l'empathie mécanique @dpwiz@qoto.org
- Monad m
- m a -> (a -> m b) -> m b
- Previously
- https://mastodon.social/@dpwiz
- Making games
- https://haskell-game.dev
- Games made
- https://icrbow.itch.io
Toots as he pleases.
Joined Apr 2022
Thanks, worlds largest question-answering engine, trained on 25 years of human queries and feedback.
When you try hard sticking to Boring #Haskell and then a new GHC comes out
I didn't like that "death by fancy autocorrect" meme at first, but then I've begun to be more accepting.
The idea of humanity auto-correcting itself (out of existence) by means of war and/or gross negligence has a certain ring to it.
Another batch of humanity auto-correction risks spotted
> The following locations have recorded wet-bulb temperatures of 34 °C (93 °F) or higher.
You can help by expanding it
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My own hypothesis is that the harmful thing is "engagement maximization" and not "social media", and that you could have engagement-maximization algorithms applied to other things and make them more harmful, but I don't have hard data to support that and I don't really even know how to start going about gathering it, or falsifying this hypothesis.
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I acquired (with help) a killer audio cassette digitizing rig, and then IMMEDIATELY had to spend over 2 months digitizing 90+ cassettes from the 1999 Game Developers Conference (via a slow-and-steady workflow that got the job done without being too disruptive to any other work I was doing).
So, here we are, it's done. Go enjoy 70+ hours of presentations about all aspects of game making and producing, in 1999.
https://archive.org/details/1999_Game_Developers_Conference_Audio
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Adding more solitaires to my collection; this one's Binary Solitaire! The idea is to make stacks from 7 to 1 by counting in binary
Looks like this is the reason why Opus, the next-gen Xiph codec, was failed to overtake its predecessor Vorbis despide being pareto-superior to it.
The author of `stb_vorbis.h` that gets shipped far and wide found that they can't make the same for Opus due to licensing shenanigans.
https://nothings.org/stb/stb_opus.html
Playing some old RTS games and oh my they had clunky controls!
Supreme Commander reigns supreme indeed in the UI department.
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Mastodon monoculture problem
> »I believe we need to learn from this history. Once we do, we should be worried about the sheer size of mastodon.social. We should be worried by the apparent monoculture of Mastodon-the-software on the Fediverse. And we should also be worried about identifying all of Fediverse with just “Mastodon”.«
Read it all:
🔗 https://rys.io/en/168.html
/cc [ #Mastodon | #fediverse | #monoculture ]
IMO should've been just a redirect to Twitter. But, finders keepers.
At long last, we've created a Torment Nexus, and the people are already lining up for it.
https://torment.nexus/@alm@mastodon.online/110353392302644978
> If that was what you were hoping for, great. It’s coming.
> If your hope is that such capabilities will not be present in AIs so we will be safe, either despair or find another hope.
Every week in AI
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ai bullshit
There have been many words written lately about Neal Stephenson and how he "predicted the forthcoming metaverse" in Snow Crash but the Stephenson prediction I can't stop thinking about is from 2008's Anathem about how generative AI almost destroyed their internet. Most of the jargon doesn't matter just know that "reticulum" means internet and "Ita" are IT support. 🧵
- Monad m
- m a -> (a -> m b) -> m b
- Previously
- https://mastodon.social/@dpwiz
- Making games
- https://haskell-game.dev
- Games made
- https://icrbow.itch.io
Toots as he pleases.
Joined Apr 2022
