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by npinsker 1y ago
This post doesn’t say anything about spending money. Even if they are spending a bunch, hats off to them for trying something that isn’t plowing money into Meta’s ad network.
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by npinsker 1y ago
Yes, speaking as someone who likes StarCraft and would've been happy to pay money for this -- Stormgate felt like it had no purpose for being made, other than "we want to be CEOs of our own company". It was really disappointi
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by npinsker 1y ago
It's clearly AI, both from the image (look at the text) and the vacuous nothingness of the ChatGPT-speak.
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by npinsker 1y ago
You have the right idea — it’s MUCH more complicated than it seems. There are more games than ever, but the market is growing (Steam in particular is exploding outside of the US), indie devs can do more with less and don’t need to use as ma
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by npinsker 1y ago
Though I agree with you, both of the sentences you cited (the first two in the piece) have mistakes in their English and wouldn’t be written by AI.
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by npinsker 1y ago
IIRC Epic Games internally calculated that for their store the break-even point was around 9%. (They mostly run it as a loss leader at a default 12%, but with tons of giveaways and deals, so that percent can go as low as 0%.) So I think som
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by npinsker 1y ago
Not quite -- their pricing structure improved before that, when Tencent bought a large minority share.
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by npinsker 1y ago
It sounds like you are depressed, and should figure out whether it's due to maladaptive biochemistry (see a professional) or circumstances (change the circumstances; maybe consider a therapist). Given your post, I'm leaning toward
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by npinsker 1y ago
I was very (wrongly) confident she was AI. I thought her prose was bland and repetitive and lacking melody, and she was the only human author to explicitly mention demons in the first paragraph, which is something that happens when you prom
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by npinsker 1y ago
By default, Unreal’s 3D rendering is more opinionated and much prettier out-of-the-box. In this domain, shooting for prettiness with minimal effort is a great decision. Nothing wrong with Godot — it’s doing great right now and is rapidly im
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by npinsker 1y ago
Does this have anything to do with modal logic?
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by npinsker 1y ago
Thanks, this'll be a nice little timesaver!
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by npinsker 1y ago
This is not better. It doesn't even get the chassis of the bike right, let alone forgetting the pelican should probably be attached to it.
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by npinsker 1y ago
Such a thoughtful and well-written article. One of my biggest worries about AI is its impact on the learning process of future professionals, and this feels like a window into the future, hinting at the effect on unusually motivated learner
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by npinsker 1y ago
In the long term, it depends on how good AI systems get, but right now they have a long way to go before they can be trusted to work autonomously. Junior devs are an investment, and even before AI were a net negative to productivity; they’v
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by npinsker 1y ago
I used to have the same problem (on Windows only, not Mac) but it seems to have been fixed as of a month or two ago.
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by npinsker 1y ago
It's not even close to the same game as Dota. Limiting the hero (and item) pool so drastically locks off many strategies and counters. It's a bit hard to explain if you haven't played, but full Dota has many more tools and mu
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by npinsker 1y ago
The trouble is, getting an IMO gold medal is much easier (by frequency) than being the #1 Go player in the world, which was achieved by AI 10 years ago. I'm not sure it's enough to just gesture at the task; drilling down into prec
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by npinsker 1y ago
In case you're curious, OpenAI's submission is here: https://atcoder.jp/contests/awtf2025heuristic/submissions/67... ...though it's difficult to understand even by competitive programming stand
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by npinsker 1y ago
As with all of these tools, it's easy to create things from scratch. Claude can write a C# script that does everything here. The video gives the game away a bit by asking you to pass in "references", but ideally AI should be
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by npinsker 1y ago
I've played this game with friends occasionally and -- when it's a person -- don't think I've ever completed a game.
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by npinsker 1y ago
Sounds like someone has never had Massaman curry
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by npinsker 1y ago
It’s probably due to the top comment citing that number
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by npinsker 1y ago
Especially since it’s AI generated.
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by npinsker 1y ago
You're right, I misspoke a little bit -- 14MV is able to do this because (unlike this game) it does not reveal all givens to you at the beginning.
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by npinsker 1y ago
For what it's worth, the way 14MV does hints is probably by just throwing the board into Z3 ( https://github.com/Z3Prover/z3 ) or some other constraint solver. Microsoft has already done all the hard work for you.
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by npinsker 1y ago
It’s clearly not in the author’s nature, either :) But they seem to be a serial startup founder — so the value of networking’s probably self-evident to them, but won’t match the value you and most others get out of it.
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by npinsker 1y ago
Confidence and genuine interest can’t be taught. Unfortunately, they also can’t be faked. Humans have evolved to be hyper-aware of what others’ mannerisms and behaviors convey, and most socially adept people can sniff out a “networker” in l
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by npinsker 1y ago
Reads to me as a coy insult towards the author (or those who would benefit from this piece), not as a serious concern.
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by npinsker 1y ago
I played Neopets a long time ago. It meant a lot of different things to a lot of people, and -- while you're obviously not 100% there yet -- it's incredibly impressive to have done such a large piece of it on your own. That said,

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