matthewkayin

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by matthewkayin 4mo ago
You first ask if you really need to.
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by matthewkayin 5mo ago
Well generally the workers who make these games actually care about the game and want to make a good experience for the players. The execs however, only care about how much money they can make off of the product. Having a union (assuming th
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by matthewkayin 5mo ago
> "The Microsoft and OpenAI situation just got messy" is objectively wrong–it has been messy for months I'm pretty sure "just" is being used here to mean "simply" rather than "recently".
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by matthewkayin 5mo ago
Yeah, it is a valid comparison, and assuming the quality is close to par with a macbook, I think it would be worth the extra cost. I'm someone who doesn't want to go through a new laptop every other year. I've got an M1 mac r
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by matthewkayin 5mo ago
> why then switch to a mode that pays artists nothing at all? Do Bandcamp. Buy merch. Do something to support the artists. I don't like this perspective because it puts the onus on the individual consumer. Many people who listen to
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by matthewkayin 5mo ago
Exactly. It is crazy that they described MacOS finder as doing this correctly when finder has no concept of up, it only has a back.
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by matthewkayin 5mo ago
I'm someone who started programming when I was in middle school and went into this career field for the passion. But my passion was and is programming, not corporate office work. In my career so far, I've spent most of my time tro
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by matthewkayin 6mo ago
Yeah, the games industry is in a pretty big crisis right now, and I think change needs to happen both ways: Consumers need to understand that keeping games at the same price for decades despite rising costs and inflation is not realistic. I
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by matthewkayin 6mo ago
Know the workplace rules! Steam: We take a 30% cut of profits on our store. Devs: Aww you're so sweet. Apple: We take a 30% cut of profits on our store. Devs: Hello? Human resources?
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by matthewkayin 6mo ago
I don't know if the Starbucks example is quite the same as the band example. If anything, their focus on iced desserts shows that they know exactly what their audience wants and is paying for. When I think about the band shirts, I thin
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by matthewkayin 6mo ago
In addition to this, LLMs are also simply too slow right now to deliver the results ATC would need. Ridiculous to see people acting like LLMs are a silver bullet for every problem without putting any thought into what that would actually lo
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by matthewkayin 6mo ago
While modernizing ATC in the US may be overdue, the real issue here is that ATC in the US has been understaffed, underpaid, and overworked for a while now. My father works ATC and his schedule has him working overtime, 6 shifts a week, incl
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by matthewkayin 6mo ago
There are plenty of stories of ATC helping to guide pilots back to the ground after an engine failure or after a student pilot had their instructor pass out on them or something like that. Even if most of the work is routine, you definitely
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by matthewkayin 6mo ago
But that's why they said it was tenuous. Google's Pixels have been one of the most open Smartphone hardware lines so far , but Google could change that at any time.
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by matthewkayin 6mo ago
I think we should not even generalize it down to a rule of three, because then you're outsourcing your critical thinking to a rule rather than doing the thinking yourself. Instead, I tend to ask: if I change this code here, will I alwa
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by matthewkayin 6mo ago
I tried looking through some of the spec samples, and it was not clear what the "language" was or that there was any syntax. It just looks like a terse spec.
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by matthewkayin 7mo ago
This is a good point, though maybe means that "understanding the underlying problem" requires a degree of humanity. I think it's fair to say that Blizzard at a certain point went corporate and "lost the plot", so th
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by matthewkayin 7mo ago
They are just gotos, but does that mean that they are bad (along with their friend try/catch, who is also a goto?), or does that mean that gotos can be useful when used with restraint? Gotos get a bad rep because they become spaghetti
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by matthewkayin 7mo ago
I think 512GB is a fair minimum for a computer these days, but I agree with your "Where does it stop?" sentiment when it comes to RAM. If browsing the web takes 12GB of RAM, at what point do we stop chasing after more RAM and inst
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by matthewkayin 7mo ago
I wouldn't call my personal project "heavy load", but I have a cross-platform C++ project that I am developing on both a Windows gaming PC and a 2020 M1 macbook air. I use clang to compile on both machines. The M1 mac has not
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by matthewkayin 7mo ago
I've been feeling the pain of google being awful for a while now. Do you have a different search engine you would recommend?
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by matthewkayin 7mo ago
To take this a step further. I want a phone that is small (doesn't have to be tiny, just iPhone SE 2020 or smaller, please), has a replaceable battery, has an unlocked bootloader, has a headphone jack, and costs $400 or less. It doesn&
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by matthewkayin 7mo ago
The rule of good fast cheap still applies the same as always, but business leaders consistently choose to ignore this reality and insist upon fast and cheap without acknowledging that it will come at the cost of good. What's worse, is
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by matthewkayin 7mo ago
I respectfully disagree. If you compare the western designs in the article to the Japanese ones, the western designs have these giant banners and images that insist on themselves. Those are the ones that are shouting. It's like the J
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by matthewkayin 7mo ago
I would think it would have to work the same in both since otherwise C code using that behavior would not compile in C++, right? I am not a C++ expert, but I'm surprised to hear that it is considered UB to access the other member since
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by matthewkayin 7mo ago
You cannot remove the toil without removing the creative work. Just like how, in writing a story, a writer must also toil over each sentence, and should this be an emdash or a comma? and should I break the paragraph here or there? All this
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by matthewkayin 7mo ago
The problem pointed out in the article seems a little silly. We're adding an entire language feature because someone wanted an optional bool class? Why not just create a uint8_t with three values: OPTIONAL_BOOL_FASLE, OPTIONAL_BOOL_TRU
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by matthewkayin 7mo ago
It looks about the same as stock android.
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by matthewkayin 7mo ago
Except there are literally people on this thread saying that this is proof that code quality doesn't matter and that we all need to "wake up". It's the same as the people saying that spec driven development is the way of
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by matthewkayin 7mo ago
> Will human generated art still be as respected/valuable? I would hope that humans would always value human generated art, but these days it seems that many businessmen and AI bros do not. Perhaps they are not human.

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