jtolmar

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by jtolmar 2mo ago
I think there's a market for a home AI server that can run an LLM or video gen model behind a web frontend. Not literally a raspberry pi strapped to an H100, but something with lopsided enough specs that people joke it is. And precisel
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by jtolmar 2mo ago
There's a really noticeable difference in time frame covered in your examples (80s and 90s) and the one in the comment you're replying to (2010s and 2020s). Is that just two people with different go-to examples? Or is there someth
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by jtolmar 3mo ago
Gosh that Polish language scores graph is good. Clean bell curve, slight skew, classic little bump at 100 because the measure is truncated, and then this giant mess at 30 that looks more like something out of a heart rate monitor than a nor
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by jtolmar 3mo ago
There's a whole scene around making bots for Starcraft: Broodwar, using an API (BWAPI) that doesn't allow cheating. They're quite good now, better than most humans. But the top bots still can't beat a pro, or even a high
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by jtolmar 3mo ago
It looks like some of these terms aren't indexed (or the site is just too hug of deathed right now), but I'd like to see the graph of like, social media, iot, cryptocurrency, ai. The transition between crypto and ai on the graphs
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by jtolmar 3mo ago
26 emojis? You could do the entire bestiary from the original Rogue with that!
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by jtolmar 3mo ago
There was a similar wave of IPOs with Uber and AirB&B, not tied to a bubble popping. (I mean, I think this looks incredibly like a bubble too, but for completeness sake, that's the counterexample I can think of.)
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by jtolmar 5mo ago
Yeah, Love2d is a great option for gamedev. It doesn't have the same built-in tools as Godot so you'll need something else for putting together maps (use Tiled [1]), and you'll need to write your own main/render loops (t
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by jtolmar 7mo ago
I watch things from unknown-to-me creators in a private window, then copy the URL over to logged in window if it's any good. Same idea, might be an easier workflow. Absurd that we have these sorts of workarounds, but of course the view
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by jtolmar 7mo ago
When I was a kid, we'd host the pics we want to post on forums on geocities and rename the file extensions to .txt to get past its "no hotlinking images" policy. So it's not like much has changed. There are a lot of barr
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by jtolmar 8mo ago
Modern AAA games take tons of people because of ballooning scope and graphical fidelity expectations. Games like Super Mario World have went from highly technical team efforts to something a person with no training can accomplish solo. (How
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by jtolmar 8mo ago
Lovely page. Reminds me of the venerable Think Labyrinth ( https://www.astrolog.org/labyrnth/algrithm.htm ) page, but the live demos add a lot. My favorite maze algorithm is a variant of the growing tree algorithm - each
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by jtolmar 8mo ago
Dang, it's been cool watching gaussian splats go from tech demo to real workflow.
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by jtolmar 10mo ago
Is it possible to replicate the digital->film transition with tone mapping? (I assume the answer is yes, but what is the actual mapping?)
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by jtolmar 11mo ago
People are working on recovering PBR properties, rigging, and editing. I think those are all solveable over time. I wouldn't start a big project with it today, but maybe in a couple years. If you want a real cursed problem for Gaussian
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by jtolmar 1y ago
If you want that 2000s feel for your own sites: Gradient background, drop shadows, and side bar nav.
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by jtolmar 1y ago
From the article: > The kernel is still adding support for some 32-bit boards, he said, but at least ten new 64-bit boards gain support for each 32-bit one. And > To summarize, he said, the kernel will have to retain support for armv
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by jtolmar 1y ago
Punctuation characters tend to be pretty consistent; there's a few lineages of roguelikes that copy them from each other, and only a handful of things a given mark can mean. ! means potion Letters are almost always monsters, but which
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by jtolmar 1y ago
Caves Of Qud uses Markov chain generated text to great effect in some places. I think something light that's still more competent than Markov chains has a lot of potential.
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by jtolmar 1y ago
I don't think either reach the real wtfs of their language. id() does some weird things with string interring, javascript coerces cross-type arithmetic into weird nonsense instead of throwing a type error. Whatever, neither of these co
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by jtolmar 1y ago
The stories I've heard have been mostly about scraper bots finding APIs like "get all posts in date range" and then hammering that with every combo of start/end date.
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by jtolmar 1y ago
Gaussian splatting models the scene as a bunch of normal distributions (fuzzy squished spheres) instead of triangles, then renders those with billboarded triangles. It has advantages (simpler representation, easy to automatically capture fr
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by jtolmar 1y ago
I prefer "ess queue ell" these days, but the first DBA I ever worked with pronounced it "squirrel".
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by jtolmar 2y ago
I don't really think this is true. Gaussian splats certainly came from a context where an opaque representation is expected and normal, but they ended up being an entirely comprehensible format. They're not as simple to operate on
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by jtolmar 2y ago
I agree; the point of a struct type would be to allow a compact memory representation, and you're not going to get it if your constructor can do if(someArg) { a = 1; } else { a = 1; b = 2; }. You don't strictly need known/con
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by jtolmar 2y ago
I can't say whether Java as a whole will ever become the next COBOL, but Java 8 already is well on the way there.
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by jtolmar 2y ago
That's called bricktext[0], it used to be a thing you'd occasionally see on usenet and places like GameFAQs. [0] http://www.catb.org/esr/jargon/html/B/bricktext.html (Also wow Google has compl
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by jtolmar 2y ago
Coloring a graph is trivial, just give every node its own color. The NP-complete problems are for finding the optimal number of colors, or determining if the graph can be colored using a set small number of colors. Erin's solution aims
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by jtolmar 2y ago
Going as far as adding lines support to Blender gltf export is quite a flex! And it looks really good on the Ferris wheel.
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by jtolmar 2y ago
Downtown Ballard had a lot of power outages over the last two years. Apparently they were using a different transformer than everywhere else, all of which are getting old, and some procurement mistake lead to the spare parts being back-orde

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