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by michaelteter 8d ago
Yes, you're right - I need to improve the whole ground experience. The plane does gradually use fuel, but you're vastly more likely to crash before you run out of fuel. Landing and pausing on the runway refuels the plane, but the
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by michaelteter 8d ago
The goal was to make a game similar in look and feel to an old console game I played when I was a kid. Just like with many arcade racing games, the physics are not intended to be hyper-realistic. I do love realistic physics in flight/d
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by michaelteter 10d ago
Labels rarely fit well. We can't even agree on the definition of "art". I would prefer to say "fascination", because for some people, writing code is their fascination. Is it art if only they would label it so? B
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by michaelteter 10d ago
Many games are better. Many comments are better too :).
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by michaelteter 10d ago
It now exists. It did not exist before I “made” it. For me it has value, because it is something I wanted to play.
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by michaelteter 10d ago
I am the author. Is code the art? Or is the product of that code, and the way people feel when they use that product the point? At this point, after enjoying the craft of writing code for decades, I now just want to build things I like. A
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by michaelteter 10d ago
I guess the 6 hours of intentional dozens of interactions I had with Gemini could be considered slop to some. But I created this to scratch an itch of an old game I enjoyed in the past. And I enjoy playing this one. After 30 years of hand
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by michaelteter 10d ago
You would see about 50 conversations. Contrary to what some negative comments suggest, this was not a simple one prompt game. I made a lot of choices and gave a lot of direction to Gemini. If I get motivated enough I might try to make a me
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by michaelteter 15d ago
It basically does this. If you are in level flight or a dive, you increase speed up to a certain max (level flight max is less than dive max). If you climb, you bleed off speed. To reach high balloons, you often need to build up more spe
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by michaelteter 1mo ago
I have had such good, consistent success with Gemini 3.6 Flash (usually on medium setting) that I forget about it. It is just this reliable, effective assistant that I use for managing and organizing information, brainstorming, and of cour
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by michaelteter 1mo ago
I'm not sure I trust a source that says "just 70 tokens average, nearly half of Clojure (109 tokens)". There's no reason to add the phrase "nearly half of", and there's especially no reason to add it when
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by michaelteter 3mo ago
Maybe. But long before that, many other people have to deal with the consequences of a few others' disbelief in reality.
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by michaelteter 3mo ago
Re: KYC US is out of control on KYC as well. If you're a nomad, as in you don't have a permanent physical address, you cannot have a bank account. You cannot have credit cards. And now you cannot even have a mail handling servi
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by michaelteter 3mo ago
Of all the billionaires in the world, what percent of them did something like this, vs the percent who reached that number from investments (and by investments I mean assets they possessed which ballooned in value)? I'm betting it is a
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by michaelteter 3mo ago
The new rich have warped concepts about how they "earned" their wealth. Very, very rarely does someone actually build or provide something so significant that it results in them profiting enough to become that wealthy. Instead, th
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by michaelteter 3mo ago
I started teaching 1-on-1 on Preply (computer science, programming, and even career guidance). I work with students from age 8 to 40. I've given over 200 hours of teaching there. But recently I got my TEFL certification. Now I teach
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by michaelteter 3mo ago
You are exactly right. Regardless of whether AI is better than a human or not is irrelevant if the bad, unqualified corporate leaders are making rash silver bullet decisions that cost workers jobs. The problem is much broader though - cons
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by michaelteter 3mo ago
As a software engineer and solution provider, I do not feel threatened by this. I do not fear that management will get tools like Mythos and then not need people like me. Most of the value I provide is in translating what the management&#x
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by michaelteter 3mo ago
TONS of tools. Most written in Go. Several have API servers in addition to cli or TUI or web interfaces. The API interface to my apps makes LLM-driven development much faster. https://github.com/michaelteter/docgen
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by michaelteter 4mo ago
Unless the hammer ultimately destroys the world. And it seems our escape rocket is no more.
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by michaelteter 4mo ago
I don’t possess the design vocabulary to properly roast the design, but it looks like an amateur’s first sketch at a “car of the future”. Or it look like a modern successor to the Pontiac Aztek. I can only imagine what the Italian designers
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by michaelteter 4mo ago
Unregulated capitalism eats everything, including eventually itself. There are other greed-based systems which also eat themselves, but we live in the era of capitalism as the vehicle of self-destruction. Many of us won’t be alive to see it
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by michaelteter 4mo ago
At this point, we should just appreciate Ruby and move on. In the AI age, other languages are better choices. Ruby is my favorite language, but I build with Go now. Or rather, I guide my minions to build with Go. They write Go better th
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by michaelteter 4mo ago
I can't answer for others, but IMO, Ruby is the most elegant and expressive general purpose programming language that has reached a significant level of maturity and large audience. If you write Ruby for a few years, and then you &quot
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by michaelteter 4mo ago
As I keep saying, the problem isn't the tools - it's the humans who don't know what they don't know ----- and assume that what they don't know is insignificant ----- and just plow forward with their authority and&#x
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by michaelteter 4mo ago
Asked for the plaintext password, and then his brother made a “ database query on the EEOC database and then provided the password”. I wonder how many government dbs store passwords in plaintext… Also, these guys sound like sociopaths. I b
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by michaelteter 4mo ago
This is absolutely not going to teach a bully to be different; if anything, it may make them more cruel - and careful to avoid getting caught.
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by michaelteter 4mo ago
The problem is not AI. The problem is still very human: the humans in charge don’t know what they don’t know, and they believe that whatever they imagine is true. They also often believe that anything they can think of must be easy - just a
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by michaelteter 5mo ago
No mention of exercise. Shame. But for staring at walls, I like to do that in the sauna. My mind sorts out so much stuff in that hot room that is like magic. Showers used to be that way for me, before I cared about water use.

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