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Totally agree. You can't reduce an experience like Minecraft to any one thing, it's the formula that makes it so enduring. re: harping on Minecrafts graphics, there's a lot of people that completely misunderstand the purpose
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If you can get your hands on an Applesauce low level copier you may be able to recover them. https://applesaucefdc.com
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Key quote from article, via author's tweet thread [1]: > The problem is that these nodules are not sterile globules of free resources, like some computer game world. They are in fact the underpinning keystone in a complex food web w
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We may be over-harvesting metals on ocean floor that support deep sea life(stoneageherbalist.com)
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It takes years for new technologies to propagate and impact industries in practice. Most of the enabling tech here is months old, and there's still tons of unaddressed markets and use cases. I have no idea if there's an expectatio
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Papers are a great example actually, because they're often written in intentionally obtuse prose with a lot of jargon that slow your ability to skim if you're not working directly in that field. This is one contributing factor to
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Big if true
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maybe that's what's required for critical infrastructure
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Great article. Any sufficiently complex problem requires looking at it from different angles in order to root out the unexpected and ambiguous. Visualizations do exactly that. This is especially important in the age of AI coding tools and h
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Loneliness and social media are are potent mix of self-reinforcing behavior. Loneliness creates the conditions for greater social media use because social media is a pseudo-satisfier for real human connections. Meanwhile, short form social
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Paywall; there is no information here.
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100%, it reads like 'I found a clever flaw and followed it up with an unrigorous conclusion because I was blinded by my cleverness'. His conclusion that oh the soil can recapture carbon also reminded me of generally smart & ac
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Another factor I think that plays in here is a bit of hubris about who has access to truth. Someone of Freeman Dyson's caliber is used to being the one who can see further into complexity to find truth. When someone has these talents,
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Smart analysis that aged like milk, given the subsequent 17 years of record heat trends. This is a good example of the dangers of being too in the weeds of complexity to not see the big simple picture, the sometimes blinding bias of contrar
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Agree it's like two separate worlds. Games and web aren't 1:1 tho in relation to whether visual responsiveness is blocking a task. Games need ultra-responsiveness because rendering frames slower is essentially blocking further use
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On the other hand, in a world of slightly non-responsive software, something that does respond instantly has a subconscious psychological impact on us and builds affinity.
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When people cheat on (relatively) small things, it's usually an indication they'll cheat on big things too
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Also Crispin Glover's case in Back to the Future II https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/bac...
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AI v crypto comparisons are so easy to debunk. Simple test: Can a regular consumer derive value in less than 20 keystrokes that they already know how to type (eg English)? How about 50? 100? LLMs: yes Crypto: no
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by npunt 2y ago
Yeah, how you control the iPad seems at odds with the job it's best at (and a big customer segment that wants a simple computer) iPad has a physical disadvantage relative to iPhones and Macs which leads to a touch experience that never
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Agree, its painful to browse and read. Feels almost intentionally obtuse. They'd be much better off with the stacked pages style of Andy M [1] and obsidian publish [2] [1] https://notes.andymatuschak.org/ [2] https:&#
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by npunt 2y ago
I still have my Oxygen 402 [1] that I learned 3d modeling on, you needed these pro cards to work in OpenGL apps like Softimage. It went for $5k in early 97 but by mid 98 it had fallen to ~$750 when I got mine. The 90s were wild for how fast
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by npunt 2y ago
prev discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40299271
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Vera Rubin was quite an astronomer [1] both in her discoveries like the rotation of galaxies (confirming dark matter), and for being a trailblazer for women in astronomy. I love reading bios of people like this. Glad to see her get recogniz
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I loved the early experiments with interactive laserdiscs. Murder Anyone? is a title from 1982 with some recognizable actors that has some complicated track navigation: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084376/ https
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by npunt 2y ago
Absolutely! Super exciting! But how precisely will it work? Right now I don't know of an AI tool that can make a halfway decent biology diagram, let alone a complex 3d animation of a biological process you can talk to and ask questions
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Nobody's talking about the author's point at the end of the article, that we need better tools to reason about biology, and that the biology as a subject has a particular gap between reality and content that perhaps other subjects
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Viral persistence is one theory that may explain a subset of long covid and other postviral cases (mecfs example [1]). There's lots of theories including itaconate shunt [2] and metabolic trap [3], glutamate toxicity [4], cranio-cervic
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Neuroinflammation is a poorly studied area and one likely cause of brain fog and mecfs/long covid symptoms. Jarred Younger [1] is a researcher studying this and has a youtube channel [2] where he discusses his latest work. If you'
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by npunt 3y ago
haha how did I not see that! thanks :)

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