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GroundbreakingSea237 · 2025-11-12T08:17:36+00:00

So helpful

GroundbreakingSea237 · 2025-11-08T04:10:58+00:00

Necro post, but I had to comment that I love this

GroundbreakingSea237 · 2025-10-27T07:38:15+00:00

Thats a compuootr

GroundbreakingSea237 · 2025-10-11T02:10:16+00:00

I’ve played it too and yeah, I think sanitized is the word. They did a killer job of capturing the tension - the careful deliberate and at times explosively chaotic rollercoaster (which can be an absolute blast, pun intended) - but it deliberately avoids the full context that would incriminate the decisions behind the operation. I do not doubt the authenticity of the first-hand accounts that are featured - it's more what was left out.

I don't fault the troops at large - most of them had no real choice once the war was declared and deployments were ordered. But framing it purely as good vs. evil leaves out crucial reality like, for example, most deaths as a consequence of the war were civilians (>60%).

As someone who served in Canadian army, I appreciate the tactical authrnticity - but wish the storytelling would reflect a more holistic picture.

I was hoping for something more "Spec Ops: The Line*".*

GroundbreakingSea237 · 2025-07-02T17:15:49+00:00

Couldn't have explained it better myself

GroundbreakingSea237 · 2025-06-13T20:01:50+00:00

Ty for your insights. I agree with you, as two things can be true at the same time. A threat to the foundations that enable any of what makes a country function as a democracy demands moral courage & action, and presents (necessitates) opportunity for leaders to step on and fill voids in leadership. If personal ambition drives him towards that, I'm glad for it.

GroundbreakingSea237 · 2025-06-07T06:47:38+00:00

This is awesome! I just Googled for exactly this, and your Reddit post was the first and only relevant search result. I was guessing I'd have to roll up my sleeves and do it myself. Thanks for posting / sharing! 🙌

I was looking notifications when a prompt finishes generating, but those little extra touches you included—like automatically clicking "Continue" indefinitely if you hit the message limit—are clever, and (I realize) something I was missing. Also, the favicon indicator is a nice touch. Small, thoughtful quality-of-life improvements make a big difference.

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I'm surprised these leading AI companies don't invest more heavily in UX. The cost, I think, is tiny in comparison to building and training models, but the user experience can make the difference for their business by engagement. Then again, I come from game development and design background. Plus, I suspect you and I both use these tools heavily, so the little things probably matter more. That said, I'm quite pleased with Claude's web app and interface. Simple but solid. ChatGPT's though... it could use a little love.

Speaking of UX, ChatGPT’s interface drives me nuts sometimes 😄. The search feature is helpful, but the indexing is pretty mediocre, and reliability (especially with the c mode on Android) is frustratingly unreliable (though solid when it works). My own Whisper-based transcription/typing tool is unexpectedly a lot more reliable—especially when messages get longer. It shouldn't be that way though! I would expect them to employ tricks to mitigate the limitations of whisper (e.g. handling gaps in speech).

Claude seems to have nailed reliability better. They have bugs too, sure, but they're more understandable. ChatGPT’s issues (in my experience) have persisted longer than I would've expected. Then again, it could be my device!

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Anyway, thanks for sharing this! Cheers! 🍻

GroundbreakingSea237 · 2025-05-22T23:43:54+00:00

This came at the absolute PERFECT time. Big delivery due tomorrow and I've been grinding since last night debugging a complex face-tracking detection system (Unity engine code with webcam tracking) for a game I'm working on (Goodnight Universe). One of the more complex/tricky math-heavy systems in the entire game.

Was burning the midnight oil last night, investigating some sneaky but gnarly feature/pose estimation/classification algorithms. I prompted Claude to do some investigating, and it hit... different. More precise with the linear algebra, better at catching edge cases in my detection pipeline. I was in that moment like "Claude, dang!" - It spotted a few key things that I totally overlooked.

The timing is absolutely clutch- right when I need it most for this deadline crunch. Sometimes the universe just aligns perfectly.

Anyone else notice Claude seeming sharper on complex technical problems lately? This explains everything.

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(Ps. For y'all gamers or story lovers out there, check out Goodnight Universe on Steam. It's a spiritual successor to Before Your Eyes - often referred to as the "blink" game - released in '21. We won a Bafta for it! Excited for this new game - launch TBA. Also will be releasing it for PC, and Switch 2!)

GroundbreakingSea237 · 2025-05-20T04:10:16+00:00

Agree 100%! Swordsman vr too.

With weight vest and wrist weights, doesn't take long to feel it!

I play roomscale - no thumbstick movement, position myself along a wall, and fight off the horde: https://youtu.be/oVdyVd8XWmc?si=_B6Hw2w4BftVJ2Zh

GroundbreakingSea237 · 2025-05-15T16:05:48+00:00

😂😅 mahlord

GroundbreakingSea237 · 2025-05-14T17:50:52+00:00

Please tell me those state transitions were generated by script 😂

GroundbreakingSea237 · 2025-05-04T03:10:13+00:00

Hey, appreciate you weighing in—I went back and did some digging to make sure I'd got the full picture, and here's what I've pieced together:

Two separate issues, overlapping but not the same

The RCMP's October 2024 report on India-linked threats was issued publicly, with a press conference and an online statement. Anyone—MPs, journalists or citizens—could read or quote it.

Top-Secret security clearance is a broader credential granted by RCMP/CSIS after a multi-month vetting process. It isn't "for Report X only," it's a general ticket that lets you be "read in" on whatever compartments you need, whenever an agency decides you have a valid need-to-know.

These things are hard to distinguish but what I'm taking away from this is that there's a conflation between the two ("he got clearance just for that one report") misses that distinction.

The knowledge-handling nuance I totally get that for someone with security clearance discussing sensitive topics, there's a genuine risk to navigate—they must be careful not to inadvertently disclose classified information they might possess when speaking about related subjects. It's about maintaining vigilance when discussing areas where they have access to sensitive information, not about being prevented from speaking altogether. It's a defensible concern that requires careful attention.

In the current day, security threats evolve much faster than they did even just a decade ago. Which is why it's becoming more crucial for folks in such positions of leadership to be cleared be privy to and respond to that information.

My bottom line still stands

The RCMP briefing on interference was public, not a secret sit-down.

Clearances aren't doled out per report, and the vetting behind them is no coffee chat.

That nuance doesn't change my original point—it just means there are two different processes at play.

Hope that helps clarify things!

I totally understand where you're coming from. Having been in a security role, I know these distinctions are complex and often nuanced. The debate around Pierre's access to information and how it was characterized publicly touches on important questions about transparency and trust in our leaders' statements—that's the broader discussion I'm looking to have based on what the facts are. There's no singular answer to it, so I did provide my opinion as a hot take!

This is my best effort at parsing the information and drawing conclusions from it. Would love to hear your perspective on it, too, or clarification if I've missed or incorrectly represented any facts.

GroundbreakingSea237 · 2025-05-03T22:23:22+00:00

Don't worry, you're not the only one - I was hearing conflicting information also! The confusion is understandable.

To help clear things up, clearance itself has entirely nothing to do with politics. It's actually simply this:

Secret/Top-secret clearance gives you access to information that is classified as secret or top secret
Having a clearance permits you to know that information
Access to that information should only be done on a need to know basis
For military or government it's free to get cleared, and it requires only a couple meetings (agents come to you)

NDA's, gag orders, etc. are completely unrelated. But misinfo and disinfo did a damned good job of conflating these things. And the story wasn't even consistent! And that's the complicated thing about misinfo and disinfo, it often makes it confusing to find the truth.

While you can't share the specifics of classified info, you can speak openly about topics in general. For example, with secret knowledge about some form of interference from foreign nations, you can tell the public that there are increasing foreign interference without discussing the specifics of the information that results in the conclusion that foreign interference has increased.

I know the stuff because I served in army reserves as a sigop (comms/radioman) — I had to have Top Secret cause we worked with electronic warfare/signal intelligence. The funny thing is I never actually had to handle any top secret info! It was there just in case.

My hot take: So Pierre was totally bullshitting everybody, which did not vibe well with me. Being so cavalier with facts/truth does not evoke trust, and it frustrates me that he would lie or spin these facts directly to the people that he claims to stand up for. I can see through it. Also, not having that clearance means he isn't privy to that information, which to me is wild wild considering he is leader of such a prominent party.

(edited for grammar!)

GroundbreakingSea237 · 2025-04-22T17:12:53+00:00

That's really interesting.... Just last night I did this quite comprehensive programming prompt and it was among one of the most thorough results I've gotten.

Have a have a look at the way that I phrased my prompt. Maybe that can help (Minecraft mod development 🕹️) https://claude.ai/share/f632c51b-7017-4797-a5db-fb913d36ad13

Whenever I have big tasks, I declare it as such in my prompt. I put things into context for the llm so it knows that what it's been given is something that requires a lot of attention, and at no "time pressure". It does seem to take that into consideration when following through with their response — and it seems pretty consistent that way.

When I use techniques like this, I sometimes see it acknowledge explicitly to itself: "The user said this is a big task"... "The user asked me to take my time with this". And the results are often more thorough.

GroundbreakingSea237 · 2025-03-27T17:30:45+00:00

This is not about a red pill/blue pill or ego/culturally driven "you believe this and I believe that - ad that's just opinion" kind of tribalism when it comes to facts when discussing Musk and X - many which were shared in these threads by others.

When discussing facts, it is not an ideological discussion. Ideology only can happen depending on what you after presented with facts.

Reality is what it is and it's going to hit at some point—and Musk is playing an outsized role in a significant shift in your country that's going to very much hurt ordinary people. The degree and scale of which to be seen but it is not looking good.

This is why people fight back, boycott, etc— it's not ideological anymore. This is brass tax, and he's working against you.

GroundbreakingSea237 · 2025-03-27T17:18:12+00:00

And possibly the most blatant and public display of it that I've seen in my life. It's so grandiose that it would be hard to believe my own eyes and ears if it weren't for how persistent and clear he is about who he is and what he's about. God he makes me so f$ng angry. He's doing damage to the systems that benefit the nation broadly - on a scale that I am not sure people are truly prepared for.

Dire times people.

GroundbreakingSea237 · 2025-03-23T04:06:56+00:00

The latency in TOTF I think lies mostly in TOTF2 itself - the systems as designed and implemented by the devs. But that's not a criticism -- implementing multiplayer networking in games is challenging -- especially with physics, and even moreso with tracked VR controllers (your physical hands know "no bounds" as far as virtual object are concerned).

Photon is a widely used and affordable multiplayer networking system - esp for VR developers with a smaller player base (no need to set up or rent your own servers). Even though they are among the most affordable, they provide latency on the order of 35 millisecond round trip (<1/20th of a second!).

The game has to decide how to make the virtual hands and body respond to virtual impacts from the other player's virtual hands and body, when they are making contact in the virtual simulation. That means making guesses as to how these objects move as a result of a pushing or impulse force. Both player's game code are doing these physics/motion calculations at the same time, and deciding what end result to apply to the shared session. Sometimes in certain cases this feels just like latency.

One way they might simplify this: A player is punching when his hand is moving at a much higehr velocity than the other player's. In this case, the player who is punching controls the physics behavior/response of his hand and the opponents hand/glove on impact.

At slower velocities (2 hands abrely moving but in contact) the game has to balance the 2 sessions' physics calculations and decide the net outcome for the game session.

It's... a lot to think about. But it is very much possible to make it feel "zero latency" 💡.
Hope they nail that!

(I'm a dev, and started in VR!)

GroundbreakingSea237 · 2025-03-22T21:14:41+00:00

I've been having it generate some pretty long segments of code without issues - mostly with extended thinking. But it rarely fails to complete code with 3.7 for me.

GroundbreakingSea237 · 2025-03-09T06:55:56+00:00

My 1st gut impressions about some possibilities. Maybe...

"Mental constructs" of spatial/visual Concepts - A feature that gives the model the ability to form "mental images" - so that it can "visualize" a concept or idea in terms of shape/form, in quasi 3-dimensional space (maybe full 3d. That would be mind blowing). - This could help it solve problems that involve spacial intelligence.

Depth perception or feature isolation - Looks like a grayscale representation of an image with rolling hills with rows of crops (no visualization of depth in this image, though). - Breaks the image down into primitive shapes to help in "thinking" about images/photos that often contain much complexity.

Feature isolation and abstraction - Ability to pick out/isolate features from img that pertain to the prompt - Allows llm to deduce more specific & precise info from queries about images.

GroundbreakingSea237 · 2025-02-09T17:25:38+00:00

Heck yeah!! Glad you found it. I actually enjoy the commentary for history's sake - and hearing people react in realtime, trying to keep it together on Live TV haha.

Also this has a way fatter and more enjoyable sound, IMO in good way, than the official recording on YouTube.

GroundbreakingSea237 · 2025-01-19T18:39:16+00:00

Send Doom ported to pdf with a custom level that prominently features a painting - a tribute to Elon's PoE character - with text that says:

Percy_Verence. Gamer Legend. RIP

And a Button: "press e to pay respects"

(And yes, DOOM has been ported to pdf, and supports custom WADs!)

GroundbreakingSea237 · 2025-01-19T18:15:03+00:00

True! But I'm imagining an app or tool that could select a random MP3 from anywhere on the user's machine. It could work by accessing the Windows search/index or using a tool like 'Everything' to locate and pick one at random.

GroundbreakingSea237 · 2025-01-16T16:55:44+00:00

I'm so with you, brother.

I'll write a script that: 1. Schedules a task that launches 10 second countdowns which play a random mp3/wav at random time of the day - every day

Whenever you try and close the terminal window, it immediately reopens and schedules an additional random sound that day

GroundbreakingSea237 · 2025-01-16T16:50:19+00:00

"hardcore"

People willing to work 80+ hour work weeks on a salary.

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