Night_Thastus

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by Night_Thastus 6mo ago
I played the CN flash games so much as a kid. Between that and Armor Games, Nitrome, Crazy Monkey Games, etc - I was spoiled for content. It does make me sad to see so much of it lost to time - though I also understand flash was bad and rea
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by Night_Thastus 6mo ago
I tried to go the Costco route, but somehow it didn't click for me. The portion sizes were too large. As a household of 1, it just doesn't make sense to buy that much of most things, unless I'm sure they're almost enti
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by Night_Thastus 6mo ago
They're a private company. Not all private companies are good, but all public ones inevitably turn terrible.
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by Night_Thastus 6mo ago
Humans are social creatures. We need socialization. It also helps keep us sharp mentally. You also never know what you might experience from talking to someone. You may make a life-long friend. Or learn about something you didn't know.
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by Night_Thastus 6mo ago
Just so you know, no normal filter can actually remove anything dissolved in the water - like minerals or salt. The only way to remove those is either ion exchange (ie: water softening, replace the hard minerals with salt) or reverse osmosi
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by Night_Thastus 6mo ago
LLMs often have a distinct writing style. It's not guaranteed, you can get false positives and false negatives, but if you start paying attention it becomes obvious in many cases.
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by Night_Thastus 6mo ago
This is also going to be very difficult because: * HDR vs SDR mode * Different monitors have different color replication ranges * Monitor and OS color and brightness controls (brightness affects color perception) * Interior lighting * Monit
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by Night_Thastus 6mo ago
Depends on the level of interest the state takes in it. But I would wager yes, it's unsustainable currently.
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by Night_Thastus 6mo ago
The physical buildouts and massive R+D spending is the big part.
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by Night_Thastus 6mo ago
This is entirely expected. The low prices of using LLMs early on was totally and completely unsustainable. The companies providing such services were (and still are) burning money by the truckload. The hope is to get a big userbase who even
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by Night_Thastus 6mo ago
There seems to be little to no evidence of any negative effects from just about any artificial sweeteners. I mean shoot, Aspartame immediately breaks down into some of the most common amino acids in the body. There's no biological mech
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by Night_Thastus 6mo ago
That's rough. Did you contact their support about it? I measure a lot of companies by how they handle recovering from stuff like this.
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by Night_Thastus 6mo ago
I hate to say it, but the lack of removable batteries serves a purpose . It wasn't done just because 'screw consumers'. It was done because: * It makes phones massively easier to waterproof * It allows for larger batteries
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by Night_Thastus 6mo ago
And plenty live on your skin, causing no harm but making it nearly impossible for dangerous bacteria to thrive.
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by Night_Thastus 6mo ago
The two root causes of these sort of windows disappearing is what you've said (DPI) and just a change in tastes. People now view those styles as kind of garish. Between that and the difficulty of making it work and look good at a varie
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by Night_Thastus 6mo ago
The problem with such infrastructure is not the initial development overhead. It's the maintenance. The long term, slow burn, uninteresting work that must be done continually. Someone needs to be behind it for the long haul or it will
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by Night_Thastus 6mo ago
I mean, it's one GetPostRecord, Michael. What could it cost? 1 trillion ports?
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by Night_Thastus 6mo ago
This seems to be the default for me, at least on Android.
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by Night_Thastus 7mo ago
For toy projects good old Make is fine...but at some point a project gets large enough that you need something more powerful. If you need something that can deal with multiple layers of nested sub-repositories, third-party and first-party d
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by Night_Thastus 7mo ago
'Micro Mages': https://morphcat.de/micromages/ Reminds me of this. I found their video that had a breakdown of some of what they needed to do to make a game fit on NES really fascinating!
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by Night_Thastus 7mo ago
I make a habit of training the spam filter to catch all the non-important emails produced on a purchase. Tracking link for shipment? Thank you! Random email about how to 'best use' my purchase (advertise other products) - instant
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by Night_Thastus 7mo ago
Aren't AI detectors almost exclusively terrible at their job, though? I wouldn't put a lot of weight on that.
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by Night_Thastus 7mo ago
I wouldn't call a card like the 5080 important. It was incremental compared to the previous generation, a poor value for money, and was awkwardly placed - being very cut down compared to the 90 class of that generation - significantly
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by Night_Thastus 7mo ago
Bitcoin isn't 'real digital money'. It's a speculative asset for gambling with. That's all it is, and all it ever was.
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by Night_Thastus 7mo ago
Aside: That font is really hard on my eyes. Anyone else?
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by Night_Thastus 7mo ago
Makes sense - solar especially. It's just more financially smart to buy something that will generate electricity for 20-30 years with little to no maintenance than a plant that requires constant fuel, and is fairly complex mechanically
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by Night_Thastus 7mo ago
No, enthusiasts care about that. People who have a soldering iron and will try to fix things themselves. Most people do the following: * Take it to Apple * Apple says it will cost $X * Customer says 'yes' and gets it repaired OR
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by Night_Thastus 7mo ago
Worth nothing that the "mirror test" may not be accurate for a lot of animals - like dogs. Dogs are a lot more sensitive to smell, and can pass smell-based mirror-test-equivalents.
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by Night_Thastus 7mo ago
I don't really get the point of this. If the 0 never changes to anything else, then effectively it serves no purpose and shouldn't exist. Some people even refer to software that way. Sometimes something like React 0.82 might be ju
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by Night_Thastus 7mo ago
I've never seen any evidence that either of those are true. However, it's not planned obsolescence either. It's just math. Building things to be repairable costs more money and time. There is very little incentive to do so, b

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