bob1029

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by bob1029 3d ago
> There's a variant of going full stack where you eat your way gradually through the customer by doing all their hardest work for them. One of my clients provisions front office applications for banks and the conversation has come u
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by bob1029 3d ago
> I am just much more comfortable supporting existing software than building new software. > It honestly gives me a huge sense of accomplishment when I get to see a customer making use of our products, and helping them investigate why
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by bob1029 3d ago
Inverter systems have more conversion losses than single stage. Most of the time, I definitely intend to run my system as hard as it can. There are only 4-5 weeks out of the year where variable speed would make a meaningful difference. Semi
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by bob1029 3d ago
Single stage hvac systems tend to have better performance in the max capacity cooling cases (Texas) and last significantly longer than units that rely on non-linear electronic devices. The difference can be as extreme as 10+ years of servic
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by bob1029 3d ago
I think RTS could continue to work if someone made a massive leap of faith and put all the modern infra around it that a AAA extraction shooter would receive in 2026. The biggest problem with RTS is the matchmaking and onboarding experience
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by bob1029 4d ago
StarCraft 2 is really hard to beat. This is probably the safest thing they could do with the genre from a business perspective.
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by bob1029 4d ago
LRU seems like the ideal strategy for most things LLM-related. Everything in this realm is about recency bias. I think it is a feature in this context, not a problem. When I give an agent a piece of corrected information regarding a long
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by bob1029 4d ago
> I’ve spent years learning how to make games, and it’s been hard, and now it feels like that might have been a waste of time? Generative AI is really awful at building games that are fun to play. It is a masterclass at reproducing Minec
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by bob1029 4d ago
There's an incredible amount of value in simply not worrying if your car will run when you need it to. Cortisol is one hell of a drug. In many cases it might be better for someone to go deeper into debt on the car if it means they will
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by bob1029 4d ago
There is some evidence that little engineering effort has been put into mitigating this problem. I think if someone actually tried really hard we could make these birds a lot quieter. > We compared the detected power flux densities of th
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by bob1029 4d ago
I'm not sure when I would use something like this. My VS copilot already writes one-off scripts that use Roslyn to analyze code. I don't even have to prompt it to do this with gpt5.5+ C#/.NET feels unreasonably effective as a
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by bob1029 5d ago
> the bubble > the jenga tower I am not so sure about these narratives anymore.
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by bob1029 5d ago
You run split experiments over subsections of the line to find the source. It's essentially like binary search. You can do this pretty quickly with a skilled team.
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by bob1029 5d ago
While I appreciate the creativity around using a game engine for non gaming applications, this does not seem like a particularly good fit. If most of your problem is 2d window/text stuff, the web browser is probably the best foundation
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by bob1029 5d ago
> When semiconductors were being researched at Bell Labs in the 1940s, mysterious component failures were eventually traced to researchers who had touched copper door knobs; the tiny number of copper atoms that migrated from the door to
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by bob1029 5d ago
If the demand for other fuels increases, the cost of diesel can be indirectly affected. Jet fuel and diesel fuel come from similar parts of the barrel. Refineries can largely choose what kind of fuel they produce for a given unit of input.
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by bob1029 5d ago
Lack of risk to the business. If it was just me and my tinker toys, the open path makes a lot of sense. I am in the business of provisioning custom AI robots for paying customers. I need to be able to provide certain assurances and offer op
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by bob1029 5d ago
The coordinate system in game scenes is known as "world space", but that rarely means our world. How do you train an LLM to create a world that only exists in an artist's head? I think spending a day with just the lighting
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by bob1029 5d ago
HN = A bunch of weirdly aggressive nerds who fail to explore nuance living in the same prison cell.
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by bob1029 5d ago
> each costs like 15 minutes I've got a custom agent loop that will reuse unit testing results if no apply patch operations occurred since the last invoke. Wall clock time isn't something I would put on the AI provider. That&#x
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by bob1029 5d ago
> And potentially as a byproduct of enabling all of this, you can now slop your way to a one-shot 3D game over the weekend which looks impressive. I think we've finally reached a weird point where AI has effectively reduced the amou
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by bob1029 5d ago
You might need to talk to a doctor if you can only go flat out for 4 seconds before having to slow down. You may put out more power during the first few seconds, but you should be able to go substantially longer than this before falling int
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by bob1029 6d ago
> building your own harness is a huge undertaking, a deep rabbit hole. I eventually gave up on this task. It's not possible to fight OpenAI or Anthropic's engineering teams. Their reasoning models have all kinds of undocumented
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GraphQL: Supercharging AI(graphql.org)
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by bob1029 6d ago
> The problem is it's often the devs themselves who request the siloing I used to be this developer. The more the development team complains, the more valuable the system is. If there is never any friction between the developers and
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by bob1029 6d ago
Software development untethered from the practical realities of the customer / user is what drives people insane. When developers are required to interact with the customer on a regular basis , the freewheeling effects described in th
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by bob1029 6d ago
I would attribute it to physics. If the entire page is rendered on the server, the information required to do so is presumably reasonably approximate (same datacenter). If most of the page is rendered on the client, the information needs to
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by bob1029 6d ago
Git and P4 are not meant to be directly competitive here. Git is for teams that are distributed across space & time. P4 is significantly better at centralized teams who work in the same physical office. I am curious what in LFS is break
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by bob1029 6d ago
Development of video games is the final boss of this one. If you want to kill someone's dream of publishing a game, encourage them to build their own engine from scratch. I cannot think of a more malicious piece of advice given how eff
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by bob1029 6d ago
This seems like bullshit to me. Reversing from the raw binary into something that apparently plays 1:1 in webGL is a fantasy even with a AAA dev team at your disposal. The UI/HUD is the smoking gun for me. The 3d stuff is more plausibl

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