I was just about to mention exactly these games!

Outer Wilds’ ending was, to me, a beautiful meditation on confronting loss, the ending of things, and coming to peace with it.

Shadowbringers was along a similar theme. It was interesting emphasizing with Emet, and yet still realizing he’s wrong (“cool motive, still interdimensional genocide”). It was a combination of feeling unbearably sad for him, and yet thankful for stopping him. Also, seeing Ardbert during the camera pan in the Crystarium at the end.

Endwalker’s final walk had to have been designed in a lab to generate waterworks. What an experience.

So complex or quaternion I imagine? ‘i’ it is!

For some further mind fuckery on the subject, I highly recommend this video on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkH1citHtgs. Dude never misses in interesting content.

I wasn’t expecting to be sad in this thread but there it is. “I am the very model of a scientist Salarian…”

Number 1 would have to be:

• Triosphere (prog/power?). Ida is utterly amazing.

Some others I didn’t see in this thread are:

• Ebony Ark (prog/power)
• To Mera (prog)
• Without Face (prog/goth metal?)
• Mystik (speed)

Back in August '22, I weighed about 270 lbs @ 6’0 (122.5 kg, 183 cm). I realized this was dangerously unhealthy so I asked my doctor if there was any drug options for helping me change habits. As my insurance didn’t cover weight loss, the doc opted for Phentermine. It drastically cut my food cravings and with exercise I’ve been losing weight steadily since. Down to 215 lbs now and the physical benefits are great: no more constant GIRD, can bend over without discomfort, etc.

It is funny though, just finally barely breaking the obese barrier (30 bmi) and people say “and you still want to lose more weight??” My goal is 180.

Edit: As an aside, how fucked is it that insurance companies don’t cover weight loss; wouldn’t covering it reduce their costs over time?

Starsector is amazing, even though buying it on the website made me wonder if the storefront was made in the 90s.

projects/[rust|cpp|python|..]/proj-name

Exactly same. Gf & I got into it a few weeks ago and just caught up to current. We’re champing at the bit to see what happens next.

Jade #1!

For any not in the loop: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Perelman

Good ol" BobbyB does not miss, thank the gods. Memes aside, his work is indeed phenomenal.

Snilk perhaps?

All hail the Cornservant!

Was this from the Night of the Comet movie?

I’ve been playing Heart of the Machine, and really enjoying it. It’s a fascinating 4x ish in a future city, in a bit of an inversion of AI Wars (same developer). Before playing, I was merely intrigued, but now I’m excitedly awaiting where it goes. It was, however, initially difficult to figure out what to do. Perhaps more UX is going to be useful here.

This song was the absolute bomb to play on drums in Rock Band. I really loved the snare / bass drum flow with the hats.

video-sizes

I’m confused as to your meaning here. Current codecs are miles ahead of what we had in the past. Unless you mean typical resolution (eg. 4k, 8k, etc).

For the purposes of OPs problem (P v NP), it considers not particular solutions, but general algorithmic approaches. Thus, we consider things as either Hard (exponential time, by size of input), or Easy (only polynomial time, by size of input).

A number of important problems fall into this general class of Hard problems: Sudoku, Traveling Salesman, Bin Packing, etc. These all have initial setups where solving them takes exponential time.

On the other hand, as an example of an easy problem, consider sorting a list of numbers. It’s really easy to determine if a lost is sorted, and it’s always relatively fast/easy to sort the list, no matter what setup it had initially.

Coincidentally, I do work on embedded devices, but as mentioned by ferret, most embedded stuff nowadays is (I think?) an Arm variant. Most all of the device code I write is C++ though; no need to get into assembly land unless clang screws something up, but that hasn’t happened yet thankfully. That said, in the future, this may change as we optimize certain imaging algorithms further.

There was an episode of PBS Space Time on the holographic principle in general recently, and I believe they’ve also discussed the black hole thing as well.