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by noduerme 9mo ago
I'm in a terrible situation right now where I promised a client a fairly simple web-based game, to be delivered in pixijs. Pixi is great for what it does, and as an old time Flash game coder, I find it mostly does enough for procedural
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by noduerme 9mo ago
This is a misconception. AS3 actually had great garbage collection, and solidly written AS3 code did not leak.
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by noduerme 9mo ago
>> Arabia, UAE or Israel's internet You mean the internet?
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by noduerme 9mo ago
How there is a marriage of convenience between western progressivism and ultra-conservative theocracy is still confusing and mysterious to me.
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by noduerme 9mo ago
I don't think so. We still have public broadcasting, and it's apparently not doing a wonderful job of giving an evenhanded, facts-first picture of world events. If anything, this has actually changed my mind and made me think that
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by noduerme 9mo ago
Let me get this straight: If 60,000 people are killed in a war in 3 years, it's a genocide, but if 30,000 protesters are killed in 2 days, it's not? Not that either one is a genocide, but you're saying the difference is what
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by noduerme 9mo ago
My GF and I rarely discuss news or politics, but she's a frequent NPR listener who gets most of her (ahem) "news" from there and Reddit. So the other night something came up about Israel and she casually said "well, but
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by noduerme 9mo ago
I didn't realize that, haven't thought about ASCII/ANSI art since the 90s, but the concept of using it for subcharacter animation is clever. Cheers. [edit] Odd question. I have relatives in the Bay Area who I think spelled th
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by noduerme 9mo ago
The choice of Braille is very clever. I once failed a typography class for using Braille in a final design project that was supposed to create a sequence of images representing a visual story out of pure typography. This followed a 30 minut
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by noduerme 9mo ago
I find Polish or Reverse Polish notation jarring after a lifetime of thinking in terms of operator precedence. Given that it's fairly rare to see, I wonder what about it would be more LLM-friendly. It does lend itself better to &quot
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by noduerme 10mo ago
Kinda yeah, kinda no. Big-thinking drastic UI experiences are usually shit. But small, thoughtful touches made with care can still make a big difference between a website that just delivers the data you need and one that's pleasant to
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by noduerme 10mo ago
I thought it was interesting that a Google flack stressed that the model would run on Apple's compute, and seemed to imply it might even run on-device. Allegedly this was said to allay the (expected) privacy concerns of Apple users who
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by noduerme 10mo ago
I use Moment. And a few years later, I'm still using Moment. And now I'm still using Moment. And now...
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by noduerme 10mo ago
Sadly and disgustingly, I fired up lynx last night and found out that Google will not allow you to search with it anymore. I guess this change happened a few months ago and there was an HN thread about it[0], but I hadn't noticed until
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by noduerme 10mo ago
This made me think: Would it be unreasonable to ask for an LLM to raise a flag and require human confirmation anytime it hit an instruction directing it to ignore previous instructions? Or is that just circumventable by "ignore previou
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by noduerme 10mo ago
In my area of Portland, all other Walgreens shut down and all the CVS and Rite Aids shut down in the past few years - post Covid - because the shoplifting and almost weekly armed robberies were so rampant. It's frankly amazing that the
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by noduerme 10mo ago
Well, if there's one thing history has shown us (including the history of Apple's own insurgency against the PC), it's that complacency and stagnation make the incumbent a target for every newcomer who does have the drive t
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by noduerme 10mo ago
Portland. It's not like this in the rest of the country?
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by noduerme 10mo ago
Anyone who's ever had to pick up a prescription at a Walgreens will tell you that 3% doesn't begin to make up for the incredible shit you have to endure there. It's like being placed on hold indefinitely, only you have to kee
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by noduerme 10mo ago
you mean it wouldn't make any money for the bank issuing the card? Is that because they can't charge merchants as much to accept it other countries?
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by noduerme 10mo ago
Am I the only one who sees this as a referential homage to Italo Calvino's "Invisible Cities"?
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by noduerme 10mo ago
It's cool.
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by noduerme 10mo ago
What's wrong with some retro-lite doom bait? When I was a kid in the 80s there were fake 1950s diners everywhere, with jukeboxes and malt machines, bubble gum music and greasy hamburgers. They were a cheap nostalgic simulacrum of somet
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by noduerme 10mo ago
Looking at that graphic... it almost seems obvious. The outer corner radius would be relative to the inner curve radius in some fixed relationship, wouldn't it? The shallower the inner curve, the larger the outer curve has to be. A com
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by noduerme 10mo ago
I don't know if I'm understanding you correctly, but my experience reflects what (I think) you're saying. Given a fully formed older project and a clean set of feature requests, Claude can be a beast. On the other hand, steer
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by noduerme 10mo ago
They can do whatever they like with their blog, and that's great! But why would I give any weight to the design arguments of someone who designed that thing? It's like if someone comes up to you in a clown costume and starts givin
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by noduerme 10mo ago
It's ironic if it's unintentional. If the grotesque design was intended as sarcasm, I guess it went over my head.
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by noduerme 10mo ago
Thanks for the great response. Honestly, TIL that 2^0 = 1. That was a new one for me and I'm not sure I understand it. I failed pre-Calculus, twice. Visually I think I can understand the bitwise version now, from reading this. But it w
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by noduerme 10mo ago
So the goal was to generate signatures for 2, 3 or more players and then be able to reference anything in the history table that had that combination of players without doing a full scan and cross-joining the same table multiple times. Spec
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by noduerme 10mo ago
FWIW, while I'm complaining about this site I'm actually adding a nice easy-on-the eyes particle system in the background of a point-and-click online game. You don't put it in front of the content or behind text people are

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