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The CRPG Renaissance, Part 5: Fallout 2 and Baldur's Gate

filfre.net

As we learned in the earlier articles in this series, Interplay celebrated the Christmas of 1997...
As we learned in the earlier articles in this series, Interplay celebrated the Christmas of 1997 with two new CRPGs. One of them, the striking post-apocalyptic exercise called Fallout, was greeted with largely rave reviews. The other, of course, was the far less well-received licensed Dungeons & Dragons game called ...
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The Case for Centralizing Authorization

aserto.com

Authorization is a critical component of every business application. If the authorization system is down, the...
Authorization is a critical component of every business application. If the authorization system is down, the application is down, so it must run at very high availability. It also needs to evaluate every decision correctly or risk elevation of privilege or information disclosure vulnerabilities. Finally, it has to ...
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George Foreman, Boxer Turned Foreman Grill Infomercial Star, Dies at 76

variety.com

George Foreman, the charismatic boxer turned infomercial star who had a retail hit with his Foreman...
George Foreman, the charismatic boxer turned infomercial star who had a retail hit with his Foreman Grill product line, died Friday. He was 76. The Texas-born Foreman became Heavyweight Champion of the World, and segued into a TV staple and pop culture icon. He was swept up in the swirl of decade-defining events sur...
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Hunyuan T1 Mamba Reasoning model beats R1 on speed and metrics

tencent.github.io

😄 blog | 💬 demo | 🔗 api | 📝 Contact Reinforcement learning has pioneered a...
😄 blog | 💬 demo | 🔗 api | 📝 Contact Reinforcement learning has pioneered a new Scaling paradigm in the post-training phase of large language models, a breakthrough that is increasingly attracting attention from the industry. With the successive release of OpenAI’s O-series models and DeepSeek R1, the excellent perfo...
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High Frequency Food: Better Cutting with Ultrasonics

hackaday.com

You’re cutting yourself a single slice of cake. You grab a butter knife out of the...
You’re cutting yourself a single slice of cake. You grab a butter knife out of the drawer, hack off a moist wedge, and munch away to your mouth’s delight. The next day, you’re cutting forty slices of cake for the whole office. You grab a large chef’s knife, warm it with hot water, and cube out the sheet cake without...
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43-year-old Family Canoe Trip

paddlingmag.com
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Imbue (YC S17) Is Hiring Product Engineers

ycombinator.com
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Monster Cables picked the wrong guy to threaten (2008)

oncontracts.com
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Russian Names (2018)

justrussian.com

Names are usually not given much attention in textbooks or Russian language lessons. But at the...
Names are usually not given much attention in textbooks or Russian language lessons. But at the same time, the ability to understand them and to use them properly is so important for successful socialising and building up relationships! How many names does a Russian person have? Sasha, Sashka, Aleksandr Alexandrovic...
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Cloudflare turns AI against itself with endless maze of irrelevant facts

arstechnica.com

On Wednesday, web infrastructure provider Cloudflare announced a new feature called "AI Labyrinth" that aims to...
On Wednesday, web infrastructure provider Cloudflare announced a new feature called "AI Labyrinth" that aims to combat unauthorized AI data scraping by serving fake AI-generated content to bots. The tool will attempt to thwart AI companies that crawl websites without permission to collect training data for large lan...
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Export Predefined Regions in Krita

github.com
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Not OK Cupid – A story of poor email address validation

fastmail.com

I don’t usually like to call out the bad behaviour of specific companies, but the egregious...
I don’t usually like to call out the bad behaviour of specific companies, but the egregious mis-design and lack of acknowledging it justify this case. Welcome to OkCupid A couple of weeks ago, I started seeing many “Welcome to OkCupid” emails, both on my personal address and a couple of related addresses, but also t...
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Coca-Cola's new hydrogen-powered vending machine doesn't need a power outlet

theverge.com
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Use Long Options in Scripts

matklad.github.io
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EFF Border Search Pocket Guide

eff.org
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Wearable Electronics Made with a 1000-Year Old Technology

medium.com

Yes, you read it right. A 1000-year old technology from Song Dynasty is being used to...
Yes, you read it right. A 1000-year old technology from Song Dynasty is being used to make smart textiles as we speak.Photo by Marco Zuppone on UnsplashIt is the year 989 AD, silk has gained the highest place amongst textiles in Song dynasty. Worn exclusively by the elites, silk is the new “gold” for the Chinese and...

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Bryan Johnson, Who Wants to Live Forever, Sought Control with NDAs

nytimes.com

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Frink

frinklang.org

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Rocky Linux from CIQ – Hardened

ciq.com
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Tech terms I was pronouncing wrong

wonger.dev
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Graph Theory and Additive Combinatorics

yufeizhao.com
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Jagged Flash Attention Optimization

shaped.ai

A write-up on the RecSys '24: Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems paper,...
A write-up on the RecSys '24: Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems paper, “Enhancing Performance and Scalability of Large-Scale Recommendation Systems with Jagged Flash Attention”, by Meta Platforms, CA, USA.The Problem: Why Traditional Methods Fall ShortTraditional recommendation systems fa...
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I want a good parallel computer

raphlinus.github.io

The GPU in your computer is about 10 to 100 times more powerful than the CPU,...
The GPU in your computer is about 10 to 100 times more powerful than the CPU, depending on workload. For real-time graphics rendering and machine learning, you are enjoying that power, and doing those workloads on a CPU is not viable. Why aren’t we exploiting that power for other workloads? What prevents a GPU from ...
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MySQL transactions per second vs. fsyncs per second (2020)

sirupsen.com
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