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dmonitor··on iBook Clamshell
I do wonder what the reasoning is behind using safe colors for the Macbooks while giving the iPhone Pro bright orange as one of its three options.
dmonitor··on iBook Clamshell
The unique aesthetics give it immense nostalgia value. They literally don't make them like they used to.
dmonitor··on A Japanese glossary of chopsticks faux pas (2022)
I typically just forgo the knife and cut food with the side of the fork. Unless it's a particularly thick slab of meat, it works just fine.
dmonitor··on My spicy take on vibe coding for PMs
I don't see this happening. Even today, I can place a bet on a prediction market that nobody women will give me a blow job tonight, a lady of the night then places a counter bet wagering that I will, and shows up at my house.

Services in individual apps are a thing of the past.

dmonitor··on MacBook Neo
You'll look like a mega nerd if you pull that out in a classroom, assuming you even have the desk space. Not to mention the qol improvement of having your pen touch the screen you're drawing on.
dmonitor··on MacBook Neo
What about color quality? I've used high resolution laptops with shitty washed out colors, but one thing I've always appreciated about Apple's displays is their vibrance.
dmonitor··on US farmers are rejecting multimillion-dollar datacenter bids for their land
Somewhat concerning that AI is now competing for resources with our food production.
dmonitor··on Alleged Distillation Attacks by DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax
The fact that they're calling it an "attack" implies otherwise.

I find the entire premise of this announcement absurd. Fraudulent accounts? They're just accounts. They paid for the access the same as any other. They're accessing Claude just like a human (or *claw) would.

There's no argument against their strategy that doesn't make them complete hypocrites in respect to how they got the model training data in the first place.

dmonitor··on Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics
That wouldn't make sense on the back of the phone.
dmonitor··on A review of M Disc archival capability with long term testing results (2016)
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/d/xbox-series-x-1tb-digital-...

Series X has a digital only edition now

dmonitor··on Minecraft Java is switching from OpenGL to Vulkan
Ironically, it was originally built to support Android phones.

Pocket Edition was a stripped down version of the game to support the xperia play, so it was built for optimization from the start. Later it got support for broader Android devices and iOS, while Mojang outsourced console development to 4J studios. Eventually, they decided to beef up Pocket Edition to be mostly feature complete with Java, renamed it Bedrock, and made it the de facto standard for all devices, sunsetting 4J's port.

dmonitor··on Minecraft Java is switching from OpenGL to Vulkan
Minor tweaks are still a mod. Gameplay overhaul modpacks that turn the game into Factorio are definitely the a small minority of the playerbase, but anyone who knows better plays with at least some sort of client-side performance mod (Optifine, Lithium, etc), and that's been true since before 1.0.

Etho's dedication to keeping a purely vanilla singleplayer world is a unique feat. If you want to use Hermitcraft as an example of the median SMP, their modlist is actually quite large: https://github.com/henkelmax/hermitcraft-server

Minecraft simply has a lot of areas for improvement that haven't been touched by Mojang for one reason or another, and a big reason why people stick with Java is because the community has built an ecosystem to tweak the game to their liking.

dmonitor··on A review of M Disc archival capability with long term testing results (2016)
The disc reader on consoles is optional these days. Nowadays many are opting for digital only variants. It's likely those will be the only option in ~10 years, or they'll switch to flash key cards (like the Switch) just to appease retailers.
dmonitor··on Ask HN: How to get started with robotics as a hobbyist?
I'd also suggest starting with Arduino, but also recommend moving towards STM32 for doing more advanced stuff. The hardware abstractions Arduino imposes can get really annoying once you start doing more advanced timing dependent stuff.
dmonitor··on Why vampires live forever
Vampires are parasites. They're only as polite as they need to be to extract resources from potential hosts. The facade of sophistication only lasts as long as it needs to
dmonitor··on Why is the sky blue?
Isn't it the water that is blue? Water is mostly clear, but it is very very slightly blue.
dmonitor··on Valve's job rejection letter to a high school teen is a class act
an alternative perspective: with that much capital wouldn't they make games?
dmonitor··on Discord Alternatives, Ranked
What's the point of the licensing on these chat servers charging per-user when self hosting?
dmonitor··on I overengineered a spinning top [video]
he is also using development boards wired together rather than a custom pcb. there's a good chance the choice of passive components, removal of unneeded components, and better optimized power converters can improve the design.
dmonitor··on New Lego smart-play system
3D printing would be good at making figurines and such, but you can't easily replicate the Lego system's modularity without their high tolerances.

That being said, it should be feasible to make something that allows easily programming Arduino and raspberry pi to interact with legos, similar to how their Mindstorms line worked. That would be the best of both worlds.

dmonitor··on New Lego smart-play system
Looks like it has an IMU built in, so if it has wireless it could easily integrate with some kind of software system like those. Seems like right now it's just so your space ship can make vroom sounds
dmonitor··on Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles
The Looker is quite possibly the greatest parody ever executed in a video game. It creates the same kind of "ahah" moment that games like The Witness do, but in a way that really pokes fun at the level of pretentiousness those games tend to indulge themselves in.
dmonitor··on What the heck is going on at Apple?
Siri can answer questions just fine. It's the "doing stuff" that introduces complications
dmonitor··on Steam Machine
it's running joke that Valve will announce something as "coming soon" only to release months or years later

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Valve_Time

dmonitor··on The 'Toy Story' You Remember
Would be annoying, but I suppose you could also recalibrate your display to turn down the greens?
dmonitor··on Kimi K2 Thinking, a SOTA open-source trillion-parameter reasoning model
It's simple enough that a person can easily visualize the intended result, but weird enough that generative AI struggles with it
dmonitor··on The Peach meme: On CRTs, pixels and signal quality (again)
He seemed to test it on a bunch of computer monitors, and not a standard 480i consumer television set? The different shadow masks phosphor patterns change how things look
dmonitor··on The Peach meme: On CRTs, pixels and signal quality (again)
Using an OLED display? I've found that's the only type of display that can even come close to reproducing the CRT look
dmonitor··on Meta Is Building a Smart TV in VR
I still hold to how amazing the Wii's user interface was. All pointer-based, using simple IR cameras, an underpowered CPU, and a downright ancient IMU (it didn't even have a gyroscope!)
dmonitor··on Sonic Robo Blast 2: 25 year old continuously developed DOOM engine-based fangame
SRB2K is very frustrating to me for a few reasons

- it is very nearly perfect, but has some minor issues especially in regards to the strength of frontrunning (early leads tend to become unbeatable) - the development team has mostly abandoned it in favor of the sequel, which completely abandons the brilliant simplicity of SRB2K - the development team kind of take a rude approach to the GPL. They don't really accept PRs from the community, and work in secrecy rather than out in the open. They still publish their work, so they comply with the license, but it's a bit lame - The modding community is super weird about reusing other people's code and will pitch a fit if you get caught reusing someone's lua script without their permission.

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