xavier666

@xavier666@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What kind of CAPTCHA is this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Highly sophisticated Darwinian CAPTCHA

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I love to send the most absurd messages I can think of to steam scammers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Amidala kind of ruins the experience a bit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Implementing a spellchecker on 64 kB of RAM back in the 1970s led to a compression algorithm that's technically unbeaten and part of it is still in use today⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for this. Got a burst of nostalgia

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Implementing a spellchecker on 64 kB of RAM back in the 1970s led to a compression algorithm that's technically unbeaten and part of it is still in use today⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  but I’ve accepted defeat in trying to understand it

  I may have shared the link but even I don’t know how it how it works.

  It’s like admiring the Eiffel Tower; you can understand that it’s a marvel of engineering without understanding the underlying engineering concepts. Such experiences are rare but they truly humble you.

  Regarding the square root, understand the following concepts

  1. Bit shifting simply shift the bits to a certain side (Left or right) => 0010 << 1 → 0100
  2. Mathematically, it multiplies or divides the input number with a factor of 2, depending upon the type of shift
  3. If you shift the number n with a nice shift amount x (I have greatly greatly over-simplified this), then you can calculate the inverse sq. root since inverse square root is 2^(-1/2)
  4. Calculating the inverse square root manually will take lots of clock cycles, which was not feasible for a FPS game with the limited h/w
  5. Bit shifting is a lot faster since we are not computing, but instead shifting

  The resultant shifting gives us an answer which is close enough to the answer, and that is good enough for FPS games for calculation of reflections.

  PS: Someone who is more experienced in this domain can correct me if I’m wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Implementing a spellchecker on 64 kB of RAM back in the 1970s led to a compression algorithm that's technically unbeaten and part of it is still in use today⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I am still in awe of the fast inverse square root method used in QuakeIII. Good times.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the community for stuff like this?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There was/is a movement regarding butthole and ball tanning. I am suspicious that it also started like this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the community for stuff like this?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  grandpa loved his bacon, pork

  Had he reached 60-70, he would have suffered from gout

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubi, it's $70 and people are vary of your mile wide puddles that drop 75% in price after half a year⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  He also does not “become a samurai”

  Correct. That’s why I said symbolically.

  but you never see the character on screen again

  I maybe incorrect but towards the end of the movie, the Emperor asks how Katsumoto died, to which Tom Cruise replies “I’ll tell you how he lived”. So he was alive?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubi, it's $70 and people are vary of your mile wide puddles that drop 75% in price after half a year⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I might be terribly incorrect.

  But i remember that Tom Cruise’s character switches sides in the movie after spending time with the Samurai (He was captured by them). He trains under them and becomes a Samurai. In the end, they fight against the (British?) and lose due to a gattling gun. All the Samurai die except for Tom’s character. So symbolically, Tom is the Last Samurai.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it better to leave a country, or stay behind to fight for it? And what about the ethics of fleeing instead of staying behind?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  American Resistance? Just give Eggs pls. Thanks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Programming Assistant Tells User to Stop Being Lazy and Learn to Code⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Next post, AI tells user to “get a job”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Late 1900s⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was just reading the first paper on TCP Vegas (TCP congestion avoidance protocol) and the tests were done with bandwidths of “over 100 Kbps” over the internet. Feels almost unreal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨my house, my rules.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ooooh! Glowing stones. I have to take them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You're*⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Please allow one business day to respond

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam has shifted its business strategy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a custom ROM (crDroid 11). It might be using Substratum but it’s done in such a seamless manner that I don’t even know.

  I tried it long back during Android 9-10 and it was buggy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam has shifted its business strategy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mother-as-a-Service

• Steam has shifted its business strategy
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla sales crash continues in Europe, with Germany down 70%⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  70% is just rookie numbers

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You guys have to end it⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ll die of 3st

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oscar-winning animated film 'Flow' created entirely with free and open-source software Blender⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sweats in Arch

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brave CEO rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Jim occasionally bullies his colleagues but he is a good person otherwise”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judges Are Fed up With Lawyers Using AI That Hallucinate Court Cases⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Why don’t we build another AI to fix the mistakes?”

  I require $100 million funding for this though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2-based extensions in Edge⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t Edge?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A single tuna (once canned) will be eaten across the world at different times, potentially years apart⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I call this “the Tuna of Theseus”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My rule of thumb: Use ChatGPT for questions whos answer I already know.

  Otherwise it hallucinates and tries hard in convincing me of a wrong answer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately yes. And there is no going back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Want puppy, but no puppy.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Googling how to remove someone’s internet connection

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk just offered to buy OpenAI for $97.4 billion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  NazAI

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can I lose a beer belly working out one day a week?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You have to cut down carbs (rice, breads, ramen, pasta, noodles) and alcohol. If you want to go even further, cut down sugar and milk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is OCR for handwritten content still that bad?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe he’s just ahead of our time