Springtime

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by Springtime 3y ago
Both are quoted in the linked thread and share similar sentiments, though the specific one being referred to was Richard Sutton.
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Curiously the author excluded their site from archive.org, which in a kind of ironic way is one less avenue for future preservation of their authorship.
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The page definitely reads like a collection of journal thoughts/summarizing notes and citations but I appreciated the sections covering the lack of humanity in considerations, with a choice quote from a former Google researcher saying
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by Springtime 3y ago
According to the comments there it seems the console is downloading the bulk of the game from the online servers rather than off the disc, when connected to the internet, rather than waiting for the disc installation then downloading patche
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The issue as I understand it is guest accounts no longer being supported by Twitter, so it now requires real accounts which are said to not be feasible for most public instances. Not sure if Poast.org has a smaller number of users or how th
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by Springtime 3y ago
As another commenter mentions it's seemingly the same phenomenon as why 'memory palaces' work for memorizing arbitrary things (among other similarly effective mnemonics) and this article suggests something similar is also occ
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> especially if it doesn't have the same behavior as unix sudo... imagine the confusion of unsuspecting users searching how to use sudo in the future. It's hard to imagine a company that size would name it so deliberately wit
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> In 20 years it will still be a bulky headset with battery life limitations preventing the all-purpose computing device. The nreal glasses show that a more compact sunglasses form factor is possible, though it's not doing anythin
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The grandparent comment would only be somewhat revelant in future versions of Youtube and Google services, since they did end up pushing users to 'try' Chrome exclusively (for Youtube in the footer and everything else via top bann
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> I sell a browser extension where the permission I really want to ask for is "can only observe the network traffic it sends/receives in its own tabs" but I'm lumped with having to ask for the "read and write al
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by Springtime 3y ago
Since some have posted favorite twists on the genre, a delightful one I discovered recently, Dungeon Sweeper[1], is themed like an isometric city builder, where the mines are dungeons and the clues are graveyards around them. Uses hexagonal
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by Springtime 3y ago
Hmm, checked in a browser with no cookie restrictions and indeed it is. All JS is enabled either way but I only allow first-party domain cookies (ticker used to be fine like this but at least I know it's just a cookie thing now).
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by Springtime 3y ago
Only two things I've noticed get worse as a buyer so far: - Virtually immediately following the Songtrader acquisition using the credit card checkout began giving 'security code mismatch' errors. This is a false positive and
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I've wondered if the impression isn't so much caused by the answers themselves but a trust level has formed from its behavior. A core appeal of LLM bots is they're instructed to be non-judgemental and ever-helpful, so in most
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> It would be cool if the web browsers placed that file and associated folder into a zip folder with a special file extension, and then the browser could read it on a double click as if you opened the html file. I always like to mentio
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by Springtime 3y ago
I wonder if any of these DIY Blackberry keyboard products (or BB-like such as that recent Clicks case) have the capacitive touchpad feature that later Blackberry had, where you could use the surface of the keyboard itself as a touchpad for
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by Springtime 3y ago
Every time I encounter an egregious poor result in DDG I document it with images. I have a directory of them over the last few years. However I encounter so many now, while when I first began using DDG just a couple years prior to that it w
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by Springtime 3y ago
DuckDuckGo (and by extension perhaps Bing, assuming identical upstream results) has some terrible results when trying to filter by all kinds of domains. There's a power tools review/news site that returns zero hits for the actual
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by Springtime 3y ago
Possibly the same reason why half a dozen other most popular pages (for all periods) have 'XXX' in them—from those Vin Diesel films (one of which holds the 18th most visited in Yearly), to a beer brand.
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Firefox for many versions now has no way to disable update notification messages, which will repeatedly appear as a popup from the addressbar on every launch, unless one creates a new file with particular content. Even if one wants a partic
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by Springtime 3y ago
What AI upscaling (and generation) shares with the examples in the article is the strong denoising process (commonly referred to in video discussions as DNR, digital noise removal), hence why films like the infamous 4K version of Terminator
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by Springtime 3y ago
Affinity has various workflow interrupting issues and missing features, from things Adobe figured out 20 years ago. And to be clear, I'd love Affinity to succeed at being a more serious competitor. Just a handful from one notes file:
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by Springtime 3y ago
Right, Elsevier collects analytics on their own services, which has the possibility of being accessed by others, which itself is one concern, however the claim by Fast Company and Fight for the Future was Elsevier somehow surveils broad int
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> Many students are required to use Elsevier’s digital books and learning products in order to complete coursework... By default, Elsevier surveils every page a student visits on the internet—whether it’s related to their education or a
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Two additional specifics: it was the second-most wishlisted game on Steam prior to release and upon release customers discovered that it was essentially a different genre of game than was marketed, along with being buggy and much smaller in
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GOG has has some strange calculations it performs for free space, particularly for its offline installers. One of the Cyberpunk 2077 updates required 400GB+ free space to install a sub 50GB patch, which was ludicrous and I think under-repor
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Aeon Flux is wonderful. About 20 years ago Peter Chung curated his favorite episodes for some animation festivals. Pity it never was released on Blu-Ray from what I can find via the Blu-Ray.com forums.
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Easy to read article, in part thanks to the choice of mid-tone blue background and pleasant serif typeface. Kind of refreshing when one is used to just white/dark themes. One typo that could be fixed: > a couple paragraphs are comp
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They had reactions two years prior as confirmed by their blog post[1] about it. [1] https://github.blog/2016-03-10-add-reactions-to-pull-request...
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One day I hope there's a city building game that looks like this. Lovely work.

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