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by mhast 1y ago
As someone who developed in it at the time I found the reason it died was because they made new, slightly incompatible, versions every new Windows release. After a while people got tired of doing updates.
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by mhast 1y ago
From what I've seen immediate mode seems suitable for less fancy UI requirements. If you want to start having a framework solve things like animations and such then you'll probably end up with some form of retained mode. Over my y
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by mhast 1y ago
After being stuck in XML land for making UI for almost two decades I couldn't be happier to leave it behind. Spreading your code over multiple languages means you now have a bunch new fun edge cases to deal with when things get stuck a
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by mhast 1y ago
On Android (and I'm pretty sure iOS) you have WYSIWYG editors for UI layouts for jetpack compose and flutter (and on iOS it would be Swift UI). These all go direct to code instead of XML or some other extra layer of code. What I would
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by mhast 1y ago
Kotlin multiplatform has been around for some time if you want that. But I guess it makes sense to be able to approach it from the other end as well if you're mainly an iOS shop.
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by mhast 1y ago
It's "Tools as a service", so it's really trying to make tool calling easier to use.
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by mhast 1y ago
I suspect that Waymo car's could operate in a lot more areas than they do. The issue is that Waymo are trying to sell the service of safe travel and not a car with an addon you can pay for which doesn't actually work. In other wor
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by mhast 1y ago
My experience with this is that it is vital to have a system where the system can iterate on its own. Ideally by having a test or endpoint you can call to actually run the code you want to build. Then you ask the system to implement the fun
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by mhast 1y ago
The people who are used to making models are probably not the same as are building levels. At least when I last tried Blender the UI was a lot harder to use than something like Unreal or Unity editor. I'd probably look at the Godot edi
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by mhast 1y ago
For me personally there was a very big step going from copilot to cursor. Much bigger than going from "normal" programming to copilot. Copilot seems to perpetually be 3+ months after the competition.
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by mhast 1y ago
When I've been experimenting with Cursor I've found that one of the essential parts is the agent MUST be able to close the loop itself for it to be useful in any real sense. So if you are having the agent write a script to call an
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by mhast 1y ago
You could do that. But then you need to explain to the LLM how to do the work every time you want to use that tool. And you also run into the risk that the LLM will randomly fail to use the tool "correctly" every time you want to
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by mhast 2y ago
LLMs work with tokens, not letters. So that's not going to work. It might work in an agent system where it can make and execute code to solve problems.
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by mhast 2y ago
I have a M4 Max 128 GB MacBook Pro. It's about the same speed as my 3090 when running in LM Studio.
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by mhast 2y ago
These system work by taking a list of tokens (basically words) and the "model" and send that to a function which returns one new token. You add that new token to the list of tokens. Repeat with the new list of tokens. That's
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by mhast 2y ago
If you want to get a better understanding of this I recommend playing around in the "chat playgrounds" on some of the engines. The Google one allows for some free use before you have to pay for tokens. (Usually you can buy $5 wort
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by mhast 2y ago
I've had cursor suggest changes for debugging (like prints), you do have to copy paste the results though. I've also had cursor generate a CURL request to test an endpoint and determine what responses it had so it could generate a
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by mhast 2y ago
This is s side comment, but banks don't actually pay out the ass to get people to work on COBOL. That's a myth. They actually just pay people (sometimes programmers, sometimes not) to learn COBOL. (And pay them fairly unconpetetiv
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by mhast 2y ago
If you can't figure out something innovative and ground breaking to do as a project try to copy something which already exists and you find useful. It can be an app or website, or something else. By trying to replicate something you wi
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by mhast 2y ago
There have been stores which accepted bitcoin as payment. Webhallen.com is an electronics store in Sweden which at least used to accept bitcoin (not sure if they still do). As a general rule it's not very convenient to do so though sin
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by mhast 2y ago
These are language models, they are not designed for producing image output at all. In a way it's impressive it can even produce working SVG code as output. Even more sonthst it vaguely resembles a bird on a bike.
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by mhast 6y ago
I have never been in a Lidl Store I would consider "first class". It's not bad products but they have a few factors that severely limit the impressions. They mostly only carry their own brand with extremely limited options. I
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by mhast 7y ago
Well, I think most games err to the "quick and dirty" side of things. Tracking down intermittent issues in code like this must be horrible, if not impossible. Leading to delayed projects, buggy releases and developer burn out.
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by mhast 7y ago
There's also one on Software Engineering Daily, quite interesting and it made me consider trying it out just to see what the building tools are like. https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2019/12/18/roblox
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by mhast 13y ago
Ehhhhh... I've use VisualStudio every day for the past years. And honestly there are a lot ideas they could borrow from other tools like Eclipse. Some examples that I personally feel are ways that C# in VS is lackluster compared to Jav