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- Comment on These AI generated pics are becoming impossible to spot 4 months ago:
There’s still something uncanny about it.
Still incredibly impressive. I wouldn’t believe this was prompt generated just a few years ago.
- Comment on Poor Sega just didn't get the timing right. 4 months ago:
The numbers I can find of Master System is that it sold between 10 to 13 million units worldwide, so not that much better compared to the short lifespan of Dreamcast.
Mega Drive’s sales numbers isn’t too far off from SNES.
- Comment on Poor Sega just didn't get the timing right. 4 months ago:
Sega’s only console success was Mega Drive/Genesis. Probably because “Sega does what Nintendon’t”. Sega was the console for the kids who were too cool for the SNES.
They couldn’t compete with Sony on that front. Sony was the new cool guy. Dreamcast failed because everybody was waiting for PS2.
So I’d say failed marketing killed Dreamcast.
- Comment on The Amiga Is Getting A Dune II Remaster From One Of The Original Developers | Time Extension 4 months ago:
Successor to Commodore 64
- Comment on Science memes 4 months ago:
Normie numbers (aka natural numbers)
- Comment on Why we don't have 128-bit CPUs 4 months ago:
Only thing I can find is that it has 128-bit graphics-oriented floating-point unit delivering 1.4 GFLOPS.
Probably only for marketing reasons. Everyone was desperate not to be worse than N64.
- Comment on Garfield 4 months ago:
My interpretation is that Jon starts talking about how division by 0 is not possible. Garfield then goes on about how we can use limits to assign values to such expressions, which we can use to calculate derivatives. I guess Garfield starts to question whether dy/dx really exists after all this.
Jon then changes the subject to be about integrals, which Garfield is immediately annoyed about the missing +C.
It’s super funny.
- Comment on YouTube Seems to Be Cracking Down on a VPN-Powered Discount 4 months ago:
It’s a poorly worded article. YouTube premium “limits ads” as in being completely ad free (besides in-video sponsorships). YouTube hasn’t gone down that route yet.
- Comment on Science memes 4 months ago:
Does the meme making fun of all memes make fun of itself?
- Comment on YouTube Seems to Be Cracking Down on a VPN-Powered Discount 4 months ago:
I don’t think it’s an unpopular opinion, but I’m not sure how YouTube can deal with it best. There’s sponsor block, but it’s relying on crowdsourced data.
- Comment on Why we don't have 128-bit CPUs 4 months ago:
Probably not in consumer grade products in any foreseeable future.
- Comment on Why we don't have 128-bit CPUs 4 months ago:
More complexity with barely any (practical) benefits for consumers.
- Comment on YouTube Seems to Be Cracking Down on a VPN-Powered Discount 4 months ago:
Where are you getting that from? YouTube premium is ad free (so far).
- Comment on Why we don't have 128-bit CPUs 4 months ago:
Not true 128 bit. It has 128 bit SIMD capabilities, but that’s about it. Probably mostly because of marketing reasons to show how much better it is than N64 (which also is “64 bit” for marketing reasons).
In that case, we’re having 512 bit computers now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVX-512
- Comment on Embracer rolls out new AI policy to 'massively enhance game development' | Game Developer 4 months ago:
I’m mostly joking about that Embracer is more effective at shutting down studios and cancelling games rather than making them.
- Comment on Embracer rolls out new AI policy to 'massively enhance game development' | Game Developer 5 months ago:
It’s not from a high bar, so not improbable AI will do a better job than Embracer already do.
- Comment on Know who is king 5 months ago:
Well, sin and cos can’t be directly computed in general, so you’ll need an approximation method such as the Taylor series to use Fourier series.
- Comment on How do you even call that? 5 months ago:
Ember restored
- Comment on Tacos. 5 months ago:
Everything is real on the internet
- Comment on Ask HN: Can we create a new internet where search engines are irrelevant? 5 months ago:
Then it’s just more easily abused by SEO. “Best” according to who? Votes? Number of views? Both numbers can be manipulated.
- Comment on Tacos. 5 months ago:
If anything, it just used as justification for bad behavior. “My genocide is completely justified. It’s what God wanted!”
- Comment on Ask HN: Can we create a new internet where search engines are irrelevant? 5 months ago:
Not sure how that can implemented, but I’m sure it will only lead to great amounts of SEO abuse. It only works if everybody are acting in good faith.
- Comment on Why mathematics is set to be revolutionized by AI 6 months ago:
The article is about using computers to discover new conjectures (mathematical statements that are not yet known to be true or false). The conjecture can be then later be formally proven (or disproven) by humans.
Sounds like a good match for me. Formulating conjectures is about finding an interesting pattern and argue that this pattern holds true. Computers are getting increasingly better at pattern matching, so why not use them?
- Comment on What is a good eli5 analogy for GenAI not "knowing" what they say? 6 months ago:
There’s the Chinese Room argument, which is a bit related:
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
And the trick involves a frame perfect maneuver.
- Comment on The RTS genre will never be mainstream unless you change it until it's 'no longer the kind of RTS that I want to play,' says Crate Entertainment CEO 6 months ago:
My point is that there’s usually an easier level of entry for other types of games. You aim and shoot, and you get instant feedback if you succeeded or not. You don’t need to understand advanced meta to get this, although it can help.
For many RTS games it can all be dependent on how fast you expanded your economy, not on how you play your units. You can fail the entire game because of bad gameplay early.
- Comment on Stack Overflow Users Are Revolting Against an OpenAI Deal | WIRED 6 months ago:
And search engines are unable to index the questions and answers, so good luck finding the already answered question.
- Comment on The RTS genre will never be mainstream unless you change it until it's 'no longer the kind of RTS that I want to play,' says Crate Entertainment CEO 6 months ago:
RTS games demand so much time and patience from the player to learn. What’s the proper build order? What’s the best unit composition? How many workers should get allocated for each resource? These things aren’t always obvious. And you don’t have time to read all descriptions because the time is ticking.
Not to mention good APM and battle tactics.
Shooters are much easier to understand: aim and shoot. You don’t need to follow YouTube guides to understand that.
- Comment on Stack Overflow Users Are Revolting Against an OpenAI Deal | WIRED 6 months ago:
What options are there to use instead? I think they’re still often having the best results, and are usually near the top.
- Comment on Stack Overflow Users Are Revolting Against an OpenAI Deal | WIRED 6 months ago:
I’m pretty sure they keep the revision history, so there’s no point in it