rng_civ

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by rng_civ 2y ago
> Hand-drawn 2D animations often have watercolour backgrounds. Can we convincingly render 3D scenery as a watercolour painting? How can we smoothly animate things like brush-strokes and paper texture in screen space? There are various te
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by rng_civ 2y ago
Snap auto update pissed me off so much I started Nix-ifyng my entire workflow. Declarative, immutable configurations for the win...
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by rng_civ 2y ago
Prediction: the best AI teacher (or just teacher in general) will be the one that is able to emotionally read and guide/manipulate the student towards learning and self improvement. If such an AI teacher style becomes widespread, this
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by rng_civ 2y ago
Have you taken a look at the paper "Foreign Function Typing: Semantic Type Soundness for FFIs" [0]? > We wish to establish type soundness in such a setting, where there are two languages making foreign calls to one another. In
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by rng_civ 2y ago
Speaking as an aspiring solo gamedev: these extra menus in programs like Blender are super important. Sure, you can map extra keybinds, but convenient keybinds are actually a scarce resource if you're essentially the "full stack&q
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by rng_civ 3y ago
Here's the CISA announcement: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/cybersecurity-advisories/aa...
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by rng_civ 3y ago
Nope, just a classic SQL injection attack on software used by a lot of people...
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by rng_civ 3y ago
It's not ambiguous because you have a directional reference built into the phrase and speaking directly to a singular person: "ask you about your left hand". It is certainly clear if one would say "left facing stern&
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by rng_civ 3y ago
The whole point of this post is that we are trying to: * Classify the computational power of Transformers (when it stumbles on certain easier problems but can solve harder ones) * Find a "minimal" change to the Transformer
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by rng_civ 4y ago
For all of you April Fools' Day haters, hear me out: April Fools' Day is actually a super important defense against rogue AI and the Singularity. Think about it: our ancestors had the forethought to coordinate the largest data poi
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by rng_civ 4y ago
Here's my abitrary line in the sand: if you give the prompt to a human, they could give a similar reply, but the prompt would also trigger other reactions such as: * Who's Daisy? * Why would Daisy do that? * Daisy is rude. etc. th
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by rng_civ 4y ago
Whoa, that explanation is really cool. > capable of at-least C++ "constexpr"-style compile-time computation, which shouldn't even be possible if one presumes GPT is "just" a giant database storing only multidimen
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by rng_civ 4y ago
> The west fears machines too much for some reason. I unironically attribute it to the Matrix. The movies have somehow weasled its way into the public discourse as either some sort of prophecy or actual reality (the 'pill' spea
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by rng_civ 4y ago
> Run your code in a WASM sandbox Assuming your WASM sandbox is airtight, that would work. But there are still ways to break out or cause damage because within the sandbox, its like a flat address space with 0 modern protections like ASL
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by rng_civ 4y ago
At least they eventually got arrested in 2016... but it looks like most of the "authoritahs" involved weren't punished. [0] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-35670538
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by rng_civ 4y ago
> One, it's fresh - games had a fixed cost for about 25 years. Notice I didn't say it's new, because games had similar monetization tactics if you go back far enough to arcade tokens. Monetization schemes lay on a spectrum
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by rng_civ 4y ago
I'd wager as much. Consoles and gaming PCs tend to be expensive (in terms of upfront costs), require more physical space to use, and are hard to move. Mobile phones have multiple purposes and, crucially, are mobile (shocker, right?) Th
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by rng_civ 4y ago
> Only bit I disagree with is that the big spenders are doing it purely because of addiction or gambling. People spend big in games because: * The spending is very stimulating visually and audibly (think lootbox openings) * The gains fro
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by rng_civ 4y ago
Some interesting data points to back this up: * Activision Blizzard 2022 Report: ~50% of revenue for the first six months of 2022 came from mobile Source(PDF): https://investor.activision.com/node/35551/pdf * Forb
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by rng_civ 4y ago
> Old-school, driven by craft, not obsessed about clicks and profit. While this has been the prevailing sentiment for Germany, I wouldn't be so sure after the Volkswagen emission fiasco. At least Volkswagen seems pretty eager to wor
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by rng_civ 4y ago
I'm getting occasional (maybe every 3 squares?) dropped input in the free-hand mode and sometimes the box draw mode gets "stuck" in the same spot.
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by rng_civ 4y ago
Works great on Proton so: 6 hours in with ~20 dwarfs and decent automated production
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by rng_civ 4y ago
I think WASM is filling in that gap to some extent. From the spec: > Any interaction with the environment, such as I/O, access to resources, or operating system calls, can only be performed by invoking functions provided by the emb
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by rng_civ 4y ago
That might be possible, but according to the article, the images were created over the course of two years. If the conservator was under the influence of drugs or alcohol for that long, I would imagine signs would have showed up in his othe
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by rng_civ 4y ago
According to the RustBelt paper [0]: > so long as the only unsafe code in a well-typed λRust program is confined to libraries that satisfy their verification conditions, the program is safe to execute. I think the main caveat is that IIR
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by rng_civ 4y ago
Open source != open contribution. Don't like how they run it? Fork it. The maintainers have ZERO obligation to merge your PRs, especially when they don't actually agree with it.
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by rng_civ 4y ago
If the game's endgame monetization issues are as bad as I've heard, then this is a classic example of luring players in and then suddenly smacking them with a paywall. Not to bash you in particular, but it always amazes me that pe
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by rng_civ 6y ago
I've gotten some pretty good results just using the left over pasta-water with some flour. AFAIK, the cheese I'm using doesn't have anything particularly special (some cheap hard cheddar). I don't even grate it, just cho
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by rng_civ 6y ago
> But WASM is already sandboxed Sandboxing only secures the boundary between the WASM interpreter and the embedding application (typically the browser). You can still perform significant exploits within the sandbox. See [0] IIRC, low-le
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by rng_civ 6y ago
I quickly skimmed over OP's previous posts and I don't think they mention it. According to [0], CPython's GC is ran every X instructions (not sure how up to date the source is). From this, I guess CPython opted for simplicity

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