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by grumbel 3mo ago
> Isn't non-web-based cryptography affected (as per this take) in the same way but with extra steps? Yes, but it's a whole lot of extra steps spread across multiple independent parties, each of them adds large delays to the act
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by grumbel 3mo ago
Subreddit threads are sorted by time and ratings, old style forum threads are sorted by activity. You can't bump a thread on Reddit. This leads to forums having threads that last years or decades, while on Reddit nothing lasts longer t
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by grumbel 3mo ago
The problem with that "look" is that it's a dead end. These things won't be having a real glasses form factor and high enough specs to be useful anytime soon. They'll remain comically oversized for years/decade
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by grumbel 3mo ago
That explanation still seems overly complicated. Iroh isn't a VPN. Iroh just lets apps connect to each other, just like plain old TCP, but without the shackles of NAT, DNS and dynamic IP addresses that made that impossible. It's r
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by grumbel 4mo ago
> It is important, if I destroy your brain and grow a new one and start running the same program on the new brain your consciousness is still dead and its a new person living. If I copy a text document from one computer to another, is th
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by grumbel 4mo ago
The image capture was done with a robotic camera rig from what I understand, they photographed 360° images of the room from all possible position. They restricted the camera movement to a plane, which is why the player height is fixed. I do
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by grumbel 4mo ago
Many years ago there was a game called Casebook[1], a small little detective game where you investigated rooms for clues. But unlike similar FMV games where you jumped from point to point, it had photorealistic environments that could be sm
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by grumbel 4mo ago
The point is that the brain operates on information , not things. The thing you think is the external world, that's just electricity flowing through your neurons. When you see a dog, that isn't a thing in the world, but a signal
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by grumbel 4mo ago
> If a hundred people see the same event, will they all respond the same? If you have hundred different people, they will of course do something different. Just like hundred different AI model will do something different. The question yo
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by grumbel 4mo ago
The "you" isn't your physical body, it's the pattern recognition in your brain that that classifies some parts of its sensory input as "you" (see Mirror Hand illusion). That it happens to be running on meat ins
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by grumbel 4mo ago
> How can you have a subjective experience without a body? Easy, you don't have subjective experiences because you have body in the first place. You have them because some signals come in from your nerves, which your brain turns int
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by grumbel 4mo ago
I am a little worried that this is still a problem after 20 years. Don't they have simulators to test every weird and unexpected road condition offline? And flooded roads aren't exactly an unusual event to begin with.
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by grumbel 4mo ago
Why is some software SuperMarioBros and other Microsoft Word? 'cause that's what the specific software is written to produce and the other is written to do produce else. Consciousness is not some magically thing on top of a inform
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by grumbel 4mo ago
> the easy problem is to understand the computations of the brain while the hard problem is to understand what experience the thing doing the computations has. The problem with that common definition is that it doesn't make much sen
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by grumbel 4mo ago
> Why some kinds of information processing and not others? Consciousness isn't something the information processing has , it is something the information processing does . It's a function, not some magic property that happens
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by grumbel 4mo ago
Pain isn't just saying the word, it's a signal that changes your behavior generation in a way that conflicts with your self model.
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by grumbel 5mo ago
Alternative suggestion: Force them to open up the service and allow third party clients. Take Art. 20 GDPR "Right to data portability" and extend it to public content.
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by grumbel 5mo ago
> There's nothing preventing you from setting up a web server Carrier-grade NAT stops you pretty good. And if you make past that hurdle, HTTPS might stop you. And without Google's help, nobody will find you anyway. That's
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by grumbel 5mo ago
Most of them I would assume. Everything from 2006 forward started to use Xinput. DirectInput support only shows up in racing sims, flight simulators, fighting games and emulation. But all the big AAA games have been built around Xbox360 sty
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by grumbel 5mo ago
> If that hadn't happened who's to say where we would have ended up. We went through numerous years of that before Steam became a thing, almost a whole decade passed between the Internet getting popular and Steam really taking
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by grumbel 5mo ago
It's a bit more tricky, a Generic HID just gives you a DirectInput device, while reasonably modern games use Xinput. Microsoft never provided a way to map DirectInput devices to Xinput. For Xinput to work a Microsoft specific USB proto
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by grumbel 5mo ago
> I'm not convinced that's guaranteed to be less of an issue going forward. I am sure it's going to be an issue at some point in the future, it already is an issue when it comes to sharing games or keeping older versions a
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by grumbel 5mo ago
Prior to Steam there was StarForce and other copy protection messing up your OS and DVD drives, and plenty of stuff needed online activation as well. Of the last few physical games I bought, none work anymore, Bioshock couldn't be inst
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by grumbel 6mo ago
Would the model even need that breath of knowledge? Humans just look things up in books or on Wikipedia, which you can store on a plain old HDD, not VRAM. All books ever written fit into about 60TB if you OCR them, and the useful informatio
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by grumbel 6mo ago
As long as the application is made aware of the permissions and can prevent functioning when they get denied, that doesn't really help much. It's the choice between getting mugged or never leaving the house. The ability to deny pe
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by grumbel 6mo ago
One big thing I still miss with org-mode are explicit section endings. Just as with markdown you only have headings, the end of a section is implicit. This often leads to text getting swallowed up by the last chapter and makes any kind of r
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by grumbel 6mo ago
Problem with that is that the default browser styling is extremely ugly and the ability for custom style sheets was removed from the browser GUI many years ago. ReaderMode and Addons can help, but as long as the default is essentially broke
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by grumbel 6mo ago
> you're going to be writing the (name value) form for 99% of it. That's exactly the part that is wrong with Guix, and Scheme in general. Scheme has associated lists, they are written as '((name . value) ...), but since th
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by grumbel 7mo ago
> A user’s identity is their domain name. That's dead on arrival. The domain name system is one of the core reasons why everything has become so centralized in the first place. If one wants to fix anything wrong with the Internet, f
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by grumbel 7mo ago
> Is this avoidable? Instead of interacting with the cloud model directly, run a simple local model to interact with the cloud model and have it filter out all the ads before they reach you. This is already what the chatbots do when it c

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