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New comment by bpicolo in "We're working on a new RuneScape MMO"

bpicolo — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 12:11:56 +0000

Their new game, Dragonwilds, has been very successful. Jagex leadership today is not the same as Jagex leadership 10 years ago.

If anything, they're one of the first companies proving that getting away from gatcha/pay-to-win/pay-for-aesthetic/seasonal mechanics can be a good business decision in 2026, where there are many, many gamers who care about earned power (and earned aesthetic) and no longer want to be on a seasonal loot/rating treadmill.

For me, that's personal and I'm happy about it. I've played MMORPGs my whole life, really the only genre I'm interested in. Everquest, EQ2, GW, WoW (and many xpacs), OSRS, etc. Other than OSRS more recently, I've felt left behind for many, many years now. I want to play games where the journey is the point, and where earning what you have is fundamental.

WoW Forever, which in terms of player numbers is looking to be Blizzard's most successful move in over a decade, is coming largely due to the trail blazed by OSRS and the Jagex team.

New comment by bpicolo in "How OpenAI Used Its Own LLMs to Design Its Jalapeño Chip"

bpicolo — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 16:23:21 +0000

Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't legal regulations around monopolistic behavior kind of mandate that?

New comment by bpicolo in "Temporal raises $550M at a $12.55B valuation"

bpicolo — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 14:19:01 +0000

Restate is directly inspired by Temporal.

New comment by bpicolo in "Saving 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1's DNS cache"

bpicolo — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 01:39:29 +0000

I use good ol example.org

New comment by bpicolo in "I'm becoming AI-blind"

bpicolo — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 14:04:23 +0000

I think it's context dependent. An entire technical design doc? Trivially easy to identify the ones that heavily used AI, they're horrible, and they are written in a way that no human would write them. And they tend to contain way too many tables and redundancies.

Comment text on reddit or something though? That will be a lot harder

New comment by bpicolo in "Compression is prediction"

bpicolo — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 11:12:46 +0000

I don't think any of those are readable without the context of your message.

New comment by bpicolo in "OpenJDK Interim Policy on Generative AI"

bpicolo — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 13:31:53 +0000

Yeah - spell checking has been on device for literal decades.

New comment by bpicolo in "OpenJDK Interim Policy on Generative AI"

bpicolo — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 13:22:56 +0000

The copyright issue is an important one. Under the current law, you don’t own copyright on the output of GenAI.

New comment by bpicolo in "NYC may require landlords and realtors to disclose the use of AI in listings"

bpicolo — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 12:30:57 +0000

They also often include external square footage like balconies which warp it.

New comment by bpicolo in "Briar is in maintenance mode"

bpicolo — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 21:33:15 +0000

What's the range on bluetooth? If I can reach someone via bluetooth, can't I also just talk to them? Or is it longer than I realize?

New comment by bpicolo in "If you're a button, you have one job"

bpicolo — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 22:28:47 +0000

Pretty common to find at $300 on sale or whatnot.

People love it.

New comment by bpicolo in "If you're a button, you have one job"

bpicolo — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 13:47:27 +0000

The Dyson Supersonic?

New comment by bpicolo in "Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown"

bpicolo — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 14:34:57 +0000

> require sessions with a tutoring AI

There are few things more unenjoyable than parroting things I know to AI. I hope this is not the future we create for the next generation

New comment by bpicolo in "I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI"

bpicolo — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 12:04:01 +0000

The internet at large is full of armchair experts, it's not just a tech thing.

New comment by bpicolo in "Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability"

bpicolo — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:42:14 +0000

> It’s optimized for projects—including games and entertainment—that combine code with large binary assets, and caters for the needs of developers and artists alike.

New comment by bpicolo in "Changing how we develop Ladybird"

bpicolo — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 12:14:13 +0000

I mean, aren't you kind of proving the poster's point?

Fork away. If you want to put in the meaningful effort required to maintain and improve upon a project as significant as Godot, and feel that AI is a mechanism you want in order to do so, go for it. Clearly, the maintainers don't feel that that's the best approach to create the product they want to create, and they are not required to accede to the sense of entitlement of the community.

New comment by bpicolo in "Google employee charged with $1M Polymarket insider trading bet on search term"

bpicolo — Thu, 28 May 2026 14:19:44 +0000

It’s temporary, yes. Basically just collateral to promise you’ll show up for the court hearings.

Often they’re paid through bondsman who finance bonds (you pay them a fee). Which also results in a bounty hunting industry for the people that do run away.

New comment by bpicolo in "What Apple and Google are doing to push notifications"

bpicolo — Thu, 28 May 2026 14:04:28 +0000

Yep, I straight up deleted my Nextdoor. Nextdoor itself is spammy and ad ridden. And most of the content in the community is also just spam anyway.

My neighborhood has a WhatsApp. I engage with it if I feel like it. Works great

New comment by bpicolo in "I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left"

bpicolo — Mon, 11 May 2026 14:08:03 +0000

You’re describing incidental complexity of running a container on AWS, though. Which you can also do with lambda because there are 15 different ways to do it.

Dead simple on GCP Cloud Run.

New comment by bpicolo in "Show HN: I made a Clojure-like language in Go, boots in 7ms"

bpicolo — Sun, 10 May 2026 12:02:37 +0000

As much as we may all hate to admit it, vibecoding is very close to just being the new programming.