We used deterministic game play to implement multiplayer on the GB Color port of Vigilante 8.
The GBC Link Cable would pass 1 byte in each direction at the same time. It's a pair of shift registers filling each other up across the cable.
The game was locked to the GBC's frame rate. There was a lot work to update the screen that had to happen in each (effectively) V-Blank and if it was missed the smooth scrolling stuttered.
At multiplayer startup we passed our seed. To run it looked like this:
On frame A it reads the controls, and packs them into a byte and puts that in the transfer buffer. The transfer occurs while it renders frame B. At the start of frame C it has the local controls encoded in the byte sent on frame A and it has the other side's controls in the byte received in frame B.
It applies the controls to the game state and renders frame C. Local and remote controls are applied with one frame delay.
There was no frame delay of the controls for local play so if you ever lost in multi-player feel free to blame lag and me specifically if you need to.
The Scotland link in the grandparent post is to a picture of 2 people, 1 white, 1 black. 1 is not large numbers.
Look, Gemini is clearly doing some weird stuff. But going all "look what crazy thing it did" for this specific image is bullshit. Maybe it's a misunderstanding of Scotland in specific and the prevalence of black people in history in general, in which case in needs to be gently corrected.
But also misinterpretations of what the history is. As I write this there's someone laughing at an image of black people in Scotland in the 1800s[1].
Sure, there's a discussion that can be had about a generic request generating an image of a black Nazi. The thing is, to me, complaining about a historically correct example is a good argument for why this kind of thing can be important.
"It’s often assumed that African people arrived in Scotland in the 18th century, or even later. But in fact Africans were resident in Scotland much earlier, and in the early 16th century they were high-status members of the royal retinue."
I intentionally start searches on Bing and have it set as default. But half of the time that I type anything to it it's because the browser didn't autocomplete like I expected.
So when I do want to see goggles results for the same thing I type "google", and a lot of the time the browser doesn't autocomplete to google.com before I hit return. So whoops, I just searched for "google".
> So how can we handle this case safely? There are a few ways I can think of.
strdup:
> The strdup() function returns a pointer to a new string which is a duplicate of the string s. Memory for the new string is obtained with malloc(3), and can be freed with free(3).
Here's a fun example. ASL allows, maybe even requires, negation after the statement. An interpreter friend of mine was interpreting Wayne's World in a mixed crowd. The whole "<statement>... NOT!" joke gets laughs from the hearing audience and the Deaf audience doesn't understand why.
I find the USB-C headaches worse. With a bag of cables if the cable fits[1] it works to the full capability of the device. If I'm traveling and forgot something I can expect that the cheapest gas station cable or a borrowed cable will work.
With USB-C I have to spend good money for every every cable in order to ensure that any cable I grab from my bag works. And these cables are going to be so thick that they are annoying to use with a mouse or keyboard.
I can rearrange my office and use a cheap 5 meter usb-A to B cable to get to where the printer is now (true story). If I want a 5 meter usb-C to C cable for data I need to spend over $300.
[1] excluding all the possibilities of chargers with incompatible DC barrel plugs, which is generally true of the time frames we're talking about
At work I've been added a 2nd technical contact and security contact for several projects because "you're less likely to be hit again". I think, but I'm not 100% sure, that is being done in a joking manner.
Sweetwater's customer experience is so good that it freaks me out. You have an assigned "sales engineer" who calls after the first order you make. So I've talked to them.
At one point I ordered a couple of different guitar hangers to try them out. I got a call asking if I meant to order 1 guitar hanger and 1 ukulele hanger. The sales engineer looked at the order, my history, and apparently had notes from one of our conversations and thought it might have been a mistake. It was and we corrected it before it shipped.
That's a misrepresentation of that conversation example.
Paraphrased:
Alice: My washing machine is broken...
...
A: BTW, How many legs does a horse have and could it repair my washing machine?
LaMDA: Horses have four legs. How could they help?
A: you tell me
L: Well, they could certainly help you. It could help you move to a new house where you could install a new washing machine.
In this context this is a perfectly reasonable response. It's a bit silly, but it's also a silly question. The linked article shows LaMDA writing several stories, it's not crazy to read this conversation as an invitation to tell a story about a horse helping with a repair.
In fact if someone asked me how a horse could help me repair a washing machine and then pushed for an answer I could see myself making an answer along the same lines.