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geoffpado··on StarCraft returns in 2030 as an open-world shooter
Helldivers 2 isn't open-world, so probably not.
geoffpado··on Ruby for Good
No signs of being AI-generated, and considering several parts of the [codebase of the website](https://github.com/rubyforgood/rubyforgood.org) haven't been touched since before ChatGPT was released, I think you might be barking up the wrong tree.
geoffpado··on Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods
As someone who grew up in a flood-prone area… yeah. Yeah, they do. Sometimes more than once per person.
geoffpado··on Apple Exclaves and the Secure Design of the Neo's On-Screen Camera Indicator
Can confirm; the cursor goes "beneath" the camera/mic indicator on the MacBook Neo.
geoffpado··on Avoid Mini-Frameworks
Whoops. Not sure how I did that.
geoffpado··on Avoid Mini-Frameworks
> We often hear that "people leave managers, not jobs." But sometimes, people leave jobs despite loving their managers.

These two aren’t really mutually exclusive. Your manager may be extremely friendly and accommodating to you personally (as it seems like the author’s manager was), but part of a manager’s job is growing and supporting their reports with their career goals. If you’ve spent years majorly underleveled like it seems this person did, your manager is failing you. No matter how much of a nice person they might be, they’re not doing their job well if you’re attempting to grow at the company and aren’t succeeding.

So yes, I do think that this person still left a manager. He left a manager who wasn’t meeting the needs he had to stay at the company.

geoffpado··on Linux on the Fujitsu Lifebook U729
MacBook Air, though the $379 price does seem to be a Black Friday deal: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Restored-Apple-MacBook-Air-13-Lap...
geoffpado··on Waymo to expand robotaxi service to Las Vegas, San Diego and Detroit next year
Seattle, at least, already has Waymo cars in the "human-driven data gathering" mode that this article is announcing.
geoffpado··on Apple will phase out Rosetta 2 in macOS 28
For those unfamiliar with Apple’s new version-numbering system, this is the version that will be released in 2027, presumably around September or October of that year.
geoffpado··on OpenAI acquires Sky.app
Between this and The Browser Company of New York (Arc, Dia) it seems like having a generic name is the way to get acquired these days.
geoffpado··on Tesla reports steep drop in profits despite US rush to buy electric vehicles
I think you might have posted this to the wrong comments thread.
geoffpado··on Secret diplomatic message deciphered after 350 years
> we also estimate that factorising at least two-digit numbers should be within most dogs’ capabilities, assuming the neighbours don’t start complaining first
geoffpado··on Apple M5 chip
If I’m remembering correctly, the original script he found had different emoji in the two lines (red X vs. green checkmark), but since HN comments strip emoji, pasting it here made them equivalent.
geoffpado··on Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?
In a world where Vine is as successful as TikTok ended up being, who’s to say they get to a point where selling to Musk even happens?
geoffpado··on Show HN: Cjam – a modern MP3 file editor
I suspect most of GitHub's usage (by repo count, at least) is for closed-source software. It's just in private repositories.
geoffpado··on You won't believe what degrading practice the pope just condemned
Yeah, I was thinking "wow, this is well outside the HN title guidelines" but this feels like a case where humor might win the day.
geoffpado··on Why are hyperlinks blue? (2021)
> Starting from a white background

Possibly an incorrect assumption. As several of the screenshots in the article show, the default background color of the web back then was gray, not white.

geoffpado··on Track which Electron apps slow down macOS 26 Tahoe
If you go back far enough, they just don't have the issue at all! Running your "detect using cornerMask" script from another comment in this post, I have an app (https://www.haikuanimator.com/) that shows up green… because it's using Electron 2.0.8!
geoffpado··on A bug saved the company
The way I read it, the first dialog showed up the first time you launched the app, and never had the Purchase button. The idea was that 15 days later, you’d see the second dialog (after 15 minutes of recording). Due to the bug, however, the second dialog showed up after 15 minutes of recording from day 1.

The second dialog was always shown (and presumably always had the purchase button), but the difference was between whether users got 15 full free days first or not.

geoffpado··on Vanguard hits new 'bans-per-second' record
Epic has done it: https://www.dexerto.com/fortnite/fortnite-cheater-forced-to-...
geoffpado··on 4chan will refuse to pay daily online safety fines, lawyer tells BBC
Typo/autocorrect of “porn”, presumably.
geoffpado··on Britain Drops Request That Apple Create a Back Door
…for now.
geoffpado··on Meta investigated over AI having 'sensual' chats with children
Due to existing laws such as COPPA, Meta already has in its terms of service that kids under 13 aren't allowed to use Meta AI:

> Without limiting the Meta Terms of Service or any other applicable terms or policies, you cannot access AIs if you are under the age of 13 (or such greater age required in your country or territory)

The problem with this is enforcement. How does Meta actually prevent an 8-year old, such as in the case Hawley is referring to, from using Meta AI against the ToS? The "obvious" answer is requiring some kind of age verification, but that gets into (adult) privacy issues incredibly quickly. It's not surprising that laws that require you to send even more private information such as your government ID to Meta (or questionable third-party verifiers) aren't exactly popular.

geoffpado··on Is air travel getting worse?
I did appreciate the humor in someone taking my flippant comment about "ejecting passengers" quite so seriously. :)
geoffpado··on Is air travel getting worse?
Agreed. I feel like if they started ejecting obnoxious passengers mid-flight, people would straighten up *real* fast.
geoffpado··on Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accolades_received_by_...
geoffpado··on A Guide Dog for the Face-Blind
Glad to see I wasn't the only one with that problem with the Terra Ignota series. I describe them to people as "my least favorite favorite books" since they're quite good, but infuriating to read.

Brandon Sanderson is another who has started to dip into this well and it's annoying there, too. Do I really have to remember that this character is named this amongst this group of people and named another thing amongst another group of people? Often, it's never even really explicitly stated that these two characters are the same and you end up having to refer to some wiki that probably has spoilers just because you find yourself wondering "am I supposed to know who this is?"

geoffpado··on Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell dies
More discussion at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44840582
geoffpado··on OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent casually clicks through "I am not a robot" verification
Agreed. I tend to stand with the sibling commenter who said "ELIZA has been passing the Turing test for years". That's what the Turing test is. Nothing more.
geoffpado··on OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent casually clicks through "I am not a robot" verification
Turing's own formulation was "an average interrogator will not have more than 70% chance of making the right identification after five minutes of questioning". It is, indeed, "fool some of the people some of the time".
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