Yes this is what made GnG and other difficult games like it great. While some games balanced the financial side on forced limited play time, e.g. timers or constant depleting health, others like GnG were just hugely difficult. You can play for 4 minutes or 40 depending on skill.

As a kid with no money, I learned to get good at these and avoid the obvious cash crabs

Also it was impressive when someone was good enough to play 40 minutes. Usually a small crowd would gather, which could inspire bad players to plunk in more quarters to improve.

I remember beating Zaxxon when I was only 6 years old in '82, in large part because I probably spent at least 100 hours watching older kids do it.

It doesn't have to be low quality. It really is another tool like any other. You can put low effort in and get working results. This low effort, working result gets shipped immediately and gives the whole process a bad wrap. The source is generated crap that lacks craftsmanship and quality. But this gets AI dismissed when it shouldn't be. You can get quality, well crafted source code if you make that a goal and keep iterating.

You can, but when you go through this effort to bring AI to generate good code, you could just self write it. So there are only two kinds of code that are falling out of AI tools. Boilerplate code and shitty code.

Exactly. There's no benefit to using LLMs as they exist today, because it winds up being the same amount of work (if not more!) to ensure that they are giving you code which actually works. That isn't a useful tool.

I noticed when tearing down an old microwave for salvage that the light bulb was part of the power circuit. If the bulb burned out, so did the microwave.

Reminds me of a comment from a previous time this story was posted here:

https://hackernews.hn/item?id=41509748

Energy has an environmental cost. If the energy required to recycle is more than the environmental cost it's not worth it.

That is true but it is unclear why you believe that to apply to recycling electronics. I doubt anyone can put hard numbers on the environmental costs involved.

If my grandmother had wheels, she would've been a bike.

Wayland crashes my kernel. If I want an uptime more than 24 hours I use X11 instead.

Try running your app via gamescope

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope

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It was all over when it changed from "My Computer" to "This PC".

I'm fighting linux gpu drivers crashing and I honestly don't care. It's actually still a better experience.

It's not a right. It's a responsibility.

I think framing it from the other side makes the whole idea a lot more palatable.

If I work hard to create clean drinking water from dirty, it is not your right to take it from me. It is my responsibility to help a fellow human being.

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It makes more sense if you replace the person buying with "company" and replace "local user" with "employee".

There was a brief time when everyone was trying Bing to see the new copilot feature for themselves.