WolfLink

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Honestly I’m scared for Destiny 2. The game’s on the verge of death already and it’s just awaiting a nail in the coffin, which Sony could deliver at any time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The roguelite thing with some of this year’s seasonal content has been refreshing.

Also I appreciate that they are reducing how much you have to grind to progress the seasonal story.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Yeah throwing a piece of sodium metal into water will cause a violent reaction. Even touching it with your finger is bad because of the moisture on your skin.

But sodium chloride (table salt) dissolves in water easily and safely, resulting in an aqueous solution including sodium ions.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I think if I ate 175 pounds of cured meat, the sodium isn’t what would kill me.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Voroni pattern. It shows up in nature all the time.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The game was sold other places (like the Humble store) without the PSN warning.

Also it’s been sold in countries that the PSN doesn’t support.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I don’t really believe either party is likely to change their tactics regardless of the outcome. Frankly, if Trump wins the election, regardless of the margin, then I’m 2028 I’d expect to see Biden running again (assuming our political system is in a state where that’s possible in 2028).

What I hope for is the total collapse of one of the political parties such that a 3rd party can compete. I think that the republicans are far closer to that level of collapse than the democrats.

However, more so, I am afraid of the effects of another Trump term continuing the path he started in his first term and/or following the project 2025 plan. Trump’s first term had a lasting effect on the ability of this country to make positive change, and I fear that a second term will only make it worse.

In summary, I believe the change you and I want won’t happen quickly under Biden, but won’t happen ever under Trump.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

This is that “enlightened centrism” false equivalence.

I honestly can’t believe that in good faith you can compare Biden and Trump as equals.

One is a president whos platform is making minimal change.

The other is a president whos platform is to tear down democracy and human rights.

If you honestly can look at these two and say they are equal than I have to conclude you are at least indifferent to maintaining democracy and human rights.

I know the “counter argument” is about Biden and Israel/Gaza, but the thing is, that’s not really up for debate because I don’t believe there’s any chance Trump would be better about Gaza.

There are 2 options:

  • death in Gaza and status quo in the US
  • death in Gaza and loss of human rights and possibly our democracy in the US
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Makes sense because if you want to make freely available code but want to allow commercial projects to use it you want to use a liberal license because if your code is copy left licensed businesses won’t want to use it.

I’ve seen this in action: I’ve seen a business reject working with one research group because their code was copyleft licensed, so instead they turned to another group offering a liberally licensed competitor.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Lmfao I actually wrote that by hand but it does kinda look AI generated

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (3 children)

libvlc uses libavcodec

VLC relays on ffmpeg for a lot of video decoding, as do lots of other media programs. Go look up the legal notice on your TV and there’s a good chance the ffmpeg licensing information is in there.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Short answer: Neural Networks and other “machine learning” technologies are inspired by the brain but are focused on taking advantage of what computers are good at. Simulating actual neurons is possible but not something computers are good at so it will be slow and resource intensive.

Long Answer:

  1. Simulating neurons is fairly complex. Not impossible; we can simulate microscopic worms, but simulating a human brain of 100 billion neurons would be a bit much even for modern supercomputers
  2. Even if we had such a simulation, it would run much slower than realtime. Note that such a simulation would involve data sent between networked computers in a supercomputing cluster, while in the brain signals only have to travel short distances. Also what happens in the brain as a simple chemical release would be many calculations in a simulation.
  3. “Training” a human brain takes years of constant input to go from a baby that isn’t capable of much to a child capable of speech and basic reasoning. Training an AI simulation of a human brain is at least going to take that long (plus longer given that the simulation will be slower)
  4. That human brain starts with some basic programming that we don’t fully understand
  5. Theres a lot more about the human brain we don’t fully understand
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