animal531

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by animal531 13d ago
I wish we can limit AI in posts such as here, and/or for some creators. As an example Two Minute Papers used to to be great but these days he's mostly covering AI advances, which to be honest become boring really quickly.
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by animal531 15d ago
A common meme you'll see on ADHD in online posts are about how people with it are perfectly calm during emergencies, but then when any inconsequential thing happens such as e.g. breaking a shoelace and they'll just unravel and&#x2
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by animal531 1mo ago
That's quite a complicated problem. If someone comes to me and asks a general question I can easily say no. But if I go up to for example a librarian and ask them where to find book N, then I would expect them to either know where it i
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by animal531 1mo ago
Very nice results. For my Unity C# code I use Andy's package: https://github.com/andywiecko/BurstTriangulator Looking at his performance graph it looks like he does about 1 million points in around 320ms or so (if
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by animal531 1mo ago
Two Minute Papers often post info on some cloth papers: https://www.youtube.com/@TwoMinutePapers/videos Here's just one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wibbnn3hV4U
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by animal531 2mo ago
Unity has begun to roll out CoreCLR in beta now which is a move from Mono to modern .NET 10. The official release and LTS versions are still some months out though.
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by animal531 2mo ago
My favourite is probably Bepuphysics due to its C# nature: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjtwSq3u6Dg Unfortunately it was created before Unity could use vectorization and other C# engines were just starting out as well. T
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by animal531 2mo ago
My favourite way of playing old Civ 1-3 as a kid was to build a solid circle of units that would gradually expand and move out to fill all the available space. Eventually you'd own all the land and your units would just be camped along
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by animal531 2mo ago
Some more interesting topics around the subject that I haven't seen covered in the comments: - Hololive is huge and they definitely take a decent cut for their efforts. But why do people sign with them? The short answer is that they&#x
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by animal531 2mo ago
I also wondered this before I ever saw any. There is a gradient from someone streaming with no cam, then a non-human vtuber, then human vtuber and finally a real human. The simplest answer is probably that we all have our likes and dislikes
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by animal531 3mo ago
Roughly speaking FSM + stack based approaches are perfectly fine for 100 entities, but not for 1k. Once you get to that point you can still make it work but it will take a lot of work to make it as fast as possible, whereas you'd have
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by animal531 4mo ago
Memory is a funny thing. I also take months to learn new names, but I can tell you that my second interview ever was for a company which did low level SCADA work. Even though I never took that job or worked in any such related field I can
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by animal531 4mo ago
Cultural fit is the number one predictor for a successful fit, however a big wall here is with certain personality types (especially surrounding IT). In general we don't open up easily to strangers and hate personal questions. We consi
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by animal531 4mo ago
As a kid I found it interesting that people pretty much always crossed their arms and/or their legs when sitting on the ground in the same pattern. After that re-trained myself a few times out of interest to do it the other way around,
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by animal531 5mo ago
There's a matching eye/brain condition where older people very rapidly develop cataracts or other eye problems and they spontaneously start seeing little people everywhere. Usually their vision becomes blurry, but the tiny charact
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by animal531 5mo ago
I've somehow managed to train mine out of trying to fluff me up the whole time, its become very factual. Overall it saves me a lot of time reading when it's just focusing on the details.
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by animal531 5mo ago
You also often need several tiers of pausing. For example when paused you want the current game time to be zero, but you also want to ignore only some user inputs. You don't want to disable the menu or pause/unpause actions along
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by animal531 5mo ago
Not mentioned is that studies are showing that areas over solar farms remain stable in temperature, but surrounding areas get a few degrees warmer, which is problematic for either people living close to them and/or if they are planted
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by animal531 6mo ago
Although looking at his, several of them are so covered in dots as to be opaque anyway. I'd have maybe used different colored dots, e.g. N blue, then remove them and place 1 green etc. as a counter and so on.
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by animal531 6mo ago
I kind of wonder what the key difference is over 40 years for typing text vs code. I type text at a rather slow rate due to poor training and never having really tried to improve, but when it comes to code I can output code sequences so muc
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by animal531 6mo ago
Ah, very cool. My personal favourite is this one: https://archive.org/details/engineeringformu00giec_0/page/n5... My father owned a copy of it which I still have to this day. It had a lot of different formul
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by animal531 6mo ago
And yet somehow the stats show that most likely 2026 is easily on track to be a bumper gaming year, surpassing 2025. Revenue wise they might be down from the 6bn in 2025 to somewhere in the mid 5's, so might as well get rid of 1000 emp
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by animal531 6mo ago
I find that it's like telling twins apart. If you don't know them they may be very similar, but once you spend some time with them it can become very obvious as to who is who. We all have our own rules that we've built up ove
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by animal531 6mo ago
I use it near daily and there is definitely a positive there, BUT its nothing like what the OP statement would make it up to be. If it is writing both the code and the tests then you're going to find that its tests are remarkable, they
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by animal531 6mo ago
I'm 50 and still have all mine. One of them is at a 90 degree angle pointing forward as well. I grew up in a time/place where you never went to the dentist or doctor unless if you were pretty much dying, but at least times are cha
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by animal531 6mo ago
Yeah, but unfortunately its probably going to keep going until people actually die before they will be stopped.
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by animal531 6mo ago
The assumption here is that AI can produce "strong" work, when in reality its the opposite. Its great at generating boilerplate or code that's been done by everyone. Instead do the opposite and give it a really hard problem t
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by animal531 6mo ago
The sad thing about AI usage and the lack of jobs here in the poorer part of the world is that around the $6 mark per hour there would be literal queues of people forming to sign up for the job. At about the $10-12 mark you'd be able t
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by animal531 7mo ago
In the early 2000's I worked at a company where our IT section was in its own building with only about 18-24 or so people spread out over three mostly open plan areas between development, testing and infrastructure. Even so we still ha
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by animal531 7mo ago
Yeah, I make sure to spend my time on the hard problems and where you need to design for the future. I use AI up to around method level after that, have it do the drudge work of typing up tedious text, or to complete required boilerplate et

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