andybak

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by andybak 6d ago
I wasn't implying that it was okay to "steal" things because they were offered voluntarily. My position on this is kind of complex and nuanced but this particular reply was meant to state the opposite.
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by andybak 7d ago
A huge chunk of the content that was scraped was most likely provided voluntarily rather than being waged labour.
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Statement On V/H/S SCP Foundation Film(scp-wiki.wikidot.com)
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by andybak 11d ago
Most days often for several hours.
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by andybak 11d ago
You don't need 4k in the headset panels to simulate a 4k monitor. The virtual screen isn't glued to your head.
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by andybak 11d ago
I work on a Quest 3 no problem. This is sharper.
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by andybak 11d ago
I disagree and I've got one
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by andybak 13d ago
No .sog support? I can't tell if .spz or .sog is likely to win out as a de facto standard - or whether both will co-exist but annoyingly I've gravitated towards .sog as it seemed technically superior and I'd be mildly inconve
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by andybak 16d ago
Ah, but there was a (maybe unintentional) implication that the people who loved it were oblivious to "soul" or something like. (The core problem here is that aesthetic disagreements are often expressed in a way that makes them sou
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by andybak 16d ago
Ha! I added a similar feature to Open Brush: https://docs.openbrush.app/user-guide/multimirror And learned a bit about group theory in the process... :-/ ( https://github.com/IxxyXR/unity-symm
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by andybak 16d ago
I both love you and curse you for that mod. I still haven't got around to playing Outer Wilds despite knowing enough to know I should. Because I keep thinking "I can only play it once - I should play it in VR" and then neve
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by andybak 16d ago
Ironically less so as they've added more to do but: > NMS is an amazing game with no soul. I found the game in the early days to be incredibly soulful - it was almost an interactive poem. Full of emptiness and loss. I loved it back
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by andybak 16d ago
Same. I really want to play it but - I feel I need to skip the first hour to do so?
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by andybak 16d ago
Different people find different things fun. I've never been grabbed by multiplayer FPS (I never git gud) - or souls-likes (same). I do sometimes get sucked into some Bethesda games but I need to get over the initial hump. I had a serio
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by andybak 16d ago
I find incremental (clicker) games fascinating because they are like crack for certain brains (myself included if I let them). There's something interesting going on with certain kinds of activity - exponential progression and incessan
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by andybak 19d ago
Oh that's just sloppy of them.
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by andybak 19d ago
Where's the moat? You can only truly "capture market share" if there's lock-in and no competition.
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by andybak 19d ago
The "run locally" thing is a red herring. The fact that anyone can be an inference providers and offer them as a service is what we need to focus on. If they are "good enough" then market forces will stop Anthropic/
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by andybak 27d ago
I'm getting a Poe's Law feeling. I'm genuinely unsure about whether this post is a stone cold parody or not. I think I need to turn off the internet and go to bed. EDIT: Your username doesn't help, either.
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by andybak 1mo ago
Nothing you wrote contradicts the post you are replying to.
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by andybak 1mo ago
Older Wittgenstein meet younger Wittgenstein.
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by andybak 1mo ago
It can also be "mostly true but exaggerated for polemic effect". Or your definition of political might be different to the speakers. Or it could be intended to highlight a way of perceiving the world and thus not be subject to tru
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by andybak 1mo ago
"Proofs" in this sense of the word are things that apply to mathematics and formal systems. Language is squishy. A minimal counterexample is potentially squishy enough to be meaningless.
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by andybak 1mo ago
> You might be too familiar with "activism" as a perjurative Do people generally regard it as a perjurative? I always assumed it ranged from neutral to positive. I do wonder how off my calibration is sometimes.
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by andybak 1mo ago
At the risk of posting without adding anything substantive, I find this an exceedingly convincing argument.
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by andybak 1mo ago
Is this another post title that was mangled into ambiguity because of trying to hit the arbitrary HN word count restriction?
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by andybak 1mo ago
Ironically (for my generation in the UK at least) "Asian" meant "South Asian" and for a long time we didn't have a useful shorthand for "all parts of Asia"
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by andybak 1mo ago
Sometimes I wish there was a Hacker News comment hall of fame.
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by andybak 1mo ago
My entire digital existence for the last 20 years or so has been a parasitical relationship with VC funding. They keep throwing money at business models that involve building market share and I keep benefiting. It hasn't stopped workin
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by andybak 1mo ago
According to this my garden is almost entirely in the shade but I have a suntan to disprove it.

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