[-] beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 4 days ago

Lol.. I wanted "DRM". But it's been a long day.

[-] beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 35 points 4 days ago

No way rich people are using this shit on their own kids.

[-] beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I often wonder about the stuff I write, what becomes of it. It's a little disheartening since I love crafting it for best effect... But especially with computer books for beginners, people prefer to ask AI for the answers instead of studying.

I also just bought 6 sci-fi books from an author I'd never heard of for cheap. I love supporting indy authors, the price was right, and they sold their books directly from the website, no middlemen and no DRM. Perfect.

But was the author real? I actually did a bunch of research to find out their history and all that before pulling the trigger. I really don't want to read AI stories. But I can see a future where the vast majority don't care. Imagine an endless episode of Survivor or a soap opera, completely generated 24x7 forever. You know that shit would be massive.

And there might only be a fringe that seeks human-generated content for the humanity of it.

[-] beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 5 days ago

A trick you can use there is to form the connection with different intent, e.g. to learn more about the field. Maybe it leads to something and maybe it doesn't, but at least you learned something.

[-] beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 6 days ago

I didn't play that one, but I did play the c64 game... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecHVCk_jKdM

Not quite as spectacular. 😅

[-] beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 76 points 1 month ago

This is how you know "pro-states rights" conservatives are lying to you.

[-] beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 269 points 3 months ago

They're working hard to make sure piracy provides the best experience.

[-] beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 117 points 4 months ago

As an American and long time OSM contributor, I also vote extremely no on Gulf of America.

Also no on renaming New Mexico.

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Neat article about avoiding a memcpy in a circular buffer.

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I've never run a big system like this, but like the lead character in the story, I always figured exponential backoff would be enough. Turns out there's more.

[-] beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 146 points 9 months ago

We need a competitor badly.

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This is a pretty cool analog arcade game. I never saw one when I was a kid... I'd have been hooked.

[-] beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 138 points 11 months ago

If my ISP starts throttling my traffic, I'll just switch to one of the zero other providers in my area.

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This is an ad for something CT-scan-related, but it contains a good breakdown of how an old car cigarette lighter works. And it has a couple interactive CT Scan explorers past the video.

[-] beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 81 points 1 year ago

I'm on the "OK but keep an eye on it" train, here.

Devs need feedback to know how people are using the product, and opt-out tracking is the best way to do it. In this case, it seems like my personal data is completely unidentifiable.

I was coding in the IE6 era, so I'd really prefer to not end up in a browser engine monoculture again.

[-] beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 94 points 1 year ago

Related: Internet Archive hosts zillions of abandoned games. Publishers are currently trying to sue it out of existence. They accept donations.

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Can be yours for a mere $155,000. (No, I'm not the seller, but I'm curious who is!)

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This coder rigged up GPT to create IF games.

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Have you ever wondered what happens behind the scenes when you write a C program? How does your code transform from lines of text into a fully functional binary executable? If you’ve been curious about the intricacies of the C program compilation process, you’ve come to the right place.

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