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by dusted 3y ago
> Game development is in an extinction level event crisis, and it is entirely self inflicted. Looking at modern gaming and the modern games industry, I'm finding it pretty hard to be sad about it though. The best games were finished
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by dusted 3y ago
I guess design is more about the amount of emotion evoked, rather than the quality of emotion evoked. Destruction is easier than creation. Creating something so ugly that it induces a negative emotion is probably easier than creating someth
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by dusted 3y ago
"The most sophisticated of generative AI systems can have trouble with novel scenarios not represented in the training data." Most humans can have trouble with novel scenarios not represented in the training data. That's hand
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Ask HN: Where's All the P2P?
1 points by dusted 3y ago|0 comments
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by dusted 3y ago
Thanks! Now I can spend the next two hours pressing Random ;)
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by dusted 3y ago
If I can chose between a 1 minute commercial and a 2 minute pause, I'll have the pause, please.
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by dusted 3y ago
That looks like a flimsy compromise between a real desktop setup and a practical travel computer.
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by dusted 3y ago
> Git sucks. No it does not, which kind of invalidates the rest of the rant. > Isn't It Obvious That C Programmers Wrote Git? Yes, because it actually works.
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Ask HN: Cheap 5v tolerant PCI-E GPIO card?
1 points by dusted 3y ago|0 comments
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by dusted 3y ago
I often use local bare repos for experiementation, and for backup to other machines on my lan, in case my main hard drive goes dead or github decides to unexist.
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by dusted 3y ago
Things I don't like from this demo: Setup screen: * Flat box instead of real dialog in the installer * No box around the close button * No accents on the next button * Next button provides no feedback to mouse-over or mouse-click * Lis
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by dusted 3y ago
That was actually one of my very first encounters with Linux, it was a debian based distro called "storm linux" that had it as one of the default options. I've gotten back to it over the years, but it seems.. odd somehow, sli
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by dusted 3y ago
WINE is better at running old Windows software than Windows, so there seems to be some consistency at least.
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by dusted 3y ago
Indeed, there's never been a positive correlation between saving energy and improving human progress. If there will be, now is not that time. We truly need clean, plentiful energy, too cheap to meter. We will still research power-savin
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by dusted 3y ago
I'm finding software bloat to be the biggest prohibiting factor. I'm continually astonished by how much worse each update brings. Even Linux will not stop bloating. It used to be that one could surf the Internet with a graphical u
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by dusted 3y ago
I hoped it was about the NuXT computer https://monotech.fwscart.com/details/p6083514_19777986.aspx
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by dusted 3y ago
Indeed, money is a condensate of time.
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by dusted 3y ago
Gnome after version 1, definitely after version 2 is a symptom of the "software is never done" fallacy. After building a solid, performant and working desktop environment, instead of leaving it alone and start making other applica
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by dusted 3y ago
"Abashed the Devil stood, and saw how awful goodness is" I heard that from the movie "The Crow" and as a huge fan of the movie I looked up _everything_ that the movie referenced. I eventually bought the book and read it
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by dusted 3y ago
A large amount of the submissions to join my webring ( geekring.net ) comes from neocities users, and it's always a joy to visit their pages, a lot of creativity goes into them!
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by dusted 3y ago
not as "1D" as I'd imagined, but much more fun. I'm still toying with the idea of making a game that "renders" a 1D projection of a 2D space. (yes, I know, the line would be infinitely thin, I'll compromis
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by dusted 3y ago
side select.. so.. that basically flips between upper or lower read/write heads.. That wire though.. It seems they could have gotten twice the speed by having two read and two write pins, one one additional pin.
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by dusted 3y ago
I remember an older HN post about this, it explained that both sides of the argument are right. For people who never toast bread, refrigeration ruins it faster. For people who always toast bread, refrigeration keeps it usable longer. I&#x27
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by dusted 3y ago
It might have interesting effects if copyright only covered the currently available version (as identified by a hash of the entire product distribution). My hope is that it would have the beneficial effects of: * Not losing (as many) things
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by dusted 3y ago
10+ years ago, my very first profile picture at a corp was a screenshot of the statue from the flash animation "Truckers Delight". In case you don't know, it's a giant golden statue of our protagonist giving a thumbs up,
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by dusted 3y ago
Oh, that's excellent! Thank you! Now I know what to do with my evening! ;)
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by dusted 3y ago
The DEC J-11 CPU is a single CPU that is implemented on two discrete chips with one taking care of control and the other of data paths, not exactly the same idea as using two identical cpu's to implement a different architecture, but s
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by dusted 3y ago
indeed, the ports at 00 and 01 and that pin 5 could be pullsed low by external logic to have the 6510 tristate it's bus pins so external logic could control the bus, this was used by the VIC2 chip in the C64.
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by dusted 3y ago
I wrote about hackers too, http://www.dusted.dk/pages/phlog/2023-12-02.txt the gist of that rant is that what you see in hackers is not what's not their screens, but what's in their minds, through a poet
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by dusted 3y ago
That's an interesting observation!

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