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New comment by dinkblam in "ARC-AGI-3"

dinkblam — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 20:03:25 +0000

what is the evidence that being able to play games equates to AGI?

New comment by dinkblam in "Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains"

dinkblam — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:12:00 +0000

it seems if you want the same on macOS, this is the place to contribute:

https://github.com/Alien4042x/Wine-NTsync-Userspace-macOS-ba...

New comment by dinkblam in "The engine of Germany's wealth is blocking its future"

dinkblam — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 15:29:59 +0000

everything in germany's economy is going downhill, the troubles in their car industry is just one symptom (but not the cause)

New comment by dinkblam in "Voxile: A ray-traced game made in its own engine and programming language"

dinkblam — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 12:42:00 +0000

I have fond memories of porting Cube, Sauerbraten and AssaultCube to the Mac back in the day. Given what i've seen from Wouter back in the day i am not surprised he is still on it full steam…

New comment by dinkblam in "The Physics and Economics of Moving 44 Tonnes at 56mph"

dinkblam — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 12:59:28 +0000

great article but the 44 tonne limit is not "physics", it is regulation. if an electric truck would be allowed to weigh 5 tonnes more all these calculations would be different.

New comment by dinkblam in "Antarctica sits above Earth's strongest 'gravity hole' – how it got that way"

dinkblam — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 10:09:39 +0000

trying to click on the link i got a "security verification" screen.

i aborted after 5 seconds of waiting.

New comment by dinkblam in "Bitcoin Looks Set for Longest Monthly Losing Streak Since 2018"

dinkblam — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 19:51:03 +0000

> that Bitcoin is a stable source of value

no sane person could have ever held that notion - there is no underlying value.

New comment by dinkblam in "Spanish track was fractured before high-speed train disaster, report finds"

dinkblam — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 20:29:56 +0000

Spain basically does not do the required maintenance:

https://www.reuters.com/world/spains-deadly-rail-accidents-p...

New comment by dinkblam in "Alarm overload is undermining safety at sea as crews face thousands of alerts"

dinkblam — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 15:00:02 +0000

on around 300 days per year i see a "severe weather alarm" on the iPhone Weather app, although nothing at all is happening, completely ridiculous.

New comment by dinkblam in "Show HN: See the carbon impact of your cloud as you code"

dinkblam — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 21:34:04 +0000

does it include the breaths you take during coding? best if you can specify your lung volume and breaths per minute!

New comment by dinkblam in "Director Gore Verbinski: Unreal Engine is the greatest slip backwards for movie"

dinkblam — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 09:18:26 +0000

good explanation and i also wondered why many of the CGI effects today are so unbelievably bad - and worse than decades ago.

it still doesn't explain why it is done:

• why do directors and producers sign off effects that are just eye-bleeding bad?

• using a realtime engine to develop the effects, doesn't preclude using some real render-pass at the end to get a nice result instead of "game level graphics". a final render-pass can't be that expensive that ruining the movie is preferred? if 20 years ago a render-farm could do it, it cannot cost millions today, can it?

New comment by dinkblam in "Amazon is ending all inventory commingling as of March 31, 2026"

dinkblam — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 15:43:00 +0000

> meaning you could order from a good seller but get counterfeit products sent in by a shady one

why allow shady sellers in the first place?

New comment by dinkblam in "Photographing the hidden world of slime mould"

dinkblam — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 16:45:24 +0000

it irks me more that they are super tiny low resolution. where are the originals?

New comment by dinkblam in "Italian Competition Authority Fines Apple $115M for Abusing Dominant Position"

dinkblam — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:02:09 +0000

no year goes by without Italy imposing random >100m€ fines for 2-3 american tech companies. whenever they need money, they just hit another one without care whether actual laws were violated. the amount they take has no correlation to what has been blamed, only to how much the companies can afford to pay without threatening to leave the country.

the 'Guardia di Finanza' has a long standing tradition of trying to extort money without regards to actual laws. its not long ago that they told all companies 'if you pay X% more than your tax report says you own then we won't destroy your company'. more recently they went after the Agnelli family trying to extort money without having an actual case.

its not the rule of law, its simply Might makes Right or modern robber knights...

New comment by dinkblam in "Intermittent hypoxia increases blood flow and benefits executive function"

dinkblam — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 21:31:01 +0000

Can you link to a study backing this up?

I'd say most professional athletes are less intelligent than average…

New comment by dinkblam in "Search tool that only returns content created before ChatGPT's public release"

dinkblam — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 09:24:52 +0000

google results were already 90% SEO crap long before ChatGPT

just use Kagi and block all SEO sites...

New comment by dinkblam in "Cherry gives up German production and wants to sell core division"

dinkblam — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 19:40:51 +0000

> It needs to be stopped.

forcing germans to buy everything at 10 times of what it costs now is not the way to rescue the country

New comment by dinkblam in "Cherry gives up German production and wants to sell core division"

dinkblam — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 19:38:34 +0000

> Manufacturing in Germany is dying

no surprise given the high taxes, extreme energy prices, massive bureaucracy, ridiculous regulations, work-hating employees and extremely business-hostile culture

New comment by dinkblam in "MIT study finds AI can replace 11.7% of U.S. workforce"

dinkblam — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 16:01:35 +0000

My study finds AI can replace 96.83% of U.S. study makers

New comment by dinkblam in "Terranova is lifting land out of flood zones using terraforming robots"

dinkblam — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 12:55:26 +0000

welcome to the modern internet