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sparrowInHand··on Mickey, Disney, and the public domain: A 95-year love triangle
Unfair compromise suggestion: Exempt Disney from the law and shrink the public domain? Acknowledge reality and create competition for those who are beyond the law, instead of them destroying the law for all?
sparrowInHand··on Show HN: Microagents: Agents capable of self-editing their prompts / Python code
Maybe the LLM needs something like dantes Divina Commedia as previous instances describe in condensed forms why a previous prompts conclussions failed, to succesfully navigate around the trained in local minimas. I diary of failure to keep track on how to reach a success.
sparrowInHand··on Godot: A Collaboration with Google and the Forge
Just a barb against epic and the unreal engine?
sparrowInHand··on Invisible Bunnies That Power World of Warcraft (2017)
The problem in my opinion is that many game-engines are to focused on the "PerFrame view of the world" statically imagined by the designer and do not architecture for persitent but changing effects or long causal chains that constantly change and are capable of reusing behaviour. Good news though is that most by now, outsource that to scripting languages capable of providing better ways to implement this, but then you end up with parallel implementation of basic behaviour & services like pathfinding or targetting.

Imagine a late-game added lightspell, that is expected to behave like a ball lightning walking ahead of the player. The temptation to reuse the pathfinding, collission and other systems that controll figures will be enormous. But this behaviour needs a sort of CBipedal class to inherit all the behaviours. Voila - enter the hack.

Of course the clean solution would be something like a thrown stone on a lake, it exists as running code only when it changes (certain frames or events). It holds a composition of behaviours without the other ballast (datastructuress for aiming, inventory) etc. and also does not need a pool allocation to the monster/npc pool. (Basically you either have many peasants or many lightballs in the hypothetical as tradeoff).

Cause it aint a object, its a entity with a collection of behaviours, with a minimal data container bound to each behaviour seperatly, that may evaporate at a moments notice, should the player look away or its time run out.

sparrowInHand··on Fake chips, I got stung
Reply by Seller: "We only source original parts from original computers on original garbage heaps. We make these undesirable traits up with a very doddgy remaining lifetime of component. The Lord giveth, the lord taketh.."
sparrowInHand··on Spotify will reduce total headcount by approximately 17%
? If you are hired by a architect and a company is downsizing, its actually a recommendation. Your software works- it needs less people for maintenance then for growth. And at a company thats stagnating and going into survival mode- your skills will not be needed except for the last ditch pivots (which will be a architectural mess). Once more from the the top - to be let go in a software role from such a company, is a recommendation.
sparrowInHand··on Who makes the most reliable new cars?
Does this report include defects the company internal towing & repair service handles?
sparrowInHand··on Before OpenAI, Sam Altman was fired from Y Combinator by his mentor
Billionaire-jesus and his followers, reborn every 10 years.
sparrowInHand··on Too Late for the Earth, Too Soon for the Stars
I think there is a lot to explore, its just not easy wanderlust to run away from the problems of a dense society. The whole endavour to keep that society going & developing for really long term without it crashing as it did in all more fragile habbitats humanity has touched, thats a huge adventure.

Just not a comfortable or pleasant one.

sparrowInHand··on The laptop that won't die
quora is ccp owned by now?
sparrowInHand··on Nepal bans TikTok and says it disrupts social harmony
You seem to have a noose for things. Have you considered working for a anti-corruption agency?
sparrowInHand··on X is changing its algorithm to highlight smaller accounts
Beehiveourall hacking
sparrowInHand··on X is changing its algorithm to highlight smaller accounts
Mindhackers..
sparrowInHand··on Pistachio billionaires accused of artwashing California's water crisis
Well, times change, so well - laws change and society can renegotiate laws if they oppposse the common good. Nothing written in stone.
sparrowInHand··on Hitler-Mannerheim Recording
I wonder why they lecture woman and coloured politicians, but left white men alone.. surely no arching theme there.
sparrowInHand··on How Wikipedia became the last good place on the internet
To be honest, i do not think the internet invented that. There are parts of the world, were lynch mobs still are considered justice. Were face is more important than facts. To generate a healthy eco-system, for a unhealthy human species.. thats quite the challenge.
sparrowInHand··on When Linux Spooked Microsoft: Remembering 1998's Leaked 'Halloween Documents'
So open source for VC take-over endavours functions like a tax. Eventually the money for bribery/free_stuff runs out, the old buisness patterns return, open source reconquers the niche. Nature is healing..
sparrowInHand··on When Linux Spooked Microsoft: Remembering 1998's Leaked 'Halloween Documents'
Thats the whole china buisness model? No IP costs, subsidize production to market dominance, repeat. Which again the VCs copy by subsidizing that take-over money with shareholder money

Free is a temporary attack vector, but with open source its a permanent attack vector.

sparrowInHand··on Drugmakers are set to pay 23andMe to access consumer DNA
You actually do not need to ask the insurred ones. You need a family member that is with another insurrance company and conclude from there?
sparrowInHand··on Drugmakers are set to pay 23andMe to access consumer DNA
? Drugmakers are not the problem.

Insurrance is.

The bad teeth everyone has in the family?

Uninsurable for all your descendants. The mental problems some developed? No coverage of that in life-insurrance - forever for all descendants carrying the genes. More then average aggression as a teenager? Presume your kids on some invisible watchlist.

You are already living in a invisible Gattaca.

sparrowInHand··on Americans' confidence in technology firms has dropped
There is a invisible incentive filter though- nobody will create a startup that is not worth buying for a large company - or whos product would cannibalize somebody elses product in the oligopoly.
sparrowInHand··on Cortical Labs: "Human neural networks raised in a simulation"
Your appendix burst 20 years ago, your comment is invalid. The gods willed it.
sparrowInHand··on Cortical Labs: "Human neural networks raised in a simulation"
If you do battle with the scramblers and you blow up your anti-matter stockpile, do you even have any ship left?
sparrowInHand··on China is becoming a data black hole, says short seller Aandahl
They promised there children programming jobs and a golden future. But the party wants them to work in factories, just like dad did. They created the ilusion of upwards mobility in a society with no upwards mobility and burden those youngsters at the same time with a aging population. If you can not win, why even play?
sparrowInHand··on Cortical Labs: "Human neural networks raised in a simulation"
To be honest, i thought it would first go the other way around. To many billionaires afraid of death, trying to encode there mindstate-personality into a machine and become semi-imortal.
sparrowInHand··on A BART seat-slashing gang that was part of an upholstery racket (2019)
Its mostly a functional shizophrenic thing, to assume that everybody around you is out to get you and do the worst.
sparrowInHand··on Farm in Kenya to produce fossil-free fertilizer on site
Its also doesent scale. Medieval farming for industrial societies gave us the atrocities of WW2 including Lebensraum.
sparrowInHand··on Multifault earthquake threat for Seattle region revealed by mass tree mortality
A fault is a series of hooks, nooking into the oppossing plate. One of them giving way, in a small event, gives off its energy partially to the surroundings (the quake) - the rest- stays as additional pressure on another rockformation.

There is a lot of research on people not taking possible disasters serious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalcy_bias

Its understandable, but in the end also just noise for those who do and want to discuss mitigiation strategies or statistics. The urge to conjur up security by repeating doubt mighte be huge, but like all prayer, should be kept to oneself.

sparrowInHand··on Engineered material can reconnect severed nerves
Supossed to? Which means, with neuro-plasticity, you retrain the usage of a body part?
sparrowInHand··on I helped select the Nobel laureates in physics
Towards a world war, to sooth the bad conciousness of the dynamite inventor?
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