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svelle commented on Noclip.website – A digital museum of video game levels noclip.website/... · Posted by u/ivmoreau

It's open source: https://github.com/magcius/noclip.website

I wouldn't say it emulates so much as implements a renderer for each game. It's totally nuts.

svelle · 4 days ago

Yes! I loved the thread on twitter back in the day where Jasper explained how he implemented the Half-Life 2 water shader using the two camera method.

I can wholeheartedly recommend going through his account there and on bsky, lot's of interesting stuff.

svelle commented on Klarna says AI drive has helped halve staff numbers and boost pay theguardian.com/business/... · Posted by u/pseudolus

piva00 · a month ago

I highly doubt it, I know several people who worked (and some who still work) there, no way that's the median compensation for the staff in R&D.

Quick edit: now I see they are adding the pensions into that calculation, tjänstepension is something every company in Sweden has to pay, it doesn't make sense to include it as part of the "average compensation".

svelle · a month ago

>[...] it doesn't make sense to include it as part of the "average compensation".

Unless you want to artificially boost your numbers to sound better in the press release.

svelle commented on Klarna says AI drive has helped halve staff numbers and boost pay theguardian.com/business/... · Posted by u/pseudolus

cjrp · a month ago

Didn't Klarna say they'd replaced all of their customer service reps with AI, and then had to backtrack and rehire them when the AI was doing a terrible job?

svelle · a month ago

Yes. Although it seems they didn't rehire, but just reassigned people from other parts of the org.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/14/klarna-ceo-says-ai-helped-co...

https://www.businessinsider.com/klarna-reassigns-workers-to-...

svelle commented on Blender 5.0 blender.org/download/rele... · Posted by u/FrostKiwi

thenthenthen · a month ago

Also some dubious ones (What is ‘Far Field Exploits’?)

svelle · a month ago

I think they build body worn and other antenna systems.

svelle commented on A vision of chocolate's future in an Amsterdam brownie bloomberg.com/graphics/20... · Posted by u/laurex

happyopossum · a month ago

> alt-chocolate is here to stay, in the same way that it’s become commonplace to gorge on a passable meat-free burger

Is it though? Outside of personal bubbles, does anyone see impossible/beyond ‘meat’ being regularly consumed? It’s been relegated to a tiny shelf of my grocery store’s butcher shop, to the point that I can’t recall the last time I even saw it there.

svelle · a month ago

Here in Germany meat alternatives/substitutes have definitely reached a level of popularity that goes beyond a fad. The leading commercial producer of deli-meats has started producing vegetarian and vegan alternative products that now make up more than 60% of their annual revenue and they even dropped some of their original meat based products in favor of the plant-based alternatives.

It might not be the burger that's going to be replaced but sliced meats and other meat based products might be.

svelle commented on OpenAI DevDay 2025: Opening keynote [video] youtube.com/watch?v=hS1Yq... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

naiv · 3 months ago

The "live" coding demo felt very staged with codex reasoning set at "low" and everything working ootb.

svelle · 3 months ago

Probably didn't want to risk the same embarrassment that was the Meta live demo.

svelle commented on Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish? theguardian.com/technolog... · Posted by u/sandebert

dwedge · 3 months ago

I bought a $120 book from Amazon a couple of months ago, internationally, and they sent the wrong book.

I told them, and they said they'd refund it, don't need to send it back, and they'd even add $15 credit.

The refund never arrived so a few weeks later I got in touch again and they said I need to send it back if I want a refund. They told me the previous CSR had lied to improve ratings. I asked who I can complain to and they said nobody and closed the chat. I reopened it, restarted the refund, it was accepted and then 2 hours later I got an email saying that unless I sent them ID my refund would be rejected and that I can "no longer contact them" about this refund. I ignored that email, sent the book back and got the refund.

Another time I bought a Samsung Fold and it cracked down the middle. I told Amazon and they said they'll refund it under warranty. I sent it back and got a warning that if I return anything else in "non original condition" I'd be banned. Even though it was a warranty return.

That level of service would have been totally unheard of for Amazon 5 years ago.

svelle · 3 months ago

> Another time I bought a Samsung Fold and it cracked down the middle. I told Amazon and they said they'll refund it under warranty. I sent it back and got a warning that if I return anything else in "non original condition" I'd be banned. Even though it was a warranty return.

I once ordered a new pair of Jeans, expensive ones because I wanted them to last, from Amazon and got an obviously used and ripped pair sent to me.

I sent it back, noted that in my reason for sending it back only to receive an email from them with the same sentiment as you got. Luckily I kept all the receipts (figuratively) and took a lot of photos and screenshots.

Reaching out to support they apologized profusely to me but still it left a very bad taste in my mouth and I'm sure it'll happen again sometime in the future.

svelle commented on 60 years after Gemini, newly processed images reveal details arstechnica.com/space/202... · Posted by u/sohkamyung

djmips · 3 months ago

I like this, it's really cool - especially the stack images from 16 mm film. The first image (first selfie in space on Gemini 12) is very artistic but I like the original better in that example - just look at the specular highlight before and after.

svelle · 3 months ago

I understood it less as an attempt of improvement and more as an alternate version of the same shot. Where you see more of Aldrin and other smaller bits that were less visible in the original and rightfully iconic shot.

svelle commented on From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became permanenent ssp.sh/blog/macbook-to-ar... · Posted by u/articsputnik

mirzap · 4 months ago

I use WebStorm, CLion, Cursor, 2-3 Claude Code instances, Chrome/Brave with 50+ tabs, Docker, and a bunch of other things on MacBook Air all at the same time. It works. Never freezes. Never crashes. I tried that on Windows recently, and now on Arch with a lot more memory (32), and it simply can't handle it. I reboot daily. Freezes in the middle of the work. It may be the issue with nvidia drivers as other pointed out, but that's precisely my point. Apple has very limited number of drivers to maintain, and they can improve them to perfection. They are not perfect, of course, but compared to alternatives, it's light-years ahead.

svelle · 4 months ago

I also use a MacBook as my daily driver, but have used different ThinkPads for years and there is no way that that workload should bring any medium specced TP to its knees like you're describing.

svelle commented on Airbus A320 Poised to Overtake Boeing 737 as Most-Delivered Commercial Airliner simpleflying.com/airbus-a... · Posted by u/helsinkiandrew

FirmwareBurner · 4 months ago

>Monopolies will kill you.

So when is it gonna kill Google?

svelle · 4 months ago

Or Microsoft. For all I know it primarily kills competition...