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by jjmarr 2mo ago
In reality, one massive update is too big to digest and it never happens. So you're stuck on out-of-date packages having lost the ability to update. That's never a problem until it suddenly is. Company is put at significant risk (
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by jjmarr 3mo ago
Right now it can't click on anything so it'd probably fail at the minigames. But it'd be super funny to see a 4 person LLM lobby fail at games.
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by jjmarr 3mo ago
I made a general purpose harness integrated into MelonDS and got Claude to play Mario Kart by feeding it continuous video. It made forward progress in the Figure 8 circuit after I helped it through a menu but kept slamming into a wall so it
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by jjmarr 3mo ago
More like the billions of people that use non-Latin languages, or even Latin languages w/ accents.
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by jjmarr 3mo ago
Alan Greenspan (fed chair from 1987-2006) was famous for deliberately confusing forward guidance. Ben Bernanke and Janet Yellen are the historical anomalies for clearly communicating their intent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by jjmarr 3mo ago
> An arms race is the inevitable outcome. It's either that or competitive gaming is not viable. I'd rather just give my passport and do one of those face turning challenges to play competitive video games. Then if I get caught
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by jjmarr 3mo ago
You can buy an autoclicking device or software that recognizes screen pixels of enemy avatars and instantly clicks to kill them. This works in "remote streaming" situations and is ~30% of the cheating dataset detected by Riot&#x27
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by jjmarr 3mo ago
It was very fun. Brick Battle, Galleons, the game with many towers. The explodey terrain put Roblox on the map initially. The problem is the opportunity cost of destructible terrain was too high. Developers could get fun for lower effort by
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by jjmarr 3mo ago
Counterpoint is Roblox, which had one of the most innovative game engines ever. It could multiplayer simulate thousands of blocks of destructible terrain in 2006 . This feature was mostly ignored by the playerbase because developers found
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by jjmarr 3mo ago
Because the TPM effectively rate limits brute forcing of the key. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/hardware-... > For example, when BitLocker is used with a TPM + PIN configuration, the n
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by jjmarr 3mo ago
Japan has stigma towards used houses.
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by jjmarr 3mo ago
Airports are such a place. That is why they have duty-free stores that are exempt from taxes so long as you take the goods out of the country. The onus is on the consumer to pay taxes at their destination. Most countries then have a "p
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by jjmarr 3mo ago
Building a "Canadian equivalent" of something else is a great way to get money from the Canadian government right now. In addition to direct subsidies/grants, the government has a buy Canadian mandate.
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by jjmarr 3mo ago
Technoethical sells a refurbished T400 with GNU Boot. https://tehnoetic.com/laptops/tet-t400s Libreboot actually isn't free anymore by FSF standards because it has binary blobs for the Intel Management Engine. Nei
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by jjmarr 3mo ago
No, because you're doing decimal floating point, which eliminates the rounding errors of binary floating point.
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by jjmarr 3mo ago
I've never understood this argument. I regularly run insmod and/or modprobe to load kernel modules. I'm guessing it's because Linux constantly breaks ABI for out-of-tree kernel modules. And because every version of a d
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by jjmarr 3mo ago
That's literally the official FSF position. https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw > For example: the Free Software Foundation only purchases desktop machines which support Libreboot, and Thinkpad X200 and X60 laptop
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by jjmarr 3mo ago
"Chess-related roguelike" is a an very crowded genre for unclear reasons and it's difficult to stick out. So far I've played Shotgun Queen and Pawnbarian. There's also Ouroboros King, Demoncrawl, The Rookery, Passan
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by jjmarr 3mo ago
"Chess-related roguelike" is a an very crowded genre for unclear reasons and it's difficult to stick out. So far I've played Shotgun Queen and Pawnbarian. There's also Ouroboros King, Demoncrawl, The Rookery, Passan
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by jjmarr 3mo ago
This is brilliant, except for the "alignment won't stop this part". > Now, some people believe these machines can be made to serve humanity. Does it sound reasonable to imagine a superhumanly intelligent being that is happ
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by jjmarr 3mo ago
From page 175 of the AMD CDNA4 ISA: https://www.amd.com/content/dam/amd/en/documents/instinct-te... > V_MUL_U32_U24 >,Multiply two unsigned 24-bit integer inputs and store the result as an uns
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by jjmarr 3mo ago
> Just don't allow casting to u24, as it makes no sense unless you define u24 to be u32 sized as I think c standard does. The reason u32->u24 casting must be well defined is because some hardware (e.g. many GPUs, microcontrollers
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by jjmarr 3mo ago
From playing Stellaris, it was all bottlenecked on a single threaded pop simulation which is why it got so laggy in the endgame. Most "CPU intensive" games I've noticed are like that.
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by jjmarr 3mo ago
It has gotten worse. Shadow of the Erdtree requires you to kill a boss (Mohg) hidden within a SECRET AREA (Mohgwyn Palace) hidden within ANOTHER secret area (Consecrated Snowfield). And the Consecrated Snowfield is only accessible if you fi
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by jjmarr 3mo ago
The Day After Tomorrow (2004) predicted this.
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by jjmarr 3mo ago
I did port forwarding in 2010 for a Minecraft server. Basically every router supports it. It wasn't meaningfully more difficult than setting up the server.
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by jjmarr 3mo ago
Buying the ANSI C standard still costs about $300. Same for C++. https://webstore.ansi.org/standards/iso/isoiec98992024?sourc... Nobody does it. gcc/clang implement it from the "drafts", which are p
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by jjmarr 3mo ago
I use Gentoo. You have to specifically install "overlays" and every package maintainer would make their own overlay. You can't easily take over an overlay without the original person's permission. That being said, still
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by jjmarr 3mo ago
That's not how the legal system works, though. If Midjourney says "maybe you have cancer" but your doctor doesn't take it seriously, you might sue if you do end up with cancer. You might even win, regardless of wheth
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by jjmarr 3mo ago
So you can have an animated or interactive "wallpaper". The malicious wallpapers in the OP are hentai games.

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