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by swiftcoder 1mo ago
> FB at one point had a very badass engineering culture Perpetually kneecapped by one of the worst management cultures I've ever seen
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by swiftcoder 1mo ago
Well, right, but I'm not sure the tech elites actually own much in the way of resources in that sense. Is the Apple fandom strong enough to get Tim Cook his own private army of zealots when society breaks down?
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by swiftcoder 1mo ago
Did you also get hold of a billion dollars at some point? For some reason, those of us who work for a living seem less inclined to such psychosis
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by swiftcoder 1mo ago
> Like Zuckerberg‘s shift to VR that looks like he came out of the theater of Ready Player one. They took most of us employees to see Ready Player One in the cinema when it came out (sometime after the Oculus acquisition, but before &quo
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by swiftcoder 1mo ago
> or those with the resources to buy might This feels a bit like those rich survivalists who think they are going to fix bomb-collars to their bodyguards to ensure loyalty in the apocalypse... stock certificates aren't worth a whole
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> I don’t even think most of it is deeply philosophical. Part of the problem is that a lot of it is shallowly philosophical. I used to attend Zuckerberg town halls, and as smart as the guy may be, it's pretty evident that he dropp
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by swiftcoder 1mo ago
I don’t disagree, and in this case a simple google search would have sufficed, it in the more general case, how?
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by swiftcoder 1mo ago
I refer you to his mea culpa: https://blog.terrygodier.com/2026/08/09/mea-culpa-dark-hours...
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by swiftcoder 1mo ago
It is what he claims happened: https://blog.terrygodier.com/2026/08/09/mea-culpa-dark-hours...
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> without having the time, energy, or incentive to dive deeper into things I don't think anyone would disagree that survival comes first. But for those who do have the time/energy/money to dive deeper into things, and inte
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by swiftcoder 1mo ago
A pretty healthy proportion of games also shipped a DX11 renderer alongside their DX12 one, since the addressable audience of DX12 was pretty lousy for a long time
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by swiftcoder 1mo ago
> Stealing an open source repo and launching it as your own app is a brazen move Do you think he stole it directly, or an LLM reproduced it complete with existing bugs?
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by swiftcoder 1mo ago
Indeed. Folks with a trust fund/juicy investment account/etc have always been able to self-fund their solo gamedev career. It’s a whole other process to take a pitch deck to a publisher and get funded in the strength of your reput
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by swiftcoder 1mo ago
I think the answer is always scope creep. You hit it big on a game, your ambition grows, the next game costs an order of magnitude more… eventually you either run out of money, or you build Star Citizen
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by swiftcoder 1mo ago
> how can it be that and then inside the article i read > > Last year’s indie darling, the Myst-inspired Blue Prince, was funded by a solo developer’s personal savings and the ad revenue from his Magic: The Gathering website. “When
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by swiftcoder 1mo ago
I wonder how much increasing fidelity requirements are the main culprit here? Myst was made by a team of about 7 people (only 4 of them full-time), in just about 2 years, and cost under a million (adjusted for inflation). Riven had a team t
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by swiftcoder 1mo ago
> Demand is elastic. If the price of potatoes rises to $1000 / kg most people will switch to using pasta or rice for their dinner instead. There might be a shortage of potatoes at $1 / kg, but not at $1000 / kg. The year 1
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by swiftcoder 1mo ago
Under current administration, I'm not even sure its possible to build out green energy for this sort of thing at scale - this article[1] was on the front page just yesterday [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4920
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by swiftcoder 1mo ago
> Opecode’s 60 USD of deepseek usage is charged at much higher rates than what deepseek themselves charge at Per the open code zen pricing page[1], it appears that the token prices are the same, but their cache is 10x more expensive? [1]
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by swiftcoder 1mo ago
> Only to to find out they end up in a much worse place Like Europe?
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by swiftcoder 1mo ago
> "saving grace"? For whom? For Anthropic and OpenAI, presumably. And the rather large economic distortion field around them, that may or may not go very badly for all our retirement funds if those firms become insolvent...
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by swiftcoder 1mo ago
Not only is it documented, there are simulators of most of her key systems available[1]. [1]: https://github.com/Zaneham/voyager-fds-emulator
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by swiftcoder 1mo ago
You'd have to compare against something like the OpenCode Go subscription, and I'm fairly sure deepseek napkins out cheaper in that scenario
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by swiftcoder 1mo ago
At least on these benchmarks, it seems to be pretty handily scoring up with the SOTA from 6 months ago?
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by swiftcoder 1mo ago
> Can you cite a region in Europe that physically independently covers its energy needs with solar+storage alone? That is substantially moving the goalposts - nowhere in the world has built out sufficient solar to make that claim yet. Th
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> Even in Texas/California photovoltaic output in the winter is measly, anywhere more to the north and it's effectively inexistent. The northernmost point in Texas would be at the extreme southern edge of Europe. The northernmo
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by swiftcoder 1mo ago
Back in the day, it wasn't just better snacks - Facebook served three meals a day, they had free drop-off laundry on campus, all the snacks in the world, and that barbecue shack on campus was legitimately decent. Of course, you had to
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by swiftcoder 1mo ago
Congrats on the industrial design, that is one of the nicest looking keyboards I've seen in a hot minute.
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> Don't know if other models have that same specific style An awful lot of the open-weight models also talk in the Claude-y style. Not sure if an artefact of distilling anthropic models, or just a preponderance of slop in the traini
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by swiftcoder 1mo ago
> 1. Make Solar Energy Economical This one is already solved, right? The price of panels and batteries is on trend to displace all other forms of power generation within our lifetime

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