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Re:Resisting Cognitive Surrender on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @04:55AM (#50350015)
Excellent article.
Re:When code is a maze, smart developers make maps on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @09:09AM (#49711999)
To be honest, this is half of what is posted here. And 99% of the advices you will get in life.
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026) on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @03:31AM (#49709023)
I have been working on a pixel art tool... but in 3d. Basically painting pixel art directly on your low poly models.

http://tricot.studio

I found it weirdly complicated to do that on other software tools like Blender or Autodesk. I just wanted to paint pixels on my 3d characters! So I built my own thing to achieve that.

You can import and export FBX. I am working on a save system so I can include a version control feature.

Re:The lost joy of music piracy on Thursday July 16, 2026 @08:01AM (#48933334)
You're absolutely right
Re:The lost joy of music piracy on Thursday July 16, 2026 @04:45AM (#48931909)
Well. This is what Soundcloud or Bandcamp do. The problem is that: if it's for free, 99% of people won't pay.
You should check Norway, Denmark, France or even Turkey
My mate, learn German and be happy they don't ask for B2 or C1. If I move to China and want the nationality, it's absolutely normal that one expects me to speak Chinese.

As an Ausländer (who reached C1), I am surprised that you are not talking about the other actual and terrible problems the german society is facing: an aging population relying on immigrants to fill in the gaps, taxes everywhere without the advantages of a strong social system, a very expensive health system but with doctors almost prescribing you tea to fight cancer, crippling solitude inherent to the german culture which even spreads to immigrants -more than half of Berlin lives alone-, a housing market held by boomers and huge corporations (literally no houses below 200k€ in the whole country) which leaves you to rent your whole life to shelter your family, a pro-russia, pro-Afd east Germany vastly undevelopped and uneducated compared to the west. And also food, love, conversations. Germany often feels like the bad sides of northern Europe have been mixed with the bad sides of southern Europe.

And then the glass ceiling does not come at B1, but when you start to notice the difference in behaviour the Germans make between C1 and C2. If you want to pursue your whole career in this country, given how strong the german identity is, you will have to know every single subtlties of the language and culture if you are willing to compete for the next step in your career, for instance a management position.

Really, this country has been in a bad shape for at least five years now. Germany lived until now on its bounce after the reunification, the money poured by the Americans after the war and cheap russian gas. Now it feels like the bill other european countries always had to pay in the last decades has been finally handed to Germany.

We all knew this kind of guys. Bless them
Yet again another journalist who read too much science fiction and should stop overestimate a bunch of rocks conveying electrical pulses. Or is this simply to get more clicks?
You'll be okay, mate
Re:Programming with Less Than Nothing on Thursday October 23, 2025 @05:42AM (#45680018)
Let me put that in my list of articles to make you feel dumb
Re:AI for Scientific Search on Friday July 04, 2025 @03:45AM (#44462160)
"AI" is also the opposite of scientific research: word-suggestion algorithm which guess what is the most probable next part given a set of inputs. In the end, you'll still need to prove that your theory is right.
Re:Building a Personal AI Factory on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @04:37AM (#44441364)
Show us the code, mate.
Re:AI Saved My Company from a 2-Year Litigation Nightmare on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @03:52AM (#44233879)
Developers and lawyers have a lot in common. In the end, we write rules that are interpreted, whether a machine or a judge.

Therefore I think the same things apply as in software development, when you start to think you can fire lawyers and replace them with AI: you will then bear the responsibility of the job they did before. That means it can go the right way, but it can also go the wrong, wrong way.

Re:Micrographia (1665) [pdf] on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @03:38AM (#44233797)
> I do here most humbly lay this small Present at Your Majesties Royal feet.

That guy REALLY needed another royal grant for his research

Re:The Ghosts in the Machine on Friday December 20, 2024 @03:41AM (#42469331)
So what? We are talking about low-fi, chill music and smooth jazz; these genres already sound AI generated from the start. And this won't stop people from making music as well, maybe just deny them to get paid for making a track in half an hour on Fruity Loops.
Re:How to find exploits in video games on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @06:54AM (#42114803)
Very interesting
Re:Two examples of hover styles on images on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @04:22AM (#41922983)
"The future is now, old man!"
Re:The Art of Finishing on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @03:54AM (#41432411)
My guy discovered what Agile really means
Re:The Fall of StackOverflow: A Data-Driven Analysis on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @05:41AM (#41377740)
What a peculiar take, the whole of it
Re:The dangers of "decentralized" ID systems on Monday April 22, 2024 @03:41AM (#40112166)
I think "The state won’t give up its monopoly on identity" is the most violently american sentence I read in the whole year.
Keep in mind: this period does end at some point. All the best!
Re:40 Years of Programming on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @06:57AM (#39690010)
Same for me.
Re:Is htmx Just Another JavaScript Framework? on Thursday January 11, 2024 @09:45AM (#38952816)
Thank you.
God, take the salesman if you please, but not the Woz!!
Re:Nue.js: Rethinking Reactivity on Monday October 02, 2023 @05:07AM (#37735686)
Why does the majority of front end developers have trouble learning OOP and spend their whole time trying to avoid it?

Signed: a concerned Angular (the best framework there is in the whole world) developer

)))))
Re:Buffer Overflows in Notepad++ on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @08:45AM (#37321171)
I always said it: they should work more on their code, not on which kiss-up political title the next version will have.
A manufacturer in Ukraine? I wonder which hackers from which country would have incentives to do that in 2014.
Re:I didn't write any JavaScript, and other shortcuts on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @09:17AM (#37235404)
Alright, I will tell my customer it is not possible then, before they leave for the competition who is willing to put the "thousands JS lines".

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