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Have you ever heard of gacha? This is the entire shtick as I understand it
Re:Nvidia is the central bank of AI on Saturday September 12, 2026 @12:16PM (#49673932)
Reading this makes me yearn for the ability to downvote comments
It's receiving less attention than it merits
Re:The Golden Rule for Becoming a Better Writer on Sunday August 23, 2026 @09:43AM (#49408809)
You could always post it on a web-serial site like: https://www.royalroad.com

I have seen that to be a viable path to publishing many times now, as well as other benefits like building a community of readers.

Re:The Golden Rule for Becoming a Better Writer on Sunday August 23, 2026 @09:41AM (#49408794)
How so? The masses are composed of individuals... who can commit to continuing to read.

Are you talking about incentives?

Re:Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful on Thursday August 20, 2026 @01:25PM (#49377562)
> They had access to the school just like everyone else

They literally did not. They had access to the school from a different entrance than everybody else. Specifically, one intended for cargo before people.

Re:The UK's War on Anonymity Has Come to America on Monday August 10, 2026 @11:18PM (#49252962)
Could you please link those warnings? I’m interested in institutional forecasts of such challenges in the upcoming decades.
Re:"Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?" on Friday June 12, 2026 @09:24PM (#48511382)
Please do, thank you! I have been similarly skeptical as your comment's parent
Re:Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @12:57PM (#48479219)
Ridiculous example that does nothing to argue the original, fair point. Obviously health interventions demand more finely tuned solutions than information technology

FWIW, maintaining at least a moderate degree of empathy even in systemically frustrating situations is good for the empathizer and thus in one’s interest

Re:Claude Fable 5 on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @11:51AM (#48478211)
This is incredibly cool. Thanks for the detailed explanations!
Re:Steve Jobs Next Computer: His Forgotten Exile Years on Friday May 15, 2026 @08:41AM (#48147882)
Is that how filing for bankruptcy works?
Re:MIT: 20% drop in incoming graduate students on Thursday May 14, 2026 @04:36PM (#48140898)
I think the key difference is that: "going to school", sure you need a living stipend, but the actual research phase has serious WLB and working condition issues
Re:A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro on Sunday May 10, 2026 @12:42AM (#48081066)
Oh look it's jibe's account!
Could you explain the last sentence a bit more? I don’t follow
This is a classic example of slippery slope fallacy, and not in the spirit of intellectual curiosity for which this forum exists
By listening to your friends and circle
Re:Ask HN: What did you read in 2025? on Friday December 26, 2025 @09:46PM (#46398604)
DCC is êxcéllént. I have also been enjoying Pale Lights and The Years of Apocalypse.
They are not, that is expectation of future performance based upon past. Reality is too complex and dynamic for that.
The definition of "enemy" is not limited to "people that are trying to kill you"
Why?
Re:Blogs rot. Wikis wait on Thursday January 02, 2025 @12:06AM (#42571799)
This? https://getindie.wiki/

Thank you from a long-time hater of Fandom and PE-driven enshittification and lover of community-driven knowledge work

Re:Cognitive load is what matters on Wednesday December 25, 2024 @07:47PM (#42512322)
Having given up programming, what do you do now?
Unreal. Thanks for helping me retrain my mental arithmetic
Re:How I ship projects at big tech companies on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @06:07AM (#42114554)
I like the cut of your jib. Let’s let the sails loose on this venture and see if we can’t move the needle.
Re:Buy payphones and retire on Monday October 28, 2024 @03:33PM (#41975169)
Not everyone can buy USA bonds. Is the population of winners and losers all humanity?
Re:Open Source on its own is no alternative to Big Tech on Sunday October 27, 2024 @05:58AM (#41961213)
Same, but not necessarily due to nationality. It very much depends on the company culture and interpersonal relationship in question
Re:Wikipedia article blocked worldwide by Delhi high court on Friday October 25, 2024 @10:46PM (#41952126)
Human attention and energy is relatively limited though, and the medium of the Internet and its control is just for that

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