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michaelwmon Draggable objects

Amit was an instrumental part in the development of one of my favorite video games, Realm of the Mad God. It was a masterpiece of the Flash game genre, and its guild feature introduced me to many lifelong friends.

michaelwmon Oru Kayak’s reckless and irresponsible advertising

Slightly off-topic: noticed something odd with Safari 16.1 (18614.2.9.1.12) running on macOS Ventura 13.0.1 (22A400) - The company's name "Oru" is not rendered in any Safari tabs or tooltip titles that are not the company's official website.

All of these titles have "Oru" prepended in their HTML source title tags and DuckDuckGo results, but disappeared in the Safari tabs and tooltip titles:

Oru kayak's reckless and irresponsible advertising - Paddlers' Place - Paddling.com: https://forums.paddling.com/t/oru-kayaks-reckless-and-irresp... https://i.imgur.com/K0XAa7Y.png

Oru kayak's reckless and irresponsible advertising | Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33892108 https://i.imgur.com/Ai53Akb.png

Oru Kayak Review - A Money Waster Or A Smooth Ride? | Killer Kayaks!: http://killerkayaks.com/oru-bay-kayak/ https://i.imgur.com/cc49ujA.png

Oru Lake Folding Kayak Review: Perfect For Urbanites And Beginners: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbes-personal-shopper/2022/08... https://i.imgur.com/QCm0IXV.png

However, the words Oru Kayak are present on the company's official website:

Oru Kayak - Oru Kayak: https://www.orukayak.com https://i.imgur.com/fLs9Qc9.png

Was wondering if anyone else has this issue?

michaelwmon Cheating at chess with a computer for my shoes

Though I'm not much of a poker player myself, I am friends with many professionals who have found success both online and offline, in games from pot-limit omaha to no-limit hold-em.

Cheating in online poker has been around for many years, with varying success by online gaming companies to implement anti-cheat measures in their software. With recent developments in AI, there is renewed discussion about cheating as the best AIs have no trouble beating anything from PLO to NLHE.

It was only a matter of time before this started to spread offline, and just a few weeks ago, I heard a story from a friend of a friend who caught a player using a device similar to this during a private game he was hosting. It's only a matter of time before these sorts of devices continue to spread, and I'm not sure how the world will respond.

It would be a huge deal to cheat at events like the World Chess Tournament, but the consequences of getting caught will likely stop at complete disgrace. Cheating at events like the World Series of Poker, with tens of millions of dollars on the line, or even worse, private events with potentially billions of dollars at stake, could lead to a hell of a lot worse.

michaelwmon Ask HN: Which book can attract anyone towards your field of study?

You've said everything I could ever say about PiHKAL; it's a masterpiece. TiHKAL, published three years after the Shulgin's lab was raided by the DEA, is also a fantastic read.

michaelwmon Show HN: HN Avatars in 357 bytes

let it roll!

michaelwmon I find myself completing never seen movie's sentences

Interesting.

michaelwmon Ask HN: What mental models do you use everyday?

There are exceptions to every rule, and there are rules to every exception.

michaelwmon Ask HN: Good tool to send personal notifications?

Thank you, I started using this yesterday and it works great! Perfectly fits my requirements.

michaelwmon Go Forward Plan

TL;DR from the article:

"First of all, all of the Vaults are safe ... However, a hacker was indeed able to gain ~$45M from this incident"

You can track the exploiters's activity on Etherscan, presently, they have $11M in ETH at this address: https://etherscan.io/address/0xa0ACC61547f6bd066f7c9663C17A3...

michaelwmon Happy New Year HN

Happy New Year everyone!

michaelwmon John Gray: 'What can we learn from cats? Don't live in an imagined future'

There are as many ways to live, as many meanings to life, as many philosophies of the nature of things as there are beings in the universe. There's really nothing much to learn, because there are endless things to learn.

One of my favorite comments on Hacker News was posted a few days ago. To quote:

"On and on you will go, making sense of the world, forming notions of order, and being surprised in ways large and small by their failure, forever." — Albert Burneko on Wile E. Coyote: https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/how-wile-e-coyote-explains...

michaelwmon Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?

In case this helps, my Android Auto went through an infuriating phase where it refused to connect, and my cars screen would continue to say exactly what yours said. For about two weeks I was incredibly frustrated, until I discovered that I just had to clean out my phones charging port with a toothpick and it immediately began working again. The dust and debris from repeated connection and disconnection had piled up and prevented certain data pins from connecting, but once removed, it worked like brand new. I now clean out my phone’s charging port every month and haven’t run into the issue again. I was relieved that the issue was this simple to fix, and hope yours is too.

michaelwmon Best Smartphones That Still Have a Headphone Jack

In addition to the sibling comments, I use Join by joaoapps on my Android to approximate what you do with my Mac. I am able to push screenshots and photos to immediately download on my Mac, send SMS from my Mac, and automatically send my clipboard to/from my devices. It's a very powerful app that I couldn't live without and would meet a lot of your needs.