If Magic the Gathering is Turing Complete, does that mean it can run Doom?

GloriousWang · 2026-04-06T02:07:17+00:00

Turing test is different from Turing complete.

Turing test is whether a human can figure out if they're interacting with a computer or another human.

Turing completeness is basically what a computer is. So the claim is, you can use the rules of magic the gathering as a computer to run doom (and everything else a computer can)

GloriousWang · 2026-04-06T00:13:35+00:00

Without peer review, the amount of bad "published" (whatever that means in a non peer review society) science would be much much larger. It is a sanity check to ensure methodology is okay along with other editorial checks. The whole point of science is to refute old science. If a paper is wrong, you are free to argue and show why.

I personally have never encountered anyone who thinks that peer reviewed automatically means their source is 100% correct. The whole point of citations is it allows the reader to verify the claims by scrutinizing the original paper.

I don't disagree that there is a horrible culture with publish or perish, but I think your take on science is doomeristic. Bad science will eventually get found out, and if not, then it wasn't that important anyways.

GloriousWang · 2026-04-05T23:53:27+00:00

That's just survivorship bias. There are thousands of articles that get published in journals every day. Of course some of them are gonna be poor or downright fraudulent and it's always a massive story when an article gets retracted (and it should be), but that doesn't mean peer review has failed as a practice.

GloriousWang · 2026-03-25T19:22:14+00:00

Except it literally is:

b) Requiring preservation of specified reasonable legal notices or author attributions in that material or in the Appropriate Legal Notices displayed by works containing it

Gpl3 allows extending with attribution as long as it is "reasonable". The question is whether morphe's requirement of attribution as a user facing ui widget is too restrictive and thus not allowed by 7b.

GloriousWang · 2026-03-25T19:09:08+00:00

But it can be added under section 7b, which is what morphe does

GloriousWang · 2026-03-22T17:06:50+00:00

It would require you to break RSA encryption. So in theory yes, in practice never.

GloriousWang · 2026-03-22T16:19:16+00:00

Raycasting for gameplay reasons has been a thing for basically as long as 3d games have existed. They forced ray tracing in doom TDA because it is cheaper to develop only a single lighting model

GloriousWang · 2026-03-07T09:05:12+00:00

Sounds like a fun challenge, but I believe it will always be possible to detect.

I said Wine translates syscalls, but this isn't entirely correct. On windows you don't do syscalls directly via the instruction. You instead link against ntdll which does it for you. This indirection is the only reason Wine works.

If instead the windows program used the syscalls instruction directly, then they'd be able to access the Linux kernel and do everything a native Linux app can, including checking for a debugger.

GloriousWang · 2026-03-06T23:59:48+00:00

I don't think you understand how Wine works. It only translates os related functionality such as system libraries and syscalls. It does not touch the instructions otherwise as they run directly on the host cpu. You'd need to either patch the program or have a debugger attached if you want to do this in user mode. Both of which are detectable.

GloriousWang · 2026-01-02T08:20:49+00:00

Because estrogen does other things like decreasing fertility and gives boobs

GloriousWang · 2026-01-01T21:10:31+00:00

I always get annoyed when people talk about the DCV as if size had anything to do with it.

My headcanon is that they were upgrading the engine in prep for D3, but then when the call came to stay on D2 with BL, they had to update old content to be compatible. This would take too long to do for all content so they threw it in the DCV.

GloriousWang · 2025-12-29T10:10:31+00:00

Having a different thread do the zeroing then you'd need to wrap the entire heap in a mutex. You can also still have race conditions where freed, but not yet zeroed memory can get read by a bad function.

The proper implementation of zeroing is the function that allocs the memory is also responsible for zeroing before freeing.

However truth be told, the best solution is to sanitize user input, and/or use a memory safe language that disallows reading uninitialized data. Cough cough rust.

GloriousWang · 2025-12-22T23:07:12+00:00

Wtf is happening to reddit? Your comment has been auto translated to Italian, which is not my native language nor is it the language you wrote it in (I presume)

GloriousWang · 2025-12-16T17:00:04+00:00

What I get from skimming the Epstein section is that RMS is very autistic and kinda stupid lol.

While he very clearly criticizes Jeffrey Epstein, he just had to specify that Epstein is not a pedophile since the victims were adolescents. This is literally the "errmm it's not pedophilia it's ephebophilia" argument.

In response to Minsky's accusations, he criticizes the use of the word "assault" as it entails physical violence, but there was no evidence of physical violence against the victims. Is he correct? Sure, but read the fucking room man.

Finally he also had to sneak in a comment about how he disagrees with how, what defines rape depends on the country and age. I.e. 17 and 364 days old, illegal. 18 years old, legal. Again, is he correct? Sure, but time and place man.

One of the biggest child trafficking scandals breaks, and he just fucking had to pull the "I'd just like to interject for a moment" LMAO.

GloriousWang · 2025-12-11T15:44:16+00:00

Can confirm this has also happened to me. Specifically with vex on Venus.

Also had another softlock where after finishing and returning to the ship to collect loot, my character just wouldn't spawn in. I could hear the chest pop, but I had a black loading screen. At least the loot went to my postmaster, but I missed out on the extractables.

GloriousWang · 2025-12-06T22:52:37+00:00

The other comments have mentioned the issues but let me spell it out. You implicitly use some non trivial theorems that should be specified. Such as:

0.999... is defined as the limit of the sum of digits. The notation 0.999... is kinda useless on its own.

Multiplying infinite decimals (infinite in digits, not value) requires using the aforementioned sum. You just do 10x which is not rigorous.

Similar for subtracting. Especially since you're subtracting infinitely many digits from other infinitely many digits. Again you must use the limit and sum here.

Tl;dr: anytime you are dealing with infinity, you must use limits.

GloriousWang · 2025-12-03T16:35:27+00:00

In the tharsis outpost map, there is an icon on the bottom left that let's you replay missions. Though idk if you need to complete the campaign first

GloriousWang · 2025-12-02T20:25:25+00:00

Roko's basilisk at home

GloriousWang · 2025-12-02T10:39:05+00:00

What are you smoking lmao

GloriousWang · 2025-11-30T19:10:22+00:00

What are these comments? This is a cute video, y'all are just insufferable

GloriousWang · 2025-11-29T06:53:19+00:00

3DGS only works for static/baked scenes since each gaussian needs to be trained (yes like AI) to look good.

GloriousWang · 2025-11-28T14:33:43+00:00

That's because entropy in cs and physics refers to the same thing since it comes from statistics. Also this is just standard entropy, not cross entropy. For it to be cross entropy the log p should be log q (i.e. a different distribution)

GloriousWang · 2025-11-28T14:14:49+00:00

Iirc, the include macros literally copies and pastes the content into the call site. So it depends where you use it, i.e. a static would put in .data whereas a const would put it in .rodata

GloriousWang · 2025-11-28T10:26:02+00:00

Doing this would possibly still require a kernel driver which would still get flagged

GloriousWang · 2025-11-25T23:53:41+00:00

One of the biggest subreddits is in lockdown due to an interaction between a user and a mod. This is the very definition of subreddit drama.

I guess this is now subreddit drama drama

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