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You’re layering several hypotheticals on top of each other, which leads to progressively distant possibilities. Good on you for caring about humans though

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قبل 5 أشهرdiscuss

For what it's worth, Bun is written in Zig (https://bun.sh/). The language isn't exactly in an early stage.

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قبل 6 أشهرdiscuss

Palantir came to me multiple times over the years asking me to interview as a senior swe. The temptation was very strong back then. Insane pay package as you can imagine... but I had a really bad feeling about them and always turned them down.

What a huge relief. One of my best moments of foresight.

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قبل 6 أشهرdiscuss

Sure, they build innocent dashboards in the same way that your name is an innocent Dutch word. Obvious bad faith arguments coming from a troll.

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قبل 8 أشهرdiscuss

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How I can serve you:

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Open to short term or long term contracts. Rates are negotiable, generally ranging $150/hr to $200/hr depending on your individual needs. Let's find a custom solution that's mindful of your runway.

warent

قبل 9 أشهرdiscuss

Thanks for sharing. Absolutely right; people need to feel useful and valued—not to mention, jobs can help us get out of the house and connect with people.

Just to be clear, are you saying the only life work that you can find fulfillment in is work that can be perfectly automated and handled by AI? Do you have an example of what you mean?

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قبل 9 أشهرdiscuss

Runaway capitalism! Time for me to log off for another ~2 years

warent

قبل 9 أشهرdiscuss

Elites unilaterally claiming and reaping the benefits of automation (i.e. consolidation of wealth) is not a law of nature.

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قبل 9 أشهرdiscuss

You’re right and validating the point.

A specific part of GP’s comment keeps getting overlooked:

  So the problem isn't robots, it's the structure of how we humans rely on jobs for income.

Humans being forced to trade time for survival, money, and the enrichment of the elite, is a bug. We are socially conditioned to believe it’s a feature and the purpose.

Nobody is saying robots should replace human connection and expression

Edit: tone

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قبل 9 أشهرdiscuss

Equating “business” to “profound human intimacy” might be one of the most HackerNews comments of all time

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قبل 9 أشهرdiscuss

You’re getting a lot of negative feedback for whatever reason, but you’re absolutely right.

I for one remember reading about possible silicon/methane based life, etc. Actually, here’s a whole wikipedia article on what you’re talking about.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothetical_types_of_bioche...

Perhaps HN folks will lose your scent now and direct their snark there

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قبل 3 سنواتdiscuss

I've been using https://cascadeur.com/ to animate the models that I hire artists to make

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قبل 3 سنواتdiscuss

If you have the money for it, you should really consider hiring a contract artist to supplement your gaps.

A concept artist and a 3D modeling artist altogether will cost like $3000 for 1 fully complete character that fits your vision. For 2D probably a lot cheaper.

For me, $3000 is worth the months/yrs of saved time.

Of course if you are having fun learning the art side and don't care about the destination as much then ignore this and have fun with it! If you practice every day for a year you'll probably start getting close to what you invision.

EDIT: I'll also add that it's possible most of the aesthetic you're looking for can be achieved via shaders (for both 3D and 2D games). A lot of art looks very different in-game because of shaders doing all kinds of manipulations.

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قبل 3 سنواتdiscuss

This is awesome, I'll try it out when I get back to the office. Very nice find

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قبل 3 سنواتdiscuss

WOW that's amazing how different people's experiences can be.

I smoked one pack spread out 2 or 3 days, for about 3 years (in college). Rarely would do a full pack in a day.

Quitting was pure torture. I stayed up 24 hours walking laps around my campus. Took like four full days for cravings to go away.

Haven't had a cigarette in 10 yrs. Occasionally enjoy a cigar without problems

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قبل 3 سنواتdiscuss

The landing page linked above gives a pretty detailed write-up about the point of their service

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قبل 3 سنواتdiscuss

There is no hate here nor anything intended to be a personal attack on specific individuals, but clearly my comment struck a nerve.

This comes across as a saddeningly extreme armchair psychological evaluation and extrapolation to just attack my entire character.

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قبل 3 سنواتdiscuss

Sharing this in a forum full of "billionaires temporarily down on their luck" is bold and not likely to end well; yet, I agree with you and GP. Hacking should not be synonymous with runaway capitalism, siphoning human energy, and plundering the earth.

Star Trek economy for all!

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قبل 3 سنواتdiscuss

In the same way that vaporizing vicious dictators--subtracting how many people they personally killed by their own hands--would have no detectable difference to global murder rate.

This specific idea of limiting CO2 is being taken a bit too out of context of the broader point. Sanctions against Russia hasn't stopped the murder, any more than limiting individual CO2 consumption would stop climate change. Yet both are correct actions because they are steps in the direction of fixing larger issues.

EDIT: clarify wording

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قبل 3 سنواتdiscuss

Well, I'm glad we're finally on the same page that you are in fact specifically defending top-consuming billionaires. Conversation ends here

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