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Worldcoin (cofounded by Sam Altman) is trying to do this. They plan to have contractors do eyeball scanning of everyone as identification.

Writing about data seems reliably popular. There’s even a company that just writes viral blog posts for clients about their data (Pricenomics).

Whenever you run an experiment or gather data, consider whether it might be shareable as a post. It’s a win-win because people love learning the truth in numbers about a topic, and at the same time you get to have a chance at a decently popular post about your obscure thing.

Say you’re a toilet paper manufacturer. Probably nobody wants to read your company blog, but if you had a post with real data about how much TP is wasted by hotels not using rolls completely for example, that might just break through.

In Japan at our place we always do this. After the last person has used the bath water, we let it sit there overnight, and then use the water for the first wash cycles of the washing machine.

The less efficient part of this story is that everyone showers before entering, and that does go down the drain.

Maybe it’s an opportunity to spot Twitter employees who could be adding more value working at Tesla instead?

Interesting that he is willing to deal with receiving money from AdSense, but not willing to deal with receiving money from sponsors. Sounds like an opening for an AdSense-like middleman except for sponsorships, so he could just receive money from one place instead of dealing with multiple customers.

I'm doing about 1M database writes per day. DB is sqlite3, server is a Hetzner instance + extra storage that costs about $4 / month total.

Computers are fast.

I kind of want some way to record myself using my computer or phone, and have an expert look at the recording and point out things I’m doing the hard way.

Preferably software instead of human so it’d be slightly less embarrassing.

I’m afraid there’s a shortcut to something that would save me X minutes per day but that I’ll never even know to ask.

If there is such a flash card, this sounds like the easiest explanation. Someone swapped the card with a file that starts with the real announcement, then X minutes of silence, followed by joke sounds.

If anyone here decides to do henro, message me as we live on the path (Tokushima).

For some reason this isn’t an issue with me. Past month I’ve been writing C#, Python, and Lua pretty much equally.

While I do sometimes almost write “nil” instead of “None” in Python, it’s rare enough not to be an issue.

Maybe it helps that I also use three human languages in my daily life, and mixing up words just isn’t something that happens (although forgetting does).

That’s clever, never thought to use anything faster than a second for mental counting.

He seems to be (intentionally or not) applying the angel investing mentality on a larger scale. Not expecting each of these companies to work out, but having an outlier or two that covers the whole $100B+ fund. In that case these early losses would be expected, as companies that implode tend to do so quickly, with the winners only emerging many years later (it's only been 5 years).

I managed to get one that was correct with "A little scared girl is building a sandcastle, while a monster is looking at her. Award-winning photograph.", but I couldn't figure out a phrasing where it wouldn't most of the time get confused thinking that the sandcastle is the monster, or that the girl is the monster.

I’d rather be happy and completely forgotten than unhappy and loved by all for eternity.

Here’s an interview I did about it: https://boilingsteam.com/porting-roblox-game-to-steam-find-t...

It’s mostly a recreation of the entire game in Unity, not much got reused.

What's your game? I spent a similar amount of time to port one of my Roblox cat games to Steam to see how it would do. Just released it a week ago: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1652120/Find_the_Cats/

Making cat games is what I got into after shutting down Candy Japan due to covid. It's been quite fun, especially being able to run various experiments much more quickly than with an ecommerce store.

Let's be honest: the bar on Roblox is still quite low for games. That's why I was able to get a start there despite having no gamedev experience besides participating on Ludum Dare a lot. I did this port to see if it makes sense to also release these games on Steam, or if they're just not good enough to sell there.

So far it's only sold $116 net, so it's feeling a bit like the answer might be no, but the game was only launched 5 days ago. If it keeps selling say $10/day consistently, then I'd consider it having been worth doing.

It starts with noise, so you get a different result every time.

The mirror in Duke Nukem 3D blew my mind a little bit as a kid and was the first one I saw in a game, and I assume must have been made like that.

At first I came up with them myself, but found that it often comes up with better ones, so I ask it for variations.

I think I got it to even fill the title given a picture, something like “Article picture caption: Man holding an apple. Article title: ...”. Might experiment more with that in the future.

I loved how it just consistently decided that if babies have facial hair, it's always white fluff.

I was supposed to be making a video game, but got a bit sidetracked when DALL·E came out and made this website on the side: http://dailywrong.com/ (yes I should get SSL).

It's like The Onion, but all the articles are made with GPT-3 and DALL·E. I start with an interesting DALL·E image, then describe it to GPT-3 and ask it for an Onion-like article on the topic. The results are surprisingly good.

OK tried it. Still had to shorten the reason to 500 characters.

# Description

Japanese candy subscription box. Includes domain and right to use text content only. Specifically does not include any code, customer list, or anything else.

# Asking price.

$6942

# Why sell?

It's the oldest candy subscription box domain in the world! And there's old content with decent backlinks as well. In other words: Google likes it.

I used to run this subscription box, but shut it down after Covid made global shipping impossible. If it's extremely low effort for me, then I would be willing to sell the domain and site content to someone who wants to start a similar site, or to use as lead generation for a competing service.

I am selling this site, because I know it still has value.

Despite the service being down for 2 years, the site still gets ~2000 clicks on Google each month, and ~7000 unique visitors. From past experience, this would convert to a few (let's say 5) new paying subscribers each month with no marketing at all. With an LTV of ~$40, should have lead generation value of at around ~$2400/year.

But I won't set up your website for you. I'll just transfer the domain to you, and sign a poorly worded document telling that I allow you to keep using the site content.

You will not get the code. Because it's terrible, and I don't want you to punch me or have even a remote risk of having to set it up for you or maintain it.

You will get the rights to use the blog text content, but you'll have to copy paste them yourself from the website. Because they are in some bizarro combination of two different formats in a database I barely remember how to log in to.

Again, you only get: the domain name, and the right to use the blog content text. But no right to ask me time-consuming questions. After I have transferred the domain to you, I consider my work to be 100% done.

# Competition?

The Japanese candy subscription box scene is admittedly intensely (ridiculously?) competitive. See here for a full list: https://www.candyjapan.com/wow/japanese-candy-boxes

I tried to make a listing, but it kept saying to keep description under 280 characters, even though it was.

Anyway if someone wants to make me an offer for the domain and text content of Candy Japan (candyjapan.com), email me. Gets ~2000 clicks on Google per month, 7000 uniques. It's the oldest Japanese candy subscription box domain on the internet, but the service itself hasn't been running for 2 years.

Back in my first job we had a CD drive but somehow only one music CD, so me and the other guy in that office just kept listening to that one all day.

Now despite access to all the music in the world, I still have per-project playlists. So I might listen to the same ten songs again and again for weeks on end, as starting the soundtrack quickly puts me in the mood to resume work where I last left off.

I've also adopted a mild superstition that it's bad to listen to the soundtrack for a project that failed.

You got me curious about the growing process (didn't even know it's something you can do at home), and came across this fascinating tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm1FgFFzQd4

VRChat may be the most fun and weird thing right now.

I like to imagine the outside universe has no computational limits. When you write code there, you can init an array of 10*1000 elements and have a loop that does heavy math over every pair of them, but it still runs instantly.

Whenever I play this, for days afterwards I’m in a state of mind looking for anything in my life to automate.