hresvelgr

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by hresvelgr 11mo ago
While this does appear to be getting worse, I'm in the camp of letting it happen. The Node/JS ecosystem is imho completely unsuitable for serious work and this is merely the natural consequence. Let it burn, and perhaps something
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by hresvelgr 11mo ago
This could genuinely be a very useful tool for digesting pull requests. A tiny language model could probably do a decent job of ranking hunks by importance to enable replaying back in a more coherent order.
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by hresvelgr 11mo ago
Looks promising. Where I think Notion really succeeds is letting people easily make attractive live documents. Where they've meandered off imho is trying to shoehorn in an RDBMS. If you can enable people to make pretty pages, and keep
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by hresvelgr 11mo ago
Someone can debug your program over a remote session with no extra configuration.
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by hresvelgr 11mo ago
> men just want to be safe, satiated, and friendly to each other I would argue AI fundamentally changes nothing in this respect. I think what we all want is freedom of pursuit, which is afforded to all as a birthright. What we are so con
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by hresvelgr 11mo ago
> Godot is nearly 25 years old. I'm sure it was awful back in 2003. Sure, but that's kind of my point, modern software is endemic of a mindset that most things are "fast enough" that we can reinvent the wheel, repeat
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by hresvelgr 11mo ago
I left a comment in the previous thread about reserving judgement until the cause is identified as it's quite common to run into weird performance issues in very complex systems (games typically being so) and its very easy to say: &quo
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by hresvelgr 11mo ago
The thing that made me go "oh damn" was finding out the debugger is multiplayer.
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by hresvelgr 11mo ago
It's probably worth reminding everyone here that it's possible to write slow code in "fast" languages and fast code in "slow" languages. The state of software as it stands today is horrendous, but seeing as no
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by hresvelgr 11mo ago
While I tend to agree, I think there's still an undercurrent of React-like paradigms being strongly preferenced in the training data so assuming LLMs continue to get much better, if you were to build a simple UI toolkit with an LLM, th
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by hresvelgr 1y ago
It's solving problems that are so far down on the list of priorities of a video game project that it will never evolve beyond a mere toy unless they really wise up. "My performance is bad because I didn't design this in a dat
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by hresvelgr 1y ago
I understand trying to improve popular technologies that have issues, but for a text format with mass ubiquity, JSON has very little wrong with it to the point where I believe that projects like this are a profound waste of everyone's
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by hresvelgr 1y ago
Inflexibility is the quality I desire more and more as I get older. I don't want to force my software to do dumb shit, I want my software to force me into avoiding dumb shit. This is how you keep a system understandable. That quality i
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by hresvelgr 1y ago
This seems distinctly in opposition to what I believe makes Obsidian a great program, providing an excellent editing environment and extensibility for markdown. The more it ventures into these types of features, the more they're going
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by hresvelgr 1y ago
I would argue the majority of one's time spent developing is verifying that the thing being built actually works as intended. AI has diminishing returns for the same reason your fancy text editor setup has diminishing returns, it'
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by hresvelgr 1y ago
In terms of treatment, I'm under the impression that "normal" is the minimum bar of commercial productivity and psychiatry/psychology is primarily used to curtail social deviancy to maintain this.
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by hresvelgr 1y ago
The lovable aphorisms we had for people with character quirks were largely from our original support systems. What no one is talking about is the reason therapy-talk has become so pervasive is because all those support systems: family, frie
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by hresvelgr 1y ago
While I believe there is scant value in being a critic, a good point is nevertheless made: it should be made by practicing artists. Elaborating on both points, as a practicing artist, paying attention to what you like is important as it sha
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by hresvelgr 1y ago
That's a massive infrastructure change to pay out what would likely be peanuts to users, put a massive maintenance burden on the platform (payments are a nightmare system), and disproportionately benefit a law firm profiting off of the
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by hresvelgr 1y ago
> I'll bet you anything, the average ear won't care. "Don't set out to raze all shrines - you'll frighten men. Enshrine mediocrity - and the shrines are razed."
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by hresvelgr 1y ago
> ECS is basically the realization that relational databases are a pretty damn good model. A pretty darn good model for what though and to what extent? For processing millions of objects, sure. For gameplay logic, using ECS for everythin
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by hresvelgr 1y ago
I think this has less to do with Rust and commercial game engines being better and more of a fetish that game programmers seem to have for entity component systems. One does not have to look far to see similar projects repeated in C++ years
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by hresvelgr 1y ago
While Microsoft is certainly in the wrong for removing the copyright notice, I think the author has zero basis for complaint otherwise. If you're going to release software with one of the most permissable licenses, you need to accept t
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by hresvelgr 1y ago
The people I've met who have made similar remarks about C have authored some of the most heinous pointer tomfoolery I've ever seen in my life. It's a remark indicative of a hubris that has remained unchecked or worse, in deni
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by hresvelgr 2y ago
> It would have been a far better language. I like Tcl and I think it has some very admirable traits. That being said, I don't even want to picture the hellscape of an ecosystem that would have flourished if it became the language o
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by hresvelgr 2y ago
I'm taking about extracting value from consumers. Capitalism/communism is a straw man here. It's the attitudes that motivate product development.
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by hresvelgr 2y ago
I think Mittelstand is perhaps misdirecting away from a more interesting conversation. Reading between the lines, this highlights an inherent bias in the majority of American companies to provide service to extract value as opposed to provi
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by hresvelgr 2y ago
FYI Bitwarden is self-hostable and AGPLv3.
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by hresvelgr 2y ago
The Kobo Libra Colour has the best UX of a device I own, in that it's completely invisible. I can just read my damn books, highlight passages I think are noteworthy and save words I like the sound of. Everything just works, and the hig
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by hresvelgr 2y ago
Writing good software requires principles, and having them means standing behind them when they're tested. I've seen legacy code cleaned to wonderful standard and operation and greenfield projects immediately fold into spaghetti.

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