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If you squint hard enough, you might see the music/art directly in the structure of their civilizations


The question is: do the bees see music and art in their structures. I doubt it. One of the defining characteristics of music and art is that they have no obvious direct connection to reproductive fitness.


Maybe it's not an obvious direct connection, but in general good artists seem to get more action than the average person.


Once you understand the role of happy in positive reproductive outcomes (long term, not pre- or immediately post-natal, their role is fairly obvious.


Plot armor refers to important characters being invulnerable. What you're describing is just plot (or "internal logic" that underlays the plot). You might think of it as "contrived plot" but that's generally how scifi works.


Valid points, but this sounds extremely useful for learning complicated GUI applications like 3d modeling or media editing apps.


Valid point, but the solution is wasteful and overengineered. Imagine if videogames needed an external datacenter to run the tutorial levels.


I am willing to bet you could run a model capable of using this on a 12GB 3060 + some RAM. (Qwen 3.6 35B)

Even the data centre using this probably uses less net energy, and costs less, to build one of these dumb arrows than the aggregate sum of the energy used to keep you alive while you Googled for the answer. (Including heating/cooling the building, powering the equipment growing the food you eat, etc.)


I don't disagree. But the existing tech solution - scrubbing through YouTube tutorial videos until I cobble together the bits of knowledge I need - is also quite overengineered, isn't it?

Obviously I'd prefer to ask specific questions to my expert human friend sitting at the next desk over, but sadly they don't exist.

I just hope there is a future where this tech exists without such big downsides.


There'll be gauntlets of pathways mapped before the first step is taken, as or before the first agent is deployed. Criteria will include resource use weighted against economic efficiency. Already being done.


Sounds like an opportunity for a good engineer to come in and write something with the same functionality that runs locally and efficiently. The claim that it's wasteful only holds water if the non-wasteful solution exists and can accomplish the same tasks.


Right, maybe the next step is that Blender comes with a local-gui-tutorial-llm packaged with it?


isnt the LLM the wasteful part?

Nonetheless why not let an LLM make a guide and use that in the release, I don't see how that's wasteful


A guide doesn't answer arbitrary questions, though


>Imagine if videogames needed an external datacenter to run the tutorial levels.

I don't see how this is anything like that. The point here is to make it easier to give the user indications which has been a staple since forever, hell this is so much of a problem that there are entire solutions engineered to letting one user take control of the computer of another user through the net.

Beyond that, I'm sorry but looking for help in the context of videogames is extremely prevalent. That external datacenter to run the tutorial levels is sometimes called "Youtube" and others "Wikia".


3d printers are also CNC. My impression is that people often use the term to mean CNC mill. Much like "drone" implies "quadcopter" despite the existence of other very different types of "drone".


I suppose since we’re here on HN and not limited to 240 characters, we can be specific. Or risk being misunderstood.


What does the NS prefix mean?


NeXTSTEP. Grandparent is wrong.

Search this document for "Historical Note" for the canonical explanation:

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Co...


That it's a symbol in a Cocoa framework :)

NS hasn't had anything to do with NeXTSTEP since, well, NeXTSTEP. The author's wording makes it sound like this is some crazy remnant of forgotten 30-year-old code poking through, but it's really not. It's Swift (most likely) string concatenation being passed a view instance instead of a string by mistake.


What would you say the letters NS stand for? Perhaps "Not Standforanything"?


That’s kind of a weird take. It’s perfectly reasonable that Apple has not attempted to yank all the “NS” references out, but they are absolutely a holdover from NeXTSTEP. That NeXTSTEP no longer exists does not change that.


The convention is a holdover. It does not mean that the code is the same. There’s plenty of NS classes that did not exist before OS X.


I didn’t say the code is the same. I said it’s incorrect to say that “ns” has nothing to do with NeXTSTEP.


Even funnier, there's new ones added for Liquid Glass that still reference NS: NSGlassEffectView


If you appreciate when keyboard interaction gets added to a GUI, then you might think of a graphical language as the opposite, as it essentially removes keyboard interaction from what is normally a text-based system.


Not based on an official Blockly implementation. But you can add keyboard navigation to Blockly(-like) scripting reasonably easily:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITWSL5lTLig

The video above shows keyboard, but the main motivation for the key-based navigation was actually gamepad.


Snap does have a limited keyboard mode (shift click), but it's not really as good as "real" IDE.


Neat. Doesn't work well in android Firefox for me.


Yeah I haven't been able to get it to perform smoothly in mobile firefox. It works well in mobile chrome or any desktop browser but mobile firefox specifically has been an issue I haven't had much luck resolving yet. Sorry about that! I use mobile FF too so I'd love to figure out the cause.


This should be fixed now.


No, because it doesn't make sense to experience it in that context. I think of it as more like poetry . For example: https://www.norvig.com/spell-correct.html


Clearly the classic of polyhedral globes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_map


My personal favorite is Authagraph, when folded they make a really neat looking shape. I bought one years ago at a paper store and it’s still standing.

https://narukawa-lab.jp/archives/authagraph-map/


Not that I disagree, but I think this is how many people feel about AI output in fields they care about.

It's also a funny historical mirror to an earlier phase of math proof culture: in a previous era, cryptic result dumps were quite common.


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