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  1. Comment on What are your favorite low cost main dishes/meals? in ~food

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    Have any lentil soup pointers? I've had some in restaurants that I've liked a lot, but never made it myself.

    Have any lentil soup pointers? I've had some in restaurants that I've liked a lot, but never made it myself.

    2 votes

  2. Comment on What ridiculous thing would you spend billions on? in ~talk

  3. Comment on What ridiculous thing would you spend billions on? in ~talk

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    I've been disappointed that I've been to exactly 0 aerial stately dinner parties.

    I've been disappointed that I've been to exactly 0 aerial stately dinner parties.

    4 votes

  4. Comment on What ridiculous thing would you spend billions on? in ~talk

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    I'll drag Crush 40 out of the retirement home with my own hands if I must

    I'll drag Crush 40 out of the retirement home with my own hands if I must

    3 votes

  5. Comment on What ridiculous thing would you spend billions on? in ~talk

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    I was just thinking about this the other day too! I would love to see an OS like that, where everything is an extensible package instead of a silo'd program loosely connected with pipes.

    I was just thinking about this the other day too! I would love to see an OS like that, where everything is an extensible package instead of a silo'd program loosely connected with pipes.

    2 votes

  6. Comment on What ridiculous thing would you spend billions on? in ~talk

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    Fund Sonic Adventure 3 out of pocket, specifically hiring the best hip-hop artists of today to make the music for the Knuckles levels.

    Fund Sonic Adventure 3 out of pocket, specifically hiring the best hip-hop artists of today to make the music for the Knuckles levels.

    48 votes

  7. Comment on Tildes, I need your advice. Looking for Nintendo Switch 1 and NS2 games. in ~games

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    Any of the Pikmin series. 1 & 2 are harder games, 3 or 4 are easier games.

    Any of the Pikmin series. 1 & 2 are harder games, 3 or 4 are easier games.

    3 votes

  8. Comment on Super Mario Galaxy 1 and 2 getting rerelease on Nintendo Switch, bundle for $70 or standalone for $40 each in ~games

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    Annoying that this isn't just 3D All Stars DLC, but at least Galaxy 2 gets a re-release after so long, it's a great game.

    Annoying that this isn't just 3D All Stars DLC, but at least Galaxy 2 gets a re-release after so long, it's a great game.

    12 votes

  9. Comment on ‘Call of Duty’ movie in the works under major Paramount Skydance, Microsoft’s Activision pact in ~movies

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    After recently watching Ahoy's video about COD4 that detailed the history of the franchise, this is a hilarious full-circle moment. Medal of Honor cribbed off Saving Private Ryan. CoD was...

    After recently watching Ahoy's video about COD4 that detailed the history of the franchise, this is a hilarious full-circle moment. Medal of Honor cribbed off Saving Private Ryan. CoD was off-brand Medal of Honor when it was new. Now a CoD movie?

    I can't imagine it'll be any good given that the modern games are creatively bankrupt and CoD doesn't really have a consistent plot or setting like other game franchises.

    8 votes

  10. Comment on What have you been watching / reading this week? (Anime/Manga) in ~anime

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    The only reason I haven't watched City is due to where it's streaming. I definitely want to see it though, Nichijou was a masterpiece so it's probably up my alley.

    The only reason I haven't watched City is due to where it's streaming. I definitely want to see it though, Nichijou was a masterpiece so it's probably up my alley.

    1 vote

  11. Comment on Should C be mandatory learning for career developers? in ~comp

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    Agree. I think the low-level ideas in C about memory management, pointers, and hardware device programming can be taught just as well in any other systems language. I think seeing a little...

    Agree. I think the low-level ideas in C about memory management, pointers, and hardware device programming can be taught just as well in any other systems language. I think seeing a little assembly, and seeing how languages compile to it might be good things to see (e.g. Compiler Explorer)

    7 votes

  12. Comment on Does anyone have a digg invite code I can get ? in ~tech

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    I'd like an invite if anyone has one too.

    I'd like an invite if anyone has one too.

  13. Comment on Over twenty-one days of talking with ChatGPT, an otherwise perfectly sane man became convinced he was a superhero in ~tech

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    I think that the UI might be one culprit in this issue (though not the only one). Making it look like a "conversation" suggests a much higher level of capability and understanding than LLMs...

    I think that the UI might be one culprit in this issue (though not the only one). Making it look like a "conversation" suggests a much higher level of capability and understanding than LLMs actually have.

    I wonder if something as simple as making all the text centered and not in text message bubbles would help alleviate some of this, the goal being to portray it as making a query like a search engine rather than having a conversation with an all-knowing machine. Maybe also change the LLM font to be some monospace retro font in all-caps to suggest otherness.

    I'm no UX designer, but I do wonder if UX/UI could be used to reinforce what an LLM is and is not.

    30 votes

  14. Comment on What is your criteria for what counts as a "retro" video game? in ~games

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    To me, retro requires being actually old and substantially different from what we have now in either graphics or gameplay. In other words, a game that is different due to the constraints of the...

    To me, retro requires being actually old and substantially different from what we have now in either graphics or gameplay. In other words, a game that is different due to the constraints of the time.

    Crow Country is retro-styled to me, but not retro for sure.

    I do think that GameCube and PS2 can probably be considered retro now (so I guess I'll expect my AARP info packet soon).

    However, I'm not sure if PS4 (or even PS3) will ever be retro, given that PS5 is just "faster PS4"; to my eye there isn't a fundamental change between these, rather just a bump to texture quality. It looks significantly better, but doesn't seem to have fundamentally changed the games. In that sense, modern games may only ever become "old" unless there's a major breakthrough in video game graphics like PS1 -> PS2 -> PS3.

    19 votes

  15. Comment on iOS26 "Liquid Glass" - is it really such a big deal? in ~tech

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    I'm surprised that the reactions are all so negative. I thought this would range from "neat" to "whatever". I am personally glad to see something different in UI. Flat UIs are so depressing that I...

    I'm surprised that the reactions are all so negative. I thought this would range from "neat" to "whatever".

    I am personally glad to see something different in UI. Flat UIs are so depressing that I find it difficult to work on things. Others mentioned Windows Vista/7 Aero, which was genuinely the last time that I liked the way a UI looked. I hope that this is a step towards getting rid of the overbearing minimalism in modern UI design, even if just a small one.

    2 votes

  16. Comment on I deleted my second brain in ~tech

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    This is similar to me. I took notes, but they were horrendously disorganized and unreadable; essentially useless to look back at. I figured out that I was really just taking notes to keep my hands...

    This is similar to me. I took notes, but they were horrendously disorganized and unreadable; essentially useless to look back at. I figured out that I was really just taking notes to keep my hands busy, and actually learning by listening to the lectures.

    1 vote

  17. Comment on The Common Pile v0.1: An 8TB dataset of public domain and openly licensed text in ~tech

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    It would be neat if there was a drop box where people could just add more text to the data set, like a perpetual stew of language. (I can see the obvious issues with this though)

    It would be neat if there was a drop box where people could just add more text to the data set, like a perpetual stew of language. (I can see the obvious issues with this though)

    8 votes

  18. Comment on Persona 4 Revival (Xbox Games Showcase 2025) | Teaser trailer in ~games

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    I bought P4G not long ago, was waiting to play until I finished P3R. Now I'm wondering if I should just wait for the remake and play through some other backlog instead. Interesting hearing people...

    I bought P4G not long ago, was waiting to play until I finished P3R. Now I'm wondering if I should just wait for the remake and play through some other backlog instead.

    Interesting hearing people online talking about how leaks forced their hand to drop a trailer early, wonder how much merit that rumor has?

    3 votes

  19. Comment on Final Rush is great for all the wrong reasons (Sonic Adventure 2: Battle level analysis) in ~games

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    I love this guy's SA2 videos! Always gives me a new appreciation for the level design.

    I love this guy's SA2 videos! Always gives me a new appreciation for the level design.

    2 votes

  20. Comment on New computer breakthrough: Light-speed unlocked in ~tech

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    Yeah, I'm having trouble finding anything that isn't marketing about this company's design. For CPUs, the point early in the video of "nearly 32b precision" (that is, not even 32b of precision)...

    Yeah, I'm having trouble finding anything that isn't marketing about this company's design.

    For CPUs, the point early in the video of "nearly 32b precision" (that is, not even 32b of precision) seems to rule this out for general purpose applications.

    Even for this AI workload, I'm a little skeptical. I would want to see a couple things: first, whether after precision loss, the models are still useful. ML researchers sweat blood to improve accuracy for a reason, throwing that out because of the hardware platform doesn't make much sense. Second, if we are willing to accept lower accuracy, how does it compare to running a model that had the lower accuracy (= smaller model) in the first place?

    If anyone found anything solid about this I'd be interested to see it, but analog computing hasn't been a good idea all these years, so the bar for it to be the right answer now is high.

    2 votes