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by latexr 2mo ago
> Wouldn’t we all. Clearly not. Otherwise Bezos wouldn’t create a culture where employees feel the need to pee in bottles and continue working while a colleague is dead on the floor. > It is not possible, actually. I don’t believe tha
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by latexr 2mo ago
> "Think about it. Think of the most average person you know. 50% are more stupid than them. And you won't get any value out of speaking to those" Possible response: “And yet they’re all still more intelligent, compassiona
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by latexr 2mo ago
I said the studio , not the game. For Death in the Water 2, they disclose AI usage for “in game menu images”. For Safari Cannon, they’re using an obvious AI image as the main image but are not disclosing it (despite doing so in other games
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by latexr 2mo ago
I said the studio , not the game. Look for example at Safari Cannon, which uses an obviously AI banner image but no disclosure of it. The game was made in 2021, but that’s not the image they used until 2024. https://web.archive.
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by latexr 2mo ago
That game studio is clearly using AI assets, not always disclosing them, and recycling them over multiple games. It’s a shovelware studio.
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Apple takes down billboard after accusations of 'electronic babysitting'(9to5mac.com)
1 points by latexr 2mo ago|0 comments
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by latexr 2mo ago
> Does it work on safari mobile for anyone else? It does for me. But I do use an ad blocker (Wipr 2).
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by latexr 2mo ago
The amount of replies this has gotten regarding the use of “random” is a fine example of the state of discussion on the internet and in general, and how HN is in no way immune. Clearly “random” was used as a means of saying “any”, to desc
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by latexr 2mo ago
> Why would someone install "random extensions" that they dont trust. An extension that you trust today can be sold to an unscrupulous third-party tomorrow. That has happened many many times and will continue to.
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by latexr 2mo ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkKo1_RP_0c
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by latexr 2mo ago
> US-centricity Andreas Kling is Swedish, DHH is Danish, fascism originated in Europe.
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Spicy tale of an App Store fraud(lapcatsoftware.com)
3 points by latexr 2mo ago|0 comments
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by latexr 2mo ago
> I'm not a big fan of meta in general, but they've done enough good “Enough” for what? Surely not enough to offset all the bad they’ve inflicted and allowed on the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crit
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by latexr 2mo ago
> There will come a day (and probably soon) That day has already arrived, it is already happening.
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by latexr 2mo ago
Exactly. What’s problematic about comments like your parent is the absence of mid-to-long term thinking. It’s like bragging about a new highly addictive psychedelic drug that a dealer gave you a taste of for free. The effects are awesome to
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A Growing Threat: The Anti-Rights Movement in the UK (By Amnesty International)(archive.org)
7 points by latexr 2mo ago|2 comments
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by latexr 2mo ago
Other comments have answered in the concrete what was meant, but to answer in the abstract, in case you’re unfamiliar with the expression: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down
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by latexr 2mo ago
Let’s maybe ease up on the designers, there. It’s not like they are the sole cause of bad decisions and developers always do everything right if not for their pesky demands. There are order of magnitudes more shitty apps caused by bad progr
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by latexr 2mo ago
> It looks like a native (ish) application. Emphasis on the “ish”. It’s an iOS app ported to the Mac (Catalyst), just like Messages, Voice Memos, Clock, and basically every other consumer-focused stock app on the Mac these days.
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by latexr 2mo ago
> Certainly, this isn't going to be career-ending, as it should. Maybe it’s not career-ending, but it’s definitely career-hurting. Being welcomed and mentioned by popular indie devs, bloggers, and power users is a way of breaking on
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by latexr 2mo ago
> I bought it and immediately requested a refund Same. I tried on macOS and it was so buggy it was unusable. Basic shortcuts advertised on the website and app didn’t work at all. I also didn’t like the look and the limited options for st
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by latexr 3mo ago
I was expecting some kind of system that would follow the pages automatically without you having to do extra work when changing the URL (“continue to work even when I change them and forget them”) but it looks like you still add the redirec
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by latexr 3mo ago
> Will my kids be an ethnic minority in their own country in the next generation - and if so, what's that going to be like for them? It occurs to me that an effective solution to that problem might be to… Treat minorities well? You
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by latexr 3mo ago
> Why would the US ally with Russia, who is a Chinese and Iranian ally? I don’t think the comment above you is suggesting that is a possibility, but rather saying “things are so bad that the only imaginable way to get worse would be <
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by latexr 3mo ago
Humanity is richer because photography outgrew painting? How do you figure? I’m not judging or disagreeing, I’m just interested in the argument. On a utilitarian sense, no doubt a photography is more useful than a painting. But in the artis
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by latexr 3mo ago
And that scenario is covered in the post, in the seventh paragraph. Nowhere in it is Scalzi saying Guitar Hero can’t give you an interest to pick up the Guitar, quite the opposite . The point being made is that when you do pick up the Guit
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by latexr 3mo ago
None of that has anything to do with creativity, which is what the post is about.
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by latexr 3mo ago
> Likely because he feels it's harmful to the way he earns his living. Absurd. Scalzi fans are not going to stop reading his works because LLMs exist. If anything, established authors are the ones with the least to fear. This talkin
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by latexr 3mo ago
I know someone—who doesn’t even use LLMs all that much, I don’t think—who has verbally told me numerous times “you are absolutely right”. I never said anything, but the comment always takes me out of the conversation.
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by latexr 3mo ago
> "We? What, do you have a mouse in your pocket?" Suggested response: “I do, but the poor thing is not strong enough. No no, I meant one of us needs to do it. Please do go ahead, if you don’t mind, as I’m a bit busy feeding t

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