frozenlettuce

This is a pain point when making browser games, as custom fonts break way too easily in some environments.

Here in Brazil, I've seen some people starting to suspect on web influencers for money laundering. Pick your niece/nephew, start a social media account, buy followers/likes then start laundering the money on fake ads and partnerships.

that's the source of some cheesy anime clichés like having every character react and say something while an arrow is still mid-flight - in a manga it makes sense but when animating it makes it feel slow (looking at you Saint Seya)

the initial idea was a general-purpose language, but obviously the scope for that would be too big. I think that having "natural language frameworks" for some application types can work: REST APIs, CLI apps, React components... . If you have a set architecture, like the Elm architecture, centered around events being fired that update some state, that could lead to some standards. One feature that I intend to add is having an "interview" with the AI. You write the spec, then it reads it and gives you some questions/issues, like: "this point is too vague", "what do you want to update here? a or b?". That would help ensure that the prompt/spec itself is improvable with AI.

People say that a microservice is something that "fits in your head". Once the logic gets too complex, you should separate it into another service. Maybe in the future the phrase will be "what fits in the AI's context". That would be a good litmus test: if a piece of software is hard for an AI, maybe we should simplify it - because it is probably too hard for the average human as well.

I'm experimenting with something like that, to allow creating a web API from some descriptions in markdown. https://github.com/lfarroco/verbo-lang

They are complying with local laws. For more absurd that it may seem, they are receiving requests from the Supreme Court to do illegal stuff.

I guess that you missed this from some weeks ago? https://www.yahoo.com/tech/google-maps-may-not-offer-1124362...

The link in the OP is an example of what people may encounter if they follow said routes https://www.euronews.com/2016/12/10/italian-tourist-killed-a...

Here in Brazil, it is not uncommon to hear about people being kidnapped/shot/killed because Google Maps decided to direct them into a zone controlled by organized crime.

When news came out that those routes were being chosen to make the app more "inclusive", I found it amusing how someone in Palo Alto presenting a PowerPoint with a couple of ESG slides could lead to someone else being shot with an AK-47.

If the above sounds unreal: https://www.reddit.com/r/brasilivre/comments/mtfwfq/carro_do...

I worked in an oil & gas company when that happened. Luckily, we had no customers in the Middle East at that time

Got to try profiting on some incoming regulation - I'd rather be seen as evil rather than incompetent!

Sogamed old ui is a good inspiration https://web.archive.org/web/20030620073042/http://sogamed.co...

I played it for the first time in 2017 and I was somewhat sad to have played only WoW between 2005-2013.

the difference is that no SCOTUS member is opening inquiries in processes where they are the prosecutor, victim, and judge at the same time. Fun fact: Brazil's Supreme Court can legally do that _if a crime occurs in the Court's dependencies_... well, they ruled that as the Court has Internet, and people are hurting their honor there... then it is as if the crime occurred inside the Court

Brazil's foreign policy has changed lately. It has been siding with Iran, Palestine, Venezuela, China and Russia.

File browsing has been a solved problem since Windows XP. I hate that Finder doesn't provide a button in its UI to go one level up (instead I have to use cmd+up). The fact that it hides the actual drives makes me think that this is all intentional to have users unlearn (or not learn, if young) how HDs work and bill for that juicy cloud storage.

In 2011 almost 1k people died after heavy rains in Brazil that caused a whole valley to be flooded (surrounding mountain ranges canalized massive amounts of rainfall into it). On Street View it is possible to see how high the water went, by looking at the stains in the walls https://www.google.com/maps/@-22.3974509,-43.0875373,3a,26.2... Sadly the region is repopulated again - a mix of people building houses to rent to unaware folks, people unwilling to leave behind decades of work, and general faith that they will survive if that's God's will. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_2011_Rio_de_Janeiro_fl...

If they switch to canvas rendering and include some twist (eg. shoot x but not y, limit input rate, etc), then I think that a considerable computing effort would be necessary to break the lock

I can imagine people getting random Pepsi placements in their AI-generated images

How would a product like that be monetized one day? This week openai released the Sora video, alongside the prompts that generated them (the aí follows the description closely).

In the same week, Google releases something that looks like last year's MidJourney and it doesn't follow your prompt, making you discard 3 out of 4 results, if not all. If that was billed, no one would use it.

My only guess is that they are trying to offer this as entertainment to serve ads alongside it.

Hey! I'm also developing a game with some Advance Wars inspiration. I also had a UI challenge when developing the interaction with tiles that have a unit + a city. Instead of displaying a window to select the desired entity, I opted to displaying the controls for both. The city controls can be displayed in a small window in a corner and the mouse still controls the unit. I'm not sure if that's the better interaction, but it's what results in fewer clicks.

I'm leaving that unedited for posterity, thanks for pointing that out

I was replaying Resident Evil 2 and this typo broke the climate for me: "Platform Eleveter" https://twitter.com/ResiFacts/status/1189139062197604357 (in moments like that you are reminded, "oh, this is a Japanese game")

In Brazil it is still used as a photocopy term (much easier to say "tirar uma xerox" than "tirar uma fotocópia"). Other common terms that we use that came from brands:

shaving razor -> gilete (instead of "lâmina de barbear")

chewing gum -> chiclete (instead of "goma de mascar")

cotton swab -> cotonete (a J&J brand, instead of "haste flexível")

polystyrene -> isopor (a Knauf brand, instead of "esferovite" or "poliestireno expandido")

_The rate of Down syndrome for both maternal and paternal age greater than 40 years is approximately 60 per 10,000 births, which is a six-fold increase compared with maternal and paternal ages less than 35 years of age._

The sad part was seeing any franchise or TV show be coopted by corporate suits - to the point where you can be banned for not liking the latest episode. The situation reached a point where every franchise has the "official" boring, sanitized sub and an alternative, community-driven one.

too little, too late. my impression is that google is not one, but two steps behind what MS can offer (they need a larger leap if they want to get ahead)

I've been playing with purescript and found out that they have a similar library, thanks!

yeah, biting the bullet seems to be the way to go. As you mention the lots of "man-hours that have been spent on trying to perfect logging", when doing research the usage of that time might be ok, but when building a product you might need to make concessions.