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New comment by jmiskovic in "Way to Play Super Mario 64: On Apple Vision Pro"

jmiskovic — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 16:31:11 +0000

Nintendo remains a treasured memory of many 90s childhoods. They took great risks to innovate both on hardware and software side for ~2 decades, I'm not defending what they did since.

I'm also not arguing for intellectual property or copyright enforcement. I'm asking what comes next, I'm genuinely curious here.

New comment by jmiskovic in "Way to Play Super Mario 64: On Apple Vision Pro"

jmiskovic — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 15:35:30 +0000

"Wouldn’t it be nice if Nintendo were more like Microsoft?"

That's... completely unhinged. But, putting aside the mention of the biggest rent seeker in tech world as a role model. What's everyone's take on the gamers cheering against the Nintendo? Who's going to create this generation's own franchises like Nintendo did? What will be their incentives to invest time and effort in any new IP?

New comment by jmiskovic in "Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB"

jmiskovic — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 11:09:20 +0000

I saw https://github.com/lokutor-ai/oido for this purpose the other day. It's easy to compile and run it on desktop for testing but I don't know how it compares to Whistle.

New comment by jmiskovic in "Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB"

jmiskovic — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 11:00:19 +0000

"seems to be the best" weasel wording from author with vested interest.

New comment by jmiskovic in "One month coding with GLM 5.3 Flash"

jmiskovic — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 12:41:26 +0000

Inference vs training. It's training that takes enormous amount of power, both electrical and the compute. I suspect many many models get simply thrown away because they end up being too low on benchmarks by the time they are done. And some are not released to the public. So we learn only about tiny percentage of trained models and their environmental impact.

New comment by jmiskovic in "September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy"

jmiskovic — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 11:44:06 +0000

When you pile them up they burn my eyes. I seem to have skimmed through them.

New comment by jmiskovic in "September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy"

jmiskovic — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 09:50:41 +0000

Be careful with this, you'll get burned sooner or later. Short sentences and breaking up the rhythm are often taught as good writing style. The people will also pick up some LLMisms, especially the non-native speakers. I enjoyed this prose, I felt like author had a very personal perspective to share. My AI BS detector didn't spike and I think your post is the over-confident one.

New comment by jmiskovic in "Prompting Claude Opus 5.5"

jmiskovic — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 09:15:33 +0000

Did you know you can get certification from Anthropic? And it actually costs real money.

New comment by jmiskovic in "Meta VR Glasses"

jmiskovic — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 08:11:06 +0000

More info? Couldn't find anything about it and now the Quest communities are swamped with these glasses.

edit: https://github.com/Lumince/singularity

New comment by jmiskovic in "Divide by depth for instant 3D"

jmiskovic — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 15:25:01 +0000

Good point. And ambient occlusion, as sort of many micro-shadows. A bit more advanced to implement.

New comment by jmiskovic in "Comma's hands-off driving tech under investigation after 2 fatal crashes"

jmiskovic — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 15:17:59 +0000

Yes, they are dishonest and only loyal to stakeholders, that's capitalism 101. The other examples you mentioned are around for more time and they have safety regulations, inspections and fines. Another thing that changed is media landscape. Tesla can get caught of altering the logs in cases of autopilot crash and it just gets buried in news instead of being brought up and repeated over and over each time their stock is discussed.

New comment by jmiskovic in "Comma's hands-off driving tech under investigation after 2 fatal crashes"

jmiskovic — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 15:09:38 +0000

The GP is right, the correct mental model is just frequency of accidents. There's a high chance the accident might not be caused by you, it could be that you're a well behaved pedestrian and you still get hit. Your own cognitive abilities and skills matter, but only so much.

Would you rather that the other driver is a person or an algorithm? What if automated driving causes few % less accidents than humans but there's no liability or accountability when it happens? What if algorithms cause more accidents but far less fatal ones? When is it the best time to deploy them at scale, to enable rapid improvements and a significantly safer roads one year down the road? Difficult questions.

New comment by jmiskovic in "Divide by depth for instant 3D"

jmiskovic — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 09:39:19 +0000

3D on 2D screen is all about giving brain enough depth cues. Having size diminish with depth is a big one. The 2nd biggest thing is occlusion, which is altogether skipped in these wireframe renderings. Another big one is fog, or impact of medium the light is traveling through, very easy to do for the basic effect. It's basically just fading the colors to gray when more distant from camera.

You can have a convincing 3D with just the occlusion and fog (or even just the fog), without simulating the perspective. It's just another artistic direction.

New comment by jmiskovic in "Intelligence per Watt: Measuring Intelligence Efficiency of Local AI"

jmiskovic — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 13:42:53 +0000

In my case the bad internet also tips the scale.

New comment by jmiskovic in "Intelligence per Watt: Measuring Intelligence Efficiency of Local AI"

jmiskovic — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 11:18:47 +0000

Incredibly important research. We've reached the point where local LLMs are good enough! It takes less time for local model to take the first action on your task than it does for Claude to validate your login, put you into queue and start issuing the commands. Local models are persistent and 100% predictable unlike any cloud offering. It's better for the power system for the demand to be distributed. During the winter time the GPU also doubles as a 300W in-house heater. Not to mention avoiding personal data collection and re-selling.

New comment by jmiskovic in "Selling Software Worldwide from Europe"

jmiskovic — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 17:52:14 +0000

I got similar info from my accountant. Along the Peddle and Lemon Squeezy she also mentioned FastSpring. Do you know anything about them?

Thank you for sharing your domain knowledge!

New comment by jmiskovic in "Orbs"

jmiskovic — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 11:30:23 +0000

A brand name for an agent in VM they spin up for you.

New comment by jmiskovic in "Iceland rejects reopening talks on EU entry"

jmiskovic — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:30:17 +0000

Have you traveled the EU? Things can always be better, but looking at the rest of the world I'd say we're doing pretty fine.

New comment by jmiskovic in "Show HN: Sloppie – Agentic development environment for Linux"

jmiskovic — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 14:02:39 +0000

I've noticed that images and fonts are broken and that it assumes emacs editor instead of using $EDITOR.

I like the general idea and simplicity of it though. I'll try to run a task or two through it.

New comment by jmiskovic in "OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21)"

jmiskovic — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 19:37:04 +0000

The vendor lock-in trap does not apply here. Users don't actually even run the original weights, they mostly use open source inference engines with open source agent harness. If AI provider decided to start charging, a) released models would not be affected, and b) people would drop it instantly and move to other models.

The actual problem is that we know nothing about the training set of any open-weights model. They could be intentionally biased to influence users, from political censorship to brand advertising, or general shaping of cultural norms. You run the model on own hardware not knowing if it is designed to act against you. Having whole chain open source would allow audit and reproducing the results.