virgil_disgr4ce

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Comment · 6 hours ago
Vibe coding pro tip: your landing page sections do not need 300px y-margins
Comment · 6 hours ago
you realize that "the masses" don't give a shit, right? Everyone's grandparents are on facebook FOR the racist rightwing AI slop. I mean, unfortunately. I'd like to be wrong.
Comment · 2 days ago
Fun fact, according to C-Nol himself, his brother (Jonathan Nolan) wrote that line
Comment · 3 days ago
I don't think I'll ever understand this argument. Especially from purported "hackers."

Why is a large number of ideas, technologies, frameworks, etc. bad?

Comment · 3 days ago
I can't figure out the sentiment of your comment. Are you trying to say marketing should not be necessary for some reason?
Comment · 5 days ago
> The MWI has no explanation for how this other infinity of possible states disappears into just two states

They don't disappear. This is the entire point of MW.

Comment · 8 days ago
This reminds me of when I did ketamine therapy. For some reason, the ONLY tether to reality that stayed intact during the k-hole was the ambient drones/loops coming through the headphones. Even during the experience I found this insane. Why should that one particular sense be carried through when everything else was left so far behind as to feel incomprehensibly alien?
Comment · 8 days ago
Explain how anything could in any way "kill music."
Comment · 8 days ago
I don't think you clicked far enough. There's an entire section about the temporal element, replete with time-axis charts.
Comment · 11 days ago
You're not the only one. I also regret upgrading, primarily because of the window management issues. I typically use 3-4 "spaces" and an external monitor and it's now a pathetically stupid nightmare, where windows almost never retain their last position correctly (which they used to do perfectly fine), and my keyboard shortcuts for spaces don't work until I run `killall Dock`, but I have to do this EVERY TIME MY MONITOR TURNS OFF or every time I change monitors. So freaking ridiculous and irritating. It's fucking 2026
Comment · 11 days ago
This is a completely absurd take. The entire point of TFA is that it used to work fantastically well until iOS 27 broke it.
Comment · 13 days ago
I'll take any opportunity to spread the word about Freya Holmér's incredible overview of splines, "The Continuity of Splines": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvPPXbo87ds

It's one of the single most informative and useful math videos I've ever seen, and taught me so much stuff I had no idea existed. I've been using beziers since I was a teen learning a pirated version of adobe illustrator 6 or 7 and I had simply assumed beziers were all you needed. NOPE!!!!

Not only that, it allowed me to realize what was wrong with a game prototype I was working on at the time, which had exactly to do with the continuity problems discussed in the video. Cannot recommend it enough.

Comment · 26 days ago
I humbly propose you simply read the article
Comment · 29 days ago
ok, wow, I know HN nerds are itching to find any way at all to loudly proclaim the downfall of humankind, but THIS is your example? Did you hear a whooshing sound over your head by any chance?
Comment · 1 month ago
Anecdotal or subjective don't mean "wrong." I would 100% agree that claude and chatgpt have different 'styles.' They do have their own patterns, and those patterns are distinguishable.

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