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brentm commented on Bruno Simon – 3D Portfolio bruno-simon.com/... · Posted by u/razzmataks

mrlinx · 2 months ago

I have a 4 yo, and I'm very reluctant to let him into the games world. But I've been thinking of buying a small Super Mario USB steering wheel and let him roam a very simple world like this. Anyone aware of something like this, maybe open source so that i can simplify to the simplest dynamics?

brentm · 2 months ago

My 4yo was a big fan of What The Car? on iPad. It's not quite as pleasant as this but there are some similarities.

brentm commented on Bruno Simon – 3D Portfolio bruno-simon.com/... · Posted by u/razzmataks

brentm · 2 months ago

Pleasant and nicely done. Took me a few seconds to figure out how I was suppose to drive around but very pleasant experience.

brentm commented on How Much Wealth an AI Stock Market Crash Could Destroy economist.com/interactive... · Posted by u/skx001

blitzar · 2 months ago

It would be like SVB all over again. Small governemnt, anti bailout, pull yourselves up by your bootstraps tech CEOs on TV crying and begging for someone to cover their losses.

brentm · 2 months ago

I don't think that is likely this time. Injecting capital to cover losses doesn't bring back the forward looking valuations so stock prices would remain down anyway. Gov isn't going to fund losses for like Microsoft.

brentm commented on Product Hunt is dead sedimental.org/product_hu... · Posted by u/mhashemi

brentm · 5 months ago

I feel like it died in about 2015.

brentm commented on Less is safer: Reducing the risk of supply chain attacks obsidian.md/blog/less-is-... · Posted by u/saeedesmaili

brentm · 5 months ago

I've been using Roam Research since about 2020. Is Obsidian better?

brentm commented on I ditched Spotify and set up my own music stack leshicodes.github.io/blog... · Posted by u/starkparker

mingus88 · 5 months ago

I’m not sure about this accounting. I know some artists with very successful songs and they made nothing substantial from millions of streams

Could it be that the streaming platform pays 0.005 which then gets divided amongst the whole band, and then the label takes their cut for producing and marketing it?

Whereas before, the label was simply giving 10%?

brentm · 5 months ago

I managed a few artists in the past. Usually Spotify paid something like $0.0035 per stream but it ranges based on where the listen took place. One artist owned part of their catalog so earned the 100% on those streams. The rest of their catalog was owned by a major label where they were credited 15% of the streaming take (which was slightly higher than the direct rate) towards their unrecouped major label account.

I'd say overall though, streaming can be good for artists. It helps keep them fresh in fans ears (via auto-generated & editorial playlists) and provides a revenue stream for the older stuff that would never be selling in stores or iTunes now.

brentm commented on Dev Compass – Programming Philosophy Quiz treeform.github.io/devcom... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

brentm · 6 months ago

You value clarity and directness in code. You prefer explicit, step-by-step solutions that are easy to understand and debug, even if they require more lines of code.

brentm commented on Search all text in New York City alltext.nyc/... · Posted by u/Kortaggio

brentm · 6 months ago

Pretty cool

brentm commented on AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/whiteboardr

brentm · 6 months ago

Without IP though you lose incentive to invest in new stuff. IP is made up just like saying murder is made up. Both are just concepts but necessary concepts to keep society on track.

That being said, I don't know if I agree that the AI companies are violating IP rights.

brentm commented on AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/whiteboardr

quantified · 6 months ago

Which is more important, the rights of the infringed or of the funded and hyped business?

brentm · 6 months ago

It's a valid question of if the rights were actually infringed here. Nothing stops you from reading books and then writing based on what you learned. Just because this is done at scale doesn't mean the output is violating the copyright.