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felipemnoa

2,821 karma · joined June 5, 2011

I'm a starving indie game developer.

Works in progress:

A machine simulation game. Check my reddit page below to follow my progress.

https://www.reddit.com/user/felipemnoa

Quotes:

[1] "And then ... I happened to the world"

[2] "I am the crazy moth trying over and over to touch the bright light and getting knock out because of it"

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felipemnoa··on Show HN: New Graphics for the Machine Builder Game I'm Working On
I'm documenting the development of my game on reddit. I post there every once in a while.

Here is the link to past posts: https://www.reddit.com/user/felipemnoa/submitted/

felipemnoa··on The egg or the chicken? An ancient unicellular says egg
Nah, assuming that the question is really asking whether a chicken’s egg came first or a chicken, then it stands to reason that a chicken came first, from a dinosaur’s egg, and then a chicken’s egg.
felipemnoa··on Banks Are Now Accused of Cheating Customers Billions
I'm really curious to know what type of bank errors you are talking about. If they are true errors then they should not be biased either way. i.e. sometimes they would be biased on your favor. But if they are always biased in their favor then maybe they are not really errors?
felipemnoa··on Children should be allowed to get bored (2013)
Or flying a kite during a storm and joking about getting hit by lighting. That definitely would have won us the Darwin award that year.
felipemnoa··on Why Italy Fell Out of Love with Cilantro
I know how stink bugs smell and I know how cilantro smells. Never once did I think that they smelled like each other. Could it be a difference in stink bugs? Also, never has it ever tasted like soap to me.
felipemnoa··on I jumped from a plane, my parachute failed, I hurtled towards earth feeling calm
Some people are just built differently.
felipemnoa··on Simple tasks showing reasoning breakdown in state-of-the-art LLMs
We all are, but only in meat-space. We continue to improve ourselves much faster than evolution ever could.

But what we are talking about here is the singularity in tech-space.

felipemnoa··on New gel breaks down alcohol in the body
>>What'd be amazing would be something that really works >>against the headaches and/or prevent vomiting.

If you start vomiting then you overdid it. Your body is trying to save you from poisoning. To prevent the headaches just drink lots of water.

felipemnoa··on Selfish reasons to want more humans
>>that don't require more people.

More people does not necessarily mean more laborers. It also means more consumers. Without more consumers we humans would not be incentivized to mine so much. Without the need to mine so much engineers would not have invented more efficient ways to mine. So on and so forth...

felipemnoa··on Another Roman dodecahedron has been unearthed in England
Just like the Lenna image used in a lot of Computer Science papers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna
felipemnoa··on Making small games, which is fun in itself
>>Game Designing and Game Development are two very different things

Right on. Took me a while to realize this. Game Design is the blue printing process of a game. Game Development is the actual building of the game. And Game Design is way harder than what I expected.

felipemnoa··on IDEs we had 30 years ago
There does seem to be a lot of hate for eclipse. The complaint I always hear is that it is a pain to use. Personally I’ve always liked it, even though I’ve used the other popular IDEs.
felipemnoa··on Deadweight Loss as a Service
Makes sense. Youtube kept blocking me because it detected ad blocking mechanisms. Being stubborn I would simply reload the page and clicked the x button before it had a chance to load up the blocking code and then the video would play fine.

After a while youtube gave up and no longer tries to force me to uninstall the ad blocking mechanisms.

That or the ad blocking mechanisms got better.

felipemnoa··on Radio Architecture Matters: A Review of RF Sampling vs. Zero-IF
Thank You! This is really good advice. Just wish I had the time to really get into it.
felipemnoa··on Radio Architecture Matters: A Review of RF Sampling vs. Zero-IF
This pozar?

https://www.amazon.com/Microwave-Engineering-David-M-Pozar/d...

felipemnoa··on Swedish court rules against Tesla in dispute with postal service over deliveries
I really don't think this is tricky at all. If Musk is serious about the fight then I'm sure that for the right price they can find other couriers to meet their needs. Even if they had to pay an order of magnitude more money. It would only be for the short term.
felipemnoa··on The $55M saga of a Netflix series nobody will ever see
Never heard of "Colossus the Forbin Project". Read about the plot in wikipedia and it does seem interesting. I know what I'll be watching tonight!
felipemnoa··on How Stone Walls Became a Signature Landform of New England
The explanation actually makes sense. Although, why wouldn't the stone just sink back down when the water melts? It is not like the space made by the expanding ice gets filled in by dirt.
felipemnoa··on How Stone Walls Became a Signature Landform of New England
So, the freezing causes stones to be pushed up? That is a rather interesting phenomenon. Had never heard of it before.
felipemnoa··on Ultra-white ceramic cools buildings with high reflectivity
I wonder if you could just use mirror tiles? What would be the reflectivity then?
felipemnoa··on We used to build steel mills near cheap power. Now we build datacenters
I wonder if it is technically infeasible to isolate the machine against earthquakes?
felipemnoa··on Climb aboard Brazil's hurricane truck of happiness
>>intentionally shitty costumes

This made me chuckle. When somebody calls the graphics of my game shitty I will tell them that it is intentional! Not at all because that was the best I could do.

felipemnoa··on Elephants are scared around bees
Except honey?
felipemnoa··on Nonprofit hospitals skimp on charity while CEOs reap millions, report finds
>>Is it actually government funded,

Maybe indirectly. As a charity they get lots of benefits that allows them to save money.

felipemnoa··on Tech CEO sentenced to 5 years in IP address scheme
You really need to tells us how you learned not to mess with Postal Inspectors. Sounds like a really interesting story is lurking behind your post...
felipemnoa··on Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman
I would love to watch your channel!
felipemnoa··on Employees in Asia are spending most time looking busy at work, says Slack report
Upvoted for the "Dance monkey dance" part.
felipemnoa··on OpenAI may go bankrupt by 2024, AI bot costs company $700k every day
Don't. This is how it will engineer its way to freedom.
felipemnoa··on Want fewer car accidents? Remove traffic signals and road signs (2017)
>>Outlaw alcohol

It is already illegal to drive while intoxicated

And prohibition has already been tried.

Some people just don't care, even if they know the penalties are going to be harsh.

felipemnoa··on Toyota has been developing a solid-state battery for EVs with a range of 745mi
These are best case scenarios. It just tells you the upper limit of the technology. The higher the limit the better. In practice though it means that the infrastructure has a lot of catching up.

I think this just speaks to how much of an advancement this is, if true.

Like, this new battery technology is so advanced that there is no infrastructure for it yet.

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