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by moron4hire 3mo ago
Another point of context: at the time, several popular games had used a very exaggerated and/or poorly implemented ambient occlusion feature. I personally would frequently turn it off entirely because it was generally expensive (even i
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by moron4hire 3mo ago
Holy crap! How do they stop at that speed with those thin bicycle tires?
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by moron4hire 3mo ago
There's always an executive asking for another dashboard.
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by moron4hire 3mo ago
Because then OpenAI can read your emails and project communications and eventually build a model they will sell as an automated consultant. The CEOs will uncritically eat it up just long enough to cut the footing out from the industry. Once
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by moron4hire 3mo ago
I did this once, 20 years ago, with an animated GIF to add a live streaming air quality layer to a map application at work. The image itself was rendered using Java2D. I had a version I was working on that used JOGL to make gradient blobs i
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by moron4hire 3mo ago
This is offshoring all over again.
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by moron4hire 3mo ago
Nice. I'll go check it out. Thanks.
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by moron4hire 3mo ago
Apparently "being transformed" has "been transformed" because most things look a hell of a lot like the same thing these days.
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by moron4hire 3mo ago
I can't stand this "if it provides value, that's all that matters" attitude. We could also try to avoid being useful idiots for a small handful of investor-darling corporations that have explicitly stated they seek to mo
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by moron4hire 3mo ago
Comic Chat inspired me to make multiplayer games with IRC as the lobby server. But I specifically did not do what Microsoft did and send the metadata through the public channel, because I too had gone through the public ridicule of using Co
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by moron4hire 3mo ago
No, the increment is necessary to keep the counter going. The choice of pre-increment versus post-increment handles the "start at 1" issue you mentioned, but it isn't auto incrementing.
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by moron4hire 3mo ago
Moral of the story: never talk to the police. Even if you yourself are police.
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by moron4hire 3mo ago
What? Playdate absolutely has a menu button.
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by moron4hire 3mo ago
An LLM-only oriented language doesn't make sense, because without human generated training data there is nothing for the model to learn from. But if a human-oriented language were to be designed to also be better for LLMs, I think it w
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by moron4hire 3mo ago
Yeah, that's weird. I first learned about RAII from professional game developers at gamedev.net.
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by moron4hire 3mo ago
Using Entity Framework, this doesn't come up as a particular issue, but I still wish it were strict by default because I expect there could be some performance optimizations made for de/serialization.
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by moron4hire 3mo ago
"Military grade" means overpriced and 5-10 years late.
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by moron4hire 3mo ago
LLMs should never be trained on restricted data of any kind, as we have seen that they are able to reconstruct their training data. The idea that they could be trained on private/restricted/copyrighted data and that was ok because
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by moron4hire 3mo ago
I think the point of whether we consider user input to be instructions or data is important and I think it should be front of mind for everyone. But I don't agree prompt injection vs SQL injection is an example of this kind of failure,
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by moron4hire 3mo ago
Just to add to your comment, people do sell dollars for $1.07, they are called mortgages. I've heard it's a pretty big business.
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by moron4hire 3mo ago
Sounds kind of like they are spending $1500 on an email list of people interested in creative writing, plus gaining writing samples.
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by moron4hire 4mo ago
Let's say you don't live in a California. Say you live near the East coast somewhere, as 2/3rds of the country does.
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by moron4hire 4mo ago
The AI boosterism is really weird. What is the big deal? My job is not to make AI succeed, it's too solve problems for our clients. Yet I'm getting told I need to use AI to do my job or my funding is going to get cut. We've d
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by moron4hire 4mo ago
In jurisdictions where 65MPH is the highway speed limit, 80MPH is usually the "reckless driving" threshold. And in Virginia, reckless driving is a felony misdemeanor.
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by moron4hire 4mo ago
There is a certain brand of conservative Republicans who have learned to weaponize antisemitism against Democrats. The general operating theory is that, since the Holocaust, anyone with even Jewish heritage can do no wrong (though I questio
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by moron4hire 4mo ago
Regardless, you don't need to make the hitboxes one-to-one with the graphics. Indeed, doing so tends to make for unreliable hitboxes, so most picking systems have two different, idealized enter and exit hitboxes for each icon.
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by moron4hire 4mo ago
Looks like Elastic has a lazy CEO https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/nvidias-jensen-hu...
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by moron4hire 4mo ago
Yeah, it's some bullshit 90s-era basement-dwelling "techie" attitude that even Linus Torvalds said he doesn't want to do anymore almost 10 years ago by now. As someone who has been training and mentoring and managing peo
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by moron4hire 4mo ago
Lethargic had an option "having the quality of lethargy".
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by moron4hire 4mo ago
What is the deal with WhatsApp? My family roped me into using it, "because it's better than text messages", we've been using it regularly for over a year, and it's... literally the same thing? I don't get it.

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