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egypturnash

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I'm a nerd who draws stuff. I used to dabble in programming but right now it's little more than "writes the occasional CSS" and "fiddles with making pretty light patterns via Arduino".

You might like some of the stuff I draw...

The Tarot of the Silicon Dawn: Bright, cartoony, full of modern imagery. There is a card named "Recursion", which has a type-in Python program in the text explaining it. Available on any big online bookstore (Amazon, B&N, etc) or ask your local comic/game/occult/book store. Decrypting Rita: A sci-fi web comic about a cyborg/robot lady with reality issues. Completed. http://egypt.urnash.com/rita/

I do not consent to my comments here, or anything by me you may find elsewhere on the web, being used to train your AI.

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egypturnash··on Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?
> Why make a 24-minute Youtube video instead of an article with proper navigation?

Which one is more likely to result in more ad revenue for you?

egypturnash··on Show HN: Verso – A $14.99 Mac word processor with no subscription
"Word wants a subscription. Pages is a lot of app. TextEdit tops out at bold and italic."

No it doesn't? format>font has bold, italic, underline, outline, super/subscript, and more?

It used to have strikethru too, annoyingly now you have to open the fonts window and access it through a dropdown in there instead of a single hotkey. Notes still has a strikethru menu item but the ⌘k hotkey got stolen for "make hyperlink".

egypturnash··on If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort
If "putting a random seed into a set of swappable character parts" counts as "generative art" then it sure made a ton of money when people cared about hying NFTs.
egypturnash··on Making Graphics Like it's 1993
"boomer shooter": 1105 matches

"boomer shooter" + "female protagonist": 106 matches.

So a bit less than 1/10 of the games tagged with "boomer shooter". With your caveats above about being able to choose a gender, or a single brief segment where you're a lady in a game where you're mostly a dude. Is that a lot? I dunno, doesn't feel like a lot to me. Probably feels like a lot to the people who inevitably show up in the Steam discussions of any successful game that makes you be a lady for most of its length and complain about it being "woke", even one game with a female protagonist seems to be too many for them.

egypturnash··on Making Graphics Like it's 1993
Control's not first-person. You are looking at Jesse's back for pretty much every moment of gameplay.
egypturnash··on The 15-minute city is a dead end
> Transport is beginning to change: The rise of autonomous vehicles and technologies like hyperloop may make a major difference to the way we travel around cities

instant close

egypturnash··on The Butlerian Jihad Has Begun
They’re saying that the popular conception of a “Butlerian Jihad” is a pale shadow of what Frank Herbert outlined over the course of four novels, all of which are… look, have you read any of them? Whatever virtues you care to ascribe to Dune, “succinct” is not one of them.
egypturnash··on The company I work for is losing all of its humanity, I don't know where to go
Unionize.
egypturnash··on Algorithmic Theming Engines
How does someone write an article like this without ever once thinking "I should include some images that demonstrate what kind of colors this will automatically generate. Maybe even stick in an editable bit of html/css to let readers play with it themselves."
egypturnash··on U.S. to dismantle system tracking Atlantic currents that are at risk of collapse
Sat it out, or were forced out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_efforts_to_restrict...
egypturnash··on Cessation of public development of Kefir C compiler
I personally am sharing stuff because I want people to read my comics, and maybe join my crowdfunding campaigns.

If I could put everyone pushing all this AI crap into a meat grinder, I would.

egypturnash··on macOS needs its grid back
I just checked out DockDoor and I could not find anything related to multiple desktops in it at all.
egypturnash··on Cessation of public development of Kefir C compiler
People who are making stuff because they want to share it are still going to be publishing. And fighting to be noticed in an unending torrent of slop.
egypturnash··on SF startup is testing robots in Airbnbs, and trashing them, lawsuit claims
Good news, the current apocalyptic memory prices will mean that only apocalyptically rich people will be able to afford them at the toddler-pasting stage if they come out any time soon!
egypturnash··on C64 Basic: Game Map Overhead “Camera View”
C64 BASIC is kind of a mess, there's zero support for graphics and sound. Your code rapidly becomes a giant pile of POKEs and PEEKs, and all your operations become absurdly slow because all the math routines are floating point only, so there's a ton of integer/fp conversion overhead on something as simple as "peek a memory location, AND/OR it with a few values taken from variables stored as floating point, poke it back".

Assembly becomes really attractive really quickly.

egypturnash··on Usborne 1980s Computer Books
I never used the Usborne books because I was a US kid but I sure typed in a lot of stuff from books and magazines for my c64, often while modifying it on the fly. And dealing with accidentally skipped pages. And went on to learn assembly language.
egypturnash··on Usborne 1980s Computer Books
[picture of Tips Kitty] Don't forget! Every time you see " ⦙ " in the listing, press the [Tab] key on your keyboard. See page 23 to learn why this is important.

And page 23 teaches you about significant whitespace, and how to configure several text editors that a kid's likely to have available to actually show it like that. Heck, I use Panic's Nova for my text editing and it does that out of the box with no configuration needed.

egypturnash··on The death of the brick and mortar toy store
moll | mäl | noun informal, dated 1 (also gun moll) the female companion of a gangster or other criminal: I'd rush the money over to his moll. 2 a prostitute.

I think you probably mean "mall".

egypturnash··on The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics
> I don't think people are upset by the CEO making lots of money as much as they are by the HBS management style of using people as a tool, or even as interchangeable "resources".

How about both? Both are pretty terrible for society IMHO. Some shithead's making 6000x of what average worker at their company because they're on top and they're treating everyone under them as interchangable tools with zero compassion. If they were limited to only making like 3x then they'd be on a much more equitable place with their underlings and might even be more likely to see them as fellow humans instead of disposable work units.

egypturnash··on The Palomar Lights
I concluded "this is definitely AI" when I looked closely at one panel and what initially looked like a halftone pattern on a person was actually weird mottling that looked like an unpleasant flesh disease.

I hate this fucking future.

egypturnash··on The Palomar Lights
I guess I'm doing a good job of pruning my inputs, the vast majority of the imagery I see online is from human artists whose work looks largely the same as it did before all these slop machines got popular, so I don't have as finely tuned a slop detector as you must.

(Although really "I followed a link from HN" is depressingly correlated with "the images in it are slop".)

egypturnash··on The Palomar Lights
I can't decide if this is AI imagery or not and I hate this world.

The absolute amateur hour choices going on in the lettering is tipping me towards AI, this is lettering by someone who thinks they know what "a comic" looks like and used "comic book" fonts but has zero idea of how word balloons actually work. Piss-poor internal margins, balloon tails that point nowhere near their supposed speaker, balloons that are weird-ass hybrids of captions and dialogue that have a tiny little vestigial tail that points nowhere in particular, captions and balloons crammed into odd corners of the panels with no concept of overall compositional flow.

Oh and now that I look closer at some panels, yeah, it's AI.

As always when someone shits in my eyes with a bunch of AI imagery, I'm just gonna assume the script is also the result of pointing one slop machine or another at the Wikipedia article and telling it to generate text rather than any sort of human understanding and summarizing going on here. I hate this fucking future.

egypturnash··on Apparently Google hates us now
Spiders Georg runs his company from a cave and buys 10,000 spiders every day; he is an outlier and should not be counted.
egypturnash··on Show HN: We missed Winamp, so we built an audio player for macOS
Works fine for me with my current collection of 21k items.
egypturnash··on Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?
Judging by my glimpses inside Adobe, the vibecoded Photoshop is Photoshop.
egypturnash··on Nailing jelly to a wall: is it possible? (2005)
This page is copyright 2005 by Graeme Cole. What are you allowed to do with it? Pfft. Anything within the realms of common sense, really. I don't want to prescribe rigidly what people can and can't do with it, so I've decided on a benchmark. It's this: you're allowed to do with this page anything you wouldn't mind me doing with your cat. So yes, you can photoshop it for comedy effect, you can copy bits of it for illustrative purposes and so on, but you can't steal it and pass it off as your own.
egypturnash··on PS3 Emulator Devs Politely Ask That People Stop Flooding It with AI PRs
How about claude.md/agents.md files that just say "Don't".
egypturnash··on Photoshop's challenges with focus, pt. 2
I’m an artist who spends most of her time in Illustrator. Should I be expecting a UI rework to this “Spectrum Design Language” too, or is that team’s obsession with AI garbage going to take precedent?

I’m sure not looking forwards to it, there’s stuff that was “redesigned” the last time this happened a decade or so back that’s still the absolute shittiest thing that works and hasn’t changed at all from then.

egypturnash··on The Old Guard: Confronting America's Gerontocratic Crisis
This would mostly end up punishing people who live in places where voting is deliberately made difficult due to having to skip an entire workday (and its pay, if you're paid hourly instead of salaried) to go to some out-of-the-way location to vote.
egypturnash··on 'Point of no return': New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level
The state in this case is Louisiana.
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