luciole

luciole, 1 day ago

Are passionate about the development lifecycle of other engineers and their pain points.

If you’ve been coding for 55+ years, you’ve almost gone through a whole engineer life cycle and you most probably know a lot about pain points.

luciole, 2 days ago

I want to ditch Windows, I really do, but when I get free time I want to either play a game or tinker on some side project. I don’t want to fiddle with drivers and what not for my OS. A year ago I killed a few weekends trying to get a Ubuntu partition nice and cozy for gaming but I got fed up fighting with all kinds of issues on basic things. The fact that games actually running correctly on Linux is hit-or-miss as well… It’s a hard sell (even though it’s free). Microsoft seems to be hell-bent on convincing me to try out some other Linux distro at some point though.

luciole, 2 days ago

I do! You mean like an actual second physical drive? Does that bring advantages compared to partitioning a single drive besides the space?

luciole, 3 days ago

Reducing emotion to voice intonation and facial expression is trivializing what it means to feel. This kind of approach dates from the 70s (promoted namely by Paul Elkman) and has been widely criticized from the get-go. It’s telling of the serious lack of emotional intelligence of the makers of such models. This field keeps redefining words pointing to deep concepts with their superficial facsimiles. If “emotion” is reduced to a smirk and “learning” to a calibrated variable, then of course OpenAI will be able to claim grand things based on that amputated view of the human experience.

luciole, 4 days ago

Reddit a aussi été au départ cette petite plateforme où les gens éduqués et ouverts se regroupaient. Il n’en reste que cette manie de tout regarder de haut. Les utilisateurs de r/quebec adoptent le ton du reste du site. Je le prends comme une leçon de ne pas fonder l’identité d’une communauté sur la conviction de sa supériorité.

luciole, 5 days ago

Was asked some months ago, unfortunately not much came up.

luciole, 8 days ago

Wrong article?

luciole, 9 days ago

Oh this is interesting, but how do we get identical twins then? How come we get two gastrulation processes doing the exact same dance side by side, if not DNA?

Also I didn’t know about Copy Cat. Being a clone and coming out nothing like the original, what a cat thing to do. They’ll wiggle out of anything, them adorable bastards.

luciole, 11 days ago

Just be careful not to idealize the past as some golden age of gaming. During the SNES era, worthwhile titles were few and far between on top of spotty regional availability on account of profitability (supposedly). The bar to entry for gamedevs was huge: the dev tools were obtuse and the distribution methods were shit and centralized (toy stores, computer stores, magazines). The offer was also ridiculously sanitized, at least on consoles.

It’s great that we can still enjoy the good games of the past, but I absolutely love what indies come up with nowadays. There are so many and they’re so creative! ❤️ Some talented big studio devs even manage to release something nice once in a while despite the organizational structure they work in. I never want to go back to gaming in the 90’s. Furthermore, I’m of the opinion that there are many past titles being hailed as classics solely based on some unconscious nostalgia for youth (I’m looking at you GOG).

luciole, 16 days ago

The actual research page is so awkward. The TLDR at the top goes:

single portrait photo + speech audio = hyper-realistic talking face video

Then a little lower comes the big red warning:

We are exploring visual affective skill generation for virtual, interactive characters, NOT impersonating any person in the real world.

No siree! Big “not what it looks like” vibes.

luciole, 16 days ago

To be fair when it came out seven years ago it really shook up the portable gaming scene. Every portable console coming out since is an iteration on that design. The joycons can go to hell though. And those weird ass online plans.

luciole, 16 days ago

I really liked the original 2DS personally. The announcement left everyone incredulous as the device sounded and looked like a dumb downgrade. I mean, it was hard to tell if it was joke or not. In the end though it’s light, cheap, tough and surprisingly comfortable.

luciole, 16 days ago

Cheaper than many phones as well.

luciole, 17 days ago

He chooses to beat Elden Ring in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of his energies and skills, because that challenge is one that he is willing to accept, one he is unwilling to postpone, and one he intends to win, and the others, too.

luciole, 18 days ago

My wife was the same for while. She’d argue vehemently against crowds like the antivax and the anti-choice on fb and she’d get routinely temp banned for it.

luciole, 19 days ago

That dog knows exactly what they’re doing.

luciole, 20 days ago

On the one hand I have a similar experience. More then ever I love searching for artists with a sound that surprises me and that is engrossing.

On the other hand the top comment of every YouTube video of a popular artist from the past is “there has been no good music since [decades ago]”.

luciole, 21 days ago

Not before humanity is generating a surplus of renewable energy. Until then AI & Crypto would just be delaying the decarbonizing of other industries by hogging a limited production.

luciole, 22 days ago

Geraldine’s gonna look fire in those fishnets.

luciole, 23 days ago

A lot of sectors need custom software and some of them have a mission more noble than profits. Government, education, science, culture… IT jobs in non-tech places can be rewarding too and you’ll get to have plenty of colleagues that aren’t your classmates. Being knowledgeable about various open source software can be valuable as well career wise.

luciole, 24 days ago

En plus, les règles d’accès à l’allocation logement sont une insulte. Une personne seule doit faire moins de 23 540 $ par année et consacrer 80 % ou plus de son revenu au logement. Disons que cette personne fait le maximum possible : elle fait 1960 $ par mois. Là-dessus elle doit dépenser au moins 1 570 $ en logement. Ça, c’est quelqu’un qui a 390 $ par mois pour vivre, une fois que son loyer est passé. Même pas 100 $ par semaine.

luciole, 28 days ago

I would not pass this test.

luciole, 29 days ago

From the org’s definition of bots, I’d say it’s implicit that bot activity excludes expected communication in an infrastructure, client-server or otherwise. A bot is historically understood as an unexpected, nosy guest poking around a system. A good one might be indexing a website for a search engine. A bad one might be scraping email addresses for spammers.

In any case, none of the examples you give can be reasonably categorized as bots and the full report gives no indication of doing so.

luciole, 29 days ago

Yeah, their reporting suffers from not adequately defining what is being measured.