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eniko, 6 days ago to random

sorry for being angry on main but someone who should really know better than to slide into my mentions with "actually covid is no big deal" really threw off the start of my day

lritter, 12 days ago to random

if a novice programmer can code something that runs in a safe language, then an experienced programmer can translate this program to optimized, high-performance semantics.

i theorize that the experienced programmer's job can be sufficiently automated, provided that we control the novice's language, without requiring silly differentiable algorithms.

mariyadelano, 13 days ago to actuallyadhd

Question for fellow @actuallyautistic and @actuallyadhd neurodivergent folks:

How do you explain your ideas to neurotypicals?

I constantly struggle because my brain has made connections that are not obvious to others, and when I try to guide them through my thinking I confuse them with details or by skipping explanations that seem obvious to me but completely surprising to anyone else.

Frameworks, links, anything is appreciated!

pervognsen, 13 days ago (edited 13 days ago) to random

I'm cautiously in favor of further AI development when done responsibly (which isn't happening right now), but any generated value needs to be fully socialized and not restricted, captured or managed by capital, nonprofits or other private interests. Regardless of your view on maximalist socialism, the AI case should be a no-brainer or at least highly compelling given the risks and benefits and especially the source of the data they're using to train their models.
https://mastodon.social/@whitequark/112426645665489274

djlink, 20 days ago (edited 19 days ago) to random

Only one can exist!

aeva, 27 days ago to random

random brain wandering:

Suppose you have a cellular space like a grid or a quad tree or such. Each cell intersecting a shape (say, a triangle) records relative surface feature (say, a plane) that might be useful for recovering or extrapolating a nearest point on surface. Maybe a cell stores an authoritative surface feature, or maybe it can have several, doesn't really matter for this post.

Then, empty neighbors use that data to generate their own (non-overlapping) relative surface features.

Ilovechai, 1 month ago to Autism

Autistic professionals and the triple empathy problem
#autism @actuallyautistic
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/autistic-professionals-and-the-triple-empathy-problem-tickets-763341744707

hazelweakly, 1 month ago to random

how adhd am i? very. very highly extremely levels of adhd

You want me to design extremely resilient distributed systems and teach people how to do that, design architecture, and level up an organization? Sure, no problem

Make one single solitary tiny lil phone call or fill out even the barest hint of paperwork? Absolutely not, it is so hard

lisyarus, 1 month ago to random

I was really confused that the original Veach 97 paper that introduced multiple importance sampling describes something not directly applicable to pathtracing, with some unclear-how-to-use heuristics

I ended up re-deriving MIS myself and verifying it in several other sources

Now it turns out the pathtracing-relevant part is in the very end of the section, and only needs the simplest heuristic, and is equivalent to what I've derived earlier

That's a relief :)

mcc, 1 month ago to random

Hmm… I would say… this is not a very good error message.

bruces, 1 month ago to random

*Hmm. This is a pre-refutation of the Vinge Singularity that I hadn't seen before

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Science,_Big_Science

cstross, 1 month ago to random

New Brexit border tax ‘will cause chaos and food shortages' in weeks

Importers will have to pay up to £145 to bring small amounts of food products into the UK from the end of April.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/brexit-border-tax-food-shortage-eu-094240071.html

glassbottommeg, 1 month ago to Unreal

Well that's the, fourth?, complete source-control collapse I've navigated, so that's neat.

BTW, Perforce does NOT behave well when it runs out of space. It just stops. Literally. You can't even connect with the Administration interface to back out the changelist that ran you out of space. I fixed it with a reversion to backup + Reconcile Offline Work to pick up the lost work, and I think that's probably the cleanest option? Since you can likely assume the repo is corrupt if it train-wrecks into storage limits.

This will be of particular relevance to #Unreal #GameDev types, because yeeaaah sometimes a commit that you think is "well just a few asset packs and a small level chunk" randomly eats 8gb oops.

aeva, 1 month ago to random

I forget what, but something reminded me of how in elementary school they put me in a speech therapy class where they essentially just taught me to talk slower. I never really thought much about that, but while I was thinking about it now I was reminded of how over the years I've had so many friends where we would just have long deep non-linear mile-a-minute conversations about stuff we're excited about and, well, most of them also have been diagnosed with ADHD at some point lol

lisyarus, 2 months ago to random

Trying some more interesting shapes other than cubes in my physics engine :)

video/mp4

b0rk, 2 months ago to random

i uh spend a lot of time thinking about whether various surprising software design choices are

a) intrinsic to the problem domain ("it turns out it DOES make sense!”)
b) made sense historically ("this made sense in 1992, but it didn't age well”)
c) just a typo/mistake (the "Referer" header)
d) related to budget/time constraints (“well, prototyping with shell scripts is fast!”)
e) cultural/organizational (“well, Google is the main funder for this project, and…”)
f) something else

vga256, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to bbs

the first rule of making games (and programming in general) is to downscope your ambitions by a factor of five, make a prototype, then divide that design again by a factor of three, and you'll have a project that's manageable and can be done in a reasonable time frame

and then there's projects like these, which began with "i wanna make an adventure game/art experience where a player connects to a bbs in a distant land". i called it Shima no Shima.

which meant, of course, that i had to simulate a BBS. and then simulate a software modem so the player could connect to it. and then design a filesystem so the player could download files. and then .. naturally design an operating system to manage the files.... 😬

two years later... i ended up with... a macintosh with a simplified macpaint and its own graphical terminal client 🤣

as of today, pretty much anything can be dragged and dropped, and it even has its own resource fork-like data so it understands which applications can run which data files.

edit: a few people have asked - this is made in Adventure Game Studio/AGS Script. 😅

#marchintosh #macintosh #bbs #shimaNoShima #gamedev #indiegamedev

Nonilex, 2 months ago to Law

“There comes a point,” Justice Felix Frankfurter wrote in 1949, “where this court should not be ignorant as judges of what we know as men.”

The #SupremeCourt’s decision on Wed to schedule arguments in April to consider #Trump’s argument that he is #immune from prosecution seemed colored by the lack of that #perspective.

By Adam Liptak

#criminal #law #SCOTUS #ActivistCourt #Jan6 #ElectionInterference
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/29/us/politics/supreme-court-immunity-case.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

mcc, 3 months ago to random

Every time I watch a video of Mario Wonder speedrunning I am like "this looks so fun, I should start doing it" and then I do not.

I dunno. Getting to the point I can do it regularly sounds like a lot of work!! * _ *

ErikJonker, 3 months ago to Ukraine Dutch

Another A-50 downed apparently, if confirmed really impressive, these planes and crews are scarce. Russia is not in control of the airspace, that's clear.
#ukraine #russia #a50

morten_skaaning, 3 months ago to random

Are anyone considering how desperate a Russian move it is to kill Nalanvy?
This is one-shot only. Russia had the power to kill Navalny all along, but they do it now in exchange for what? It's a weak move because they can only do it once and got nothing for it.

dgar, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to random

One Two Three Four!
I declare a meme war!
Do NOT neglect your #AltText!!