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A Walkable ASCII Cyberpunk City in One HTML File [video](youtube.com)
3 points by keiferski 2mo ago|1 comments
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by keiferski 2mo ago
Yeah earlier this year I biked from Utrecht to Amsterdam, and there are huge empty lots in the southeast part of Amsterdam. I don’t mean “charming natural areas,” I mean wide open lots next to gas stations and shopping malls.
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by keiferski 2mo ago
I think we are talking past each other. I was referring to ideas as in philosophy, intellectual history, etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_his
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by keiferski 2mo ago
Can’t say I agree. The most influential ideas in history were not conceived of by people looking for money and recognition. Nor were they “radically original.”
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by keiferski 2mo ago
Ideas, once they go into the world, aren’t really yours anymore. Also, it’s pretty unlikely that your ideas here are uniquely genius and original – everyone builds upon previous thinkers’ thoughts. Sounds a bit harsh, but the point is that
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by keiferski 2mo ago
The concept of an almanac seems relevant again: a yearly printed book with verified, accurate information. No manipulation at a later date, no AI hallucinations, etc. The most famous one was probably Benjamin Franklin’s: https:/&#x2F
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by keiferski 2mo ago
I don’t agree at all. A train ride is not that different from what you’re suggesting a self-driving car will be… and I certainly wouldn’t want to spend 4 hours a day sitting in a vehicle. Even if it was my own first class seat, or even an e
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by keiferski 2mo ago
In America, ordering a taxi before rideshare apps was unreliable at best, if you were outside of central parts of major cities. More than one time I got stuck somewhere and had to walk 4 hours home.
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by keiferski 2mo ago
So many false assumptions about me and my background, and so much false nostalgia. I am Polish-American, I speak Polish, my girlfriend is Polish, so yeah, my opinion is just as valid as yours. I don't have "millennial coworkers&qu
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by keiferski 2mo ago
I think the majority of Ask HN questions have always been looking for the opinions of the community, not just pieces of information.
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Ask HN: Is Ask HN Shrinking?
20 points by keiferski 2mo ago|16 comments
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by keiferski 2mo ago
I've lived in Poland for the last decade. I'd say 95% of the population looks back on the USSR era with negative views. Poland probably has the best situation it's been in for hundreds of years. The opinions of 20 year olds t
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by keiferski 2mo ago
Yes, they were, and probably still are better than prisons in Russia.
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by keiferski 2mo ago
These kinds of articles are only popular in places that had no direct experience of life in the USSR. No one in Latvia, Poland, Czech Republic, etc. looks back on the time with fondness.
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by keiferski 2mo ago
I think it ultimately just comes down to laziness. People are increasingly loathe to make multi-year plans and stick to them, for various reasons. Building something like a YouTube competitor is theoretically doable by a small team. It’s va
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by keiferski 2mo ago
The other day I pasted two links into ChatGPT, both different brands of the same appliance. One was $50, the other $200. I asked to compare the differences. It ended up recommending and linking me to an entirely different one, that I hadn&#
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by keiferski 3mo ago
The idea that longevity = meaningful is a value judgement derived from culture. In nature, many significant things happen in extremely small amounts of time.
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by keiferski 3mo ago
And this is true of everyone else, whether lawyers or writers or researchers: increasingly, you are the bottleneck to be optimized away. As long as human workers cannot be removed from the loop, the AI tools are complements, but as soon as
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by keiferski 3mo ago
>considering everyone is using MS software one way or another. I don't think I've used a MS product in at least a decade. At least that I was aware of. Edit: did some research and I have used LinkedIn. Other than that, nothing.
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by keiferski 3mo ago
I really love etymology, because I like to imagine words having "lives", and then tracking those lives over the centuries. It's fascinating to think that a word might have begun in China thousands of years ago, migrated to In
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by keiferski 3mo ago
It is strange to me that people are re-discovering this today, in 2026. Microsoft has always been half-baked, even in the 80s and 90s. Heck, my parents basically raised me (20+ years ago) by running a business fixing problems with Microso
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by keiferski 3mo ago
This is why the chat interface is ultimately not the best option for non-expert users, because they require the user to bring knowledge with them. You can call this the “query” method: you have to know what to ask to get the answer you want
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by keiferski 3mo ago
This is only going to replace movies that were already using CGI. If every movie defaulted to CGI over natural settings, you wouldn't have stuff like the Odyssey made...which is setting sales records.
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by keiferski 3mo ago
The funniest situation is when you’re in a city (Berlin in my example) and one store accepts only cash, while the store next door only accepts cards. Germany is definitely way behind on the digital front. Which is not always a bad thing…eve
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by keiferski 3mo ago
That still sounds like you idolized his wealth and ability to use it for philanthropy. Not that you started liking nerdy things because Bill Gates liked them.
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by keiferski 3mo ago
Correct. Not to say that intellectuals can’t be interested in physics, but it has always been more associated with culture and politics rather than technical subjects. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual
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by keiferski 3mo ago
I don’t think the author’s thesis is right, and actually his first inclination is correct. No one starts liking nerdy stuff because Bill Gates or Jeff Bezos does, because no one really wants to be them. They want their money, success, etc.
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by keiferski 3mo ago
That’s not really what the word intellectual has meant for the last century. Intellectual is more akin to “liberal arts major” in modern language: philosophers, writers, art critics, etc.
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by keiferski 3mo ago
Following those rules probably gets you an audience on X/Twitter but I don’t think it makes your writing Burroughs-esque. I’m still pretty skeptical that big co. AI companies are gonna let you generate offensive slang.
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by keiferski 3mo ago
One way to tell is if the tone is hostile, cynical, or otherwise not full of that giddy optimistic tone associated with what I’ll call “California Business English.” The mainstream AI companies are loathe to output anything too controversia

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