andrewallbright

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by andrewallbright 4y ago
Something I've realized after using chatGPT since the preview released is that I am still responsible for knowing what the possibility space is for what I want to do. This helps in two ways. First, it helps me formulate my requests of
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by andrewallbright 4y ago
ChatGPT is now helping me learn terraform ^^;; What a time to be alive.
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by andrewallbright 4y ago
So... what advise is there for technology comfortable people who want to mitigate the effects of data leaks like these? It seems like data provided is will be exposed eventually and company size doesn't seem correlate with data safety.
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by andrewallbright 4y ago
Good tip -- engineers are like Jurassic Park because they always find a way. Will you evaluate this tool to see if it affords a nicer workflow for you?
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by andrewallbright 4y ago
Full disclosure: I'm just a hobbyist game dev with experience with arduino, and volunteering at my local robotics competition. I would recommend getting into arduino. It's fun to buy little components, build little circuits, and s
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by andrewallbright 4y ago
Something I've wanted was a way of setting up any computer I touch to have what I want/expect it to have so I can start working in a dev environment. I dev on windows, osx, and Ubuntu. So far I've written a go CLI that is abl
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by andrewallbright 4y ago
For me, it was "Behavior Trees in Robotics and AI: an introduction" What conceptually helped me out was the idea that behavior trees (BTs) are hierarchical finite state machines (HFSMs). I read that and thought "woah!" I
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by andrewallbright 4y ago
I've spent some time testing and thinking about testing. I think the universal guidance that should be followed is this... Do whatever you need/want to that makes your software successful. The rules are meant to be broken if it me
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by andrewallbright 4y ago
I was thinking about getting a part time job at a coffee bar for the weekends (mostly for fun). I'm a little glad I didn't pursue this because I'd hate to lose my primary job as an engineer just because I wanted to sling some
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by andrewallbright 4y ago
Any advice for others going through this phase of their life? I have a terrible feeling this will be me; when I think of having a child I do think about it as if I will only be living for someone else (which is fine) but I have ambitions I
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by andrewallbright 4y ago
That's good; you get more of a frame budget that way. I saw 90 and even 144 as target frames to avoid VR sickness. It's good to know 72 frames can work too.
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by andrewallbright 4y ago
As a hobbyist game dev one thing I've (recently) learned is that optimizing performance is paramount in video games. Running at 60 FPS you have a budget of 16 ms per frame (VR requires 90 FPS minimum else risk VR sickness; ~11ms per fr
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by andrewallbright 4y ago
The unnerving thing about this post is just how I could very realistically find myself in similar shoes. I do many things and bet on my ability to learn as I go. Sometimes it does take some extra hours. Time is finite. Why bravery to say &q
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by andrewallbright 4y ago
Writing automated tests for video games. Why is it interesting to me? I started to teach myself unity in December 2021. I've personally experienced benefits to writing automated tests and using CICD; therefore, I thought it would be fu
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by andrewallbright 4y ago
Writing automated tests for video games is some of the most fun programming I do.
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by andrewallbright 4y ago
My therapist says it's important to accept my personal story of how I came to be here. Sometimes that means grieving all the missed opportunities from the past. It's important to integrate the past into the present so you can conf
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by andrewallbright 4y ago
I think the author is good with naming symptoms and I think they miss the true culprit. It's not typescript that is causing this pain, no it's the pain of getting correct abstractions laid down in code. It's truly the pain of
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by andrewallbright 4y ago
...And they say 10x engineers are a myth.
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by andrewallbright 4y ago
This situation certainly feels like it should be in a Dilbert comic.
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by andrewallbright 4y ago
My fear is if the unity app somehow loses focus, perhaps due to some annoying OS pop up. I'd love to learn more so I can be confident that it could run in production without too much concern.
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by andrewallbright 4y ago
This is a real shame. I met many interesting people on VR chat. Some were exploring identities that only a virtual world would allow them to. Mods enabled these people to lose themselves in the fantasy of their identity. I heard sad stories
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by andrewallbright 4y ago
As a journeyman programmer, I have found a few tools to help me reduce complexity. Abstract interfacing techniques like base classes, abstract classes, and (my favorite) interfaces allow me to model interesting things. Thinking about relati
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by andrewallbright 4y ago
Not as a main gig, but I frequent an arcade bar very often. I've started light research into how I might put together an arcade cabinet running a unity app using a raspberry pi. I was looking into how to automagically start the app in
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by andrewallbright 4y ago
Outsourcing stories are interesting to me for a couple reasons. (1) Why do people think subpar programming from outsourcing companies will always hold true? The more business/experience these shops acquire the more likely the engineers
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by andrewallbright 4y ago
I respect the tone of this blog post. I pause to think how I would word this experience if it happened to me. Since it hasn't, I don't really know how I would react. However; having this cool composure to think through why things
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by andrewallbright 4y ago
If it were me, and if there is a graphical component I would use this as my stack. (Note: I am a hobbyist game dev). - Unity + mirror (multiplayer library) for the server client. The library documentation will help with a mental model of a
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by andrewallbright 4y ago
Erm... As someone who has embraced digital purchases, what?! I need to look into if I can back up my digital movie purchases onto physical media. This maneuver is outrageous.
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by andrewallbright 4y ago
When multiple different people and multiple different circumstances align in just the right way, I do believe it's magical. Literal magic. My experiences as a person tell me that people and egos and circumstances constantly conspire ag
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by andrewallbright 4y ago
It is an interesting growth play that Meta is doing (putting aside our feelings about it). By putting out relatively cheap VR headsets and requiring a meta (Facebook) account to use it, they are getting young people signed up for meta. Thos
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by andrewallbright 4y ago
I honestly do not understand how the mass mobilization of the US economy for war in the 1940s actually happened or operated. Was it bottom up, with factories competing to make products (trucks, ammo) for lend lease? Basically government use

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