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by doomlaser 3y ago
This is my favorite edition, as it is the one I discovered from my parents' bookshelf in my early college years. Highly recommend the translation, and the photos. Lao Tsu's writing is just as relevant today as when it was original
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by doomlaser 3y ago
The track is constructed procedurally, so it's different each time you play it, but remains static after it's been constructed. There are about 20-30 "chunks" that get remixed into the track at random, except for a small
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by doomlaser 3y ago
I made this an intentional part of the game's design: once you've been free-falling for a couple seconds, your bike switches into Glider Mode, where you can shift gravity while you're falling by steering. Score only goes up w
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What a nice 169 second run of my gravity-twisting game Future Bike can look like [video](youtube.com)
5 points by doomlaser 3y ago|5 comments
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by doomlaser 3y ago
Playable in the browser on both phones and keyboards at http://doomlaser.itch.io/bike
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by doomlaser 3y ago
Found unresponsive in his hot tub. That's sad. He was very funny and charismatic in his acting roles, and it was not that long ago he was giving interviews about his life, post sobriety. 11 months ago: https://www.youtube.co
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by doomlaser 3y ago
His MBA is from Harvard Business School. Undergrad CS at Rice.
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by doomlaser 3y ago
James M. Whitehurst is new CEO, previously at IBM, but originally CEO of Red Hat. He joined IBM after they acquired it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Whitehurst He wrote a book about open source software while runn
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by doomlaser 3y ago
Digiloi is another cool Petscii platformer from a few years back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UNMSeS5l4k#t=30s
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A modern wireframe style inspired by Atari's Tempest(twitter.com)
10 points by doomlaser 3y ago|1 comments
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Show HN: I made a 3D motorcycle parkour game(twitter.com)
2 points by doomlaser 3y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Pilot your motorcycle across increasingly wild roller coaster geometry(doomlaser.itch.io)
3 points by doomlaser 3y ago|0 comments
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by doomlaser 3y ago
I watched a good talk from Yann LeCun who is Chief AI Scientist at Meta, and he explained that the thinking is that open source AI models will be the long-term winner, so it's best for them to work in that arena. https://www
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by doomlaser 3y ago
The amazing thing is that at age 84 and having not made a film in over a decade, Coppola has used a considerable amount of his own personal wealth to film the sci-fi epic Megalopolis , from a concept he came up with in the 1980s. Adam Driv
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by doomlaser 3y ago
Tempest is one of the video games on permanent display at the Museum of Modern Art: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_games_in_the_Mus...
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by doomlaser 3y ago
I wouldn't take it back. It was a singular experience in my career. I learned a lot. One of the cool things they did was have monthly talks for the interns from the executives. One of these was an off the cuff talk from Steve Jobs hims
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by doomlaser 3y ago
When I was an intern, we had to pay $1200 a month for corporate housing, and they put 4 of us in a 2 bedroom apartment, walking distance from IL1 in Cupertino. They also gave the 4 of us 2 bikes. Apple's cafeteria may not be free, but
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by doomlaser 3y ago
I honestly hope that EU regulatory pressure forces Apple to make their Macs more repairable. SSD failure = brick is just bad design.
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by doomlaser 3y ago
Just had a 2019 MacBook Pro 16" have its SSD die randomly. Took it to a repair shop and they said that since the internal SSD is soldered on to the logic board, there is no easy way to repair it without also getting a whole new board,
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by doomlaser 3y ago
I've found Llama-2 to be unusably "safety filtered" for creative work: https://i.imgur.com/GFY0wSL.png
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by doomlaser 3y ago
Just waiting for wine to get fast enough to run Windows binaries in the browser. Last I checked, it's not quite there yet.
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by doomlaser 3y ago
The Vertigo opening titles are a cool example from 1958: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CZfSc6nJ8U#t=80s
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by doomlaser 3y ago
The movie has a lot of great ideas, like having the US and Soviet AIs socially engineer a direct connection between them, whereupon they begin to communicate in proofs of pure math and physics.
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List of Artificial Intelligence Films(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by doomlaser 3y ago|2 comments
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by doomlaser 4y ago
Wholeheartedly agree that Festen a.k.a. " The Celebration " is the best thing to come out of Dogme 95. But even Festen doesn't fully adhere to the rules laid out in the Dogme 95 manifesto! The closest cultural descendants
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by doomlaser 4y ago
I just did some testing, and Ruffle can now play Hot Throttle , the weird AS3 / Flixel based game we made for Adult Swim in 2011. This is great progress! Previous Ruffle versions just quietly failed. Unfortunately, the framerate durin
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by doomlaser 4y ago
I believe the term comes from the game development sphere originally. Martin Jonasson & Petri Purho (creator of Noita and Crayon Physics Deluxe ) gave a famous talk about it in 2010, Juice it or lose it : https://www.you
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by doomlaser 4y ago
It's an exciting time. Unreal Engine is being used to great effect in things like The Mandalorian : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUnxzVOs3rk The latest developments in large language models are another area interes
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by doomlaser 4y ago
Mac OS, to be pendantic about styling :)
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by doomlaser 4y ago
You joke, but Siri could definitely benefit from the integration of a competent large language model. I have no idea what Apple's AI strategy is. Maybe they should get behind models that run locally and find an opportunity there.

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