BigglesB

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by BigglesB 8mo ago
I’m reading “ultra-capitalists” here as “those that control an extreme proportion of capital” rather than “those who believe really strongly in capitalism as a system”, though tbf that venn diagram may well be a donut…
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by BigglesB 8mo ago
I have ADHD & use a very similar kind of daily notes template. I think the reason that it works for me at least is that it shortcuts some of the "not knowing where to start" executive function issues at the start of the day. I
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by BigglesB 8mo ago
Aka Elvanse in the UK
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by BigglesB 1y ago
I suspect it will be politically difficult to outright ban the ad model... might the same effect be achieved however by enforcing strict online advertising requirements & making websites (specifically the owner of the domain name used t
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by BigglesB 1y ago
I also wonder the extent to which "pseudo-black-box-AI" is potentially driving some of these crazy valuations now due to it actually being used in a lot algorithmic trading itself... seems like a prevalence of over-corrected model
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AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism(newsocialist.org.uk)
9 points by BigglesB 1y ago|3 comments
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by BigglesB 1y ago
My super talented friend Ian is currently (and for the rest of this week) live streaming himself painting a triptych of portraits of Elon Musk. He's currently just getting started on the first painting but will also be chatting to vari
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by BigglesB 1y ago
Anyone who might dismiss this as being just a few isolated cases — or who think it is desirable to just remove political opponents from the equation — should think long and hard about what it will actually take to maintain this kind of “cri
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by BigglesB 1y ago
I suppose so. There have always been stories of those kinds of things, but from the outside looking in, this definitely _feels_ different. Perhaps it's the privilege of my pigment but in the past I've had little issue the handful
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by BigglesB 1y ago
I hear you. Feels like not that long ago that this would have been considered a fringe paranoid perspective. I used to being an early adopter & getting my real name as a username before anyone else. Plus there was an ego thing back in t
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by BigglesB 1y ago
Not really. I did set up a blog at biggles.games a while back but haven’t been actively updating it for quite a while & there’s nothing about our current project on there yet… probably time to do an update tbh!!
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by BigglesB 1y ago
Was actually planning to be at GDC this week & while there were other factors at play, the clincher was a feeling that there’s now a non-zero risk of getting caught up in some serious nightmare scenario like this. Seemed pretty self evi
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by BigglesB 2y ago
This looks fantastic! Love the premise & well done for what looks like an incredible solo effort. I was tech lead on Ozymandias & have another minified 4X in the works at the mo & putting out feelers with publishers etc. Sounds
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by BigglesB 2y ago
Not quite… in the most common version of chessboxing it’s more a case of alternating between the chess & the boxing via, say, a 3 minute timer from the start of each “round”. You do need to be very careful moving the chess board in&#x2F
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by BigglesB 2y ago
Hadn’t thought of it in this context before but in game development a “vertical slice” could potentially be thought of as akin to the “pilot plant” in that it’s about proving out the _processes_ for creating game content (and working out ho
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by BigglesB 3y ago
They actually did, one of the approaches they tested included holding down combinations of keys for variable durations (the "Representation 4: Bitmask-Duration Sequence"), however they didn't get any viable runners using that
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by BigglesB 3y ago
Nice work! Good to see another Godot convert on here as well :-) It is great how quickly you can get something up & running & then iterate on it.
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by BigglesB 3y ago
> Marketing effectiveness is not closely related to marketing spend on the Steam market for indie games. I would disagree with this, you can absolutely buy your way to the front page of Steam if you know what you’re doing. On Steam, ever
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by BigglesB 3y ago
I’m a solo indie developer trying to do almost exactly what this article advocates for and tbh, I’m not sure it’s been the right move. I’m almost 2 months into a project which essentially boils down to an iteration of Asteroids & have a
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by BigglesB 3y ago
I don’t know about “good” processes, but I definitely have processes… mainly just templates for daily notes & call/meeting notes & a plugin called QuickAdd. Though tbf, I’ve been using more-or-less the same templates since 2018
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by BigglesB 3y ago
Also quite curious about this. Subjectively it certainly hasn’t felt like “the front page of the internet” to me for quite a long time, but suspect that’s just me getting old as well as a reduced tolerance for enshitification. I was always
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by BigglesB 3y ago
Absolutely, controllers don’t make sense at all for most of those kinds of use cases, and would only add friction. A device like this already has so many conflicting constraints to deal with that I’m not really surprised that they didn’t pr
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by BigglesB 3y ago
Not saying it can’t or won’t be used for gaming, but the lack of precisely tracked 6dof controllers does severely limit it from being usable with a lot of popular genres of VR games: thinking Beat Saber & Pistol Whip specifically but an
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by BigglesB 3y ago
Interesting that it actually calls out game developers right at the start despite everything else announced about the headset indicating that they couldn’t care less about gaming on VisionOS…
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by BigglesB 3y ago
I’m still pretty convinced that the only compelling use case for VR in the short-to-medium term is gaming despite both Apple & Meta apparently trying their hardest to pretend otherwise! Having said that, perhaps this move indicates that
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by BigglesB 3y ago
Yup, I'd agree with this. I enjoy the "cadence" of working with a team in sprints. In a previous role with a small team, it was good to look back on the past two weeks & call out the things in a group setting that had gon
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Test Driven Debugging(biggles.games)
1 points by BigglesB 3y ago|0 comments
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by BigglesB 3y ago
Ah, no, I had the atom feed set up already, just insufficient karma on HN... Oh well!
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by BigglesB 3y ago
Ohhhh! Thank you! Looks like I need to do this too for mine! ( https://biggles.games )
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by BigglesB 3y ago
https://biggles.games Not many posts on there just yet, but experimenting with being super open while developing my next game!

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