Zarathruster

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by Zarathruster 15d ago
I'm on AI Pro. Quality is obviously not on par with Codex/Claude, but I can't complain about quantity. It feels much closer to the usage limits we had before the big nerfs.
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by Zarathruster 1mo ago
| do drum skins "groan"? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmlK94QvwiA
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by Zarathruster 2mo ago
I've found that Claude nearly always claims to be Opus in the commit message, regardless of the actual model making the commit.
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by Zarathruster 3mo ago
I've taken several stabs at it over the years but I always give up in exhaustion. It feels badly in need of an editor, not that anyone would dare. Maybe this is a consequence of the format: it was released serially in chapters to a lit
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by Zarathruster 3mo ago
I assume that the bitterness of the bitter lesson is not for engineers but for subject matter experts. I can only imagine how it would feel to discover that your decades of hard-earned expertise don't amount to a whole lot when it come
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by Zarathruster 3mo ago
Within a meter or so, maybe a little more at times? But yeah I had an intuition that it was subnormal shenanigans, but didn't spend too long trying to diagnose, since it was easy enough to move everything a few meters offset.
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by Zarathruster 3mo ago
It was a prototype for a VR game in which you toss objects and I never drilled down far enough to see the implementation, since I just used the sample prefabs that come with the XR Interaction Toolkit. If you ever tossed anything in the vic
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by Zarathruster 3mo ago
Interesting. When I first got started with Unity I found really buggy behavior if you do any kind of physics calculations near world origin (0, 0, 0). It has a weird gravity well effect if you get too near it. I never found a satisfactory e
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by Zarathruster 3mo ago
If we're fair, this is one of the better examples. It looked reasonably useful until it got to the 'CI / GitHub Actions' section. Many readmes take a very long time to describe anything useful, like how to get started or
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by Zarathruster 3mo ago
I recently tried to learn gamedev with Claude as a tutor of sorts. It didn't end well. Claude confidently led me off a cliff and I had throw the whole thing in the trash. It seems there's just no shortcut around learning stuff the
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by Zarathruster 3mo ago
The conversation around AI in games is such a polluted mess of confusion and bad faith. I would hate to have to answer such an interview question. Recently I came across a game on Steam that was getting review-bombed because the devs admitt
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by Zarathruster 3mo ago
Goons never die, they just go to HN and regroup
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by Zarathruster 3mo ago
I go to EGS once a week or so just to see which free game is on offer, and the experience is only barely tolerable. If you're giving away free games and can barely manage to attract people to your storefront, you might be doing somet
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by Zarathruster 3mo ago
Yeah pretty hard to imagine Claude making sense of BYOB
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by Zarathruster 3mo ago
Can confirm- I took both of those classes and don't remember any math beyond big O, which only technically counts.
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by Zarathruster 4mo ago
The praise heaped on Spec Ops makes me embarrassed for games as a medium. This is a game that forces you to commit mass murder in order to progress the storyline, pretends that something profound has just been demonstrated, and then tries t
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by Zarathruster 4mo ago
Where are you using it? Is Gemini CLI at a usable state? It was a frustrating, miserable experience last time I gave it a shot. Antigravity seems significantly better in comparison, but with lower usage limits. If I run out, I usually don&#
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by Zarathruster 6mo ago
> Since this was mostly contained within one city (Detroit) It's concentrated in Detroit but also distributed throughout the state, as you can observe in the census.gov slides. The devastation is regional. It's been a wild expe
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by Zarathruster 7mo ago
Yeah I mean, I think procgen is cool tech, but there's a reason we don't talk about Daggerfall the same way we talk about Morrowind
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by Zarathruster 7mo ago
Unless you intend to build "industrial real-time 3D applications like employee training, product configurators and embedded systems." In which case you must use the Industry License, for which you must pay "Custom pricing.&qu
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by Zarathruster 7mo ago
Interesting. I'm new to this and trying to get a grasp of the situation but there's a ton of noise. What's wrong with Netcode for GameObjects, and what are the odds I'll regret going with it?
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by Zarathruster 7mo ago
Just a polite heads-up in case you weren't aware: for non-game usage of Unity, the licensing situation is... a little complicated. That goes for the engine as well as a lot of the stuff I've seen in the Asset Store. Just a thing t
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by Zarathruster 7mo ago
Weirdly, MSPaint (or whatever it is now) is really good at this (with, I assume, an AI model)
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by Zarathruster 7mo ago
This reminds me of my experience trying to generate a reference photo for a 3d model. I told Nano Banana to generate an image of the character with his feet shoulder width apart. It ended up generating him with his feet pressed together, so
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by Zarathruster 7mo ago
This has been my experience too. The new models don't spit out nightmare fuel as often, but they aren't nearly as creative either. They seem to be very good at creating stock photos and not much else
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by Zarathruster 8mo ago
I was in your shoes about a year ago with an A1 mini, getting into OpenSCAD to make my own keycaps. If you're getting into OpenSCAD I'd highly recommend getting Belfry ASAP. https://github.com/BelfrySCAD/BOSL2
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by Zarathruster 8mo ago
As a programmer I'd be happy with an API, so I can keep working in the environment I'm accustomed to. Programmers can get very picky when it comes to their ergonomics, so it would be wise to let them handle this part. This, howeve
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by Zarathruster 9mo ago
Yeah the "Crash to Desktop" comedy spell wasn't added to the game for no good reason. I do credit their sense of humor about it though.
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by Zarathruster 10mo ago
> Adding to this: it's not just that the apprenticeship ladder is gone—it's that nobody wants to deal with juniors who spit out AI code they don't really understand. I keep hearing this and find it utterly perplexing. As a
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by Zarathruster 10mo ago
I've done this too. The nice side-benefit of this approach is that it also serves as good documentation for other humans (including your future self) when trying to wrap their heads around what was done and why. In general I find it he

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