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kilpikaarna commented on Popular Japanese smartphone games have introduced external payment systems   english.kyodonews.net/art... · Posted by u/anigbrowl
numpad0 · 7 days ago
Apple did this to itself. Reportedly it was Jobs' opinion turned policy that Apple don't do games or pornography.

Exactly this policy and their interference to app developers created a selection pressure and a cutout hole in shape of "only slightly gamelike && technically not pornographic && in high demand", and the category of apps more accurately represented as "strip clubs with casinos with no cash-out" filled the vacuum like a Ghibli film blob monster.

Early iOS games were more game-like. Apps like SNES remakes, flappy birds and music games, were more common, but they all converged down and down into porn territory.

It doesn't happen naturally; not even pornographic game markets, let alone Steam or Itch, aren't as badly infested with gambling as App Store. It only happened artificially by how Apple ran it over the past ~15 years.

kilpikaarna · 7 days ago
> Early iOS games were more game-like. Apps like SNES remakes, flappy birds and music games, were more common, but they all converged down and down into porn territory.

Game devs discovered pretty quickly that, Apple having set the initial expectation that an iOS game should cost $0.99, the only viable way to run a business on a mobile platform was a f2p/exploitation/casino model.

kilpikaarna commented on Being “Confidently Wrong” is holding AI back   promptql.io/blog/being-co... · Posted by u/tango12
ninetyninenine · 8 days ago
No. The experts in the field are past this argument. People have moved on. It is clear to everyone who builds LLMs that the AI is intelligent. The algorithm was autocomplete, but we are finding as an autocomplete bot is basically autocompleting things with humanity changing intelligent content. Your opinion is a minority now and not shared by people on the forefront of building these things. Your holding onto the initial fever pitched alarmist reaction people had to LLMs when it first came out.

Like you realize humans hallucinate too right? And that there are humans that have a disease that makes them hallucinate constantly.

Hallucinations don’t preclude humans from being “intelligent”. It also doesn’t preclude the LLM from being intelligent.

kilpikaarna · 8 days ago
> It is clear to everyone who builds LLMs that the AI is intelligent.

So presumably we have a solid, generally-agreed-upon definition on intelligence now?

> autocompleting things with humanity changing intelligent content.

What does this even mean?

kilpikaarna commented on Lazy-brush – smooth drawing with mouse or finger   lazybrush.dulnan.net... · Posted by u/tvdvd
edflsafoiewq · 11 days ago
I think this is the same as the brush stabilizer in Krita.
kilpikaarna · 11 days ago
LazyMouse in Zbrush was the first one I think? But yeah, this feature is not uncommon.

There's even a program called Lazy Nezumi that adds global mouse smoothing, rulers etc. to Windows.

kilpikaarna commented on When DEF CON partners with the U.S. Army   jackpoulson.substack.com/... · Posted by u/OgsyedIE
saagarjha · 16 days ago
It’s shocking to me that people whose job is to find and fix vulnerabilities would support vaccinations!
kilpikaarna · 15 days ago
I sure hope opposition to government-mandated infosec measures would be a complete nobrainer.

Microsoft lobbying for mandatory TPM to get on a network or whatever.

kilpikaarna commented on A fast, growable array with stable pointers in C   danielchasehooper.com/pos... · Posted by u/ibobev
unwind · 24 days ago
Very nice, although I think the level of "trickery" with the macros becomes a bit much. I do understand that is The Way in C (I've written C for 30 years), it's just not something I'd do very often.

Also, from a strictly prose point of view, isn't it strange that the `clz` instruction doesn't actually appear in the 10-instruction disassembly of the indexing function? It feels like it was optimized out by the compiler perhaps due to the index being compile-time known or something, but after the setup and explanation that was a bit jarring to me.

kilpikaarna · 23 days ago
> The Way in C

Is it though? (Ab)using C macros so you can write obviously-not-C stuff like (from the example):

SegmentArray(Entity) entities = {0};

Seeing that kind of thing in example C code just makes my hair stand on end because you know it's someone who actually wants to write C++ but for whatever reason has decided to try to implement their thing in C and be clever about it. And I'm going to have to go parse through multiple levels of macro indirection to just understand what the hell is going on.

Seems like a useful data structure, despite the shortcoming that it can't be accessed like a regular array. Normally auto-expanding arrays involves realloc which is tricky with arena allocation. But jeez, just pass void pointers + size and have it assert if there's a mismatch.

kilpikaarna commented on Hundred Rabbits – Low-tech living while sailing the world   100r.co/site/home.html... · Posted by u/0xCaponte
themk · a month ago
I highly recommend reading their north pacific crossing log book.

https://100r.co/site/north_pacific_logbook.html

kilpikaarna · a month ago
They used to do a monthly vlog too, I think it's still on YouTube.
kilpikaarna commented on Hundred Rabbits – Low-tech living while sailing the world   100r.co/site/home.html... · Posted by u/0xCaponte
Lyngbakr · a month ago
Does anyone know if they're able to support themselves purely on donations via Patreon, etc., or if they need to do contract work, too?
kilpikaarna · a month ago
Unsure about the day-to-day situation, I imagine by now they make enough off of the stuff they put out as 100r that combined with very low expenses it's sustainable or close to. In past blog posts they mention taking on contract work for boat repairs.
kilpikaarna commented on Hypercapitalism and the AI talent wars   blog.johnluttig.com/p/hyp... · Posted by u/walterbell
woah · 2 months ago
These companies spend hundreds of millions of dollars to train these models and (hope to) make billions from them. The researchers are the people who know how to do it. These aren't guys cranking out React buttons.
kilpikaarna · 2 months ago
They know how to train the models because they were part of a team that did it once at a competitor already. They bring with them very domain specific knowledge and experience. It's not something you can learn at college or hacking away in your spare time.

Fair enough, they're probably worth the money it takes to poach them. But trying to stretch the (arguably already tenous) "10x engineer" model to explain why is just ridiculous.

kilpikaarna commented on A software conference that advocates for quality   bettersoftwareconference.... · Posted by u/leoncaet
kilpikaarna · 2 months ago
This thing feels pretty weird to me. I'm guessing it's an attempt at organizing some sort of european Handmade event, and trying to keep it small.

But between the sparse website, invite-only and anonymous organizers, it just feels like it's emphasizing the reactionary vibes around the Handmade/casey/jblow sphere. Like they don't want a bunch of blue-haired antifa web developers to show up and ruin everything.

Glad to see they got Sweden's own Eskil Steenberg though. Tuning in for that at least.

kilpikaarna commented on Writing Bounds-Safe Code in C with Arrays   uecker.codeberg.page/2025... · Posted by u/uecker
kilpikaarna · 2 months ago
Rare to see VLAs described as "one of the coolest features of C".

u/kilpikaarna

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