loupol

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by loupol 3mo ago
That's a bit better but it shifts the question: Why did they not mandate national (or at least EU-based) hosting and infra ? It feels a bit insane in retrospect for such a critical digital service ?
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by loupol 5mo ago
Yet another AI company where the logo follows the butthole convergence rule [0] ? As an aside, my favorite Sierra Entertainment logo version is probably the 1983-1993 version [1]. I think the design still holds up even today. [0] https:&#x
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by loupol 5mo ago
I received the email telling me I am impacted today. Ironically it changes nothing for me as that same data had already been leaked by the French government agency that handles unemployment benefits a couple years ago. Silly me had not both
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by loupol 5mo ago
Even more hours where people in Spain will have to wonder why their online apps/services are not working anymore I suppose.
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by loupol 7mo ago
A good reason to outlaw bribes is that politicians tend to be incredibly cheap and offer an extremely high ROI. Albeit at the cost of a nice democracy.
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by loupol 11mo ago
I take it you are not a member of the Church of Interruption[0] then. https://sambleckley.com/writing/church-of-interruption.html
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by loupol 1y ago
There's also nothing saying they are not dog fooding at least a little bit.
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by loupol 1y ago
Suing made Grooveshark disappear. I still miss Grooveshark's UI.
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by loupol 1y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
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by loupol 1y ago
You should probably check out Wargroove on Steam. It's very close to the Advance Wars games in terms in terms of mechanics.
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by loupol 2y ago
As far as technical resources are concerned, gbatek is probably your best bet: https://problemkaputt.de/gbatek.htm
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by loupol 2y ago
You've outlined the steps but not named the process outright : This is basically establishing a dominant platform and then abusing the dominant position that comes with it.
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Sony is in talks to buy media powerhouse behind 'Elden Ring'(reuters.com)
2 points by loupol 2y ago|0 comments
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by loupol 2y ago
Article is missing some context imo : * Annapurna Pictures (the parent company of Interactive) had some financial issues previously at least (see [0] from 2019) while Annapurna Interactive was doing well for itself. * Annapurna Pictures wan
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Regular Void (Revision 1) – C++ (2016)(open-std.org)
3 points by loupol 2y ago|0 comments
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by loupol 2y ago
Recently there's been a uptake in free procedural construction games like Townscaper. There's Tiny Glade and SUMMERHOUSE that have attracted some attention on Steam.
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by loupol 2y ago
Reminds me of that bits about money blogpost title : "The optimal amount of fraud is non-zero"
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by loupol 2y ago
"It's been determined with more than 86% accuracy that you are likely to commit a crime within the next 6 months. You will be detained until the probability goes down."
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by loupol 2y ago
I remember reading someone's conclusion about Logitech accessories several years ago : "Good hardware, terrible software." I guess that still holds somewhat true today.
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by loupol 3y ago
I think I would have preferred .intra (Unless it's already used somehow ?). Just 5 letters is less annoying to type repeatedly than .internal, while still conveying the overall purpose relatively well. It might just be my laziness talk
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by loupol 3y ago
We might never know if it was "justified", but we have everything we need to judge how the termination was delivered though, and that one is a shitty look for Cloudflare.
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by loupol 3y ago
Agreed on all points, the tweet feels like an allergic reaction to what copyright has morphed into, which is a tool for big corporations to extract money from existing IP for an insanely long duration. But it's important to remember th
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by loupol 3y ago
Haven't read the book, but the author wrote multiple blog entries about different maze generation algorithms[0] prior to its publishing which I found personally useful. [0] http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/archives.html (th
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by loupol 3y ago
> Sgt. David Fikes is still featured on the Brookhaven Police Department’s Facebook page even though he is conducting plain-clothes drug interdiction operations at the airport and elsewhere. > Sgt. Fikes has been involved in the seizu
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by loupol 3y ago
Agreed that web search quality has been deteriorating since much earlier than LLMs gaining popularity. Interestingly, we are in spot right now where I feel that for certain types of queries LLMs can outperform search engines. But from what
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by loupol 3y ago
I wonder how many images from Street View it has been trained on. I've seen top Geoguessr players be able to pretty consistently determine a location worldwide after seeing a photo for just one second. So I would assume training an LLM
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by loupol 3y ago
I think you and GP are right at the same time. The fee was probably knowingly overshot and then right after they offered to practically waive it to people who would be using their ad delivery services. Getting people to use their ads was im
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by loupol 3y ago
It might cause them to migrate to another game engine, but it won't kill them. As long as there's good profit to be made, there will be people creating them.
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by loupol 3y ago
Predictability of costs is important. If I use Unreal, if my game generates 2M$ revenue, I know exactly what I'll need to pay Epic. With Unity's model it's a coin toss. Are lots of people going to reinstall my games ? Am I go
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by loupol 3y ago
It does look like there is a lot of potential for abuse, depending on how installs are tracked. If it's some DRM system, pirated copies might or might not be counted, and of course "install bombs" would potentially be possibl

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