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by artifact_44 3mo ago
Physx and Havok have been around for a while and dominate in the games industry for a huge class of games since they are integrated in Unreal and Unity. On the web alone, there is also: ammo.js, - a wasm port of bullet cannon.js, - a hand r
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by artifact_44 5mo ago
Same. Super down to earth. We had our office next to his company that was making a graphics processing tool called Debabelizer. We used it heavily in our games workflow, and would occasionally find bugs... more than once, Dave came over to
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by artifact_44 2y ago
Because she thoroughly de-articulates the fabricated mystique around Feynman, and openly discusses the toxic effect his legacy has had on science. (Including the fact that a lot of his legacy was fabricated by people that either admired him
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by artifact_44 3y ago
As a blender user, I am soooo grateful to OP. I think blender is one of if not the most important/impressive open project ever.
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by artifact_44 4y ago
I Keffals broke the law, then that is a matter for law enforcement. It's not the purview of an internet hate mob acting as judge, jury, and executioner. Every defense I've seen of kiwifarms is exactly like yours. Some insinuations
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by artifact_44 4y ago
Do you know of any projects using automated transcription and machine learning to analyze hominid speech? I ask because I remember reading about google translate effectively learning how to translate languages purely through machine learnin
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by artifact_44 4y ago
I disagree. That text doesn't sound psychotic to me.. bitter, yes.. but I think HN users are all too familiar with being passionate about an issue at the expense of personal time and other pursuits, and I respect that.
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by artifact_44 4y ago
People are already effectively playing as NPCs in popular videogames. They're called gold farmers. If you gave me the option as I got closer to 70, that I could be uploaded, and take up zero physical space, and live forever, I would ju
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by artifact_44 5y ago
One incentive for them doing this is that they have to provide support and if they let everyone use random search engines that deliver malware etc. They end up having to pay their "geniuses" more to un-crud peoples infested machin
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by artifact_44 5y ago
3d graphics and simulations. It's kike infinite Legos.
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by artifact_44 5y ago
Tldr.. fonts suck. Article could have been 5 sentences and been more digestible.
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by artifact_44 5y ago
So grateful for the engine of capitalism/free market, that has people 3d printing insulin pumps for themselves.
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by artifact_44 5y ago
I use the chrome debugger as my IDE. I have been using it to edit/run/debug javascript for years now. My entire development stack is installed on any machine that runs chrome. It's awesome.
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by artifact_44 5y ago
I too have seen the. Classic robot dystopia film Runaway.
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by artifact_44 5y ago
I too have seen the. Lassic robot dystopia film Runaway.
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by artifact_44 5y ago
Why are they telling everyone and not just doing it? Seems like aiding and abetting, if you've already dismissed the privacy aspect...
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by artifact_44 5y ago
That was my first thought as well. Casting doubt, and then in a few days we'll see this opinion piece references by some right wing politician who is vaccinated but "can understand their constituents hesitency to trust the medical
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by artifact_44 5y ago
Check out Andrej karpathys convnet.js and deepq learning web apps.
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by artifact_44 5y ago
Also, Palmer Luckey is a weird libertarian/asshole, so who knows.. FB acquisition might have been a net benefit.
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by artifact_44 5y ago
Anthropic principle
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by artifact_44 5y ago
So.. somehow the heat output of a mining computer just disappears? Oh wait that's nonsense, because your CPU is literally a heat pump.
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by artifact_44 5y ago
nonsense. it's electricity. Gas doesn't have the option of coming from carbon neutral sources.
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by artifact_44 5y ago
Uh. That sounds.. kinda bad in the context of something like.... DNS.
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by artifact_44 5y ago
Enjoying all the confused dog faces in here, trying to understand this. Its just capitalism, and capitalism is arbitrary and cruel. When it's you making the money, it starts to make sense pretty quickly. When it's not you making t
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by artifact_44 5y ago
What a gorgeous writeup. Love it. Gonna go make some lines now.
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by artifact_44 5y ago
Gary Larson: School for the gifted.
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by artifact_44 5y ago
100%
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by artifact_44 5y ago
..they said authoritatively, and without evidence.
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by artifact_44 5y ago
But.. I pay my YouTube subscription with my Bitcoin. :(
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by artifact_44 5y ago
Because electricity costs money. When the cost of electricity exceeds the value of coin you mine, you will stop mining. If you make a coin that takes half as much energy to mine, miners will just mine twice as much of it. Its like y'al

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