JRandomHacker42

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by JRandomHacker42 1mo ago
Wish I could have heard back about my job application there. It looks like a really exciting place to work.
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by JRandomHacker42 2mo ago
Oh but they _told_ the AI they were in a box. That should do it, right?
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by JRandomHacker42 3mo ago
HN has a big blind spot, in my opinion, around writing that isn't "purely technical". I've seen several cases of commenter complaining about "clickbait" for a blog post that I'd describe as "having a
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by JRandomHacker42 3mo ago
I've seen this attitude on HN all the time - the concept of "a narrative hook" is apparently a foreign concept here
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by JRandomHacker42 4mo ago
> Being a programmer does not make one knowledgeable about other specialized fields If I could make every HN user read this before commenting on literally any article...
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by JRandomHacker42 4mo ago
> There was no exploit. No vulnerability disclosure. No CVE for me to write. was a dead giveaway in my mind when I read it.
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by JRandomHacker42 5mo ago
I'm specifically talking about the use case of "can we use natural-language tools to parse oracle text and produce functioning game objects in Arena". For that use case, it's completely sensible to look at the actual rul
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by JRandomHacker42 5mo ago
I'm a judge and have seen barely any discussion around Prepared (mostly just clarification around the interaction with. Rule 722 is the rule for "Preparation Cards", so I fail to see how it could not be relevant. The text &qu
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by JRandomHacker42 5mo ago
I don't think Prepared is ambiguous at all. It has its meaning defined in the CR (722) and every card that uses it has either a clear trigger condition or the "enters prepared" replacement effect. It's just a new designa
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by JRandomHacker42 5mo ago
The Arena card engine is based on CLIPS [1] and not modern LLM-based tools. Magic cards are written in a very constrained language (usually called "card templating") that lends itself very well to machine-parseability. [1]: https
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by JRandomHacker42 2y ago
Jacob Geller did a really interesting video essay [1] about the parallels that can be drawn between modern school architecture and maps from shooter games - on top of whatever other context or functionality they provide, they are fundamenta
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by JRandomHacker42 2y ago
The source for them using CLIPS is a conversation I had with Arena team lead Ian Adams in a Magic-community Discord. The source for the bug is a video WotC did that I can't find right now that featured the Arena team talking about deve
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by JRandomHacker42 2y ago
MTG Arena, the new digital client for the Magic the Gathering trading-card game, uses CLIPS to implement the actual game-rules based on the English text of the cards. Magic cards are written using a very standardized language (look at custo
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by JRandomHacker42 3y ago
https://twitter.com/AlexBlechman/status/1457842724128833538 Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sc
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by JRandomHacker42 4y ago
> They say it's the 'me' generation. It's not. The arrogance is taught, or it was cultivated. It's self-conscious. That's what it is. It's conscious of self. Social media - it's just the market&#x2
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by JRandomHacker42 4y ago
I've used 8020 to custom-fab my Perfect Monitor Stand: it holds either three widescreen or two ultra-wide displays, has two attachment points to the desk, and has the minimum possible depth to keep the monitors as far as possible towar
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by JRandomHacker42 4y ago
I'm always amused at how little cross-promotion Marshall does - he has decently large followings in two completely different contexts and most of them are completely unaware of each other.
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by JRandomHacker42 4y ago
Seeing "Java/C#" makes me think that you might not have taken a look at C# in a while
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by JRandomHacker42 4y ago
One of my former colleagues who was always in charge of publishing our team's performance testing results was a complete hardass on the rest of us for using proper language around multipliers and superlatives. It's well worth the
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by JRandomHacker42 4y ago
A lot of athletic contracts would forbid athletes from playing other sports or doing certain other strenuous activities - they were designed partially to try to avoid players injuring themselves doing something other than their contracted s