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by kalcode 5d ago
What I do for work, isn't the same as what I do for fun. I think others need to embrace that too. Your work can be fun, and can be a joy. But that shouldn't be folks only outlet for themselves to measure. At one point in my career
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by kalcode 12d ago
I've been practicing lately to do A DIY drone build. This video helped me recently too [1] Also I take pictures and have Gemini critique, give feedback. It helped me learn about the tips more I didn't realize, after switching my t
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by kalcode 15d ago
That's a bit too rigid of a definition. Just means it requires a code update to change it, that's hardcoded.
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by kalcode 26d ago
That's true, it was when they stealthed released it in a application that millions use and no one noticed.
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by kalcode 1mo ago
My theory is that it's more boring. Debugging tools got better where those were the ways to work around and get to testing stuff in old console era. But now game development has much better tooling and SDK kits for a while in consoles.
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by kalcode 1mo ago
A lot of this is just inflicted by parent culture and anxiety. Unless your kid applying to an elite school, most college/university accept between 60-80% of their applicants. If they have decent GPA. We are making the kids endure that
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by kalcode 2mo ago
Also you can write a perfect specification get into implementation and have to step back and redesign. Software is fast to iterate and test that a lot assumptions can be proven by actually writing the code. Software is closer to gardening o
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by kalcode 2mo ago
Games and other specific applications call for such unidirectional data flow with such massive amounts of "independent" entities. It isn't that it'll catch on or not outside the gaming industry, it is more of a unique so
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by kalcode 2mo ago
Not omniscient but I do let them update the system information from one station just because it caused me issues with goal weighing since their information was so limited they almost always chose to stay within a known route versus explorin
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by kalcode 2mo ago
I did! I am more familiar with Godot but just ran into performance issues and then switched off their node scene straight to their rendering API, which made me feel like I abandoned Godot at that point. I am sure it could be optimized more
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by kalcode 2mo ago
Yup, lots of stuff I'd love to dive into that having an assistance coder makes way more approachable on nights or weekends to get things done. And yah, ideally there should be tons more! The shift will be interesting.
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Show HN: A self-running space economy SIM in Rust and Bevy(github.com)
110 points by kalcode 2mo ago|30 comments
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by kalcode 2mo ago
Meh, we should just ignore that kind of propaganda. We copy things too, we use a system to protect IP because copying is such a normal and strong human thing to do. In fact, when we don't discuss China, most find modern software patent
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Show HN: Orbital PAI a personal AI assistant(github.com)
1 points by kalcode 2mo ago|0 comments
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by kalcode 2mo ago
There seems to be a team sport mentality with AI topic in HN these days. Almost feels like people are picking sides, and thus not being very thoughtful or rational. Sigh, there definitely an attitude creeping into the community and it'
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by kalcode 2mo ago
I liked the Lua filters for solving issues on DOCX stuff for Markdown to Docx. For PDF stuff I haven't needed much Lua filters since switching to WeasyPrint for the PDF engine.
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by kalcode 3mo ago
I'm confused, why are you arguing about this? Stick with YouTube. This isn't for you. It's even in the name. PeerTube. Peer. Your talking about 'consumers' of a product you produce vs a way to share videos that isn&
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by kalcode 3mo ago
Thank you. It is a bit bizarre reading this thread.
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by kalcode 3mo ago
It's true, but I see it happening. I’ve watched seniors with 30+ years of experience adopt them successfully without losing their classic rigor. Personally, I get huge mileage out of LLMs, and yes, I care deeply about code quality, rea
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by kalcode 3mo ago
I think a better analogy is cartoon or animated films. The artist, creator, engineer lays the key frames, the plot points, characters, etc. The team builds it. Fills in gaps, especially with direct input from the creator. The creator still
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Good Software Takes Ten Years. Get Used to It (2001)(joelonsoftware.com)
3 points by kalcode 3mo ago|2 comments
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by kalcode 3mo ago
I thought bringing this article up during the AI era might spark some good discussion. My thoughts to start: I read this a while ago, and it shaped how I think about iterating on software. For example, I've been working on an internal
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by kalcode 3mo ago
Well I've enjoyed making little "flash" like games with AI. I have a SKILL.md for how to build out a pico8 game that it updates when it finishes a game. I give it an rough idea, or none and have it make a game. See if there s
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by kalcode 4mo ago
I thought modern science doesn't reject anthropomorphism anymore? That's it's more nuanced and that it caused more problems than it helped by rejecting it out right? I think we were taught anthropomorphism was wrong and that
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by kalcode 4mo ago
That's a good point. For me it's getting people to realize they need to take up practice that help minimize these things. It's kinda us and them problem. We need to ensure we don't just blindly install the latest, patch
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by kalcode 4mo ago
It's the exact same logic people used for Apple computers back in the day. The idea that Macs didn't get viruses because they were inherently more secure. But that wasn't true. It was purely a numbers game. Windows' pop
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by kalcode 4mo ago
People make this joke often. It's package managers and how loose we are with installing them, not NPM. Cargo,PyPi,Nuget,PHP has had these recent too. It's not just only NPM. It's frequently repeated here just cause of the ave
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by kalcode 4mo ago
That being entirely unfair. It is still a skill. They still learning stuff. It does not help them to be trapped in a bubble. But nothing is not transferrable. Things we learn, even if they are only a React can't write vanilla JS, it&#x
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by kalcode 5mo ago
Vagrant I used a lot early on in my career to learn Ruby on Rails in Windows. Thanks a lot for your work!
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by kalcode 5mo ago
I've tried these with Claude various times and never get the wrong answer. I don't know why, but I am leaning they have stuff like "memory" turned on and possibly reusing sessions for everything? Only thing I think expla

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