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goykasi··on Wk. 6 of Vibecoding an MMO
The setting for disabling screen shake doesnt seem to actually disable it. Its really off-putting.
goykasi··on Hallucinate – Massively Multiplayer Online Rave
Its inevitable in public spaces, especially when there is an ounce of anonymity.
goykasi··on Show HN: Hallucinate – Massively Multiplayer Online Rave
And it was immediately fouled by racism.
goykasi··on What Apple and Google are doing to push notifications
You could set a short timer on your phone. On an iphone, its two clicks away.
goykasi··on Map of Metal
I see you chose the superior version of 43% Burnt by Dillinger. It blows my mind that he never became the new vocalist.
goykasi··on Google changes its search box
> These generative UI capabilities will be available for everyone in Search this summer, free of charge.

This is the end. The fact that they had to say that this is "free of charge" means they are thinking about cost. Both to them now and us in the future. This sucks.

goykasi··on Google changes its search box
You're missing the point. What incentive will websites have to create that content in the first place if you never visit? This was the contract with google adrev and website owners -- google would direct traffic to your site and hopefully they click around.

If google is now actively keeping you away from content, whats the point in creating?

goykasi··on jQuery 4
Ive never been a frontend guy, although I was a heavy user of jquery when I needed it. But I cant help but stick to my roots.... LONG LIVE PROTOYPE!
goykasi··on Anti-cheat evolution in Windows 11
This youtuber had an interesting approach: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjJImfcQGjI

"Neuromuscular Cyborg Aim Assist"

goykasi··on Tell HN: Mechanical Turk is twenty years old today
During the beta, the only consistent HITs were to identify an album based on a picture and 4 or 5 choices (if Im remembering correctly). These paid pretty well since the workforce volume was very low and the service was brand new. Well, I noticed that the image link contained an ASIN. So, I wrote a greasemonkey script that would look it up on Amazon and highlight the most likely correct answer. I then turned around and shared it with the forum I frequented. It became extremely popular and spread to other forums before we moved it to a private forum. The damage was already done though.

People kept asking me to automate it, but I felt it was against the spirit of mTurk. So, another member would take my updates and add an auto-clicker. That lasted for a couple of weeks at most before the HIT volume dried up and very few would be released. I guess Amazon caught on to what was happening. But before that, several forum members made enough to get some high dollar items: laptops, speakers, etc. Eventually, I relented and created a wishlist. Thats how I ended up with the box sets for the first run of Futurama seasons.

goykasi··on ICE Will Use AI to Surveil Social Media
That is mostly correct; immigrants account for about 3% of a total 123mil population. Your point does stand, but we are quite visible in Japan -- especially in Tokyo.

You are correct that we do not threaten jobs either. A large majority of the foreign population is working low/unskilled jobs. Generally, the native population is not wanting those jobs.

goykasi··on Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says
I can confidently say yes. Choosing between working in two different countries separated by an entire ocean is an option. Moving to a different state is expensive for many, but moving to another continent is only afforded to a privileged minority.
goykasi··on Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says
Did you have to choose? Or did you have the option? I would wager to bet that a significant amount of people in the US cant afford to move to another state.
goykasi··on Ask HN: Has anyone else been unemployed for over two years?
Are you unemployed or just not trying? After 13 years, I think its the latter.
goykasi··on PHP 8.5 adds pipe operator
Is array_map and array_filter the common argument? One works against a single element, whereas the other works against multiple. What would you suggest a better param order? Do you know that array_walk exists?
goykasi··on PHP 8.5 adds pipe operator
array_map is variadic. It is actually (callback, ...arr)

One function works against a single element, whereas the other works against multiple. In that case, the parameter order is more meaningful. You can use array_walk if you want (arr, callback), but that only works against a single array -- similarly to array_filter.

goykasi··on PHP 8.5 adds pipe operator
What are the benefits? Code completion, AI agents, etc will handle it for you. No one's life is falling apart because the param ordering is more similar to C than a blog article complaining about it decade ago. Php devs have had up 30 years to learn the difference. Are C devs complaining about this?

If we want to change the param order of str/array functions for php, I think we should start with fixing the C libraries. That seems like a better starting point. The impact will certainly be more beneficial to even more developers than just php.

goykasi··on PHP 8.5 adds pipe operator
But thats not correct. array_map is variadic. So it should actually be "Map over these arrays with this function."

When you use the correct verbiage, the parameter order makes sense.

goykasi··on PHP 8.5 adds pipe operator
In the early days of PHP, it relied heavily on wrapping the underlying C libraries and preserving their naming conventions.

https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/70950

goykasi··on GNOME and Red Hat Linux eleven years ago (2009)
I always assumed that Mitch Hedberg was above average height.
goykasi··on Twitch star HasanAbi says he was detained, questioned by border agents
You really think Hasan is providing material support to Hamas?
goykasi··on Twitch star HasanAbi says he was detained, questioned by border agents
What is the good reason?
goykasi··on Why Is This Site Built with C
I thought the same. He also mentioned hosting on DO and droplets not existing. Im 99.9% sure they existed too. Droplets were literally what they were selling if Im not mistaken. gmail has always been free too (from his archive.org link).

So much of this post feels like alternate history and gloating. Its cool that he wrote a wrapper around an existing library, but his main argument is that C will still be around in "the upcoming decades." Im willing to bet money on Hugo/go existing and still working too -- or any number of other static-site generators.

edit: This can all be done with just pushing markdown files to github anyway. Github will automatically generate the html if you do some basic configuration in your repo.

goykasi··on How to Delete Your 23andMe Data
Are we related? Are you me?
goykasi··on 3dfx: So powerful, it's kind of ridiculous (2023)
It was a cool board. I didnt technically have one, but I built my dad a W2K server on a BP6. I always wanted to hack on it and overclock with it. But after I handed it over, I wasnt allowed to touch it, "you'll burn up my processors." Since he didn't care about overclocking he had dual P2-400s or maybe 450s. It was a beast. He could run SQLServer and compile Delphi apps so hard.

I got my kicks though with a BF6 and a 300A. Those were the times; atleast until the AthlonXPs (AXIA -- anybody?) were released.

goykasi··on 3dfx: So powerful, it's kind of ridiculous (2023)
Same here. I can still vividly remember the experience of loading in with a voodoo2 for the first time. It was night and day -- mind completely blown. The late `90s really established a new version of the gamer; consoles were fun, but computer gaming was a different world. It made me a junky for reading about hardware, overclocking and gaming.
goykasi··on 3dfx: So powerful, it's kind of ridiculous (2023)
It was deeper than that. That was just the way we were all classified back then: hpb (high), lpb (low), slpb (super-low?). When we got a cable modem in `99, I felt like hot shit to leave the hpb shame behind.
goykasi··on Trying to use Bluesky without getting burned again
Bluesky is not decentralized. It is a reference app built on top of a decentralized, social networking protocol -- AT Protocol.
goykasi··on Which Country Should You Move To?
Is this spam? The information here seems to be extremely basic and in some cases wrong. This looks like nothing more than a affiliate marketing frontend to a jobs board (same owner/agency?).
goykasi··on Sora is here
A bit off-topic, but how much does a 4-letter (or less) .com go for these days? I wonder if they bought this via an intermediary so that the seller wouldnt see "OpenAI" and tack on a few zeros.

edit: previously, this thread pointed to sora.com

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