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New comment by thrownawaysz in "Grok 4.5"

thrownawaysz — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:04:55 +0000

Is there a reason the AI companies usually announce new products so close to each other. Like not just the same day but literally hours apart. GPT Live then an hour later Grok 4.5. As if they try to one up. I expect something new from Anhtropic as well today.

New comment by thrownawaysz in "Daisugi, the Japanese technique of growing trees out of other trees (2020)"

thrownawaysz — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 17:22:09 +0000

>with a healthy dose of orientalism added on top

Also known as 'Thing, Japan'. HN eats up articles like this every single week.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/thing-japan

New comment by thrownawaysz in "Crypto in 2026: Oh, This Is the Bad Place"

thrownawaysz — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 10:39:32 +0000

>Meet Mike. Mike is a college freshman who is exposed to crypto through social media. He downloads Coinbase, buys ten dollars of CumRocket because his friend group is in on it, watches the price move, and feels for the first time the dopamine rush of gambling on non-economic random walks. By his sophomore year he is onto harder drugs: 0DTE options on triple-leveraged single-stock ETFs he does not understand, traded on a gamified brokerage built to look like a video game. By twenty-two he has a Kalshi account, because betting on the outcome of a presidential primary or a reality television show winner has been reframed as participation in financial markets. By twenty-four he has hit rock bottom in the sportsbook, firing off ten-leg parlays on Tibetan ping-pong and third-division water polo at two in the morning because the games he has actually heard of no longer move fast enough to feel like anything. Mike believes he is investing. Mike is gambling. Mike is on the express train to a gambling addiction, and he is meaningfully poorer at every stop along the way.

tbh that reads a bit like the war on drugs propaganda we got in school back then. You don't want to try the devil's lettuce cause in 2 years you will be a homeless heroin addict in San Francisco, or worse!

New comment by thrownawaysz in "Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2"

thrownawaysz — Fri, 08 May 2026 11:32:00 +0000

I wish I have the means to travel to Japan right now because prices never been cheaper, especially food. Feels like missing out on a great opportunity

New comment by thrownawaysz in "Two millionth electric car registered as market rebounds from tax changes"

thrownawaysz — Tue, 05 May 2026 19:27:30 +0000

> All of the German car makers

The basic Seat Leon combi is currently 22.000€ on promotion. And that's a spacious family car. No EV car exist at that price point in that size with a range that most people would be comfortable with it.

Yes they will exist in the future but we are still a decade away from that at least.

New comment by thrownawaysz in "Six Years Perfecting Maps on WatchOS"

thrownawaysz — Sun, 03 May 2026 09:44:58 +0000

That's a regional feature not available everywhere

New comment by thrownawaysz in "Six years perfecting maps on watchOS"

thrownawaysz — Sat, 02 May 2026 21:55:53 +0000

The fact that there is no 1st party Apple made hiking and topography map on the Apple Watch is such a failure, not even on the most expensive “made for explorers” Watch Ultra. And things like gpx import is just a mere dream

It’s a lifestyle device after all but still

New comment by thrownawaysz in "I built a Game Boy emulator in F#"

thrownawaysz — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:09:36 +0000

Found it

MetalNES, transistor level NES emulation https://github.com/iaddis/metalnes

While searching I also found a new one, VisualNES https://kaiokendev.github.io/nes/about

There is also one for GB https://github.com/aappleby/MetroBoy

New comment by thrownawaysz in "I built a Game Boy emulator in F#"

thrownawaysz — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:09:33 +0000

Found it

MetalNES, transistor level NES emulation https://github.com/iaddis/metalnes

While searching I also found a new one, VisualNES https://kaiokendev.github.io/nes/about

There is also one for GB https://github.com/aappleby/MetroBoy

New comment by thrownawaysz in "I built a Game Boy emulator in F#"

thrownawaysz — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:53:26 +0000

mildy related but wasn't there an emulator (maybe not GB but NES or SNES?) which had a visual panel showing each CPU cycle step by step? afaik it was very slow but the 1000% accuracy was the goal not playability.

New comment by thrownawaysz in "The Mechanics of Steins Gate (2023) [pdf]"

thrownawaysz — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 22:38:08 +0000

Mind you this is based on the games (S;G and S;G0) which covers much more than the series and spoiler-y so don't read it if you are yet to play the games.

New comment by thrownawaysz in "Slovenia becomes first EU country to introduce fuel rationing"

thrownawaysz — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 22:21:00 +0000

>This could easily spiral out of control and cause a level of suffering across the world (esp the global south) most of us on this forum have not lived to see.

Daily anxiety attack thanks. As a european I think we are way too vulnerable. Countries divided, rich getting richer, more and more poor people who can barely afford food, and that's in Europe let alone talk about what happens with the poor in Africa and Asia.

Sooner or later we will need a global reset but that sounds worse than everything else

New comment by thrownawaysz in "How to talk to anyone and why you should"

thrownawaysz — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 21:52:02 +0000

or how to get labeled as a creep by every women

joke or not (actually not) but read some women spaces and it's obviously a lot of people, especially women, just want to be let alone. Don't start talking with random people unless they start talking to you and it's consensual, simple as that.

New comment by thrownawaysz in "Climbing Mount Fuji visualized through milestone stamps"

thrownawaysz — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 18:40:27 +0000

I don't have many things on my bucket list but climbing Mt Fuji is probably the number 1

New comment by thrownawaysz in "Green’s Dictionary of Slang - Five hundred years of the vulgar tongue"

thrownawaysz — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 23:38:21 +0000

Interestingly there are some not so good sources

>[SE fail, also used as a mark for inadequate work, or fuck!]

>(juv.) response to someone else’s bad news.

F doesn't come from fail but from Call of Duty

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Press_F_to_pay_respects

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/press-f-to-pay-respects

New comment by thrownawaysz in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me"

thrownawaysz — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 17:00:26 +0000

I saw that on Bluesky which is very anti-AI but really shows that all social media is the same, just the in-group changes

New comment by thrownawaysz in "The Great Unwind"

thrownawaysz — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 19:42:48 +0000

Sounds good, too bad I only have $5k available. Even if I spend all on FXY it won't gain that much from the current $58.6 in the forseeable future. Rich get richer I guess so nothing changes just the location.

New comment by thrownawaysz in "GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it works on a native client"

thrownawaysz — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 10:27:05 +0000

>Competitive Salary – We ensure fair and attractive compensation that reflects your skills and experience: 18 000 - 27 000 PLN/month

I know it's eastern Europe but that's $5000-7500 a month, barely $90k a year. It sounds like a solo job too so a lot of responsibility for this salary.

New comment by thrownawaysz in "CLI agents make self-hosting on a home server easier and fun"

thrownawaysz — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:59:02 +0000

Way too expensive for that imo (but then again might as well just go all in). Probably a 5G connection is more than enough

New comment by thrownawaysz in "CLI agents make self-hosting on a home server easier and fun"

thrownawaysz — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:24:43 +0000

I went down the self host route some years ago but once critical problems hit I realized that beyond a simple NAS it can be a very demanding hobby.

I was in another country when there was a power outage at home. My internet went down, the server restart but couldn't reconnect anymore because the optical network router also had some problems after the power outage. I could ask my folks to restart, and turn on off things but nothing more than that. So I couldn't reach my Nextcloud instance and other stuff. Maybe an uninterruptible power supply could have helped but the more I was thinking about it after just didn't really worth the hassle anymore. Add a UPS okay. But why not add a dual WAN failover router for extra security if the internet goes down again? etc. It's a bottomless pit (like most hobbies tbh)

Also (and that's a me problem maybe) I was using Tailscale but I'm more "paranoid" about it nowadays. Single point of failure service, US-only SSO login (MS, Github, Apple, Google), what if my Apple account gets locked if I redeem a gift card and I can't use Tailscale anymore? I still believe in self hosting but probably I want something even more "self" to the extremes.