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EA just released source code for a bunch of old Command and Conquer games, and added Steam Workshop support to bangers like C&C 3: Tiberium Wars. https://t.co/CMMAfnd2qL
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@tlbtlbtlb This seemed rather high, so I read the paper. I don't believe it. The plastic they get the high numbers for was polyethylene, and the method that gave them that number was Py-GC/MS. That's pyrolysis fed into gas chromatography/mass spectrometry.
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For ages, the sophisticated nihilistic view has been that shrinking the federal budget is hopeless because it is dominated by politically untouchable entitlements. The possibility those entitlements are substantially composed of politically tractable fraud and waste is exciting!
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The standard SpaceX / @elonmusk strategy is to simply identify the next obstacle on the critical path and efficiently crush it from first principles, largely letting the problems of tomorrow be solved tomorrow. This works far better than most people expect; it doesn’t have to be
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Whenever I post something critical of Meta’s handling of VR, there are always some old timers that pile on with “Yeah! More AAA PC VR Games is the way to win!”. To be clear — standalone VR was the biggest win that VR ever had, by a huge margin, and Beat Saber was far more
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In a leaked memo, Meta's CTO told staff that 2025 will determine whether its hardware & metaverse division is the work of visionaries or a legendary misadventure: https://t.co/M2M1270Qt3
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Offline reinforcement learning, where an agent tries to improve a behavior policy by observing another agent without actually playing, is a harder problem than it appears. The challenge isn’t to mimic the provided play, but to learn something better than what you have seen. The
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Was there ever a computer display back in the dark ages that used a full matrix of segmented LEDs for a page of text display?
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If anyone knows of small US libraries that might be interested in some free science fiction books, pass this along: https://t.co/MoeWxy6trr I have no idea if I am going to send out ten sets or a thousand.
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Apple could sell more iPhones if it didn't take all day to transfer data to a new phone. Today's transfer took 14 hours. And then I have to re-login to most apps. If it was just the $1000, I'd upgrade every generation.
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I am always bemused by programmers that don’t use debuggers. It isn’t just about breakpoints and examining variables, but also being able to break into a process that has been running for an hour and issue something like:
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I recently did a no-internet isolation retreat for a few days, just to see how it felt. I planned ahead for the resources I needed to work, but I kept a tally and saw that I wanted to look something up 15 times in the first five hours. The value of the internet is immense!
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Do any modern x64 motherboards (that can run a 4090) have built in digital outputs that are easily accessible from user mode? Can all the LED light control gewgaws be repurposed for low latency controls? I liked my old PC104 flight computers where I could just outportb (as root)
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It would be an interesting demo-scene thing to make the modern equivalent of an Atari 2600 on an FPGA — no frame buffer, you have to race the HDMI scan out with just a single line buffer and a trivial amount of ram and rom. I got a new Atari 2600+ recently, and while it is neat
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It would be interesting if LLM training tracked the per-token loss back to the source material — it would be an objective measure of how much each specific book / document contributed to the training. Might say something useful for human learning!
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Staring into the matrix, looking at some questionable blocking artifacts. https://t.co/o5b6auFsey
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There was a post recently (that I can’t find — X search is not great) suggesting VR devs should continue refining their offering like an app, instead of moving on to the next game. In many cases, I think that is wise. I still buy every single @BeatSaber pack and @WalkaboutMG
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GPU chains The Voodoo2 SLI was great – just run a ribbon cable between two cards, and you doubled the pixel rate. No special professional versions were required, so two friends could open up their PCs and put their cards together for a double speed experience, and you really
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With the Nvidia GB200 NVL72, can a single process launch kernels on all GPUs, CUDA:0 to CUDA:71, or do you still have to start CPU processes on 18 different hosts? https://t.co/MK9iZhNOK5
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Odd coincidence to have https://t.co/g8lJQ4cpt8 show up almost simultaneously in two books I am reading — Polostan by @nealstephenson and Material World by @EdConwaySky
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