WorldMaker

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by WorldMaker 2mo ago
Yeah, it is starting to become more acceptable again, which is great. I think the "accessibility options" phrasing has been a key to why Xbox relaxed a lot of their earlier, harher standards on it. Which is a great thing, I apprec
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by WorldMaker 2mo ago
From my perspective that's not a reason to give up on ad blocking if Firefox wanted to bundle that out of the box, that's another reason that the Chrome hegemony is bad for everyone and ad networks that want to block Firefox &quot
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by WorldMaker 2mo ago
Admiral and several other of the more obnoxious ad networks already claim that Firefox is an ad blocker simply because of its out-of-the-box blocking support for third-party cookies and those ad networks nag you to use another browser. If
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by WorldMaker 2mo ago
Examples of B were found in open source, including some versions of the OpenJDK. Mac OS was said to skip 9 on the way to 10 due to a combo of some Asian numerology (just as Western numerology often encourages skipping "unlucky" 13
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by WorldMaker 2mo ago
Yeah, one of my learnings that took a bit is that as much fun as learning the classic lispisms like car/cdr/cadr/cadar/caadr/etc was, with their long history and particular "early punchcards typing efficiency&q
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by WorldMaker 2mo ago
It's nice to know that even in the end the CPB lived up to its mission and promise and swallowed its poison pill rather than be corrupted by partisan politics, but it's also gross to have seen that forewarned poison pill needed in
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by WorldMaker 2mo ago
Steam has the weakest enforced terms of all the three that I mentioned, but it does have terms in its contract with developers for how Achievements are supposed to unlock. But most "triple A" games don't just release under St
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by WorldMaker 2mo ago
Big O notation predates Computational Complexity. It was originally used to guesstimate asymptotic behavior (limits as they approach infinity). The related Little o notation (even more specifically limits of already large values as they app
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by WorldMaker 2mo ago
> With AI, "bad" engineers can now amplify their "bad" engineering x10 across the organization. I think the real pain though is that AI also often removes the feedback loop between "good" engineers and &quot
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by WorldMaker 2mo ago
I think the other big thing that killed in game cheats and debug screens was Xbox and Steam Achievements/PlayStation Trophies. Some of the "value" in such tokens of game completion are the "skill checks" it takes to
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by WorldMaker 2mo ago
That's assuming inaction doesn't have intentionality behind it. Meta has proven many times that its inaction is often intentional. But also, maybe more importantly, as soon as money changing hands is involved, that's a bus
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by WorldMaker 2mo ago
Yeah, unfortunately in the US economy most of the rest of the easiest directions to start over are also knowledge work and also impacted by AI layoffs and reframing. I've got 20+ years of software engineering/software development.
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by WorldMaker 2mo ago
The problem the article restates is that having more time to make art/play music/enjoy time with friends isn't accurately incentivized by this economy. Rather than employ more people a smaller share of the work week companies
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by WorldMaker 2mo ago
> With AI you can still get into the details all you want. AI won't get offended for being "micro-managed". Until it does. That's the scifi answer, right: if LLMs lead to AGI, AGI has a right to be offended at bei
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by WorldMaker 2mo ago
I have also wondered what sort of dramatizations could come out of Mars, Inc, though I also wonder if there are weird classified twists that won't come out easily. Or at least if you were writing the fictional dramatization there'
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by WorldMaker 2mo ago
Vaping brought smoking back and pipe smoking is trending back upwards for the first time in decades. New bars where people can smoke cigars and pipes have shown up in my city again after a recent push to get a dedicated ABC license for that
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by WorldMaker 2mo ago
You don't think GitHub working on seven different interfaces to copilot and vibe coding PR page changes filled with bugs are a good use of engineering time?~
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by WorldMaker 2mo ago
My favorite example already from the trailers was "the lady wearing mirror shades was already done in the movie Johnny Mnemonic in the 90s" and getting to explain that it is literally the same character . (Johnny Mnemonic was bas
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by WorldMaker 2mo ago
I still love the parody of contemporaries Vangelis, Wendy Carlos, and Moroder in the Adult Swim "Infomercial" called "Live from the Necropolis: Lords of Synth": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXgNo5Smino
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by WorldMaker 2mo ago
There's an interesting bellwether in mobile games right now. There are two easy statistics to track when trying random free-to-start games: time to first ad (TTFA), time to paywall (TTP). Most LLM-using mobile games are already at in
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by WorldMaker 2mo ago
Related music note that Molly Lewis released a song of the title specifically on August 4th, for reasons of thinking about the story, which includes the story text: https://www.patreon.com/molly/posts/today-is-augu
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by WorldMaker 2mo ago
Section 230 should have never applied to ads. Ads are a commercial relationship. Facebook and YouTube gets paid by these scammers so why would they want to accurately police them? The incentives are broken. Newspapers had to invent all so
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by WorldMaker 2mo ago
The top of the article addresses this a bit: yes, Android in theory is AOSP [Android Open Source Project] which is still Linux based. (For now, lots of rumors every Android release that a kernel switch is coming.) But AOSP has lost a lot of
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by WorldMaker 2mo ago
I have autocorrect and predictive text on on the iPad and off on the iPhone and it is fascinating how much better it is on the iPad. One of the things that particularly killed me was the iPhone correcting three or four words away from the c
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by WorldMaker 2mo ago
It's what felt like what really killed Windows Phone. Too many things became "only available" through an iOS or Android app. Windows Phone was free as in beer towards the end and there's a possibility there would have
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by WorldMaker 2mo ago
It reminds me a bit of an anthropology question I've heard brought up a lot that's sort of the dark inverse of xkcd 1053 [0], that many things that "everybody knows" tend to get lost over enough time. You don't need
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by WorldMaker 2mo ago
The proposed feed solution looks a lot like the CouchDB replication protocol, as another object in a convergent evolution space to consider.
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by WorldMaker 2mo ago
Using conventional explosives is a real thing that exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosion_welding
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by WorldMaker 2mo ago
Using the Project Orion spacecraft to get there, of course. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_%28nuclear_propu...
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by WorldMaker 2mo ago
This alloy is naturally the macguffin in a Godzilla and/or Sentai film.

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