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New comment by WolfeReader in "The Mechanics of Steins Gate (2023) [pdf]"

WolfeReader — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 01:04:14 +0000

Super Mario Bros. is a movie [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Super_Mario_Bros._Movie

New comment by WolfeReader in "LÖVE: 2D Game Framework for Lua"

WolfeReader — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 01:01:09 +0000

1-based indexing is great. It's just _different_ - from C, where the array index is just sugar for pointer arithmetic, and from other languages which borrowed the practice without reasoning.

New comment by WolfeReader in "Code Freezes can have the opposite effect"

WolfeReader — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:59:00 +0000

I cannot fathom why anyone would use a code freeze. Just create a branch at the commit you want to "freeze" and let dev teams keep working with their regular branches.

New comment by WolfeReader in "Trying for 1 month but can't learn pixel art still"

WolfeReader — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:18:10 +0000

"The hardest part of learning any creative skill is that your taste develops faster than your ability."

I needed to read this sentence. Thank you!

New comment by WolfeReader in ""Cognitive surrender" leads AI users to abandon logical thinking, research finds"

WolfeReader — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:24:41 +0000

Nope, its a well-researched article which shows its sources and qualifies its conclusions. You may not like the conclusions, but that doesn't make it FUD.

New comment by WolfeReader in "Gone (Almost) Phishin'"

WolfeReader — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 04:33:01 +0000

Same. I've managed to convince exactly one person how great password managers are; the others just let Chrome handle it. (It's always Chrome.)

New comment by WolfeReader in "The future of version control"

WolfeReader — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 15:27:16 +0000

Thanks for the correct link! AST-based version control sounds like a great idea.

New comment by WolfeReader in "The future of version control"

WolfeReader — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 15:23:42 +0000

Darcs did this decades ago with the "replace" command. It's not a legitimate semantic replacement, though - it's more just telling your VCS to do a find/replace.

New comment by WolfeReader in "I'm OK being left behind, thanks"

WolfeReader — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:37:06 +0000

The behaviors of NFT advocates and AI advocates are shockingly similar.

Remember how NFTs were supposed to be the future or art ownership, and all it amounted to was awful pictures of bored apes and ahegao lamas? The NFT bros proudly displayed their shitty art - not because it was good, but because it signaled their allegiance.

Now go on to any pro-AI blog. Look at the images. They've stopped trying to edit out the AI errors - they proudly display images with garbled text and bad anatomy. Just like before, it signals allegiance to AI consumption.

Even the last sentence of your post is the same sentiment as "have fun staying poor" was for the crypto bros.

New comment by WolfeReader in "Warranty Void If Regenerated"

WolfeReader — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 17:37:40 +0000

I wish I remembered the source of this quote: "If you didn't take the time to write it, I'm not taking the time to read it." This saved me from reading the story.

New comment by WolfeReader in "Warranty Void If Regenerated"

WolfeReader — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 01:23:48 +0000

My favorite part was the illustration from inside the car. The rear-view mirror clearly shows un-mirrored store signs.

Prompts in, garbage out.

New comment by WolfeReader in "Warranty Void If Regenerated"

WolfeReader — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 01:21:07 +0000

"it's boring to see how a human and an AI bot can collaborate to create writing like this."

FTFY

New comment by WolfeReader in "The government uses targeted advertising to track your location"

WolfeReader — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 20:14:00 +0000

Encrypted messaging like Signal and Briar is so much more accessible thanks to smartphones. People who would've never touched GPG can get a lot of its benefits thanks to smartphone apps.

(Which doesn't mean we have to give in to big corporations. Gotta love GrapheneOS!)

New comment by WolfeReader in "I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk"

WolfeReader — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 23:00:00 +0000

Why would you want to be non-political in 2026? The current administration is awful in ways we couldn't have imagined. There's no sense in not talking about it.

New comment by WolfeReader in "Amazon accused of widespread scheme to inflate prices across the economy"

WolfeReader — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 07:13:00 +0000

You should spend less at Amazon. $100 less per year.

New comment by WolfeReader in "Measuring AI agent autonomy in practice"

WolfeReader — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 21:21:00 +0000

I am simultaneously grateful that you told us about this, and also kind of wish I didn't know. There's so much.

New comment by WolfeReader in "AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton"

WolfeReader — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 21:14:47 +0000

It happened not too long ago! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46990729

New comment by WolfeReader in "AI makes you boring"

WolfeReader — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 21:03:05 +0000

People who agree with you are right-minded and sensible, and people who disagree with you are "jumping on the bandwagon".

New comment by WolfeReader in "AI makes you boring"

WolfeReader — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 20:58:44 +0000

"every critique of AI assumes to some degree that contemporary implementations will not, or cannot, be improved upon."

They're token predictors. This is inherently a limited technology, which is optimized for making people feel good about interacting with it.

There may be future AI technologies which are not just token predictors, and will have different capabilities. Or maybe there won't be. But when we talk about AI these days, we're talking about a technology with a skill ceiling.

New comment by WolfeReader in "AI makes you boring"

WolfeReader — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 18:37:27 +0000

"productivity theatre" is a brilliant phrase. Thank you!