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> Hand-drawn 2D animations often have watercolour backgrounds. Can we convincingly render 3D scenery as a watercolour painting? How can we smoothly animate things like brush-stroke…

Snap auto update pissed me off so much I started Nix-ifyng my entire workflow. Declarative, immutable configurations for the win...

Prediction: the best AI teacher (or just teacher in general) will be the one that is able to emotionally read and guide/manipulate the student towards learning and self improvement…

Have you taken a look at the paper "Foreign Function Typing: Semantic Type Soundness for FFIs" [0]? > We wish to establish type soundness in such a setting, where there are two lan…

Speaking as an aspiring solo gamedev: these extra menus in programs like Blender are super important. Sure, you can map extra keybinds, but convenient keybinds are actually a scarc…

Here's the CISA announcement: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/cybersecurity-advisories/aa...

Nope, just a classic SQL injection attack on software used by a lot of people...

It's not ambiguous because you have a directional reference built into the phrase and speaking directly to a singular person: "ask you about your left hand". It is certainly clear …

The whole point of this post is that we are trying to: * Classify the computational power of Transformers (when it stumbles on certain easier problems but can solve harder ones) * …

For all of you April Fools' Day haters, hear me out: April Fools' Day is actually a super important defense against rogue AI and the Singularity. Think about it: our ancestors had …

Here's my abitrary line in the sand: if you give the prompt to a human, they could give a similar reply, but the prompt would also trigger other reactions such as: * Who's Daisy? *…

Whoa, that explanation is really cool. > capable of at-least C++ "constexpr"-style compile-time computation, which shouldn't even be possible if one presumes GPT is "just" a giant …

> The west fears machines too much for some reason. I unironically attribute it to the Matrix. The movies have somehow weasled its way into the public discourse as either some sort…

> Run your code in a WASM sandbox Assuming your WASM sandbox is airtight, that would work. But there are still ways to break out or cause damage because within the sandbox, its lik…

At least they eventually got arrested in 2016... but it looks like most of the "authoritahs" involved weren't punished. [0] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-35670538

> One, it's fresh - games had a fixed cost for about 25 years. Notice I didn't say it's new, because games had similar monetization tactics if you go back far enough to arcade toke…

I'd wager as much. Consoles and gaming PCs tend to be expensive (in terms of upfront costs), require more physical space to use, and are hard to move. Mobile phones have multiple p…

> Only bit I disagree with is that the big spenders are doing it purely because of addiction or gambling. People spend big in games because: * The spending is very stimulating visu…

Some interesting data points to back this up: * Activision Blizzard 2022 Report: ~50% of revenue for the first six months of 2022 came from mobile Source(PDF): https://investor.act…

> Old-school, driven by craft, not obsessed about clicks and profit. While this has been the prevailing sentiment for Germany, I wouldn't be so sure after the Volkswagen emission f…

I'm getting occasional (maybe every 3 squares?) dropped input in the free-hand mode and sometimes the box draw mode gets "stuck" in the same spot.

Works great on Proton so: 6 hours in with ~20 dwarfs and decent automated production

I think WASM is filling in that gap to some extent. From the spec: > Any interaction with the environment, such as I/O, access to resources, or operating system calls, can only be …

That might be possible, but according to the article, the images were created over the course of two years. If the conservator was under the influence of drugs or alcohol for that …

According to the RustBelt paper [0]: > so long as the only unsafe code in a well-typed λRust program is confined to libraries that satisfy their verification conditions, the progra…