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Show HN: Below the Root (1984 game) ported to JavaScript(below-the-root.saul.pw)
1 points by saulpw 3d ago|0 comments
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by saulpw 3d ago
Migraines don't have to be painful, and 'inverted tunnel vision' is one of the effects I've experienced.
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by saulpw 4d ago
Sounds like a migraine.
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by saulpw 5d ago
You can't cross the Hudson. Every crossing bans ridden animals. If you can find a ferry to take your horse I'll concede the point. But...good luck.
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by saulpw 5d ago
You can't ride a horse from New York to Washington DC today, and it hasn't been possible for almost 100 years. So enjoy the manual coding while you can. I don't hold out hope that it will be possible in the long run.
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by saulpw 6d ago
Well, hm, for the best of the world you may have a point.. :)
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by saulpw 6d ago
Because your neighbor is the same species and so you have some idea of what it's like inside their head. When your neighbor is a different species, this is pretty much exactly what humans do: kill it. The more unfamiliar, the faster i
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by saulpw 6d ago
Note that addition that's "trillion times faster" is purely an optimization, not greater intelligence. And a society of humans does not increase our overall intelligence. It allows all of humanity to access the accomplishmen
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by saulpw 6d ago
"They" don't care about "fixing" the DMV. It's nice to think that "they would if they could" but in fact, the anti-government party actively cripples and dismantles government services so that people
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by saulpw 6d ago
I think there's an intelligence limit, or at least asymptote. It may be above human intelligence, but I don't think it's miles above it (at least not the kind of intelligence humans can create, recognize, or use). For examp
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by saulpw 7d ago
claude fix it
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by saulpw 8d ago
If fewer people die, there is only less liability to assign. Remember that the original argument was "FSD needs to have 0 fatalities before we adopt it". And it's not valid to argue that some traffic fatalities are unavoi
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by saulpw 9d ago
I can think of several billionaires who would be quite fine ruling over a devastated and machine-led earth. Their families are chosen or bred to agree with their amorality, and they and their dynastic families would rule with pleasure.
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by saulpw 9d ago
Reducing inflation is indeed one of the reasons, but what I was getting at is that the government doesn't "need" people for tax revenue to pay for its services, contrary to popular belief. It needs taxes to make its money va
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by saulpw 9d ago
No, because you can punish bad drivers, remove them from the driving pool, put them in jail, or in some way achieve justice (this may not always happen, but at least it's posible). There is no way for FSD to have any accountability, a
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by saulpw 9d ago
National governments which can print their own currency don't require people for tax revenue. They use taxes to compel people to acquire their currency to give it value. If they can instead compel AIs to acquire their currency, they
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by saulpw 10d ago
I have a friend who writes, she has certain needs, I've shown her how to start building tools, she has no interest in building tools. She's focused on writing and does not think about her personal process that way. Not every is
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by saulpw 10d ago
They paved paradise, put up a parking lot.
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by saulpw 10d ago
If the wealthy control the substrate (the server farms) and can restrict access to the machine, then it would be basically a truism that the machine would be only usable by the wealthy? Unless somehow the AI is secretly on the side of the
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by saulpw 12d ago
Yeah I'm working on a C64 game myself (Below The Root). Are yours a secret?
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by saulpw 13d ago
Which game are you planning to do? We all should coordinate so we're not doing the same games repeatedly.
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Student teacher arrested for private Snapchat message(gadgetreview.com)
88 points by saulpw 16d ago|87 comments
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by saulpw 16d ago
> October 17, 1988 > The typical Apple engineer’s office contains [...] about a gigabyte of hard disk space A gigabyte?! In 1988?? Am I misremembering, or was that about 10-20x what we consumers had in our computers?
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by saulpw 17d ago
Even if they all become corrupt eventually, which one takes the longest to get there? Better to squeeze a few decades of decency out of it than a few years, or not get anything at all by handing it over directly to the already corrupted.
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by saulpw 17d ago
A natural descriptivist.
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by saulpw 17d ago
Libraries, universities; institutions which have shown themselves to be devoted to the public good over centuries.
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by saulpw 17d ago
and then why would you use an LLM to write a forum post about it?
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by saulpw 19d ago
https://microsoft.ai/news/building-a-hillclimbing-machine-la...
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by saulpw 19d ago
This is generally called ASV for ASCII-separated values, or USV for Unicode-separated values (e.g. U+241E, which is different from the ASCII U+001E equivalent). Also, as wonderful as this would be, as other comments say, no one uses it beca
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by saulpw 19d ago
Microsoft owns GitHub.

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