thom

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   by thom 4y ago

   I notice this more with sounds than graphics. Sometimes a film will have the goblin sound from Elder Scrolls: Arena, or that one futuristic door opening sound that exists and I’m transported back. Although somehow I’m annoyed every time I h
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   by thom 4y ago

   Yeah, I've found that ChatGPT is excellent at filling out XML templates too: Fill out the following XML template to describe a room in a fantasy RPG dungeon: <room width="" length=""><furnitu
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   by thom 4y ago

   EA is at least partly a moral and ethical pyramid scheme. You get to be noble and far-sighted, do relatively little real work, and you’ll never be judged on the outcomes because of the long timelines. And so you rope in more and more acolyt
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   by thom 4y ago

   Yes, and that was basically the controversy around Doug Lenat’s automated mathematician: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_Mathematician
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   by thom 4y ago

   Didn’t he explicitly deny they were AI generated at one point?
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   by thom 4y ago

   VSCode is a highly customisable editor.
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   by thom 4y ago

   Yeah, I suspect the fundamental disconnect is that some people think of the terminal as the dev environment and something else is used purely as a text editor. Emacs edits text, but it’s an environment beyond that (one which happens to also
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   by thom 4y ago

   You also get the benefit of everyone else’s hard work with Emacs. One of the differences is that it’s such an established ecosystem, that instead of individual extensions just getting better, with Emacs they’ve yielded shared abstractions t
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   by thom 4y ago

   I’m just commenting on the relative trends in the US and UK. I suspect the trend of ‘unhappiness’ is probably similar, but suicide is slightly less of a signifier in the UK compared to self harm.
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    by thom 4y ago

    Self harm figures are claiming though, especially for girls. Notably, more than half of US suicides (even in adolescents) are by firearms: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...
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    by thom 4y ago

    There is no doubting Casey's chops when he talks about performance, but as someone who has spent many hours watching (and enjoying!) his videos, as he stares puzzled at compiler errors, scrolls up and down endlessly at code he no longe
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    by thom 4y ago

    This is true, but it would be nice if Arena got configurable backgrounds at some point even without the streaming case.
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    by thom 4y ago

    Or this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTmEfoPnQDo
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    by thom 4y ago

    Also by the same designer (if you like this you might like Headgear): http://cdxs.ist/project-list
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    by thom 4y ago

    I too don’t value my time very highly.
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    by thom 4y ago

    I was worried that Wizards of the Coast had announced the end of the Vintage format.
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    by thom 4y ago

    That too will be written by ChatGPT.
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    by thom 4y ago

    Impressive that it doesn’t just do pose transfer but applies the correct reverse kinematics too (hand on the wall/rail etc).
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    by thom 4y ago

    I noticed that trying to view replies in the official app was erroring reliably today.
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    by thom 4y ago

    The argument isn’t that state is bad or doesn’t need to be managed. It’s more that spreading that state over a large number of areas leads to a lot of complexity and cognitive overhead in terms of expected behaviour at any given point of ex
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    by thom 4y ago

    But at the lowest level, isn’t everything (time, space, energy etc) basically discrete, so the reals aren’t really real?
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    by thom 4y ago

    Stockfish now uses a neural network in some situations. Last I checked, it uses the classical, fast, tactical search and evaluation for active, tactical positions, and uses the network for quieter, more strategic positions.
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    by thom 4y ago

    I don’t think the language point is particularly revelatory - we’ve lived with quite effective machine translation for a long while now. But it’s certainly unexpected that large swathes of complex knowledge can be gathered and represented t
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    by thom 4y ago

    We already had Markov chains over words, ChatGPT is just Markov chains over ideas (or even ideas about ideas about ideas). The astonishing bit is that huge amounts of knowledge that we previously thought was purely human can be reduced down
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    by thom 4y ago

    The fate of Sun just goes to show that 'worse is better' isn't just about the superiority of the Unix philosophy, it really takes no prisoners.
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    by thom 4y ago

    Hi there! This is Eddie, your shipboard computer, and I’m feeling just great, guys, and I know I’m just going to get a bundle of kicks out of any program you care to run through me.
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    by thom 4y ago

    For the same reason you're posting snark and not a Show HN.
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    by thom 4y ago

    Anyone got a link to somewhere cataloguing this imagery?
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    by thom 4y ago

    It's possible for this to be an issue. I've been lucky that so far everything I've wanted has been legible, or even better configurable for different resolutions or scaling factors. In some cases I have found the touch screen
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    by thom 4y ago

    Quite the work of memetic necromancy this.