Macil
@macil.tech
web developer interested in vrchat, games, software dev, some politics, ai. he/him.
For the classic Sonic games, the Sonic Origins rerelease is nice because it adds widescreen and HD support to the games.
* The only big problem with Origins is that some great music in Sonic 3 is missing, which can be fixed with a mod gamebanana.com/sounds/61731
* The only big problem with Origins is that some great music in Sonic 3 is missing, which can be fixed with a mod gamebanana.com/sounds/61731
Sonic 3 - Complete Music Restoration Sound Mod for Sonic Origins | SO Sound Mods
A clean, crisp restoration of the Sonic 3 OST.... A Sonic Origins (SO) Sound Mod in the Sonic 3 & Knuckles category, submitted by BlastoiseVeteran
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November 19, 2025 at 8:18 PM
For the classic Sonic games, the Sonic Origins rerelease is nice because it adds widescreen and HD support to the games.
* The only big problem with Origins is that some great music in Sonic 3 is missing, which can be fixed with a mod gamebanana.com/sounds/61731
* The only big problem with Origins is that some great music in Sonic 3 is missing, which can be fixed with a mod gamebanana.com/sounds/61731
Make something that composes well with other tools instead of trying to handle every possible use-case itself.
November 14, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Make something that composes well with other tools instead of trying to handle every possible use-case itself.
This wasn't in Rust but now I'm slightly wondering whether Rust is right not to have fall-through.
I guess it doesn't play nicely with match destructuring and it can always be done in Rust with a custom macro so maybe that's appropriate for something used so rarely.
I guess it doesn't play nicely with match destructuring and it can always be done in Rust with a custom macro so maybe that's appropriate for something used so rarely.
November 7, 2025 at 7:27 AM
This wasn't in Rust but now I'm slightly wondering whether Rust is right not to have fall-through.
I guess it doesn't play nicely with match destructuring and it can always be done in Rust with a custom macro so maybe that's appropriate for something used so rarely.
I guess it doesn't play nicely with match destructuring and it can always be done in Rust with a custom macro so maybe that's appropriate for something used so rarely.
Split-brain people reporting an internal experience like us suggests the possibility that we could be fundamentally like them but that our brains are just better at correcting/preventing the contradictions before they enter our notice or lead to actions.
November 6, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Split-brain people reporting an internal experience like us suggests the possibility that we could be fundamentally like them but that our brains are just better at correcting/preventing the contradictions before they enter our notice or lead to actions.
workarounds for very large spaces seem possible like by resetting the player position to near origin and shifting the world geometry, but are only janky at best because you can't locally translate the positions of other players and standard networked objects.
November 5, 2025 at 3:51 AM
workarounds for very large spaces seem possible like by resetting the player position to near origin and shifting the world geometry, but are only janky at best because you can't locally translate the positions of other players and standard networked objects.
It's really cool to see level exports in VRChat but that definitely sounds too big for it in file size and in spatial size. I kind of wish VRChat was more capable for that.
November 5, 2025 at 3:51 AM
It's really cool to see level exports in VRChat but that definitely sounds too big for it in file size and in spatial size. I kind of wish VRChat was more capable for that.
starts from rightmost column
November 4, 2025 at 1:17 AM
starts from rightmost column
I think this whole aspect of the analogy has been stretched unnecessarily.
If someone was on the verge of building nukes-B, people with nukes would threaten them instead of waiting to build their own nukes-B first. Maybe or maybe not they'd do it so they can then make nukes-B by themselves.
If someone was on the verge of building nukes-B, people with nukes would threaten them instead of waiting to build their own nukes-B first. Maybe or maybe not they'd do it so they can then make nukes-B by themselves.
November 2, 2025 at 12:01 AM
I think this whole aspect of the analogy has been stretched unnecessarily.
If someone was on the verge of building nukes-B, people with nukes would threaten them instead of waiting to build their own nukes-B first. Maybe or maybe not they'd do it so they can then make nukes-B by themselves.
If someone was on the verge of building nukes-B, people with nukes would threaten them instead of waiting to build their own nukes-B first. Maybe or maybe not they'd do it so they can then make nukes-B by themselves.
I feel like too casual dismissal is below anyone without faith that AI can't ever get too advanced, but I do find "it's too early to call this" and "advancing AI more now may help us discover how to get the benefits without the dangers" as pretty convincing counterarguments to doing this now.
November 1, 2025 at 11:25 PM
I feel like too casual dismissal is below anyone without faith that AI can't ever get too advanced, but I do find "it's too early to call this" and "advancing AI more now may help us discover how to get the benefits without the dangers" as pretty convincing counterarguments to doing this now.
This sounds almost like what we did for nukes.
Yudkowsky is jumping the gun but if AI was about good enough to enable anyone to build something as damaging as a nuke, it would absolutely warrant that level of treatment.
Yudkowsky is jumping the gun but if AI was about good enough to enable anyone to build something as damaging as a nuke, it would absolutely warrant that level of treatment.
November 1, 2025 at 11:25 PM
This sounds almost like what we did for nukes.
Yudkowsky is jumping the gun but if AI was about good enough to enable anyone to build something as damaging as a nuke, it would absolutely warrant that level of treatment.
Yudkowsky is jumping the gun but if AI was about good enough to enable anyone to build something as damaging as a nuke, it would absolutely warrant that level of treatment.
In my experience on Reddit, if you're in the habit of upvoting or downvoting most posts you see, then that trains you to get really fast at figuring out whether you're for or against every single thing you read, which trains you away from nuance and toward a lot of snap surface judgments.
October 31, 2025 at 8:21 PM
In my experience on Reddit, if you're in the habit of upvoting or downvoting most posts you see, then that trains you to get really fast at figuring out whether you're for or against every single thing you read, which trains you away from nuance and toward a lot of snap surface judgments.
I'm glad that dislikes are just for algorithm personalization, but I worry that having the feature shown too prominently (ie. visible on the post instead of in a submenu like "not interested" is today) could have downsides.
October 31, 2025 at 8:21 PM
I'm glad that dislikes are just for algorithm personalization, but I worry that having the feature shown too prominently (ie. visible on the post instead of in a submenu like "not interested" is today) could have downsides.
I saw a TikTok from someone talking about how when they brought up Trump's AI shit jet video, their MAGA family member completely disbelieved Trump would post that and insisted it was "probably just AI" like that meant Trump had nothing to do with it.
October 24, 2025 at 9:38 AM
I saw a TikTok from someone talking about how when they brought up Trump's AI shit jet video, their MAGA family member completely disbelieved Trump would post that and insisted it was "probably just AI" like that meant Trump had nothing to do with it.
I'm very curious how many casual Trump fans are at all familiar with his posting. I fully think if the media stopped sane-washing him and just aired his words directly often, there'd be a big opinion shift.
October 24, 2025 at 9:38 AM
I'm very curious how many casual Trump fans are at all familiar with his posting. I fully think if the media stopped sane-washing him and just aired his words directly often, there'd be a big opinion shift.
I don't mind their silly updates except that the changed sounds all sound a little muffled and often make me second-guess whether my headphones are working correctly
October 24, 2025 at 9:20 AM
I don't mind their silly updates except that the changed sounds all sound a little muffled and often make me second-guess whether my headphones are working correctly
the very first sentence describing it as "climate-incinerating" is pretty bad because MobileCoin doesn't even use proof-of-work mining at all, the specific part that makes cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin have crazy high energy usage compared to most computer stuff
October 21, 2025 at 4:21 AM
the very first sentence describing it as "climate-incinerating" is pretty bad because MobileCoin doesn't even use proof-of-work mining at all, the specific part that makes cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin have crazy high energy usage compared to most computer stuff
If someone makes a prompt, finds the results when combined with a random seed are interesting, and then automates generating+sharing the results forever, then the marginal artistic value of each result trends toward zero. The artistic value here is mostly in their creation of the generator.
October 16, 2025 at 9:28 PM
If someone makes a prompt, finds the results when combined with a random seed are interesting, and then automates generating+sharing the results forever, then the marginal artistic value of each result trends toward zero. The artistic value here is mostly in their creation of the generator.
imo:
- the natural world isn't art
- a snapshotted perspective of the natural world selected by someone and shared to others to cause a specific emotional response is art
- AI images have artistic value through the combination of the prompt and the intentional curation and re-sharing of the results.
- the natural world isn't art
- a snapshotted perspective of the natural world selected by someone and shared to others to cause a specific emotional response is art
- AI images have artistic value through the combination of the prompt and the intentional curation and re-sharing of the results.
October 16, 2025 at 9:28 PM
imo:
- the natural world isn't art
- a snapshotted perspective of the natural world selected by someone and shared to others to cause a specific emotional response is art
- AI images have artistic value through the combination of the prompt and the intentional curation and re-sharing of the results.
- the natural world isn't art
- a snapshotted perspective of the natural world selected by someone and shared to others to cause a specific emotional response is art
- AI images have artistic value through the combination of the prompt and the intentional curation and re-sharing of the results.
if you swapped consciousnesses without swapping memories, would anyone notice?
I think consciousness is real but not unique or attached to identity. Identity comes from memories and social systems. Swapping consciousnesses would be like swapping identical electrons or $10 between two bank accounts.
I think consciousness is real but not unique or attached to identity. Identity comes from memories and social systems. Swapping consciousnesses would be like swapping identical electrons or $10 between two bank accounts.
October 14, 2025 at 7:53 PM
if you swapped consciousnesses without swapping memories, would anyone notice?
I think consciousness is real but not unique or attached to identity. Identity comes from memories and social systems. Swapping consciousnesses would be like swapping identical electrons or $10 between two bank accounts.
I think consciousness is real but not unique or attached to identity. Identity comes from memories and social systems. Swapping consciousnesses would be like swapping identical electrons or $10 between two bank accounts.
I love it except for the fact that (in both Firefox and Chrome) it always puts the bookmark into the last folder that you picked. I always want the no-confirmation bookmarks to go into the default unsorted folder. It should take a more specific action than that to go into one of my organized folders
October 14, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I love it except for the fact that (in both Firefox and Chrome) it always puts the bookmark into the last folder that you picked. I always want the no-confirmation bookmarks to go into the default unsorted folder. It should take a more specific action than that to go into one of my organized folders