Lanolderen (u/Lanolderen)

Lanolderen commented on Valve Software handbook for new employees [pdf] (2012) cdn.akamai.steamstatic.co... · Posted by u/Michelangelo11

andyferris · 4 days ago

It interests me that it needs to be an "or".

A HL3 team could essentially function as an independent studio using the Steam platform, with some funding thrown from Valve. Assuming the ROI is positive what exactly is holding them back?

Lanolderen · 4 days ago

They want it to be good? Throwing it at a third party sounds like a good way to get a meh game and then have to release it since you've already spent X$ on it.

Lanolderen commented on I asked police to send me their public surveillance footage of my car cardinalnews.org/2025/03/... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

llm_nerd · 5 months ago

I didn't claim it was. But there is a big difference between "steal some plates from extended airport parking" and having to find and steal a plate specifically for the target vehicle. Obviously you could use the most common car and colour and make your task easier, but like for my SUV I see a similar colour / year / model on the roads maybe once a month. If I had to find another to steal or clone a plate it would legitimately be a pain.

Lanolderen · 5 months ago

You could just go on your car sales website of choice and likely find the same car with the plates visible.

Lanolderen commented on 63 Chinese Cuisines: The Complete Guide (2024) chinesecookingdemystified... · Posted by u/mastax

contrarian1234 · 5 months ago

One big difference I've noticed compared to Europe is that while there is a lot of regional pride and differences, there are very few rivalries or animosities for some reason. I couldn't even get people to tell me some negative stereotypes

Lanolderen · 5 months ago

Shilled it in another spot but a lot of the banter of https://www.youtube.com/@CadenceGao is about regional stereotypes. Look for videos with english thumbnails.

Lanolderen commented on 63 Chinese Cuisines: The Complete Guide (2024) chinesecookingdemystified... · Posted by u/mastax

xuanwo · 5 months ago

If you want to cook Chinese food at home, you can check out this channel: https://www.youtube.com/@chefwang

Please note that he mainly focuses on Sichuan cuisine, which is a bit spicy.

Lanolderen · 5 months ago

This is also good: https://www.youtube.com/@CadenceGao

It's nice banter and rough cooking instructions. Since it goes over the process in a more chaotic manner it makes it IMO less intimidating/closer to how people cook their normal food. Look for the videos with english in the thumbnail.

Lanolderen commented on Show HN: LinkedIn sucks, so I built a better one heyopenspot.com/... · Posted by u/fliellerjulian

throwaway2037 · 5 months ago

No trolling: Is it possible to be a good/qualified executive if not neurotypical? In my view, executive-level positions are mostly about communication.

Lanolderen · 5 months ago

Depends on what they're selling. Elon is a bit awkward but has/had a cult following.

Edit: It's about communication but also hype/motivation. Be it for the team, shareholders or customers.

And communication can be done in many ways. It doesn't have to be political speak, sometimes the directness some smart awkward people bring can be good and being awkward gives them the right to be direct without coming off as rude professionally.

Lanolderen commented on Turkish university annuls Erdogan rival's degree, preventing run for president reuters.com/world/asia-pa... · Posted by u/perihelions

eru · 5 months ago

> To fix that you need either unequal votes or to remove the voting rights of those with incorrect opinions and understandings.

Not necessarily. You could also punish liars several after the fact, ie after their term, and hope that incentives will do the trick.

Though my favourite idea is to make voting with your feet easier. If you have more issues decided at more local levels, then it's easier to up sticks and move to the next town over, if you disagree with a policy.

I call that the "McDonald's flavour of democracy": McDonald's doesn't let you vote on their menu, but if you don't like it, you can always just head over to Pizza Hut.

You can either (A) do that inside an existing system by aggressively pushing responsibility down. That's what subsidiarity is meant to capture. And also how the US was supposedly meant to be structured; but over time centralisation won out.

Or (B) you can ensure that by having smaller independent countries. Ideally city states.

That's one of the reasons why Singapore is my adopted home.

Moving with your feet is about the most direct democracy you can get, but you also don't have to worry about the usual downsides of direct democracy.

Lanolderen · 5 months ago

Punishing the liars after the fact, to me, sounds like a very slippery slope. What percentage of promises have to be upkept? Do they have to be kept if the situation changes and they're no longer the correct decision? Do they have to be upkept in special circumstances such as Covid/WW3/etc? Though I would love a system where applicants list their main plans and their progress (not as done or not but as references to legsilation changes, etc) gets officially documented after their term. It won't be wildly useful but it doesn't sound like too much work either.

I like local governance but you have the same issue on a different scale. Whether the president or the governor runs the show I'd want them to be replaceable in a timely manner and to have a little fire under their ass.

Moving your feet is something I also do but I'm not sure is sustainable. What you get is people going to more social places in the beginning of their adult life to get as much support as possible and then move to the most capitalistic places possible once they start earning big money to pay less taxes/have more buying power. How many people do that, I don't know. In my circles it's a lot and I'm one of them.

It's one of those perfect is the opposite of good things though since centralised politics isn't really better either..

Lanolderen commented on Boston Dynamics shows off another major leap in humanoid mobility newatlas.com/ai-humanoids... · Posted by u/matthewsinclair

mapt · 5 months ago

Those quad dogs are delivering rations and ammo to Ukrainian trenchlines.

There was talk about them being employed even further forward a few times, but I think aerial drones are a lot less complicated & expensive to build, harder to shoot, and most importantly easier to maintain a long-distance wireless connection to.

Lanolderen · 5 months ago

That's inline with my impressions in general.

Dogs, humanoids can better interact with the environment but even back in the day the Boston Dynamics dog marketing was to a large extent automated infrastructure monitoring with things like thermal cams and less so the actual intervention which means you can just get drones with thermal cameras and skip the whole walking issue/cost.

On the other side if you need interaction you can just get an arm. My current employer is looking at the humanoid robots more so for the marketing that they can do things "magically"/without careful preprogramming and adapting to conditions but if you can do that with a humanoid, you can do it with an arm for cheaper still.

The space where you need monitoring, interaction and movement to me seems very limited and even undesired. There's a reason we avoid having people do the entire process from start to finish and like putting them in as short as possible loops..

Lanolderen commented on The head of South Korea's guard consulted ChatGPT before martial law was imposed hani.co.kr/arti/society/s... · Posted by u/haebom

m0llusk · 5 months ago

and then it hallucinates

Lanolderen · 5 months ago

Even if it does that early on you'd just land on unrelated legislation. You'd notice pretty quick that it's about a whole different topic.

The reason I do it in combination with normal search is that normal search will often get clogged up by 3rd party websites and at best lead you to only the main legislation. The LLM is likely to name you the main legislation so you can search for it directly by name and also mention other major related pieces.

Lanolderen commented on Apple shuffles AI executive ranks in bid to turn around Siri finance.yahoo.com/news/ap... · Posted by u/bbzjk7

smcleod · 5 months ago

Siri's voice recognition has gone down a lot over the last 5 years actually, it used to be far more accurate, its speech has certainly improved to be more natural sounding. Its capabilities though... yikes

Lanolderen · 5 months ago

All of them feel to me like they went backwards. In the beginning you could say you killed someone and it'd show you the nearest park/forest to bury them in. Now you can't even get them to play X on Spotify half the time.