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myfavoritetings··on Direct retinal projection display for smart glasses using a meta-optic mirror
Hello I also suffer from a partially detached retina. I also have thought about what you proposed. I think the technical challenge here is that our brains adapt the broken input signal to correct the vision we perceive for the displacement so you’re not just reverse engineering the damaged retina but also the brain signal correction that takes place
myfavoritetings··on Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study
How much would it save if you account for the fact that half of congress would sabotage it in to oblivion?
myfavoritetings··on Why Tech Inevitability is Self-Defeating
After reading “The Making Of The Atomic Bomb” I came away with the impression that development of nuclear bombs was 100% inevitable after 1938 when the German scientists proved splitting uranium isotope could sustain a chain reaction. All of the top physicists in the world instantly knew this could be used to create a super weapon. Every power in WWII had a nuclear program but only 1 had the resources to execute on it. Being the only country with a nuke is basically a checkmate on the world order and game theory demands it be created once it was known it was possible
myfavoritetings··on The business of gutting failed Bay Area tech companies
I encourage you to try sitting in a wooden chair for 8 hours a day every day and reconsider
myfavoritetings··on [dead]
Kind of a dramatic title. If you're so concerned about it, couldn't you just make another proton email and link them to each other as recoveries?
myfavoritetings··on Pop culture has become an oligopoly (2022)
I didn't, the comment I responded to did "poor critical thinkers who are poorly educated"
myfavoritetings··on Nvidia gets 20% weighting, more investor demand; Apple demoted in major techfund
Factually incorrect. If Nvidia dropped TSMC, TSMC could still sell to apple, AMD and others. If TSMC dropped Nvidia, Nvidia would literally have no other options for cutting edge nodes.
myfavoritetings··on How to test without mocking
isn't that just mocking with extra steps?
myfavoritetings··on Wells Fargo Bet on a Flashy Rent Credit Card. It Is Costing the Bank Dearly
It is simple really, there are more suckers paying high credit card interest than there are people collecting credit card rewards. As someone who always pays your bill off every month any rewards you collect are essentially paid for by people with interest payments
myfavoritetings··on Pop culture has become an oligopoly (2022)
"Isn't the more parsimonious explanation that our culture is now composed of poor critical thinkers who are poorly educated, lack sophistication and nuance, and accordingly have terrible taste?"

Hasn't this always been true though? Widespread public education systems did not exist for 99.9999% of human history. How could it be that education is more present in the world than it has ever been in history yet we somehow have worse critical thinking skills? Blaming the ills of society on education doesn't make much sense when we've had societies much longer than we've had public education.

myfavoritetings··on How The Economist’s presidential forecast works
I think what they're saying is an 82 year old is more likely to make it to 83 than an 81 year old is
myfavoritetings··on Apple Will Revamp Siri to Catch Up to Its Chatbot Competitors
AI is a lot more than LLMs just because they don't have a public LLM doesn't mean they don't have competent AI strategy. Most of their advancements are around image and video. A lot of companies that are "leaders" in AI right now have no path to profitability for their features because they're not actually that useful
myfavoritetings··on Source Code for Area 51 (2005) by Midway Studios Austin Found at Garage Sale
FWIW, most games before early 2000s built all their tooling from scratch as there wasn't off the shelf engines to use. Unreal engine came out in 98 and Source in 2004
myfavoritetings··on Invisible Bunnies That Power World of Warcraft (2017)
I wonder if this was the inspiration for the name of the creator of DotA mod, icefrog
myfavoritetings··on SpaceX will do a propellant transfer demo on their next Starship test
I think technically they do not need to reach orbit just 0g which can happen on a ballistic trajectory. This test is between two tanks in the same vessel. But yeah orbit would be ideal as it gives more time in 0g
myfavoritetings··on Marine bacteria genus may hold mitochondria's closest relatives
Mitochondria are self replicating. When the cell splits some of the mitochondria are present in each new cell.
myfavoritetings··on Ask HN: I want to explore/fund a videogame idea, where do I start?
Whether a game idea is feasible doesn't matter so much on whether its 2d/3d/isometric etc., its the mechanics. For example, nintendo showed that they prototyped many mechanics that would wind up in breath of the wild in a version of the original zelda game and found it to be fun.

I think the answer to the question is already in your post. You said noita is pretty close so why not just play that? That's where you start.

Now, if you want some unsolicited financial advise do not dare spending 50k-2000k on a game development project if you don't have the skills/desire to work on it yourself

myfavoritetings··on Goldman Sachs regrets Apple Card, and is trying to escape the deal
I don't think this really says anything about Apple like you claim. The reality is Apple and GS made a deal and GS may have got the short end of the stick. That's their fault for making the deal that way.
myfavoritetings··on Passive Solar Water Desalination
That's 500 for one acre so multiply by 300-400 for a typical farm and it cuts into already fairly small margins on farming
myfavoritetings··on Boeing has now lost $1.1B on Starliner, with no crew flight in sight
Whether you are being pushed or pulled by a rocket doesn't really matter. From the inside would feel very similar.
myfavoritetings··on Jazz Comping (2021)
I don't understand this comment
myfavoritetings··on Microsoft Can Fix Ransomware Tomorrow
This article is pretty short and doesn't seem very well thought through. What should Create file do if the rate is reached? Hang? Error out? The author admits this is a can of worms so implying it could be done "tomorrow" seems like clickbait. This would surely break many applications and testing all of them against this change wouldn't be possible in a reasonable amount of time.