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There is some resurgence in quality here and there but then there is Avengers, MCU, Star Wars and idk how you can balance that with any amount of quality indie products

MDK, MDK2 are truly like nothing else out there.

Art

I think for Discord the case that if you join a hobby / gaming etc channel, with a particular interest question in mind, you may want to look for answers in the history.

Also some people do go back and reread texts from personal history for sentimental reasons. I don’t, but I know those who do

One does not exclude the other There is a spectrum to caring and also to meat eating habits.

We are animals too

I wonder when will we see a photorealistic pelican on a bicycle in SVG format.

Does it mean we can effectively have multi-dimensional spreadsheets?

> If Crack was legal today would you light up a pipe ?

I wouldn’t but I don’t drink either, while many ppl drink themselves to incapacitation.

The difference between crack and a bottle o’ Jack though is that consequence of a crack-filled weekend isn’t just a hangover.

Maybe a society with all drugs legal would eventually figure out tolerable dosages for heavy recreational crack use (I really did write this ha), but do you want to live through the couple of decades of that discovery phase?

Probably Rohingya genocide ?

> start collecting models

I don’t know anything about it, but I imagine there’s an STL file about any W40K figurine out there by now. And, probably, even more fan-made variations.

With hi-res resin 3D printers costing about as much as a W40K starter set, how can Wizards’ biz model hold?

Once you paint the figurine there’s no way to tell if it came from a store or from an at-home 3D printer.

I imagine Wizards may ban such things from official events and tournaments (if those are even a thing).

But do W40K hobbyists frown upon 3D printed figurines?

Really curious how the socio-economic dynamics of this are playing out. Figurine-based games seem to the the one area where consumer 3D printers can produce a 1-1 replacement.

I absolutely agree that the interfaces up until 2005s and, in case of Mac, early 2010s or so were better in terms of usability, but somehow it’s hard to imagine coming back there from the modern UIs with all their shadows and transparencies and such.

There has to be a middle ground somewhere in this.

I’m really curious how many people run this kind of skin unironically. Unironically here means they’d actively seek out to make their desktop OS look… 30 years old? No shade at all, just curios.

I def have all kinds of warm feelings towards the moment I first installed W ‘95 but wow I can’t imagine having that UX as my daily OS today.

Genuinely curious - why does Cursor still exist?

What’s the point? What value does it add VS VSCode with Claude and such?

Tiny people

hey did it break? We've been enjoying it every days since it appeared on HN but the map isn't loading today :((

I am with you in principle.

There is 0 wrong with using AI to write a draft.

However catching the glaring LLMisms shows that the person did a pass and tried to edit the obvious LLMisms.

For me, unprocessed AI output is perfectly fine as the means to the end, but not as a final output.

that's fascinating. Do you have any link to this tidbit?

how much would it cost to host it on AWS for example?

Doesn't put creative effort into video editing.

Complains about end of creativity in edited video.

Ok?

There have been very few games that gave me this flash-like sensation of breathtaking wonderment at the vastness of their world. Ultima Online, Planetside 2 and Star citizen come to mind.

I caved in to curiosity and got SC maybe 2 years ago.

I’d login in every 3, then every 6 months or so for 1-2 fly-throughs. Fly-through is when I get into a ship, take a mission or two, get to some planet. Maybe I crash maybe I complete a mission, maybe I succumb to the bugs. Anyhow I keep flying till I’m dead. Then I log out. The whole endeavor takes 2 hours at the longest, so I set some time aside for this. I don’t watch any tutorials or guides, just figure things out by myself, or, don’t, and leave them for the next flythrough.

I certainly got my money’s worth of entertainment from these few fly-throughs.

There are certainly deeper games out there, or even bigger in terms of playable area. Still, I think, if we put the games on a “immersive experience” chart where Y is visual effects and X is scale, then Star Citizen will be in the top right.

Is it possible to retrofit it into the existing open source keyboard ?

what can we do?

Cursor brethren, why y u no join me on my pink flamingo expedition

In pelicans, obviously

Any particularly complex or sophisticated board games HN likes to play?

Curious what kind of games appeal to the HN mindset

Why are you not helping the turtle?

> that are last year's SOTA

Early last year or late last year?

opus 4.5 was quite a leap

Does anyone here use 8k display for work? Does it make sense over 4k?

I was always wondering where that breaking point for cost/peformance is for displays. I use 4K 27” and it’s noticeably much better for text than 1440p@27 but no idea if the next/ and final stop is 6k or 8k?

Yeah, moonshine is ok but Tommy Gun isn’t? It’s roaring twenties y’all!

To me 4.7 on Google Maps means there is some merit to the hype, the experience will be above average but potentially barely so.

4.8 is an easy pick.

No idea how or if it applies to Austin library.

How and when do you apply the strategy?