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spupy | 2 years ago | on: Stable Video Diffusion

Mplayer/MPV used to be able to play videos in the X root window like a wallpaper. No idea if it still works nowadays.

spupy | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: I learned useless skill of prompt engineering, how relevant will it be?

I've seen few people go really overboard with their prompts. RPG-like personality sheets with points assigned to various traits (personality rubric? skill graph?), convoluted graphs of ineligible task descriptions, lots of other stuff that makes little sense to a human. I personally don't think these make any noticeable difference, but people deep into that type of prompting would tell me I just don't get how ChatGPT works.

spupy | 4 years ago | on: NFT projects are just MLMs for tech elites

I just don't see a single positive side of this. Cool, now more people can flaunt their wealth in a brand new way. It's like Fortnite skins, but more extreme and for adults. Just one more way to rope people into wasting money on mostly useless shit.

spupy | 4 years ago | on: Wikidata

Isn't this kind of the purpose of the 'verbatim' search setting?

spupy | 4 years ago | on: I Treated My Unhealthy Gaming Obsession with More Games

People claim that Apex Legends employs "Engagement-based match-making" (EBMM) instead of pure skill-based match-making. The supposed point of EBMM is to rig your games to keep you optimally engaged, as you can't just get winning games all the time.

This claim is based on some EA whitepaper on the topic plus the players' own observations of the match-making system.

I can't support or deny this claim as I haven't looked into EBMM, but the terrible match-making system is what turned me off of Apex.

spupy | 5 years ago | on: Sublime Text 4 [video]

There's one killer feature of Sublime that I can't find anywhere else (on Linux at least) and it's the reason I still use it:

Upon closing it persist even unsaved tabs, and those tabs are named after the first line of text. I find this incredibly helpful when juggling multiple snippets of code/logs, without having to think about saving or worrying about accidentally closing the window. Intellij Idea and Zim offer something similar, but they are clunky in comparison.

Anyone know another text editor that offers this functionality and run on Linux?

spupy | 5 years ago | on: When Objects Become Extensions of You

This was taken to the extreme in the novel Accelerando. The main character is mugged and loses his "cyberware". He thus loses the memories and thinking capabilities he had offloaded to the hardware.

spupy | 5 years ago | on: Abstract Wikipedia

In Input 2 "center" is a keyword, because the markup is using English for keywords. The example output just happens to be in English as well. I assume it will be mapped to a more appropriate word in another language.

spupy | 5 years ago | on: How Did Vim Become So Popular?

There's no point in comparing them, in my opinion. VS Code is a tool for programming; I would call it an IDE but I 'm not very familiar with the app. Vim is still "just an editor". You can still use it for programming (not just coding bash scripts), but that's making your life harder than it needs to be. In my experience the amazing text editing features of vim are only very rarely useful in a software developer's work. I feel the same about multiline editing though. And Vim has amazing text editing features, but severely lacking code editing features.
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