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You're actually right, I misread the first post.

Speaking of unutilized talents, other than Hollywood, I'd also add a whole bunch of folks in tech who could be useful for defending their own homeland (hence, their own & their kids' future) but are busy doing the generic commercial stuff.

Nazi scientists were brought in _after_ WWII, not during it.

thought the test was finishing the article in itself

“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.” - Brian Eno, 1996

For those who read on mobile and are too lazy to convert all they have, a quick access shortcut to the 'inverted colors' display mode helps.

a brilliant idea in the correct direction of naturally-organic UI, but the example site is rather slow in Chrome on an M3 Air

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thought this was about bio-reverse-engineering at first

the works of fiction should inflame the imagination through originality and the workings on the reader's inner sense. it is the exact realm where I don't want AI to be present.

the article itself is only an analysis of an already present fictional world, created by humans. such content is secondary- or third-rate in nature.

also, the focus on being simply 'entertained' sounds rather depressing to me

>This work was partly supported by using OpenAI’s GPT for drafting and editing assistance, and Grammarly for grammar and style suggestions.

these things should be disclaimed at the top, not the bottom. moreover, HN should have some kind of a tag for [AI-generated content], ideally. otherwise, the opportunities for wasting the readers' time are endless

Could you recommend some of the mentioned translations?

This is an important point. It can be used to target civilian population (e.g. large groups), something that r*ssian military already does specifically

The translation is correct, but it says “[a] protest against the war”. If you want to imply a call to protest, it should be “протестуйте против войны».

I'd hoped there was a system in place where Google only locks down the account until the user turns 14 (with the birth date info kept), but... they just locked them down? Man.

Did not read past the first bold paragraph. 'Nihilo' means "out of nothing, nothing is produced"; why does the author think that nihilism needs to have a famous proponent? A linguistic quibble far off the mark.

UPD: I tried reading further, and it did not take long for the author to convince the readers that he is an idiot.

Quote: "Committing to nihilism, deciding that you “are a nihilist,” is unusual, and typically a big deal." No, it's not. Most people in this world are in search of meaning: it is probably the most common source of suffering in the modern times - feeling lost, not having a purpose, etc. The fact that people don't brand themselves as nihilists doesn't mean that they aren't.

Cue the downvotes from pseudo-intellectuals.

This is actually hilarious. The fact that _you_ are putting “smarter” in quotes, proving my point, means that you’re losing the argument - and, furthermore, viewing a random exchange on the internet in terms of ‘winning’ and ‘losing’ instead of viewing it as a means of finding the truth or at least exchanging different perspectives already says a lot more than could fly beneath your head. To add insult to the injury, by your own request, you already accept the fact that PhDs are “smarter” only in terms of arbitrary metrics _defined_ by the PhDs.

I’m sorry if you actually spent money on getting yours, though. I would try to let go of the ego and accept it and not try to cope with it in a thread that everyone forgot about (the only reason I’m replying is because I’m getting reply notifications from the ‘HN Replies’ bot).

IQ is a eugenic, pseudo-scientific nonsense, as far as means of measuring intellect goes. https://medium.com/incerto/iq-is-largely-a-pseudoscientific-...

The assumption that someone with a PhD is smarter, on average, than someone without a PhD is quite laughable.

Just forget about it and let it die. That’s what everyone did everywhere except for America, it seems.

Both are fine, if you remove the comma in your example, but the one used in the article puts the focus on "eating" first. It's also more interesting to read: "By eating them..." (who ate who or what?) ..."hyenas gathered neanderthal skeletons" (oh good, interesting archeology, I'll check it out) etc.

That's actually kind of insane. Seamless transfer would take quite a high priority on the scale of things to implement, one would (and will) imagine. Transferring from and iPhone to an iPhone is so well-done that it actually adds to the pleasure of having a new phone.

This sounds like something a fanboy would say, but honestly it's just a really rather objective comparison of the functionality.

If it's a company as big as Facebook, I think those charges are drops in the ocean of their entire revenue, so you waste more of your time and nerves on doing that than the money they lose.

As someone working in the game industry and had to deal with the MS and Sony, I’ve experienced myself how strict they can be when it comes to QA, especially in things related to stability and performance. For a less hyped-up project, a single crash during a walkthrough (or an FPS dipping too low) could result in the game not being able to get released on an affected platform until it was fixed.

That “horse” is what anyone who is familiar with CDPR games would expect. Also, I hope you’re being sarcastic (seeing the silly takes from some critics about how Cyberpunk is not the “future of gaming” they were expecting, I’m not sure anymore).

> No game is David's Michelangelo in talent or effect.

Yet. How long has sculpting been an art form and how long has it taken for Michelangelo to surface?

How long have video games been an art form?

Can’t stop laughing over the fact that something interesting like this would’ve reached HN’s top if not for the fact that the article shows HN’s selective narrow-mindedness and toxic positivity (disgustingly enough, bordering on the lack of critical thinking).

Is it normal to find the quoted sentence quite humorous?

One of the most prolific and well-known music reviewers - Pierro Scaruffi - has a website built in 1995 with a design not updated much, or at all, since: https://www.scaruffi.com

I got an iPhone 7 after I cracked my SE and couldn't switch back to SE. 7/8 (regular, not S) have the perfect size (both the screen and the phone in general) for my hand - not too small and I'm still able to reach the upper left corner with my right thumb when holding it.

The SE screen is almost comically small when compared to its bigger brothers. I have problems typing quickly on it, too - and I don't have particularly large hands. Maybe it's not a problem for DEX builds though.

Makes me wonder if the guy wants (subconsciously or not) to have more problems with technology he’s using just to have an opportunity to tinker with it to make it better. Certainly seems like the type.

Not necessarily a bad thing, though, but in such case he might as well drop the complaining tone.