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by bejd 10d ago
I'd be more surprised if this was the first time Microsoft did this. I checked the download page[0] and next to the download button they say they will do this >You will also receive in-app notifications with promotional offers fro
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by bejd 1mo ago
>in areas where there is an arbitrary choice between particular words or terms within the code, the watermark can be used, such as comments within code. I wonder if this is why Opus 5 keeps writing excessively long comments, even though
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by bejd 2mo ago
Exactly. DuckDuckGo used to advertise themselves as a way to escape Google's search bubble[0] [0] https://web.archive.org/web/20140720050529/http://dontbubble...
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by bejd 2mo ago
The BBC had a programme "Your Home Made Perfect" where they would give people a VR demo of two potential home renovations, then they'd build the one they chose. This was a few years back though, so they're using Oculus G
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by bejd 2mo ago
I wonder if they got permission to generate that (admittedly impressive) Berserk image.
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by bejd 3mo ago
After reading about the default mode network here a few times recently, I think missing out on all that critical "daydreaming" time is a bigger problem. I've stopped listening to things while I'm out walking, and I'
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by bejd 1y ago
Sounds like the "Penfield Mood Organ"[0] from Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep . Characters "dial" emotions, from basic to extremely specific (e.g. "481. Awareness of the manifold possibili
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by bejd 1y ago
So is Chromium. But, like with web browsers, competition is always good.
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by bejd 2y ago
Mentioned in the article, but the source is the excellent YouTube documentary Valve released for Half-Life 2's 20th Anniversary [0] [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCjNT9qGjh4
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by bejd 2y ago
>was surprised to read that it was built in Godot, which I'd only ever considered for games The Godot editor is built in Godot [0] [0] https://docs.godotengine.org/en/3.5/getting_started/introduc...
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by bejd 2y ago
>Fawns/calves/... can walk almost as soon as they are born. It takes humans far longer to learn that. Humans are helpless at birth because we have big brains and walk upright. Which means narrower hips which means we need to be
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by bejd 2y ago
The thickness of the book being calculated from its page count is a really nice touch.
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by bejd 3y ago
Blindsight hit all the right hard sci-fi notes for me. I've yet to find something that scratches that same itch.
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by bejd 3y ago
Fantastic book. I read it for the first time about a year ago but I still think about it once every week or two. Thought about it as soon as the "spaceship" started to accelerate towards light speed.
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by bejd 3y ago
The SponsorBlock [0] addon has already solved that for sponsored/ad segments in videos. Rather than AI, crowdsourced timestamps lets it automatically skip past adverts. [0] https://sponsor.ajay.app/
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by bejd 3y ago
As do most people who quote the 10,000 hours thing. Gladwell greatly simplified K. Anders Ericsson's work [0]. Most people just read Gladwell's catchy headline and miss the point. Doing something over and over != deliberate practi
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by bejd 3y ago
Previous discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38013151 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37990750
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by bejd 3y ago
Nice to see this again. Such a clear breakdown of a complex topic, presented beautifully. Tangentially related, the documentary The Watchmaker's Apprentice [0] is a captivating look at the dedication it takes to create a mechanical wat
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by bejd 3y ago
Not sure if they're being serious, but there's what looks like a "3" on a distant air-con unit, next to left-most tree. If your viewport is narrow you might not see it [0] [0] https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.co
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by bejd 3y ago
https://archive.ph/nVivJ
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by bejd 3y ago
You might be interested in AdNauseum [0] > Built atop uBlock Origin, AdNauseam quietly clicks on every blocked ad, registering a visit on ad networks' databases. [0]: https://adnauseam.io/
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by bejd 3y ago
Switched from Goodreads to StoryGraph to escape Amazon’s nonsense a while back. Felt like it was missing a few things and found Hardcover recently, and I haven’t looked back. I don’t really use the social features of these apps, so I’m more
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by bejd 3y ago
I have an account for my game dev projects on https://mastodon.gamedev.place/ and it's a great community for that kind of stuff. People tend to stay on topic: the local feed is almost exclusively videogame related upda
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by bejd 3y ago
Great work! It would be nice if the demo page had a game ROM ready to go. You could probably find something free and/or open source on itch.io.
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by bejd 3y ago
Right-click on a search box > "Add a Keyword for this Search". Edit: it then gets saved as a bookmark and you can edit it like any other.
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by bejd 3y ago
https://archive.is/apwvi
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The Password Game will make you want to break your keyboard in the best way(arstechnica.com)
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by bejd 3y ago
Can also recommend Axis. At work we've got a server with a couple hundred cameras connected and they're extremely reliable. Software is easy to use, regular firmware updates (even for older cameras), and in my few dealings with Ax
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by bejd 3y ago
https://archive.is/XTm5v
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by bejd 3y ago
Wonderful accessibility aside, that's a brilliant name. It's just fun to say.

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