mikenew

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by mikenew 4d ago
There is no one left at Blizzard with any RTS experience. They've long since left for smaller studios. SC2 is my favorite game of all time and I would love nothing more than an SC3. But if there ever is to be a real spiritual successor
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by mikenew 7d ago
That's true, but if you wanted to boil down the art of acting to one sentence it would be "do not pretend; actually do". Jobs was a great actor in that he did not pretend to be excited. Whatever coaching is being given here i
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by mikenew 16d ago
Ha, well that's good because I would hate to be labeled an "LLM advocate". I've been on the negative side of the conversation many times, and I think the downsides are very real and often ignored. But calling them useles
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by mikenew 16d ago
> The chatbot recommended some of the dumbest shit you could possibly do The "I tried it and it sucked" is borderline conspiratorial at this point. There are enough talented, thoughtful developers saying there's something
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by mikenew 1mo ago
I've decided that the main thing I'm building is my own mental model. You can take notes, create docs, put graphs and websites together, but unless I'm just trying to generate some reference material the only real objective i
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by mikenew 1mo ago
It's not a tactical failure of the US; it's a strategic one. The US operates a tremendously powerful military, but that doesn't change the fact that the war with Iran was a tremendous strategic blunder. "Moronic" is
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by mikenew 2mo ago
Apple is on the side of privacy if it serves their marketing. Which is why they would rather build and normalize CLIENT SIDE CONTENT SCANNING so they can continue to market iCloud as "secure and private". If Apple's interests
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by mikenew 2mo ago
Yeah at 120hz each frame is 8ms. So you're only missing a single frame around 30% of the time. I certainly want my latency as low as I can get it. But I'm pretty skeptical that anyone is truly feeling the difference of a couple ms
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by mikenew 2mo ago
Current top 5 played games on the Steam Deck are: Slay the Spire 2, The Binding of Isaac, Dave the Diver, Stardew Valley, and Baldur's Gate 3. BG3 is the only one you can consider AAA, but Larian is hardly an EA or Blizzard. The big AA
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by mikenew 2mo ago
Arcan is such a fascinating project that I've never quite managed to get my head around.
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Midjourney's Full Body Ultrasound [video](youtube.com)
3 points by mikenew 3mo ago|0 comments
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by mikenew 3mo ago
That was my experience a couple months ago, and until someone shows me real evidence of something valuable they've made with it, I'm not wasting my time on this stuff again.
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by mikenew 3mo ago
Authenticity requires vulnerability and that's not something Apple can do.
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An AI Agent Progresses Towards Idiocy, Not Expertise(holdtherobot.com)
3 points by mikenew 4mo ago|0 comments
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by mikenew 5mo ago
I use Opencode, both directly and through Discord via a little bridge called Kimaki. https://github.com/remorses/kimaki
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by mikenew 5mo ago
GLM 5.1 was the model that made me feel like the Chinese models had truly caught up. I cancelled my Claude Max subscription and genuinely have not missed it at all. Some people seem to agree and some don't, but I think that indicates w
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by mikenew 5mo ago
I've found GLM 5.1 to be extremely good, as long as you keep the context under 100k or so. But I do agree; the actual service is rough. It's often unusable during peak hours. I imagine they're trying to slow down the acquisit
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by mikenew 5mo ago
I can't find an announcement on this, but here's the archived subscription page from a couple days ago: https://web.archive.org/web/20260410092340/https://z.ai/subs... The Max plan has dou
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Z.ai doubles it's coding plan prices(z.ai)
18 points by mikenew 5mo ago|6 comments
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by mikenew 6mo ago
Even if this is largely due to a change in how PCs in China are being counted, it's still amazing to watch Linux usage continue to climb like this. It's really the only opposing force to Microsoft's enshittification of Window
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by mikenew 7mo ago
This feels like an existential threat to HN, and to the general concept of anonymous online discourse. Trust in the platform is foundational, and without it the whole thing falls down. Requiring proof of identity is the only solution I can
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by mikenew 7mo ago
The side effect of trying to enforce this kind of sensitivity is that you make certain things taboo to talk about. And this is a good example of something that should be easy for someone to talk or even joke about because it makes dipping i
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by mikenew 7mo ago
Pretty much every software engineer I've talked to sees it more or less like you do, with some amount of variance on exactly where you draw the line of "this is where the value prop of an LLM falls off". I think we're ju
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by mikenew 7mo ago
I think in the context of business communication; yeah a lot of people are doing that. Which, to be honest, I don't think it the worst thing ever. Most corporate communication is some basic information padded out with feigned personal
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by mikenew 7mo ago
I played with it extensively for three days. I think there are a few things it does that people are finding interesting: 1. It has a lot of files that it loads into it's context for each conversation, and it consistently updates them.
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by mikenew 8mo ago
I like how Xcode installs a bunch of gigantic, multi-gigabyte artifacts for like ios runtimes or whatever, fills up the hard drive, can't update because it's out of space, and then tells me I'm not allowed to delete them beca
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by mikenew 8mo ago
I've been using it for the past couple days. Like most AI products right now, it is both incredible and incredibly stupid. Virtually everything I've tried (starting with just getting it running) was broken in some way. Most of tho
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by mikenew 8mo ago
I've recently switched to OpenCode and found it to be far better. Plus GML 4.7 is free at the moment, so for now it's a great no-cost setup.
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This is a solar-powered website, which means it sometimes goes offline(solar.lowtechmagazine.com)
4 points by mikenew 10mo ago|1 comments
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Write once, run anywhere: The promise C couldn't keep(ryansepassi.com)
2 points by mikenew 10mo ago|4 comments

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