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  • In C#, when programming save/load in video games, it can be super tedious. I am self taught and i didnt have the best resources, so the only way i could find to ensure its saving the correct variables was to manually input every single variable into a text file. I dont care if its plaintext, if people want to edit their save then more power to them. The issue is that there are potentially tens of hundreds of different variables that need to be saved for the gamestate to be accurately recreated.

    So its really nice that i can just copy/paste my classes into gpt and give it the syntax for a single variable to be saved, then have it do the rest. I do have to browse through and ensure its actually getting all the variables, but it turns a potentially mindnumbing 4 hour long process into maybe a 20 minute one thats relatively engaging.

    Also if you know a better way lmk. I read that you can simply hash the object into a text file and then unhash it, but afaik unhashing something is next to impossible and i could never figure it out anyways.




  • Scubus@sh.itjust.workstoMemes@lemmy.mlYou'll never see it coming
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    You have a ball on a trampoline. Wind might knock the ball around, but its very likely to return to the center of the trampoline. This is a psuedo stable arrangment.

    Now imagine that someone kicks the ball, or the wind blows much harder than normal. The ball might roll up the sides of the trampoline, and then roll off the side onto the ground. This is a truly stable arrangment(eithin the bounds of this metaphor)

    Now imagine that there is an invisible field all throughout the universe, and that everywhere along it there is some amount of energy. Because this energy is roughly the same everywhere, there is no gradient to take advantage of, and therefore this field does no work.(Think trying to roll a ball around on a flat surface, the only way to do that is for you to put energy in)

    But someone or something decides to inject a ton of energy into a very small space on this field. That allows the field(or ball) to have the energy required to randomly fall into a more stable state(fall off the side of the trampoline)

    The issue is that during the process of falling into a more stable state, energy is released. Such as the ball falling off the side of the trampoline, you can harness that energy of motion. But in the case of the field, such a large amount of energy is released that it can cause other, nearby, bits of the field to fall into a more stable state. This causes a chain reaction where the entire field starts to “decay” into a more steady and stable state. This would expand outwards at the speed of energy(the speed of light, or causality) and envelop the entire universe within its sphere or influence(the observable universe from the spot where the reaction started, kinda)

    That is vacuum decay. Where what we think of as a mostly empty vacuum of space suddenly decays into a much closer to empty state. But reality and physics as we know them are built upon this semi stable field, and its removal could be massively detrimental(think the destruction of everything at a subatomic level) or it could not do anything at all. The latter is much more unlikely because something had to interact with that field to get it to decay, and if something interacts with it, its likely most everything interacts with it.


  • In addition to this, the current state of AI is basically just advanced algorithms. Id would be extremely difficult, but in theory you could still trace the connections between bodes and run the optimization calculations yourself.

    Soon enough, we will have AGI. Im not a big fan of LLMs, because theyre a fundamentally flawed idea. The only way to get that much data is without consent, and they will always be prone to hallucinations. AGI on the other hand is fundamentally different. It’s capable of learning just like a human, and capable of doing tasks just like a human. By all measurements it will be able to do anything a human can do, and by most measurements, it will do it better.

    The issue most people have is that they do not understand that the current state of AI is like the OG printing press. It’s crazy to a layperson, and it has its uses, but since most everyone is illiterate farmers, its not that useful. But to claim that transcribing text is pointless is ignoring an entire world of possibilites, to the point where people who rail against AI almost seem malicious or willfully ignorant. Why do you not want us to be able to almost instantly diagnose new diseases? Or have a nursebot babysitter that is literally a better parent than you are, and doesnt have to sleep or eat? Whats the issue with making cars safer, making construction more efficient, and taking corruption out of the government? Why do people hate the idea of people no longer having to be alone, or having a therapist that is available at all times, perfectly tailored to help you with your specific issues and no biases?

    Yes, these things are impossible with modern AI. But to claim that AI is useless… It’s either malice or ignorance.



  • Theres absolutely no reason an infared camera couldnt survive a microwave. All you would need is for the camera body to be outside, and to have a mesh blocking the sensor. You wouldnt be able to go through the door if the door is glass(not that ive ever seen a glass microwave door) because glass blocks infared, not sure about plastic. either way though, you could just cut a hole, remove the plastic, and then replace the mesh. Youd have to do some software work to ensure the camera is not picking up the heat from the mesh.








  • Its not a neccesity for anyone, its just a cash grab. Nintendo doesnt do it because if they did, people would simply stop playing their games. Outside of the good reputation they somehow have, their game quality is fairly low. They do pioneer a lot of new ideas afaik, but they are far from doing them the best. BOTW and TOTK are their most impressive games, which arguably dont have a real competitor, but between Palworld, Genshin Impact, and Fenix Rising(which i think is also nintendo, oof) they arent particularly impressive.

    My point is that nintendos reputation and good consumer side service, they can take risks that other companies cant, because they will sell regaurdless. Hence, if they reduce their consumer side service(loot boxes, microtransactions, paid dlcs, etc.) they dont really have anything to stand on.




  • Didnt watch the video, did however read the article and find that out. Its still worth mirroring the screenshot for posteritys sake, a lot of this information will be scrubbed from the internet. I do however plan to embed text into the screenshot stating that this is not confirmed to be the rat. I do appreciate you looking out for innocents though.

    I don’t personally want anyone to be caught in the crossfire other than traitors and the enemy. Luigi did not harm anyone other than his target, and it would shame the movement and his goals for others to go scorched earth. Therefore it is our duty to not only earadicate the wealthy class, but also to shelter the truly innocent among the lower classes. I cant say that a single life is too great a cost, the stakes are simply too high for that kind of idealism, but allowing rage to get ahead of class solidarity harms everyone. Thank you.