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I love this! Such a simple game with a fun level of skill. High score 17485 feels pretty good (edit: Oh! Low power mode on the computer makes the game run slow, thus much easier to get crazy high scores).

Reminds me of SFCave and Nanana Crash for the simplicity and surprising replay ability.

https://megami.starcreator.com/nanaca-crash/

(Failing to find an online version of SFCave a.t.m :'()


> software specs are often an order of magnitude simpler than the actual number of branches in the code

Love this! Be it design specs or a mock from the designer. So many unaccounted for decisions. Good devs will solve many on their own, uplevel when needed, and provide options.

And absolutely it means more design up front. And without human in the direct loop, maybe people won’t skimp on this!


If I had a human assistant, I'd ask them to book my flight. The chat box is your window to your AI assistant. Maybe this new assistant hasn't earned your trust yet, but it makes sense that trust-aside, you'd ask your assistant to do whatever they could do for you.


Right. But my assistant wouldn't show me a new screen and ask me to do things in it :)


It’s an assistant to the assistant


The fact that this deactivation feels possible is still a telling sign of where we’ve been heading. Update fail. Subscription lapsed payment. All sorts of new failure modes.


"The lie has value because it feels true" is one of the more disturbing trends I have seen gain traction on the internet in recent years. People are now unironically turning themselves in the Stephen Colbert character from The Colbert Report[1].

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truthiness


Yeah. I have noticed a disturbing amount of people believe fake stories, tweets, videos, propaganda etc. because it confirms their worldview or is otherwise fun. For example, the amount of people who thought dumb Republicans were dying from eating horse dewormer was way overblown. Or that Haitian immigrants were eating cats and dogs.

I have adopted an extremely skeptical view of almost all content on the internet now. Fun videos that are staged aren't particularly harmful. Something like "a crazy coincidence or wild prank" made to look real and genuine is not particularly sinister. I personally have briefly put way to much stock in a screenshot of a Tweet from an unattributed anonymous poster alleging X happened. Simply because "it feels true" and confirms my bias. Be careful out there kids!


I think it is troubling to say “the lie has value”, but it is worth thinking why certain stories and hoaxes resonate. It’s similar to how sci-fi and horror can reflect the anxieties of their contemporary society


Nobody is pretending that fictional stories are real like libtards are with the latest Elon slander.


How about, "10-15 years ago such a scenario was completely implausible/impossible, and I find it disturbing that it is now completely plausible and possible"?



It’s funny you bring up Colbert on this topic. His own narrative of why his show was cancelled is a lie that felt true to his fans.

It felt good to martyr him and say that he was cancelled for saying truth to power against President Trump. The truth is that his show was losing $40 million a year and only had traction with viewers that were outside the target advertising demographics.


Only off by one character, how hard could that be?


Same!



Just installed Nuenki, really excited to give this a try. Amazing how it can hopefully iteratively help me learn Spanish while I don't change my behavior much.


Been doing this the last 10 months. Lots of growth and self-discovery. Best wishes on your journey!


My images say "Created with DALLE" below them, and a little info icon tells me they are rolling out the new one soon.


The examples they show have little captions that say "best of #", like "best of 8" or "best of 4". Hopefully that truly represents the odds of generating the level of quality shown.


Some of the prompts are pretty long. I'm curious how iterations it took to get to that prompt for them to take the top 8 out of.


I'm not doubting it's an improvement, because it looks like it is.

I guess here's an example of a prompt I would like to see:

A flying spaghetti monster with a metal colander on its head flying above New York City saving the world from and very very evil Pope.

I'm not anti/pro spaghetti monster or catholicism. But I can visualize it clearly in my head what that prompt might look like.



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