I did a few calculations, I don’t remember the specifics of it sadly as it has been over two years since that point and I sadly did not document it back then (or I did, but on a partition I no longer have access to) but I remember having gotten roughly 2 1/2 years of possible runtime before an overflow. Obviously, I wanted to know if this would actually happen in the real game on real hardware.

I read the headline and figured, 60 FPS, minutes hours days, two and a half years, yeah that’s about 2^32 frames. But… this is Ultimate Doom. It was built for 70 Hz displays, and the “tic rate” is 35 Hz. 2^32 / 60x60x60x24 is two years and three months. 2^32 / 70x60x60x24 is just shy of two years.

I guess the PDA version this guy was running simply ran at 85% speed?

Hugged to death. Archive.org backup.

Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin’?

In Stargate SG-1 this is how the Ancients write Latin.

Web rings are eternal!

Evidently.

This is what Yahoo was, in the 90s. Search didn’t really exist yet. They made an honest effort to link, describe, and categorize every site on the internet, and for a while it seemed like they were on top of it.

Accidentally reinventing Yahoo Directory.

Argumentum ad “we’re not calling it that.”

We gotta spy on everything to detect the bad stuff, but we’re only gonna detect the bad stuff! That’s different, somehow!

Eventually being seven months ago, with Wan.

Two hard problems.

Oh no! The robot that can draw anything knows what a 1930s cartoon character looks like! This is surely why copyright law exists.

People. To avoid drawing any existing thing, the machine would still need to classify those existing things. Otherwise you could put in a description of Superman and get Superman. If the model contains the concepts of capes and briefs, you’re only struggling to summarize the logo.

No work has ever been pirated via AI. Not even the hundred-gigabyte models contain one complete book, let alone a movie. Treating any depiction of the character, for some JPG on the internet, like that’s a huge commercial threat, would be the death of all fanart and a complete denial of how culture belongs to the masses.

The absolute worst take on AI is demanding that copyright get stricter.

Quietly terrifying.

With that ‘pose estimation through walls’ thing, wifi’s basically x-ray vision.

When Google restricts your ability to install certain applications they aren’t constraining what you can do with the hardware you own, they are constraining what you can do using the software they provide with said hardware.

Die.

… did Sunshine just get banned as a joke? Hate when a modlog just says “automod.”

He’s an emu!

And this is the only one where the original looks rough, because they were doing some pencil shenanigans to avoid inking.

One of those things that sticks in your brain but is reeeal weird to search for.

He’s makin’ em at night!

Bilinear resizing is not the same thing as “content-aware” anything, and you know it.

This is happening to videos uploaded in perfectly reasonable quality, and it’s visible when people watch it at any resolution.

They’re just using AI to fuck with video, and not asking permission, and not telling anyone.

imagine a wireless tire pressure sensor that lasts the life of a car, for example.

That’s a little silly, because it’s short-range enough to simply power via radio. Are there not NFC pressure sensors? One on Hackaday, at least.