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2025-06-15

First law of browser programming:
Thou shalt start the user agent string with "Mozilla"

allo boosted:
2025-06-14

The walls between dimensions grow thin, allowing beings to pass through #doomcookies

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Bundestag First Saidbt_first_said
2025-06-14

Heranziehungssicherheitsüberprüfung

2025-06-14

@lritter
The optima would be cyclic without energy loss.
Does such a path exist for all configurations, though?

2025-06-14

@lritter
You're a nerd sniper.

2025-06-14

@lritter
If you want to play around: I think the planets and gravitation are normal distributed, there are no outside forces and the simulation is stopped on collision or after leaving the square. If I remember correctly it's using (non adaptive) midpoint integration.
I may look into the details again on Sunday.

2025-06-14

@lritter
Let's say we start with an intersection free straight line. I think you'll never get it to bend to another side of a source using gradient methods with small step size.

To make it interesting one would like to force it to leave this locally optimal path to get some loops and tight curves and maximize the time before it leaves the rectangle.

Maybe One could try to force it to pass by a few randomized points in the initial path?

2025-06-14

@lritter
For more variation I'd probably rather consider simulated annealing than gradient based methods.

2025-06-14

@lritter
More like in "You need ADAM instead of simpler approaches"

I am also not sure what would be the objective for a nonlinear solver. Optimizing a start trajectory considering all trajectory points together?

If you come near a planet everything after changes. If you change going left or right of a planet you have a discontinuity in the loss function. On the other hand, the jump is exactly at the singularity.

Because of the singularities I'm pretty sure you'll run into local minima a lot.

2025-06-14

@lritter
I wanted to do this for the single source problem, but I think it's a way harder optimization problem than just a least squares fit.

If you scroll through the timeline you'll find a few "Wheee, it survived three close encounters" videos.

There are also a few videos with integration errors, in which the comet unexpectedly bounces off.

allo boosted:
2025-06-14

🇬🇧I can't recommend the EU-funded DNS service #DNS4EU because access is logged. When you override warnings to access "harmful websites" they even log your IP address. techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-

There are government-free services that do not log: privacyguides.org/en/dns

Update: I understand now the IP address is kept for 24 hours to prevent the confirmation prompt from showing again.

Screenshot of policy: "In case the User uses DNS resolution service with one of the additional optional flavors, the service
notifies the User he/she is going to access a potentially malicious, illegal or otherwise harmful website
(a landing page pops up). If the User decides to attend the website anyway, in such a case the User's IP
address is stored by the DNS resolver for up to 24 hours in order to identify the User and not block the
access."
2025-06-13

@CaptainMalu
Für vim gibt es eine ganze Reihe Integrationen mit verschiedenen KI-APIs. Wahrscheinlich sind alle inoffiziell, aber vim hat ja viele Funktionen nicht direkt im Hauptprogramm integriert.

@publictorsten

2025-06-13

@publictorsten
Es gibt auch noch AppImages und die haben trotz des Namens nicht einmal einen Store.

Und Ich denke der Begriff Appdir, für wenn ein Programm durch entpacken in einen einzelnen Ordner installiert wird, ist auch gängig.

2025-06-13

Warum sagt man Pastor und nicht einfach Altar Mann?

2025-06-13

@lobingera
Und vim hat mit Vigor zumindest einen Clippy-Klon.

@publictorsten

2025-06-13

@lobingera
Debattierbar. Aber angeblich nutzen ja viele ChatGPT quasi als Psychologe dem sie den Tag erzählen. Das klappt mit ELIZA auch.😁

@publictorsten

2025-06-13

@lobingera
Debattierbar. Aber angeblich nutzen ja viele ChatGPT quasi als Psychologe dem sie den Tag erzählen. Das klappt mit ELIZA auch.😁

@publictorsten

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Jim Nielsenjimniels
2025-06-13

@zachleat new captchas just dropped

Screenshot of a reCAPTCHA that says "Verifying your humanity..." then has a checkbox with a label that says "I realize my actions have consequences for others"Screenshot of a reCAPTCHA that says "Verifying your humanity..." then has a checkbox with a label that says "Sometimes I imagine what other people feel like"Screenshot of a reCAPTCHA that says "Verifying your humanity..." then has a checkbox with a label that says "I can feel happy for someone else when they succeed"

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