gizmo385 (u/gizmo385)

gizmo385 commented on He set out to walk around the world. After 27 years, his quest is nearly over washingtonpost.com/lifest... · Posted by u/wallflower

junon · 3 days ago

Isn't this the guy that abandoned his wife and kid to do this? This isn't heroics.

EDIT: Yeah same guy, this was posted to Reddit a while back. https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1pfdkfs/...

gizmo385 · 3 days ago

Is there a source for this that isn’t just a random Reddit comment?

gizmo385 commented on Size of Life neal.fun/size-of-life/... · Posted by u/eatonphil

bariswheel · 4 days ago

The music is so moving, tear inducing. One of the best links I've seen posted here and I've been here 15+ years. Well done Neal. I wish credit was given to the music, anyone know who created it?

gizmo385 · 4 days ago

If you click the "i" info button in the top right, it'll list the full credits, including those who worked on the music.

gizmo385 commented on Size of Life neal.fun/size-of-life/... · Posted by u/eatonphil

chrismorgan · 4 days ago

The dynamic soundscape is delightful, as it subtly adds instruments and musical texture as you progress. And going back down the scale regresses it to simple again. Smoothly done.

It reminded me of Operation Neptune (1991): each level starts with just one channel, probably percussion, and as you progress through the rooms it adds and removes more channels or sometimes switches to a different section of music. It is unfortunately all sharp cuts, no attempts at smoothing or timing instrument entry and exit. A couple of samples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0LNaatyoQk is an hour of gameplay revelling in “the dynamic and sometimes beautiful music of Operation Neptune” using a Roland MT-32 MIDI synthesiser; and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPxEdQ4wx9s&list=PL3FC048B13... is the PCM files used on some platforms (if you want to compare that track with the MT-32, it starts at 28 minutes).

gizmo385 · 4 days ago

The music was breathtaking here - I'd absolutely pay for a version of it. Really solidified the experience

gizmo385 commented on US Gov acknowledges that 100K fee does not apply to existing H-1B visas holders [pdf] uscis.gov/sites/default/f... · Posted by u/zzzeek

pfannkuchen · 3 months ago

Initial media reporting once again mimics headless chicken.

gizmo385 · 3 months ago

It’s not the media’s fault that the initial executive order was an ambiguous mess that threatened the livelihoods of immigrants all across the country.

gizmo385 commented on TikTok divestment law upheld by federal appeals court cnbc.com/2024/12/06/tikto... · Posted by u/belter

gizmo385 · a year ago

One does not need to be a sock puppet to believe that the justification for this ban is shaky at best.

Every social media network does basically the same thing as Tiktok and the government has produced no compelling evidence for the ban. They just keep saying “the evidence is classified but trust us”

gizmo385 commented on TikTok divestment law upheld by federal appeals court cnbc.com/2024/12/06/tikto... · Posted by u/belter

Quillbert182 · a year ago

I honestly would be surprised if the Supreme Court agrees to hear the case, there does not seem to be a huge amount of controversy here from a legal standpoint.

gizmo385 · a year ago

This law has pretty big free speech implications which seems potentially controversial on the legal front IMO

gizmo385 commented on Python type hints may not be not for me in practice utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/spa... · Posted by u/ingve

robjwells · a year ago

Worst of both worlds is right. I came back to a Python project with a couple of critical but untyped dependencies recently after writing mostly Rust, and to clear up a large number of these (particularly “type is partially unknown”) I had the choice between lots of purely type-checking ceremony (`typing.cast`) or going without.

gizmo385 · a year ago

The third option here is writing type stubs for the library, which you can sometimes find community versions of as well. They’re not too time consuming to write and generally work well enough to bridge the gap

gizmo385 commented on Bitcoin puzzle #66 was solved: 6.6 BTC (~$400k) withdrawn blockchain.com/explorer/a... · Posted by u/mrb

gizmo385 · a year ago

Is there something unique or special about the private keys that are guessed? This seems like an incredibly wasteful allocation of compute (which wouldn’t be surprising given that it’s bitcoin but still)

gizmo385 commented on Who's got the guts to go to the moon? experimental-history.com/... · Posted by u/ctoth

aaron695 · a year ago

> It's not possible in a short time frame.

This is not true. Cancer is wide, it's not "one thing" but lets talk real world.

We have saved millions with hardcore anti-smoking campaigns. I don't agree with them, but they cured millions none the less.

Ozempic will cure millions of cancer if it works, which so far it seems to.

We can and do jump.

If we do as the article warns, be losers and pretend 'cancer' is a mysterious Satan and accept it's fate then we won't.

gizmo385 · a year ago

> We have saved millions with hardcore anti-smoking campaigns. I don't agree with them, but they cured millions none the less.

Can you expand on that last bit? Why don’t you agree with them?

gizmo385 commented on Microsoft closes several large Bethesda affiliated game studios ign.com/articles/microsof... · Posted by u/KTallguy

utensil4778 · 2 years ago

Consumers have been signaling for quite some time that they're perfectly content buying Skyrim and Counterstrike every six months forever.

Why even bother producing anything at all when you can just put a fresh coat of lipstick on the same pig and sell it all over again?

gizmo385 · 2 years ago

I get the point you’re trying to make, but Counterstrike is a free to play game. You might be thinking of Call of Duty?