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by jrowen 9mo ago
My understanding is that something can only be called Open Source (vs. Source Available) if it uses one of the approved licenses that uphold the GNU Four Freedoms of Software. Which isn't a requirement of npm.
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> Nobody disagrees that a brighter color draws more attention than a subdued one, or that the eye is drawn to a heavier weight before a lighter one. But they disagree on which of those is "good design" in which context. For exa
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by jrowen 9mo ago
Well, I said aspired to. They had ambitions that eventually got walked back to more basic behaviors. Here's an article from Raph Koster on it: https://www.raphkoster.com/2006/06/09/why-dont-our-npcs/
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by jrowen 9mo ago
It's kind of just like, this sense of the "safety" of the walled garden (which one might argue the overlords could rugpull at any moment, which kind of happened with Twitter, but that's not something that really concerns
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by jrowen 9mo ago
I feel like this is actually quite a bold claim. Just within this thread there is wild disagreement. The term “design” is so insanely broad. There are Dieter Rams-style principles of functional objects that have sort of “won out”, but with
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What games are notable in this regard? The classic Majesty series comes to mind. UO aspired to complex NPC systems. Fable as well. I always dreamt of a more advanced Sim City-meets-MMO that just went all in on that.
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by jrowen 9mo ago
Thanks for your thoughts. I do feel like this is all very specifically connected to Twitter. Which tech people really adopted, but I never used much, so it is interesting that these different perspectives are somewhat tied to one's meg
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by jrowen 9mo ago
The data is not transferring, but the user is. When I sign up for e.g. Twitter, I don't want to sign up for Mastodon, or Bluesky, or Truth Social, or whatever other platform someone might create later. Thus I would not choose to put my
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by jrowen 9mo ago
But what if your entire social graph didn't choose to transfer over as well? What if they don't want to be on that app? What if someone that was very indecent made a compatible app? Would you want your entire Twitter history repre
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by jrowen 9mo ago
I agree. I don't understand the driving force here. I have all of the raw image files that I've uploaded to Instagram. I can screenshot or download the versions that I created in their editor. Likewise for any text I've publi
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by jrowen 9mo ago
The author links to another article of theirs called "Open Source is Bigger Than You Can Imagine," which hinges on the size of the npm registry. npm says "open source" on their landing page, and has an "npm Open Sou
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> After all, we aren't volitionless molecules bouncing off walls. Are we not? The free will debate aside, I think what you said makes a lot of sense, and comes across as empathetic, and you didn't need to use that word. I just
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by jrowen 9mo ago
I don't think it's really fair to call it racism. That is such a loaded accusation to levy today that it should only be used if someone really wronged another person. We all have cultural biases and familiarities, is that wrong? B
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by jrowen 9mo ago
I've seen some other commentary on the short/one-line paragraphs trend, and linking it to LLMs. I think it is just kind of a thing of the times—attention spans and all that. I think it is more suited to the ways people consume tex
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by jrowen 9mo ago
It does matter though. It is definitely a factor. There are lots of other factors, and different types of businesses with different margins, but they are all definitely tracking and optimizing those figures. Consumers know that software can
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by jrowen 9mo ago
Idk the intended demographic but it felt too easy or even heavy-handed. Three of the four options in each round sound like "and everyone lived happily ever after." Only one sounds like something that would happen in real life and
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> It makes perfect sense that the BPM is 123.45 because that’s exactly the sort of thing you get when a manager (who’s shown at the end!) just enters some numbers on the keyboard into the bpm field. They don’t keysmash the numpad; they j
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by jrowen 9mo ago
Yeah I don't think bumping into random people in public places is a great strategy. It's not a social situation, and it's a complete crapshoot. I think the best thing is to have a hobby or interest that has a local place wher
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by jrowen 10mo ago
Early Star Wars Galaxies was like this. You could run seamlessly from the town center through the wilderness into a busy dungeon (the Tusken fort is a memorable example). Planets were not zoned and there was a ton of pure exploration. Playe
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Yes, it can get tricky if you have to scroll a bunch, e.g. moving a file in a big directory into a subfolder, trying to hit that one pixel where it will scroll up, or using two other fingers to attempt to scroll, while holding the drag fing
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by jrowen 10mo ago
> Of course, by internet law, HN (or a subset of its members) considers itself to be the smartest, more thoughtful online community. I would call that disparaging. If we're going to be pedantic, the post you initially quoted said &q
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by jrowen 10mo ago
I see you're downvoted, it wasn't me. I wasn't making any claim, you're making claims and disparaging remarks that you won't substantiate.
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> It goes without saying HN is not the smartest or more thoughtful online community. How does that go without saying? Name some others then, compare and contrast. As-is your argument is just posturing.
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by jrowen 10mo ago
This is perhaps only tangentially related to formal verification, but it made me wonder - what efforts are there, if any, to use LLMs to help with solving some of the tough questions in math and CS (P=NP, etc)? I'd be curious to know h
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by jrowen 10mo ago
I'm not the one dismissing anything. I'm arguing for tolerance, goodwill, and cooperation. There are lots of practical concerns in life, there are tradeoffs, there is balance. A few days ago you said "the impression the diffe
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by jrowen 10mo ago
Before this O'Saasy situation, I hadn't fully understood how much ideological purity was baked into the the term "open source," which to be fair is not really implied by such a general term. I still feel like it would be
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> If they were getting taken down I'd heartily agree with you. At some point it won't be worth it to maintain them, hopefully. > I still largely get the experience that after I buy a toilet seat for example on Amazon, Amazon
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Yes, I'm saying, as a consumer, I much prefer the latter, and I get more value from it. And it's only enabled by modern individualized data collection.
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> Billboards and other such ads, which were once commonplace are now solely the domain of ambulance chasing lawyers and car dealerships. TV ads are no better, production value has tanked, they look cheaper and shittier than ever, and the
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I understand that it's not open source. I just see it as like, a spot where a company that would normally make a closed source product wanted to make it more open and hackable and did actually put the code up and take contributions, wh

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