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I’ve already had my Roko’s basilisk existential breakdown a decade ago, so I don’t really care one way or the other.

I just wanna point out that I only called them non-human and I am asking for a precision of language.

Anthro means human and these are not human. Please do not use anthropology or any derivative of the word to refer to non-human constructs.

I suggest Synthetipologists, those who study beings of synthetic origin or type, aka synthetipodes, just as anthropologists study Anthropodes

Surely Google has some sort of patent for this due to the snake in the Youtube buffering icon.

if these are meant to be spun up cheapy and quickly in the waiting time for token generation, then why not drop a call to it in a div and let us play with them on the github landing page?

I’m sorry but this entire premise is dubious at best hilarious at worst.

I’ve worked retail on and off for a decade and been friends with AP in most places and no one has ever mentioned this happening. Never been told to watch for it, or heard a rumor about it from another store.

It’s just not something that happens.

This is actually perfect for me.

Go is my most productive language, but it is the worst for some of the usecases I want to use it for due to goroutines and GC pauses and things like that.

I learned C and programming when I was a middle school math nerd and so my understanding of functions was colored by the algebraic definition of a single value function. This led to me writing my code in a more functional paradigm than an object oriented paradigm. I struggled to learn Java. I struggled in programming class when we made the switch from VB6 to vb.net because I didn’t really understand object oriented programming.

I find go’s procedural nature to be the best language for my understanding of programming with functions. The way the object oriented code is possible, but not required allows me to build types and objects that I can compose and use as I understand them, not the way that object oriented, inheritance, and polymorphism requires me to subclass.

I recently have had the idea for a project and I found the perfect ECS library that would allow me to compose my entities and components the way I do in Go, but it does not interface cleanly with Cgo either in runtime overhead or development overhead.

The official bindings for it are rust, c, c#, zig, lua, and clojure.

This would allow me to use it by writing Go code that calls it natively like C.

I’m not concerned about not getting to use Go libraries. I believe in Roll Your Own and always had to roll my own when I was learning C. Go’s stdlib is tight and lends itself to RYO really well.

Mine is a Vizio from Target that's never been online. I've gotten close to cutting its wifi antenna circuit to prevent this but I think I got it before they started programming anything like this in and I should be safe if it stays offline.

But then I still think about cutting it in case I ever have anyone over that would be stupid enough to sign in to the wifi on it. Better for it to have never happened.

Nobody is interested in your piece of anecdata and asserting that something has gotten better without doing any studies on it, is the exact opposite of critical thinking.

You are displaying the exact same thing that you were complaining about.

Honestly, just white knighting for one of my favorite developers and biggest inspirations.

Someone lying about the pseudo randomization of the hand drawn efforts to make it seem entirely algorithmically generated rubs me really wrong, especially when that dev has publicly broadcast the reasoning of the decision to eschew procedurally generated mines.

As one of those kids, you could’ve just stopped at “I don’t think”, because you’re not thinking critically if you think we don’t exist.

I wasn’t allowed to have a personal device or unsupervised internet access until I graduated.

My parents forced me to go to a school with a summer work program. I was yeeted to university by my wing clipping abusers THREE DAYS AFTER GRADUATION.

Rural, miles from the nearest town of 1200 so I didn’t have access to the resources needed to change any aspect of this.

I was deeply hampered by this, and despite being one of the salutatorians of my graduating class (we had ties due to AP), I crashed out of that university after a semester.

That’s not the same procedural generation as GPT or diffusion and you know it.

It’s not even in the same ballpark as Elite, NMS, terraria, or Minecraft.

The levels are all hand drawn, not generated by an algorithm, even if they’re shuffled. Eric Barone, the developer, has publicly said as much. Are you calling him a liar?

It’s like the difference between sudoku/crossword and conways game of life

I have multiple “real identities”, diagnosed due to trauma. We each want to have our own spaces of interest and experience online.

As a matter of mental health, we really cannot have these overlapping for many reasons, prime among them is that if one part of me becomes aware of another while they’re doing their thing, a mental “table join” can happen and disturbing memories can be shared which is incredibly destabilizing to the system.

As a wireframe example my programming alter cannot be exposed to the alter who browses cptsd forums or they remember things that cause them to dip from the headspace and we lose their knowledge.

We can’t try to pretend we don’t exist and pretend to be one person either, we did that for years and we ended up having a breakdown and went into a fugue state and moved across country leaving everything behind.

This law would destroy our productivity and contribution to economy or whatever corporacrats care about.

There was some utility I found a few years ago that would let me start an X Server and use it to replace the main explorer process. There was some support for standard Windows apps due to the background System processes still running. I think it ended up running the Windows desktop shell as a window in and of itself.

I wanted to use a tiled window manager and my dot files for continuity purposes. The Windows apps I need to use are stuff like anyconnect and Teams.

Yeah I asked my director if I could rip out the shell and replace it with X Server running in WSL2 and he said it would make the IT people very upset.

It can be ripped out using regedit, I'm sure.

It's been a while since I used Windows as a daily driver, but I did oscillate between W10 and Arch for about half a year, and the Arch mentality creeped into Windows. I ended up adding a context menu to Explorer so I could paste images on my clipboard directly to a the folder I had open. I had to create keys in the Explorer portions of the registry.

If I could do that, I'm sure you can root around in the Start Menu parts of the registry and rip it out.

Really? Tostitos were the bane of my existence when they broke off in my mom’s chili all the time

This comment is specifically called out as a “do not” in the HN guidelines.

It’s the very last line:

> Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.

FWIW, dang et al do a great job and don’t deserve this slander.

PS: you were the first person I saw mention that politician’s name in this thread

Mayberry’s Mayberry ‘til it ain’t no more. Don’t matter how far out in the sticks you are. Yer askin for trouble.

Just ask the Clutter family. Oop, you can’t.

Also in Seattle and at my gym I scan a barcode off my phone and keep my personal biometric data secure. It’s great. Fantastically, no need to explain anything to a front desk person, either.

I’m team “solution in search of a problem”

I already stated that I understand the thread that we are in. I’m beginning to think that you don’t and didn’t read where I said that (as an attempt to head off this very reply), or the ggp comment itself, or the OP comment ggp replied to.

The whole thread is about space. The comment they replied to both shared a YouTube video and discussed ablations, so they brought a contribution to the thread: Here’s this interesting video from a space YouTuber in case anybody is curious about ablative materials in rocketry.

What did you bring to the conversation by remarking that the video that they shared was not about wood in satellites? They’d already said so; it was a Captain Obvious level response.

I have at least brought curiosity as to why you felt that was a meaningful contribution and how you could have arrived at such a dismissive statement from a place of curiosity.

I take it that despite being in a thread about wood being used as an ablative material for satellites, you have no curiosity about ablative materials in the devices that transport said satellites?

Did you think that they misunderstood what thread they were in? Their comment was relevant and welcome. Frankly, yours was against HN guidelines, and I was trying to politely draw attention to that fact by getting you to analyze your conclusion.

It is insane to me that they ask that question in the title of the article and then go on to spoil the big first surprise.

“How do we talk to people about these games without spoiling it for them? Oh, I know I will spoil it for everybody who reads this article!!!

“It’s one of my favorite in the genre (maybe the best) and it requires a level of secrecy because it takes away the wow factor if you learn details about it early, but ANYWAYS here’s some details about it!!!!!!!!”

The utter inanity of asking, ‘how do you talk about puzzle games when spoilers are devastating’ and then spoiling the supposedly best game in the genre in the next friggin paragraph is driving me absolutely wild.

That’s correct: it was stated to be about ablation.

That’s what I took from GP saying “I can recommend BPS Space video about ablation” followed by their opinion of the video.

I’m curious, what did you take from them saying “video about ablation” that made you think the video was about ‘wood in satellites’? How does one get from A to B here?

I want to be perfectly clear that I understand the thread we’re in right now is about wood and satellites. I want to TRY to understand how you read their comment so I can understand the confusion.

> So we’re left with one answer: information. But what kind of information are you trying to learn from a fiction book? The book is literally labelled FALSE on the cover.

I learned so many things from fictional works.

Authors don’t just make up lies and say whatever they want. Fiction does not mean everything is nonsense. The worlds that you read about have to be believable and for that to be possible, things have to at least be partially consistent with what we understand of the world.

So many authors do real research when they write a fiction novel so that the world that they’re building can be convincing.

For instance:

* I learned how to drive a stick shift from a Young Bond novel. The author didn’t make anything up, they actually described the way that the clutch mechanism works, and how the character was controlling it with the pedals.

* I learned about Navajo code talkers from a fictional book about World War II.

* I learned about cowpox being used as a smallpox vaccine from a fictional book about a new smallpox outbreak in New York City.

* I learned that Gatorade was developed in Florida from Taken by Edward Bloor.

* I learned a lot about the reformation and the Quakers and early colonial America from the Baroque Cycle, because Neal Stephenson did real research to write that book.

Is everything that happened in the book real? No, because obviously Daniel Waterhouse didn’t exist, didn’t found MIT, and didn’t have some mechanical LLM in the 1600s.

Did some of the things in the book actually happen in real life in order for the author to set that book in the time period? Yes. Like IOUs from goldsmiths acting as paper money, and the standardization of coinage by Isaac Newton.

There is so much factual information encoded into the pages of fictional works that this is the stupidest thing I have ever read on any platform in any circumstance ever.

Pure anti-intellectualism of the highest order. An attempt to undo The Enlightenment.

I find more and more that those who wave around Hanlon’s razor are doing so to keep something from being looked upon too closely. As if to say, “look any closer and you’ll be cut”.

Be it flying monkeys, boot lickers, or the abuser themselves. It’s a thought terminating cliche that's designed to stop to critical thinking and minimize the act and reduce the response, making it seem though it were a forgivable mistake instead of a deliberate action.

Because as you said: regardless of malice or stupidity, the harm is real.

That alternate alternate timeline sounds like what leads to V for Vendetta.

Every single one of those demons is also a chimera and so if you look, there’s a half elephant, half fish in the top left corner. If you look in the top right, there’s like a half fish half horse. So if you look at the gaping demon butthole again, and look at the rest of the features around the gaping opening. You’ll realize that it is the lower half of the creature and it is a sea creature you can see there’s like a coral tentacles thing behind it. It’s just a fish‘s mouth. That does also happen to function as the demon‘s butthole, apparently

The Doherty threshold is 400 ms. That’s the threshold which you start impacting users focus, and flow.

Back in the day, we actually used to aim for that as a user experience metric.

Have you never seen the Zuckerberg “in my backyard smoking meats with the boys” video? It’s so uncomfortable.

The meat emojis are relevant

Don’t try to act like that is the discussion we’ve been having.

You’re holding Linux on x86 to a Mac on ARM standard.

It’s fine if Linux doesn’t meet your standards, but don’t try to act like that’s Linux‘s fault and not your standards’.

Nothing x86 meets your standards, so save the criticism.