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pickledoyster commented on Unreal Tournament 2004 is back   old.reddit.com/r/unrealto... · Posted by u/keithoffer
magicalhippo · 11 days ago
One thing I missed from Unreal Tournament, which too few other games adopted IMHO, was the concept of mutators. Effectively server-level mods which, as the name implied, mutated the gameplay in some way.

There were silly ones like the one making your characters head larger for each kill, and those which made it just different like low gravity, and so on.

It was also relatively easy to make your own, thanks to UnrealScript.

Really wish more multiplayer games embraced this concept, it really increased replayability by changing things up.

pickledoyster · 11 days ago
Warcraft 3 had some of the greatest mods that kept the player base alive for decades
pickledoyster commented on Are we repeating the telecoms crash with AI datacenters?   martinalderson.com/posts/... · Posted by u/davedx
gradus_ad · 12 days ago
When I'm building out a new feature, I can churn through millions of tokens in Claude code. And that's just me... Now think about Claude code but integrated with Excel or datadog, or whatever app could be improved through LLM integration. Think about the millions of office workers, beyond just software engineers, who will be running hundreds of thousands or millions of tokens per day through these tools.

Let's estimate 200 million office workers globally as TAM running an average of 250k tokens. That's 50 trillion tokens DAILY. Not sure what model provider profit per token is, but let's say it's .001 cents.

Thats $500M per day in profit.

pickledoyster · 11 days ago
>When I'm building out a new feature, I can churn through millions of tokens in Claude code.

+

>Not sure what model provider profit per token is, but let's say it's .001 cents.

So you'd be willing to pay thousands for a new feature, right?

pickledoyster commented on How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airports (2019)   reverbmachine.com/blog/de... · Posted by u/dijksterhuis
pickledoyster · 13 days ago
I did not realize Eno could not read sheet music. I always thought he used graphical expressions in his presentations as an artistic choice.
pickledoyster commented on The Penicillin Myth   asimov.press/p/penicillin... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
pickledoyster · 14 days ago
imo, this paragraph covers the essence of a good chunk of the article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_of_penicillin#Replic...
pickledoyster commented on Running Unsupported iOS on Deprecated Devices   nyansatan.github.io/run-u... · Posted by u/OuterVale
pickledoyster · 18 days ago
A bit of OT, but I have four iPhone 5/5s/SE (the SE is peak design and form factor, fight me) lying around that I use strictly as offline devices for things like saving data from my heart rate monitor, controlling my action camera, doing voice/field recordings through the 3.5mm connector – stuff I'd prefer never to leave my device (or data that should be open to user control but requires an invasive app to work, I have very few apps on my daily driver).

These devices are are small, snappy and powerful enough in 2025.

pickledoyster commented on OpenAI needs to raise $207B by 2030 so it can continue to lose money   ft.com/content/23e54a28-6... · Posted by u/cebert
pickledoyster · 19 days ago
This is based on HSBC's model, which assumes some incredible numbers, such as: > user numbers on an S-curve that by 2030 reaches 3bn, “equivalent to 44 per cent of the world’s adult population” ex China.

Unfounded statements (outside of language tasks, fwiw), such as: >LLM subscriptions will become “as ubiquitous and useful as Microsoft 365”, HSBC says.

As well as this bold claim about OAI's potential to double the conversion rate: >It models that by 2030, 10 per cent of OpenAI users will be paying customers, versus an estimated 5 per cent currently.

Does not include a major player in its market share analysis at all: >Google is excluded entirely

And, still, it suggests that: > OpenAI is expected to still be subsidising its users well into next decade

Fascinating.

pickledoyster commented on Tangram for Linux Is a Browser Built for Web Apps   omglinux.com/tangram-web-... · Posted by u/pickledoyster
pickledoyster · 2 months ago
I've been distro hopping recently and missing the Web Apps application in Linux Mint. Somehow, Tangram slipped my radar until now. Seems to have never been mentioned on HN too.

more: https://github.com/sonnyp/Tangram

pickledoyster commented on What makes 5% of AI agents work in production?   motivenotes.ai/p/what-mak... · Posted by u/AnhTho_FR
retSava · 2 months ago
You're absolutely right! (/s)

The tone of AI-written stuff sounds to me just like the soul-less SEO-optimized content marketing blog crap we saw the years before AI became a thing. Very prevalent on Linkedin too. It just sounds/reads so hopelessly artificial.

If I were to begin using AI to write stuff for me (comments or articles or whatever), I'd at least begin with having it train on the collection of everything I've written so far.

pickledoyster · 2 months ago
SEO slop is what the LLMs were trained on. GIGO

u/pickledoyster

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