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MintPaw commented on America Has Become a Digital Narco-State paulkrugman.substack.com/... · Posted by u/rbanffy

John23832 · 9 days ago

> Work out a zero knowledge way to verify age, and implement it. It won't be easy, but it also won't require breaking the rules of mathematics as per most of the governmental requests to 'safely' backdoor encryption.

Have parents actually pay attention to their kids and not give them unfettered access to technology. Boom. Easy.

The parents are the second factor that nobody is willing to discuss because the parents are addicted to the exact same technology.

MintPaw · 9 days ago

Everyone discusses better parenting all the time. But some people forget what it's like being a kid, circumventing blocking systems is trivial if you're motivated, and even if they weren't, a cheap phone costs $80 and kids are very willing to share their old devices.

MintPaw commented on Heretic: Automatic censorship removal for language models github.com/p-e-w/heretic... · Posted by u/melded

wavemode · a month ago

lol does it? I'm struggling to imagine a realistic scenario where this would come up

MintPaw · a month ago

It's not that hard, maybe if you put up a sign with a slur a car won't drive that direction, if avoidable. In general, if you can sneak the appearance of a slur into any data the AI may have a much higher chance of rejecting it.

MintPaw commented on Human Fovea Detector shadertoy.com/view/4dsXzM... · Posted by u/AbuAssar

MintPaw · a month ago

Seem iquilezles has finally given in. He's been complaining about crawler attacks a lot in the last months/years.

https://x.com/iquilezles/status/1977172864785957340 https://x.com/iquilezles/status/1976866381099679817 https://x.com/iquilezles/status/1838858759336267842

MintPaw commented on ZOZO's Contact Solver for physics-based simulations github.com/st-tech/ppf-co... · Posted by u/vintagedave

embedding-shape · 2 months ago

Was Two Minute Papers always so sensationalistic or is that a recent change? I remember seeing the videos many many years ago, and don't recall him being so overly enthusiastic and borderline sensationalistic, like this video seems to be.

Even the title of the video is straight up clickbait ("The Worst Bug In Games Is Now Gone Forever") since the context is all wrong, the metrics on the top left even shows "time/frame: 3.38 min", how could that be useful for games? The problem with physics in games is in real-time simulations, not in cached/animated "physics".

Don't get me wrong, the simulations are impressive, and hopefully will have a big impact on simulation stability for real-time and not, I was just taken aback by the video.

MintPaw · 2 months ago

I used to watch his videos early on, but it's been like this for a few years at least.

MintPaw commented on Why do some gamers invert their controls? theguardian.com/games/202... · Posted by u/zdw

MintPaw · 3 months ago

Seems super light on details, I guess I'm supposed to read the paper that's not linked? Not sure why this has to be new journalist and scientific research, couldn't you just ask Microsoft for some Halo stats and call it a day?

MintPaw commented on Show HN: I recreated Windows XP as my portfolio mitchivin.com/... · Posted by u/mitchivin

MintPaw · 3 months ago

Windows didn't fade in and out in Windows XP.

MintPaw commented on AI’s coding evolution hinges on collaboration and trust spectrum.ieee.org/ai-for-... · Posted by u/WolfOliver

flappyeagle · 4 months ago

Bad ones

MintPaw · 4 months ago

Bad by modern standards, there was a point in time where even just compositing two images on top of each other with an alpha cutout was considered a complex task.

MintPaw commented on AI’s coding evolution hinges on collaboration and trust spectrum.ieee.org/ai-for-... · Posted by u/WolfOliver

manoDev · 4 months ago

I'm tired of the anthropomorphization marketing behind AI driving this kind of discussion. In a few years, all this talk will sound as dumb as stating "MS Word spell checker will replace writers" or "Photoshop will replace designers".

We'll reap the productivity benefits from this new tool, create more work for ourselves, output will stabilize at a new level and salaries will stagnate again, as it always happens.

MintPaw · 4 months ago

You say it as a joke, but spell check has replaced certain tiers of editors. And Photoshop has replaced certain tiers of designers.

MintPaw commented on SDS: Simple Dynamic Strings library for C github.com/antirez/sds... · Posted by u/klaussilveira

zoddie · 4 months ago

Why not just use C++ strings and string_views? So weird to see this masochistic obsession some people have with doing everything in plain C.

It's 2026, there are better, more memory safe, more efficient solutions out there.

MintPaw · 4 months ago

There are real downsides to even #including C++ headers. And there are certainly downsides to introducing a templated string type. It's not hard to imagine why people would want another solution.

MintPaw commented on Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel? lock.cmpxchg8b.com/anubis... · Posted by u/taviso

drakythe · 4 months ago

You know, you say that, and while I understand where you're coming from I was browsing the git repo when github had a slight error and I was greeted with an angry pink unicorn. If Github can be fun like that, Anubis can too, I think.

MintPaw · 4 months ago

Yeah, but do people like that? It feels pretty patronizing to me in a similar way. Like "Weee! So cute that our website is broken, good luck doing your job! <3"

Reminds me of the old uwu error message meme.

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