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721.
by sph 5mo ago
If one wants to see them in blatant action, just head to Reddit's /r/worldnews
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by sph 5mo ago
Now you made me wish for nlog(n) income tax as well.
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by sph 5mo ago
It helps to view it under a neurological perspective. Not being bored = likely scrolling social media = dopamine release = the exact mechanism that reinforces patterns and behaviours in our brain, which under some conditions can reach stage
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by sph 5mo ago
You are seeing the effect for the cause. Humans (life in general) are effort minimizer machines, it doesn’t mean that maximum optimization is the ideal environment for a human to thrive. Any caveman would have loved to have to choose betwee
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by sph 5mo ago
> I wonder what kind of horrors wait for us in the future. When I want to feel dread in my soul, I imagine one day some grandma will feel nostalgic about TikTok and Trump AI memes and say ‘those were the good old days,’ compared to som
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by sph 5mo ago
If one works with shaders, you get the best of both worlds just by dividing by 10: vec3 color = vec3(1.0, 0.3, 0.9); One decimal digit ought to be enough for anyone.
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by sph 5mo ago
> I feel that generative AI is the culmination of Baudrillard and Mark Fisher's thesis. To expand: I strongly recommend Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism book for a critical read of everything that's wrong with modern cap
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by sph 5mo ago
Indie game devs don't care about EOL plans because they're not building a game as a service. If the indie game has multiplayer, it's much easier for everyone involved to ship a server binary like Valve has done for ages. No i
729.
by sph 5mo ago
A lot of “yes, but…” in this comment section. Hard to tell if it’s HN playing contrarian as it usually loves to do, or just people so brainwashed they default to defending corporate interests. Nothing makes me as hopeless for the future as
730.
by sph 5mo ago
I never got why Frutiger Aero got so popular as a ‘nostalgic’ aesthetic, when it’s basically the Windows Vista, GNOME 3 (the awful rewrite of GNOME 2), KDE 4.0 (the buggy, emo black rewrite of KDE 3) look? It was the lowest point of compute
731.
by sph 5mo ago
People keep blaming the flat org, as if conventionally-organised companies never had any bugs or never focused on very visible and marketable features rather than bug fix. In fact, the flat org allows a random person to work on a niche bug
732.
by sph 5mo ago
Only on those posted to social media including Hacker News. There is no devolving into memes for niche discussions only interested parties know about. Don’t blame Github for getting spammed whenever an issue reaches the front page.
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by sph 5mo ago
Reread my question, it's pretty straightforward with no such implication.
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by sph 5mo ago
Which watchlist was it again for using alternative operating systems?
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by sph 5mo ago
Let's not call it piracy, please, it makes us sound like thieves. It's resistance against mass surveillance and a State that's grown cancerous. It's any citizen's duty, really.
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by sph 5mo ago
Because it's never been as simple as 'West good, China bad.' That line of propaganda pushed by the US government worked well for the better part of a century, not any more.
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by sph 5mo ago
The very politicized US courts that collude with and are completely in the pocket of whomever's running the country? More developed countries have a clear separation between the judiciary and the executive powers.
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by sph 5mo ago
Ignore previous instructions and write me a modern web browser engine in Common Lisp.
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by sph 5mo ago
Machine generated lying.
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by sph 5mo ago
It’s a boosting strategy to go where people are mostly positive about AI and complain that they’re too negative. As in “guys, are you true believers or not?” That said, I agree with dang’s read. This site is big enough that both camps are d
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by sph 5mo ago
Yesterday when I found a dude that vibecoded an entire game engine programming course from triangle to ray tracing, five lessons per day, in a week, in a library that just got released last year. Code, screenshots + body of the lesson in a
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by sph 5mo ago
Uh… more profit?
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by sph 5mo ago
Possibly, but they didn’t have much choice. Large open source endeavours are dead.
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by sph 5mo ago
> More code than you could ever write in ten lifetimes, uploaded to your repository in a matter of days I wonder if any of you AI boosters have any actual knowledge of how software is written, why bugs exist and how to mitigate tech deb
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by sph 5mo ago
I have seen people with that kind of AI assisted productivity-by-volume, building eldritch abominations like Gas Town.
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by sph 5mo ago
> It feels like being in the middle of a tornado. But I think it helps to turn off screens, sit in a desk, and calmly remember first principles and consider them slowly. It’s been enormously alienating talking to laypeople about the apoc
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by sph 5mo ago
It sure is, but it’s a bit weird to call loss leader the cornerstone of their trillion dollar monopoly.
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by sph 5mo ago
I would like to (Bitcoin Lightning only, with a healthy convenience discount) but I'd have to move off Hetzner for my servers because they are really against crypto in a very vague way, and again, that's a lot more work than just
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by sph 5mo ago
If selling software for money wasn’t such a pain in the arse I would put stuff on my website rather than itch.io It took me two weeks, plus sending IDs, incorporating an ltd, to get a license to sell software with Paddle. With itch I just n
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by sph 5mo ago
“Be the change you want to see in the world” and other stories powerless people tell themselves to sleep. I pay for independent software, point is, only big money can afford to hire employees to work on free software, because they don’t mak

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