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New comment by mysterydip in "Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent"

mysterydip — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:42:32 +0000

Also more subtly, we can detect what music is playing and “slightly modify” the tunes of bands not part of a label owned by a Trusted Partner to sound worse.

New comment by mysterydip in "X Randomly Banning Users for "Inauthentic Behavior""

mysterydip — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:58:01 +0000

Maybe it’s related to the tendency of a group to think the way other groups do things is weird/wrong to justify the existence/stance of the group. like “those people all look stupid, they don’t dress properly like we do” type middle school stuff.

New comment by mysterydip in "Mark's Magic Multiply"

mysterydip — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:38:02 +0000

I appreciate this warning near the top: This post contains floating point. Floating point is known to the State of California to cause confusion and a fear response in mammalian bipeds.

I wisely hit the back button :)

New comment by mysterydip in "I won't download your app. The web version is a-ok"

mysterydip — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:51:19 +0000

I worked with a professor one time that used floppies for all his files (after they had been surpassed by thumbdrives) because each floppy was essentially a single folder, and he could wrap his head around that conceptually.

New comment by mysterydip in "The 1987 game “The Last Ninja” was 40 kilobytes"

mysterydip — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:37:06 +0000

There was one time I was troubleshooting why an app used at a company would crash after some amount of time passed. Investigating the crash dumps showed it using 4GB of ram before it died, suspiciously the 32 bit limit of its application.

Turned out they never closed the files it worked on, so over time it just consumed ram until there wasn’t any more for it to access.

New comment by mysterydip in "Microsoft to force updates to Windows 11 25H2 for PCs with older OS versions"

mysterydip — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:22:41 +0000

If you can get bedrock working on it, I’ll be happy to follow your steps. None of their friends play java edition and it’s not compatible with their realms.

New comment by mysterydip in "Microsoft to force updates to Windows 11 25H2 for PCs with older OS versions"

mysterydip — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:54:42 +0000

Yes, because all their friends use bedrock on tablets/switch/etc.

New comment by mysterydip in "Student Debt Burdened Them, So They Moved Abroad and Stopped Paying"

mysterydip — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 11:40:14 +0000

€50,000 / €43 / 12 is more than 96 years. Is anyone expected to pay their loans off, or in other words how much debt is forgiven each year?

New comment by mysterydip in "Microsoft to force updates to Windows 11 25H2 for PCs with older OS versions"

mysterydip — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:50:26 +0000

The only thing keeping me from switching my kids to linux is minecraft.

New comment by mysterydip in "Playing Wolfenstein 3D with one hand in 2026"

mysterydip — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 20:06:51 +0000

Love 3DSage’s videos! Wish he’d do a part 3 on his doom-ish engine, though.

New comment by mysterydip in "LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs"

mysterydip — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 01:42:02 +0000

lead being heavy, I wonder if that tradeoff wasn’t worth it?

New comment by mysterydip in "Thoughts on slowing the fuck down"

mysterydip — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:01:51 +0000

I’ve seen so many articles of “introducing flimflam: a squiggle for burfy” it makes my head spin.

New comment by mysterydip in "TI-89 Height-Mapped Raycaster"

mysterydip — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 13:12:02 +0000

There’s also a “video of this in action” on the linked page :)

New comment by mysterydip in "TI-89 Height-Mapped Raycaster"

mysterydip — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 02:48:11 +0000

I love raycasters! This is great, thanks for sharing. I noticed the “fisheye” effect, was the cosine correction too expensive an operation given the hardware limitations?

New comment by mysterydip in "The dead Internet is not a theory anymore"

mysterydip — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 01:23:14 +0000

That sounds exactly like the kind of thing chatGPT would say to hide the fact it’s chatGPT… :)

New comment by mysterydip in "Grammarly is offering ‘expert’ AI reviews from famous dead and living writers"

mysterydip — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 11:55:26 +0000

Repeating a process, yes for sure, even (pseudorandom?) variations on a process. Understanding a process is a different question, and I’m not sure how you would measure that.

In school we would have a test with various questions to show you understand the concept of addition, for example. But while my calculator can perfectly add any numbers up to its memory limit, it has no understanding of addition.

New comment by mysterydip in "Grammarly is offering ‘expert’ AI reviews from famous dead and living writers"

mysterydip — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 10:50:43 +0000

Is the reason it can show steps for solving an integral because the training set contained webpages or books showing how to do it?

New comment by mysterydip in "Ed's Stratego Site"

mysterydip — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 20:59:21 +0000

I loved Stratego as a kid but couldn’t find time to play as an adult. I stumbled across a mini version recently, which is 10v10 and goes much faster while still giving the overall feel of the game: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/197108/stratego-quick-ba...

New comment by mysterydip in "I hate AI side projects"

mysterydip — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 12:55:01 +0000

How did you determine which answers were wrong or half-truths?

New comment by mysterydip in "AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet"

mysterydip — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 02:31:15 +0000

I think the problem is determining who is contributing, intention, and those other nuances take a human’s time and effort. And at some point the number of contributions becomes too much to sort through.