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by hbn 10mo ago
If there's anyone who I think deserves to be able to say "all existing languages/engines suck" it's someone who made his own language from scratch to make an engine with it from scratch to make a game with it from s
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by hbn 10mo ago
This was a scary story to read after I cashed out all my rewards points at work for the first time in 5.5 years to get six $100 Apple gift cards which I redeemed back-to-back-to-back.
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by hbn 10mo ago
I assume this is a shot at the White House but announcing an "anti-racist font" is totally up Google's alley I know I've seen Mozilla proudly pat themselves on the back in their announcement of anti-racist Firefox themes
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by hbn 10mo ago
Maybe a good excuse to get back into playing around with Coldtype again https://coldtype.goodhertz.com/introduction.html
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by hbn 10mo ago
Because Epic is doing something much closer to those companies and restraints on what they can do would likely affect Epic as well.
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by hbn 10mo ago
Speak of the devil, I just got this tweet in my feed today https://x.com/marcdwyz/status/1999226723322261520
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by hbn 10mo ago
What's "many years"? I've read about people's 3DS cartridges already failing just sitting on a shelf.
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by hbn 10mo ago
Nintendo is pretty good for putting a solid 1.0 version of their games on the cartridges on release. But on the other hand, the Switch cartridges use NAND memory which means if you aren't popping them into a system to refresh the charg
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by hbn 10mo ago
"Hallucination" has always seemed like a misnomer to me anyway considering LLMs don't know anything. They just impressively get things right enough to be useful assuming you audit the output. If anything, I think all of their
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by hbn 10mo ago
Yes let's. But that doesn't answer my question.
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by hbn 11mo ago
What you're describing is more of an American television problem. The Simpsons, The Office, Game of Thrones, etc. all managed to go on too long without the help of Netflix.
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by hbn 11mo ago
I'm not trying to watch videos or read text on my light bulb
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by hbn 11mo ago
I only use light themes for the most part, and HDR videos look insane and out of place. If you scroll past an HDR video on Instagram you have a, eyeball-searing section of your screen because your eyes aren't adjusted to looking at tha
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by hbn 11mo ago
HDR videos on social media look terrible because the UI isn’t in HDR while the video isn’t. So you have this insanely bright video that more or less ignores your brightness settings, and then dim icons on top of it that almost look incomple
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by hbn 11mo ago
Google showed off the Holo design language in Android 3.0 which was a year before Windows 8.
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by hbn 11mo ago
I saw someone on Twitter say "the average IQ in both companies just went up"
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by hbn 11mo ago
I imagine it sends a fax to a printer that's had its tray removed and is mounted above a waste bin
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by hbn 11mo ago
Google and Microsoft have existing major money printing businesses to keep their AI business afloat and burn money for a while. That's how Microsoft broke into gaming (and then squandered it years later for unrelated incompetence) Open
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by hbn 11mo ago
Anyone who would opt-in to use a buggier version of an already buggy and unreliable OS without being paid should be psychologically evaluated but instead they're trusted to be QA testers for the most widespread desktop OS in the world
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by hbn 11mo ago
And surely nothing has changed about the world in the last 40 years
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by hbn 11mo ago
I've been playing Dragon Age Origins recently, and I've been popping into the Steam overlay browser to look up some stuff, which frequently leads me to the wiki. And oh my god, I can't believe how bad the internet is without
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by hbn 11mo ago
Motion capture in bigger budget games only started to become common around the Xbox 360/PS3 generation. Go back to prior generations and it was a lot of "2 models facing each other and their mouths wiggle up and down while audio f
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by hbn 11mo ago
I think it's generous to say anything after 7 was good. 8 was just so offensively bad with getting rid of the start menu and replacing it with a fullscreen tablet UI, 10 was celebrated for backtracking on that. But it was also famous f
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by hbn 11mo ago
Windows 8 was fine if you used StartIsBack which just added the Windows 7 start menu back and you could happily ignore the big stupid fullscreen start menu that yanked you away from your desktop. But at that point, yeah no point in upgradin
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by hbn 11mo ago
I've shared this on HN before, but starting with Windows 11, they seemingly started making the new UI essentially a separate process that runs on top of the existing Windows 10 UI and just modifies it. I learned this from a video where
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by hbn 11mo ago
I don't even bother using the start menu to sleep my PC anymore. I used to hit Win, then navigate with arrow keys to sleep, but at one point an update broke it so you couldn't navigate to the power menu with arrow keys. I don&#x27
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by hbn 11mo ago
If the tech stack used to make that video makes it "AI slop" then every video game cutscene is AI slop.
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by hbn 11mo ago
I wouldn't trust any of the info in those images in the first carousel if I found them in the wild. It looks like AI image slop and I assume anyone who thinks those look good enough to share did not fact check any of the info and just
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by hbn 11mo ago
They really need to work on making an easier transition from Chrome if they care about converting users. Add an out of the box (preferably default) option to make the tabs look normal and not ugly like they are now. Change the private windo
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by hbn 11mo ago
It's worth noting that Chrome was just legitimately a good product in a space where the competition wasn't blowing any minds. The people that switched over saw how much better a browser can be and spread the word.

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