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xandrius··on The coolest use for the Vision Pro
Yep, we did hackathons with old Oculus Rift DK1 around this concept over 15 years ago or so.
xandrius··on Show HN: CheapFoodMap – A map of good meals under $10
I can sell you a nice spoonful of old vegetable oil for less than $1 and topping the chart calorie-wise :D
xandrius··on Should you wash your solar panels?
$10/panel to go on top of a roof with the possibility of braking s leg or worse? I'll keep my coding job from my couch :O
xandrius··on RTX 2080 Ti Memory Upgrade to 22 GB
I still would trust you if you had too many on your hands. I wouldn't reject a 2080 super.
xandrius··on The Unity CLI: manage Unity from your terminal
Ok, I spent some time with it and I think the biggest updates are:

- Easier automating builds via shell

- Creating entry points for agents to modify and probe a running built game when in dev mode. This is huge, as you can create a lot of scaffolding to debug really complex states and stuff.

For most of the dev stuff, I'd still go for the usual UnityMCP.

xandrius··on The Unity CLI: manage Unity from your terminal
Will be exploring this but so far using a Unity MCP has proven mostly enough to do pretty much anything from outside.

I guess the build pipeline part is nice as we can finally have a fully automated build process from build to distribution without finnicky build/postbuild scripts/profiles.

xandrius··on Long presumed dead, a thriving coral reef is discovered in West Africa
You should give some names if you personally know them.
xandrius··on China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning
What's interesting/funny is that the American LLM companies took from the public domain and copyrighted work to close all that content into a box they charge for.

Then the Chinese took the distilled stuff out from that box and released it into the world for everyone.

xandrius··on Show HN: Opening lines of famous literary works
I'd prefer have a unique and shared quote each day keyed on the day of the year. Then restart when going above N and shuffle.
xandrius··on How Doctors die. It’s not like the rest of us (2016)
Unless going back gets you to re-roll your dice then I'm sure they would still have done it.
xandrius··on Modern decor may be straining people's brains
You're confusing what they mean: it's not the flickering that you can easily notice, it's the flickering of lights "fps".

To see those, you need a digital camera (e.g. your phone)

xandrius··on Modern decor may be straining people's brains
You mean one giant overhead light (the sun) during "work hours" and a soft reddish ground-level light (the campfire) during night?
xandrius··on Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets
Starting? Did you just connect to the Internet?
xandrius··on SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth
Change is inevitable but not all changes are.
xandrius··on GitLost: We Tricked GitHub's AI Agent into Leaking Private Repos
Nope, only if you use a remote AI managed by some greedy and faceless corporation.

Local AI with proper permissions is secure.

xandrius··on Meta reuses old RAM in new servers with custom bridge chip
Not really a law though.
xandrius··on Apple to increase spend with Broadcom to produce billions more U.S. chips
It could also be some token "new jobs" to get some other benefits elsewhere? It's not like these deals would be unexpected from the current administration.
xandrius··on AMD Ryzen AI Halo – $4k AI Dev Kit
Personally, I'm totally ok to have a competitor to Nvidia, regardless of whether they are under the price or not.
xandrius··on Nintendo announces new product revisions in Europe with replaceable batteries
They will still get all the flak, facts never mattered.
xandrius··on Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk
It's still AI, just a different type.
xandrius··on The Fear of Dying Before You Become Yourself
> People say they're afraid of death, but often what they really mean is dying as the wrong person.

Nope, pretty sure it's almost always a mix of a) not knowing what (if anything) is after, b) the way one achieves the state of "being dead", c) high possibility of own consciousness ceasing to exist and d) leaving someone behind.

I don't really care if I'm meant to become the next Luke Skywalker or the pope, I would live just fine if I didn't have to die for something I have no control over and just remain me.

xandrius··on Maybe you should learn something
Learning is not just strictly studying.

I'd say most of the learning is done by actually doing.

xandrius··on Bring back crappy forums
Was that only the forums, the Internet, the world or maybe your age?
xandrius··on Bring back crappy forums
I don't think you were there when the switch started to happen in the mid 2000s.

All these are things which came after they "won".

xandrius··on Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation
Game consoles are not biological beasts which decay as a matter of nature or fact.

They are tools, toys, they are devices. I can still play my PS1 as before, I just need to pop in a CD and I'm good to go.

xandrius··on Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as protection
I would say Ubuntu Touch + a Fairphone. Graphene is too reliant on Google.
xandrius··on 5k menus from the New York Public Library’s Buttolph Collection (1880-1920)
That's not the menu, ya silly.
xandrius··on The case for physical media ownership
This perspective has been beaten down to death but, just so you know, whenever you went to see a movie at friend's house, you also didn't contribute and were in fact pirating the content.
xandrius··on The case for physical media ownership
Premium? Sure things are more expensive but you can get 1TB hdd for 25-30 eur. You don't need an ssd and I'm sure you can find second hand drives even cheaper (or larger).

Starting a subscription is money down the drain.

xandrius··on The case for physical media ownership
The battle is alive and well, pirating has never been easier and of this high quality.

Support the creators however you want but go foster an environment around your friends and family that there are alternatives to paying evil companies who will remove your access to content willy nilly.

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