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by zulban 6mo ago
Fun. I've upgraded my game a few times over the years. It started in 2018 so I started with a version slightly older than that. Some of these changes seem familiar to me. I had a fairly similar experience as my game also has always bee
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by zulban 6mo ago
Ridiculous. They are clearly not trying at all. A hard wall preventing going over budget by 100x in a couple hours is not some devilishly complicated decentralized system problem. Don't tote the party line. Same reason why Azure AI onl
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by zulban 7mo ago
I'm not sure how one example contradicts documented huge overall trends, but okay.
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by zulban 7mo ago
> LLMs outputs, for example, are notoriously unreproducible. Only in the same way that an individual in a medical study cannot be "reproduced" for the next study. However the overall statistical outcomes of studying a specific
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by zulban 7mo ago
Generally, published papers don't give a damn about reproducibility. I've seen it identified as a crisis by many. Publishers, reviewers, and researchers mostly don't care about that level of basic rigor. There's no profe
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by zulban 7mo ago
Not comfortable. But making choices in the real world is about choosing the best option, not the perfect option.
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by zulban 7mo ago
I've learned a bit today about how often people on hn read the article when commenting. Or potentially bots who are way off. The title alone isn't enough to totally grasp what happened here, or the methods used. Extremely conserva
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by zulban 7mo ago
"So if someone compromises your identity they can unperson you?" You've identified a problem that unrelated systems also have. Like banks and identity theft. This solution isn't responsible for causing that problem. &quo
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by zulban 7mo ago
But then if the AI is detected that person can be permanently banned. No more AI. No new accounts.
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by zulban 7mo ago
> I love it. It feels like it did back then. I’m chasing the midnight hour and not getting any sleep. I highly recommend this blog post about vibe coding, gambling, and flow. Glad you're having a great time! Just something to consid
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by zulban 8mo ago
I saw some research awhile ago that 60% of the time, "reject cookies" is ignored.
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by zulban 8mo ago
You seem very confident for someone who just asked about enshittification basics. You're being dishonest.
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by zulban 8mo ago
You won't get good answers asking to be spoonfed on a random discussion forum by strangers. If you're truly curious, look it up, maybe read a book by Cory Doctorow.
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by zulban 8mo ago
That's not how enshittification, vendor lock in, and network effects work. You're participating in the collective delusion that we have perfect market competition.
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by zulban 8mo ago
If your roommates leave your rent doesn't go down. Infrastructure can't be trivially cut in half.
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by zulban 9mo ago
What corporate norms are notably different in this context?
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by zulban 9mo ago
If you don't need to design a new product, you can focus on execution. You may want to learn about design and novelty. Some people just want to learn about execution.
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by zulban 9mo ago
I don't think it's necessarily incompetence. If a middle manager succeeds in rebranding something they get to put that project on their resume. Their goal just isn't the long term good of Microsoft.
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by zulban 9mo ago
As a fan of Linux and open source, I rejoice when Microsoft trashes its brands pointlessly so middle managers can get promoted.
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by zulban 10mo ago
"But since then the world has just progressed toward darker and darker ages." For a different perspective you should read Better Angels by Pinker.
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by zulban 10mo ago
If you only count developers who finish a quality game, polished, with completed endgame, and free of major bugs then the numbers are far lower. Maybe it's more of a lesson in how hard it is to finish a game, than how hard it is to mak
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by zulban 10mo ago
Indeed. It's like starting a business. You probably shouldn't do it, but some people have to.
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by zulban 10mo ago
Making a totally unnecessary and overly elaborate magic item system for my game https://www.chesscraft.ca based on Diablo 2 items. Is it the most reasonable next thing to do to expand the business and monthly revenue? Hah, no. B
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by zulban 10mo ago
HN is not one person.
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by zulban 10mo ago
It sounds like you've never worked in a large org before.
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by zulban 11mo ago
It's a different kind of fun. Just like doing math problems on paper can be fun, or writing code to do the math can be fun, or getting AI to write the code to do the math can be fun. They're just different types of fun. The proble
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by zulban 11mo ago
It has been many years that most courses in most universities have inferior lectures than just watching a great series of YouTube videos. Many professors have no passion or training in teaching, they just want to do research. Or they have n
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by zulban 11mo ago
Unless you're making that determination statistically, it's probably pereidolia. See here: https://behavioralscientist.org/yates-expect-unexpected-why-...
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by zulban 11mo ago
They don't make more money by giving you more confidence in their systems.
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by zulban 11mo ago
What do you propose instead?

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