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by mjr00 1y ago
> I think that list is probably a decent predictor of what people would respond with if you asked them for the best game in a specific year, but that it would do a much worse job of predicting agreement across all time. You must have mis
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Ori + its sequel are not on the same level as HK, in my opinion. The combat in the original is really bad/way too easy, and the exploration is just okay. The sequel drastically improved the combat, but the map is significantly worse; i
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by mjr00 1y ago
I feel like you're being pedantic here and transforming the statement "X is one of the best of all time" into "X is one of the top N of all time", where N is a number you've arbitrarily picked to exclude X. To
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by mjr00 1y ago
> That article doesn't include any ranking as far as I could see, and your use of that article is specifically the thing I'm taking issue with in this thread. Are you referring to a different source? There are 23 entries since
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by mjr00 1y ago
100 games over 40 years is not a lot. There's 23 games over the past decade on that list, Hollow Knight being one of them. If being one of the top 23 over the span of 10 years of something doesn't make it "one of the best&quo
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by mjr00 1y ago
You are welcome to your opinion. If you don't like Hollow Knight, that's fine. I was just pointing to proof that it is widely regarded, by most (but not all ) people, as one of the best video games of all time, hence why the se
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What Metroidvanias do you think are better? I've played a ton of Metroidvanias and I completely disagree. Hollow Knight has excellent combat and arguably the best map layout in any Metroidvania. The only Metroidvanias I consider its pe
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> I would say this is overstating it a bit. Hollow Knight was critically lauded, grew an intense fan-base, and often considered one of the best in it's genre (the awkwardly named group of "metrovanias"), but it's a bi
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It's the sequel to a game (Hollow Knight) which is widely regarded as one of the best of all time. It had a long seven-year development cycle, with "Silksong release announcement at (upcoming event)" becoming a meme, leaving
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by mjr00 1y ago
Reading between the lines: yes, certainly. Amazon wouldn't stop firefighters from getting into a normal datacenter, nor would they have the authority to stop them if they wanted to. A private corporation can't demand background ch
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The ones hosting classified data used by federal agencies. https://aws.amazon.com/federal/us-intelligence-community/
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Because there are federal agents with rifles guarding the data center, and they're allowed to use deadly force if the local FD ignores their instructions.
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> Everyday, I see ads on YouTube with smooth-talking, real-looking AI-generated actors. Each one represents one less person that would have been paid. Were AI-generated actors chosen over real actors, or was the alternative using some ot
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by mjr00 1y ago
... so how are you supposed to fix things without coding, given that you admitted you need to dive into the code to fix things?
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> You still communicate in code and fix the errors. But you just said > Coding as a skill won't be that important. So coding is only important if you need to make your software actually work, I guess?
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Anyone old enough to remember when UML promised the same thing? Never have to touch code again -- just draw boxes, charts, activity diagrams, etc. and right-click and generate code! Rational Rose is the future of programming! It always turn
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by mjr00 1y ago
> Spotify pays an average of $0.00318 per stream. That means it takes over 314 streams to make a single dollar on Spotify. [...] By contrast, Tidal pays $0.01284 per stream ($12,840 per million), while Apple Music pays between $0.008 and
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by mjr00 1y ago
> True, but my county is able to get more than that number of people into a cricket league. You don't need to personally know everyone, just be confident that there is a system of trust in place that would weed out any rotters. Is s
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by mjr00 1y ago
> However, I wonder if you could have that while still removing features that make cheating seem appealing. For example, as you said, you can have games with randoms without an automatic ranking of all players. This does not stop cheater
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> Anticheat is only hard because people are looking for a technical solution to a social problem. The actual way to get a good game in most things is to only play with people you trust and, if you think someone is cheating, stop trusting
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by mjr00 1y ago
No, it's clickbait and that's why this submission got flagged, sorry. A team is comprised of people. Being able to prompt an LLM to create a pull request based on specifications is very useful, but it's not a team member, t
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by mjr00 1y ago
> So, in a sense, I now do have a team. In another, more accurate sense: no, you have a tool, not a team. A very useful tool, but a tool nonetheless. If you believe you have a team, try taking a two week vacation and see how much work yo
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by mjr00 1y ago
> Kalshi's Jack Such declined to disclose Accetturo's fee for creating the ad. But, he added, "the actual cost of prompting the AI — what is being used in lieu of studios, directors, actors, etc. — was under $2,000."
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by mjr00 1y ago
> Don't ever implement good-enough-for-now APIs Agree in theory, in practice this is impossible. Even if you're an absolute domain expert in whatever you're doing, software and requirements will evolve and you will end
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> Will we be doing tool-calling for every task that's not just summarizing text? spoiler: Yes. This has already become standard for production use cases where the LLM is an external-facing interface; you use an LLM to translate the
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From the main site it appears they've been working full-time since 2021, after graduating. Which is, from their perspective, pretty brutal. Imagine spending 4-5 years at university watching people slightly older than you getting $250k
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> What happens between getting up one day and installing an AI friend? * You get up one day * You enter a world where fewer and fewer people are trying to form in-person, human connections because they see pseudonymous social media and p
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> Apps implemented by the designers. Projects "kickstarted" by the project manager. Codebases at the point antropic / google / openai / ... tool became untenable. Most likely labelled as "just needs a little
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> When AI systems make mistakes, it doesn’t make sense to assign blame the way we would with human errors - they’re tools operating within their programming constraints, not autonomous agents making conscious choices. It's not reall
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> It's still reigning champion of data science, and of course it has a huge number of uses and users still around, but it's not really cool or in vogue outside of those circles. This is a wild take. You're never going to g

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