Rant423

I miss Stadia

I just had a screen and a internet connection. Bliss.

recommendations:

* Our Ancestors (The Cloven Viscount, The Baron in the Trees, The Nonexistent Knight)

* The Complete Cosmicomics (Cosmicomics, t zero, + others)

* Invisible Cities

* If on a winter's night a traveler

same.

before it was a job, I was programming exclusively to trance.fm (sadly gone)

Don Quixote is #1

everyone else is in alphabetical order

A nice overview of the page numbers:

https://www.reddit.com/r/codexseraphinianus/comments/qpy2r8/...

Nine Sols was a way easier game

For me it was the other way around. In Nine Sols I got immediately stuck in the boss (mini-boss?) fight against two enemies and the flying gal.

Hollow Knight was difficult at times (Coliseum of Fools, Radiance) but it never felt unfair. Some fights (Mantis Lords, Grimm) are among the best times I've had playing a game

An application of the Poisson distribution (1946)

https://garcialab.berkeley.edu/courses/papers/Clarke1946.pdf

Mandatory Tom Scott videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvJzi0BXcGI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAsrsMPftOI

Previous submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42202288 (1 comment)

Amazing list by Nabokov, and "strong opinions" indeed

It reminded me of Southland Tales.

Not a bad thing

Something like 8 years ago I used this tutorial to get unlimited food at the uni vending machine. Good times.

https://firefart.at/post/how-to-crack-mifare-classic-cards/

Never even heard of one of their "prominent" supporters.

That's entirely on you. There are some big names in the (european) comic book industry.

I posted the website which seems somehow not updated; this reel is how it was brought to my attention: https://www.instagram.com/p/C8l-9RbshIE/

THIS is the best resource on dithering I've read (except maybe some gritty details in forum posts by the author of Obra Dinn)

You could've just said "no"

I played Myst on my second pc, on Windows 98. It was an amazing experience, even if I never finished it.

I re-played on the Nintendo Switch, and it was again amazing (I managed to finish it this time).

Never played any of the sequels, so I hope Riven makes it to Switch too

My conclusion is that LAION is built using model upon model upon model; so each error propagates and the resulting dataset is kinda shitty.

But "we" made amazing stuff out of LAION.

So: the next person who can curate a high-quality big dataset is gonna make a fortune

Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39384282 (2 days ago, 1 comment)

"The Codebreakers" is an incredible book. One of the books I would save during a fire.

Given the default life expectancy of 65, I am at almost 50%.

Fucking terrifying.

(I moved it up to 80 years)

The right way to do it is how The Wire has done it: https://davidsimon.com/the-wire-hd-with-videos/

I agree in line of principle, everything that was officially released should be preserved.

But "accuracy" is the wrong word I think, old home video transfers are not more representative of the original theatrical presentation just because they came out first

About the new Trainspotting color correction: https://twitter.com/SadHillDevan/status/1714317990819500239?...

do people take 100% of their allowed time off?

Yes. In some places, they FORCE you to take your allowed time off

Related: https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1992/08/27

Sometimes you want deterministic, rule-based results (e.g. https://spacy.io/usage/rule-based-matching) and not a "fuzzy" one (LLMs)

My constant source of werid-but-great wikipedia articles:

https://www.instagram.com/depthsofwikipedia/

https://twitter.com/depthsofwiki

It could be an extreme version of FOMO: you see the end of humanity, nothing left afterwards. That's nice, sense of completion, I followed until the end.

"Great Books" Lists: http://sonic.net/~rteeter/greatbks.html