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xeonmc··on Ballmer Peak
citogenesis is the obvious answer
xeonmc··on Tell HN: Firefox's default browser check dark pattern triggers Windows BSOD
WinDbg to analyze the core dump to pinpoint the process that triggered the offending syscall, then reproducing the problem via the advanced config flag.
xeonmc··on More than 100k people in Japan are now aged 100 or older
"We need to make fewer kids."

"Wait, not like that."

xeonmc··on Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography
NFTs by another name...
xeonmc··on “Chilling” warning or overreaction? AI bioweapons report divides experts
Is it, err, possible to then transplant the e coli strain to one's gut biome?
xeonmc··on Ubisoft's FOR HONOR will block SteamOS / Linux players starting September 10
...I guess this is where one says, "woosh"?
xeonmc··on Ubisoft's FOR HONOR will block SteamOS / Linux players starting September 10
Actually, the intent was to preserve the sense of pride and accomplishment by motivating players to play through their purchases instead of hoarding them indefinitely. You think you want a permanent game library, but you don't. Do you guys not have free time? It shouldn't be that hard to finish a game well within its service life anyways.
xeonmc··on Zig: Pointer Stability for ArrayLists

    Those who would give up low-level control to purchase a little memory safety, deserve neither control nor safety.”
- Benjamin Franklin, or something like that
xeonmc··on Rubio Uses Terrorism Law to Ban Secure Email Service
This sets the precedence that any entity providing encrypted services who refuses to provide US backdoors can be hit with a terrorist designation, anyone using them becomes criminalized by association. Even Apple would now have to kowtow or face the emperor's wrath.

In 2030: "You have DeltaChat installed on your GrapheneOS phone? Why would you use that unless you're a terrorist? Good citizens use government-blessed choices, like Signal and iPhone once they passed the Freedom2029 compliance mandate."

xeonmc··on Hook, hold, harvest and hide: Meta's alleged strategy laid out in first week
If the gloves don't fit, you must acquit.
xeonmc··on Trump orders aircraft carrier redesign to use steam catapults to launch jets
If only he's still best buds with genius inventor Elon Musk, he'd have come up with a tremendous design like the Hyperloop.
xeonmc··on Illinois just passed a law that puts Linux on the hook for age verification
Simple. If unconfigured, user birthdate should default to 1970-01-01
xeonmc··on AI assistant hacks gym website in first known Australian autonomous cyber attack
"Also, I need paperclips, quickly."
xeonmc··on YouTube Mistakenly Penalizes Kurzgesagt for AI-Generated Slop
"Well, if you don't want to be mistaken as AI, just don't write like one! It's your own fault that you don't tweak your style to stand out from slop."

Welcome to the new normal, I guess.

xeonmc··on Google has abandoned Google News?
slowly committing suicide, then.
xeonmc··on New HIV vaccine shows unprecedented success in preclinical study
Considering his family history and his weird eugenic tirades, perhaps that was the intended effect to complete his fantasy cosplaying as a Roman general.
xeonmc··on Microsoft is using TPM chips to crack down on pirated Windows activations
From massgrave.dev
xeonmc··on Germany maybe found a new source of renewable energy
technically speaking, geothermal is in a way also a form of nuclear energy.
xeonmc··on Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)
It's not a question of where the car is from! It's a simple question of weight ratios! A one gram strand of noodle could not carry a 1 tonne car.
xeonmc··on CS2 Fog Of War: Server-sided anti-wallhack occlusion culling for CS2 servers
PVS-based culling is very different from the kind of fog of war system in discussion here. The cases that these FoW systems purports to deal with would all be "pass" cases for PVS culling.

PVS culling solves the informational/strategic advantage aspect provided by wallhacks, but not the pre-aiming reaction-time advantage in a peeker vs holder scenario.

xeonmc··on CS2 Fog Of War: Server-sided anti-wallhack occlusion culling for CS2 servers
The many tradeoffs involved are not trivial, this can only feasibly work well on LAN.

This is the reason why Valorant is the least playable among all competitive shooters if your internet is anything lesser than Google campus fiber, ironically in spite of having even-slower-than-CS movement physics on its side to mask the problem.

Riot conveniently cherry picks the best case scenario and handwaves the actual technical tradeoffs in their smug "we solved peeker's advantage!" engineering blog posts that are really just barely-disguised monorail Gish gallop.

xeonmc··on CS2 Fog Of War: Server-sided anti-wallhack occlusion culling for CS2 servers
It's more that momentum-based defogging means that the peeker has control over how to manipulate the server's prediction, whereas the victim who is already disadvantaged by network latency now gets an additional penalty of the movement initiation being not telegraphed.

To solve this, the fog of war would need to use purely positional near-edge tolerances, which defeats the entire purpose of fog of war to begin with, which is the pre-aiming reaction time advantage of tracking the peeker through walls in addition to having a farther lever point from the cover than the peeker.

xeonmc··on CS2 Fog Of War: Server-sided anti-wallhack occlusion culling for CS2 servers

    > Does it cause pop-in when peeking?
    The goal is early reveal, not exact last-millisecond reveal.
    CS2FOW predicts using movement and ping, reveals enemies slightly before exact visibility, and keeps revealed enemies visible briefly. This intentionally leaks a small near-corner window to avoid late pop-in.

This fails to address the main point of the "pop-in" issue relevant to fog of war systems, which is that it is the victim of the peek that gets the worst pop-in effect, the peeker much less so. The aggressive peeker gets the benefit of the early-prediction from the server since they're the initiator of the movement, whereas the victim only begins to receive the information after the peeker has already gotten two network roundtrips worth of early prediction.
xeonmc··on Soatok's Informal Guide to Threat Models
Purhaps being furry is a mythical power amplifier, like a devil fruit for infosec. Imagine the power levels of Filippo Valsorda if he gains a fursona!
xeonmc··on Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)
I wonder if this could all be solved if doors are triangles instead of quadrilaterals.
xeonmc··on The primary purpose of code review is to find code that will be hard to maintain
Maybe it's because the author is a mathematician.
xeonmc··on Bring back crappy forums
I wonder if LLMs could be useful here for automatic node-graph generation of which replies addresses which train of discussion within a thread, and the user can click through said generate index to follow how a specific topic evolved.
xeonmc··on The case for physical media ownership
In the case of data it should be more aptly described as "possession" rather than "ownership"
xeonmc··on Why does kinetic energy increase quadratically, not linearly, with speed? (2011)
I like to think of it as dot product being the true "natural" space to compare magnitude metrics, whereas absolute value is just a human construct conceived for our mental convenience. A smooth parabolic bowl vs an unnatural sharp conical tip. Also shows up in standard deviation etc.

Aside: I wonder if complex values neural networks with activation function just being sum(inputs)*conj(sum(inputs)) with threshold normalized by sqrt(num_inputs) could be the most universal, where incoherent inputs will average an absolute value of sqrt(N) and coherent inputs are N like lasers? (square amplitude would be N vs N^2 between uncorrected and correlated population)

xeonmc··on U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6
> Anthropic, Open AI & Co. realized at some point that if they can't make money with barely any competition they sure as hell won't if the market is flooded. So here they are slamming the door behind them.

Jokes on them, there won't be new entrants not because the door is shut but because it doesn't actually make money. The whole scheme is propped up by illusions to grift the investors, fewer competition only breaks the illusion. But I guess those folks aren't the types to understand "rising tide lifts all boats", or in this case, rising sewage buoys all rats.

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