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expunctis.com
3 points·by kalkr·2 năm trước·1 comments

Learning Agile Soccer Skills for a Bipedal Robot with Deep RL

science.org
1 points·by kalkr·2 năm trước·0 comments

Meow.camera

meow.camera
44 points·by kalkr·2 năm trước·2 comments

Error Handling in a Correctness-Critical Rust Project

sled.rs
1 points·by kalkr·2 năm trước·0 comments

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kalkr
·2 năm trước·discuss
"Devil Daggers" has an action on release scheme, you play as a floating hand that shoots daggers with two firing modes, a "shotgun" like dagger blast, and a "stream" of individual daggers. The first, which you activate by clicking then quickly releasing, does a lot of damage, but suffers from a cool-down. the latter, which you get by holding for a certain amount of time, is good if you need constant damage.

Interestingly, the game programmed this behavior by moving the position of the hand. When you press LMB, your hand begins traveling forward. If it reaches a certain position, it will start the dagger stream. If you let go before it gets to that spot, it activates the "shotgun" and teleports the hand backward to naturally introduce a cool-down, returning to the neutral position after some time.

People figured out that, because holding the mouse down moves the hand forward, if you shotgun then re-hold the mouse button, your shotgun cool-down is much lower. Most runs will do this because it allows you to do the most damage in the quickest time, but initially learning it is really strange because you don't expect the action to be on release.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNrCdNFAYW4
kalkr
·2 năm trước·discuss
Traditional C style for is terrible compared to what you can do with iterators in my opinion, but idk if C++ has those.

    list.iter().sum()
ezpz
kalkr
·2 năm trước·discuss
of course it’s surveillance technology.

an iphone constantly broadcasts your location to third parties, can deduce where you work and live, understands the unique shape of your face, has a built-in microphone and multiple kinds of cameras, stores all of your conversations, stores all of your photos, stores your health information, can figure out when you go to bed.. all on a completely closed and proprietary operating system.

it’s like asking “why hasn’t anyone mentioned that we’re all using a website right now”
kalkr
·2 năm trước·discuss
What about Arc<Mutex<T>> ?
kalkr
·2 năm trước·discuss
As the maintainer he gets to call the shots, so this response is perfectly fair. It's easy for me to say "I wouldn't have reacted like this", especially since I'm kind of numb to this type of shit-slinging, but I haven't had such visceral anger directed towards my hard work, so I really don't know.
kalkr
·2 năm trước·discuss
You may be experiencing this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnagogia

I have read a few anecdotal experiences of people allowing these kinds of hallucinations to continue and they have reported that they can become quite vivid and even interactive. Maybe try waving your arms around when this happens to see if it goes away? That should indicate if it's sleep-related or not.
kalkr
·2 năm trước·discuss
Forget the goofy badge, if I’m moving my arm towards a device to query an llm, I might as well just bind the button on my phone.
kalkr
·2 năm trước·discuss
man wtf does virtue signaling even mean anymore
kalkr
·2 năm trước·discuss
No it isn't, you've linked an un-merged RFC.
kalkr
·2 năm trước·discuss
9 hours ago "more comments", 1 hour ago "less comments".
kalkr
·2 năm trước·discuss
decentralization != coinshit
kalkr
·2 năm trước·discuss
Motor companies should not be able to gate physical features (seat heaters) behind software.

My opinion isn't changed by the fact that I can purchase from a company that doesn't do that.
kalkr
·2 năm trước·discuss
what would you propose instead? would you keep it the same?
kalkr
·2 năm trước·discuss
I ordered a dresser once from a local store, they bought some cheap crap from Amazon and passed it off as "shipping from storage". It arrived broken and I couldn't get my money back, which I probably would have if I got something similar through an online retailer.
kalkr
·2 năm trước·discuss
When I took my SAT someone crashed into a utility pole and the power went out. We ended up having to retake, which was super annoying since that test was so damn long. I wonder what they'll do this year if the same thing were to happen?
kalkr
·2 năm trước·discuss
I sometimes sometimes wonder what the airline industry would look like if America had meaningful high speed rail.
kalkr
·2 năm trước·discuss
New trolly problem!!!

would you rather save a freezer full of 1000 embryo children, or one newborn baby?
kalkr
·2 năm trước·discuss
https://www.gnunet.org/en/gns.html
kalkr
·2 năm trước·discuss
Tiktok and other social media sites allegedly derank posts with controversial words (suicide, porn, murder) so people butcher the words to talk about things without triggering the debooster. There isn't really evidence that this helps or hurts post discovery, so people mostly do it out of an abundance of caution, which is what seems to have happened here.
kalkr
·2 năm trước·discuss
> Can the everyday miracle of the real world be appreciated enough?

I always roll my eyes when I see this or things that share a similar sentiment. I have dreams every night that aren't "real", but produce real emotions, feelings, and sensations. Whenever the dream machine comes out, I'll be hanging out in my cool af castle and all you philosophers can keep kneecapping yourselves with "what's really real".