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Is there a general name to the way the data is compressed/serialized in SC2 Replays? Yesterday somebody was talking about other ways to serialize/pack data with borsh but not sure it's at all similar... Is the SC1 broodwar replay format similar with byte-alignment and bit "packing"? BTW I call the parsers "bitpacked" or "byte-aligned", but I'm not sure what the right name for them is...

Just curious, how are images protected by login:password? The only way I know is htacess, which isn't really an easily scalable/usable feature... Many years ago, maybe 10 when I used Facebook I recall you could share a picture location with anybody regardless of login (i.e. Right click, copy image location, send over whatever), so the URL wouldn't be guessable or possible to predict, and the protection would be that you would get access to such url only when logged. I think in this context, the private network idea would only work if you are on vpn and you share urls that are only accesible vía vpn, is this a common setup for medical images? Is this expected? I wouldn't mind having a key or an image descrambler/decrypting/token but can't say the same about my grandma, my mother, my brother, my nephews...

Could it be possible to illustrate with an example just for clarity? How does this compare to, say, the Netherlands? For example what are things that are possible in the United States that are not possible in the Netherlands? I would assume there are things that are not legal but not penalised in the latter but under certain conditions would be addressed and penalised and there's no way around it, but would like to know of an example just to make it super clear for me. Thanks!

I only have one eye (retinoblastoma) and have never been able to see through my left eye, you can't imagine the amount of questions that just arrived in my head, do you have some material to explain this a bit more? Specially in regards to the flipping different fields? Thanks so much!

I used to do that very custom setup for a few years... Lately I've settled for https://starship.rs/ doesn't matter the shell the experience is the same. I find it difficult sometimes to use loops or variable creation on fish, so jumping to bash real quick without changing experience is so convenient... Another thing I don't like is that if I create a one liner at work to process batches of files/hosts in fish, then I must translate that to bash in wikis, otherwise people would be forced to use fish to replicate...

I agree with the saturation, It's potentially the end of information, makes me wonder, how do we stop Wikipedia entries being rewritten little by little, what sounds like valid context changes, referencing unaware AI fake content, that is then read by the next AI model, so the "pattern" is kindof preserved and on and on it goes... To me it sounds like a future where archive.org would be the only valid source of information, the rest is saturated by garbage. It's a problem of processing power. The needle in the haystack has a new added factor, fake needles. Where is our red stop button that turns the Internet in read only mode because these garbage generators are running wild? Or what was the name of that project where you would have CDs with information on how to rebuild civilization?

Nannou talks about control of lasers, what would be a way to learn and get a cheap version of a laser beam I could use at home? Or maybe can I use that to control some light projections? I'm not interested in a full projector aimed at a while wall but was more wondering if I could somehow project some satellite movement on my living room walls and ceiling. I remember in Amsterdam there are some "immersive" light shows in Micropia where you see bacteria floating around and in the floor. Also shameless plug, I bridged Alacritty with Nannou so that one can use nannou primitives as alacritty "background" with animations https://github.com/sebosp/chartacritty

This brings me back 20 years ago when I first saw markov chains on an IRC bot that would reply to you as well. I was so amazed that even very rarely it could generate valid-ish combinations, of course we are the ones that would interpret it or have to twist it in so many different ways to "make sense of it". But little by little the nonesense wore out and the bot was just understood as a garbage generator, that you would read now and then when you were bored and had really nothing to do but to talk to a bot and see if any of the strings made valid sense, just for fun see when it would generate something that, to one human being, could be a valid point in a big context, literally throwing words in the air and trying to make sense of the resulting sentence as some sort of philosophical game. At least back then it was just 10 or 15 words per generated garbage batch.

The other thing this reminds me of is the book "Children of Memory", funnily enough I was listening to it when the chatgpt craze started, there's two characters that crack me up, two corvids, no spoilers, but they live in pairs and have access to quotes from earth bibliography and live in a distant future in an alien planet, one would quote things such as "my kingdom for a horse", and the other would reply "but you don't know what it means! what even is a horse... We lost that data to make space for something more relevant to our times" and they would hold this discussions about meaning, they really cracked me up and to me chatgpt is one of the corvids, I hope the other corvids arrive soon and we can get some popcorn at the level of nonesense feedbackless garbage discussions, sort of like that beautiful tale of the seven blind men that want to learn what an elephant is like, each touches a different parts of the elephant and hold discussions about how their contextual interaction is the one truth, one talks about the tail, another the husks, another the trump, another the leg and so on...

I'm gonna ask something awful, but isn't this the end of child porn? It's sad but isn't it the least painful option? I wish it would then lead the people that need mental health to a professional, hell, couldn't we engineer an ai that progressively guides their misguided patterns to an acceptable level? (assuming such a thing exists)

Interesting points!

When I meant different biological machines I meant different humans, Joe, Homer, Steven, Lu, wasn't thinking of different species, that makes it even more difficult to think about!

We have our simulation of the world, with senses that evolved with the purpose of survival and under certain conditions however bizarre gave us the advantage to survive, our senses are flawed, we can't see reality, it would be difficult to wonder how a machine perceives reality when it doesn't have this faulty sensors, it's internal simulation of reality would be difficult for us to grasp, let alone that it lives one level inside the simulation.

The ego part I didn't meant, if I had to rephrase it, I would think about the impossibility of communication, how do we transfer a mental "image" without losing too much of its detail to another biological machine that has very similar but not equal processing stages, like, you my friend, I think the fact that we have this discussion is the first loop of the iteration where we abstract it to another function and ask "well, what if the receiver end doesn't have the capacity to hold discrete numbers, like, if its a child and hasn't learned certain concepts, how do you first teach them in order to give the answer" and so on and on and on... And this is just for Joe, when you talk to Homer you have to follow another approach because he thinks different, a bit slow sometimes too

Silence. You ask it a question and it doesn't reply, it doesn't want to, it's conscious of that "unreasonable silence of the world" (not sure who I am quoting), to me that would convince me its basic awareness of the futility, the lack of interest in finding the words that trigger the chemical process on a biological machine... To one specific biological machine because all these humans are different and think different and explaining to one is different to explaining to the rest and would they get it? Why bother trying to explain computers to an ant, they don't have the circuitry, they were not evolved with the usefulness of understand concepts... Would you like to pass another's lesser conscious test for consciousness? Would you even bother? Why waste your time?

Plainly difficult channel covered it at some point https://youtu.be/nhL0xQzPSy8 I remember liking the explanation/event breakdown, curious why this short documentary link is not in the Wikipedia article

Curious, if I had the list of repos, is there anything that forbids me from `while read url; do git clone $url data;./train data; rm -rf ./data; done`. Besides licensing, ie ratelimit/throttle, similar question, the search for code across all repos provided by github ui gets throttled pretty fast, what do people do? (not suggestion in a hundred(?) years to do the while loop for this tho ;))

What are the chances some sort of united nations institution pays workers to both audit and prevent/harden supply chain attacks? Wondering in light of potential job obsolescence with the progress of ChatGPT and the like, if maybe we can forward the human intellect surplus there... Also, could it be thought as a human right to have access to "safe" environment in the future, I certainly would love if my children do not have to worry about this constant threat at some point or at least the stress can be decreased... Sounds a bit like being paranoid is the only way to go, I wonder too what long term effects this has on mental health, do we as techs view our close ones as less trusted the closer to supply chain attacks we work?

Kindof off-topic, but I had to giggle, recently I bought the tarot from Pixel Spirit, on one side there's a printed shape and on the other side there's a shader code used to generate such shape, I started thinking of "interpretations" as "how else can I achieve this shape with geometry or with other shader functions", its a pretty interesting exercise

ChatGPT advances to be able to tailor a different version of the internet for each person, allowing people to talk in seamingly similar terms but with completely incoherent contexts, mining meaning out of data piles becomes the new gold rush, for which another AI GarbatChGPT is created to identify fake-intelligent content, this creates a new product sold as a browser addon developed by Google that only works on Chrome.

I've been playing around rust generative art (nannou) and shader toys on top of alacritty to experiment with other types of visual feedback and other types of interactions in the terminal, not just at GPU level, granted early stages make it convoluted but IMHO still bearable, https://github.com/sebosp/chartacritty

I struggle to understand their endurance on their live coding sessions, for example https://youtu.be/VYAT6NZUQUE I want to watch them carefully and slowly from the start, it's so good to see the development workflow, testing, etc, initially the music was a bit difficult for me but seeing such progress and knowledge is amazing, just amazing

If this was the case, then here on earth would we see more and more DNA appearing that doesn't follow an expected evolution tree? but then also our current DNA creatures would/could absorb/eat them before they are allowed to adapt to pressure in the surrounding environment?

Sanderson - Mistborn series, not only is an extremely entertaining author, but the end of the series really changes your mind forever, I'm not really sure how to portray this without spoilers.

What is the downside of using vim packs in contrast to vim plugins ? I just do cd ~/.vim/pack/start and from there I git clone the repos and that's it... In my case I usually work in a container and have different packs depending if I'm doing stuff with programming in rust or go or just do configuration management. I really loved the asynchronous functionality in vim8, any nice plugins that take advantage of it? For now I only use it to trigger cargo test and let finish at some point later on: https://github.com/sebosp/linuxtweaks/blob/develop/vimrc#L14...

I see it like being aware of impulse timings in you, for example, I now and then feel the waves of both happiness and sadness, when they come and leave and I understand it's temporary, I realize the mood it leaves and that it will end and as I'm focusing on the effect of it on the body I don't quite take so much place on happiness/depression, more like observe and let it be. This state of acceptance is strange for me when it comes to searching for success/praise at work, it is stranger when remembering new/better job/car/app/travel is needed and it's strangest when searching for a significant other.