bennyschmidt

Ah get me out of this Reddit hell - can you delete my account? Have you earned the social credit score to do that here?

Can't do math? I said literally "a tiny % of revenue" and considering <$1M a year at best is a lot less than what Russel Brand makes each year in total revenues, I think the point stands. It's literally a tiny %. Who are you people lol? So desperate to destroy people online.

Well I'm done using this site. So over this culture.

It is absolutely illegal to plant food on random land. Even on your own land, there is a strict limit to what you can grow, and how much of it.

Think it was a different green area - the Fertile Crescent, not the Sahara. Eden would have been where modern day Kuwait is. As for ancient towns in Sahara, for a long time people wondered how the desert people lived in such a harsh area - but it turns out they've just been there since it was lush. They didn't move to the desert and learn how to survive there, they're just what's left of those populations from the Sahara, and adapted to the changing conditions.

If AI does decentralization better than crypto I'm about to laugh

Yeah so when I go to your profile, notice how it only hides my comment from yours? That's because you downvoted it with your barely 500+ karma. Also you get a +1 when you post anything, but mine says +0 on this one, and nobody else cares about it except you. Is it against the rules to be a pathological liar?

Just like Johnny Depp and Amber Heard right? Oh wait Depp won, was awarded millions, everyone knew about it, and Amber Heard was mocked & laughed at until she faded off. Why doesn't Brand do what Depp did, if they are just making it all up?

Level designers use tools, not really contributing at the game engine level. Long before I built Shadowvane I built a map editor in Three.js that anybody could use. If the game became profitable, in-house tooling would sophisticate and the team would be the ones shaping it. But yes if for some reason my first hire was a level designer, they could add value day 1.

Thanks, and who the hell does he think he is lol He voted me down for it

I agree with you. There are far more wealthy transplants buying the houses and changing policies after being here 4 seconds than there are inbound homeless.

There have been more wealthy Great Lakes (Canada, Michigan) people flooding to SF than anyone else for years now. Pretty much since Detroit died.

You can always tell because they don't assimilate. Canadians LOVE their own flag, and will typically wear it on their clothing every day, while condescending all the arrogant Americans lol. Same with Michigan and the color yellow. Look what they did to JFK in the park T_T

They have the exact same views toward homeless and home ownership and opportunities here in SF as they did back home. To us locals, it looks a lot like a wave of people from a failed city are coming here with their failed policies to try and kill this city next.

All of the land is 100% owned, even the land that nobody ever uses. Nobody can use it - zoned off. There are no spots left to find and build a house somewhere. You're also not allowed to set up in a city - that's homelessness. You're not even allowed to plant seeds of food, that's illegal. The only way you are allowed to have a roof over your head or have food is when you pay someone for it, and it's all 100% already owned, you can't just go get it. How much should it cost? Hm, thousands of dollars every 30 days. Or you can get out of that if you pay hundreds of thousands up front for a mortgage and then property tax forever.

Peak civilization

YouTube ads are a tiny % of revenue. Celebrities on YT make their money from brand deals, not ads. Remember "Adpocalypse" and the beginning of all this ultra clean PC talk online? Before all that, sure you could make a living from YT ads, but many channels don't even have them on because it's cents. For example I have over 50k views on some videos, but the ad revenue is nothing.

If what they're saying isn't true, why doesn't he just sue them for defamation?

It took me about 3 days to build the engine, including custom physics, gravity/jumping, collision detection including raycasting, and about 3 weeks to finalize it and start working on the game. Game was released in under a month and we already have a small community. It was definitely worth spending a little up front time to avoid a service provider, and have more control over the mechanics and look/feel of the game.

By the way, you re-use a lot of the same code when you build in-house, like you said often times your 1st title is not a hit, but you improve upon a lot of that engine code and release subsequent games. Most AAA developers do this.

Everyone told me "use Unity" "the biggest mistake you can make is building your own engine". How well did that advice age?

Nobody needs Unity or Unreal.

My most recent game (playshadowvane.com) is built on 100% proprietary technology, I built everything in-house down to the physics.

Always ignore mainstream game dev advice, they are just trying to sell you products. Build as much as you can in-house, it's not only better for the look/feel of the game, but no company will be able to rug pull you later.

"It's like Slack... but with Reddit mods!" I miss the Ventrilo days

GPT 3.5 is so bad it's useless to me - for writing it's too repetitive of the same kind of jargon, for coding it's wrong way too often. The NLP is also worse, I have to be more explicit. It's just an average chat bot IMO.

GPT 4 @ $20/mo. is significantly better at everything, I use it for doing stuff in Angular lol - when you have an AI explaining the why behind everything, this over-engineered mess of a framework starts to actually make sense. Definitely nice to have around as a translator/teacher or troubleshooting assistant. Can't imagine googling for answers to problems if this gets any better. The main thing is just habit - GPT 4 is lower effort to arrive at more direct, bespoke answers.

The one feature I want is built-in prompt-splitting, so we don't have to use third-party tools. In my all-wise random person's opinion: Forget the old versions of GPT, and forget the phony ethics, and focus on the best version of this technology, sell it for $20/month, make billions and disrupt a lot of things online.

Wrong - you're assuming all apps are served over the web, the network firewall is not going to care what port you run on an app on your machine - it only applies to traffic in/out of the network. You better go tell Express.js and all the apps that use 1337 by default they're all doing it wrong, and you know something they don't know.

My external web services are of course served over HTTPS (8443) to external traffic, but there's nothing wrong at all with using 1337 for client-side apps, as I mentioned with Kdenlive (a video editing software that runs on my desktop).

1337 for everything... until I installed Kdenlive and realized they were as cool as me, so sometimes 1336 >.>

> people who want to write beautiful code, spend lots of time on it, and don’t care if it actually does what it was intended to do

There was a funny React framework a while back that has all kinds of cool state management and this and that, but it renders nothing. For the developers who spend more time theorizing, migrating, refactoring, than shipping.

It's funny when people go back and forth about the time complexity of a click handler (that is debounced anyway), and they arrive at the optimal solution, but when you use the app the entire thing is super clunky lol where is the concern for time complexity of me using the product xD

lol

Nice try with the quotes hahah. But no, that is not mentioned in the whitepaper, and you are way off now: Cold storage is a cloud term for long-term storage, it has nothing to do with "cold wallets" - the term centralized exchanges use for "off-chain" assets.

Also this (from bitcoin whitepaper):

"A block header with no transactions would be about 80 bytes. If we suppose blocks are generated every 10 minutes, 80 bytes * 6 * 24 * 365 = 4.2MB per year. With computer systems typically selling with 2GB of RAM as of 2008, and Moore's Law predicting current growth of 1.2GB per year, storage should not be a problem even if the block headers must be kept in memory."

I'm convinced 90% of people talking about crypto don't get it.

I agree all drugs should be decriminalized.

There would have to be some market regulation around sales and storefronts, at least the level of cigarettes and alcohol in regards to the customer being of age, product packaging, quality control, what-not. There is still a problem where... if you just allow stores to sell amphetamines and opiates, even if they meet the legal requirements, the usage of those drugs will simply go up. Taking that into account, a lot of people prefer it to stay illegal. Even though what you said makes the most logical sense, people would overwhelmingly not want their kids to be able to buy it so easily, and they'd vote to keep them illegal.

Hospitals and doctors of course want them to be illegal too, so they can remain the sole legal distributors of opiates and amphetamines.

I think the cannabis dispensary model could prove out something interesting. Although psilocybin is not my thing, I see they're trying it out in a few locations.

With respect, this sounds like a kids show depiction. It's not like an opiate, nor anything like being drunk. People use it while working - coders, writers, artists, etc. in the day time, often along with coffee. I think a lot of people get this wrong about weed, because "functionally useless" is not at all how I would describe it. Some of your favorite music, video games, even coding libraries were created by stoners!

Also when you say coffee smells good and cannabis doesn't - highly subjective right? I love coffee, but some really high quality coffee smells like s*t haha (literally). There are some fruity, piney, lemony, and floral scents from fresh cannabis, just like there is a nice aroma from fresh coffee. In both cases you're talking about a flowering plant, with highly subjective smells and varying terpenoid profiles. However, note that the terepenes "pinene" "limonene" etc. in cannabis are the exact same plant terpenoids in pine trees, lemons, etc. so if you like the smell of pine trees, lemon, mangoes, roses, and other highly floral scents, you will likely also at least appreciate the smell of cannabis.

I've said too much for Hacker News!

The crypto phase only ended up strengthening institutions, because it showed everyone that you do need a central authority. Until enough public internet infrastructure exists to realistically pull off a fully peer-to-peer Internet, we will need trusts, exchanges, and platforms.

Even in competitive sports, you want a referee. If anything, this whole phase has shown me that private platforms, banks, and governments will always have a place in public societies.

From the Bitcoin whitepaper: "A common solution is to introduce a trusted central authority ... The problem with this solution is that the fate of the entire money system depends on the company"

The vision of course did not include centralized authorities, it's counter to the entire purpose. We already have had digital banks, crypto is not about having digital convenience. It's not the "exchange" part that wasn't envisioned, it's the "centralized" part, because that is the same thing as a bank. That's what the SEC (rightly) made their case on with Coinbase and others. Bitconnect, FTX, Coinbase... that kind of thing was not envisioned originally and is counter to the whole concept and purpose of crypto.

> the re-branding of weed as "cannabis"

Clearly "weed" is the slang term and "cannabis" is the name of the plant!

> These same potheads

This seems more like branding to me :P

The ultimate denial has to be the people with ADHD, because of course the only cure for ADHD is daily meth amphetamine use. "It actually calms me down"