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CyborgCabbageon AI in mathematics is forcing big questions

I want this on a T-shirt

CyborgCabbageon Minecraft: Java Edition 26.2, the first version with Vulkan 1.2

Unless you changed the setting it still uses the OpenGL backend by default

CyborgCabbageon Minecraft: Java Edition 26.2, the first version with Vulkan 1.2

I believe if you plug your monitor into your motherboard then OpenGL will use your integrated graphics rather than your card. I think with Vulkan it doesn't matter what port you plug it in, it can coordinate it?

CyborgCabbageon Wi-Wi is wireless time sync at 1 nanosecond

I've wondered if something like this could ever be used for VR tracking, though it seems it is much bulkier in than IR methods.

CyborgCabbageon Earth just experienced its hottest 12 months in recorded history

Well I guess that's it for climate science, no weather stations before 1850. Tree rings? Ice cores? People writing down "wow there was no rain for 3 months our God must be pissed"? Sorry, doesn't count I'm afraid.

I'm sorry for being unprofessional but this comment really struck a nerve with me. The idea of trying to move climate science into the domain of the unprovable/undisprovable by claiming that there is simply no way to have data from before 1850. Do you have a specific problem with tree rings? Their statistical significance? A confounding variable that has not been taken into account?

CyborgCabbageon Parry Encounters the Doctor (1973)

FYI, PARRY is a chatbot that is supposed to imitate someone with paranoid schizophrenia. "the Doctor" is ELIZA which is supposed to act like a therapist.

CyborgCabbageon Vulkan Documentation

What about Debug Output? https://www.khronos.org/opengl/wiki/Debug_Output

CyborgCabbageon Finding the best sine function for Nintendo 64 [video]

Another cool N64 project, Portal N64 https://youtu.be/eN_-V7PDKAo

CyborgCabbageon DreamBerd is a perfect programming language

Funny seeing you here, I enjoyed your SandPond videos :)

CyborgCabbageon Show HN: WikiBinge – discover how all things are vaguely connected

https://www.wikibinge.com/#Electoral_college/The_Long_Earth

Apparently Humptulips, Washington was Terry Pratchett's favourite place on earth. :)

CyborgCabbageon Counter-Strike 2 – Limited Test for select CS:GO players

https://steamcommunity.com/faqs/steam-help/view/5ED2-ED8E-81...

CyborgCabbageon Show HN: Lander, a lunar lander style web game

Fun game! It would add more to the game imo if there was a fuel efficiency target as well as angle and speed.

CyborgCabbageon Implant lets those with severe paralysis send texts with just their minds

YouTube video I found with more info https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm95r05hui0

CyborgCabbageon Implant lets those with severe paralysis send texts with just their minds

It only registers a binary input (e.g. mouse-click); their YouTube[0] shows a patient using it in conjunction with eye-tracking. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm95r05hui0

CyborgCabbageon Hundreds of changes made to latest editions of Roald Dahl's books

Can't really see what all the fuss is about. They shouldn't have made the changes, no doubt, but they're all pretty insignificant. Publisher's exert significantly more influence when the author is alive and writing the book in the first place. The only one that ticks me off is that they added a "dedication to doctors" to one of the books.

CyborgCabbageon Stop developing this technology

A lot of people in the comments here are saying that this is beneficial because it will teach people that they can't trust video or audio. But I don't see how that makes sense because this isn't some neutered or weakened form of the technology. That's like saying shooting people makes them more aware of gun violence.

CyborgCabbageon Stop developing this technology

This is a fair point, but we have no way of knowing how close we came or will come to a nuclear apocalypse, so the risk posed by nuclear technology is difficult to evaluate.

CyborgCabbageon Literature Clock

It just said "about nine o'clock", I guess no one has anything to write about 9:03

CyborgCabbageon Building a website like it's 1999

Always gotta mention hypnospace when a post like this shows up :) https://www.hypnospace.net/

CyborgCabbageon The Hobbit: Riddles in the Dark – The Lost Version (2001)

Disgraceful, what's even the point of putting pen to page when you're only gonna get a measly 95 years of ownership.

CyborgCabbageon Unredacter: Never use pixelation as a redaction technique

Photos won't work with this, it works here because text is discrete and provides a limited search space.

CyborgCabbageon Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)

This thread reminds me of https://www.reddit.com/r/SUBREDDITNAME

CyborgCabbageon Map of the observable universe

Why only 90 degrees?

CyborgCabbageon But, aren't you folks web2?

My experience has been the opposite, last year a speaker came in (some high up business guy, can't remember the details) and briefly mentioned blockchain. He did a show of hands for who had a favourable opinion on blockchain and no one put there hand up (20-30 people).

This was in a GameDev club at university in the UK. I wonder where all these web3 advocates are coming from, maybe it is just a loud minority, or maybe that fact that they're game developers makes a difference.

CyborgCabbageon Ask HN: What are some excellent pieces of software written by a single person?

Minecraft is some excellent game design, but the code quality of early versions (back when it was only two people) is lacking. They did call it beta and alpha so it's not like they were claiming any different.

CyborgCabbageon Ask HN: What piece of code/codebase blew your mind when you saw it?

He has a YouTube channel as well: https://youtu.be/8--5LwHRhjk

Also you may like Marble Marcher made by Code Parade, it's a game that uses a similar approach to rendering: https://youtu.be/9U0XVdvQwAI

CyborgCabbageon Tell HN: YouTube's web UI just got even worse

Going to take this opportunity to ask if anyone else hasn't been able to find any playlists in YouTube search results? Whenever I filter for playlists, there is always nothing.

CyborgCabbageon Ask HN: How do you discover music?

Typically I will use Spotify's radio feature to get recommendations.

CyborgCabbageon W4 Games raises $8.5M to support Godot Engine growth

I think this was fixed in 3.4 https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/51796

CyborgCabbageon Bibliogram, Open-source front-end for Instagram, is being discontinued

We still have teddit.net and nitter.net