jtolmar

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by jtolmar 2y ago
LitRPG fans aren't all young people, it's also weirdly popular with middle-aged women with fond memories of playing World Of Warcraft. I don't think the phenomenon is young people these days, so much as every online fiction s
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by jtolmar 2y ago
I don't know if anyone has actually done it yet, but for scans of models in controlled lighting environments, you could use higher dimensional Gaussian Splatting to get more accurate lighting than standard techniques. (Similar to the 4
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by jtolmar 2y ago
It might end up being used in video games, either because the performance continues pushing ahead, or because someone just wants its distinctive look. Speaking of uses for gaussian splatting - would anyone have any unique use cases for bein
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by jtolmar 2y ago
Space Alert is probably the most highly regarded among board game aficionados, but not the most popular. It's complex and stressful, so not everyone's cup of tea. The most popular real-time board games are probably Set and Bananag
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by jtolmar 2y ago
Set. Or if you'd like that but faster and dumber, Pick A Pig Kites if you'd like a cooperative one.
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by jtolmar 2y ago
It's very common in RTS. StarCraft 1 and 2 also use rolling lockstep.
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by jtolmar 2y ago
I think it's just hype fatigue. There's genuinely impressive progress being made, but there are also a lot of new models coming out promising way more than they can deliver. Even the Google AI announcements, which used to be caref
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by jtolmar 3y ago
Why would a nuclear reactor blow up? There's nothing explosive in them.
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by jtolmar 3y ago
This is very fun. I managed to make a "Captain Jack Ahab + Draculawhalezilla" that seems to refuse to combine with anything. Maybe because it has a + in it already?
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by jtolmar 3y ago
I think for #2, they meant like AI-powered control-F / find in page. Which is actually the first non-novelty AI tool I've heard someone pitch that actually sounded like a good idea. Way more visible failure mode than summarizing.
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by jtolmar 3y ago
I think Godot catching up to Unity is pretty likely within the next 2-3 years. Unity is a mess of tech debt, mismanaged, and has just burned all their good will. Godot should be able to improve much faster due to the lack of tech debt, and
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by jtolmar 3y ago
The Nth Busy Beaver number lets you solve the halting problem for Turing Machines up to size N. Only a handful of them are known, for very small N, and they increase incredibly rapidly. For the most common version of the problem (S for 2-sy
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by jtolmar 3y ago
I remember seeing people blow up their SVN projects fairly often, usually from trying to move folders around without telling it. Though I don't remember those turning into three developers hovering over one computer the way that git er
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by jtolmar 3y ago
Is this just greeting = capitalize(greeting); greeting = greeting.concat("!"); greeting = await send(greeting); greeting = greeting.status; console.log(greeting); but with less accurate breakpoints?
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by jtolmar 3y ago
Same, and even more so if it's something that feels like it should be in the library code in the first place. My most copy-pasted code is projecting a point onto a line segment. I end up needing it all the time, it's never in what
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by jtolmar 3y ago
I love that you went to the effort to do brush dynamics for this. It really enhances the joke.
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by jtolmar 3y ago
I don't know any more full game examples, but... Earthbound (SNES, 1994) contains TWO complete scripting systems, one for the dialog system (which is occasionally used for things it shouldn't be; most of shop logic is in it), and
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by jtolmar 3y ago
A lot of alternative visual designs run into problems with the technical realities of modern UI tooling. I'm going to talk about web tech, but Android layout works largely the same, last I checked (one trillion years ago, to be fair).
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by jtolmar 3y ago
> "Great heavens, what poor specimens of humanity the men were! Their entire bodies formed a pattern of livid bruises. Their backs, which bore the marks of the whip, were not so much covered as shaded by torn shirts of patchwork cl
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by jtolmar 4y ago
I think you're imagining a far greater degree of fine-grained control over what these models output than is actually available. These companies are just trying to implement a broad-based "don't say anything racist" polic
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by jtolmar 4y ago
I got to 327, but then suddenly lost without seeing why. That was horrible, thanks!
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by jtolmar 4y ago
Hilarious idea, very nice. A dumb thing I found - If you move the knight's pawn, it's just barely possible to, over the course of many moves, slip your rook diagonally through to that pawn's former space.
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by jtolmar 4y ago
I noticed that every scheme after BTFNT kept state. Did anyone ever come up with a better stateless branch predictor than it?
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by jtolmar 4y ago
A highly successful worker coop leads to a bunch of people with comfortable lives and steady jobs. A highly successful privately owned company leads to a handful of people with a ton of money and free time, which they can use to found other
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by jtolmar 4y ago
A union is a democratically-run tool. Every tech employee I talk to hates the idea of compensation being based purely on time in role, why would they democratically vote for that to be the rule?
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by jtolmar 4y ago
A source speaking contrary to its own biases is very likely to be notable, and a source speaking along with its biases is essentially information-free. This implies that understanding a source's biases is crucial context to evaluating
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by jtolmar 4y ago
It's not really a problem that some specific AI can be prompted to produce hate speech or give you recipes for drugs or whatever. But we should also be able to make AIs that can't do these things, if we want that sort of AI, and i
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by jtolmar 4y ago
This is very neat! I don't think traditional board games would be interested unless you got the price down very very low ($2/unit or less). I think you could make something happen if you marketed and packaged it as a "board g
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by jtolmar 4y ago
In games, you can use a generator function for stuff that's supposed to take multiple frames. Saves you from either having to write a whole state machine system, or extracting all the state for every multi-frame action out into the obj
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by jtolmar 4y ago
All the communist subreddits are in constant hot water with the admins. They banned ChapoTrapHouse when it was one of the biggest subreddits. When a bunch of moderators tried to protest against reddit hosting antivax content, the admins too

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