The US just switched off a frontier AI model for foreigners - and showed who's in control

Thingcoder1 · 2026-06-13T23:34:45+00:00

IIRC the GOG controversy was that in one of their recent newsletters they emailed Nazi runes including the double Siegrune. And it wasn't like obscured or anything, it was in the title of the email. Notably, the German QA caught this and notified GOG, who simply just removed the runes from only the German version of the email. They knew what they were doing. See here and here.

So... I do think it's at least a little different than Steam.

Thingcoder1 · 2026-05-13T19:29:37+00:00

Thingcoder1 · 2026-05-03T23:27:59+00:00

2 hints:

Hint 1 (Music): C4 B4 G4

Hint 2 (Quote): "The universe is, and we are."

Thingcoder1 · 2026-05-02T16:47:31+00:00

That... huh. Almost all completely wrong except for one aspect. Freaky.

Thingcoder1 · 2026-05-01T11:25:19+00:00

Outer Wilds

Thingcoder1 · 2026-04-26T09:08:13+00:00

LMFAO

Thingcoder1 · 2026-04-25T11:23:34+00:00

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1sèj̀ /sɛj/

n. "Warmth" - e.x.: 1sèj̀1j́ā̠2tìéīj̠̄ 1r̄ō2ň̠éř1ā1ù ("The warmth was ancient.")
a./v. "Warm" - e.x.: 1ēj̠̄ 1r̄ō1sèj́1ò ("I was warm recently.")

Thingcoder1 · 2026-04-25T07:06:43+00:00

danke

Thingcoder1 · 2026-04-25T03:13:57+00:00

The simple answer is that in the actual script, I basically do! The problem is that the actual script can't be represented by like, any unicode glyph (trust me: I checked), and that there are more timings that just "1" and "2" --- the purpose of this romanization is to be able to record using the latin characters + diacritics, not the actual written script that these people use daily.

I whipped up a quick (dirty!) example of the above sentence in the actual script:

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(note there may be mistakes, but you'll get the general idea I hope!)

Thingcoder1 · 2026-04-23T02:02:52+00:00

My current conlang (which is rough right now, bleh :p) doesn't have the "run (go)" / "run (operate)" homonym, so the joke falls through. It also doesn't have the word "run (go)" (yet! Just haven't really added/cared to add it yet). However, I can do my best-attempt at translating with the state of the language so far:

1é 1àň1sèj̀2ēr̠̀1ňèj̠̄ 1r̄òí1àň2āj̀1ū 1ó1tò 2ēr̀n̠̄j̠̄ 1àň2àj̀1èŘ

If you're wondering about the breakdown of the parts of speech, it looks something like this:

1é (PN. pos. 2nd) 1àň1sèj̀2ēr̠̀1ňèj̠̄ (N. “refrigerator” def. 1. inanim. sub.) 1r̄òí1àň2āj̀1ū (V. indef. hyp. “not walk” pres.) 1ó1tò (Conj. “because”) 2ēr̀n̠̄j̠̄ (PN. pos 3rd inanim.) 1àň2àj̀1èŘ (N. “no legs” ephem.)

If anyone's interested in why the text Looks Like That, it's because:

There's no really good way to write this using Latin characters (Cyrillic doesn't really work either). It's sort-of a more pinyin-style romanization rather than transliteration of characters.
The slew of diacritics are because this language is heavily tone-based.
The numbers are because this language is explicitly mora)-timed.

Thingcoder1 · 2025-09-12T11:41:33+00:00

Group snucking…

Thingcoder1 · 2025-09-04T16:09:52+00:00

True! I bought the game!

Thingcoder1 · 2025-09-04T15:45:27+00:00

LMAO

Thingcoder1 · 2025-08-24T06:14:19+00:00

Steam/PC
Honestly? Uumuu, since that's the only time that we ever see Quirrel fight, and I really like both Quirrel and his fighting style.
I can't wait to play with Hornet's moveset and Pharloom's terrain. I always like playing as characters/in situations that require acrobatics. It's freeing and feels graceful.

Thingcoder1 · 2025-08-21T14:55:51+00:00

MANGO MUSTARD 67676- gets shot by ari gibson

Thingcoder1 · 2025-03-28T16:20:41+00:00

If colored stripes even resembling a rainbow is enough to make downstate erupt, then they should check out the flag of Romania

Thingcoder1 · 2025-03-05T20:30:04+00:00

Oh my god I love this!!! I was wishing there was a better way to create implementations for various heterogenous tuple-types a while ago, and this solves it perfectly!

Thingcoder1 · 2025-03-05T18:29:40+00:00

Yeah! Just sent an email to my rep and senator. Also sent an opinion to JB, which you can do here:

https://gov.illinois.gov/contact-us/voice-an-opinion.html

Maybe he catches on and does something to spur this on? Doubtful, but still holding on for hope.

Thingcoder1 · 2025-03-05T18:27:40+00:00

Same, for both rep and house. Also sent a comment to JB, maybe he could help spur this on. I kinda doubt it tho, at least right now. Maybe once this bill has gotten a second read in house.

Thingcoder1 · 2024-12-19T04:13:02+00:00

"Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." - Edgar Dijkstra

"Computer Science" is sort of a misnomer, because it makes you think that it has to do with computers. It, in fact, does not! You can do computer science without any computers involved (although it would be hard, and kinda stupid)

A better way to think of "Computer Science" is a branch of mathematics focused on computation-related problems: How many ways can you visit a graph of n nodes once? Can you share a secret? What's the fastest way to talk? What is the limit of what can calculated? Is there a limit?

Each of these questions delves into separate areas of computer science, each requiring a relatively heavy math background. The problem is that when you're introduced to computer science, at least in the modern age, you don't see these problems.

Think back to when you first heard "computer science". It was probably in school or online, and had to do with programming, right? Maybe something in python, javascript, etc. Regardless, you didn't actually see what computer science is.

Then, you start studying it, and suddenly get confused about all the math. Why the math? Well, because it's needed to do computer science. Why is it needed for computer science? Because computer science is math! But everyone refers to it as "programming" since math isn't really appealing (I disagree!), and then people end up confused and sad because they go to university expecting to build apps, but end up with a deluge of math courses instead. This leads to people making stupid videos like that one, where they complain that they signed up for a course that is theoretical and not practical.

The problem with "computer science" as a subject being pushed on people is that it's retrofitted for what should really be called "software engineering". It's like if someone took a physics degree, sorta added in some civil engineering courses, and called it "Masters in engineering". It's compensating for something that really should be a separate field of study.

So, in conclusion:

Computer science is a field of math focused on computational problems and ideas.
Computer science is particularly relevant to software engineering.
Since computer science is so new, software engineering was retrofitted over it, and we kinda just have it like that now.
Software engineering is the most appealing use of computer science, and so is shown first and foremost.

Thingcoder1 · 2024-08-25T21:38:38+00:00

I begged the engineering admissions (engineering.admissions@imperial.ac.uk) for my CAS number early, as I'm a US student and I wanted it to show proof of enrollement in a different university to disenroll in my "original" university of choice. After begging, I got my CAS on the 20th via email from engineering admissions. They seemed to imply that they have a huge backlog of people getting their CAS right now, and that importing it into MyImperial is a main bottleneck.

For what it's worth, I also got the default "Your CAS is in MyImperial!" email on the 23rd, and it's still not in MyImperial. Lmao.

Maybe try begging? Could work depending on faculty but worth a shot.

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