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Community focused organizations like this are hard to run without governance transitions. I think Anki brings value to the world and anyone willing to take on a leadership role in …

The bottleneck for games of any size is always whether they are good. There are plenty of small indies which do not put out good games. I don't see world models improving game desi…

In a similar vein, but for Old School RuneScape, is https://osrs.world/ This one is kept up-to-date with the state of the game world. Even includes full NPC locations and animation…

How dare this child be excited for a special event in his game!

"Fairly unprofitable [if you ignore all the parts that generate revenue.]" I will admit that gambling $0.16 in skins on pro matches when I was 15 was a lot of fun. Maybe I'm lucky …

I have never felt like my searches in other engines have been helped by AI. I hope SearchGPT changes that. My expectations are low.

As someone who can't eat gluten, we look for that label because gluten isn't included as one of the mandatory allergens in the US. I would prefer if things were simply labelled as …

Computers can generate optimal solutions to arbitrary positions. There's no need to apply the human-optimized ergonomic algorithms or methods that human use to speedsolve.

Proebsting's Law comes to mind: https://proebsting.cs.arizona.edu/law.html

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WCA Delegate here. The limiting factor generally isn't cost, but the need to handle cubes of various sizes and other puzzles entirely. Having a robot that can only scramble a 3x3 i…

Ah, whoops, the 2020, not the 2021! Should only be $9 at the right place. In my opinion, the extra couple dollars are worth it :)

MoYu RS3M 2021 is considered a better budget cube nowadays. Many people use it as their main, which is not something that can be said about the YLM.

For $10 a month, all Copilot has to do is save me a handful of minutes each month for it to be worth it. Most of my current work is creating new React components. In these tasks, C…

I disagree, as I think this would be useful to people with anxiety disorders who don't want to entirely disconnect from the news. Just because they may be able to logically identif…

The article mentions it at the very bottom, but I almost never reach for triggers because they are obscure places to put application logic. On more than one occasion I've been burn…

You can derive it yourself. Dimorphos's orbital eccentricity is pretty low, meaning you can use: mean_orbital_velocity = 2 * pi * semimajor_axis / period As for the orbit around th…

I love the form factor, but the battery is my second biggest gripe with my Framework (after fractional scaling still not supported by many apps). Even after tweaking settings ad na…

I can't eat gluten. I ate plenty of wheat growing up, and suddenly developed a problem digesting it at 18. I was on a full-gluten diet when diagnosed and still felt sick all the ti…

It does, but not elegantly: when a non-slice move is made, you have to rotate the 3x3 group at the center. You see it in the animation.

3blue1brown's Essence of Linear Algebra: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDPD3MizzM2x... Many linear algebra courses struggle to bring the abstract concepts into an…