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22nd January 2024, 08:47 | #44121 | |
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nerd in erp is raving about Palworld, built using Unreal Engine 5. he was showing me some in-game youtubes, must admit, shit looks amazing.
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22nd January 2024, 13:39 | #44122 |
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It's so dumb, but it's now the record holder for the largest concurrent player count on Steam.
Crazy stuff. It's blatantly copying Pokemon and adds the odd AK-47 to spice things up. It's launched pretty cheap too, which helps. I won't get it until I see if it's got any longetivity once the "Pokemon with guns" novelty has worn off.
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22nd January 2024, 15:27 | #44123 |
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Hows yous fullas doing over there in Aus right now? I hear it's starting to cook a little?
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22nd January 2024, 22:49 | #44124 |
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Numba allows you to write [basic/primitive] code in Python, and it uses a JIT compiler to translate it automatically into C/CUDA code for GPUs. I got a 1700x speedup from a test doing 51200 x 2048 element array of int16 operations (basic carry operation after doing convolution [long multiplication-ish]). I wasn't operating on each element independently, because they had to run sequentially (n+1 values depend on prior n values), so it was basically just massively parallel (51200 threads) "Python" code. Considering Python is terrible with threading, jumping straight to GPU automatically is fantastic, and just requires a one line decorator (@cuda.jit) and another line to fetch the thread ID you're working on and using that to pick the part of the array (in this case a row) you're working on.
1.083 seconds with GTX1060 vs 28 minutes 22 seconds with Ryzen 5500 (yes, I let it run for half an hour). It's slower to use CUDA for a single operation, because you're compiling a kernel, copying memory, operating, copying back, but when you scale up, it doesn't even flinch. Loving it. Lots of "brogrammers" mock Python, and there are good reasons to criticize it if you stay only within the strictly Python sphere and try to do things outside its use cases, but Python is more than Python. It's Verilog (MyHDL), it's CUDA (Numba), it's C (numpy), it's a better Perl, it's fast to write, and it's so simple but very powerful. Use the right tool for the job, but 90% of the time it's Python with the right libraries (insert xkcd comic). I did sidestep to C++ for a bit, but if CUDA happens automagically, I'm going to stick with Python. Straight from prototype (CPU) to "production" (GPU) by adding a decorator. Magic.
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6th February 2024, 08:33 | #44125 | |
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Got around to finishing this one, and I kept thinking that something was missing. It was a bit hard to keep track of his various girlfriends, but a note in the epilogue summed it up - some people were missed out, by request - that's why I didn't click to any mention of KillCreek. (She was mentioned as Stevie, a manager when they left Ion Storm but that was about it.) Lots of detail around level design. Refers to "Masters of Doom" a bit so a good companion piece. I didn't know (or remember) that they used SGI Indy's for graphic design - I assumed it was all on NeXT boxes. A whole chapter on Columbine, but this time my schoolmate Brendon Wyber doesn't get name checked. He mentions that he has a massive archive of all the original design docs, which he is slowly donating to various pop culture museums. Not a bad read if you have an interest in the industry, or even if you worked in a similar environment over the years. Next on my list is BritSoft:An oral history. Last edited by StN : 6th February 2024 at 08:36. |
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Had a random thought to visit the old haunt. Good to see it's still around.
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7th February 2024, 22:17 | #44127 |
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I did 208 000 steps over a 3 day + 3 night festival. 6 hours sleep. My ankle was swollen but I took ibuprofen and ignored it.
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8th February 2024, 13:44 | #44128 |
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Gotta load up on energy drinks and socks for that kind of activity!
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8th February 2024, 13:47 | #44129 | |
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8th February 2024, 21:25 | #44130 | |
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10th February 2024, 13:47 | #44131 | |
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10th February 2024, 13:55 | #44132 | |
Beaner!
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10th February 2024, 15:50 | #44133 |
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Simulation confirmed!
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12th February 2024, 13:51 | #44134 |
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my 8 year old kiddo has his first nogi submission tourny in 2 weeks time.
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14th February 2024, 08:17 | #44135 |
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15th February 2024, 15:04 | #44136 | |
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@Ab - some days I'm not sure myself, but will settle for still married, still playing, still gaming, corporate sellout.
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16th February 2024, 20:40 | #44137 |
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According to my analysis of a wordset/dictionary definitions, the 10 most "ambiguous" words in the English language (as far as parsing plain text by a machine that has no context) are:
cut break run play make light draw clear give hold when ordered by number of meanings. For example, "cut" has 70 definitions (some similar, some quite distinct)!
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17th February 2024, 13:19 | #44138 |
Raptus regaliter
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355 million lol's today, plus interest.
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17th February 2024, 13:24 | #44139 |
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Interest will add about $100m to it, too.
GG His legal team have decided against appealing a court’s decision that found he is not immune from civil lawsuits that blame him for the Jan. 6 attack too, so there's those to come.
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17th February 2024, 13:25 | #44140 | |
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20th February 2024, 00:03 | #44141 |
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I bought some replacement earpads for my Sennheiser headphones from eBay. The listing included my model number, so I assumed they were correct. But of course, China. While the material was better (fake leather rather than the original very thin layer of rubbery plastic stuff which dries and flakes from shaving stubble leaving you with black shit all around your ears and mangy looking pads), the dimensions were wrong, and the earpads were too big compared to the originals, so they moved around on the plastic mount and would come off very easily.
I did the obvious thing, which is take photos and request a refund, but then I cut some plastic washer/spacers out of an ice cream container lid and traced around a coffee cup with a Sharpie and used the plastic mount as the inner template so I knew how big to make the hole for the sound to go through. The pads fit tight around the lid, and the mount clips in, holding everything in place and now the pads are snug and don't move and are comfortably larger around my ears, and hopefully won't put black shit on my face. No obvious sign of ghetto mods. China obliged, and I got my refund.
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20th February 2024, 12:38 | #44142 |
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Basically if there's a NZ news story involving railways, I assume there's been some incredibly expensive fuckup for which noone is responsible.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/wairar...HA55A63BL7NZI/ |
20th February 2024, 12:53 | #44143 |
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It's our political cycle. We flip between the builders and the "fiscally responsible".
I hope you don't have plans to cross the Cook Strait anytime in the next 30 years.
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21st February 2024, 11:29 | #44144 |
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guy in team remarks he's put on 15kg since he started working here, walks in with red bull and a pie for morning tea.
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Mad Professor coming to Wanganui in a couple of weeks.
Also a show in Wellington [@ Moon] (and Raglan) for any dub heads. I don't think I've ever seen a dub person perform live, so it will be interesting if he just mixes tracks, or does live dubs.
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21st February 2024, 19:34 | #44146 |
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bought dune 2 tickets, gg
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22nd February 2024, 08:38 | #44147 |
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I listen to a few paranormal podcasts for S&Gs, and one of my favorites is the mashup of Rhys Darby and Dan Schreiber, one of the chaps from "No such thing as a fish" (ie QI elves) called the Cryptid factor. In recent months (it's a very random production schedule) there was no mention of the Hoff.
But, when travelling down Bealey Ave just before the end of the year, the lights had me stop next to a Telco fibre kiosk - in ChCh (maybe nationwide?) these are painted by street artists to stop them being tagged. This one had a couple of portaits, which on closer inspection, were signed. Darby and The Hoff. Subsequently, several articles have pointed to them touring he country in September last year, filming a road trip series called "Hoff the beaten track" - which by current accounts, may never see the screen. Whilst I can appreciate Darby is not funny to everyone, I am a little sad that this may go unseen. Last edited by StN : 22nd February 2024 at 08:40. |
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22nd February 2024, 09:11 | #44149 | |
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23rd February 2024, 11:55 | #44151 | |
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23rd February 2024, 20:32 | #44152 |
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Music is extremely powerful in taking me back in time. Smells somewhat. Had a sip a Smirnoff Ice and fuck me I'm back in the mid 90s.
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23rd February 2024, 21:32 | #44153 |
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Got his account back 16mins later, phew
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26th February 2024, 10:45 | #44154 | |
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26th February 2024, 11:15 | #44155 |
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26th February 2024, 11:31 | #44156 |
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Yeeeep, he was standing too tall and got thrown by a slick osoto gari.
Was down on points and tried to sink in a spicy Ezekiel choke while he had his opponent in half guard. Pretty wild to think of how UFC+BJJ has changed school yard antics. Once upon a time if there was something happening at school the kids would throw wild haymakers. Now, there's a generation of kids who can do slick take downs, choke out peeps, or throw tight jabs. |
28th February 2024, 12:25 | #44157 |
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28th February 2024, 12:56 | #44158 |
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Is that a show on TV?
I don't even own one. Not surprised.
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28th February 2024, 13:22 | #44159 |
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wait, isn't that channel 3 news at 6pm?
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28th February 2024, 17:52 | #44160 | |
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Yeah , 3 is gone.
David Farrier makes a good case for why this is bad: Quote:
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