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btschaeggon Deus Ex

Not only is the music legendary, but being the same fractal of amazing as the rest of the game, even the fan remixes it inspired stand apart from the those of other games, IMHO.

Cases in point:

https://youtu.be/odfCTFPyZCo

https://youtu.be/Aq8vFqY6XDo

https://youtu.be/yq9xJB9_lpU

https://youtu.be/DZU6XyFxCA0

btschaeggon Programming Isn't Special

> The thing with art and music is that they are easy to appreciate

I get what you mean (and agree w.r.t. math/code) but notably, I think appreciation for a lot of things still accumulates if you put in the work.

As an amateur violist, I can attest that I gained a totally new appreciation for most of the pieces I've studied and played in an orchestra in the past.

This not only includes "unknown" classical music from different eras, but also the obvious (popular) candidates like Beethoven's 6th, Dvořak's 9th and Grieg's "Peer Gynt" suites.

And there's a lot of great music one needs to get into first; for expample: I love Tool songs exactly for that, and there are certainly more obscure artists :)

So, I suspect the thing about maths and code is mainly just caused by the fact that people can go through life just fine without really interacting with them on the level required to develop the smallest bit of "taste" (as opposed to e.g. music).

btschaeggon Where's the Beef?: The lab-grown-meat revolution that wasn't

Interesting to poke around in: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/per-capita-meat-consumpti...

It sadly doesn't go back further than the 1960s. If you select Western Europe, the number seems to be falling (back from almost 100kg, though). USA, not so much.

Note though that for what your parent describes, you'd want numbers to go even further back, then you could likely see the whole effect of post-WW2 boom; though WW2 itself would obviously also extremely skew the data in the 40s.

btschaeggon Roko's Basilisk

You could argue that it also works in the opposite direction: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7018833-somewhere-and-i-can...

btschaeggon This website runs on a Raspberry Pi 4B with only 1 GB of RAM

You Browser Working

Zurich Cloudflare Working

pi.deepakness.com Host Error

btschaeggon How Fairphone built the Fairphone Gen 6+

The official firmware, yes, but also Fairphones for years, not Xiaomi or the like (FP2 -> FP3 -> FP5 now). So the "bloat" in question is the Google stuff.

btschaeggon How Fairphone built the Fairphone Gen 6+

I had the same experience. Repeatedly. IMO it's the software, not the hardware. The issues always start/get worse with a big update to Android or the main Google apps.

btschaeggon WordPress is now just a liability

btschaeggon Stwipe Acquires OpenWouter

> Knowledge cutoff

> None. Wouter is aware of everything and disappointed by most of it.

Here I am, brain the size of a planet and they ask me to take you down to the bridge. Call that job satisfaction? ’Cos I don’t.

btschaeggon Show HN: Ask questions about the Swiss train timetable

If it's something small, usually yes. But very often, that's still on the same routes (often, not all rails are blocked, so only some connections through the station suffer).

But I've also seen my fair share of "trains in this direction won't recover for hours" over the years, and directly after such an incident, the official systems usually don't really adapt all that well. I don't know if they're "massaged" manually after that or if it's just a case of the entire system finally figuring out that an entire station is FUBARed, not only one or two scheduled connections…

btschaeggon Show HN: Ask questions about the Swiss train timetable

I tested the use case I could've really used this for, but it doesn't seem to be able to do this: "Biel to Zürich, but not through Grenchen".

The SBB timetable app and website can become really unhelpful if there has been an "accident involving a person" [0]; other than that, I've got little issues with them day to day.

But it seems your model doesn't have a way to know that the IC from Biel to Olten goes through Grenchen (it only presents the obvious routes that wouldn't work in this case).

[0]: https://company.sbb.ch/en/railway-development/services-rus/r...

btschaeggon Geek Fighter – 2d fighter game

The "geek" in the title is definitely a lie. I can think of an entire series of fitting expletives to replace it, though.

btschaeggon Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage

I'd agree with you based on the language itself; Lua has some annoying idiosyncrasies like e.g. (my main pet peeve) 1-based indexing.

But I suspect the positive opinion on Lua stem more from the standardized environment the language is built around (i.e. how it is embedded into applications): If you don't explicitly pass capabilities like file handling etc. into the script, it CANNOT use them. Sooo many scripting languages get this wrong, it's actually embarassing.

btschaeggon Ask HN: Give Me Your Earworm

https://youtu.be/nplkSmHC780

Edit: Also, if you're looking for earworms and like loopy melodies, check out David Fenn's Soundtrack for Moonlighter: https://davidfennmusic.bandcamp.com/album/moonlighter

Especially "Macadamia Mayhem" and "Restless Roots" tend to follow me around for hours each time I revisit the album :)

btschaeggon AI "Proves" Collatz Conjecture with Lean 4 Bug

…minutes before a bunch of Vogons show up to finally get started with their intergalactic highway and the result never makes it to the prompter ;)

btschaeggon "Please just use plain English, I don't understand what you're saying."

Imagine someone sneaking in The King in Yellow into the training sets used by all projects training models somehow, breaking all future models irreparably -- and then the engineers trying to find this poison pill in the dataset and going mad one by one as they find it and aren't able avoid reading into act 2.

…should make for an interesting SCP story :)

btschaeggon Introduction to Data-Oriented Design [pdf]

Note: AFAIU "Data Oriented Programming" (as championed e.g. in the Clojure community) and "Data Oriented Design" (as championed in the video game community) are very different philosophies for different use-cases and diametrically opposed on many dimensions. People knowing only the one phrase and assuming both to be synonymous will be in for a lot of confusion when reading about the other.

btschaeggon The AI Productivity Illusion

…inefficiently.

I can also do nothing at scale just with a hammock :)

btschaeggon Nearly one-third of Steam users have ten-year-old GPUs [video]

I think that's meant as an abbreviation for "microtransactions".

btschaeggon AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making

> The world’s organisations have been captured by people in the throes of frothing excitement, and saner people who now live in a state of constant commingled fear and frustration.

This reminds me of "Youth without God" by Ödön von Horváth:

> Perhaps Anne’s mother was right. Perhaps men are mad now—those who aren’t mad haven’t the courage to put their maniacal fellows into strait-jackets.

btschaeggon Primate Is the Last Great Web Framework

There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of Men for this treachery.

SCNR :)

btschaeggon Ask HN: Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board?

> every time Space Marine 2 crashes my entire Linux desktop.

Sounds like a good situation for the litany of percussive maintenance.

btschaeggon Leaking YouTube creators' private videos

Your right, as are your examples, but I want to point out an interesting thing about your examples :)

> - CT and MRI data processing

> - scheduling systems for universities and other schools (makes education more scalable)

Those two read as if they are of different urgency (#1: whoever needs it urgently is at risk of dying, schedules for "non-urgent" cases will be affected for months, turning many into urgent cases; #2: the education systems will suffer, but it only gets dire after multiple days), until you realize that #2 also applies to e.g. hospitals.

Medicine at scale is already barely scraping by as it is (see: overworked staff etc. etc.), but disrupt the internal IT working of hospitals and the indirect body count will rise fast.

btschaeggon This blog is written in en-GB

Because that comma is a crime against legibility.

btschaeggon This blog is written in en-GB

> Bonus points for using a very confusing separator... Maybe {?

I vote for "end of unit" (ASCII 0x1F).

btschaeggon "People who don't use AI will be left behind"

> I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt

btschaeggon Ask HN: Is Zuckerberg just a „one-hit-wonder"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_Richner

btschaeggon How to Write Unmaintainable Code (1999)

In fact, I'd go so far as to say that classes not being final or sealed (C#) by default is another failure to set sensible defaults, akin to "everything is mutable unless explicitly marked const".

Properly designing classes for inheritance takes proactive care and is, in my experience, almost never done unless the author has been forced to by external forces (through APIs or agreements with other developers).

btschaeggon Shall I implement it? No

With that model, you're basically toast if you're "the human". It only cares about "my humans" ;)

btschaeggon Explain it like I'm 5: Why is everyone on speakerphone in public?

For various people, some of that flipped back, and they now record voice messages to send them through e.g. WhatsApp.

My percieved explanation for this is that most of them can't be bothered to type a message but are still very happy to waste the recipient's time. Yes, I'm not thrilled about it.

OTOH, at least these messages are still more asynchronous and less interrupting than a phone call. But the inability to skim them still bothers me to no end.