nmfisher

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by nmfisher 4y ago
This is already happening - SD unleashed an absolute torrent of content that is technically amazing but artistically boring. Hopefully it all eventually settles down and becomes just another tool for skilled artists, rather than thousands o
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by nmfisher 4y ago
The success of most* social media platforms was largely unconnected with the developers who built it or the underlying software. You can't just hire a few hundred retrenched developers and expect to come up with a successful social med
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by nmfisher 4y ago
> What will they do if Twitter doesn't comply, ban Twitter? No, they'll fine them.
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by nmfisher 4y ago
Given how poorly XCOM ran, I was convinced it was written in Unity. Eventually looked it up one day and nope, Unreal. Great game though.
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by nmfisher 4y ago
That seems to be Jack Dorsey to a T. Pretty clear he mentally checked out as Twitter CEO a decade ago. I probably would too.
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by nmfisher 4y ago
I feel exactly the same way, but I'm getting older too, so it could be age. I doubt it, though. My phone keyboard frustrates the shit out of me, and I come to dread doing ANYTHING with it. When I had a Nokia with a hardware keyboard, I
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by nmfisher 4y ago
> Microsoft sold software for personal computers, made a lot of money doing it, and used that money to fund the development of more software for personal computers. At no point in this early history was there a billion dollar bet. Xbox?
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by nmfisher 4y ago
Not being bad at making money, but selling something other than eyeballs is a vastly different proposition.
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by nmfisher 4y ago
Snake
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by nmfisher 4y ago
Used it to download GIMP the other day.
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by nmfisher 4y ago
I think you misspelled “awesome choice”.
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by nmfisher 4y ago
I’m already over of these generated “flip book” animations flooding my Twitter feed that are mostly variations on the same theme. There’s only so many times it can be used before the novelty wears off.
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by nmfisher 4y ago
I don't want to say "recipe for disaster", but as someone working on a similar app, it's definitely a challenge. It's one of the reasons I stayed away from a pure ML/language modelling approach. It's reall
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by nmfisher 4y ago
Bingo. This is the only one that actually makes sense to me.
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by nmfisher 4y ago
It's a success for Figma's founders/investors. It's a failure for everybody else.
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by nmfisher 4y ago
I third this. For Chinese, the initial slog is unavoidable - you need to battle your way through thousands of rote strokes to build your foundational vocabulary. Once you have a handle on it, though, it's like jet fuel for learning. Yo
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by nmfisher 4y ago
Is he on the Flutter team, or just working on Flutter-based things independently? Had a quick scroll through his website/Twitter feed and couldn't find anything specific - I work with Flutter pretty closely too so I'm keen to
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by nmfisher 4y ago
Did you release it?
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by nmfisher 4y ago
Agreed. I think all of these features/additions have been useless, but I'm not going to criticize them for trying out something new.
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by nmfisher 4y ago
There's still a NSFW filter (at least, in the version I used). I'm sure it's easy enough to disable if you poke around but it's not exposed as a function parameter out-of-the-box. I didn't investigate any further be
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by nmfisher 4y ago
While you're 100% right, don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. Streaming my own games from my PC to my own device with the Steam Link is great (network latency notwithstanding). I believe NVIDIA has an open-source equivalen
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by nmfisher 4y ago
I recently breathed new life into my Vita with Adrenaline and a whole bunch of old PSX games. It really is a fantastic device, great build quality is exceptional and perfect handheld hardware for anything below 2012-era AAA games. It really
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by nmfisher 4y ago
That's a great post, thanks for digging it up. But now I feel bad that I slacked off for two minutes checking HN, then another four minutes reading the blog.
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by nmfisher 4y ago
Every time I run with Bluetooth headphones, the connection will drop out for a few seconds whenever a certain type of car/bus/ambulance goes by. Certain traffic lights seem to set it off too. Really irritating. I'll take wire
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by nmfisher 4y ago
> Midjourney can definitely lower concept art costs by 5% to 20% as it stands. I'm not sure that's even true either. After playing with Midjourney myself, it feels like the most aesthetically pleasing outputs regularly fall wit
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by nmfisher 4y ago
Yeah, I grew up in Adelaide where low 40s were regular occurrences throughout summer, and that's damn hot. I don't think I've ever experienced 120F (~49c). I guess I wouldn't be worried about dying personally, but I defi
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by nmfisher 4y ago
Oh, I definitely don't avoid them entirely (I'm very liberal when it comes to unique_ptr in particular). It's more about not jumping headfirst into new features that I don't fully grok (or more importantly, when I don&#x
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by nmfisher 4y ago
Should have been clearer - Rust wins when it comes to the standard library, but I dislike the syntax and prefer C++ the language. I think the relative ubiquity of C makes transitioning to C++ a lot easier. If you wiped my memory of the last
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by nmfisher 4y ago
In terms of LoC, I'm probably at 25% C++, 65% Dart (Flutter) and 10% Kotlin/Swift. Probably not enough to qualify as "main language", but enough that I'm writing it multiple times a week. C++ for the low-level machi
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by nmfisher 4y ago
Edge has built-in neural TTS, just highlight, right-click and click "Read aloud".

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