jjmarr

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by jjmarr 3y ago
In Ontario, Canada we don't have standardized tests to get into university. Grade inflation is the worst it's ever been. We don't even have GPAs because it's too coarse a distinction. Virtually all serious competitors to
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by jjmarr 3y ago
This sounds like a great use of hardware accelerated raytracing. The problem itself is very similar. Sound attenuation can be modelled as transparency.
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by jjmarr 3y ago
Now is a great time to switch to Gerrit.
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by jjmarr 3y ago
It's the same reason that for 80 years after the invention of the commercial icemaker in 1842, the American ice-harvesting industry produced more frozen water than manufacturing plants. And the ice trade did not exist until 1806. http
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by jjmarr 3y ago
GitHub CoPilot charges $10 for a subscription that it loses an average (!) of $20 a user on. https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/11/github_ai_copilot_mic... "Make it profitable" appears a secondary
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by jjmarr 3y ago
The example waifu in text-generation-webui is good enough for me. https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui/blob/main...
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by jjmarr 3y ago
That's one of the main reasons modern Tetris plays extremely differently than old Tetris. The game generates a "bag" with a single copy of all 7 possible tetrominoes. It then randomly pulls from the bag until it is empty, at
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by jjmarr 3y ago
You ever play Simutrans? That game is brutal. To this day I have no clue how to get the scale necessary for profitable passenger rail.