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matthew-wegner
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About matthew-wegner
Previously Aztez (Aztez.com), a two-person project. I was the programming half.
Other things: Founding advisor of the Independent Games Summit (inside GDC) + 10 years. Independent Games Festival co-chair at one point. Still host TIGSource/TIGForums.
Wrote the submission/judging backends for both GDC and IGF.
Unicycled through Vietnam and parts of Africa! And sometimes photographer, sometimes downtempo DJ (https://www.mixcloud.com/gannett/)
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Comment #49164110
Zoom out one step. The experiment should have been searching for "build website with AI", or "build website with ", not "hey use this very specific UI to do something I know will f…
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Comment #49163376
Are you describing a "chat window" experience here? This is apples to oranges.
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Comment #48742523
An Anthropic subscription is a 90%+ off discount for tech influencers to hype up an IPO (no different from companies directly paying Instagram influencers, except less overt). And …
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Comment #48194730
From the article: "new features for controlling power wheelchairs with Apple Vision Pro" Someone using this feature will want motion cues as well. And in your quote: Dwell Control …
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Comment #48087604
Very cool! Do you know Thomas Shahan's work? He once contributed his woodcut artwork to a videogame, so he does seem very technically curious. I bet he'd be interested in trying so…
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Comment #45626400
Tahoe can also: https://github.com/apple/container
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Comment #45594364
> You're not able to virtualize the build machines. Sure you can. And officially, too. Apple still ships a bunch of virtualization drivers in macOS itself. Have a look: /System/Lib…
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Comment #45341900
> E.g., in Windows apps, menu items are keyboard-addressable by default. This is brilliant for accessibility, and for accustomed power users. MacOS has no _by default_ equivalent. …
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Comment #44428921
It would work even better. From the linked support page: "Motion is detected based on the amount of signal disruption taking place between the Xfinity Gateway and your selected WiF…
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Comment #44066591
> that changes randomly Moving the mouse pointer to middle of bottom edge of a screen will permanently move the Dock there. As far as I know, there is no way to disable this behavi…
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Comment #43204580
> Right-click on directory > Services > New Terminal at Folder. Note that you can also bind a hotkey to this! And in general in macOS, you can a bind to a hotkey to any menu item i…
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Comment #42121535
Is it 4x the performance? Passmark shows 38,951 / 4,282 versus 24,724 / 4,555: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i5-14600... https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?…
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Comment #42090666
Minecraft's origin WIP thread, too! https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=6273.0
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Comment #42067386
People were much more motivated to vote against Trump while he was actively president and his nonsense was dominating the news on a daily basis. But 4 years later? It's like making…
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Comment #42003276
Huh! I regularly max CPU for long stretches (game development), but I found I could only get the fans to move if I engaged the neural cores on top of everything else. Something lik…
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Comment #42001933
Some of it depends on which variant fits you best. But yeah, in general the M1 is still very good--if you hear of someone in your circle selling one for cheap because they're upgra…
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Comment #41874225
It's a 1:1 scrape of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events
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Comment #41865471
You might want to give appropriate credit! And by "might" I mean specifically https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_Creative...
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Comment #41865423
How would you compare/contrast this to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events ? Edit: You appear to be scraping it, actually?
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Comment #41560498
I realize it's a very Apple ecosystem thing to shore up gaps in macOS with 3rd party apps, but BetterDisplay can do this for you: https://github.com/waydabber/BetterDisplay (Run no…
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Comment #41462194
Some consumer gaming data points: - Geforce 3090 with 24GB will be 4 years old at the end of this month - The PS5 is also almost 4 years old - The Nintendo Switch is 7.5 years old …
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Comment #41231356
I guess the precise definition would be most ungulates, but not migratory ungulates? > Although not extensively studied in non-humans, endurance running is unique to humans among p…
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Comment #41231321
I was trying to help with a simplified mental model. Sorry, I thought the "another way to think about it" part was clearer than it might have been. The linked paper in the parent c…
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Comment #41231232
Another way to think about it--i.e. hoofed animals can only walk or sprint. Humans can jog, so as long as a human hunter can pick up the trail after the animal sprints out of sight…