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by cjk 27d ago
I recently asked Claude (Opus 5) to give me guidance on how to instruct it to be less verbose in a way that it will _actually follow_. Its response was something to the effect of (and I'm heavily paraphrasing here) "'Succinct
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by cjk 27d ago
After a huge wall-of-text response, I regularly ask Claude to "explain like I'm five, using succinct bullet points," and it works remarkably well.
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by cjk 2mo ago
For me, the interest in engine-making is to give myself a toolkit that is suited for the kinds of games I want to make, rather than an engine that is trying to be everything to everyone. Also to avoid the Unreal Engine monoculture.
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by cjk 2mo ago
Anecdotally, I have also felt many of these same complaints. In my case, I have a semi-autonomous loop where Claude writes some code, and uses `codex exec` to do an adversarial review. I had what should have been a trivial feature go for 13
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by cjk 3mo ago
This is brilliant. Thanks!
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by cjk 3mo ago
Couldn't disagree more. I've only recently started digging into graphics programming and I've found it incredibly rewarding. It's the _one_ area of expertise that I don't yet have that has been preventing me from so
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by cjk 3mo ago
Sony in particular is doubling down on platform exclusives again. I was waiting for Ghost of Yōtei to come out on PC, but Sony cancelled the port. We're well and truly fucked without physical media for exclusives like this.
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by cjk 3mo ago
I have heard this from a bunch of folks, but that was not my experience. For the couple days I was able to use it, I didn't hit a single gate, and I was using it pretty extensively (but not for anything security-related).
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by cjk 3mo ago
In that case, I would consider a lightweight static site generator. It sounds like you're fairly new to programming, so I would suggest a static site generator that is easy to install and use. Zola[1] is less well-known, but it's
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by cjk 3mo ago
Depends on your goal. If you’re not interested in hand-maintaining the code of the website(s), and you just want a nice GUI for publishing pages/posts/etc., then I’d say use some hosted platform like Squarespace. For actually lear
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by cjk 5mo ago
I use Lightroom Classic with the excellent Negative Lab Pro plug-in for converting film negatives, but I can’t stand Lightroom itself. I could easily see using this for post-conversion color grading.
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by cjk 6mo ago
If US manufacturers (or manufacturers in allied countries) do this, legal avenues exist to hold those manufacturers accountable. Not so with China. (That is not to say that the FCC change will move the needle on the underlying issue of rout
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by cjk 6mo ago
I would largely agree with that assessment, yeah. Dangerous place to bike, too. I've even seen pedestrians get clobbered by bikers because they stepped into the bike lane not realizing a bike was barreling toward them at 20mph+. This i
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by cjk 6mo ago
I was recently in a Waymo in SF. It was turning right from a busy street onto a narrow street. Mid-turn, the car slammed on the brakes. I sat there for a couple seconds like “???” wondering if we'd hit something. Then a dude on an e-bi
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by cjk 6mo ago
$4.50/gal+ as of a couple days ago in Vegas. Probably higher now.
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by cjk 7mo ago
We started using Buildkite at $DAYJOB years ago and haven't looked back. Incredibly, GitHub Actions seems to have gotten _worse_ in the interim. Absolutely no regrets from switching.
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by cjk 8mo ago
Man. I'd really rather they did the inverse: drop systemd and only maintain the SysV versions of the materials, even if that means dropping GNOME/etc., because I think understanding the Linux init process is far more important tha
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by cjk 8mo ago
Oh man. I missed that announcement somehow. Where'd you see they're exiting pro/flagship tier stuff? Everything I can find says they're continuing to hand-make their higher-end stuff in Germany. One such source: https:&
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by cjk 8mo ago
If you're talking about their headphones, I agree they _feel_ cheaply-made, but they are by no means low-quality. When you make headphones with premium materials, they get heavy, and that makes them uncomfortable/painful to wear.
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by cjk 8mo ago
In a previous life, I was the platform architect for the Bluetooth headphones at Bowers & Wilkins. We, naturally, did tons of competitive analysis, and I tend to agree Bose blows sound quality-wise, but their active noise cancelling is
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by cjk 8mo ago
I'm a Tailwind Plus customer in spite of not being the world's biggest Tailwind fan. Even though it really grinds my gears how unreadable markup can be when littered with Tailwind classes, I appreciate the quality and variety of t
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by cjk 8mo ago
Zed has been one of the most consequential changes to my dev tools in years. It's noticeably faster in day-to-day use than VS Code (launch time, input latency, etc.), is way less of a resource hog, and has the best Vim mode of any GUI
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by cjk 9mo ago
It's mostly Mass Effect that's trouble under Proton. It requires the stupid EA launcher, which is trash. I have a Lenovo Legion Go S and getting it to work reliably is an absolute nightmare. Most other games I play are fine.
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by cjk 9mo ago
Yeah. I feel the same way. If not for the fact that my gaming PC pulls double duty as a work PC, I'd seriously consider ditching Windows 11 for Bazzite. I worry that we are edging closer and closer to a similar phenomenon with macOS as
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by cjk 9mo ago
Having maintained a relatively popular open source project for a bunch of years, I love this idea. Totally stealing this for future projects.
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by cjk 9mo ago
Extremely context-dependent for me. For boilerplate stuff like generating tests against a well-defined API, in a compiled language, maybe 2-3x. Far less in languages and frameworks like Ruby/Rails where the distance between generating
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by cjk 11mo ago
I worked with the author of Fil-C at Apple while on the Safari team, and he's easily one of the brightest folks I've had the pleasure of knowing. Fil-C looks extremely cool.
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by cjk 11mo ago
Yes, the US Mint sells all of the coins in the American Innovation set to the public. Previous years’ coins can still be bought if they are not sold out.
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by cjk 1y ago
I've had IPv6 with the last three ISPs I've had across California and Nevada. I can't honestly remember the last time I _didn't_ have IPv6.
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by cjk 1y ago
Before I left Apple ~10y ago, it was pretty common to drop linked-on-or-after hacks into AppKit and UIKit to keep popular software chugging along. Assuming they're still doing that sort of thing, this was either missed or deemed not hi

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