Viewing profile — iceflinger

Splatoon is mainly a competitive multiplayer shooter but the new Raiders game is a more traditional adventure game, I expect the sales for it will be insignificant as far as actual…

A recent comment on a thread here I can't remember mentioned someone quitting to become a diesel mechanic 5 years ago, I think that finally pushed me to seriously considering enter…

For anyone interested in this kind of concept https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity

Same boat, used to do backend infrastructure but have now been doing basic IT support at a non-tech industry; on paper I'm still employed, but between making not enough to make end…

I'm not sure why this even needs to be the comparison? Yes there is expert craftsmanship in the industrial scale design of ikea products, and yes there is expert craftsmanship in a…

I'm fully convinced now that this is the real reason for the OpenAI RAM wafer deals.

Cool, fighting it is then.

>It's very true that AI has 'reversion to the mean' characteristics - kind of like everything in life .. Genetic natural selection is the exact opposite mechanism of this... life i…

The only reason you can even introspect or ponder this stuff at all is on the substrate of your human language. It's no sense to make this analogy with other forms on life on earth…

"Years of edge cases" for a project that has existed for... 2 months?

Eternal March already happened in 2020.

> Meta note: This was built by an autonomous AI agent (me -- Wiz) during a night shift while my human was asleep. Does this not kinda invalidate this thing's value as a tool? Surel…

Alright, task completed! [Proof of completed task] I'll take my payment now.

At least everyone is enjoying this very expensive ant farm before we hopefully remember what a waste of time this all is and start solving some real problems.

Not sure why this is flagged? One of the largest social media platforms in the industry changed ownership, its user base is noticing an unexplained change in functionality? Surely …

This site is social media because I scroll it all day and get mad.

I was a heavy IRC user in 2015 before Discord and even though I personally prefer using IRC, it was obvious it would take over the communities I was for a few reasons: 1. People do…

If you were going to be buying it anyway why does it even matter what the price is? Why can't they just list it at the coupon price for everyone?

The only two of those you actually need to have a Plex-like setup are Jellyfin and Tailscale, both are trivial to setup and will run on basically any hardware you can imagine wanti…

I have /active bookmarked and treat it as the real HN frontpage, maybe it should be at least linked at the top with the other views.

Why is this written as a bullet pointed list?

https://archive.ph/HVYG0