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New comment by badprose in "U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6"

badprose — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 19:07:53 +0000

Do we know how much choice OpenAI has with the arrangement? They call it a "request", but could they have been ordered directly?

New comment by badprose in "Springer Nature has removed two studies by Max Planck"

badprose — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 18:46:43 +0000

its always seemed like a prank to me; and I'm impressed that he never broke during the performance to ask "are you people really falling for this???"

New comment by badprose in "The Low-Tech AI of Elden Ring"

badprose — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 18:11:01 +0000

They're victims of success. Lautrec was so infamous some people (read: me) are too scared to play the game without a guide now. "What if I missed some NPC and I can't level up anymore?!"

New comment by badprose in "California companies wrote their own gig worker law. Now no one is enforcing it"

badprose — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 22:55:52 +0000

I don't see how having homeless people everywhere in LA and SF is related to whether they have a functional legislature. Is there some law that California could pass to solve homelessness and they're just too dysfunctional to do so?

New comment by badprose in "A Swiss town banned billboards. Zurich, Bern may soon follow"

badprose — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 06:30:14 +0000

What is the banksy lie?

New comment by badprose in "A developer's view of Vision Pro"

badprose — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 18:02:52 +0000

A lot of those words were explaining why they're excited to develop software for it.

What did you want them to write about instead?

New comment by badprose in "Show HN: Nests and Insects – A roguelike tabletop roleplaying game"

badprose — Tue, 03 May 2022 23:41:16 +0000

Are there a lot other TTRPGs that have some software required to run them? Also this sounds like it would be fun to play based on these examples in the rules:

> Example 3: Brody declares his character's intent: "I want Wasp to display her stripes and scare the living beejeesus out of the Worker Bees! I want her to dive in towards them, buzzing menacingly and waving her abdomen around in, like, a threatening and provocative manner! I want them to run away screaming from buzzing, venomous DEATH! BzzZZZzzZZZZzz!"

> Example 4: Cody negotiates with the GQ: "But Wasp is Venomous so she can display her Stinger and maximise the intimidation of the Minor Termite Soldiers".

I wonder what the origin of the fd100 system is. I haven't heard of it before.

New comment by badprose in "Tell HN: Stack Exchange (Stack Overflow) is now blocking Tor"

badprose — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 22:59:02 +0000

They do use Redis. They have a page on their tech here: https://stackexchange.com/performance

New comment by badprose in "Why I link to Wayback Machine instead of original web content"

badprose — Tue, 08 Sep 2020 18:09:30 +0000

Publishing on your own website is more akin to putting up a signboard on your front lawn than writing a book for publication.

People are free to view it and take pictures for their own records, but I could still take it down and put something else up.

New comment by badprose in "Apple says game streaming services violate App Store policies"

badprose — Fri, 07 Aug 2020 18:34:51 +0000

Netflix already has interactive content: see Bandersnatch and Minecraft: Story Mode.

New comment by badprose in "Tesla Model 3 Drives into Overturned Truck in Apparent Autopilot Failure"

badprose — Tue, 02 Jun 2020 00:17:34 +0000

Most people don't learn the term from commercial aviation, they learn they term from movies where someone turns on the "autopilot" then goes to handle whatever is happening at the back of the plane.

I assumed autopilots in planes could actually fly by themselves and the pilots were really only there for take-off, landing and turbulence.

New comment by badprose in "On Facebook and YouTube, classical musicians are getting blocked or muted"

badprose — Fri, 22 May 2020 21:53:34 +0000

It's not just YouTube that's automation obsessed. The groups filing the DMCA takedowns are also automatically scanning and flagging content on YouTube.

New comment by badprose in "Swift 5.3 Will Be Supported on Windows and Additional Linux Distributions"

badprose — Sat, 16 May 2020 11:47:24 +0000

I’m generally always on the latest released version. It _has) gotten better, but its still not good enough. For example, having two @Published variables in the same class with the same name causes a crash in the compiler with no pointers to the source.

New comment by badprose in "Swift 5.3 Will Be Supported on Windows and Additional Linux Distributions"

badprose — Sat, 16 May 2020 03:56:17 +0000

This is extremely exciting for me. I started writing a toy application for my iPhone using SwiftUI a few months ago and have been very impressed by Swift (coming from C#). So far, SwiftUI has felt exactly like what I wished XAML would become.

The documentation and error messages are a complete disaster though (https://nooverviewavailable.com/)

New comment by badprose in "Google Drive Desktop – A cross-platform Google Drive desktop app made w Electron"

badprose — Sat, 16 May 2020 01:13:36 +0000

If you use Windows, Stardock has a tool, Groupy (https://www.stardock.com/products/groupy/), that allows you make everything a tab.

One of the examples on their website groups all Adobe applications in tabs.

Microsoft also tried to build this into Windows but eventually gave up (https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/23/18512250/microsoft-window...)

New comment by badprose in "Thanks for the Surprise Integration with My Website, Apple"

badprose — Fri, 21 Sep 2018 13:13:33 +0000

> Firstly, I would have used an https url instead of http and secondly, I would have made it look for images with a width & height greater than 200px rather than equal to 200px.

I didn't know Shortcuts were powerful enough to pull images of specific sizes from webpages. That's really useful.

Creating a Shortcut to scrape these guitar tabs doesn't seem that different from writing a Bash script that does the same thing.

The main issue is that most users would grab the Shortcut from the gallery, find the guitar tabs they need, and never know where it came from.

Maybe Apple could automatically provide attribution in their Gallery? Like "This shortcut is powered by Google.com and JGuitar.com".

New comment by badprose in "Keep a Changelog"

badprose — Sat, 28 Jul 2018 09:18:39 +0000

> they'll just have to write "we added feature x, which we'll slowly roll out to all eligible users."

This would be vastly preferably to the current: "Bug fixes and performance improvements"...

New comment by badprose in "CoreRT – A .NET Runtime for AOT"

badprose — Fri, 08 Jun 2018 02:16:48 +0000

I generally prefer to work in different environments at work and at home (usually .NET at work and iOS at home).

That being said, I use C# at work, and recently started using F# for side projects (which does actually feel fun to write (for now anyway)).

New comment by badprose in "Google Duplex: An AI System for Accomplishing Real World Tasks Over the Phone"

badprose — Tue, 08 May 2018 20:17:39 +0000

The benefit is that a human could jump in and take over either side of the conversation.

Anyone can have a conversation, but not everyone can author an API.

New comment by badprose in "A new study of the rules of spacing in English sentences"

badprose — Sun, 06 May 2018 14:22:26 +0000

> Douglas found more solace in the fact that the benefits of two-spacing, as described in the study, appear to be very minor.

Speaking of which, did we ever learn how many angels can dance on the head of a pin?