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- Comment on Carl Sagan be like 7 hours ago:
A web search tells me the θ (lower-case theta) is used to represent an angle. Do you just fill in 0° – 359.9° one after another to draw that curve?
- Comment on Are any games using neural networks for better hard AI that doesn't cheat? 8 hours ago:
Yeah, the easiest thing to implement is omnipotent AI. The code for the AI is executed within the game engine, so you have complete access to any information you want.
You can just query the player position at any point in time, even if there’s a wall between the NPC and the player. It requires extra logic to not use the player position in such a case, or to only use the rough player position after the player made a noise, for example.
Of course, the decision-making is a whole separate story. Even an omnipotent AI won’t know how to use this information, unless you provide it with rules.
I’m guessing, what OP wants is:
- limiting the knowledge of the AI by just feeding it a rendered image like humans see it, and
- somehow train AI on this input, so it figures out such rules on its own.
- Comment on Peak performance 8 hours ago:
Bulbasaur even has a sweet spoiler for that extra traction.
- Comment on Peak performance 8 hours ago:
I mean, no, but people do still drive them on highways, so the mildest resemblance of fuel efficiency would be nice.
- Comment on Is there any reason to use the "new" sorting option on Lemmy, except to filter spam? 14 hours ago:
I’ll often browse Lemmy by Top 6 Hours or Top 12 Hours, depending on when I last checked, and if I get through all the posts, I’ll start browsing via ‘New’ sorting…
- Comment on Publishers are absolutely terrified "preserved video games would be used for recreational purposes," so the US copyright office has struck down a major effort for game preservation 2 days ago:
Well, I’m at least not surprised. They didn’t achieve good face animations through technological advancement, but rather by throwing tons of money at the problem, i.e. hiring actors and motion-capturing them.
When it stops being your unique selling point, you’re not gonna get as much budget anymore, at which point it’s either scrapped or you might use worse equipment, worse actors and give the actors less time to practice and redo scenes.
In general, the problem with realistic graphics is that reality is your upper bound. It’s difficult to inch closer to it and it’s easy to regress when you don’t pay as much attention to some detail…
- Comment on Publishers are absolutely terrified "preserved video games would be used for recreational purposes," so the US copyright office has struck down a major effort for game preservation 2 days ago:
You see, the problem is that game publishers have been innovating hard…
…ly, so modern games are barely an improvement over old games, except in terms of graphics. In particular, they want to continue not innovating by re-releasing those same old games with new graphics slapped onto them.
If everyone could just play those old titles, then they wouldn’t need to play the new titles, which would be very bad, because it would mean game publishers would need to innovate.
- Comment on We need a vexillology community! 2 days ago:
- Comment on Where does a man get a proper shoe horn that will not break 2 days ago:
I mean, I don’t know what shoes OP is wearing, but if you’ve got uncushioned shoes (leather shoes or fake leather or whatever), then you do want them to be basically skin-tight. Otherwise, they’ll grind up and down your feet and give you blisters.
But yeah, of course, if they crush your feet, that’s no good either. 🫠
- Comment on Where does a man get a proper shoe horn that will not break 3 days ago:
Well, you do have a pretty big lever there. If your shoes are rather tight and you really gotta work your way in there, then you’re gonna exert quite a bit of force…
- Comment on Where does a man get a proper shoe horn that will not break 4 days ago:
There’s metal shoehorns which are nearly indestructible.
You probably can’t order from this shop wherever you’re from, but my parents have this model: shop.wenko.de/…/Schuhloeffel-Extra-Lang-58-5-cm-r…
And yeah, that very much feels like you could repurpose it as a makeshift katana in some fictional zombie outbreak… - Comment on Should I or should I not use/bother with using Linux? (READ THE WHOLE POST) 4 days ago:
It does sound like you’d really enjoy the tinkering. When I switched (also to Linux Mint at the time), I spent the first few days figuring out how I could hide the window titlebars, because I realized I could set keyboard shortcuts for minimize/maximize/close.
That was kind of dumb, but no regrets. 🙃
I will give somewhat of an unusual recommendation for the distro, based on what you wrote: openSUSE with KDE
KDE is a desktop environment (basically the OS GUI), which has a ton of customization options, certainly more than the default desktop environment on Linux Mint.
KDE is probably going to be overwhelming at first, but on the other hand, hiding those window titlebars on KDE would’ve been a matter of minutes rather than days, because it’s just a built-in feature, not something I need to achieve with weird workarounds.And openSUSE, because it works well with KDE and because it comes with a system settings GUI, called “YaST”, which covers a lot of the settings that you’d usually need to crack out the terminal for.
openSUSE isn’t as mainstream as Linux Mint, and not often recommended to newcomers. There’s certainly more guides and such for how to do things on Linux Mint. But yeah, I do think it’s a fine choice for newbies nonetheless and you do get that extra GUI.To conclude my autistic ramblings, one more point, you could totally throw Linux on there for now and if you don’t like it, then buy the Windows license and go that route.
- Comment on Get good. 5 days ago:
I’m no expert, but I’m pretty sure, it’s not that simple.
For one, you might not have much to chat about with your baby, so doing baby talk might actually get in more language training.
But then baby talk is also very emotionally charged. So, it might help with emotional development, or simply make the baby pay attention for longer and therefore actually help the language development.
Well, and then it also still depends on the baby. For example, this research suggests that babies with autism react differently to baby talk: nimh.nih.gov/…/toddlers-responses-to-baby-talk-li…
- Comment on ... 5 days ago:
Capital has certain interests. If your research doesn’t produce the results that capital is looking for, you’re unlikely to get more funding. As such, it leaves a bias on what we have research for, which can already skew our perception of reality, and sometimes researchers will even fake their results or select certain data to reach a conclusion that’s in the interest of the capital.
There are mechanisms in place to try to prevent that, namely peer reviews and reproduction of previous studies, so we’ll hopefully get to the truth eventually, but the bias still has a big impact.
- Comment on Proud globohomo 1 week ago:
I really (don’t) enjoy that this is what needs censoring about this post, to get popular social media to spread it around.
- Comment on Proud globohomo 1 week ago:
But how are you going to feel smarter than everyone else, if everyone gets convinced by your conspiracy theory?
- Comment on Honey 1 week ago:
I’m no biologist, but as for why they’re bad for other pollinators, yeah, what @frosch@sh.itjust.works said sums it up quite well.
I’d like to add that, to my understanding, they’re actually relatively ineffective pollinators, too. They might do the highest quantity in total, but I’m guessing primarily because of how many honeybees there are.
I believe, the paper you linked also observes this, at least they mention in the abstract:With respect to single-visit pollination effectiveness, A. mellifera did not differ from the average non-A. mellifera floral visitor, though it was generally less effective than the most effective non-A. mellifera visitor.
…but I don’t understand the data. 🫠
As for why this is the case, for one, honeybees are extremely effective at collecting pollen, with their little leg pockets, which reduces the amount of pollen a flower has to offer.
But particularly when they’re introduced into foreign ecosystems, pollinators that are specialized for local plants get displaced.
This may mean just a reduction of pollination effectiveness, or it could mean that the honeybees turn into “pollen thieves”, i.e. they collect pollen without pollinating the plant.
Here’s a paper, which unfortunately no one may read, but the abstract describes such a case quite well: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20583711/ - Comment on Honey 1 week ago:
Eh, I doubt most people care about being vegan for the sake of being vegan, but as has been said, honey bees are bad for pollinators, so from a moral viewpoint, you get to the same conclusion.
Ultimately, though, honey isn’t hard to give up. Certainly nothing that I felt was worth contemplating whether it’s grey area or not.
At best, it’s annoying, because the weirdest products will have honey added. One time, I accidentally bought pickles with honey, and they were fucking disgusting. - Comment on Potatoes can do no wrong 2 weeks ago:
You’re supposed to cut off the green parts. 🫠
- Comment on Oxbowin' 2 weeks ago:
I mean, you say that now, but if someone stood on the other side of the river and shot arrows at you, would you really disagree with them?
- Comment on Minetest breaks the chains of being a Minecraft clone with a new name — Luanti 2 weeks ago:
It does have a decently-sized modding scene, though? Like, it cannot compete with the popularity of Minecraft and therefore doesn’t have as many modders.
But it has a modding API, which makes it a lot easier to mod and means that the mods don’t break with every new version, so the effective output of those modders is actually pretty good.Or well, just look at it: content.minetest.net
- Comment on Do Linux distros and BSDs recommend using the command line to set up bootable USBs because most machines should be able to do it without additional software? 2 weeks ago:
Oh, I didn’t mean to say that balenaEtcher actually had gone unmaintained before. I just meant that it’s likely to do so in the future, like pretty much all software.
dd
is kind of in a unique position, in that it’s so simple, that it’ll hardly need maintenance, and it’s useful enough that it presumably gets this maintenance.With balenaEtcher, it’s developed by a company. If that company folds or changes strategy, then they’ll stop maintaining balenaEtcher.
It’s also implemented with Electron, i.e. browser technologies. If it goes unmaintained for a few months, you’ll quickly have security vulnerabilities in there.
You might also not find anyone willing to maintain such a comparatively thick tech stack… - Comment on What metrics are deoderant companies using to calculate their "72hr protection" numbers? 2 weeks ago:
There’s a condition where people may sweat less or not at all: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypohidrosis
Not as great as it might sound at first…
- Comment on Do Linux distros and BSDs recommend using the command line to set up bootable USBs because most machines should be able to do it without additional software? 2 weeks ago:
I feel like the main problem with balenaEtcher is that it requires downloading 150 MB, for a software that many people will use only once before a reinstall.
If you’re in a rich country, you might hardly notice, but for poorer countries, this is an insane ask, especially if it just improves convenience mildly.But yeah, ultimately any such tool is going to face the problem that no matter how easy it is to use, you need to first install it, which needs to be explained.
The usage ofdd
also needs explaining, but you don’t need to install it.Well, and another factor is that
dd
has been around since the dawn of time. Software like balenaEtcher tends to go unmaintained after a few years, at which point any documentation referencing it, will need to be rewritten. And it’s usually rewritten to referencedd
instead, before a new convenient software emerges… - Comment on Momma Suzy 2 weeks ago:
“Isny” is also a town in Southern Germany: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isny_im_Allgäu
That town’s name certainly also looks like it got typoed. 🙃
- Comment on Until Dawn Remake Is Being Criticized For Looking "Way Worse" Than The Original 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, that’s fair. I assume whomever headed this remake steered it into this direction, because they also liked it better that way. I also know some people find graphical fidelity a lot more important than I do. I’d rather have pixel graphics and the right vibe than hyperrealistic graphics.
- Comment on Until Dawn Remake Is Being Criticized For Looking "Way Worse" Than The Original 3 weeks ago:
I believe, we call those “live service games”…
- Comment on Until Dawn Remake Is Being Criticized For Looking "Way Worse" Than The Original 3 weeks ago:
Man, you almost feel bad for them, because clearly some effort went into this. It’s not like they just slapped high-res textures on and called it a day.
You can tell, because that would’ve looked better.But I don’t actually feel bad, because no one forced them to remake such a recent title. You don’t run that risk, if you remake something that actually looks bad in the first place.
- Comment on Until Dawn Remake Is Being Criticized For Looking "Way Worse" Than The Original 3 weeks ago:
I mean, trailers are going to pick the best-looking scenes. The comparison video linked in the article seems like it’s trying to be neutral and lots of scenes just look worse in it. I haven’t seen the actual game either, though…
- Comment on Ackchuallly 3 weeks ago:
As Wiktionary puts it:
The word data is more often used as an uncountable noun with a singular verb than as a plural noun with singular datum.
It’s like “hair”. You can hold a single ‘hair’, you can also hold three hairs. But if you’re looking at an entire mane, you ain’t counting, so it’s referred to as “hair” again.