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by zeta0134 2y ago
Oh absolutely. At most restaurants, my options are water, badly stale tea, a variety of sodas, and alcoholic beverages. All of the interesting drinks are poisoned. I want to enjoy the variety and see what flavors and experiences are out t
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by zeta0134 2y ago
This is probably referring to a somewhat controversial song from The Hunchback of Notre Dame, "Hellfire," which is sung by a villain and is basically all about this.
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by zeta0134 2y ago
Most any LLM has a "temperature" setting, a set of randomness added to the otherwise fixed weights to intentionally cause exactly this nondeterministic behavior. Good for creative tasks, bad for repeatability. If you're runni
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by zeta0134 2y ago
The EXP port doesn't get any of the useful signals from the PPU that would make that task any easier. It does get the video out signal, but it's the same one that goes to the RCA port, so it's just a different way to access t
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by zeta0134 2y ago
Unless anyone else in the house is doing anything at all on the internet. Then the stream has weird hitches and pauses, it buffers occasionally, and it'll "seamlessly" switch between glorious 4k and half-baked potato quality
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by zeta0134 2y ago
Sure, if *you* did them they might have been fine. One really important thing the interview needs to screen for is the qualifications of the person actually trying to be hired, and not their buddy doing the work instead.
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by zeta0134 2y ago
Delightful! Goodness this brings back memories of making games in PowerPoint. Where there's a will and patience, there's a way. Anyway, I have hopefully actionable feedback! 1. When an attack lands, we play an attack animation, bu
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by zeta0134 2y ago
This is really a fun skill to learn that you have. I've had a pretty good ear for relative pitch since birth, which my music teachers picked up on right away (I could play songs "by ear" after hearing them a couple of times),
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by zeta0134 2y ago
Sure, but I can grab the scroll handle and yank it down to 75% instantly. How much superfluous motion do I have to endure on a long page to even find 75%? Can I see how far along I am on the page with the invisible scroll bar that barely re
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by zeta0134 2y ago
Personally I use a Retrotink 5X, which handles every old console I own (NES, SNES, N64, GameCube) in visually lossless quality to my eyes. The built-in composite upscaler on a lot of modern televisions handles 240p as though it is 480i, lea
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by zeta0134 2y ago
The amazing part is that my cartridges still work perfectly well in my original consoles, decades later. There's no server, no login, no account, no downloading, no ads, no microtransactions... I just turn the console on, grab the cont
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by zeta0134 2y ago
What would be the point of an "AI PC" if not to run models locally? I'm very much uncomfortable with sending my keystrokes (or my codebase ) off to some remote server. If I can run the model locally, the privacy problems in
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by zeta0134 2y ago
I use a mix of strategies depending on the target platform. Right now, for nearly all of my hobby projects, the target platform is an old processor running on a weird game system without enough memory to run a real debugger and with no abil
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by zeta0134 2y ago
Generally I have the easiest time when I declare my state in the outermost scope possible, and then pass it into functions that need to operate on it. If I'm using an actual pointer, rather than a mutable reference that came in as an a
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by zeta0134 2y ago
I'd just market it as a comfort feature rather than a safety one. I don't have epilepsy but I also don't particularly like strobing flashing screen effects, especially in older games. Having an option to turn them off incre
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by zeta0134 2y ago
We're trying to avoid communication with teammates and managers because it breaks flow. All the engineers on my team understand this, generally send me chat messages to kick off a convo, and do not expect instant replies. I offer them
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by zeta0134 2y ago
Typically by things like reaction time, input latency, smoothness of motion, etc. A real human is surprisingly nondeterministic about these things, and their hardware adds all sorts of other interesting noise to the data. A naive aimbot wil
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by zeta0134 2y ago
Yes, for an FPS I don't really see a practical way around having the server do some rendering work, in order to detect occlusion and stop sending visual updates when it's pretty sure the client isn't able to see that object
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by zeta0134 2y ago
> “You can freely manipulate the kernel, and there’s no user mode calls to attest that it’s even genuine,” says Koskinas. “You could make a Linux distribution that’s purpose-built for cheating and we’d be smoked.” These are features, not
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by zeta0134 2y ago
This is not especially surprising. It's not that I can't focus. I can, for hours and hours and hours on end. The difficulty is directing that focus productively. High stress environments provide the necessary motivation, forcing
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by zeta0134 2y ago
Fun question: my company security policy required that, when I installed Linux on the laptop, I enabled disk encryption at rest. If it's seized for legal discovery, am I obligated to unlock it for them? Who is in trouble if I refuse? (
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by zeta0134 2y ago
You multiply the entropy of the previous word by the added entropy of the new symbol. This grows exponentially! Extra character classes can help if you're stuck needing to make a really short password for some reason, but if you'r
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by zeta0134 2y ago
Among other things, "needing a distraction" is why I pretty much always have music playing. It's something my brain can do as a background task, and it's tremendously effective at suppressing the otherwise strong desire
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by zeta0134 2y ago
For this particular project, I was initially inspired by the way Gauntlet II draws huge fields of enemies, using the trick of placing them on the background layer. I wondered if CotN's mechanics could be imitated using that technique,
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by zeta0134 2y ago
Good timing, as I just put the finishing touches on this month's devlog: https://www.patreon.com/posts/september-2024-113011369?utm_m... Basically, my rhythm-based roguelike on original NES now has a proper econom
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by zeta0134 2y ago
Okay, but DoH is DNS over HTTPS, which itself runs over TCP/IP, which *does not implement encryption.* (The TLS part of HTTPS is doing that.) You're still mixing the layers here :) I'm not against the core part of your argume
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by zeta0134 2y ago
I feel like you've conflated "UDP" with "unencrypted." This is false; you can perfectly well encrypt data transmitted over UDP, and you can also perfectly well run connections "in the clear" over TCP, whic
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by zeta0134 2y ago
I always leave a 1-star review when I encounter those. Helps me remember to never, ever return to that particular station.
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by zeta0134 2y ago
Location: US (East Tennessee) Remote: Preferred Willing to Relocate: Not Particularly. Technologies: Rust, TypeScript, C/C++, 6502 Assembly, Go, a bit of Verilog, some C# but it's been a while Résumé/CV: On Request Email: zet
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by zeta0134 2y ago
I've come around on USB-C headphones, which seem to be reeeeasonably decent and which, as an added bonus, bypass the absurdly terrible sound chip on my laptop to provide decent quality audio for two of my devices. But until phones ship

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