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There were some comments talking about this yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45002977 I'll just reproduce FatalLogic's last comment here: """ In the class action cas…

AFAICT SKG doesn't really make a distinction between games bought with a one-time purchase and games that are subscribed to. In their FAQ, they explicitly say it would apply to MMO…

I've spent a little time in this space, and I'm not sure it's a good idea to write shaders in Rust, although it's probably better than GLSL or WGSL. Let me start with the pros: 1. …

How can a company be "people first" when they sell out to a larger company who isn't "people first"?

If you programmed this as a chess strategy, it would probably result in an engine that played the Scholar's mate every game. This is actually close to what low Elo players do in ch…

When I first saw this I thought this was an AMD-only tool, I'm just now realizing that it works on NVIDIA too.

I was writing up a large comment with sources to rebut the claims, but I think I'll wait to finish it until I can save it as a blogpost and reply with it every time I see this type…

Suppose you were 60 years old with 3 kids who live out of the house. You like to go golfing on the weekends, and have no intentions of ever going pro. This weekend, you get to the …

Just some napkin math: (Suppose, as it hasn't been tested that the) SpaceX Starship can carry up to 100 tons of material to LEO. It costs 100 million USD per launch. (11,000 tons /…

The Lumatone is a high quality isomorphic keyboard. There's software to control the layouts, and you can use layouts other people have created: https://en.xen.wiki/w/Category:Lumat…

I tried implementing this logic in java with a try-catch style: try { Validation validation = validate(); try { Value value = update_db(validation); send_email(value); } catch (DBE…

There is definitely at least a performance hit in that wgpu (and I think WebGPU too) only supports a single queue. That means you can't asynchronously run compute tasks while runni…

Interesting timing on posting this to HN, I've recently been optimizing my WebGPU LSD radix sort. Today I measured it against the Thrust CUDA version, and it's about 10x slower (15…

I really don't understand why this tweet implied that Lee and Kim are autistic, or that they needed to be "babysit" by a different professor. Seems weirdly hostile for no discernab…

The first time I played Minecraft Classic was really significant to me. I was around 12 years old at the time, and I was in middle school. I remember feeling extremely frustrated a…

My bad, you're absolutely right on that. I do want to defend that I'm right in spirit however - Arkane was receiving pressure from Zenimax (it's parent company) from even before th…

I think the larger problem is that there is a lack of attention to things that don't immediately make sales, and a terminal short-termism due to higher levels of external investmen…

I've had this thought for a long time that if you have a completely functional code base (as in no side-effects), making the decision between a microservice approach and a monolith…

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I think you should do some research on the topic before you conclude that "NATO is out of ammunition". I highly recommend Perun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deK98IeTjfY .

I've been using this extension called "Crackbook Revival" which allows you to set timers upon visiting certain websites, in a certain time range like 9-5. I have it setup on Reddit…

I want to emphasize something that other comments seemed to have missed - when a human artist makes a mistake, I have a sense of sadness, or pity. But when an AI makes a mistake, t…

Yes, this is just the defect detector and not the actual video streaming service.

I doubt that even 1% of people using Reddit are using alts to upvote themselves or downvote brigade others. If you have any data to the contrary I'd be happy to hear it.

Extending the metaphor, a competitor can be good for business depending upon your strategy. If you're a hyena, you benefit from having lions around because the lions can kill a muc…