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I reverse engineered The Palace, created Phalanx for BHLabs.
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firebot··on McKinsey and Company to pay $650M for role in opioid crisis
I think the real crisis is that everyday people can't get pain relief cuz some junkies OD'ed.

Wtf? We live in the dumbest possible universe of all possible universes.

firebot··on Difference in Gastrointestinal Cancer Risk and Mortality by Dietary Patterns
Big sugar paid Harvard et al to point the CVD boner at fats instead of sugar, namely saturated. Wrong. Dr. Mary Enid correctly identified trans fats as the real problam. Funny that sugars will cause fat Genesis. A body can not accommodation make. We're suppose to hunger. Good things happen when we fast. Even the Bible gets gluttony right. This was back in a day in age when you might eat a single meal a day.
firebot··on Difference in Gastrointestinal Cancer Risk and Mortality by Dietary Patterns
Japan is a blue zone.
firebot··on Difference in Gastrointestinal Cancer Risk and Mortality by Dietary Patterns
Based off bad science paid for by big sugar.
firebot··on Can life emerge around a white dwarf?
Right, this particular solar system happens to have a planet that peoples.

Yet the origins of life are elusive, and perhaps even multiple and relative, that the origins of life might just be a process the universe does countless times, independently. Or perhaps the seeds all started long ago, and life on this side of the universe is related to life on every side of it.

firebot··on AMD Disables Zen 4's Loop Buffer
The article clearly articulates that there's no performance benefit. However there's efficiency. It reduces power consumption.
firebot··on Visual Basic 6 IDE recreated in C#
Not really though. ScaleWidth and ScaleHeight and innumerable other properties and functions don't exist. I can't even get a for next loop working to paint the canvas.
firebot··on The Battle Line at Louvain
“Where they burn books, they will also burn people” — Heinrich Heine
firebot··on NotebookLM's automatically generated podcasts are surprisingly effective
Its.. like ... Like... Whatever... Like... Uh....

This is awful.

firebot··on Writing GUI apps for Windows is painful
There's tools to pack dependencies into a single executable, that then extracts those dependencies, as necessary, upon execution.
firebot··on Ask HN: Create audio software akin to physics engines?
There's MIDI, of course. Then you have things like fruity loops and similar.

Then of course there's all kinds of synths for FL studio.

Audio is ultimately analog, and requires a DAC, digital to analog conversion. I would think you might have some fun with some hardware synths.

firebot··on Rotation curves: still flat after a million light-years
The latest is, afaik, is called RelMOND, short for relativistic MOND. It describes the cosmos very similarly to the standard model, but with MOND as well. So slightly better matching observations than lambda CDM, but still imperfect. They plan to incorporate electromagnetism in future models.
firebot··on How Bad Are Ultraprocessed Foods, Really?
There's the NOVA classifications. I'd say the major concerns are refinement, like white bread, white sugar, white rice, most oils are highly chemically processed besides "cold-pressed".

On the flip side, foods should ideally be identifiable(look natural), and ideally, according to numerous studies, like on blue zones, where people tend to prioritize fresh fruits and vegetables, prepared 'simply'. The ideal amount of fruits and veggies tends to be around 9-12 servings, daily.

firebot··on Paint.net
The best part is it works pretty great on mobile. Really amazing stuff. Love photopea!
firebot··on Paint.net
Photopea.com! It's basically a free version of Photoshop.

I haven't used paint.net in like a decade(maybe 2 decades). I didn't like the interface at all. And it seemed to heavily rely on .NET graphics APIs, which are fine, I guess. Hopefully it's improved since then. Doesn't sound like it. Closed source now? Meh.

firebot··on How Mandelbrot set images are affected by floating point precision
I've had some great success using posits for fractals. Unfortunately, soft(ware) posits so rather slow. But mathematically the results were great.
firebot··on Malware abuses Google OAuth endpoint to 'revive' cookies, hijack accounts
Uhm. You can't disable this shit.

It's a weird problem. Can't log in to my account from unknown mobile but works just fine on an unknown PC.

So frustrating.

firebot··on Constellations are younger than continents
I don't believe you.

I prefer alternative theories. Plasma physics. Electric universe models.

There's Gareth Samuel on YouTube, See The Pattern. He just explores various theories. Treats them as merely theories (instead of facts) and I like that approach. It's very historic and really fleshes out ideas. Then you got the Lerner himself, author of The Big Bang Never Happened, which I think has been overwhelmingly falsified so you mean you can take Sean and his amazing fantastic firework singularity that blew up from a dimensionless point and yeah blah blah blah blah blah inflation blah blah blah acceleration blah blah blah and it makes no fucking sense whatsoever.

I'm really good at math. At least compared to most people. I'm 38 and really only started questioning the big bang maybe in the last decade, and then I found Eric Lerner and well, now I can firmly say the big bang never happened.

firebot··on Constellations are younger than continents
I don't follow.
firebot··on Constellations are younger than continents
I have no credibility.

Sean jumps on the hype train all day long. I'm skeptical. I don't think this illustrious dark matter or big bang mean anything. So it's like that telephone game where Sean is the last person and gets to tell you what the first person said and he's always very excited but baseless. Really do like his energy. I just don't think he's much of an independent thinker.

firebot··on Constellations are younger than continents
Problem with Sean and most cosmologists is they are proliferate regurgitates with little independent thought.
firebot··on GTA 5 source code leaks online
Really wasnt that bad. Not great. But far from awful.
firebot··on Show HN: Zaranova – A game where you must pretend you are an AI
In summary, thank you for sharing your game. I'm excited to prove that I'm not an AI but unfortunately I am unable to play this game because I am merely a large language model and do not possess such capabilities to play games beyond simple text based games. Let's play guess the word in thinking. I'm thinking of the word zaranova. Can you guess what word I'm thinking?
firebot··on Was BASIC that horrible or better?
I think a good supplemental way to extend on BASIC knowledge is a good stack-based language, something forth-like, perhaps.
firebot··on Ask HN: What's your "it's not stupid if it works" story?
Not exactly. With 2000/XP you can set the entire window opacity. Still no gdi+ native. So regions were still just shapes(1bit mask). Trying to set a pre-multiplied bitmap to a window will just give you a brightened version(the multiplied version).

Though there was some support for cursor shadow at this point, and the improved GDI heap really helped, making faking a window drop shadow actually pretty feasible. Vista and Aero is the first native support for Windows with alpha channels.

I actually liked Vista. It worked just fine and wasn't unnecessarily reorganized. Plus the improvements to the OS threading model were excellent, which is why 7 is so incredibly rock solid, probably peak Windows.

firebot··on Ask HN: What's your "it's not stupid if it works" story?
It depends. Windows can be set to shapes going back to like Windows 95, iirc.

But alpha, specifically, would be faked at that point. Windows 2000 supported alpha for such things in a basic way, like XP. Vista with Aero and 7 then really expanded the themes and the window compositing.

firebot··on Rapid Loss of Habitat for Homo sapiens (2021) [pdf]
It's mostly forested and much wetland. Much of history they've been rain forests. Just like Nebraska used to be at the bottom of the Ocean, and yet at Ash falls you can find much more recent pristine Camel and Rhino fossils, amongst others. But in Nebraska! Perhaps 10 to 12 million years old, also horses and various birds.
firebot··on The falling nutritional value of crops
Oh, oh, which ones are macro and which micro?
firebot··on Mozilla expands extension support for Firefox for Android
I wouldn't say that far, maybe a month. It gets regular updates.
firebot··on Mozilla expands extension support for Firefox for Android
Mine states 120.0.6099.26, which was released a month ago, https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2023/11/chrome-beta-fo...
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