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Thoughts on the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Programming Courses [video]

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Simulating the hardest Physics Problems in Python [video]

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Valve Just Won a Legal Victory [video]

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New DeepSeek Research – The Future Is Here [video]

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1 points·by chii·5 tháng trước·0 comments

Can a Pendulum be a Battery? [video]

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The Space Propulsion Tier List [video]

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Jerome Powell's being threatened [video]

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The Single Most Undervalued Fact of Linear Algebra [video]

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SIGGRAPH2025 Advances in Real-Time Rendering: IdTech8 Global Illumination [video]

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1 points·by chii·6 tháng trước·0 comments

Apple's Preventing Some Apps from Working on Older iPhones [video]

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Portals must bend gravity [video]

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Is This the Greatest In-Camera Effect of All Time? [video]

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2 points·by chii·7 tháng trước·0 comments

Increasing code performance with LTO [video]

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2 points·by chii·7 tháng trước·0 comments

Why are Transformers replacing CNNs? [video]

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2 points·by chii·7 tháng trước·0 comments

The Math Crisis at UC San Diego [video]

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Let's Break Down the 45nm Process Node [video]

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1 points·by chii·7 tháng trước·0 comments

The Journey to the Edge of the Infinite Chess Board [video]

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1 points·by chii·7 tháng trước·0 comments

Graphics API is irrelevant [video]

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The cloud is slowing you down [video]

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The 100-Year Storm Myth [video]

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chii
·23 giờ trước·discuss
> It looks practically photorealistic.

what has improved a lot recently is the physically based rendering - specifically, the lighting. Looking at the steam page, this train game has that type of lighting.

Another game that uses similarly realistic lighting is https://store.steampowered.com/app/2406770/Bodycam/
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·4 ngày trước·discuss
> No, it's a signal from the market that the product being sold is not wanted by the market.

to me, it is really a signal that the cost of production is high - ala, they're inefficient, rather than the market not wanting the product.
chii
·4 ngày trước·discuss
> not committing prompts.

nothing prevents people from committing their prompts. I've started seeing prompts being committed into repos, or at least as part of the commit message.

In any case, if in the future there's a prompt specific language, it would be committed. I dont think we've reached there yet, but i dont doubt this is on the path to the future.
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·6 ngày trước·discuss
> relies on the creator clicking the link

and that's why google calls it social engineering. But i still do believe this is a vulnerability. It catches people offguard, and makes social engineering easier.

An attacker controlled link in a place that a user would not expect to be vulnerable (as it is in a "trusted" environment).
chii
·6 ngày trước·discuss
The attack requires a third party to unknowingly click on the engineered URL that leak private video title. Not sure if it counts as a POC if you can only use your own channel to prove it works.

But still, it would require a user interaction to click on the link to leak data - and google should acknowledge it as an issue, because an attacker should never be able to generate a link they control in a trusted/secure environment.
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·6 ngày trước·discuss
> They would say that they won't consider it as a bug, silently fix it and you are left there doing the work for free.

then as long as you have a trail that proves you discovered and reported it, you can make this a PR nightmare for them with noise about it publicly. The fact that it is fixed means it is considered an issue, and so by declining to acknowledge the issue and refusing to pay, they're essentially deleting the built-up trust of a bug bounty.

It won't pay out even if you did this of course, but if this happens a lot, the aggregate reputational damage leads to "do not report". That's really the only outcome you can engineer, but it is decently damaging that google _should_ see and prevent it.
chii
·6 ngày trước·discuss
> That's why trains work

and that's why trains work but you have to pay a higher price to use it, while youtube is shitty, and breaks often, but it's free to use.

It is about the trade offs - not the trade offs that someone talks about passively, but actual action based trade offs; ala voting with their feet.
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·9 ngày trước·discuss
> something would have stopped the breaking change making its way to prod?

or a prod outage causes the knowledge to be experienced.
chii
·9 ngày trước·discuss
for such a wide ranging effects, brexit's vote had only 2% margin of error, with 48% against.

The people's stupidity is why "important" questions like that should not be put to a vote; they can't be expected to understand the entirety of the outcome and consequences. As the other comment has posted: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QFgcqB8-AxE
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·9 ngày trước·discuss
> I'm afraid "age assurance" has nothing to do with "the children".

and you should be afraid, very afraid. Because none of these (and other measures to invade privacy) has ever had anything to do with children.
chii
·9 ngày trước·discuss
> as long as the same is true for human works.

and it is.

Anyone can study Michelangelo or Bach, and learn their style.
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·10 ngày trước·discuss
Imagine an electricity generating company saying that they don't allow their electricity to be used to cold start a competitor's generator.
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·12 ngày trước·discuss
Stupid things like brexit was put to a vote, but really important things such as age verification and mass surveillance are never put to any vote.
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·15 ngày trước·discuss
hah, look at this guy with his keeping up with inflation talk...
chii
·16 ngày trước·discuss
the datacenter doesn't have a few million dollars to spare.

The heat is waste heat. If it cannot be recovered as a profitable source of energy, the datacenter won't be able to pay that few million dollars.
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·16 ngày trước·discuss
in the attic, you discover your grandpa's steam account scribbled onto a piece of paper with the password.

You try to log in, but turns out you need biometrics to access the library!
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·16 ngày trước·discuss
digital goods should have a place, but the issue here is that there's no equivalent physical goods replacements. And i dont think you can regulate this away.

The only force is consumer action (in aggregate). And it seems that companies have managed to train consumers not to take any action against the interests of these publishing companies.
chii
·16 ngày trước·discuss
and that is why these "AAA" games continues to decline in quality and become more anti-consumer - gamers put up with it.

Spend that $100 bucks on indie games - you'd at least get 5 very good quality ones that aren't anti-consumer.
chii
·16 ngày trước·discuss
The "vote with your wallet" mantra holds here. Don't buy it.
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·18 ngày trước·discuss
This is what i hate about modern corporate culture (or human culture in general perhaps).

I dont want to expend effort politiking. I dont want to expend effort blowing my own trumpet. The value of my work is self-evident, but requires an equally intelligent person to understand.

And most people do not understand, and thus, fail to recognize the value.