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Not exactly what you're describing, but Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007) had a training course at the start. The game suggested a difficulty level based on how fast you completed it.

When I first saw Google Glass this was my exact idea for the perfect use case. It's a shame that the advertising-fueled, spyware creeper reality of the tech makes that dream seem ever distant.

I'd be more surprised if this was the first time Microsoft did this.

I checked the download page[0] and next to the download button they say they will do this

>You will also receive in-app notifications with promotional offers from Microsoft

[0] https://www.bing.com/apps/wallpaper?pc=w011&brand=bing

>in areas where there is an arbitrary choice between particular words or terms within the code, the watermark can be used, such as comments within code.

I wonder if this is why Opus 5 keeps writing excessively long comments, even though I keep instructing it not to (both in chat, CLAUDE.md, and in its memories)

Exactly. DuckDuckGo used to advertise themselves as a way to escape Google's search bubble[0]

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20140720050529/http://dontbubble...

The BBC had a programme "Your Home Made Perfect" where they would give people a VR demo of two potential home renovations, then they'd build the one they chose. This was a few years back though, so they're using Oculus Gos [0]

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0g7glgm

I wonder if they got permission to generate that (admittedly impressive) Berserk image.

After reading about the default mode network here a few times recently, I think missing out on all that critical "daydreaming" time is a bigger problem. I've stopped listening to things while I'm out walking, and I've noticed a lot more solutions and ideas coming to me. The DMN seems to fall into a similar area as meditation (remember when that was all the rage among tech leaders?); the lowered input noise gives the brain time to clear things out.

Sounds like the "Penfield Mood Organ"[0] from Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. Characters "dial" emotions, from basic to extremely specific (e.g. "481. Awareness of the manifold possibilities open [...] in the future", or "888 [...] The desire to watch TV, no matter what's on it")

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

So is Chromium. But, like with web browsers, competition is always good.

Mentioned in the article, but the source is the excellent YouTube documentary Valve released for Half-Life 2's 20th Anniversary [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCjNT9qGjh4

>was surprised to read that it was built in Godot, which I'd only ever considered for games

The Godot editor is built in Godot [0]

[0] https://docs.godotengine.org/en/3.5/getting_started/introduc...

>Fawns/calves/... can walk almost as soon as they are born. It takes humans far longer to learn that.

Humans are helpless at birth because we have big brains and walk upright. Which means narrower hips which means we need to be born before the brain is fully developed.

The thickness of the book being calculated from its page count is a really nice touch.

Blindsight hit all the right hard sci-fi notes for me. I've yet to find something that scratches that same itch.

Fantastic book. I read it for the first time about a year ago but I still think about it once every week or two. Thought about it as soon as the "spaceship" started to accelerate towards light speed.

The SponsorBlock [0] addon has already solved that for sponsored/ad segments in videos. Rather than AI, crowdsourced timestamps lets it automatically skip past adverts.

[0] https://sponsor.ajay.app/

As do most people who quote the 10,000 hours thing. Gladwell greatly simplified K. Anders Ericsson's work [0]. Most people just read Gladwell's catchy headline and miss the point. Doing something over and over != deliberate practice. In Ericsson's words:

>Expert performance can, however, be traced to active engagement in deliberate practice (DP), where training (often designed and arranged by their teachers and coaches) is focused on improving particular tasks. DP also involves the provision of immediate feedback, time for problem-solving and evaluation, and opportunities for repeated performance to refine behavior.

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18778378/

Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38013151

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37990750

Nice to see this again. Such a clear breakdown of a complex topic, presented beautifully.

Tangentially related, the documentary The Watchmaker's Apprentice [0] is a captivating look at the dedication it takes to create a mechanical watch. It's amazing that it's possible for a single person to craft each tiny cog and spring from scratch and put it all together.

[0] http://www.thewatchmakersapprentice.com/

Not sure if they're being serious, but there's what looks like a "3" on a distant air-con unit, next to left-most tree. If your viewport is narrow you might not see it [0]

[0] https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/clusters/sale_autum...

You might be interested in AdNauseum [0]

> Built atop uBlock Origin, AdNauseam quietly clicks on every blocked ad, registering a visit on ad networks' databases.

[0]: https://adnauseam.io/

Switched from Goodreads to StoryGraph to escape Amazon’s nonsense a while back. Felt like it was missing a few things and found Hardcover recently, and I haven’t looked back.

I don’t really use the social features of these apps, so I’m more interested in the progress tracking and recommendations: I can’t think of any other apps that are working on “AI” recommendations, which so far have been pretty good.

Adam’s email updates are refreshingly non-corporate. Interesting, technical, and honest (he often discusses Hardcover’s finances).

I have an account for my game dev projects on https://mastodon.gamedev.place/ and it's a great community for that kind of stuff. People tend to stay on topic: the local feed is almost exclusively videogame related updates, and it's all very positive.

Great work! It would be nice if the demo page had a game ROM ready to go. You could probably find something free and/or open source on itch.io.

Right-click on a search box > "Add a Keyword for this Search".

Edit: it then gets saved as a bookmark and you can edit it like any other.

Can also recommend Axis. At work we've got a server with a couple hundred cameras connected and they're extremely reliable. Software is easy to use, regular firmware updates (even for older cameras), and in my few dealings with Axis support they've been great.