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New comment by esotericsean in "NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission"

esotericsean — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 19:39:20 +0000

Instead of competing with other nations, what if we all worked together as humans?

New comment by esotericsean in "iPhone Air"

esotericsean — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 22:09:51 +0000

Saw another comment that said this will give Apple the opportunity to learn if people really want a thinner iPhone. I hope they learn that people don't. Curious to find out the answer.

New comment by esotericsean in "iPhone Air"

esotericsean — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 22:08:11 +0000

I just can't imagine anyone wanting this? Please correct me if I'm wrong, but do people really want a thinner phone? I love my 16 Pro and plan to get the 17 Pro.

Definitely feel like thicker and longer battery is better. Heavier feels nice.

New comment by esotericsean in "Someone at YouTube needs glasses"

esotericsean — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 19:49:42 +0000

I got this view the other day and was shocked. Went and found a browser plugin to fix it. But I wish our voices could be heard or we could give some feedback.

New comment by esotericsean in "Fixing E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial for the Atari 2600 (2013)"

esotericsean — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 17:13:12 +0000

As a game dev who's been learning ASM recently this was very fun to read through. Wish there was a compiled ROM I could try, but I guess I have to do it myself!

New comment by esotericsean in "TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday"

esotericsean — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 00:55:01 +0000

Very interesting. To me TikTok is nothing but memes and useless stuff. Whereas Instagram has been an amazing community for many of my passions. And now Threads is gaining in popularity as well (it really feels like hope scrolling in comparison to X's doom scrolling). I wish it wasn't owned by Meta, but if TikTok actually gets banned I would say good riddance. Something about Instagram/Threads is just perfect to me.

New comment by esotericsean in "Take the pedals off the bike"

esotericsean — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 20:56:16 +0000

I bought my 20 month old son a balance bike for Christmas and he's already able to balance on it a month later while going down the sidewalk. Great method!

New comment by esotericsean in "If we want a shift to walking, we need to prioritize dignity"

esotericsean — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 16:33:54 +0000

Living in Southern California, I like to go on walks with my family in the evenings or mornings, but I couldn't imagine having to take public transportation or having to walk everywhere. It seems picturesque, but it also sounds terrible in the sense that you can't just get in your car, go some place, park in a parking lot, go shopping, and then head back home, all on your own terms.

I visited London a long time ago and the public transportation is amazing and it I did want to walk to see the city, which I did. But I imagine even living there, I would want my own car to be in control of my life.

So, visiting a place is good for walking. But living in a place is not. At least that's my experience.

New comment by esotericsean in "Never Retire"

esotericsean — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 21:30:54 +0000

Totally agree with this. I have a 9-5 that I don't hate, but I would love to just spend time with my family and focus on my hobbies. I would be beyond happy doing that for the rest of my life.

New comment by esotericsean in "Animate Anyone: Image-to-video synthesis for character animation"

esotericsean — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 21:18:01 +0000

Pretty huge breakthrough. Hopefully we'll be able to access this soon. Between this, SVD, and others, 2024 is going to be the year of AI Video.

New comment by esotericsean in "iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus"

esotericsean — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 18:56:56 +0000

Curious what other devices people have that use USB-C? The only one I have is my Nintendo Switch. So for me, this is mostly an inconvenience having to get new cables for my phone. I'll miss Lightning.

New comment by esotericsean in "Can an artificial kidney finally free patients from dialysis?"

esotericsean — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 23:19:52 +0000

That is probably how I would feel as a parent as well. Though, just to put it out there, if you're a donor your retained kidney grows and makes up for the one that was removed. Also, you're given priority on the waiting list in the future should you ever need one yourself.

New comment by esotericsean in "Can an artificial kidney finally free patients from dialysis?"

esotericsean — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 17:57:54 +0000

This probably isn't a viable solution for my father who has been on dialysis for 2 years and is in ESRD. I am a candidate for a kidney transplant for him (I went through the whole process), but he has other issues that have been preventing him from having another surgery. I'm pretty scared to do the procedure, too.

But really glad to see progress being made here. Hopefully, also, the world works toward improving diet and starts eliminating metabolic diseases like Type-2 Diabetes and Heart Disease.

New comment by esotericsean in "GB Studio: Drag and drop retro game creator for GameBoy"

esotericsean — Sat, 17 Jun 2023 21:12:20 +0000

I've been making a game using GBDK (C) and a little engine called ZGB for the past several years, but the work that Chris and the team have done on GB Studio makes me want to switch to the platform. I'll still finish my game using C because I'm so far into development now there's no point in starting over, but if I was starting fresh, GB Studio would be the way to go.

That said, I'm glad I made my game in C because I've learned so much more about coding. I feel like I get better every day. Not sure I would have that same experience using GB Studio.

One day I want to try using ASM...

New comment by esotericsean in "McDonald's just dropped a brand new Game Boy game"

esotericsean — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 21:22:25 +0000

I've been using GPTPlayer with my GBDK project. Is there any benefit to me switching to HUGE?

New comment by esotericsean in "Tell HN: Cancelling HP Instant Ink prevents cartridges from being used"

esotericsean — Mon, 22 May 2023 17:05:24 +0000

When I got married, my wife was subscribed to HP Instant Ink. Was one of the first things I cancelled. I couldn't believe that the ink didn't work afterwards. Made me want to reverse engineer it somehow, but wasn't really worth my time.

New comment by esotericsean in "Apple Restricts Employee Use of ChatGPT, Joining Other Companies Wary of Leaks"

esotericsean — Fri, 19 May 2023 17:05:44 +0000

The company I work for uses ChatGPT, StableDiffusion, ElevenLabs, and lots of other AI tools every day now. We make ads and use it to generate scripts, create "stock" photos, fake voice over, etc. We even have started training our own models to match branding guidelines and whatnot.

I also use ChatGPT and SD to help me with my personal hobby of game development. It's good at analyzing code snippets, refactoring, and SD is good for inspiration.

These are really useful tools and it's only the beginning.

New comment by esotericsean in "Study links 'stuck' stem cells to hair turning gray"

esotericsean — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 18:26:08 +0000

The What I've Learned YouTube channel recently did a video on this! https://youtu.be/Yehk_h_Uj6k

New comment by esotericsean in "Riffusion – Stable Diffusion fine-tuned to generate music"

esotericsean — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 21:30:29 +0000

Coming at this from a layman's perspective, would it be possible to generate a different sort of spectrogram that's designed for SD to iterate upon even more easily?

New comment by esotericsean in "Who knew the first AI battles would be fought by artists?"

esotericsean — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 17:16:08 +0000

This will be a losing battle for artists. Anyone can train any data they want. It's the equivalent of a human learning to draw someone else's art style or take photos the same as a famous photographer. There is no stopping it now and it's only going to get better and easier. Video is getting close to being just as accessible as image or text generation. Regardless of how you feel about all this, there's no stopping it. It's the future.