WorldMaker

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by WorldMaker 2mo ago
Ironically, Xbox One support for true offline play was gutted when Xbox gutted a lot of planned Family Sharing support when Sony claimed the Xbox One was not going to allow you to play games offline and made that a marketing campaign with
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by WorldMaker 2mo ago
You avoid people problems by interviewing soft skills as soft skills , not building elaborate mazes of "technical interviews" that are really soft skill interviews testing how pedantic you want to be or how much you want candidat
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by WorldMaker 2mo ago
I had an interviewer once interrupt me and say there was no way I would have studied gray codes in college. I still don't know if that was some bias that I went to a "provincial school" in their mind or that they hadn't
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by WorldMaker 2mo ago
The big one on the list that wasn't AT&T was microwaves and that was a contractor to Nasa [0] in the heat of the moon race and a similar "Do stuff. Then we'll see if we can use it" mandate. [0] Defense contractor Ray
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by WorldMaker 2mo ago
Depends on the company . The US maintains no requirements, federal holidays are a suggestion , not a mandate. A few states inside the US upgrade federal holidays to state holidays to required paid time off. Most don't. In the US paid
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by WorldMaker 2mo ago
I feel it is a net negative for me. One of my hobbies has always been fiction writing. The LLM reflections of my own writing become slot machines to me for cheap dopamine hits. It's not because LLMs are good at fiction writing, far fro
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by WorldMaker 2mo ago
I think that LLM's are a broken mirror or maybe disco ball. What you get back is almost always a reflection of what you put in, just garbled through and with the reflections of so many other people. The best parts that I often get back
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by WorldMaker 2mo ago
There's an AI "game" called iLands right now where you are asked to shepherd a single Agent to "life" and then interact with them. They run "agentic" talking to each other and each have their own little to
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by WorldMaker 2mo ago
Stamp costs don't stop snail mail spam, either, unfortunately. I would be concerned if we added something like bitcoin fees to email delivery rather than curtail spam it would just further encourage grifters seeking ROI on their spam d
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by WorldMaker 2mo ago
Can we use DMARC to ask Gmail to close registrations? Google Calendar to allow far fewer people the ability to send invite notifications? Firebase to close registrations? Azure? Microsoft 365? AWS SES? It feels like the biggest spammers hav
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by WorldMaker 2mo ago
ScummVM refers to that Broderbund engine as Mohawk [0]. It's interesting all of the other games that used that engine, including several major Carmen Sandiego games. A lot of those Living Books series also felt like Hypercard stacks. I
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by WorldMaker 2mo ago
Sure, I think many of us are doing the best engineering work that we can given the industry situation. I've also seen so many of my peers, some of our brightest minds, waste their careers on stuff that a proper Ethics Board might stop
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by WorldMaker 2mo ago
Though still useful to remember that some of the earliest mathematical write ups of the Halting Problem were also by Alonso Church and directly in the lambda calculus. The Church-Turing Theorem is a lasting reminder that the two worlds im
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by WorldMaker 2mo ago
But again, the context is not about humans trying very hard to stick to problems in "terminating space" when writing software, but about LLMs with no such compunctions/boundaries finding inputs that break "terminating
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by WorldMaker 2mo ago
I think it's more that I lean into some of the corollaries that directly factor computation time into account. There is no computer program H that for every program P determines whether P halts faster than running P . You cannot fin
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by WorldMaker 2mo ago
You can't prove a program completed successfully if you can't prove a program even completes at all. I don't know what properties you think people are trying to pragmatically prove about arbitrary programs but "did the p
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by WorldMaker 2mo ago
All of Cyan's games were in Hypercard up to Myst. (Cosmic Osmo and Spelunx were the other two.) Myst ran in Hypercard in early Mac releases but switched to a cross-platform runtime Broderbund built to sell Myst on Windows CDs (and cons
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by WorldMaker 2mo ago
We absolutely have pragmatic compromises and shortcuts for dealing with termination problems, but that doesn't mean we've solved the Halting Problem, it means we've adapted to coexistence with it. (And maybe we've coexis
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by WorldMaker 2mo ago
My resume includes a bunch of time at a primarily Civil Engineering firm and one of the things I took away from that was also some respect for this "title inflation" issue. That company would not allow any "Engineer" in
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by WorldMaker 2mo ago
The credentials and rigor are what Professional Engineering is supposed to include. The credentials help give bite to Ethics Boards and other tools used to keep the entire profession honest and safe. The rigor is supposed to include thing
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by WorldMaker 2mo ago
Back in the day companies used to have productization teams that separated pie-in-the-sky R&D from product, product teams, and product-like marketing.
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by WorldMaker 2mo ago
Bring to mind that old classic cliche about never trust a salesperson who always says the word "honest" or uses the phrases "to be honest" or "honestly" because they are probably lying in that moment.
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by WorldMaker 2mo ago
It's my view of the Halting Problem that we've known for a surprisingly long time that eliminating all software bugs is mathematically impossible and should stop letting perfect get in the way of the good. Especially with the more
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by WorldMaker 2mo ago
I was feeling similarly: epics with redux-observable but swapping RxJS for Effect.
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by WorldMaker 2mo ago
I was reading more into this specific in the project goals: > Consistently use pledge(2) and unveil(2) across the code base. Both link to man pages that seem rather OpenBSD-specific to me. Seems an interesting requirement/goal, but
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by WorldMaker 2mo ago
All two letter TLDs are some country's code. .tv (the oldest and longest example of a popular country code used by businesses) is Tuvalu but Tuvalu makes a nice revenue in all the television domains so they are mostly happy with the
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by WorldMaker 2mo ago
The goals page also implies it is intended to adapt to more OpenBSD filesystem permissions model things, which aren't as important in Linux or cross-platform development (git's intended environments).
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by WorldMaker 2mo ago
> I'm not sure how the best teams do PR review, from my perspective it sucks. I'm talking specifically about the UX. I've always hated Github's PR page, so I typically reviewed by pulling down the branch and opening t
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by WorldMaker 3mo ago
Profiles and Containers are a bit of a peanut butter and jelly situation. There's uses for both separately, there's a strong intersection of what they do well that you use either for (topping a slice of toast), and then together t
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by WorldMaker 3mo ago
This has been one of my use cases for the Multi-Account Containers extension for some time now. It's actually such a motivating use case that one of Firefox explorations into a "simpler" focused UX alternative to the Multi-Ac

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