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New comment by slickdork in "Delayed Gratification – Proud to Be 'Last to Breaking News'"

slickdork — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:40:53 +0000

I suspect the third reason might be that most media is owned by a handful of people. If there's no money in news, why are these companies owned by billionaires?

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentration_of_media_ownersh...

New comment by slickdork in "Don't Become the Machine"

slickdork — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 18:26:43 +0000

>I'll never be a rich man. But I will lead a rich life.

it's interesting how relative this statement is. For a lot of people, being able to lead a rich life means you're already rich; if you're not worrying about money every day (and i mean literally checking your bank account before going to the grocery store), you are rich.

New comment by slickdork in "Devin is now generally available"

slickdork — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 20:55:43 +0000

As someone named Devin who works in tech, I greatly hope this project fails. :)

New comment by slickdork in "Stanley Kubrick did it his way"

slickdork — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 21:15:24 +0000

King's come around by saying basically it is a good movie but a bad adaption, and he's not wrong. They're two different stories with different characters.

New comment by slickdork in "Several piracy-related arrests spark fears of high-level crackdown"

slickdork — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 19:35:21 +0000

I looked up their meta critic scores out of curiosity:

Elemental - Metacritic score of 58/100

The Little Mermaid - Metascore of 59/100

Indiana Jones - Metascore of 58/100

Wish - Metascore of 48/100

Haunted Mansion - of 47/100

New comment by slickdork in "Nvidia RTX 5000 graphics cards to launch in 2024 with performance increase"

slickdork — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 18:49:03 +0000

Don't forget to increase energy use by at least 20% too.

New comment by slickdork in "Hue Light Hack"

slickdork — Thu, 04 May 2023 15:56:47 +0000

I don't understand your use flow there.

I have a hue bridge with a static ip in my house that controls my lights. Management through a third party app is instant.

Are you individually connecting to each light through Bluetooth?

New comment by slickdork in "'Harry Potter' books will be adapted into a decade-long TV series"

slickdork — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 20:13:35 +0000

Oh, dang. The screenwriting she's done for fantastic beasts is not on par with her novel writing.

If she's something like a show runner here with hands on each script, it would make the series suffer. Some people are great at story tellingin one medium but that doesn't always translate.

New comment by slickdork in "I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music"

slickdork — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 15:54:36 +0000

Weird, I swapped off the platform when they removed it around 2016. They must have reintroduced it?

New comment by slickdork in "Effective Spaced Repetition"

slickdork — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 15:53:25 +0000

Could you detail a bit more your gpt4 usage for language learning?

I was wanting to get back into French and thought about using chatgpt, but I'm worried about it's hallucinations and teaching me wrong.

New comment by slickdork in "I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music"

slickdork — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 23:57:42 +0000

Google music had the system to same upload your own music for a while.

New comment by slickdork in "Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944)"

slickdork — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 04:23:49 +0000

Depends on your political alignment. Superhero movies are basically fascist propaganda (the people who are most powerful will have your best interests in mind and save you, you dear children who enjoy comic books in your adulthood).

New comment by slickdork in "Ask HN: Is Anki still the recommended spaced repetition app?"

slickdork — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 18:45:29 +0000

It's the one I still use! Between it's constant updates and plugin support, I have no desire to swap to something new.

New comment by slickdork in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2023)"

slickdork — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 23:11:37 +0000

It sounds like you found a problem you're improving. I don't want to stop you. But to me it feels like a bandaid fix, a short term stop gap for a larger issue.

The reason it got a negative response from me is that I look at the problem from a renters point of view, and not an owners. Housing is in short supply, REITs make billions of profit, homelessness is on the rise. And here your selling point is "get a new revenue stream from your tenants".

The solution of negligent owners shouldn't be renters paying more money for yet another middle man just to get their apartment fixed.

New comment by slickdork in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2023)"

slickdork — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 18:00:39 +0000

For real, it seems this business asked "How can we make living harder for the majority of the population?"

And found an answer.

New comment by slickdork in "The Contradictions of Sam Altman"

slickdork — Sat, 01 Apr 2023 20:35:21 +0000

I'd settle for three examples with sources.

New comment by slickdork in "The ChatGPT King Isn’t Worried, but He Knows You Might Be"

slickdork — Sat, 01 Apr 2023 20:17:26 +0000

It ends with him saying his ultimate goal is to funnel the worlds wealth into a non profit, then redistribute it. Kind of terrifying that the future of the world relies on one guy, basically.

I wonder if in his contracts with microsoft, there's a clause saying openAI will never go open source.

New comment by slickdork in "75% of the Most Played Games on Steam Are Playable on the Steam Deck"

slickdork — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 16:21:54 +0000

You're right in your thoughts. It's the perfect form factor for those single player narrative games, especially if you don't own a tv w/ a steamlink or the like. I usually have trouble finishing games, because i'm often distracted. I found when I can't alt tab to the internet, i focus a lot longer on narrative games. The steam deck has been wonderful for me.

New comment by slickdork in "My kids and I just played D&D with ChatGPT4 as the DM"

slickdork — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 05:56:35 +0000

I just tried playing Curse of Strahd with chatgpt4. It seems like it generally does okay, but changes so many things for no real reason -- often to determiental levels (ie, the first two characters i ran into knew about artifacts that are spoilers and they shouldn't know anything about, but they said exactly where they where, lol).

I can't wait for an LLM that's built specifically for text adventures like this, when there's a very clear rule set/world/adventure guide like DnD has for modules.

New comment by slickdork in "Tailscale Funnel now available in beta"

slickdork — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 19:33:20 +0000

I was about to set up a matrix server with Cloudflare Tunnel, but now I'm going to try funnel instead due to e2ee staying intact.