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by qingcharles 24d ago
> A model is a “frontier model” if it offers the highest degree of intelligence at a given cost or size. I would define a "frontier model" as offering the highest degree of intelligence at any cost, or without regard to cos
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by qingcharles 24d ago
A neighbor came to ask for help today. He got locked out of his Facebook account and was getting impatient with their AI, so he Googled "facebook support number" clicked on the first link (almost certainly an ad) and called the nu
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by qingcharles 24d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepan_Company#Coca_extraction
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by qingcharles 24d ago
Leopard ate my face.
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by qingcharles 25d ago
This is the right question. Used iPads are amazing hardware for such little cash.
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by qingcharles 26d ago
I remember the same. My whole game dev company went to one game developer show and everyone came back with a couple of GPUs each. Two out of the three games we were writing were 2D only.
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by qingcharles 29d ago
My ex is a professional voice actor. Someone recently gave her a negative review saying she was AI, so now even the humans are getting unfairly penalized. I also heard a promotional video recently that used her voice, that she hadn't d
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by qingcharles 29d ago
"If you can't afford to own two boats, you can't afford to own one boat." Ex-boat owners, represent lol
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by qingcharles 29d ago
Illinois County Jail Standards[1] provides that: "Food must be of sufficient nutritional value and provide a minimum of 1,800 to 2,000 calories for adults" Which is one of the worst written statutes I've ever seen. How do you
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by qingcharles 29d ago
I guess they haven't benchmaxxed it yet? https://imgur.com/a/vT636BS
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by qingcharles 29d ago
It's a good idea, thank you. I hadn't thought of it. Assuming Andy Onions had access to the 6502 code to work from. It should be fairly trivial to figure out from the shape of the x86 code.
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by qingcharles 29d ago
I see it absolutely everywhere still. We all exist in our own bubbles.
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by qingcharles 29d ago
+1 -- that would be an excellent idea. A lot of these would work great ported to web and the download is small enough that you'd barely notice it. Tie Fighter probably ran off floppy originally?
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by qingcharles 29d ago
Yes, a lot of these are much improved by reverse-engineering them and adding a few tweaks to modernize them. Many of them have added support for different display aspects, since most retro games are tied to 4:3. I downloaded the new RE of S
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by qingcharles 29d ago
No, not at all. I know where I worked there was zero code reuse across teams and games. Games of this generation had code that wasn't intended to be supported or managed after release (no patches for those consoles) and so the code ten
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by qingcharles 29d ago
It's usually just the first sweep to make sure everything is understood and documented before you start to make mods.
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by qingcharles 29d ago
I dunno. I was a gamedev. I'm pretty sure everything got thrown out. I don't remember ever taking any source home. It was all managed through Visual Source Safe (!) on a local server. The 80s games were mostly coded in bedrooms, b
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by qingcharles 29d ago
I just did one last weekend, but it is a game that was clearly written in assembler in the first place (Elite 8088 CGA). Trying to reconstruct the original build environment that Andy Onions (where are you?) used took some time. It was asse
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by qingcharles 1mo ago
Yes, but you might have to enable desktop mode on a mobile browser so it doesn't try force-spawning the app.
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by qingcharles 1mo ago
For the unbanked, PayPal is like Chime and Cash App. A quick way to be able to deposit incomings and get a debit card where you can spend them.
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by qingcharles 1mo ago
Ha! That is genuinely confusing for a moment. What is the solution? Wipe the account and archive it all somewhere? That destroys all the meta-commentary that exists in other Tweets. Maybe just some system that lets you mark all previous pos
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by qingcharles 1mo ago
All these anti-socialists never questions who pays for their roads, their schools, their police, their fire service, the military, the FAA, the USPS, their libraries, their parks, the courts, NASA? Are all of these right-wing people paying
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by qingcharles 1mo ago
This reply is peak HN. Thank you for your incredibly informative and technical reply.
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by qingcharles 1mo ago
Time magazine already serves their pages like this to agents with ads for the agents in them, IIRC.
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by qingcharles 1mo ago
When LLMs arrived I thought of all the jobs people wouldn't want a computer to do, and top of my list was religious figures. But then I read an article saying people use chatbots as virtual pastors now. I did think about Gently. At lea
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by qingcharles 1mo ago
0x Alpha is unlimited free tokens this weekend so I had it take apart the original 8088 PC Elite and reverse it back to original MASM assembler and come up with plausible names for all the functions and data structures and check that it com
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by qingcharles 1mo ago
Please. It's getting so tedious. I wish people would just downvote and/or flag it or whatever they want to do rather than post about it. This isn't an airport, we don't need an announcement for everything.
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by qingcharles 1mo ago
And delete all their data.
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by qingcharles 1mo ago
I use a .one for a project where it makes perfect sense. Brevo, who are a huge email delivery platform, told me they don't support signing up with a .one domain. Fortunately, after a couple of weeks going back-and-forth one of their de
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by qingcharles 1mo ago
This. It's amazing how long humans have screamed for good APIs, cheaply accessible for lots of web sites and all we got were crickets. LLMs come along and the same sites are falling over themselves to build extensive APIs. It's th

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