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by dwoldrich 5mo ago
Actually, I do remember one episode in my late 30's. My wife had twins. They were born extremely premature and there was a good chance they'd both die as we were at the extreme end of the survivability chart at that time - like
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by dwoldrich 5mo ago
Fascinating, thank you for wisdom and references!
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by dwoldrich 6mo ago
I view our existence as something like a fractal. World history is a scrambled mess of lies and amnesia (from repeated collective concussions, heh) Who knows what is truth and what is the Victor writing the history books? One's life i
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by dwoldrich 6mo ago
I like to think of us as complicated, not crazy. Don't want to ever close myself off to advantages my quirks might bring.
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by dwoldrich 6mo ago
Sounds like you are a good sleeper!
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by dwoldrich 6mo ago
Nothing I recall from my 30's, but in my 20's I worked in videogames and that was a brutal industry at that time in terms of work-life balance. (Or, at least it sounds better nowadays.) Bad sleep habits at that time ultimately le
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by dwoldrich 6mo ago
In my 40's I could go to bed with a complex software design or implementation problem I was wrestling with. Consciously word a cogent and succinct question that I needed answered, sleep on it, and then in the morning, I would be still
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by dwoldrich 6mo ago
The whole rest of the industry seems blind to the possibility of excellent personal/private agentic coding. There is a chance Intel could capitalize on that and steal a ton of mindshare in a flash. Maybe a slim chance based on past pe
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by dwoldrich 6mo ago
Hi Intel, I'm itching to buy an Xe3P! Or, Nova Lake? Crescent Island? Celestial? Jaguar Shores? Whatever the hell you name it doesn't matter to me, I just want a workstation with one of them bad boys attached to 160GB of RAM f
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by dwoldrich 6mo ago
Your timing for this effort is good because there is going to be a lot of thought leaders who are going to stop putting in the effort given the deafening avalanche of slop and devaluing of reusable code units in the wake of AI. So, less co
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by dwoldrich 6mo ago
Delta Force's programmer was really boss (Daniele Gaetano), a physics guy turned coder if I remember correctly. He rewrote Voxel Space to be true'ish 3D and not fakey 2.5D. He explained the innovative backtracking he had to do o
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by dwoldrich 6mo ago
I was just the lowly build-master/installer/utility developer, but I got tapped for testing and debugging and performance because I was just a sponge for coding knowledge because I wanted to be a game developer so baaaad at the ti
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by dwoldrich 6mo ago
There does seem to be a lot of jaded pessimism this morning (buck up, fellas!) I watched a bit of the gitbutler video and I liked the ideas, multiple/stacked branches. It felt like a genuine/natural extension of git concepts. Sort
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by dwoldrich 6mo ago
Voxel Space[1] could have used this, would that multicore had been prevalent at the time. I recall being fascinated that simply facing the camera north or south would knock off 2fps from an already slow frame rate. Many of our maps' r
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by dwoldrich 7mo ago
How will you deal with it? I successfully convinced $big_important_group at $day_job to not implement a policy of failing their builds when code coverage dips below their target threshold > 90%. (Insane target, but that's a differ
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by dwoldrich 7mo ago
You could ask the same thing about tests themselves. And I'm not talking about tests that don't exercise the code in a meaningful manner like your assertions on mocks(?!) I'm saying you could make the same argument about use
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by dwoldrich 7mo ago
The overton window has shifted so much that we can call balls and strikes as we see them without creating too much reee'ing. As long as people stay civil, it's good.
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by dwoldrich 7mo ago
Private AI's and searchable personal data troves are the only way to go if you care about privacy. I speculate we'll discover there's very few unambiguously ethical uses of AI, much less for military applications. Them'
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by dwoldrich 7mo ago
Discoverability was why I decided to discuss menus in the first place and I was being a bit of a contrarian by expressing happiness for the kitchen sink aspect to the "right-click" context menu. Not everyone will understand the di
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by dwoldrich 7mo ago
> So a failure across all your metrics Hey what's with the jerky tone? Are we competing for dominance now? Was Steve Jobs a bad guy and so I am by mentioning him? He had good taste, and people aren't one-dimensional cartoon cha
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by dwoldrich 7mo ago
That's a good point about context sensitivity and the need for process-level controls needing a top level menu. I would say that part of the friction with window-level menus is moving targets. It's less cognitive effort to find
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by dwoldrich 7mo ago
Maybe worthwhile to encourage a heavier reliance on right click menus going forward, then? Seems to make sense in a future VR world. I have noticed that Mac Sequoia I'm running now has some memory as to which process last focused on e
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by dwoldrich 7mo ago
Apple famously abandoned per-window menus per Fitt's law[1]. Wiki[2] says: > Apple experiments in GUI design for the Lisa project initially used multiple menu bars anchored to the bottom of windows, but this was quickly dropped in
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by dwoldrich 7mo ago
> link I gave you There are glaring fallacies by omission in the article you hold up as proof, don't insult my intelligence. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1112950/ It never occurs to some people
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by dwoldrich 8mo ago
If you open yourself to be cranked up, you'll get cranked up constantly. Pollution is real - a legit problem and a worthy cause, but the anthropogenic global warming thing was always just wealth extraction by elites. They cranked up a
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by dwoldrich 8mo ago
Enshittification usually means you are right over time. It still kindof depends. To be fair, I also dislike abstract platitudes that are overly optimistic as I think you might be. "Diversity is our strength"?? I mean, I guess di
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by dwoldrich 8mo ago
Exactly my thoughts. Selective whinging indeed. Also meta-platitude whinging like > The ideology of "winner takes all" is unsustainable and not supported by reality. Sometimes the winner deserves to win, AND that's a good
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by dwoldrich 8mo ago
Consumers are not voting with their wallets, they do not care. Surveillance for profit will be illegal. Time for the Internet Bill of Rights. Trust me, it's coming. tyfyattm
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by dwoldrich 8mo ago
I just see right through each of these latest crazes. Power is everything, divide to conquer. I don't play along with the identity games that destroy people anymore. Beyond that, there is no consensus on any of these gobbledygook mov

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