mdswanson

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   by mdswanson 3y ago

   +1. I've made a few cheeses, and mozzarella was on the more difficult side.
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   by mdswanson 3y ago

   Absolutely! A simple, visual, intuitive, and interactive way to perform an auction.
3. 63.▲
   by mdswanson 3y ago

   If you can't find an official punch, I often used the Radio Shack nibbler tool to make this an easy job: https://a.co/d/hR2rKAp
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   by mdswanson 3y ago

   It might help new viewers to understand that Tarkovsky viewed film as art, not entertainment. As such, he purposely avoided strong narratives or plots, instead focusing on poetry, mood, and time. From the book "Sculpting in Time"
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   by mdswanson 3y ago

   Looks like Microsoft's .INI file format.
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   by mdswanson 3y ago

   Is it just me, or does every "what is a passkey" definition never actually define what passkeys are?
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   by mdswanson 3y ago

   This is the way.
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   by mdswanson 3y ago

   Readers might also be interested in a MiSTer FPGA-based system to emulate many hardware devices from your childhood: https://www.retrorgb.com/mister.html
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   by mdswanson 3y ago

   It just got stuck in my head for a week at the mere mention of the game.
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    by mdswanson 3y ago

    If you like this, I'd highly recommend the book, "Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks": https://a.co/d/iqGNnyi
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    by mdswanson 4y ago

    Some of this: https://vi.microsoft.com/en-us
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    by mdswanson 4y ago

    At the end of the article: "Image inputs are still a research preview and not publicly available."
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    by mdswanson 4y ago

    I'll mark the "better tell Tim" about the HN article off my list. :)
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    by mdswanson 4y ago

    CRUMB Circuit Simulator too: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2198800/CRUMB_Circuit_Sim...
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    by mdswanson 4y ago

    First, protect legitimate customers. Second, deal with cheaters.
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    by mdswanson 4y ago

    Some falsely banned players have requested their GDPR data, but it expressly doesn't include any of their anti-cheat data. I'm still waiting for them to respond to my GDPR request.
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    by mdswanson 4y ago

    Thank you!
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    by mdswanson 4y ago

    Didn't disappear. Thanks for sharing!
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    Activision’s faulty anti-cheat software(blog.mikeswanson.com)

    473 points by mdswanson 4y ago|336 comments
20. 80.▲
    by mdswanson 4y ago

    Trying to spread the word on Activision's faulty anti-cheat software and how they're permanently banning players with no explanation or recourse.
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    by mdswanson 4y ago

    Reminds me of a funny story. I grew up with the web, and I only know writing HTML, CSS, and plain JavaScript. I don't do web development professionally, as I've spent more time with native client and backend development through th
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    by mdswanson 4y ago

    My first thought was: wait a minute...you can make money on GitHub!?
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    by mdswanson 4y ago

    It says "We're entering today through a Robber's Tunnel, a tunnel that some believe was created in 820 AD by Caliph al-Ma'mun, when he was trying to break into the pyramid."
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    by mdswanson 4y ago

    I enjoyed the single player campaign. Yes, it's more of an interactive movie at times, but there are some fun scenarios...and the graphics are insane. Took perhaps 6 hours to play through.
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    by mdswanson 4y ago

    I definitely agree that we should find out. I've used Copilot almost since its inception, and I've seen nothing like a large copied/pasted function. If anything, it's mostly a single/double line autocomplete based o
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    by mdswanson 4y ago

    Just did a quick github.com search on that function (with comments) and found around 131 matches. Many without a license. So yes, I believe that it would produce those comments...because it's seen humans repurpose and reuse that code w
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    by mdswanson 4y ago

    I also use Copilot a lot, and while it does suggest large function bodies, I'm not sure that it's "regurgitating" them (though it could be...I don't know). I suspect that it's seen so many function bodies that
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    by mdswanson 4y ago

    I don't deny that there are examples that appear to be wholesale copying, and that is definitely an issue to be addressed. No doubt. What I don't understand is why the rest of the service (where it doesn't appear to be pastin
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    by mdswanson 4y ago

    I've been trained on open source code, and there are likely many algorithms that I've internalized that are very similar to the "standard" way of performing an operation. Is there a reason why an AI being trained on the
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    by mdswanson 4y ago

    Me too...though in the arcade and on the 2600.