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Buddahriffic

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  • Using AI for trading

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  • As I understand, chess AIs are more like brute force models that take the current board and generate a tree with all possible moves from that position, then iterating on those new positions up to a certain depth (which is what the depth of the engine refers to). And while I think some might use other algorithms to "score" each position and try to keep the search to the interesting branches, that could introduce bias that would make it miss some moves that look bad but actually set up a better position, though ultimately, they do need some way to compare between different ending positions if the depth doesn't bring them to checkmate in all paths.

    So it chooses the most intelligent move it can find, but does it by essentially playing out every possible game, kinda like Dr Strange in Infinity War, except chess has a more finite set of states to search through.

  • Unremovable Spyware on Samsung Devices Comes Pre-installed on Galaxy Series Devices

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  • I had an A5 a while back and samsung didn't make me hate them so the next phone I got was an s10. On that phone, they decided that they needed to dedicate a physical button to their fucking virtual assistant bixby. It was pretty obvious to me that these virtual assistants were mostly actually data vacuums, wanting to integrate into every aspect of your life so they can access better data on all those aspects.

    Every single time it opened that fucking thing, it was unintentional. It wasn't as annoying as your TV, since I bet the phone was way faster and had enough memory to not have to discard whatever else you were doing just to open its app, but it exemplifies how I see samsung today. Hardware had great specs but the software made it annoying by trying to lock everything in to their ecosystem without a hard lock like apple. Even MS had ways of disabling the windows button (which used to have a high chance of crashing a game if you accidentally hit it).

  • Gabe Newell caps off Steam Machine week by taking delivery of a new $500 million superyacht with a submarine garage, on-board hospital and 15 gaming PCs

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  • Better boats than politicians.

  • United argues 'window seat' does not mean 'seat with a window'

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  • Yeah, while I do fully believe the deception was intentional, even if that argument is accepted, it better be a decision that involves a "now it's on the record that that's how it's interpreted so stop it or the next one won't go so well for you".

  • You can always emulate Call of Duty for the DS

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  • Yeah, for looks, I'm not sure valve could stop a customization market from popping up even if they wanted to. Case in point: search for "steam deck custom shell"... Ugh, wasn't planning on customizing my deck, but some of them look pretty good. I bet the steam machine will have ones that make it stand out and others that make it blend in with furniture.

  • Save icon

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  • Have you actually had an issue with buffer underruns with blurays though? I'd figure reliability should be way up, considering we now have multi-core CPUs, plus writers probably support variable speed writing that slows the write if the buffer is running out of data, plus error correction/recovery options for if it happens anyways. I'd guess vibrations, low quality discs, and loss of power would be more likely to cause a write failure than a buffer underrun these days, but maybe I have too much faith in those involved.

  • be a friend to the animals

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  • The "AI slop" people have quickly gotten as annoying as the "repost" people or "and then Albert Einstein clapped" people IMO.

  • developer of game 'Rust' talks about anticheat on linux

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  • Same kind of people who lie all the time to look good to others. Some people want to be awesome but know they suck, or even more pathetic don't suck but can't stand not being the best, and cheating is their pathway to getting the social results of being awesome without needing to develop the skills.

    The way I've seen it for ages now, being a loser isn't just about losing games, it's how you handle losing games and how much you internalize that. I see it as short for "sore loser". Cheaters are losers in that sense.

    Though it makes the idea of them still losing despite cheating even more hilarious, which is why I love the idea of games that detect cheaters but stick them in cheating queues instead of just banning them.

  • developer of game 'Rust' talks about anticheat on linux

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  • There's another whole category that also doesn't care about what the game is running on the kernel: seperate device cheats. They act as a man in the middle for the input and output signals, and can auto shoot when you'll hit or adjust your aim if you're close but not quite there. Or just play for you entirely if it's that good at processing the output.

    And blocking that isn't likely possible without killing streaming for the game or convincing all users to get input devices with encrypted connections or they can't play your game.

    I'd respond to the original comment that anyone who doesn't have server side cheat detection isn't serious about stopping cheaters. In any case, I just removed that game from my wishlist. Not that I needed another survival builder game anyways, though they do tend to catch my eye.

  • Playing with dolls

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  • And hopefully the teacher catches that and understands it means their child will likely need more support because these parents likely turn that same face on their kids over the stupidest shit that shouldn't bug anyone.

  • I didn't verify the headline.

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  • He must think his god is very weak if all it takes are magnets to... uh make you forget about him? What exactly does he even mean by magnets sucking god from people's minds? Wait, maybe it's a bad attempt at a blowjob joke?

  • Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin

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  • Windows 10 had a better kernel than 7. Unfortunately, that kernel was packaged with the rest of windows 10.

  • Prince Tarantino

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  • Also Kill Bill Vol. 1 didn't have him. But Vol. 2 does.

  • Aeroplane

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  • Ok, first take a deep breath and calm down. Airspeed low is a good thing, you need to take this slowly! If the shaking of the steering wheel bugs you too much, they are adjustable, you just need to push it away from you.

    Now one of the biggest dangers to planes flown randomly around the sky is other planes, so you need to get on the radio with air traffic control and request permission to crash and they can give you a clear vector from your current position to a suitable crash site.

    If you're lucky, there will be a nearby deserted island, in which case surviving the crash will make a much more interesting story than a plane crashing on a deserted island and everyone dying (or maybe the island will be purgatory or something and you really did die, or maybe purgatory will be a version where you didn't crash... Be prepared to be very confused, especially since you won't get to see any of the flashbacks that gives context to everyone who will lie about everything, even stupid shit like miraculously being able to walk again or other things that would be cool to talk about).

    Oh, that is unless you're one of the few adults on a plane full of kids, in which case, sorry, you're fucked.

  • Air traffic controllers start resigning as shutdown bites

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  • I'd put it like this:

    Your mom and dad give you a credit card plus $600 in allowance each month and expect you to cover all expenses, including groceries, maintenance, plus the cost of hiring a cleaning service using those, which totals $800 per month. Oh, also a bunch of guns, so it's more like $1100 per month.

    Anyways, every now and then, your credit card hits its limit and mom and dad need to agree to raise the credit limit. And if they don't, then you refuse to pay for anything. Except the guns, but they are only like $300, so the $600 a month will cover them easily.

    Oh but the cleaning staff should still come, they just won't get paid until the credit limit is raised.

  • They even do Price Discrimination on video games now

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  • Reminds me of the time I installed a 3d modelling program at work and decided I liked it and pirated it at home.

    The work one took weeks of troubleshooting on my own with the instructions followed by email back and forth with support. And the business I worked for had a partner license the whole time. Their DRM involved a dongle in the parallel port and a license server running on the local machine.

    At home, I decided one day to use it to make test files for a raytracer I was writing, found it, downloaded it, installed it, and was running it by the end of the night without any of the fancy shit they tried to add to prevent this.

    That was when I learned that that pain in the ass DRM was only a pain in the ass for legitimate users and lazy/naive piraters.

  • There's a trick to it...

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  • Yeah patient gamers check in!

    When you feel like it, that is, assuming checking in lives up to any of the hype or seems fun at all.

    For impatient gamers, pre-order checking in right now and I, uh... And my LLC pinky promises that checking in will be amazing, so you better give me money to reserve it now in case we run out of check ins by the time you get to the front of the line. You don't want to miss out on something great, do you?

  • Jarvis, arm the valediction

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  • It could also mean something like, "I am going to challenge your opinion but don't intend it as a challenge to your position". Or even, "I respect your opinion and think you might be right, but I don't understand it, so here's the thing that has me confused so we can clear it up and get on the same page".

  • võ thị thắng

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  • There's nothing wrong with asking questions, even if the answers aren't hard to find using other ways. Like I appreciate the question because it was something that had never even occurred to me, as obvious as it was in hindsight.

    And even when the question is being asked in bad faith, discouraging people from asking questions can give them more credibility rather than less, because it looks like (soft) censorship, especially to anyone else who thinks it's a good question.