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just-tom··on Evolved Virtual Creatures (1994)
How were the creatures actually 'evolved' or even 'born' in the first place? What biological rules were enforced over their development? How did they learn to overcome obstacles and opponents?

This is very interesting, and especially intriguing since this is a 1994 video and I haven't seen any modern examples of this, which would be equally interesting.

just-tom··on Namecheap: Russia Service Termination
Time to create a decentralized registrar. Is that even possible?
just-tom··on I worry not just about Ukraine but about Russia too. [video]
At this point, I think everybody should be worried about everybody.
just-tom··on Show HN: hue.tools – open-source toolbox for colors
Is it possible to know about a certain color if it's dark or light? My goal is to automatically determine whether to put a white or black text on top of a background colored box based on the answer. Is it has something to do with the temperature? I'd expect to get some value below or above 0.5.
just-tom··on Building for the 99% Developers
I'd argue the opposite. All Microsoft did was understand what the world needed. Were they successful because of their great marketing or their flawless coding? No. Was Windows spread like a wildfire because it solved real world problems? Yes. Is it one of the most, if not the most, influencial software ever made? Yes, no matter how dull and incompetent people might say it is. For the accountants out there, school teachers and doctors, it was magic.
just-tom··on Reddit Photopea founder – I have millions of users, but no businesses use it
I always reffer to Photopea as the best web app I have ever seen.
just-tom··on Adobe XD, where did it go wrong?
I'm a little bit in the music production scene, and literally never see or hear anyone uses Audition. Not on posts on reddit, not on tutorials on YT. On it's wikipedia page it says that it's a DAW (and not exclusively an editing station), so the best and most popular DAWs today are those that have been so for the last two decades: Cubase, Pro-tools, Logic, Ableton. The first three have top notch audio editing capabilities, and none of them require a subscription.
just-tom··on Wall Street was the real winner of the GameStop saga
I suggest we start putting [PAYWALL] in titles of links that have paywalls. This way, my time and others' will be spent better.
just-tom··on Tell HN: A Conversation Needs to Be Had over Subscription Software
I believe usage-based subscriptions are going to be replacing tiered subscriptions.
just-tom··on Make Front End Shit Again (2018)
It's easy to make this kind of one pager, when you don't need to include complex user flows. No registration, no account, no search, no products, no modal, no navigation, not even a form. There's literally just text, images and one embedded HTML5 audio component. When you do, design tends to be attracted to the conventional side.

However, I do miss the concept of websites taking the lighter approach, not trying to imitate enterprise design by fully optimizing every part of the website, and just thinking what's fun.

just-tom··on Cryptoland [video]
This is great.
just-tom··on Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy
Now, where can I download this PDF? :)
just-tom··on The Internet Has a Rat Poison Problem
Yeah I was like, hmmm who are the rats in this? What is the poison? Maybe it's me?? I have to change my ways!
just-tom··on Ask HN: Whatever happened to exploring the internet?
I think that's the first form of reddit - link sharing.
just-tom··on The impact of digital media on children’s intelligence
Parents of the world need to see this.
just-tom··on Imgur Acquired by Medialab
I remember 9gag was a hit before imgur took their job.
just-tom··on High Fidelity Image Generation Using Diffusion Models
Finally those scenes in movies where they look at the blurry security camera footage and say "stop right there, enlarge that part" can have justification.
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