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New comment by icefox in "DOOM Level Generation Using Generative Adversarial Networks"

icefox — Tue, 15 May 2018 03:11:04 +0000

Not really answered in the paper... were those levels fun to play? The "Levels Evaluation" seemed a little lackluster too.

Back in early 2000 I ran a Quake server that generated levels that were decent. It would build a new one ever 15 minutes so when playing you would always find yourself in a new map regularly. I spent time tweaking it for fun and diversity which were the interesting bit. I didn't want to play the same level type over and over with guns just slightly shifted, but to play a wide range of experiences some of which were very surprising.

New comment by icefox in "Casino high-roller database stolen through a thermometer in the lobby fish tank"

icefox — Sun, 15 Apr 2018 23:44:01 +0000

It would be nice if at home routers made this easy to do too

New comment by icefox in "Confessions of an Unreal Engine 4 engineering firefighter"

icefox — Fri, 06 Apr 2018 20:39:21 +0000

So the question would be what type of game could be made with that type of team today?

New comment by icefox in "The Effective Tech Lead Is a 100x Engineer"

icefox — Wed, 28 Mar 2018 17:06:59 +0000

Yup, and they are willing to bet you will take a 3% yearly raise rather than look for another job.

New comment by icefox in "Y Combinator CEO: “The True Test of Product-Market Fit Is 'Drowning in Demand'”"

icefox — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 17:24:08 +0000

Whats the demand?

New comment by icefox in "A startup is pitching a mind-uploading service that is “100 percent fatal”"

icefox — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 03:10:04 +0000

So I memorized my private key. Revive me and I will tell you and you will get all my coins.

New comment by icefox in "Ask HN: Any cool ARKit or ARCore apps out there right now gaining popularity?"

icefox — Mon, 12 Mar 2018 13:59:24 +0000

The app which is really little more than a demo, but has had the most use in my house has been the lego ar studio

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lego-ar-studio/id1296734986?...

New comment by icefox in "Lab-grown diamonds threaten viability of the real gems"

icefox — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 19:47:19 +0000

I bought the ones that are round cut so yeah they are the jewelry quality ones you probably saw. I might end up turning a few into a set of earnings or a necklace or something. It was tempting to get a rod of raw ruby and smash it or something, but it is also just cool to show off a pile of rubies cut and ready to put into jewelry that I am just using as tokens in a mining board game. :D

New comment by icefox in "Lab-grown diamonds threaten viability of the real gems"

icefox — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 15:14:18 +0000

Real rubies I awesome. I picked up 50 of them that are 1cm in size to replace the plastic ones that come in my board games. The weight of them in my hand is unexpected. The upside had to be when I brought them to work and got to pore a pile of real rubies into someones hands. Only "downside" is that even though they are really hard, they can scratch each other. But eh they are cheap enough that I just tossed them in a velvet bag and in the board game box.

New comment by icefox in "Sex and STEM: Stubborn Facts and Stubborn Ideologies"

icefox — Thu, 15 Feb 2018 19:45:56 +0000

> They also might think, does she really enjoy tech, is she a nerd like me, or is she just looking for a cushy office job in software that the "diversity/women-in-X" groups are so loudly promoting.

Hell I think that about all my colleagues whatever their gender is. Seen plenty of males don't really want to code, but it pays too well to not.

New comment by icefox in "Sex and STEM: Stubborn Facts and Stubborn Ideologies"

icefox — Thu, 15 Feb 2018 19:42:59 +0000

> My own theory, is that CS (programming) is perceived as having low social status.

A colleague told me when out at a bar he refrains from telling women that he is a programmer because they suddenly become way more interested because they know how much $$$ programming jobs bring in. That does not sound like low social status signalling to me, but the opposite at least for males.

New comment by icefox in "Perspective: Streaming pivot visualization via WebAssembly"

icefox — Tue, 06 Feb 2018 16:34:21 +0000

What was the best/worst part about getting it to work in WebAssembly?

New comment by icefox in "Mark – A simple and unified notation for both object and markup data"

icefox — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 14:21:02 +0000

I rarely code in Clojure, but I do use EDN and whenever I see new standards I always compare it to EDN.

New comment by icefox in "Family fun with deepfakes"

icefox — Fri, 02 Feb 2018 16:24:52 +0000

Before movies, why not insert friends into your video game?

Or how about creating a company that sells profiles each of which would be a collection of high quality photos/videos. In turn if you have a video game or movie you can get a random actor with the body you want and swap the face with the face you want?

Or even better create a service where individuals can upload their own photos which they can get some of the profit if their profile is used.

New comment by icefox in "Apple Reports First Quarter Results"

icefox — Fri, 02 Feb 2018 04:47:47 +0000

Couldn't you use the German tank problem to solve these?

For Tesla auto sales couldn't you just look at tesla vin numbers?

For iPhones, sample mac address's?

New comment by icefox in "Bulletin, from Google"

icefox — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 12:59:21 +0000

Discontinued?

New comment by icefox in "Self-Crashing Cars"

icefox — Mon, 29 Jan 2018 18:55:23 +0000

> It's a bit like the Fermi Paradox.

During the late 90's and early 00's I often wondered why with all of the Microsoft hate why someone didn't create a simple virus that did something destructive like just format windows hard drives. There must have been other incentives at play that caused this to never occur. Perhaps in the same logic if you can infect every Tesla it is more valuable to not crash them, but instead scrub the data and sell that back to [insert company] or something.

If there was ever something that would cause a formal programming guild to sprout I would be willing to bet that it would form its roots around security.

New comment by icefox in "TIS-100 Signal Averager (2016) [video]"

icefox — Thu, 18 Jan 2018 16:42:57 +0000

Signal Averager:

READ VALUES FROM IN.A AND IN.B WRITE THE AVERAGE OF IN.A AND IN.B, ROUNDED DOWN, TO OUT

New comment by icefox in "Modern Linux in an ancient PC"

icefox — Sat, 06 Jan 2018 18:11:27 +0000

When build stuff on a real slow platform a trick I have used is to setup distcc on the slow computer and at least one real fast computer with a compiler set to the slow computer's arch. Set the slow computer distcc to 0 so it compiles nothing locally, but it does do the configure/linking/etc. This avoids almost all the cross compilation issues you might run into while getting many of the fast benefits.

New comment by icefox in "‎Chromium Security‎: Site Isolation"

icefox — Fri, 05 Jan 2018 15:08:23 +0000

In Chrome's implementation are the cache, cookiejar, and history all kept completely separate? For example if I go to foo.com and inside that it loads a facebook script in an iframe could it get all the normal facebook cookies or would it be blank? Which "site" would the iframe be?

Back in the day (Around when I ported chrome to Linux for a time context) I wrote up a spec and implemented a browser that did site data compartmentalization. Data leaks from cookies, history and especially cache were not possible because the data just wasn't there to be leaked. It was a pretty cool design that along with per site settings and split view search was definitely ahead of its time. Alas I was forbidden from working on it by my employer at the time and have been watching for some of the features to appear in other browsers since.

https://benjamin-meyer.blogspot.com/2009/08/next-generation-...