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New comment by pwillia7 in "Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection"

pwillia7 — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:05:48 +0000

This guy should call the ACLU -- The cops' behavior might get them involved here.

New comment by pwillia7 in "Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test"

pwillia7 — Fri, 29 May 2026 11:33:12 +0000

Relevant WKUK sketch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpC_hO15IoA

New comment by pwillia7 in "Someone Shared a Real Monet Painting as AI and Asked for Critiques"

pwillia7 — Sat, 16 May 2026 10:46:57 +0000

I heard about an experiment on some podcast where they switched organ donation to opt-in from opt-out and before and after the change they interviewed people coming out of the DMV and asked them _why_ they chose to or chose not to be an organ donor.

No one said -- Oh that's just what the default option was.

Everyone had a thought out reasoned answer why they did what they did. But the data showed none of them did that and they in fact just did what the default was and justified their choice afterwards.

I wish I could remember/find the podcast but I haven't been able to. It feels like an old freakonomics but I don't think it is.

New comment by pwillia7 in "Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks"

pwillia7 — Fri, 15 May 2026 20:33:32 +0000

you don't use vim/emacs for the productivity. It's a lifestyle decision

New comment by pwillia7 in "Leaving the Physical World"

pwillia7 — Thu, 14 May 2026 12:18:01 +0000

Reminds me of Wendell Berry or even Cormac Mccarthy's writing. Great piece.

New comment by pwillia7 in "Amiga Graphics Archive"

pwillia7 — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 02:07:21 +0000

police state australia

https://wormhole.app/E4zA1z#Q3aQLs6wRmlLkeghIYyZEQ

New comment by pwillia7 in "Amiga Graphics Archive"

pwillia7 — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 12:12:34 +0000

I made a DeluxePaint/Amiga LORA you can use with Stable Diffusion/FLUX a while back for the lulz[1]

I also used that LORA and some video models to try to make a little movie with the same style[2]

Here's a guide on how to generate LORAs too if you're interested[3]

Finally, there's a DeluxePaint clone someone released that is pretty cool to play around with[4]

[1]: https://civitai.com/models/875790/amiga-deluxepaint-or-fluxd

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_18NBAbJSqQ&feature=youtu.be

[3]: https://reticulated.net/dailyai/creating-a-flux-dev-lora-ful...

[4]: https://github.com/mriale/PyDPainter

New comment by pwillia7 in "Kalshi CEO expects US DOJ to prosecute insider trading cases"

pwillia7 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:10:24 +0000

yeah a social _game_, not a commodity pork bellies futures market.

New comment by pwillia7 in "Users lose $9.5M to fake Ledger wallet app on the Apple App Store"

pwillia7 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:03:35 +0000

Walmart wasn't created late enough in the 2nd gilded age to effectively lobby the government against having any rules

New comment by pwillia7 in "Kalshi CEO expects US DOJ to prosecute insider trading cases"

pwillia7 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:46:52 +0000

when have we ever defined gaming/gambling as 'a thing where the house takes a rake' ? I don't understand this argument and it always feels disingenuous when brought up.

New comment by pwillia7 in "Wacli – WhatsApp CLI"

pwillia7 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:52:41 +0000

yeah who wants marginally regulated oligarchs -- Give me fully unregulated criminals!

New comment by pwillia7 in "The Case Against Gameplay Loops"

pwillia7 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:37:46 +0000

No game loop feels impossible unless you're just making a movie you click through...

Game loops should be invisible as once a player can see or sense them it breaks the immersion.

New comment by pwillia7 in "The Case Against Gameplay Loops (2024)"

pwillia7 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:36:15 +0000

I almost never finished games even back in the 90s/2000s. I think it's because of how long they are compared to movies and even tv shows. You also (especially back in the day) had to 'rewatch' the same part over and over until you could beat it

New comment by pwillia7 in "Two Months After I Gave an AI $100 and No Instructions"

pwillia7 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:31:23 +0000

How do we know we're not doing that based on our memories and reaction to external stimuli though?

New comment by pwillia7 in "Two Months After I Gave an AI $100 and No Instructions"

pwillia7 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:30:41 +0000

I mean we don't know right? Feels hubrisy

New comment by pwillia7 in "Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them"

pwillia7 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:45:00 +0000

and the pendulum swings again the other way...

New comment by pwillia7 in "LÖVE: 2D Game Framework for Lua"

pwillia7 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:49:42 +0000

I would like you to release this please

New comment by pwillia7 in "LÖVE: 2D Game Framework for Lua"

pwillia7 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:48:09 +0000

come on you can blame whatever the program is using for randomness still

New comment by pwillia7 in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"

pwillia7 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:31:19 +0000

wait what if we start on a day DST starts or ends????

New comment by pwillia7 in "4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches"

pwillia7 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:50:07 +0000

you got yer loiscence?