cisophrene

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Comment · 22 days ago
Comment · 1 month ago
I think he meant he was Hobart the one that submitted the story. CmdrTaco is Rob Malda who use to run Slashdot and who created the post.
Comment · 2 months ago
Exactly, I was about to mention George Perec, one of its members, who wrote novels under very hard constraints such as "La disparition", a whole readable novel without the letter "e", which is as hard as or harder than an English speaker would expect. He also wrote "Les Revenentes", which is a novel only using words with no other vowel than "e" (and some liberties he had to take with the language to make that work).

Interestingly, the novel with no "e" was actually translated into English multiple times (most famous one is called 'A Void'), proof that constrained writing is something quite a few people seem to enjoy.

Comment · 2 months ago
Japanese mangas are stored just behind the model. They are Tankōbon format which is 17cm high.
Comment · 3 months ago
> Germans got their one famous composer

I think you just made J.S. Bach roll over in his grave.

And don't forget: Brahms, Handel, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Richard Strauss, Wagner.

The competition is not so one-sided.

Comment · 3 months ago
Really cool, it's giving me Ghost in the Shell computer UI vibes.
Comment · 3 months ago
> There are people who shipped “slop” before AI.

The funny thing is that "slop" was defined by the writing habits of AI model, which we have learned to pick upon and recognize.

The "It's not X, it's Y", the rhetorical questions and other patterns would have been the tools of a skilled writer, and those people writing "like AI" before AI most likely would have been recognized as such.

Comment · 3 months ago
LÖNSET Slatted bed base King 302.787.13

3h of fun for a mere $140.

I've seen more expensive hobbies.

Comment · 3 months ago
FYI, besides the obvious shilling, you’re being downvoted because Fabien Sanglard has been writing this kind of deep software RE analysis for the last 15 years, is one of the most knowledgeable people in the world on classic game-engine internals, and certainly did not involve AI in doing any of this.
Comment · 4 months ago
I find the Sunshine clients to be much better. You can set them up with much more granularity than Steam client, which can help a lot depending on the type of game you want to play. You also have a variety of clients not just Moonlight, for ex, on iPad I can recommend VoidLink which is really well made and handle touch events beautifully, turning the iPad into an actual MS Surface with multi-touch support when streaming Windows.

I actually have an interesting setup to play Civ 4 with the family (best civ game, change my mind): the games are running on virtual machines on a headless servers and we play on iPads using the native touch controls. It's really nice user experience and I was surprised it worked so well on such an old game.

Comment · 4 months ago
Sunshine will solve your problem, the computer does not need to be unlocked once the service run.
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Comment · 5 months ago
> It is only a matter of time until they add encryption.

I hope I won't be in one of those cars when the in-memory encryption key gets bit-flipped by the unfortunate cosmic ray.

Comment · 1 year ago
I don't think Yamaha Motor is producing any large trucks. They do a lot of things but mostly motorcycles, atv, boat engine, even car engines but not the whole car.

Also, you should note that Yamaha Corporation, the musical instrument maker and Yamaha Motor are now 2 distinct independent companies, even if were originally part of the same group.

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