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hypertele-Xii

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hypertele-Xii··on What If Ozempic Is Just a Good Thing?
I'm talking about having the self-discipline to work out, which is the same self-discipline required for fasting. If you manage to work out, you can manage to not eat. All I hear is a bunch of excuses and trying to create lab drugs to work around this fundamental weakness of character. It won't work, because the same weakness will simply destroy you through some other thing you won't control for better outcomes.
hypertele-Xii··on Aliens and the Enlightenment
> But we have sent probes to other worlds? What is science fiction about this?

Probes aren't space travel for humans.

> A manned mission to Mars is entirely feasible with current technology.

As no manned missions to Mars have ever proven this conjecture, it is still entirely speculation on your part.

> A manned mission to another solar system is going to be very-very difficult, we'd need generational space ship/habitats. Note that difficult is not the same as impossible.

No, it is impossible. Humans cannot survive in space that long. Never have, currently can't, and there's no precedent to assume it ever becomes possible. Pure speculation on your part.

hypertele-Xii··on Aliens and the Enlightenment
They are not living in space, they are temporary visitors on an unstable structure that requires constant resupply from Earth, absent of which they will all die and the structure falls back to Earth and is destroyed. Even with indefinite resupply, astronauts have to return to Earth for health reasons, because our bodies did not evolve / were not designed for space. Astronauts get irradiated and lose reproductive fertility.
hypertele-Xii··on Nintendo Files Suit for Infringement of Patent Rights Against Pocketpair, Inc
Sometimes you can catch a flying health pickup. Actual gameplay.
hypertele-Xii··on Nintendo Files Suit for Infringement of Patent Rights Against Pocketpair, Inc
Rayman Origins and Legends from Ubisoft have loading screens where you can move around, sometimes even catch a powerup.
hypertele-Xii··on Aliens and the Enlightenment
Space travel isn't currently possible. It ever becoming possible is pure speculation on your part. No man has ever left the Earth and set up shop elsewhere and lived. None. Zilch. It's science fiction.
hypertele-Xii··on What If Ozempic Is Just a Good Thing?
Imagine taking drugs instead of working out.
hypertele-Xii··on Conservative GC can be faster than precise GC
If you exhaust memory, it gets paged to disk, increasing access latency. I.e. You have to wait longer.
hypertele-Xii··on Conservative GC can be faster than precise GC
You're thinking in terms of space, now consider the same concept in the dimension of time.

Branch misprediction is a permanent loss. You will never get those nanoseconds back.

hypertele-Xii··on Is My Blue Your Blue?
Since purple-red contains no green, yellow is orthogonal to your scale.
hypertele-Xii··on Conservative GC can be faster than precise GC
I take it there are languages that are locked to a particular GC, and this is a point of pain and friction? A good garbage collected language would make automated memory management both optional and modular. I recall D having a GC that can be disabled?
hypertele-Xii··on Is My Blue Your Blue?
Human language is precise. Equal parts green and blue is the technical definition of cyan. Why are you imposing an erroneously calibrated device upon the whole of human language? Cyan doesn't stop being cyan just because your monitor is broken.
hypertele-Xii··on Conservative GC can be faster than precise GC
Computer programming is full of probabilistic edge cases with ridiculous costs that are amortized over normal use. Most optimization, encoding, and compression is based on statistics.

If your use case requires a minimum bound, use another algorithm.

hypertele-Xii··on Is My Blue Your Blue?
Open up any digital drawing program. Adjust the color. Max out green and blue. That's cyan. Equal parts both.
hypertele-Xii··on Is My Blue Your Blue?
Cyan is literally an even mix of blue and green.
hypertele-Xii··on Is My Blue Your Blue?
Turquoise is dark cyan, no? So equal parts green and blue.
hypertele-Xii··on Researchers find Alzheimer's-like brain changes in long Covid patients
Keep feeding that Pride demon. Albert Einstein believed in God. Who are you to talk down to Einstein?
hypertele-Xii··on Diffusion models are real-time game engines
I simply cannot take seriously anyone who exclaims that monster death animations are a minor part of Doom. It's literally a game about slaying demons. Gameplay consists almost entirely of explosions and gore, killing monsters IS THE GAME, if you can't even get that correct then what nonsense are we even looking at.
hypertele-Xii··on Researchers find Alzheimer's-like brain changes in long Covid patients
Or a passage from the holy Bible.

The wisdom of the wise men will perish. Isaiah 29:14

For it is written: "I will make the wisdom of the wise men perish, and the intelligence of the intellectuals I will reject." 1. Corinthians 1:19

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God, for it is written: "He catches the wise in their own cunning." 1. Corinthians 3:19

The wise have been put to shame. They have become terrified and will be caught. Look! They have rejected the word of Jehovah, And what wisdom do they have? Jeremiah 8:9

hypertele-Xii··on Researchers find Alzheimer's-like brain changes in long Covid patients
I'm not against vaccination. What is vaccination? An injection of deactivated bits of the disease into the bloodstream so the immune system can identify and begin producing antibodies against the disease prior to actual infection.

I'm against COVID "vaccines". What are COVID "vaccines"? An injection of mRNA genetic material that spreads around the body and reprograms your own cells to manufacture bits of the disease, so the immune system can blah blah etc.

Now please explain to me, why is the mRNA experimental gene therapy a required component of vaccination? Why couldn't they just inject bits of the virus like literally every single vaccine has worked since their invention? Why did we need to reprogram healthy people's cells to manufacture spike proteins that are like tiny little knives stabbing them from the inside, forever?

Well because vaccinating the population against the disease was never the goal. The goal was to push a mandatory genetic experiment and see if people react. They didn't. So get ready for your next round of mandatory gene therapy under the guise of "vaccination"!

hypertele-Xii··on A Video Game Dynamo with Ideas Always Swirling
Painting a racist picture oppressing creativity where there is none.

> Other Black developers know there is a struggle behind Nelson’s success. “Every game company says they want new ideas from Black developers, They’ll talk to you. They’ll say nice things. But they won’t come up with the money.”

All developers share this struggle regardless of skin color. Big money doesn't invest in creativity, industry stagnates with yearly clones with increasing numbers at the end, getting blander and blander. Everyone with weird ideas has to become independent to express themselves. The game engines, libraries, and tools that exist don't discriminate on skin color, so attempting to frame it as such is some weird American racism propaganda.

hypertele-Xii··on Diffusion models are real-time game engines
Also The Matrix, Oblivion, etc.
hypertele-Xii··on Diffusion models are real-time game engines
Then why do monsters become blurry smudgy messes when shot? That looks like a video compression artifact of a neural network attempting to replicate low-structure image (source material contains guts exploding, very un-structured visual).
hypertele-Xii··on Against all odds, an asteroid mining company appears to be making headway
So basically everywhere under the sky.
hypertele-Xii··on Against all odds, an asteroid mining company appears to be making headway
Silver is antimicrobial. Gold is highly conductive.

If we had these materials in absurd excess, we could literally build hospitals from silver and the electric grid from gold, and it would be great for our civilization.

hypertele-Xii··on Roblox is the biggest game in the world, but is unprofitable
My dad let me gamble my allowance against himself in poker. Lost it all, obviously. Was quite heartbroken he wouldn't give it back, but I sure learned a lesson :)
hypertele-Xii··on Relationships are coevolutionary loops (2023)
The evolutionary illusion of a loop is part of the very same higher purpose :P
hypertele-Xii··on Relationships are coevolutionary loops (2023)
You might have existential imposter syndrome.
hypertele-Xii··on Cosmic simulation reveals how black holes grow and evolve
If by "reveals" you mean "predicts", then yes.
hypertele-Xii··on Let's stop counting centuries
Imagine how much code is being rewritten all the time for a variety of reasons. Code is live and must be maintained. Adding one more reason isn't much of a stretch.
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