mentos

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   by mentos 3y ago

   For me it was "Visual Basic Professional 3.0 Programming by Thomas W. Torgerson" from Barnes and Nobles in 1997. I had downloaded Visual Basic 3.0 from 100 different email attachments on AOL and wanted to learn how to make punters
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   by mentos 3y ago

   Flip a coin in the air, heads is US tails is EU. Catch it, before you look ask yourself which one you are hoping it will be.
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   by mentos 3y ago

   I’ve never gotten into web development but enjoyed developing iOS apps in Obj-C or Android in Java. Anyone recommend a website framework that might allow me to completely avoid html/css/javascript?
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   by mentos 3y ago

   Awesome work would love to hear how sassy the GladOs in action!
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   by mentos 3y ago

   How long would it take to charge the car? I asked ChatGPT4 and got this answer: It would take approximately 2.5 days to fully charge a Tesla Model 3, which has a 50 kWh battery, using a 4,000-watt solar panel array under optimal conditions
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   by mentos 3y ago

   Would be fun if game engine editor environments took on the UI paradigm of an operating system like windows. So that instead of going to the File menu at the top of unreal engine to open the blueprint debugger, you navigated the start menu
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   by mentos 3y ago

   Bigger question I have is if they pioneer a new device category aren’t they just doing free research for Apple who can fast follow with their trillion dollar product manufacturing and marketing machine?
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   by mentos 3y ago

   The best 6 months of my life was studying abroad at a foreign university where I would stay up late with 30 other class mates in a lab solving comp sci course problems and then playing quake over lan til midnight. Nothing will ever replace
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   by mentos 3y ago

   Yea also seems in poor taste when the main application is probably a weapon for the military.
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    by mentos 3y ago

    ha when i was in school we used 'punters' to kick people off AOL
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    by mentos 3y ago

    I had attributed this to J.J. Watt but most likely was passed down to him. Love this quote too. Heard a similar sentiment that staying on top is actually harder than getting there. “It’s hard to do the 4am run in silk pajamas”
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    by mentos 3y ago

    One of my favorite scenes from the show Community: https://youtu.be/HFKuBuRNOBA?si=Oc50QmeQ-4RgX7d0
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    by mentos 3y ago

    “We can do anything but we can’t do everything.” -Epic Games
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    by mentos 3y ago

    Question I have for HN is if you had a weekend to create a Pinterest competitor for a hackathon that needed to scale to the same number of users, what would you use?
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    by mentos 3y ago

    How many hours/weeks would you estimate it took you to complete the course?
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    by mentos 3y ago

    I have a feeling that by the time this is fully fleshed out AI will have taken all the jobs anyways.
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    by mentos 3y ago

    In the vein of your last point, I use ChatGPT4 to write all my one off scripts for odd tasks. Without knowing Python I worked up a script that can figure out which asset I have selected in UE4, grab the text from it, send it to elevenlabs t
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    by mentos 3y ago

    Curious if there’s any web based implementation yet? I guess it’s more of a hassle to ask the receiving party to open up the sending session when you can just provide them an asynchronous link to a hosted file (Dropbox, mega, etc)
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    by mentos 3y ago

    [deleted] ha ill keep my stoner thoughts to myself
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    by mentos 3y ago

    For what it’s worth I started developing auto immune symptoms after my exposure to Covid (nerve pain in my face, legs, feet, inner ear was burning and had a lack of balance, fatigue, trembling) only thing that resolved it was exercise (mode
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    by mentos 3y ago

    Didn't The Beatles read lines out of a news paper for lyrics on a song? I see ChatGPT as just another tool/instrument along side a guitar.
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    by mentos 3y ago

    My late grandmother used to say that cable companies once made the same promise about paying for TV.
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    by mentos 3y ago

    I’d second the point about atmospheres. Was most apparent to me on the moon but now I’m really curious to see Jupiter with 0 atmospherical lighting. Incredible work! The game developer in me now wants to see you slowly create a game around
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    by mentos 3y ago

    Yea I wonder if you could workshop the feedback comparison prompt using ChatGPT4 ha "Can you recommend a general prompt that would help me find the significant differences between the source image reference and the target result that I
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    by mentos 3y ago

    Now could you automate the feedback part? Give ChatGPT4 vision the goal screenshot and a screenshot of the result and ask it to describe the shortcomings and give that feedback back?
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    by mentos 3y ago

    The control scheme in Blender is so foreign to me. When they support rmb + WASD to fly around maybe I'll be able to use it heh
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    by mentos 3y ago

    I asked ChatGPT4 for the best commercial alternatives to vanta black: 1) Black 3.0 2) Musou Black 3) Singularity Black Found a reddit post of someone saying they painted their laptop with black 3.0 but the paint rubs off and its not somethi
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    by mentos 3y ago

    You think he would by a palette of coke and send one with the idea that its representative of the rest of the batch? ha did you ever see any anomalies in the coke tests?
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    by mentos 3y ago

    Here’s a great bit from Louis CK on this https://youtu.be/uuCoyILqut8
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    by mentos 3y ago

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