I was obsessed with the idea of music production as an engine within a game a long time ago. It was just something I came across in passing when I read about how Elder Scrolls Online created a soundtrack in a similar manner. This resurfaced in my mind again when I started digging into Suno and other AI-generated music recently and it's kind of fun to wonder what'll be possible with storytelling in games and visual novels with the ability to limitlessly adapt and change based on player interactions.
If I remember correctly, another game with a similar music system is Deus Ex from 2000. It is pretty approachable. If you own a copy, open any of the s3m music files in your favorite mod tracker editor. Each song file contains multiple versions of song sequences, depending on the mood (idle, battle, ...).
I remember reading a PC Magazine article about Rogue Squadron for the N64. Apparently it was one of the first games to feature a context specific soundtrack.
First one I remember it in was X-Wing (1993), five years before Rogue Squadron. Looks like Monkey Island 2 (1991) was the first to use the system. Dark Forces used it, too.
What’s the best screen size for reading manga on an eInk display? I’ve always had issues with the entry level Kindles cutting things off or requiring scrolling to get the bottom section of a page. It’s been a long time since I tried this but I’ve always wanted to get my collection on a Kindle or other reader!
I would say at least 7", 8" or 9" would be better. 10" and above are awesome for comic reading, but their weight are too heavy and size are too large for portable usage.
I'm using the Kobo Libra H2O which is 7", it's okay for comic but I wish I had bought the Kobo Forma 8" at the time.
I think until we solve the knowledge supplementation problem (i.e., libraries providing extensive examples and LLMs being capable of ingesting, referencing, and incorporating it quickly) we’ll be headed for a tech monoculture—one framework or library for every solution. There’s been some talk about this already with some developers preferring to use older libraries or sticking within the confines of what their LLM of choice was trained on.
Actually, I had a hardware project where I found myself gravitating toward the microcontrollers and sensors ChatGPT was already familiar with. In this case, I cared more about my project working than about actually learning/mastering my understanding of the hardware. There’s still time for that but I’ve been able to get something working quickly rather than letting my notebook of ideas fill with even more pages of guilt and unfinished dreams…
I don’t think this is it either. Svelte actually has specially-compiled documentation for LLM ingest which I’ve tried supplying. It’s moderately less prone to directly write react, but still writes react-isms pretty often. Eg instead of $effect I’ll get useEffect(), or it’ll start writing svelte 4 and old $ syntax versus runes.
With the Python backend tests I did, it just barfed out absolute garbage. Fastapi and sqlalchemy are so common there’s not a great excuse here. I’d tell it what routes I needed written for a given table/set of models pre-written and I even tested with a very basic users example just to see. No dice; they were always syntactically valid but the business logic was egregiously wrong.
I just don't think that's true. This seems like a really pessimistic take. Is it truly "globalist world domination" — implying that our corporate overlords want us to live like this? Or is it purely function and aesthetic? Capitalism puts power in the hands of consumers—sure, marketing has an influence—but also, we as consumers are the ultimate deciders. Cost, labor, and wealth. All are influences in the deciding of what we choose to buy. If what we have today is lifeless, I think it's of our own collective choosing.
To be fair though, these photos are breathtaking. Pre-industrial era Japan is a place I'd love to visit and the history of this transformation is steeped in fear, modernizing in response to Western powers (look up Matthew Perry—naval officer, not the actor lol).
You can't be serious, right? As a consumer, where can I choose to buy a printer with no planned obsolescence? Or a food item with no plastic packaging? In capitalism we do not, in fact, have the power you describe, because only the most profitable products are sold at scale, not the most desirable.
> Honey, I think we’re ready for the next step in our relationship. Let’s exchange (GPG) keys! I just need to see two forms of identification before I sign. ;)
I used to use qemu-user-static to run ARM Linux distros like Buildroot, Yocto, and Raspbian on x88_64. It worked surprisingly well! Outside of some minor bugs here and there, it was perfect for local development, emulating an embedded system I was working on.
NileRed has a humorous YouTube video where he bakes cookies using only NIST reference ingredients. It costs something like $2000 to bake a single cookie and has all the flavor of cardboard.
Isn't that the entire point of everything done? Crazy wild ass things nobody in their right mind would try, but getting to watch someone else do it drives those views.
Usually the expectation is that this someone knows what they're doing, and it was weird how in this particular video that just didn't apply, at all. It was like watching him do chemistry video without having any idea what amounts of base chemicals to use or what steps to follow and just making it up in order to conclude "this doesn't work, the base chemicals are clearly bad" at the end of it =)
Yeah his recipe was very odd. That sort of cooking is very fiddly. I rubbished a whole batch of cookies a few weeks ago just by cooking them ~2 mins too long. Sweats seem to be very exacting one what you need to do to make them come out correctly. Other kinds of cooking you can +/- a lot of things and still get something good. Sweats on the other hand. You better get it 'just right'.
Can confirm. Baking by mass, cooking by eyeballing amounts into the pan and constant tasting.
About the only time my cooking is science is candy. Every degree matters, percentage matters so much, etc. A few degrees means crystals are radically different.
Imo both cooking and baking are "science" until you have the requisite experience to mess around, then they both become art. You can absolutely guess your way into a great cake recipe based on feel.
I think the two important differences are that the results of bad cooking tend to be slightly more edible than the results of bad baking, so many people don't even realize they can't cook. And many more people are forced into cooking via necessity, so the average skill level is higher.
Having a temperature preference for steak is just that, preference. Saltiness is a preference. As is most things in cooking.
Raw dough is always raw dough. You can't fake rising, etc.
Not to mention, if you watch cooking/baking shows, you'll see just how much overlap there really is. Some challenges in Masterchef involves baked goods, cakes, macaroons, etc. Some challenges in the Great British Baking Show involves cooking things. Either to make savory pies or to make compotes or jams, etc.
It's certainly true that there is plenty of science in cooking and plenty of art in baking. My comment is very reductive.
That said, cooking is generally far more forgiving that baking. If you put some amount of chicken in an oven set to a temperature of "very hot", you'll eventually have cooked chicken.
If you mix some amount of flour, water, and yeast, let it sit for some amount of time, and then put it in a "very hot" oven, you're unlikely to end up with what anyone would call "bread". It may not even really be that edible unless you were to grind it back into a power and mix it with water.
I'll back you up here. While i don't do a lot of baking, I've done enough over my life to get a feel for what the ingredients do. I adjust enough that I think most folks would describe it as "not following the recipe".
I will often reduce sugar, add things (cocoa, nuts and so on). As an example if you add cocoa you need to add fluid to compensate. More butter (or oil) leads to a "wetter" crumb and so on.
It takes more experience than regular cooking to do this though, and th feedback cycle is slower.
If you please, I request Type III, Style D, shape (d). Low-fat sugar cookies in patriotic shapes, including but not limited to Uncle Sam, Bald Eagle, Torch of Liberty, Letters "USA", American Flag, Statue of Liberty, etc.
He makes a big deal of the cookie being pure, like the ingredients he is using are superior to ordinary ingredients. But they aren't. They are reference ingredients, merely intended to be precise rather than pure. You can buy human waste from NIST too.
The reference flour is like a decade old. Not exactly optimal for actual baking.
Yes! I’ve used Etymotic Research’s concert/motorcycle earplugs for a few years now but there are a few others on the market for mild noise reduction. It’s roughly a 10 dB reduction and makes a lot of loud sounds more tolerable (including toddler temper tantrums) while also still being able to have conversations. I keep a pair in every bag and find them pretty helpful in loud restaurants and bars. I keep my AirPods as a backup, sometimes with some brown and pink noise (slightly lower pitch than white noise).
Sharon Goldberg is active in the research areas of Internet Security, such as BGP and such.
Nadia Heningner is active in cryptography and network security, I first heard about her from her work on factorable.net.
Marc Stevens has been attacking cryptographic hash implementations for ages and has done profound work, see shattered.io although before that he was attacking MD5 I believe.
