Mikina

@Mikina@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨mensa⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you, that makes perfect sense. It’s easy to fall from the outside into the trap of judging it by the “smarter than you club” label, and forgetting that probably isn’t the point for most members, and the club part is the important one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨mensa⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t get why something like Mesa even exists. Like, what even is the moment where pulling out your Mensa card is a good idea?

  Assuming you are inteligent, you should know that flashing a card from a gatekept “clever people” club will probably not impress many people, just like you should recognize that the test you did doesn’t mean shit and IQ is not a good way how to measure people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think a story that mixes magic with super advanced technology can work?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Shadowrun kind of does the same. It’s not really super-advanced, since it’s cyberpunk, but it’s cyberpunk with magic. And it’s my favorite setting, it’s such a cool idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An OpenAI whistleblower was found dead in his apartment. Now his mother wants answers⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think I know who killed him.

  By 11, he was programming on his own—a skill he used to playfully torment his friends. One remembers Balaji’s idea of a middle-school prank: writing code that deleted a friend’s Skyrim save file.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  the quality of search results tends to be degraded [without JavaScript].

  Lol, how? That’s such bullshit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Michigan to clear 400+ acres of state forest for solar farm to meet "clean energy" goals⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d love to see the math behing how much power cpuld be generated from the 400 acres of wood, and how long will it take for the solars to break even.

  Also, how much co2 is saved by the solars in comparison to what the trees would generate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SOUL PARK (in early access), a themepark "at the gates of hell" management game, releases demo on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What drove the point home for me was seeing a Twitter account (it was years ago) that posts short 6 second segments of every new game released on steam.

  It was posting almost hourly, and while there was a lot of trash, most of the games were of pretty “standart” smaller indie quallity. It’s ruthless.

  And in addition with the GDC talk of someone who made literally millions by making a generator that generates super basic slot machine games on various themes (as in, generate a theme (cars, bird…), download a few pictures, place them on slot machine) and uploads them to Play Store (back then you had a limit on 20 games a day, and they did include some more rules about quality in reaction to this talk), and the game were getting thousands of downloads and when they checked how is their script doing after few months, they had like over a million in revenue with thousands of downloads. Sure, it’s about mobile games, but it is hearbreaking when you realize how do the consumers work in reality.