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I feel like “it’s more than just 500 hours of sokoban” (if true) would be a valid, satisfying and non-spoily answer

Pour one out for FrontPage

I felt the same. In a way the 'baby' language in the first 10 chapters (e.g. "straight" instead of "linear") left me unprepared for the later chapters.

That is crazy. What is the actual motivation of that contributor?

15 years ago, a friend of mine built an app to do this — "Pass Creator" — then Apple yanked the functionality.

He paid me to create the icon for it, which was my first paid graphic design job: https://www.noio.nl/2012/10/pass-creator-app-icon/

Thanks Paul.. good times!

> To fix this, AI companies should refocus their goals to account for the displacement of human roles as they continue to improve AIs. They should start doing that sooner rather than later.

It's a good thing then, that corporations have such a good reputation for never externalizing the costs their products inflict on society & the planet.

I wonder if you are German?

Spending some time in Germany from Holland I notice there is a significant difference in cycling etiquette :)

Especially regarding “passing a cyclist” which also touches on the essential difficulty with having only one “ring” sound.

Always when Germans pass me on the bike and they ring I get slightly annoyed because I interpret it as a “get out of the way” ring, and I feel like there is enough space. But perhaps it’s just the cautious “don’t do anything unexpected” ring.

A Dutch person would rarely ring at another cyclist in the former way. But they also might be less safety focused while cycling (see also: helmet usage). Or we have safer infrastructure already.

On a road bike, however, I too ring at pedestrians “preemptively”. For sure GPs remark of “if you need to ring you’re going too fast” applies here but that’s the essence of road cycling.

Ironically I’m also annoyed when road cyclists ring at me for the same reason.

Just shows the case for having 2 clearly different types of rings.

(Also for cars to have a “thank you” horn, haha)

I might have to reexamine my attitudes: the entire article felt AI-written to me, which instantly reduced my appetite for reading it.

Which is unfair of course. A) I don’t even know whether it was actually was written by AI and B) even if it was, it still encapsulates a human’s potentially worthwhile thoughts and experiences.

But.. undeniably genAI will lead to a much greater volume of text being written so we’ll all have to be even more selective in what we read and what not?

As an indie developer, I take much more issue with E33 falling under the “Indie” category than them using AI.

Hah, this is super interesting actually.

Is this comment ridiculing critique of AI by comparing it to critique of writing?

Or.. is it invoking Socrates as an eloquent description of a "brain on ChatGPT".

I guess the former? But I can easily read it as the latter, too.

> thinking, contemplating and deadlock

This is what I’d call ‘programming’. Which you’ll still be doing even if the AI is writing the code.

The question is whether you can become good/better at programming without writing code?

My “For You” used to show me cool gamedev stuff from people I didn’t know.

There was a part of the suggestions that I liked! The algorithm was working for me!

Now it’s 100% pure toxic outrage bait.

I’m thinking “tables” are part of some kind of “extend, extinguish” strategy?

I.e. reducing compatibility with Excel to make it harder to just leave with your data.

I could be wrong.

For sure not true. I get PDF invoices, from one of my contractors, that my bookkeeping software chokes on.

I use print to PDF to generate a version that it can handle.

(That does not say anything about whether it removes metadata though, just that it’s not the same file)

I guess people aren’t always rational, but do those who blame the cyclists not realize how bad things would be if those cyclists were also in cars?

It's crazy what difference a single human voice can make to one's perception of a topic.

Thanks for chiming in :)

The fact that you don’t need to UV unwrap is something that “can’t be done” in Blender. Though I guess technically the same results can definitely be reached :)

“Pixel art 3D” is often used as well..

The main thing that makes this nicer to work in than Blender (for these “pixel art 3D” models) is that you don’t need to UV-unwrap your models. That and the fact that working with “pixel art” painting in Blender is inconvenient at best..

I’m actually working on a plug-in for Blender to enable some of this workflow where you can just straight paint on your models :)

I find phone numbers awesome because you actually "own" them to some degree. (i.e. you can take your number to a new provider). Moving to a different messenger app with the same phone number means I can at least still find some of my network there. Only email on your own domain would have that feature.

I don't really care if they sell my phone number, it's already out there, I don't consider it private data anymore.

The fact that subscriber growth slowdown is a reason for panic, is the reason that so many cool products and startups get worse over time.

Why not take the revenue they have and provide a good, sustainable service for that income? Why does it always have to be growth or bust?

I often have this thought. If only one could bioengineer some kind of device that replicates itself and captures CO2 using sunlight.

Oh right. We already have those. That’s a tree. We just need to stop cutting them down maybe.

My take (I develop games) is that it's a combination of piracy on Android, and a prevalent unwillingness to pay for things upfront. Android users have come to expect that all apps are (initially) free. On PC there is piracy, yes, but there is also a large audience that is eager to purchase premium games (mostly locked into Steam though, but that is another discussion)

Always happy to see someone else remembering YTMND. I have a soft spot for the endless remixing with different video/audio influences. I guess it is a similar thing that people do now on TikTok, but maybe people were less inclined to use videos of themselves as source material in the early 2000s

This is my sentiment as well. A twitter summed it up nicely:

> the notion that every developer of every app is part of the constant, incessant update loop that Apple encourages is fundamental to the problem. Someone's super personal narrative unity game from 2013 is not getting updated!

[1] https://twitter.com/MammonMachine/status/1181327259057082368

Are you talking about the US? I though the Equal Rights Amendment was not yet ratified, and that equal rights are thus not actually 'constitutionally enshrined'?

I'm guessing the number of inputs doesn't really influence simulation speed since the shader runs each frame for each pixel anyway. When touching the screen, some pixels are changed to hot/colored, but that doesn't really change the amount of computation needed to simulate the whole screen.

I just wanted to say I've found your comments throughout this thread to be valuable and thoughtful. Reminds me why it's worth my time reading HN every now and then.

This is pretty much my system too. Including the YY(YY)MMDD naming, even for folders.

Only except keeping all the repos inside Dropbox, I regularly rsync my working folders to Dropbox (to prevent Dropbox from constantly reindexing and eating my CPU).

A version controlled repo for a physical habitat. You're building the B&B from Cory Doctorow's Walkaway :)