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by danschuller 15d ago
Apart from the products not being very competitive this is the main reason I'm reluctant to use any Google models / AI products. The account is way to precious thing to lose based on some AI classifier misfiring and then you know
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How Did Rogue Generate Its Random Dungeons?(howtomakeanrpg.com)
29 points by danschuller 1mo ago|11 comments
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by danschuller 2mo ago
Does SEO even matter these days? Google Search seems to be on the way out as the dominant discovery mechanism. Really a better discovery mechanism is what writers need that's more aligned with with readers and writers and less with pla
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by danschuller 3mo ago
I've found this skill to work well: https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/tree/main/skills/produc...
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by danschuller 3mo ago
A few things that have worked well for me: - Like normal software engineering - building small parts in isolation, verifying they work and then bringing them together to make the whole. - Asking Claude to do things using sub-agents t
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by danschuller 4mo ago
I'm reading Accelerando at the moment and I kept thinking about The Quantum Thief. I enjoyed the Quantum Thief more, but Accelerando feels more relevant to the current times.
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by danschuller 5mo ago
No many hit games started as mods. League of Legends is the one that immediately jumps to mind, but I know there are many more coming from Quake and Doom mods etc.
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by danschuller 9mo ago
Probably now or the very near future you could have an LLM that's provably trained on dataset where the leaked spec isn't included in the dataset and have it perform the reverse engineering work.
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by danschuller 1y ago
Your solution is for everyone in the world to foster a degree of self-discipline they've never shown any inclination for in the past? That doesn't sound like a scalable solution. These apps are so pervasive and their use adopted a
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by danschuller 1y ago
I don't know if you intended this to be only spent selfishly. But if you look to how the old robber barons spent their money they did things like giving the US a large portion of it's public library system. I don't think it w
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by danschuller 1y ago
It feels they should be a neutral payment system. They're implementing global policy otherwise due the monopoly they have, that's something that should handled at government/state level.
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by danschuller 1y ago
How do you infer swimming in an ocean is dangerous?
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by danschuller 1y ago
It's telling this sentence has the student as one to blame, when it's a structural issue and the weight of the blame rests more heavily on the shoulders of the universities.
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by danschuller 2y ago
I also find this an interesting thought. Maybe an inability to monetize ideas in the space? I've read many many anecdotes over the years of Europeans learning or perfecting their English language skills playing classic point and click
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by danschuller 2y ago
If you want to follow someone playing with this, there's Steve Grand, who wrote the original creatures game and kickstarted something a bit more ambitious https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1508284443/grand
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by danschuller 2y ago
For me Mastodon misses some common workflows I have. When I find someone interesting I like to easily see who they follow with bios and then I may follow some of those. In Twitter and Bluesky this is pretty easy, in Mastodon it's hard
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by danschuller 2y ago
I have been trawling through the Wizardry 1 decompiled pascal source code for the Apple II. Uncovering neat little bits like: PROCEDURE PAUSE1; (* P010011 *) BEGIN FOR LLBASE04 := 0 TO TIMEDLAY DO BEGIN END; END;
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by danschuller 2y ago
Business of Software forum, as far as I can tell there's nothing similar anymore for a group of small one-person commercial software devs discovering how, and helping each other, to be successful. There used to be cool art forum called
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by danschuller 2y ago
C++ is not a sane language for anyone with a passing familiarity. At least Rusts macros aren't literal text substitutions, a move towards the light.
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by danschuller 2y ago
The low-code, no-code niche that I see is writing shaders using visual graphs - blender, unity, unreal etc. I don't see that being replaced by LLMs in the near term. The context where you're expressing what you want is represented
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by danschuller 2y ago
> There was a game on the PLATO network (circa '79 or '80) called "Oubliette" that nearly caused me to flunk out of law school. [...] Wizardry was in many ways our attempt to see if we could write a single-player game
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by danschuller 2y ago
> imagine a non-arrogant programmer that actually does what you want I don't think this is going to be reality anytime soon. In order for the LLM or agent to do what you want, you'd need to be able to precisely specify what you
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by danschuller 2y ago
Singapore - great food, easy travel to the rest of Asia, very safe, English speaking, hires a lot of tech workers internationally. However it is hot and humid.
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by danschuller 2y ago
A tech worker can get a job with a visa pretty much anywhere that has a sector.
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by danschuller 2y ago
Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Hieroglyph but a decade on, it's not had many breakout successes.
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by danschuller 2y ago
It means that now but that meaning will fade away as the decades advance.
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by danschuller 3y ago
I think you could do style transfer on a framebuffer before pushing it out and that might be quite interesting, especially if you can have it look correct over time. The larger possibility is that video has shown the AI has some capacity to
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by danschuller 3y ago
A history of western philosophy? GEB and that book don't have much overlap in content and GEB is a more fun read. History of Western Philosophy is occasionally witty but is otherwise pretty dry. GEB isn't much to do with philosoph
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by danschuller 3y ago
A good pairing is Atlas Shrugged and The Illuminatus! Trilogy. I just happened to read at the same time but would recommend it.
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by danschuller 3y ago
I'm cheered to see any wider adoption of mastodon. For my very niche game engine developer follows Mastodon is now almost as good as twitter was but for mainstream or other niche interests it's got a ways to go.

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