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Comment on It's impossible to evaluate your sleep with only one number in ~health
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Comment on imgur.com geoblocks the UK in ~tech
mordae Link ParentYou mean NATO and nuclear weapons? Yeah, disarmament makes sense in that I too would personally never choose to push that button with a civilian target. On the other hand, nuking approaching...You mean NATO and nuclear weapons?
Yeah, disarmament makes sense in that I too would personally never choose to push that button with a civilian target. On the other hand, nuking approaching Russian fleet seems like a no-brainer.
As for the NATO, it's mostly just US. Have you seen US lately? We should be building EU defense pact right now. Not giving in to the protection racket.
So yeah, he's not considering wider regional stability, only direct impacts on labour. That sucks.
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Comment on imgur.com geoblocks the UK in ~tech
mordae Link ParentLabour is now a neoliberal party. Maybe you should get a new liberal socialist party? Maybe support YourParty + Greens?Labour is now a neoliberal party. Maybe you should get a new liberal socialist party? Maybe support YourParty + Greens?
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Comment on The video-game industry has a problem: there are too many games in ~games
mordae (edited )LinkGames from other people are not meant to be played. They are supposed to motivate you to download Godot or SDL3 and make your own to play with your friends.[citation needed] Making games can be...Games from other people are not meant to be played. They are supposed to motivate you to download Godot or SDL3 and make your own to play with your friends.[citation needed]
Making games can be quite exciting. When you engage with e.g. geometry, play time is tens of hours easily. When you add lights, it grows to hundreds. Making assets is ten to ten thousand hours easily. Just skimming 2D animation principles will eat your afternoon. And all that before you even consider story or mechanics.
Who cares how many games are already out there?
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Comment on Deus Ex Remastered | Announcement trailer in ~games
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Comment on British AI startup beats humans in international forecasting in ~tech
mordae Link ParentThe random bits are part of the input set for the computation. There is no creativity, just a bit of whimsy.The random bits are part of the input set for the computation. There is no creativity, just a bit of whimsy.
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Comment on British AI startup beats humans in international forecasting in ~tech
mordae Link ParentThose are completely deterministic and repeatable, unless you somehow reorder the operations.Those are completely deterministic and repeatable, unless you somehow reorder the operations.
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Comment on British AI startup beats humans in international forecasting in ~tech
mordae Link ParentSo what's your argument? Sampler output is still just a function of input, model and noise. What complicated reasons? Correlated noise from some kind of race condition? Memory errors?So what's your argument? Sampler output is still just a function of input, model and noise.
What complicated reasons? Correlated noise from some kind of race condition? Memory errors?
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Comment on The last days of social media in ~tech
mordae (edited )Link ParentI will be building physical computing and electronics club for young people in the upcoming years. So I obviously believe we can build our way out of this mess. Just not online. The article is...I don't think we can build our way out of this.
I will be building physical computing and electronics club for young people in the upcoming years. So I obviously believe we can build our way out of this mess. Just not online.
The article is spot on that people move to smaller, more personal spaces. The era of massive social media is luckily slowly fading.
But there will be attempts to monetize and enshittify these private spaces as well. Armies of bots and the hosting platforms themselves will destroy them eventually.
We need to reclaim physical spaces. Otherwise we will keep slowly going insane.
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Comment on British AI startup beats humans in international forecasting in ~tech
mordae Link ParentIt must be, given there is only the model, the sequence so far and white noise in the working set and the output is the next token or two.It must be, given there is only the model, the sequence so far and white noise in the working set and the output is the next token or two.
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Comment on Why do some gamers invert their controls? Scientists now have answers, but they’re not what you think. in ~games
mordae Link ParentHahaha. This is so cool. So you basically prefer to rotate whole world instead of your neck and then move your eyes up/down as needed. Something tells me you are either very lazy, suffer from neck...Hahaha. This is so cool.
So you basically prefer to rotate whole world instead of your neck and then move your eyes up/down as needed. Something tells me you are either very lazy, suffer from neck trauma or maybe have a microscopy background or something. :-)
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Comment on Why do some gamers invert their controls? Scientists now have answers, but they’re not what you think. in ~games
mordae Link ParentYou are used to cursor being referenced to a plane in front of you. Its easier to slide along that plane and keep going full sphere. Like an extension of strategy games edge scroll to 3D. Joystick...You are used to cursor being referenced to a plane in front of you. Its easier to slide along that plane and keep going full sphere. Like an extension of strategy games edge scroll to 3D.
Joystick feels very angular due to the pivot.
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Comment on Why do some gamers invert their controls? Scientists now have answers, but they’re not what you think. in ~games
mordae Link ParentThats because the picture is wrong (for you). You are not holding joystick. You are using reins. Pull left - go left, pull right - go right, pull both, horse rises. Much like your muscles.Thats because the picture is wrong (for you).
You are not holding joystick. You are using reins. Pull left - go left, pull right - go right, pull both, horse rises.
Much like your muscles.
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Comment on Would someone be willing to help me with a Godot project? (4.4.1) in ~games
mordae (edited )Link ParentI don't believe the one-big-bundle approach will work well for an online experience in the first place. I would use at most 1024x1024 assets with heavy JPEG compression and added blur to combat...I don't believe the one-big-bundle approach will work well for an online experience in the first place. I would use at most 1024x1024 assets with heavy JPEG compression and added blur to combat the artifacts and when user gets real close fetch full quality image on the fly. You are not the first person looking into this, though.
I would also disable precomputed mipmaps and somehow prepare them on the client. If necessary for whatever pixel density / client resolution you expect.
I think most people will leave the page quickly a won't explore that much. They shouldn't download all of it beforehand. Just enough to decide whether they wish to keep exploring. Plus your hosting/housing might not be happy about those huge transfers. They pay for outgoing data after all.
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Comment on Would someone be willing to help me with a Godot project? (4.4.1) in ~games
mordae Link ParentYour asset bundle aMAZEing.pck is 202MiB. That's a lot. Try tweaking compression on the imported materials. Since I am on a train / mobile data, it didn't even load for me. As for the rest, I...Your asset bundle
aMAZEing.pckis 202MiB. That's a lot. Try tweaking compression on the imported materials. Since I am on a train / mobile data, it didn't even load for me.As for the rest, I don't understand what you are asking us to do. Are you trying to recruit people to help you make the game? Are you looking for someone to mentor you?
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Comment on Vimeo enters into definitive agreement to be acquired by Bending Spoons for $1.38 billion in ~tech
mordae Link ParentThey likely meant that the video is not re-compressed / re-encoded.They likely meant that the video is not re-compressed / re-encoded.
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Comment on Don’t like joining in? Why it could be your superpower. in ~life
mordae Link ParentMy last resort is to isolate an unknown person and just ask about what the person does (hobbies, work, whatever) and then just squeeze them dry for whatever they know about the topic. Like give me...My last resort is to isolate an unknown person and just ask about what the person does (hobbies, work, whatever) and then just squeeze them dry for whatever they know about the topic. Like give me the juicy details. I always signal "you are valuable to society, be proud of yourself" for basically any kind of job and always try to relate positively to it. For hobbies it's simpler and I merely acknowledge that "our hobbies are what we life for after all".
Most people are genuinely surprised by actual legitimate interest. And I do drill on so they keep talking. Since this kind of conversation is not normal, many will actually have to think about their jobs in a kinda different light than usual and seem to enjoy it. And I get to learn stuff.
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Comment on Signal introduces secure cloud backups in ~tech
mordae Link ParentThus a good pick to get some cash, yeah. But some people are already panicking about them storing the data for US government or something.Thus a good pick to get some cash, yeah. But some people are already panicking about them storing the data for US government or something.
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Comment on Don’t like joining in? Why it could be your superpower. in ~life
mordae (edited )Link ParentCan't remember such a time. Once there is a crowd, it's hard work to keep the common conversation going and healthy (giving time to everyone, picking inclusive topics, getting everyone up to speed...Can't remember such a time.
Once there is a crowd, it's hard work to keep the common conversation going and healthy (giving time to everyone, picking inclusive topics, getting everyone up to speed and/or dumbing stuff down). So either I help do it, which is work, or shove it to someone else and feel bad afterwards.
And once you add new and/or distant people to the mix, it's automatic masking time.
I've been part of a group, and eventually the conversations stopped going anywhere. After the initial anxiety about being accepted, it became only rehashing old stuff. And when I got curious, most didn't get curious about same things, so back to masking to maintain the sense of cohesion.
I am slowly learning to tell people in their face how I feel with bare minimum niceties nowadays and pick off people one by one to chat with.
And learning to cope with rejection. Even when it's me doing the rejecting. Damn my stupid brain.
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Comment on Signal introduces secure cloud backups in ~tech
mordae LinkThey are trying to get the funding going. I wouldn't read more into it.They are trying to get the funding going. I wouldn't read more into it.
If you measure a single variable, it should be SpO2, a.k.a. Peripheral oxygen saturation. Easy, non-invasive, tells you if you stop breathing.
Other conditions are quite more involved to measure. But a lot of people suffer from apnea. It would be cool if they knew.