cptroot

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Cancer Capital: It sucks for founders, too(anildash.com)
10 points by cptroot 7d ago|0 comments
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by cptroot 22d ago
This is not a real bug in FFmpeg. This is a demonstration that if you control a custom AVIO module it is possible to crash FFmpeg by giving it bad data.
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by cptroot 22d ago
I don't agree? By the time you get to the specific policy sections (3.x.x) there are concrete changes outlined in bold, several of which are requests for the institute to invest large amounts of resources changing the current teaching
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by cptroot 1mo ago
Declaration, not verification
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by cptroot 1mo ago
> Name a game whose settings screen added to the gameplay in any meaningful way Most of these are going to be smaller indie games that already don't have many settings to set. Off the top of my head, I'd probably say Ultrakill
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Yahtzee – Ballpark Figures(ballparkfigures.substack.com)
2 points by cptroot 1mo ago|1 comments
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by cptroot 1mo ago
YouTube Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOgb5wrb7mM
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by cptroot 1mo ago
Every time "Luddites" come up in tech discussions, I notice that people have very little engagement with the history. Here's my favorite treatment of the source material: https://bsky.app/profile/ironcirc
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by cptroot 1mo ago
> Don’t argue against this one example, that isn’t the point What is the point then? The best games have all of their elements working together in service of their intended experience. > someone who uses AI for internationalization Do
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by cptroot 2mo ago
In my experience it's a pretty clear warning, but I might not be the best person to judge. The thing to remember is "buying" a revocable license is pretty different from "renting" a temporary license, and those word
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by cptroot 2mo ago
It's worth noting that TFA addresses this in the context of the scam: When the scam depends on the emotional reaction in response to a loved one's distress, it doesn't matter if the number the scam is coming from is unfamilia
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by cptroot 2mo ago
I would love to know how OP came across this email nearly 20 years after the fact
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by cptroot 3mo ago
You might want to answer two questions before we start this discussion: 1. "Censored" by whom, and for whom? 2. "Censored" for which "right of center" views? P.S. I should also mention that I can see the posts
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by cptroot 3mo ago
I know this is a small point, but you likely mean "race condition" here. Rust already guarantees safe code to be free of "data races", and this blog post doesn't discuss unsafe in any way. Two other points that came
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by cptroot 3mo ago
The motivation boils down to trying to make runs with the same starting seed feel "similar" in meaningful ways. It's "better" in a vibes way if both you and I were offered the same card choices in runs with the same
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by cptroot 3mo ago
This is likely about Orin Hatch's dedication to the idea of a "balanced federal budget", to be paid for with program cuts instead of taxation.
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by cptroot 3mo ago
> AI can currently do if given enough context It's worth noting that you can substitute "dollars" for "context" in that sentence, which seems to be where many of these impressive achievements are coming from. As
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by cptroot 4mo ago
> and squeezed a lot more juice out of it than I’d realised was there to be squozen. I barked out loud when I read this.
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by cptroot 4mo ago
I recently watched an excellent video about that incident. [1] The takeaway was that this was yet another move by rich assholes designed to siphon money from the pockets of small time gamblers just so that the rich could get richer. They di
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by cptroot 4mo ago
Film Crit Hulk continues to put out good essays on film and much more besides, over on Patreon [1]. I agree that finding good critique is hard now that we're past the heyday of magazine critique. [1] https://www.patreon.com&
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by cptroot 4mo ago
Man that issue got way too many comments from non-contributors. I agree that this shouldn't have been merged in in it's current state, but that doesn't mean posting about it on GitHub is a worthwhile way to fix the problem.
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by cptroot 5mo ago
If we're talking about recursion, Patrick's Parabox is another stellar pick.
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by cptroot 5mo ago
I appreciate that this appears to be an incremental improvement on Fuschia's tree_lock, with the sharp edges sanded off. Good work! I hope I won't have to use it :p
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by cptroot 6mo ago
I really appreciate how this finds a common thread through all of my current engineering anxieties.
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AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is more worrying(theguardian.com)
414 points by cptroot 6mo ago|383 comments
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by cptroot 6mo ago
This was incredible, even as it rapidly outpaced my PL and mathematics knowledge.
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by cptroot 6mo ago
Please explain how this law (or the CA one for that matter) require government IDs. It is worded specifically to _not_ require ID.
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by cptroot 6mo ago
If you read TFA, you'll find that the author agrees with you - at least on your first point. While I agree "AI is bad", well-written posts like this one can provide real insight into the process of using them, and reveal more
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by cptroot 6mo ago
I think you'll find the luddites to be a more informative historical analogy. A new tool arrives in an industry staffed by craftsmen, providing capital a lever to raise profits at the expense of quality. Is it surprising that worker co
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by cptroot 7mo ago
So because there is no requirement for the age to be accurate, it would be pretty easy to say "all student accounts are the age of the youngest allowed school entrant for that school year", right? That resolves the age issue and a

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