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andybak commented on Librebox: An open source, Roblox-compatible game engine   github.com/librebox-devs/... · Posted by u/libreboxdevs
glitchc · 20 hours ago
Yeah but can I spend Robux on it? If not, pass.

The whole problem is Robux isn't it? It's not like the engine is anything special.

andybak · 20 hours ago
Maybe the idea is that developers can release standalone versions of their Roblox games and escape the platform lock-in? Of course - whether their audience will come with them is a different question.
andybak commented on Google did not unilaterally decide to kill XSLT   meyerweb.com/eric/thought... · Posted by u/bkardell
danaris · 2 days ago
How could #2 possibly be true without it being a deliberate choice on Google's part? They have staggering, absurd amounts of money. If they needed more resources allocated to Chrome, they could just do that.
andybak · a day ago
This is addressed directly in the linked article. "Google" and "the Chrome team" are not the same entity.
andybak commented on Weaponizing image scaling against production AI systems   blog.trailofbits.com/2025... · Posted by u/tatersolid
Martin_Silenus · 3 days ago
Now that makes more sense.

And after all, I'm not surprised. When I read their long research PDFs, often finishing with a question mark about emerging behaviors, I knew they don't know what they are playing with, with no more control than any neuroscience researcher.

This is too far from hacking spirit to me, sorry to bother.

andybak · 2 days ago
Playing with things you barely understand sounds like perfect "hacker spirit" to me!
andybak commented on Pixel 10 Phones   blog.google/products/pixe... · Posted by u/gotmedium
monkeyelite · 3 days ago
> The left/right brain thing is pseudo-science

It's real in terms of consciousness - brains switch between modes depending on activity. You can try it and feel the switch yourself. Whether that switch is localized, or whether people have more affinity for one than the other is probably what's fake.

andybak · 3 days ago
I think we're talking about different things. I'm referring to the "logical vs intuitive" character type distinction.
andybak commented on Pixel 10 Phones   blog.google/products/pixe... · Posted by u/gotmedium
gowld · 4 days ago
Logical analysis, like using folders and file APIs, is "left-brained".
andybak · 4 days ago
The left/right brain thing is pseudo-science and even worse - a false dichotomy. It's much more about cultural snobbery and cultural tribalism around which pursuits are regarded as "more worthy".

Look up C.P. Snow's "The Two Cultures" - it was incredibly influential at the time but also described a prejudice we still labour under. It's pervasive in the English speaking world. I suspect less so in the non-anglosphere West and possibly even less so in Asia.

andybak commented on The Life and Death of London's Crystal Palace (2021)   heritagecalling.com/2021/... · Posted by u/zeristor
andybak · 5 days ago
Back in my school days it was on my route home and I used to break into the site (it was fenced off at the time).

It felt so mysterious and strange. Headless statues, vast empty terraces - the old high level station ticket hall passed under a main road and come out the other side with a view of a huge railway tunnel blocked with an old wrought iron fence.

It's been cleaned up and opened to the public since then - which is almost a shame.

andybak commented on Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code   claudiacode.com/... · Posted by u/zerealshadowban
wild_pointer · 7 days ago
No Windows support :(
andybak · 6 days ago
There's Github issues mentioning windows so someone is trying to build it.

But yeah - I need to bounce between multiple OS so I avoid tools that don't run on all major desktop platforms.

andybak commented on Electricity prices are climbing more than twice as fast as inflation   npr.org/2025/08/16/nx-s1-... · Posted by u/geox
justlikereddit · 7 days ago
We're living In the Green Energy revolution. Solar power and wind power is literally free energy.

Did these guys not get the memo?

andybak · 7 days ago
The trouble with sarcasm is that it's hard to discern the point you actually wanted to make.

Presuming you had one.

andybak commented on Bluesky: Updated Terms and Policies   bsky.social/about/blog/08... · Posted by u/mschuster91
billy99k · 9 days ago
Bluesky is still a thing? Everyone on Facebook that were leaving Twitter came crawling back.
andybak · 9 days ago
I can't quite parse the second sentence but in any case "everyone" makes the statement obviously false whatever you intended to claim.
andybak commented on Is chain-of-thought AI reasoning a mirage?   seangoedecke.com/real-rea... · Posted by u/ingve
vmg12 · 10 days ago
Solutions to some of the hardest problems I've had have only come after a night of sleep or when I'm out on a walk and I'm not even thinking about the problem. Maybe what my brain was doing was something different from reasoning?
andybak · 10 days ago
This is a very important point and mostly absent from the conversation.

We have many words that almost mean the same thing or can mean ment different things - and conversations about intelligence and consciousness are riddled with them.

u/andybak

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