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Hmm, not sure why I can't access it then. Anyone else unable to reach it?

Looks like it's hugged to death

I've never heard this called all-22, and I've been around a lot of football. I played from middle to high school, and my dad has filmed all but 1 high school game for the same school for 37 years. I've exclusively heard this referred to as "wide angle" by filmographers and coaches alike.

Yours was not the source comment I was referring to.

I think it's clear the source comment was referencing end users. It's patently obvious at this point that a large number of people who directly use Windows are frustrated with it, and perceive it to be degrading rather than improving over time.

This looks like a lot of fun. Is there a way to use text rather than speech for input? I'm not particularly fond of my voice getting sent to an LLM.

The question that I haven't seen answered yet is whether or not we will reach a sort of "peak vibe coding" phase. What I mean by that is, right now, LLM's are somewhat decent at writing workable code. That code, however, needs babysitting to keep from going off the rails. And that code is sourced from training, which has been gleaned from the billions of lines of code written by hackers everywhere and pushed to source control.

We currently have engineers competent enough to use an LLM, review the code written, and fix the places where the LLM writes poor code. We also still have engineers pushing novel code themselves. That means we are on the up-slope. Right now, nascent hackers are learning perhaps the old ways, but also are for sure paying attention to and using vibe coding. That creates a negative feedback loop. As greybeards age out of programming, so to does the knowledge foundation that allowed LLM training to take place in the first place, and more importantly, that trained the next generation of hackers. AI is going to increasingly begin consuming AI code, and I haven't seen solid evidence yet that it is capable (at least currently) of putting truly novel ideas into code.

There will be an inflection point where AI's are consuming their own output more than that from competent hackers, and that's when things will go downhill unless there is a significant breakthrough in actual reasoning in AI.

I happened to take a look at your HN profile and realized you don't post much, which leads me to believe this is REALLY bothering you.

I can relate. My grandfather, who had been a math teacher and actually got me into computing way back in the beige toaster Macintosh days, religiously checked his email and practiced his Spanish on Rosetta Stone for decades. I had to update from Win 7 to 10 for the desktop I built for him, and that was a big struggle for him. That would probably be many times harder now considering the sad shape of Windows. It was heartbreaking watching him struggle with one of the few simple joys he had left towards the end of his life.

I'm very sorry you're having to deal with that and your anger is warranted.

Hmm, how do you figure? Just about every source I can find shows slow burning carbs, fiber, and protein rich foods blow fatty foods out of water in terms of satiety. (if you are using a metric other than satiety to represent "fills you up", feel free to correct me)

Agreed, this has absolutely nothing to do with tech

It's not real music if you aren't hand crafting the atoms that make up the molecules of the medium you are vibrating to create sound waves.

I feel like there should be an XKCD for this

If it was, they'd need to get the cops on the horn quickly

No apology needed. We all needed to stop procrastinating anyways :)

We're only massacring the fruiting bodies. The mycelium is just fine and lives on to create even more fruiting bodies. It's like picking apples from an apple tree. The tree itself isn't harmed in the slightest. The only difference is that many fruits are designed to be eaten so that the seeds can pass an germinate, whereas mushrooms achieve this through spore release.

I'm not sure this is the best showcase. It doesn't show me any kind of a before and after to demonstrate the 2D-3D process. Also, the interior-view floor plans don't quite make sense e.g. doors leading into impossible spaces, two bathrooms directly beside each other, furniture in odd spots

Plenty of copilots, but clearly no competent captain anywhere to steer the ship at Microsoft.

+1

Hoo boy. I lost waaaaay too many hours to the Monster Hunt mod back in the day. The RPG style PvE one. All those leeches link gunning the one brave player at the front shooting the boss... Crazy fun

I'm not sure if this release is a good thing or bad thing for me haha

WINE has come along way (in fact, legacy Windows apps tend to work better on Linux that Windows 11 these days), especially when you add in Proton, Winetricks, etc. It's worth a shot

Have you considered installing Linux and seeing if WINE/Proton can run that software? Might free up a bit of RAM headroom, and if it doesn't work out, you haven't lost anything more than a bit of time as you'll just be grabbing a beefier laptop anyways.

I keep wondering how many things like this need to happen before the other shoe drops and the ring-around-the-rosie investment structure collapses. It's become very obvious that "AI" in its current form isn't going to turn a profit, at least not in the short term.

I'm a bit shocked that people are putting that much stock in this. It's yet another circular investment in the current circus, and since when has Google reliably produced and stood by hardware?

I'm not totally convinced it's not more a matter of air being let out of the AI bubble in general

Schadenfriend?

You gain relief, but you don't exactly derive pleasure as it's someone you know that's getting the ass end of the deal

A failure they fully admit they learned from. Proton was the outcome of that failure, and I'd say they are well poised to make a bigger dent this time.

Fungi existed before plants, and definitely before plants evolved to the point of being what we'd consider trees. In fact, we find large fungi fossils that once likely lined the landscape like trees do now.

I mean, this isn't THAT surprising. Photosynthesis after all is just radiosynthesis of electromagnetic radiation in the visible or near visible spectrum. Gamma radiation is the same phenomenon, just with a far higher frequency and enough energy to ionize molecules.

The chemical process obviously has to differ considering gamma radiation has enough energy to knock off electrons, but once you deal with that, it's energy ripe for the taking. I'm not shocked that life finds a way to harness that energy where abundant.

In fact, had life come about on an Earth with a weaker magnetic field, it may have relied more on gamma radiation than visible light, especially considering the larger potential amount of consumable energy present in gamma rays.

Came here to post this, although sadly it isn't considered a person, and isn't actually the original tree. That said, I'd imagine if anyone tried to take down the son of the tree that owned itself, Athens residents would revolt. It's pretty famous

This is super trippy. I saw the screenshots first and though "Huh, they really nailed that early point-and-click RPG vibe. Neat, but only mildly interesting". Then I clicked on the video and realized it's 3D. "Oh..."

The castle in the distance really gives me some sort of surreal feeling of fleshing out areas that didn't exist in the old games. Back then, the highly degraded road in the distance you understood to just sort of be skipped if you clicked on the castle, whereas with this, that little brown, poorly rendered strip is an actual place you will traverse and have come alive. Neat.

This wins all the internets today. Probably not a day where internets are particularly valuable, but it wins them nonetheless.

Thanks. I keep seeing silver bullet testing solutions pitched left right and center and wondering about these two points. Glad to see a project with realistic boundaries and expectations set. Would definitely give this a shot if I was working on a local project.