vrighter
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- Comment on this is not satire this is not satire this is not satire 1 day ago:
also sharpened by some wacky sharpener that leaves an off-center tip
- Comment on What’s your favorite “flop” of all time? 1 week ago:
and it was partially shot in my tiny country of Malta! So one of the reasons I am also slightly fond of this one
- Comment on Switch 2 Tutorial Game Welcome Tour Costs $10, Nintendo Explains Why It's Not a Free Console Pack-In - IGN 1 week ago:
resale
- Comment on Microsoft has created an AI-generated version of Quake 1 week ago:
they limit the amount of time because it quickly goes to shit after a while, probably
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Launches on June 5th Worldwide; 1080p Screen With 120 FPS and HDR Support, Docked Mode 4K Resolution Support Confirmed 2 weeks ago:
the size of the framebuffer has nothing to do with how much power the device has to fill it up.
Even the crappiest integrated gpu is “4k” capable
- Comment on Brian Eno: “The biggest problem about AI is not intrinsic to AI. It’s to do with the fact that it’s owned by the same few people” 3 weeks ago:
are there any models where the training software, hyperparameters, seed and full training set is released?
No? Then open source models don’t exist.
- Comment on If I use winrar to compress 80gb of tv and movies. Then can I compress it further by making it an iso? 4 weeks ago:
well you can’t compress anything by making it into an iso. Because iso does exactly zero compression whatsoever.
- Comment on And I even lost the one that I had 5 weeks ago:
we make it a point to take one (1) every year. No more, no less. On new year’s eve
- Comment on Rebellion CEO seems kind of awed by major studios making massive videogames: 'How do you organize a game that has 2,000 people working on it?' 5 weeks ago:
open core isn’t open source, imo.
- Comment on Will AI Startups End Up Like Blockchain Startups? 1 month ago:
bitcoin is a workaround, not a solution to the byzantine problem. Its security hinges on humans placing value on it and wanting to hoard it. It’s a clever psychological thing that makes it so that the participating cleanly is more advantageous than trying to cheat. But the byzantine fault problem is just as mathematically impossible to solve as ever (because proven math does not change).
- Comment on What are the chances of this? 1 month ago:
this cracked me up so much. Saw the video, read the comic, but never put them together haha
- Comment on If scientists could make you immortal but could only do it by transferring your consciousness into a single video game for ever, which game would you choose? 2 months ago:
hadn’t even thought about that. Nice!
- Comment on If scientists could make you immortal but could only do it by transferring your consciousness into a single video game for ever, which game would you choose? 2 months ago:
factorio!
- Comment on I've modified the Alcoholics Anonymous plan 2 months ago:
easy… that’s an armadillo!
- Comment on Why do so many UK electrical sockets have an on/off switch next to them? 2 months ago:
i live in malta, we inherited your plugs and sockets. Never seen one without a switch over here. Til
- Comment on Why do so many UK electrical sockets have an on/off switch next to them? 2 months ago:
“so many”?
isn’t it all of them?
- Comment on After the catastrophe of Concord Sony is reportedly cancelling other projects including a God of War live service game 2 months ago:
god of war live service? wtf???
- Comment on Farm-raised breaded chicken on a bed of mac au gratin, served with sweet tomato reduction 2 months ago:
farm raised breaded chicken. They hatch pre-breaded
- Comment on I wouldn't stand for it 2 months ago:
or they know enough physics to know that quantum entanglement is physically impossible to use to send information.
- Comment on Is there any way to search through all the games on Steam for titles that don't use the word "dystopian" anywhere in the description? 3 months ago:
i would like to filter out all “massive multiplyer online arena shooter” There are way too much of them
- Comment on Hypothetically, if some mysterious force started to jam every radio frequency, how would modern day society adapt to this? 3 months ago:
we use wired communications until the issue is solved.
- Comment on What is your Game of the Year? 3 months ago:
played? Past tense? You must be joking
- Comment on Take It Down Act Has Best Of Intentions, Worst Of Mechanisms 3 months ago:
because of the “perceptual” part.
A normal hash has the property that it produces wildly different hashes for even the tiniest of changes in the file.
Perceptual hashing flips that requirement on its head, and therefore makes finding a suitable hash function much harder.
- Comment on Are We Ready For Driverless Buses? 3 months ago:
if you want to have a reliable driverless system, you’re going to have to invent trains… again
- Comment on What do You think about level scaling in cRPGs? 3 months ago:
they would need to develop balanced mechanics. Level scaling completely ruins any sense of progression.
- Comment on Most iPhone owners see little to no value in Apple Intelligence so far 3 months ago:
They want AI because apple tells them they do.
They also don’t want AI because their experiences say the opposite.
- Comment on Thief has a new spiritual sequel, built by the Deus Ex and System Shock devs 3 months ago:
deus ex… thief…
multiplayer.
It doesn’t add up
- Comment on Googly Eyes Placed on Sculptures Follow Residents in this Oregon City 3 months ago:
if you pull the googly eye off of the rusty orb, it might rust!
- Comment on tickling ur spidey senses 4 months ago:
shouldn’t b loop until it’s <a instead of <=a ?
- Comment on tickling ur spidey senses 4 months ago:
no, but I used to have one. He didn’t like looking for them either.