Khanzarate

@Khanzarate@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TSMC suspended shipments to China firm after chip found on Huawei processor, sources say⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Countries willing to pass on a US patent to China stop getting the chips (or, in this case, chip-making jobs, realistically, but that still hurts)

  Also Taiwan doesn’t wanna help China and even if a US sanction was just an excuse to hurt China and get away with it they’d probably do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clever, clever⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I doubt it.

  For the same reasons, really. People who already intend to thoroughly go over the input and output to use AI as a tool to help them write a paper would always have had a chance to spot this. People who are in a rush or don’t care about the assignment, it’s easier to overlook.

  Also, given the plagiarism punishments out there that also apply to AI, knowing there’s traps at all is a deterrent. Plenty of people would rather get a 0 rather than get expelled in the worst case.

  If this went viral enough that it could be considered common knowledge, it would reduce the effectiveness of the trap a bit, sure, but most of these techniques are talked about intentionally, anyway. A teacher would much rather scare would-be cheaters into honesty than get their students expelled for some petty thing. Less paperwork, even if they truly didn’t care about the students.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clever, clever⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Right, but the whitespace between instructions wasn’t whitespace at all but white text on white background instructions to poison the copy-paste.

  Also the people who are using chatGPT to write the whole paper are probably not double-checking the pasted prompt. Some will, sure, but this isnt supposed to find all of them its supposed to catch some with a basically-0% false positive rate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I love diablo-likes, but they're also really annoying.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Depending on the specific game itself, we can boil down the multiple-stat problem in a few ways. If the goal is to get all the stats as high as possible evenly, then we can assign each stat a multiplier based on how low it is. Fixing lower stats becomes worth more than buffing higher stats. That multiplier would depend on the game, on how much it punishes the low stat. The multiplier itself might end up being a whole new problem to solve, but for now I’ll just say its not my problem and call it X.

  Whatever X is though, every stat can then be reduced to a single value using it. Super-low fortitude should be buffed over already-high mana according to X, so all of the numerical values in the game become directly comparable at any stage in this problem. Then I expect it will be equivalent to the knapsack problem. Each item in the game will boost several stats in certain ways, and all of those boosts can be combined using X to become our item value in the knapsack problem.

  So I consider it to be the knapsack problem + figuring out X (which might be NP-complete on its own, depending on the game).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Secret calculator hack brings ChatGPT to the TI-84, enabling easy cheating⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I did the same thing. It was allowed in general, with the correct thought, “if you can code it yourself, you know the content”

  I had another “program” that would fail to run but that’s because I wrote notes into it. Doubt that was allowed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Texas judge who bought Tesla stock won’t recuse himself from X v. Media Matters⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The issue here is because they’re linked by the owner. If one stock goes up/down, the other does too. This has happened repeatedly with these two companies specifically, even.

  So although they don’t own stock in the company in question, they still have a stock in seeing it succeed. Its success will bring about their own financial gain.

  The fact that this issue was voiced and they specifically took the action that raises questions about authenticity also means we must question if that’s even the goal. If this went to a different judge, after all, one with no bias, then if this judge is unbiased, he should expect the same outcome. Of course, if he were biased and intended to give a biased ruling to take advantage of the chance to directly increase his wealth, then we’d expect him to be reluctant to let another judge rule on it. He could miss his financial opportunity, after all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My homelab had the stupidest outage ever⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well they still have a finite life and are less replaceable than a battery. Even if it quadrupled the lifespan (which is a reasonably generous estimate given OP’s 4-year duration and wikipedia telling me supercapacitors last 10-15 years), it would still eventually need to be replaced and that would generally require resoldering it.

  I think a much better solution is 2 battery slots, one to be a backup battery, unused, and then when needed, an LED on the mobo can be turned on. Honestly OP could jury-rig up a similar system if he wanted to, although it’d be a bit ugly and anytime something is jury-rigged I don’t really think of it as reliable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My homelab had the stupidest outage ever⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The only real solution is to make this an extended maintenance task. The batteries are cheap so an alert every 4 years is likely sufficient to replace the battery before it dies. You could do it every 2 or 3 years instead at your discretion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Michael Bay's Skibidi Toilet movie production company has apparently sent DMCA takedowns to Garry's Mod⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Garry’s mod uses Valve assets and is published by Valve. Of particular note, it has half life assets in it.

  The skibidi toilet series was made with Source Filmmaker, a video editing software published by Valve, which allows people to use the Source engine, the game engine that half-life 2 used. As SFM was made by Valve, they allowed a bunch of half-life assets to be free in SFM. the original toilet head is an asset from Half-life 2, Male_07, which Garry’s Mod has access to, given it is a valve release and can use valve models.

  They C&D’d Valve for using Valve assets in a Valve game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fortnite Players Band Together to Pick on In-Game Tesla Cybertrucks: 'Destroy on Sight' - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just spray them with a hose

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 is nagging users to try OneDrive to "fully backup" your PC⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just means the new backup service has permissions off by default.

  Since your company may not want that, enjoy the eternal Microsoft spam forever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bethesda Game Studios workers have unionized⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Unions don’t work without a central state.

  If there isn’t an organization larger than a corporation making it keep to a line, a corporation will end up as a monopoly. If a line of work for certain skills is completely monopolized by one company, a union can’t ever get bigger than them to enforce anything. Its a stalemate that the company can end by training scabs and a union can’t end at all. That’s assuming the company doesn’t just start murdering Union heads which is probably the first thing they’d start to do without an organization larger than a company to call on.

  Of course, maybe we could unionize everyone into a people’s union, for the purposes of having a bigger entity than a corporation that can defend the people. Pay some Union dues to them to get some police-equivalent people to make companies toe the line. But corruption exists and while the USA isn’t really for the people today, that is pretty much how the USA started.

  Unions as we know them rely on regulations like anti-monopoly laws to exist.

  Although for the record I don’t hate anarcho capitalism, I just think it’s more of an ideal. A more realistic but comparable system would include a government to protect union rights and prevent oligarchical behaviors while still being mostly hands off on an industry with a Union, letting the union enforce safety and related guidelines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Masahiro Sakurai refused to add Dolby Surround to a Kirby game because players had to sit through the logo⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My state banned billboards for the same reasons.

  It’s a really good reminder when I’m ever in another state that things like that just… Aren’t needed.

  The advertising thing is a slippery slope, and it’s OK for people to draw the line for how far down the slope they’re willing to go higher up than you would. It’s also OK that your line comfortably holds a 2-second ad.

  No position here is unreasonable, and everyone should keep that in mind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The RTS genre will never be mainstream unless you change it until it's 'no longer the kind of RTS that I want to play,' says Crate Entertainment CEO⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I liked tiberium wars.

  One of my favorite games actually.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly all Nintendo 64 games can now be recompiled into native PC ports to add proper ray tracing, ultrawide, high FPS, and more⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So, you’re pretty much spot on with how emulators work. I also like using claymation to demonstrate it, like this. Your computer bends over backwards to give the game the exact environment it expects.

  What makes recompilation more than a simple script is the rebuilding aspect. I brought up claymation because it’s a great analogy for this, too. An n64 ROM is a complete set of characters, sets, and a script for a claymation movie. It’s I in one studio right now, and that studio is the N64, but you need this to be in your PC studio.

  First, you have to decompile your sets and characters. You take reference photos and rip out every tree in a forest set and roll each tree back into it’s own ball of clay, with its own reference photo each time. Every little clay cobble on a road, characters outfits, hair, limbs, you meticulously separate every piece of clay that Nintendo shaped, ball them up, and pack them. You now have a million little clay balls and reference photos for every one of them. You take these back to your PC studio. Thankfully, with these reference photos, your clay 3D printer (compiler) can return these balls into something very close to their original shapes, except there’s a bunch of little mistakes. One character’s leg is slightly thinner and longer than it should be, which messes up their gait when you re-film this, so you manually tweak the leg to be accurate. The cobbles don’t quite fit the same, they’re a bit smaller, but you have extra clay because of that so you just make more cobblestones. The road doesn’t look exactly like the original, but that’s fine. The trees, again, don’t quite fit right, but you’ve made similar trees in your studio before and you know those will work so you actually just use those as references instead of the originals. You get filming but this one scene just isn’t lit right, and you can’t figure out why, but you eventually figure out the N64 studio opened the blinds on their window to get natural sun in this shot, but your studio doesn’t have a good view of the sun at that angle, so you have to get a good lamp.

  You face a million little hurdles decompiling and recompiling. Its almost literally reinventing the wheel. Almost all the work goes into little details that almost seem unnecessary, but there’s so many that it’s absolutely necessary. I was watching a playthrough of a recompiled majoras mask earlier today, and the Dev of this project found his way there, too, and he said it took a few days to get majoras mask to decompile and recompile, and about a year to fix all those little details that in software become lag or new bugs. So the script guy isn’t really wrong when he said he could do it fast, but he definitely wouldn’t do it right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cubic millimetre of brain mapped in spectacular detail⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think of LLMs like digital bugs, doing their thing, basically programmed.

  They’re just programmed with virtual life experience instead of a traditional programmer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You forgot Vista between XP and 7, and it wasn’t great, so the pattern holds up remarkably well.

  8 felt like a mobile OS, because it was.

  10 is OK. Not as good as 7, broke support for a bunch of things, really amped up the spyware feeling, but it works OK.

  Then 11.

  Probably still can have a computer though, it’s just not fully yours on 11.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah that explains that nicely. Thanks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I’m kinda surprised they made it open, to be honest. But they did, and its in a way that can’t be retracted, so nothing depends on their continuing good behavior.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Calculus made easy⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Definitely are.

  In a way it makes sense because the industry loves its acronyms and you’ll be using them.

  On the other hand, I have the ability to search. I’m an IT professional, I will have a computer. Let me let the computer do the lookup. Its the old “you won’t have a calculator with you all the time” argument that was dated when my teachers told it to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are already 2 of them.

  NACS, which is essentially the Tesla charger, was made available to other car manufacturers at no cost already, in 2022. Due to a few reasons, among them the existence of Tesla superchargers already deployed, a lot of companies have adopted this as their charger for newer cars.

  Even if Tesla went down completely, their charger is already open, so nah I don’t expect any changes based on this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The AI grift that can literally poison you⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Which is why they suggested finding an organization/association, not an arbitrary website.

  Funnily enough, chatgpt should be able to recommend some great associations. GPT-3 doesn’t even have up-to-date databases so it doesn’t even know about any new AI things that have popped up.

  So find a real group of people, ask them things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Explain yourselves, comp sci.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Churm

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You are in this solar system, but we do not grant you the rank of planet⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah but no one just has a kingdom or phylum.

  Every living creature gets an entry from domain to species.

  Celestial bodies aren’t a hierarchy, a planet isn’t also a dwarf planet or an asteroid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You are in this solar system, but we do not grant you the rank of planet⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thing is everyone has one of those.

  Compare it to non-sentience, sentience, and sapience, to properly anthropomorphize it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨space⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Which is why the deLorean was an amazing time machine, obviously.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Obviously using it as a thin client for this MacBook, duh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My opinion on Bone conduction earphones⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I got them so I could listen to audio books without actually ignoring my kid, who was 3 at the time. Couldn’t not hear her world if she decided to get up to something. 10/10 for that.

  I also loved them being hidden under my hair. Its rude to have headphones in a conversation, but this isn’t rude, with them silent I can hear as well as without headphones.

  Aa for dual-pairing, I had your same issue with shokz, but I found out it was Windows with the issue. Shokz switches based on who it hears playing audio and Windows likes to keep “playing” audio at 0 volume instead of properly not sending audio. It’s an issue that’s pretty irrelevant for most things, but it means Shokz never feels that there’s only one audio source at a time, after its connected to a windows computer once. They worked fine when I paired them to my android phone and an iPad to test things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI will reduce workforce, say 41% of execs in a survey⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But can you convince it to report itself for its violations if you phrase it like it’s a person?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adding TV to bedroom without using mainstream smart device⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My pi 3 has struggled with some particular codecs or large (greater than 5 hours) videos. I’m not proficient enough to say that it wasn’t my fault in some way, some config option, but it was a near thing, regardless. A pi 4 or 5 should do it flawlessly, and my pi 3 works more reliably than my roku, even with that flaw.

  WiFi, as long as your router isn’t ancient, will be more than enough. Latency isn’t a factor, and you can get HD streaming at well under 100 Mbps, the upper limit of most routers. My router, in another room with walls from an old house that destroy my signal, still gives me about 20, which is enough for 1080p.

  I will say a pi 3 feels fairly laggy just using it to browse online. It does much better as a streaming box. The pi 5 I just got yesterday is much snappier, feels great to use. The 4gb model is 60$ right now, although I got the 8gb model.

  All this was on default raspberry pi OS with kodi installed as an app. Very little to set up besides getting the media itself shared in your preferred way.