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No, he really doesn't believe in them.
Re:Good vs. Great Animations on Wednesday April 30, 2025 @02:17PM (#43848944)
The "Spring-based interaction" feels absolutely terrible, way too slow and laggy.
Re:Dave Täht has passed away on Wednesday April 02, 2025 @12:17PM (#43558334)
What killed him?
Re:Blender releases their Oscar winning version tool on Thursday March 27, 2025 @06:32AM (#43492103)
> I remember using Blender when everyone was saying how terrible of a UX it was.

It isn't terrible anymore but still bad.

Re:Deep Learning Is Not So Mysterious or Different on Monday March 17, 2025 @02:06PM (#43391137)
I too felt threatened
Re: on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @06:53AM (#42621502)
Like all revolutionary technologies that came before, the gain in productivity in the entire economy is worth a few jobs.
Re:Researchers discover new third class of magnetism on Monday December 16, 2024 @05:20AM (#42429715)
the spirit of lk-99 lives on
Re:Ask HN: 2026 Predictions on Friday December 13, 2024 @09:16AM (#42408575)
Ali Khamenei dies
Re:Ask HN: 2026 Predictions on Friday December 13, 2024 @09:11AM (#42408535)
being 100 bps off target is not a "high inflation environment"
Which crypto Bill Ackman is trying to dump on retail?
Re:Microsoft Recall is now an explorer.exe dependency on Thursday October 10, 2024 @02:42PM (#41801942)
Yeah this is it for me, cleaning up my windows installation and backing up my files, going to move to some linux distro this month.
Re:Everyone's Lonely but Why? Workplace Loneliness Statistics on Thursday October 10, 2024 @10:18AM (#41799087)
Online dating and women's hypergamy
> This is bringing more eyeballs to space tourism. So that more crypto bros can have a cocktail in orbit at the expense of everyone else.

What is the problem with that? This is funding space research and development by SpaceX. This just feels like a generic "few can pay for it but I don't therefore it's bad", you're just being envious.

> Just that the "version" of capitalism we're running now produces inequalities that allow people to pull up that kind of stunts.

This "stunt" was a major achievement for humankind, maybe this "version" of capitalism isn't that bad after all

Re:Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt's Leaked Stanford Talk on Friday August 16, 2024 @07:26AM (#41265321)
Fuchsia isn't dead. Yet.
And this is how Grok will out compete other image generation services, unless they adapt of course.
Re:Re-fixing Servo's event-loop on Thursday August 15, 2024 @08:18AM (#41255047)
>It is meaningless to model a great algorithm in abstract mathematical models, and then let someone else implementing them in C89 with raw BSD sockets and C strings

Bold statement, at least in that case you know the algorithm isn't wrong.

Re:Crowdstrike Outage Causing Widespread Issues on Friday July 19, 2024 @08:12AM (#41005568)
How is it caviar then?
Re: on Thursday July 18, 2024 @03:51PM (#40999079)
Anyone can do that by paying for it
Re:General Theory of Neural Networks on Monday July 15, 2024 @10:04AM (#40968004)
Can you expand on that?
>A Quantum Leap in Mathematics

A very small leap in mathematics then?

There are verified compilers such as the compcert compiler and also ways to verify that a given binary does in fact correctly implement an specification
Re:Welcome to Ladybird on Monday July 01, 2024 @10:54AM (#40846380)
Great jab at the Motzilla foundation that focuses on "Pocket", "Mozilla VPN", millions of dollars in CEO compensations, AI investments, political deplatforming and other things (maybe Firefox).
This is a bit of an overgeneralization, it's possible to be pro deregulation in certain markets while at the same time supporting regulation on proper disposal of toxic industrial waste.
Re:MTV news website goes dark, archives pulled offline on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @02:09PM (#40791610)
Incentives to mine it with storage hardware and maintain the ledger with ponzi-like economics
Re:MTV news website goes dark, archives pulled offline on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @02:08PM (#40791594)
Yes that is the idea, there already are successful blockchains such as arweave that functions like this.
Re:MTV news website goes dark, archives pulled offline on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @12:53PM (#40790772)
Blockchain solves this, it is possible to fund immutable data archival and ordering using a blockchain cryptocurrency.

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