that you cannot be 100% certain that you're reading the original text. That's equally true of print books. Misprints happen.
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by duskwuff 11d ago
1992. (It's a music joke.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_for_the_People
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by duskwuff 11d ago
Telegram's usage of "GIF" (any short video without sound) is incredibly weird and frequently goes against users' expectations. I wouldn't treat that as definitive.
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by duskwuff 12d ago
Yes. These drawings are a companion to Apple's accessory design guidelines, which include a lot of other interesting design considerations: https://developer.apple.com/accessories/Accessory-Design-Gui...
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by duskwuff 13d ago
> This was also a time when Flash content was supported by Apple QuickTime While QuickTime supported some Flash content, my recollection is that it only supported simple animations which could be mapped onto QuickTime's own intera
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by duskwuff 14d ago
There was even an unpleasant period in the early 2000s where MSIE was the only viable browser on Mac OS . Safari and Firefox hadn't been released yet, Netscape 4.x never made the jump to OS X, and ports of the Mozilla suite were never
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by duskwuff 15d ago
LLMs are also incredibly poor at recognizing that they're "out of their depth", especially when their context is already full of their attempts to do something.
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by duskwuff 15d ago
> They stopped piling on all sorts of non-standard vendor lock-in stuff after IE6. IE6 also stuck around a lot longer than previous versions. It was released in 2001; IE7 didn't show up until 2006, and was an optional update which
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by duskwuff 15d ago
I've seen a number of "child invents thing" news stories where the supposed invention was entirely bogus. For example, one widely circulated story in the late 2000s involved a young student in Nepal inventing a solar cell mad
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by duskwuff 16d ago
No, neither - the amount of CO2 that'd be needed for use as a refrigerant is insignificant. There's already a lot of CO2 produced as a byproduct of industrial chemical processes like petroleum refining. Some of it is captured for
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by duskwuff 16d ago
WordPress is free software. Its users are under no obligation to contribute to its development, or to give money to Automattic.
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by duskwuff 17d ago
Yes. This typically manifested as either: - religious or mystical experiences, often paired with the belief that the AI model is a manifestation of a divine being and/or has become sentient - belief that the person has made a great sci
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by duskwuff 17d ago
I also have some fond memories of WWWBoard instances, from Matt's Script Archive. https://www.scriptarchive.com/wwwboard.html
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by duskwuff 18d ago
> Smart Tags was a system Microsoft introduced in Internet Explorer 6 which would automatically inject hyperlinks into pages. Smart Tags was present in some beta versions of MSIE6, but was removed before release. The MSSmartTagsPrevent
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by duskwuff 21d ago
Well, then, I guess we'll just have to release the hypnodrones.
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by duskwuff 24d ago
+1. Especially given that it can even run in the browser - https://yowasp.org/
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by duskwuff 24d ago
ICE40UP5K is large enough to synthesize a simple RISC-V CPU with some basic peripherals. It's not huge or fast, but it's capable enough.
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by duskwuff 25d ago
> GNUstep ran early MacOS apps on Linux after Apple bought Next and adopted their APIs. No, it did not. There was no point at which GNUstep provided binary compatibility with Mac OS applications - while the two ecosystems shared some com
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by duskwuff 27d ago
I would be much more surprised by a system of commands which could be read in any order.
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by duskwuff 29d ago
The subsection requires that the person " knowingly materially misrepresent [...] that material or activity is infringing". Proving that the misrepresentation was made knowingly can be extremely difficult.

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