Hacker News: emmo

New comment by emmo in "This is a teenager"

emmo — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 02:05:30 +0000

I hope you're never in a position to make any of these decisions.

New comment by emmo in "Google pays publishers to test AI tool that scrapes sites to craft new content"

emmo — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 20:45:43 +0000

Scope

New comment by emmo in "Sora: Creating video from text"

emmo — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 20:09:59 +0000

I'm not sure sex is always going to be the competition. More and more people are sexless (by choice or not).

There are already sex toys that you.. insert yourself in, and then have scripts that sync up movements with VR videos you are watching.

Crazy times coming in the next few decades.

New comment by emmo in "What happened with the Web Monetization API?"

emmo — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 20:06:17 +0000

Sorry, slightly tangential, but haven't we seen streaming services get progressively worse as more competition has entered the space? Netflix was great when they were pretty much the only place in town; now it's a fragmented disaster of services that have to squeeze harder and harder to keep things viable.

New comment by emmo in "Plastic bag bans work"

emmo — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 02:34:55 +0000

I've been using the same reusable bags for years, so they have more than hit those numbers. Why are the cotton numbers so wild?

New comment by emmo in "Apple dials back car's self-driving features and delays launch to 2028"

emmo — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 20:10:51 +0000

With the amount of time he's put into VR over the last decade I think it's fair to say he's as much an expert as anyone else at this point.

New comment by emmo in "Scientists report asymmetry between heating and cooling"

emmo — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 03:58:42 +0000

How do you know it hasn't and isn't slowly making its way here? Universe is a big ol' boy.

New comment by emmo in "Ask HN: Programming Courses for Experienced Coders?"

emmo — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 20:33:11 +0000

This sort of seems to assume that time and money in infinite, though. Buying a recipe book for one recipe seems like a profound waste of resources.

New comment by emmo in "Flare, a video sharing site built on Nostr"

emmo — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 21:30:33 +0000

You can't brush off the "crypto grift" though. That's the sticking point, and it's a very big one.

New comment by emmo in "Apple allows some iOS apps to track user locations via lists of nearby SSIDs"

emmo — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 21:22:25 +0000

Yeah I find this incredibly annoying.

New comment by emmo in "It's 2023 – why is it still so annoying to respec in singleplayer RPGs?"

emmo — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 22:02:35 +0000

Friction isn't inherently negative.

New comment by emmo in "I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it"

emmo — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 21:46:11 +0000

Oh on your own projects and personal passions absolutely, I think emotional investment should be high. Not for someone else, though.

New comment by emmo in "I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it"

emmo — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 21:33:19 +0000

Give the time and labour you're paid for, don't give emotional energy.

New comment by emmo in "Tech workers remain some of the highest paid in New Zealand"

emmo — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 04:48:50 +0000

So you live an unbelievably excessive existence.

New comment by emmo in "Actors decry 'existential crisis' over AI-generated ‘synthetic’ actors"

emmo — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 21:34:02 +0000

Not a perfect movie, but quite a trip!

New comment by emmo in "Shelf – open-source asset management software"

emmo — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 22:51:46 +0000

Homebox (https://github.com/hay-kot/homebox) is one I've been looking at recently. Haven't actually set it up yet though, so YMMV.

New comment by emmo in "An Airbnb collapse won’t fix America’s housing shortage"

emmo — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 03:34:16 +0000

Calling it a "rounding error" is frankly disgusting. 1.2m people is 1.2m people.

New comment by emmo in "Tips for programmers to stay ahead of generative AI"

emmo — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 04:15:41 +0000

Really feels like we're celebrating having less understanding of what we're doing; pouring fuel over ourselves.

New comment by emmo in "New Features in the Orion Browser"

emmo — Fri, 05 May 2023 22:54:48 +0000

The programmable buttons are a really neat idea!

New comment by emmo in "Eye Candy"

emmo — Wed, 03 May 2023 00:07:00 +0000

Sounds like you're talking about a dolly zoom?