eRac

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[–] eRac 3 points 4 months ago

Mario AI

One of the things Notch (of Minecraft fame) was known for before MC was a Mario remake that infinitely generated levels and had API hooks for quantifying progress. This was used in AI competitions.

Similarly, one of the old Trackmania games has been modified to output position and track info around the player along with fitness measures, allowing someone to train AIs.

[–] eRac 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's not a conservative party, it's a big tent party. At this point the only broadly accepted party line is 'sanity.'

Far-right manipulation is so effective that they can reasonably compete with everyone else combined.

[–] eRac 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Graham Hancock

Yeah, this can be safely assumed to be bullshit.

[–] eRac 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The other dev/wife did QA and part of the mapping. It's a bit hard to finish a game without your programmer/designer.

[–] eRac 5 points 5 months ago (3 children)

TL;DR: If you had a Google account on a non-Google domain, an attacker can buy the domain and make new accounts with the same usernames. Those are new accounts as far as Google is concerned, but they will be treated the same for SSO on other platforms.

If you know the cloud-based HR platform a dead company used and the username of their HR person, you can log in and see all employee records and personal details.

[–] eRac 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I loved the ending of Hero of Ages. There's a novella to read partway through the second age that does some beautiful stuff around it. The second age is a very different style, but it is a lot of fun. You never regret that extra shake...

I just finished the Earthsea series by Ursula K. Le Guin. The first book is from the sixties and the final short from 2018, so it is a fascinating trip through the maturation of Fantasy. The first three books are firmly young-adult, while the last three stick with the characters as adults. The whole series ends with a very short story the author wrote to be published after her death. It's a wonderful look at the mind of an old person at the end of their story.

Recent publications include afterwords written in 2012 which give a lot of context and interesting insights into how she wrote stories.

[–] eRac 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Your description of Taco Time captures it perfectly. It should be their slogan.

TACO TIME

Not Mexican Food

They are very high on my list of things I miss from Washington.

[–] eRac 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The handheld PC market is still small. Nobody else in the digital space has taken it seriously yet.

If you look at iOS, you'll see what I'm talking about. It's effectively two products, a piece of hardware and a digital store. To beat it, you have to beat both the hardware and the store at the same time. It took the entire mobile hardware industry forming an alliance with one of the largest software companies in the world to even try to compete with it.

[–] eRac 28 points 5 months ago (5 children)

The book is highly comedic.

[–] eRac 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

If SteamOS comes to dominate the handheld market, I could see them being forced to make an API so that other stores like Epic and GOG can have the same quality of integration in the non-desktop interface.

If you have two products that are both the best at their respective thing and you tightly integrate them, it makes it incredibly difficult for a competitor to match you. That is abusing a monopoly in each space to benefit the other.

[–] eRac 2 points 5 months ago

Adding to this, some of the AIRCARE humidifiers are just a plastic tub, a wick that sits in it, and a lid with a fan. You'd have to break the tub to leak water.

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