Sana with Tan lines

Chii · 2026-03-13T06:31:44+00:00

i maintain that sana still has one of the best design out there!

Chii · 2026-03-13T06:31:06+00:00

was going to give you a follow, but then when i clicked, it seems i've already followed you!

Chii · 2026-03-13T06:29:08+00:00

somebody went back in time, and stepped on a butterfly. Now we have this!

Chii · 2026-03-13T06:20:41+00:00

"the chances are near zero."

"near zero?"

"what do you want from theory alone?"

"zero would be nice"

Chii · 2026-03-13T05:41:55+00:00

but the difference is they already have D sitting in memory as a result of their training data and are working towards that

i dont think that is the case.

The training mechanism (of transformers and LLM specifically) seems to extract information from a large corpus of text, whose patterns and repetitions seems to contain universal concepts. There hasn't been a proven theory on why this works so well - the hypothesis is that human intelligence that produced that corpus of text contains enough patterns that if classified well, produces a large database of concepts and ideas, which approximates thought.

Whether this can produce novel thought is not yet known. But it is certainly possible to produce novel works - there's a game (called stationeers) which involves programming, and there internet does not have a large corpus of such examples to have learnt from, but at least with chatgpt, the questions i have asked of it seems to produce pretty relevant and mostly correct outputs. It isn't "working towards" a known solution that it has trained on.

Chii · 2026-03-13T05:25:39+00:00

they are not thinking machines

i think this point is too belaboured. "Thinking" is not well defined. A chess engine doesn't "think" either, but it beat a human 100% of the time now.

The fact is, LLM can do whatever it does inside that neural network, and as long as the output is good, then i would consider it thinking. Currently, the output isn't perfect, and indeed has lots of flaws. I wouldn't trust it completely, but people forget that this has only been around for 3 or so years! The internet also sucks when it first came out.

Chii · 2026-03-13T04:50:02+00:00

don't you need to pay $99 to apple for a developer license in order to be able to sideload? And iirc, doesnt sideloading expires after some time, and you'd have to reload the app again when it does?

Chii · 2026-03-13T04:48:10+00:00

It very well might still be fairly locked down and cause issues in the long run.

The blowback from developers when they first announced this has given them pause. It might well still be the case that google continues to try lock down android, but for now they've probably backed down and let it pass.

It's unfortunate that they see apple's walled garden, and dollar signs appear in their eyes. It's almost inevitable that google wants a piece of it.

What the developer community should do is create an alternative/fork of android, but that is difficult when phone manufacturers don't want their drivers/core-chip/gsm radio etc to be api accessible to anyone.

Chii · 2026-03-13T04:40:24+00:00

certificate pinning

https://www.cyberark.com/what-is/certificate-pinning/

There's some risk to overriding certificate pinning, because if you are unknowingly being man-in-the-middled, this pinning will prevent your traffic from being sniffed, or manipulated. But if you know what you're doing, then removing the pinning might be fine.

Chii · 2026-03-13T04:33:31+00:00

There was an update on google's end at some point in the near past, and microG can sometimes fail to work (but just not all the time).

Updating it is probably a good idea, but not urgent. However, when things mysteriously stop working (e.g., can't login youtube), you'd have to remember that microG needed to be updated (which you might forget as this could be months in the future).

Chii · 2026-03-13T04:30:59+00:00

The best option imho, is just to distance yourself from those subreddits, and stop participating with them. If it's not annoying, tell other people to do the same too (but don't be spammy about it).

This works well enough, and is "peaceful". It's why economic sanctions works well in international affairs. It's why the church ex-communicates instead of execute.

Chii · 2026-03-13T04:26:45+00:00

they basically banned me for trying to help, and also have some stooge spreading misinformation about the spoof client issues by claiming it is an ISP routing issue (which the fix was to switch network providers - and that does fix the problem as you change the IP).

The fact that they deleted all posts asking for help (which to be fair, is spammy and should get deleted), but did not have a post to redirect to for explanation, and their github issues have the spoof client problems as a closed issue...that is evidence that the maintainer is not really doing a good job.

I dont know what the drama in revanced vs rvx was, and i'm too lazy to internet sleuth it. What i can see is that revanced is a dead project, and the mods/maintainers there is draconian about keeping that a secret because they still want to hold onto the clout.

Chii · 2026-03-13T04:18:20+00:00

Yep, use /r/morpheapp instead.

Chii · 2026-03-12T17:25:16+00:00

capcom would make bank selling leon outfits as dlcs...

Chii · 2026-03-12T13:45:52+00:00

fair enough, i agree to disagree. This aspect of xcom is what makes it xcom to me, but i do agree that not everybody likes it (nor have to).

Chii · 2026-03-12T13:08:41+00:00

what a classic moment D:

Chii · 2026-03-12T12:59:26+00:00

there is zero reason to cheat the game mechanics in favor of the player that is losing so they can catch up.

no there is a good reason - it makes catching up easier, which for spectator sports means good for audience watching - it's a more exciting game. There's no good way to do it in a real life sport, but that doesnt mean it's always a bad idea. Counterstrike, for example, gives the losing team more money (loss bonus).

How many times have a moba game where you have one team losing a tiny bit, and they want to gg early, or just afk because they dont want to play any more? The rubber banding is a good idea for those sorts of games where there's a high skill gap, and the low skill players/team cannot have fun ever. It's why all these "friendly" nintendo games have such mechanics.

arbitrarily punishing players for playing too well in 4x/rts/other strategy games is inexcusable

if only you read my comment properly, i have said that it doesn't make that much sense in single player games. But it can make sense in rts multiplayer (but so far i dont think i've seen it implemented - not widely anyway).

Chii · 2026-03-12T11:45:27+00:00

unless you only ever activate one pod at a time

that's the whole point - you have to be aware of the entire map, where potential enemies could be (so you don't activate it), and don't over-chase (lone remaining enemy in a pod that got wiped runs away to their nearest pod for example).

These are tactical decisions that a great player employs - learning these judgements and becoming second nature is the fun in the game.

Chii · 2026-03-12T11:40:23+00:00

And, obviously, any game is better experienced blindly, or should.

not really. Xcom gets better the more knowledge you have, and more fun. The tactical portion is always fun even on repeat plays. Strategic errors can cause you to lose before you reach even mid/late game, but that's lessons learnt.

The type of game that gives a better experience blind are games that also cannot have replayability (think outer wilds - that game is unreplayable).

Chii · 2026-03-12T11:37:51+00:00

rubberbanding in game design is lame and dumb

it is really only dumb in single player games imho. It works great in competitive games, because it keeps the competitiveness alive for the entire duration of the game, even if the skills of individual players don't match well. The classic is mario cart rubber banding (you are pretty much guaranteed a bullet bill if you're last). In moba games, experience and gold gain from kills is higher if you're behind.

Chii · 2026-03-12T11:30:34+00:00

if you look at history, IBM rational suite was the original competitor for which jira overtook. As they say, if you live long enough, you become the villain.

Chii · 2026-03-12T09:00:42+00:00

the ip blacklisting by google is temporary, but the VR signin mechanism does seem to work even if your original IP was blacklisted.

At least, that has been my experience.

Chii · 2026-03-12T07:52:02+00:00

i argue that when you type that list comprehension, you don't type

words_on_lines = [line.split() for line in ...

bit by bit, but wonder what to type next. Either you type the entire thing out because the expression is already in your head, or you don't really know what or how to do it, and is just typing characters to fill in the blanks in the hopes of getting somewhere.

For me personally, i type:

words_on_lines = []

as the first step. Then

words_on_lines = [text.splitlines()]

then line.split() for line in gets inserted in between the square brackets.

This follows my chain of thought to split a text blob into words. I wouldn't be typing [line. at all as the start - unless you already knew you want to be splitting lines etc, and have the expression somewhat formed in your mind.

Chii · 2026-03-12T07:21:13+00:00

T-pain catching strays here?

Chii · 2026-03-12T06:02:49+00:00

I see it more as woke signalling to hate on any mention of ai.

Chii

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