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by hcs 1y ago
I think it's mostly that the fiber isn't a perfectly transparent medium, over tens of kilometers attenuation adds up. As said in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45159639 these are just to boost power, they do
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by hcs 1y ago
If I'm reading this right yes the training was fair use, but I was responding (unclearly) to the claim that the pirated books weren't used to train commercially released LLMs. The judge complained that it wasn't clear what wa
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by hcs 1y ago
The lawsuit didn't find anything, Anthropic claimed this as part of the settlement. Companies settle without admission of wrongdoing all the time, to the extent that it can be bargained for.
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by hcs 1y ago
Compression + encryption can be dangerous if the compression rate is exposed somehow (between messages or within packets of a message). > we show that it is possible to identify the phrases spoken within encrypted VoIP calls when the aud
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by hcs 1y ago
> "What's actually happening" is all your life you've been told that human intelligence is magical and special and unique. And now it turns out that it isn't. Cue the coping. People have been arguing this is not
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by hcs 1y ago
This is an especially bad example, a nice shiny grille is going to be strongly reflecting stuff that isn't already part of the image (and likely isn't covered well by adjacent pixels due the angle doubling of reflection).
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by hcs 1y ago
Anecdotes: I had what seemed to me a standard office, door but no window, in 2008 at my first job out of school at IBM in Austin. Some folks in that same hallway were doubled up but I was lucky to have one to myself while there. A few jobs
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by hcs 1y ago
When I was recently researching Japanese videotex systems for similarities to CD Graphics, I ran across Captain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_(videotex) It was somewhat unique in that (at least originally) it o
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by hcs 1y ago
So someone is going to load 2.5x as many images because it can be decoded 2.5x faster? The paradox isn't a law of physics, it's an interesting observation about markets. (If this was a joke it was too subtle for me)
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by hcs 1y ago
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/weird-4 > The goal in life isn't to find something you love, it's to find something you can get realllll weird about.
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by hcs 1y ago
Some good mentions elsewhere in the thread, another to check out is The Incredible Proof Machine https://incredible.pm/
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Bad Apple CD+G on a karaoke machine(gashlin.net)
3 points by hcs 1y ago|1 comments
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by hcs 1y ago
Warren Robinett wrote an interesting one on Atari VCS Adventure http://www.warrenrobinett.com/inventing_adventure/ It doesn't go super deep, he had a more technical book in the works but I haven't heard any u
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by hcs 1y ago
Not sure if it will help but about:processes might give some more info about what is causing the activity.
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by hcs 1y ago
Mostly, but there's Heart O' The City Hotel
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by hcs 1y ago
Exe filters are cool, I think I first saw the split stream thing in the kkrunchy writeup https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2011/01/24/x86-code-compressio... , looks like it was first in PPMexe.
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Kaizen: Open-ended puzzle automation game from the original Zachtronics team(store.steampowered.com)
5 points by hcs 1y ago|1 comments
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by hcs 1y ago
Zach's next game Kaizen comes out tomorrow! https://coincidence.games/kaizen/
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Practical Programming: Developing programmed instruction (1966)(archive.org)
2 points by hcs 2y ago|0 comments
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by hcs 2y ago
> The Beginners Guide even worse. Empty test levels strung together with tedious narration. > The developer's depressed? That's the least interesting thing to learn about anyone. Depressed people promoting their depression s
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by hcs 2y ago
I recall reading that the design kicked off because of some stock of surplus CRTs but that didn't ultimately end up used. https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/a-history-of-gaming-pla... > The system got its sta
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by hcs 2y ago
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by hcs 2y ago
Yes but progressive jackpots accumulate if not won in previous drawings.
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by hcs 2y ago
Do you think a machine proof of "BB(n) grows faster than any computable function" would require that?
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by hcs 2y ago
> a str with invalid UTF-8 may cause UB, it's not unsafe to handle a str and they sure aren't going to put checks everywhere for it Any way I know of for making a str from bytes is checked or unsafe, even slices (by byte indexe
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by hcs 2y ago
New project from the Zachtronics team, now working under the name Coincidence. Looks quite ambitious! No release date yet but I'll be looking forward to it.
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Kaizen: A Factory Story (Open-ended puzzle automation game) announced(store.steampowered.com)
1 points by hcs 2y ago|1 comments
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by hcs 2y ago
The second part, on comedy, is even more relevant.
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by hcs 2y ago
> "What I cannot teach, I do not understand" I tend to agree, but teaching another person is also a whole different set of skills from being able to drive something yourself. One prominent example is the "curse of knowledg
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by hcs 2y ago
Not divine specifically but I like the Wikipedia List of Dreams: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_works_based_on_dreams#...

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