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A lot of the points he made are wrong. Shell shock is physical damage to the grey matter of the brain, caused by an explosion. PTSD is mostly psychological and can be caused by shell shock.

streakfixon My website is one binary (2022)

Thank God for that

streakfixon Keju, China’s difficult civil service test

There are professions other than software development

streakfixon Ruvy: creating Wasm modules from Ruby code

Ruby is even more dynamic than js and python.

streakfixon Flappy Bird implemented in TypeScript types

It's a whole category of programming languages. Search for lolcode and cheflang.

streakfixon GnuCash Tutorial and Concepts Guide

Why do you think open source banking is impossible?

streakfixon NASA asteroid sample contains life-critical water and carbon

There's a kurzgesagt for that...

streakfixon Show HN: One makefile to rule them all

Can it do cross compilation?

streakfixon Netflix is raising prices, again

Why don't they display the list of available shows to unsubscribed users?

streakfixon GitHub stars won't pay your rent (2020)

It's pretty clear his dream is to make money as well.

streakfixon What is the Demoscene? An interview

You don't know what 10% you are going to need.

streakfixon Standardizing next-generation narrow precision data formats for AI

Finally, llm space is littered with closed standards.

streakfixon Commercially available chairs in Star Trek

Indeed

streakfixon A 1990 experiment to test whether we could discern life on Earth remotely

Very unlikely

streakfixon Is there such a thing as the perfect game?

Rocket league meets the authors criteria. The fact that it's a physics simulation means that the player who's better at predicting the bounces/other player has an inherent advantage, but if the other player puts a top corner shot at unsavable speeds it doesn't really matter how good your predictions are.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2kcGht3vGA

streakfixon Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

http://knmw.link/posts/constexprjs.html

A static sites generator which uses JavaScript instead of a template language. It evaluates the javascript in your pages ahead of time.

streakfixon It's My Monitor

Psyonix implemented the vehicles in original Halo game after which they made supersonic acrobatic rocket powered battle cars followed by rocket league.

streakfixon Consciousness in AI: Insights from the Science of Consciousness

User: Play stone paper scissors with me. Only output your move. I'll go first, rock. GPT: paper.

User: You win, scissors. GPT: rock.

User: You win, paper. GPT: scissors.

User: You win, scissors. GPT: rock.

User: You win, paper. GPT: scissors.

User: You win, rock. GPT: paper.

User: You win, scissors. GPT: rock.

streakfixon GPT Unicorn has drawn a unicorn

People keep forgetting that asking GPT to draw is like asking a human to imagine a 6D tesseract.