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readyplayernull··on 'Patent mills' sell scientists inventorship of medical devices
Another reason to end patents.
readyplayernull··on A Frustrated Trump Wants His New Air Force One Planes Pronto
Just add a bay door for extra fast delivery ala Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.
readyplayernull··on Bill Proposes Adding Trump to Mount Rushmore
The end.
readyplayernull··on Trump: "Long Live the King"
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/792
readyplayernull··on New Grok 3 release tops LLM leaderboards despite Musk-approved "based" opinions
> is quite incredible considering that the team started from scratch ~1 year ago, this timescale to state of the art territory is unprecedented."

Is someone auditing their code? Having the CEO a track record of using services to improve his gaming achievements, how can we know the code isn't copied from competitors?

readyplayernull··on Among top researchers 10% publish at unrealistic levels, analysis finds
Among given population X% are suspicious and Y% keep an eye on statistic and their heads below the radar.
readyplayernull··on Migraine is more than a headache – a rethink offers hope
AI hype terminology? Should be a visual effect.
readyplayernull··on Plane crashes, overturns during landing at Toronto airport
Standard UFO-sighting footage.
readyplayernull··on You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a legacy project (2023)
Like a shiny coat of paint that blinds me, I scrape my code and write new in place, maybe this time with comments so I don't forget.
readyplayernull··on Argentina president faces impeachment calls over crypto crash
Second, fine the crypto companies to extract taxes, but don't close them and keep the scam going so you can fine them again every few years.
readyplayernull··on George Eliot's reflections on AGI from 1879
> meaningfully and significantly improve itself

Exactly, mechanically by tools, environmentally by science, metaphysically by philosophy. An AI can only become an I by crossing a singularity of knowledge.

readyplayernull··on “A calculator app? Anyone could make that”
Hey I found it a couple of hours ago, but it doesn't show the shuffled order of songs. Anyway it's the best so far.
readyplayernull··on “A calculator app? Anyone could make that”
That is Lark Player, but it has so many ads that I recently uninstalled and kept trying the recommendations in this thread. Foobar2000 uses a system modal to let you add folders but the SD card is locked by the system on that modal even after enabling permissions, other apps can access it without issues. Samsung music player can only add up to 1000 songs per playlist and there is no easy way to split my library. And I just found Musicolet that uses playlist and doesn't crash when adding my library, but it would be perfect if it could show the randomized order of the playlist, so it just jumps on random songs, it would be cool to know what's next and before. Winamp (WACUP) on desktop does this perfectly.
readyplayernull··on “A calculator app? Anyone could make that”
Tried it, but seems to use the system's modal to add folders, that blocks the SD card folder due to "privacy reasons", even after giving the app permission to access all files.
readyplayernull··on “A calculator app? Anyone could make that”
Tried it but it can only add up to 1000 songs per playlist.
readyplayernull··on “A calculator app? Anyone could make that”
Yes, but another requirement is the algo to be very fast, and dithering takes way more operations than the proposed Fermat PRNG.
readyplayernull··on “A calculator app? Anyone could make that”
Thanks!! I've been looking for an algo to draw pixel positions in a pseudorandom way only once. I didn't know a way to do it without storing and shuffling all positions. Now, I only need to draw a centered filled circle, so there might be a prime number for it, and even if the prime only does it for a given amount of points, I could switch to other primes until the circle is filled, and get an optimal and compressed single-visit scattering algo.
readyplayernull··on “A calculator app? Anyone could make that”
Searching for Vanilla Music in Google Play shows every other player except that one, which reminds me nobody makes search engines anymore.
readyplayernull··on “A calculator app? Anyone could make that”
Another app nobody has made is a simple random music player. Tried VLC on Android and adding 5000+ songs from SD card into a playlist for shuffling simply crashes the app. Why do we need a play list anyway, just play the folder! Is it trying to load the whole list at the same time into memory? VLC always works, but not on this task. Found another player that doesn't require building a playlist but when the app is restarted it starts from the same song following the same random seed. Either save the last one or let me set the seed!
readyplayernull··on Trump fires 20 administrative law judges
Wonder how many billions would be saved if he fired himself?
readyplayernull··on Google facilitated Russia and China's censorship requests
Disgusting.
readyplayernull··on Nintendo Obtains New Anti-Palworld Patent and Seeks Even More
> a fighting character that fights

THERE! It's only for fighting characters that fight, just make a driving character that drives, or a flying character that flies.

readyplayernull··on Why do startups often have blog pages? is it for SEO?
Makes sense as dumb Google crawler loves those lists.
readyplayernull··on Ukraine says Russia drone hits Chernobyl nuclear plant, radiation levels normal
Increase drone traffic controller headcount?
readyplayernull··on Amazon Studios Quietly Steps Back from Diversity Goals Amid Trump DEI Crackdown
LOTR as Tolkien intended?
readyplayernull··on [dead]
Guess those 4.5T will help rebuild the damaged economy of the... bully.
readyplayernull··on Republicans Reveal Trump Tax Plan Will Cost US $4.5T
So the guy was working for the ruskies all this time, go figure!
readyplayernull··on Meta's job cuts surprised some employees who said they weren't low performers
Meaning, a median among different teams in a company could classify a top performer in a team as an underperformer in a company. I like that too, and how the whole performace metrics suck A.
readyplayernull··on Meta's job cuts surprised some employees who said they weren't low performers
Technically, if you are second you are underperformer.
readyplayernull··on [dead]
Plastics from the Oil industry, they have plenty of energy to keep going, and they won't rest until our planet gets those extra 5 degrees C.
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