Gemini3.5 Flash didn't have a problem OCR'ing and base64 decoding it, despite the OCR step having errors, it just fixed them in the base64 decoding step.
They all degrade and hold less charge over time and eventually fail completely, it will just take years or decades. But with today's forced obsolescence on the software side I tend to agree. The chance that a device…
It's not about the console itself, but the accessories, anything that makes you buy more controllers means more money for them. And batteries aren't even the worst offender here. Controllers have been using USB and an…
> Isn't non-web-based cryptography affected (as per this take) in the same way but with extra steps? Yes, but it's a whole lot of extra steps spread across multiple independent parties, each of them adds large delays to…
Subreddit threads are sorted by time and ratings, old style forum threads are sorted by activity. You can't bump a thread on Reddit. This leads to forums having threads that last years or decades, while on Reddit…
The problem with that "look" is that it's a dead end. These things won't be having a real glasses form factor and high enough specs to be useful anytime soon. They'll remain comically oversized for years/decades to…
That explanation still seems overly complicated. Iroh isn't a VPN. Iroh just lets apps connect to each other, just like plain old TCP, but without the shackles of NAT, DNS and dynamic IP addresses that made that…
> It is important, if I destroy your brain and grow a new one and start running the same program on the new brain your consciousness is still dead and its a new person living. If I copy a text document from one computer…
The image capture was done with a robotic camera rig from what I understand, they photographed 360° images of the room from all possible position. They restricted the camera movement to a plane, which is why the player…
Many years ago there was a game called Casebook[1], a small little detective game where you investigated rooms for clues. But unlike similar FMV games where you jumped from point to point, it had photorealistic…
The point is that the brain operates on information, not things. The thing you think is the external world, that's just electricity flowing through your neurons. When you see a dog, that isn't a thing in the world, but…
> If a hundred people see the same event, will they all respond the same? If you have hundred different people, they will of course do something different. Just like hundred different AI model will do something…
The "you" isn't your physical body, it's the pattern recognition in your brain that that classifies some parts of its sensory input as "you" (see Mirror Hand illusion). That it happens to be running on meat instead of…
> How can you have a subjective experience without a body? Easy, you don't have subjective experiences because you have body in the first place. You have them because some signals come in from your nerves, which your…
I am a little worried that this is still a problem after 20 years. Don't they have simulators to test every weird and unexpected road condition offline? And flooded roads aren't exactly an unusual event to begin with.
Why is some software SuperMarioBros and other Microsoft Word? 'cause that's what the specific software is written to produce and the other is written to do produce else. Consciousness is not some magically thing on top…
> the easy problem is to understand the computations of the brain while the hard problem is to understand what experience the thing doing the computations has. The problem with that common definition is that it doesn't…
> Why some kinds of information processing and not others? Consciousness isn't something the information processing has, it is something the information processing does. It's a function, not some magic property that…
Pain isn't just saying the word, it's a signal that changes your behavior generation in a way that conflicts with your self model.
Alternative suggestion: Force them to open up the service and allow third party clients. Take Art. 20 GDPR "Right to data portability" and extend it to public content.
> There's nothing preventing you from setting up a web server Carrier-grade NAT stops you pretty good. And if you make past that hurdle, HTTPS might stop you. And without Google's help, nobody will find you anyway.…
Most of them I would assume. Everything from 2006 forward started to use Xinput. DirectInput support only shows up in racing sims, flight simulators, fighting games and emulation. But all the big AAA games have been…
> If that hadn't happened who's to say where we would have ended up. We went through numerous years of that before Steam became a thing, almost a whole decade passed between the Internet getting popular and Steam really…
It's a bit more tricky, a Generic HID just gives you a DirectInput device, while reasonably modern games use Xinput. Microsoft never provided a way to map DirectInput devices to Xinput. For Xinput to work a Microsoft…
> I'm not convinced that's guaranteed to be less of an issue going forward. I am sure it's going to be an issue at some point in the future, it already is an issue when it comes to sharing games or keeping older…
Gemini3.5 Flash didn't have a problem OCR'ing and base64 decoding it, despite the OCR step having errors, it just fixed them in the base64 decoding step.
They all degrade and hold less charge over time and eventually fail completely, it will just take years or decades. But with today's forced obsolescence on the software side I tend to agree. The chance that a device…
It's not about the console itself, but the accessories, anything that makes you buy more controllers means more money for them. And batteries aren't even the worst offender here. Controllers have been using USB and an…
> Isn't non-web-based cryptography affected (as per this take) in the same way but with extra steps? Yes, but it's a whole lot of extra steps spread across multiple independent parties, each of them adds large delays to…
Subreddit threads are sorted by time and ratings, old style forum threads are sorted by activity. You can't bump a thread on Reddit. This leads to forums having threads that last years or decades, while on Reddit…
The problem with that "look" is that it's a dead end. These things won't be having a real glasses form factor and high enough specs to be useful anytime soon. They'll remain comically oversized for years/decades to…
That explanation still seems overly complicated. Iroh isn't a VPN. Iroh just lets apps connect to each other, just like plain old TCP, but without the shackles of NAT, DNS and dynamic IP addresses that made that…
> It is important, if I destroy your brain and grow a new one and start running the same program on the new brain your consciousness is still dead and its a new person living. If I copy a text document from one computer…
The image capture was done with a robotic camera rig from what I understand, they photographed 360° images of the room from all possible position. They restricted the camera movement to a plane, which is why the player…
Many years ago there was a game called Casebook[1], a small little detective game where you investigated rooms for clues. But unlike similar FMV games where you jumped from point to point, it had photorealistic…
The point is that the brain operates on information, not things. The thing you think is the external world, that's just electricity flowing through your neurons. When you see a dog, that isn't a thing in the world, but…
> If a hundred people see the same event, will they all respond the same? If you have hundred different people, they will of course do something different. Just like hundred different AI model will do something…
The "you" isn't your physical body, it's the pattern recognition in your brain that that classifies some parts of its sensory input as "you" (see Mirror Hand illusion). That it happens to be running on meat instead of…
> How can you have a subjective experience without a body? Easy, you don't have subjective experiences because you have body in the first place. You have them because some signals come in from your nerves, which your…
I am a little worried that this is still a problem after 20 years. Don't they have simulators to test every weird and unexpected road condition offline? And flooded roads aren't exactly an unusual event to begin with.
Why is some software SuperMarioBros and other Microsoft Word? 'cause that's what the specific software is written to produce and the other is written to do produce else. Consciousness is not some magically thing on top…
> the easy problem is to understand the computations of the brain while the hard problem is to understand what experience the thing doing the computations has. The problem with that common definition is that it doesn't…
> Why some kinds of information processing and not others? Consciousness isn't something the information processing has, it is something the information processing does. It's a function, not some magic property that…
Pain isn't just saying the word, it's a signal that changes your behavior generation in a way that conflicts with your self model.
Alternative suggestion: Force them to open up the service and allow third party clients. Take Art. 20 GDPR "Right to data portability" and extend it to public content.
> There's nothing preventing you from setting up a web server Carrier-grade NAT stops you pretty good. And if you make past that hurdle, HTTPS might stop you. And without Google's help, nobody will find you anyway.…
Most of them I would assume. Everything from 2006 forward started to use Xinput. DirectInput support only shows up in racing sims, flight simulators, fighting games and emulation. But all the big AAA games have been…
> If that hadn't happened who's to say where we would have ended up. We went through numerous years of that before Steam became a thing, almost a whole decade passed between the Internet getting popular and Steam really…
It's a bit more tricky, a Generic HID just gives you a DirectInput device, while reasonably modern games use Xinput. Microsoft never provided a way to map DirectInput devices to Xinput. For Xinput to work a Microsoft…
> I'm not convinced that's guaranteed to be less of an issue going forward. I am sure it's going to be an issue at some point in the future, it already is an issue when it comes to sharing games or keeping older…