Hacker News: Marcan

New comment by Marcan in "Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation"

Marcan — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 18:49:31 +0000

And don't forget closing the PS3 and Vita Playstation stores, which they announced at the same time:

https://blog.playstation.com/2026/07/01/an-update-on-playsta...

This is a weird marketing strategy. They must feel free to do as they please since they know consumers are trapped.

New comment by Marcan in "The Image Boards of Hayao Miyazaki"

Marcan — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 05:21:16 +0000

For those interested, the documentary can be found in the video section of the Internet Archive.

New comment by Marcan in "OpenAI – How to delete your account"

Marcan — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 14:31:10 +0000

I assume you missed this announcement from OpenAI:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47189650

New comment by Marcan in "New insights into transcription factors and chromatin remodeling"

Marcan — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 20:03:32 +0000

This comment doesn't belong on HN.

New comment by Marcan in "Norway to fine Meta $98,500 a day over user privacy breach from 14 August"

Marcan — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 09:59:19 +0000

Still not enough, if by a simple calculation they make 200,000$ of profits per day. The fine should be higher than the profit, period.

New comment by Marcan in "Reduction of sulfur emissions from ships may be causing rising sea temperatures"

Marcan — Sat, 05 Aug 2023 06:45:08 +0000

There is also this video from Hank Green discussing this topic a little more:

https://youtu.be/dk8pwE3IByg

New comment by Marcan in "Douglas Hofstadter changes his mind on Deep Learning and AI risk"

Marcan — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 19:54:54 +0000

Your first sentence literally mirrors this slogan:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns_don%27t_kill_people,_pe...

New comment by Marcan in "Twitter now requires an account to view tweets"

Marcan — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 01:34:56 +0000

Do you still take this man at his word, after all he's done?

New comment by Marcan in "Reddit Strike Has Started"

Marcan — Sun, 11 Jun 2023 19:49:34 +0000

Thanks for the filter, very useful! I'm keeping this on until Reddit backtracks.

New comment by Marcan in "Deus Ex – Alpha Terrain"

Marcan — Mon, 29 May 2023 18:24:43 +0000

Good observation. We reuse a lot of the same assets in video games.

New comment by Marcan in "Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive?"

Marcan — Sat, 25 Mar 2023 09:19:41 +0000

Thank you for your well written response. I found it informative as I'm also currently exploring ways to leverage ChatGPT in my daily workflow. I also found it interesting that your answer kind of mirrors the writing style of ChatGPT, especially at the end there.

I'm not saying you used it to write that response by the way, just that it may become more and more common for people to adopt this style the more ChatGPT's usage is widespread.

New comment by Marcan in "California cancels salmon fishing season"

Marcan — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 23:42:27 +0000

Is that some sort of racist comment? 30 seconds of Google search would've told you that he's a French citizen, speaking in the french senate in that video.

New comment by Marcan in "Khan Academy launches Khan World School online high school"

Marcan — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 10:06:22 +0000

Why would you say that? Can you elaborate? As far as I'm concerned, it is a great free online resource which makes learning accessible to everyone. Sal Khan is also an excellent teacher.

New comment by Marcan in "Strict Python function parameters"

Marcan — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 12:21:42 +0000

You can set frozen=True to make a dataclass immutable.

New comment by Marcan in "Blender 3.0"

Marcan — Fri, 03 Dec 2021 18:18:43 +0000

Maya has been supporting Python for a long long time, it even supports Python 3 now. There is no more need to use MELscript to develop tools for it anymore, even though some commands are run using the MELscript wrapper in Python, but even then it's very rare.

Pretty much all the tools I've developed in the past couple of years for AAA games have been almost exclusively made with Python.

One of them we even developed tools to be DCC agnostic, which means that they could run both in Maya and 3ds Max flawlessly.

New comment by Marcan in "Google reacts to Apple's US patent victory over Samsung"

Marcan — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 14:23:36 +0000

The phone manufacturers will be fine. There won't really be any massive damage to their revenue, the only party that will be hurt in the long run is the consumer.

New comment by Marcan in "Things I do to be consistently happy"

Marcan — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 21:58:09 +0000

"Correlation doesn't prove causation"

Exactly.

In the case of these unhappy people you know, perhaps the very fact that they're unhappy leads them to seek knowledge and solace in these self-help books and articles.

New comment by Marcan in "Facebook ventures into online gambling"

Marcan — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 13:30:27 +0000

Am I the only that thinks this is very, very wrong? Basically, indoctrinate from a very young age your future clientele to use your website for day to day activites while making it acceptable for the parents to let their kids use Facebook from a very young age, increasing brand awareness by doing so, then when they're ready BLAM. Give them easy access to these gambling features.

I fear this is a very dangerous move morally for Facebook, and are venturing a lot more into the "evil" category than just "selling your privacy" evil.