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by belugacat 3y ago
The new Hitman games are the best recent example in that category, IMO. Sadly the final goal still ends up being killing people. There are few games that fall truly in that genre, which is a shame as (to me at least) it’s the video game gen
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by belugacat 3y ago
Why is it always Japan and anime? It'd be nice to see articles like "32 Telenovelas for 32 States of Mexico" or "16 Home Renovation Shows for 16 Bundesländer of Germany" every once in a while.
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by belugacat 3y ago
A fundamental problem is that audio/video are quantizable in fairly cheap ways for recording (microphone/ccd) and playback (speaker/display), in very low dimensionality (typically 1-2 for audio, 3 for video) Smell/taste
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by belugacat 3y ago
Hayao Miyazaki, in the documentary "The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness" (2013): Interviewer: "Aren't you worried about [Studio Ghibli]'s future?" HM: "The future is clear. It's gonna fall apart. I can
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by belugacat 3y ago
The infrastructure of Asian capitals is the best in the world, that's exactly the point - 99% of the world experiences deteriorated network (see comments in this thread to that point). It's frustrating when software isn't bui
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by belugacat 3y ago
Sorry I don't use Github. The Play Store says "This app isn’t available for your device because it was made for an older version of Android". I'm on Android 13.
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by belugacat 3y ago
unsolicited feedback you might care about or not: it doesn't run on my Pixel 6A :( shame, i was very excited to try it!
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by belugacat 3y ago
Link to the musical app?
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by belugacat 3y ago
“Many authors have concluded that the weight of a school backpack should not exceed 10% of the child's body weight” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4564613/#:~:tex... . The average 6 year old
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by belugacat 3y ago
Yes. From the article: > “We believe the focus should return to acquiring knowledge through printed textbooks and teacher expertise, rather than acquiring knowledge primarily from freely available digital sources that have not been vett
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by belugacat 3y ago
The mental gymnastics are beautiful and entertaining. Google image "podium". Google image "computer". The vast majority of computers shown can be placed on the vast majority of podiums shown. But again, as the other comm
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by belugacat 3y ago
For breakfast, you say? User: I define a new word, the podition. A podition is any object that can fit on a podium. Is a computer a podition ? Why ? ChatGPT: The term "podition" is a newly coined word, and its definition as "
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by belugacat 3y ago
The creator of Fruit Ninja released a fantastic video about the origins of the game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St5v2uI-Nis I highly recommend it, it's a fantastic post mortem (they shipped the original game, from
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by belugacat 3y ago
> Whether or not any given approach works out comes down far more to the little details and nuances of what you're doing and how you're doing it, as well as a healthy dollop of circumstances beyond your immediate control. Thi
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by belugacat 3y ago
“Self explanatory” doesn’t exist. There are only icons that people have seen before (and recognize), and those they haven’t.
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by belugacat 3y ago
In the case of the interface shown in the train video, the key thing the operator will rely on is the fixed physical position of the controls first, then their shape, dimension, and color. The icons really aren’t going to matter as much. An
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by belugacat 3y ago
Using the word “intuitive” is the hallmark of a mediocre interface designer. You can’t make an “intuitive interface”. What you can make is an interface that is familiar, and consistent, which means people can reasonably anticipate what doin
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by belugacat 3y ago
Surgeons aren’t engineers, they’re technicians.
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by belugacat 3y ago
> does anyone really believe anymore that it will be cheap, given how expensive ride share services are? I used to own a car in SF, and I definitely spend way less money every month on Lyft + the occasional weekend Getaround than I did o
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by belugacat 3y ago
That’s a POV I’ve grown to adopt as I got older (like many, perhaps). I used to heavily privilege theory, believing that everything could (and maybe should) be derived from first principles. Now I place the concrete over everything else; th
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by belugacat 3y ago
I’ve been hoping for a Twitter Japan fork like there was for yahoo!…
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by belugacat 3y ago
Putting the numbers in perspective is always interesting: The best selling video game handheld of all time, the Nintendo DS (across all its hardware revisions), sold over 150 million units in its lifetime. Apple typically sells this many iP
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by belugacat 3y ago
It is amusing that your argument for software not needing “maintenance” is pointing out 3 pieces of software that had each received 20 years of maintenance by the time they reached the year you picked, 2003.
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by belugacat 3y ago
If we’re going full speculation - Microbial life is probably not too uncommon, almost certainly present in our own solar system beyond Earth (and then the big question - does it always originate on its planet, or is cross planetary contamin
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Robert Cailliau on the WWW Proposal: “How It Happened.” (1997)(computer.org)
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by belugacat 3y ago
There’s a reason why Airbnb is paying for as many LoveFrom billable hours as they can.
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by belugacat 3y ago
Engineers and designers and PMs are so smart and experienced and so eager to show each other how good at their job they are. Thorough, complex, expansive feature sets are where those skillsets can shine; no glory in building something simpl
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by belugacat 3y ago
Perhaps https://filmulator.org
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by belugacat 3y ago
Andrei Tarkovski: “An artist never works under ideal conditions. If they existed, his work wouldn’t exist, for the artist doesn’t live in a vacuum. Some sort of pressure must exist. The artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art wo
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by belugacat 3y ago
Welcome to the world we have created. I have a number of artist friends who get accused of posting generated art when it’s theirs. It’s just the new standard from now on.

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