pawelwentpawel

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   by pawelwentpawel 9d ago

   The motion sickness part is interesting, never thought about that. In flat.social, you get a 3D view but it's isometric by default, not a first-person view experience.
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   by pawelwentpawel 9d ago

   Thank you! There is a button to switch the type of view on the bottom left (isometric, top view, first person) which could help out here. To release the balloons you need to press space and you will fall back down on the ground.
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   by pawelwentpawel 9d ago

   Thanks for feedback! You can actually select between a couple views - isometric, view from the top and first-person view.
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   by pawelwentpawel 9d ago

   Pure silence, strong internet, great food and monkeys to feed in the garden every morning. One of the best work environments I had in years :)
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   by pawelwentpawel 9d ago

   Thank you! There might not be as many elements in flat.social as there are in Habbo Hotel but I built an entire map builder which you can use to customise your space. There is a bunch of options - from procedural persian rugs to furnite, pl
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   by pawelwentpawel 9d ago

   Hey, thanks for the feedback! It might be the first map load that's a bit heavy (I'm working on this now) - later once everything is loaded it should be much faster. Was it just the first couple seconds that were problematic for y
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   by pawelwentpawel 9d ago

   Thank you! There is also a little support / feedback button on the bottom left. Whenever you have any comments, feel free to use it.
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   by pawelwentpawel 9d ago

   Thank you!
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   by pawelwentpawel 9d ago

   Thanks for the feedback! Initial couple seconds when the map is loading are indeed slow, I'll be optimising this as my priority in the next days.
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    by pawelwentpawel 9d ago

    Just friends!
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    by pawelwentpawel 9d ago

    Thank you! Yep there was a bunch of those, a lot of them with a pixel style aesthetic.
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    by pawelwentpawel 9d ago

    Yep, the faces in the demo video are AI right now, mostly for speed. I built a little system to direct / record it but real faces coming soon too!
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    by pawelwentpawel 9d ago

    Thanks! Yep totally agree on the demo faces, they were mostly AI now for the speed but more videos with humans coming soon.
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    by pawelwentpawel 9d ago

    Thank you! Getting the vibe right was definitely a challenging part, especially light and colours
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    by pawelwentpawel 9d ago

    Thank you!
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    Show HN: I built a new version of my fun spatial 3D online meeting app(flat.social)

    96 points by pawelwentpawel 9d ago|52 comments
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    by pawelwentpawel 4mo ago

    Aren’t we already reaching the point where AI is using content generated by other AIs, like in a game of Chinese whispers? And through osmosis it's now reaching the writings of Nobel laureates too?
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    by pawelwentpawel 7mo ago

    I've been working with physics engine (cannon then rapier) + three js recently using Claude and found that AI was struggling quite when it came to fine tuning physics constants (friction, weights etc.) quite a lot. A human touch was ne
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    by pawelwentpawel 8mo ago

    I think this argument would work if hand-written code would convey some kind of status, like an expensive pair of Japanese selvage jeans. For now though, it doesn't seem to me that people paying for software care if it was written by a
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    by pawelwentpawel 8mo ago

    I like programming by hand too. Like many of us here, I've been doing this for decades. I'm still proud of the work I produced and the effort I put in. For me it's a highly rewarding and enjoyable activity, just like studying
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    by pawelwentpawel 8mo ago

    Great job, congrats on the launch!
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    by pawelwentpawel 2y ago

    Do other platforms already provide something similar? While I've been picking up calls mostly in meeting / silent rooms (times of gathering around a jabra like a camping bonfire are fortunately gone for now) - some of the users of
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    by pawelwentpawel 2y ago

    Once you learn, how do you maintain the language? I'm currently in Brazil speaking Portuguese a lot. I used to speak more Spanish. Right now, if I want to switch back to Spanish it takes me a lot of time. They're so similar I stil
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    by pawelwentpawel 3y ago

    Same here! I've been running my own digital products ( https://flat.social and some smaller ones) and bridging the gap with consulting. For me, the flexibility lead to a fully location-independent lifestyle which allowed me
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    by pawelwentpawel 3y ago

    Is it worth getting a better desk? Better chair? Larger screen? On average sleep + work will take 2/3 of your day. Back problems are common and if not prevented early enough they really can take away from quality of your life. Having a
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    by pawelwentpawel 3y ago

    I'd translate "robotnik" as a "worker". A "person who is doing something" sounds a bit too general. Nevertheless, it's easy to guess that the root of the word is the same verb.
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    by pawelwentpawel 3y ago

    When asking Google - what the etymology of the "robot" word is, the answer is from Czech word "robota" which is they translate as "forced labor". While I don't speak Czech, I speak Polish which is a close
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    by pawelwentpawel 3y ago

    Or 450 hours of breathing with polluted air stuck in an outdated underground train system - https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/london-underground-pollution
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    by pawelwentpawel 3y ago

    Once you add those numbers, the total is usually insane. While I do miss being in the office sometimes (mostly for the social life), it's just too expensive for me as a worker right now. It's not just the time spent on commute, it
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    by pawelwentpawel 3y ago

    I enjoy the companionship of ChatGPT when reading articles like this one to get through the jargon, `ELI5: ${articleAbstract}`.