npunt

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by npunt 6d ago
Your argument was you've argued your whole career for native. The article argues only very recently the cost equation has changed. Your argument reads like you are not taking into account the broader context or the passage of time.
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by npunt 13d ago
You're making the mistake of comparing a possible future for the present. This is like the most common mistake people in tech make when it comes to education. I've seen it for >15 years and built a whole edtech news organizatio
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by npunt 16d ago
Here's an enjoyable read by lead designer Raph Koster on the influence of UO: https://www.raphkoster.com/2017/09/28/ultima-onlines-influen...
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by npunt 1mo ago
Tiredness is a signal that the body/brain needs rest so the glymphatic system can go to work. You can lose the signal but still need rest. If your brain doesn't flush metabolic waste periodically you develop brain fog, bad memory,
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by npunt 1mo ago
Are the switching costs of CUDA ecosystem potentially threatened because LLMs are now quite good at transcoding into other languages? In other words, is Nvidia's greatest strength (AI) also potentially its undoing?
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by npunt 2mo ago
They're making the typical journalism mistake of trying to use prose for what would be better expressed in a chart. This is a pretty common issue with journalists who can write but don't know how to create useful and informative c
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by npunt 2mo ago
This is very cool, just some UX tips to make it more legible: 1. remove ~50% of the UI since it covers too much of a laptop screen 2. improve the camera controls so its easier to pan and zoom.
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by npunt 2mo ago
Fwiw what you are describing is literally survivorship bias.
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by npunt 2mo ago
The ubiquitous availability of smartphones also limits kids freedom. It creates a very particular style of interaction with peers where quitting means you are left out. That means kids are subject to apps that prey on insecurities, have ext
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by npunt 2mo ago
Another detail worth mentioning via Taniwha [1] was Supermac had an engineer on set and configured the graphics cards to run the monitors at 24hz so they wouldn't have any banding when filmed. [1] https://news.ycombinator.co
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by npunt 2mo ago
The Helm is great. I'm not sure it really solves the wrists problem, at least for me since for how I use it the height of the laptop makes a huge difference in ergonomics. The MacBook Pro is already tall, and the Helm makes it taller,
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by npunt 2mo ago
Context: measuring productivity at all is hard. It was hard when computers were introduced into the workplace, when the internet was introduced, etc. I worked with a journalist who covered tech in the 80s & 90s and she remembered that
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by npunt 2mo ago
Another thing that this does not measure is philanthropic effectiveness. If there are lessons to be learned in terms of what kinds of philanthropy works better than others, then those learnings may cause other philanthropic endeavors to hav
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by npunt 2mo ago
Iirc yes. Viral persistence and viral reservoirs are the terms to search for
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by npunt 3mo ago
Got a firsthand experience with this. I was dropping off my girlfriend and we stopped to talk in the car, with all the windows up. Over the course of the conversation we got more and more agitated at each other until I had a thought and pul
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by npunt 3mo ago
oh say more?
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by npunt 3mo ago
It’s very obviously AI, several tells: ‘isn’t just / it’s also’ AI-ism should at least turn your AI radar on, then you get this weirdly formal structure that sounds like a trying-to-be-relatable press release: “This shift eliminates A,
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by npunt 3mo ago
A kind request - please try to write HN replies without AI, but if you're going to, please at least edit out any "it's not X its Y" or "isn't just X, but also Y" AI tics. A lot of us come here to get away
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by npunt 3mo ago
Bingo. Cook is the heat shield now
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by npunt 3mo ago
Phone screens are larger, higher res, pinch zoomable, and have backlighting that creates uniform contrast and readability in nearly all lighting conditions.
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by npunt 3mo ago
Yea the context I usually lead with is the problem and the intended or likely trajectory of the feature, not the noise like you say. I think different folks just like different things.
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by npunt 3mo ago
Funny, I always try to lead with context when handing off product/design work, but I've often experienced devs saying 'please just tell me what to do'. No such issue with AI coding tho, it works great there.
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by npunt 3mo ago
Yep, I was surprised to learn that too.
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by npunt 3mo ago
Was just looking at this. What keeps me from buying is the screen is just too small. I'd love to slap this magnetically on the back of my iPhone and have it on the go as a focused reading device but eyes after 40 aren't so happy a
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by npunt 3mo ago
Can we all band together and agree to flag articles that are so obviously AI written to be engagement bait and devoid of anything meaningful to discuss? To use an AI-ism: HN isn't an AI blog dump, it's a community.
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by npunt 3mo ago
Just want to say I appreciate the effort that you put into this. I know HN sometimes doesn't vote up the big posts but if they're well researched and follow a thought through to a conclusion, I think they're a valuable additi
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by npunt 3mo ago
> Important subject > Uses slop AI art Fastest way to make something into a farce.
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by npunt 3mo ago
This is cool! Is there an index of these ported games / OSS ports?
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by npunt 3mo ago
Even has a wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture_astronaut Joel's post was the genesis https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/04/21/dont-let-architect... Salient
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by npunt 3mo ago
If it's a constant offset like you say, and given academia publishes and industry often doesn't, that might suggest it's dependent on the rate of advancement in academic research. Not in this field so I may be wildly off.

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