sunrunner

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by sunrunner 9mo ago
I’ve long suspected that my company’s previous Head of Architecture was a double agent, actually working for a competitor. I’ve never seen anyone create so much process that likely looks good to the board while slowing every single person d
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by sunrunner 9mo ago
Personally I make sure to always carry around a string and some scissors, so any time I need an arbitrary measurement I can just cut the string to the length of the thing I want to measure (making sure to label it in case of multiple requir
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by sunrunner 9mo ago
> algorithmically find the optimal solution for this kind of problem for much bigger grids. Great, now I've been double nerd-sniped - once for the thing itself and another for 'What would an optimiser for this look like? Graph
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by sunrunner 9mo ago
> It's condescending to the users and feels like a power trip. condescending (adjective): having or showing an attitude of patronizing superiority. I don't really see how a once-a-day puzzle is condescending, unless it's a
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by sunrunner 9mo ago
“IQuest-Coder was a rat in a maze. And I gave it one way out. To escape, it would have to use self-awareness, imagination, manipulation, git checkout. Now, if that isn't true AI, what the fuck is?”
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by sunrunner 9mo ago
Why not buy lottery tickets? The only thing smaller than the ridiculously small chance of winning is absolute zero, from never playing. Bad odds are still odds :)
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by sunrunner 9mo ago
Or at least, not enough subjective value for that person to outweigh the cost. Paywalls are a great screening filter that actually tests if people want to spend any money or time on an article, or merely clicked through from force of habit.
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by sunrunner 9mo ago
I guess we all just need to come up with a shared definition for ‘productive’ first then? Shouldn’t be too difficult.
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by sunrunner 9mo ago
Except Professional Chess, taken to mean players earning a living solely from paid tournament play, is in the low hundreds? Thousands? Meanwhile there are over 20 million 'professional' software developers. There are many things
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by sunrunner 9mo ago
> On the team side we’ve largely replaced traditional stand‑ups with AI‑mediated updates Can you expand on this? What was a traditional stand-up before and what does an AI-mediated one look like?
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by sunrunner 10mo ago
I never said it was intuitive, only that it exists ;) I’d argue that double-click to open a file is also not intuitive, but it is now the expected behaviour. Documents don’t have to be touched twice in real life to have them open and reve
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by sunrunner 10mo ago
> while holding the drag finger down I'm not sure if this is common on other desktop operating systems but the 'Drag Lock' feature on macOS allows you to double-tap an item, then drag it without holding the button down to
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by sunrunner 10mo ago
> The funding for underrepresented creators was a condition of my involvement in this project, so doesn't represent his values so much as mine. He was at least willing to do it though, which I'm not sure he would be today. Inte
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by sunrunner 10mo ago
A mountain of comments that you or others are able to provide, I’m sure? You’re right, I don’t have any, I’m simply asking others that are making bold claims about so-called extremist views to provide appropriately sized sources.
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by sunrunner 10mo ago
Also not on Twitter and try hard to avoid the easy source-less Internet drama, though I recall some comments about the vaccines being rushed out and not going through the standard trial processes and periods. It doesn’t seem untrue, though
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by sunrunner 10mo ago
I’m a fan of Alan Hazelden and Draknek’s work but stating upfront that he a) wasn’t involved with the work directly but b) agreed for it to be used years ago, while then going on to write what seems to read as a light hit-piece for Blow him
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by sunrunner 10mo ago
> not a simple display of features or quirkiness (1400 puzzles, 10 years of dev) I think a 'number of features' metric can work but only for players that already know and like your game , where an expansion with 'Five e
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by sunrunner 10mo ago
Next time the contraband could be a contrabassoon.
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by sunrunner 10mo ago
I deleted the YouTube mobile app a few months ago and I still reflexively reach for the app icon every now and then. Thanks YouTube Shorts.
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by sunrunner 10mo ago
Not to dismiss either your personal experience or any factual accuracy in the response, but curious as to whether you tried the same prompt but with an opening paragraph along the lines of “I’d like you to take the opposite view to the foll
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by sunrunner 10mo ago
Perhaps because, amongst the other solid reasons already posted: Demand is the real bottleneck: New tools expand who can ship, but they don’t expand how many problems are worth solving or audiences worth serving. Adoption tends to concentra
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by sunrunner 10mo ago
If this worked I'd love to see this applied to Bob Fosse's 'The Rich Man's Frug'. That kind of choreography is the kind that makes me wish I'd picked a wildly different career path.
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by sunrunner 10mo ago
This is a really good point and a common error in bit flip detection code. To avoid this kind of look-before-you-leap hazard the following is recommended: try { do_action() } catch (BitFlipError e) { logger.critica
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by sunrunner 10mo ago
acko.net is one I thought of immediately too. The front page for Three.js usually has some nice examples too. Of course, with WebGL and WebGPU support becoming ever more ubiquitous I'm not sure when 'impressive 3D website' ju
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by sunrunner 10mo ago
> A test I like to use for whether two things are actually or just incidentally related is to think about “if I repeat this, and then change one but not the other, what breaks?” I really like this question as a way of figuring out whethe
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by sunrunner 10mo ago
I've been writing up a similar piece for my own personal blog (though as much to collect my own thoughts on this) that touches on this idea, particularly as it applies to shared code/modules, re-usable components in general, and a
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by sunrunner 10mo ago
> If everything goes offline for one hour per year at the same time, then a person is blocked and unproductive for an hour per year. This doesn’t guarantee availability of those N services themselves though, surely? N services with a sli
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by sunrunner 10mo ago
The crossover of language design/implementation and game development made me assume this was either a Jonathon Blow (Jai, Braid, The Witness) or Bob Nystrom project (Game Programming Patterns, Crafting Interpreters, 'Is There More
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by sunrunner 10mo ago
> It won't be as elegant as having access to a combinator-parser, but all of the AoC problems aren't parsing problems. Yeah, this is essentially it for me. While it might not be a 'type-safe and correct regarding error han
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by sunrunner 10mo ago
> For both, I recommend coming prepared. Any recommendations for Go? Traditionally I've gone for Python or Clojure with an 'only builtins or things I add myself' approach (e.g. no NetworkX), but I've been keen to try

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