bennyschmidt

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by bennyschmidt 3y ago
Think it was a different green area - the Fertile Crescent, not the Sahara. Eden would have been where modern day Kuwait is. As for ancient towns in Sahara, for a long time people wondered how the desert people lived in such a harsh area -
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by bennyschmidt 3y ago
If AI does decentralization better than crypto I'm about to laugh
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by bennyschmidt 3y ago
Level designers use tools, not really contributing at the game engine level. Long before I built Shadowvane I built a map editor in Three.js that anybody could use. If the game became profitable, in-house tooling would sophisticate and the
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by bennyschmidt 3y ago
I agree with you. There are far more wealthy transplants buying the houses and changing policies after being here 4 seconds than there are inbound homeless.
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by bennyschmidt 3y ago
It took me about 3 days to build the engine, including custom physics, gravity/jumping, collision detection including raycasting, and about 3 weeks to finalize it and start working on the game. Game was released in under a month and we
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by bennyschmidt 3y ago
Everyone told me "use Unity" "the biggest mistake you can make is building your own engine". How well did that advice age? Nobody needs Unity or Unreal. My most recent game (playshadowvane.com) is built on 100% propriet
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by bennyschmidt 3y ago
"It's like Slack... but with Reddit mods!" I miss the Ventrilo days
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by bennyschmidt 3y ago
GPT 3.5 is so bad it's useless to me - for writing it's too repetitive of the same kind of jargon, for coding it's wrong way too often. The NLP is also worse, I have to be more explicit. It's just an average chat bot IMO
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by bennyschmidt 3y ago
Wrong - you're assuming all apps are served over the web, the network firewall is not going to care what port you run on an app on your machine - it only applies to traffic in/out of the network. You better go tell Express.js and
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by bennyschmidt 3y ago
1337 for everything... until I installed Kdenlive and realized they were as cool as me, so sometimes 1336 >.>
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by bennyschmidt 3y ago
> people who want to write beautiful code, spend lots of time on it, and don’t care if it actually does what it was intended to do There was a funny React framework a while back that has all kinds of cool state management and this and th
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by bennyschmidt 3y ago
lol
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by bennyschmidt 3y ago
Nice try with the quotes hahah. But no, that is not mentioned in the whitepaper, and you are way off now: Cold storage is a cloud term for long-term storage, it has nothing to do with "cold wallets" - the term centralized exchange
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by bennyschmidt 3y ago
I agree all drugs should be decriminalized. There would have to be some market regulation around sales and storefronts, at least the level of cigarettes and alcohol in regards to the customer being of age, product packaging, quality control
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by bennyschmidt 3y ago
With respect, this sounds like a kids show depiction. It's not like an opiate, nor anything like being drunk. People use it while working - coders, writers, artists, etc. in the day time, often along with coffee. I think a lot of peopl
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by bennyschmidt 3y ago
The crypto phase only ended up strengthening institutions, because it showed everyone that you do need a central authority. Until enough public internet infrastructure exists to realistically pull off a fully peer-to-peer Internet, we will
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by bennyschmidt 3y ago
From the Bitcoin whitepaper: "A common solution is to introduce a trusted central authority ... The problem with this solution is that the fate of the entire money system depends on the company" The vision of course did not includ
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by bennyschmidt 3y ago
> the re-branding of weed as "cannabis" Clearly "weed" is the slang term and "cannabis" is the name of the plant! > These same potheads This seems more like branding to me :P The ultimate denial has to be
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by bennyschmidt 3y ago
Cannabis "addiction" is as problematic as caffeine "addiction". I put those in quotes because neither are what typically comes to mind when a person thinks about drug addiction. If you think quitting weed is hard, try qu
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by bennyschmidt 3y ago
> Insect memories That time a flea saw the Eiffel Tower - gone.
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by bennyschmidt 4y ago
For the people who think bullying isn't a problem: Replace "bullying" with: Parental neglect/abuse, unfair rejection/blame, or being backstabbed in a situation that you can't really do anything about it/no
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Show HN: An open-source and decentralized social media site like Twitter(github.com)
2 points by bennyschmidt 4y ago|0 comments
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by bennyschmidt 4y ago
2 instances are currently live, the underlying blockchain is a no-fee, peer-to-peer technology I created for decentralized content like this (Decentralized Record of Value or "DRV"). GitHub Repo: https://github.com&#x2F
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I made a decentralized Twitter-like site(reverse-social.vercel.app)
4 points by bennyschmidt 4y ago|1 comments
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by bennyschmidt 4y ago
The "Pull Shark" one is my least favorite, I don't like when developers use their PR count as some kind of achievement, it's probably the most toxic metric (lol) but seriously, it's toxic. People do all kinds of evi
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by bennyschmidt 4y ago
Yes, there is a flat 10% fee for each sale to cover processing costs and service provider fees, but no listing fee or any other hidden fees, and the buyer pays shipping at checkout. So if you sold a $20 shoe, you'd receive $18. The buy
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by bennyschmidt 4y ago
The payments library behind Kickflip is based on Square, who manages sales tax automatically. A buyer in Oregon will not pay sales tax, while a buyer in California will. Because Kickflip is only available in the US for now, it's pretty
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I built a 2-sided marketplace for skate shoes(exactchange.network)
2 points by bennyschmidt 4y ago|4 comments
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Imagine Calendly but you can charge people to book time with you(exactchange.network)
2 points by bennyschmidt 4y ago|0 comments