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Re:2D Vehicles on Saturday October 10, 2026 @06:55PM (#50037988)
I have been trying on and off to achieve this for years and what really bothered me was at slow speeds (reversing into a parking space), my vehicle would move laterally to the wheel direction. I could never solve that issue without hacking it which really annoyed me. Last time I tried was during covid. I picked up "The Multibody Systems Approach to Vehicle Dynamics - 2004" for 99p in a local charity shop. Far, far too advanced for me but I did manage to simplify it with google and some questions on stack to get nice handling. Alas that slow speed lateral motion, just knowing it was there made me shelf it again.

I am determined not to use a LLM or even this article to solve it at some point in my life.

Thanks for sharing.

Re:Hole Punch: Sling your spaceship around gravitational fields on Saturday October 03, 2026 @05:08PM (#49947801)
I love these kind of things and all of their quirks. Just interacting with a webpage in a fun way. More of this!
I agree! My friend and I have the fondest memories of that game in particular since we played it for months on the Amiga 500 at the time. Meathook was my hero. We both have this inner memory of 4k photorealistic graphics which doesn't match the reality of the 90s game.
Re:typ.ing on Saturday August 22, 2026 @03:30PM (#49403007)
The thought of learning a new keyboard is kind of scary. Is there any true difference? 30 years of typing on a QWERTY here. I wonder how long it would take to get to 75WPM on graphite. A decade?
Re:typ.ing on Saturday August 22, 2026 @03:27PM (#49402988)
I loved it! As soon as I start to do these things, I get stressed and become much worse! Anyone remember the car game where you raced against others by typing? That was fun but forgotten the link.
Re:Working with AI Feels More Like Leadership Than Coding on Saturday August 15, 2026 @01:17PM (#49312384)
My boss is a designer and does the same. He has come into a mature product's codebase, the only project the company has, he called me about 6 months ago and started boasting with a screenshare showing me how he had 5 terminals open and smashing through ideas straight into production.

Now the system is failing, he thinks I am going to go in and fix all of his problems. Told him straight what I told him 6 months ago, he owns it, so get it fixed.

Not sure what happens to myself or the company by the end of the year.

Needs to be more stories about these people injecting AI Hopium and destroying their product, there isn't enough of them.

Re:From your doorbell to your home network on Saturday August 08, 2026 @06:13PM (#49226381)
Does anyone ever wonder why a doorbell needs to be connected? I do, so I don't have one. Diminishing returns by design? I've never been like "oh I am glad my doorbell is connected to my network". Wondering what marketing I didn't see (and fall for).
I honestly write it off. "especially if you ask the right questions" just collapses to being a bag holder because I didn't ask the right questions with or without AI.
Ah interesting, I seen the title "run into" as "bump into" or in this context, get to where 100k people are. I don't know any US addresses far from population centers so I pumped in Area 51!

Clarity needed on the title or description!

Toyota... When we look after a dog for a few days for a friend, it beeps. When I put shopping on the back seat, it beeps. Drives me wild. It "beep... beep... beep..." for a minute then "BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP".

I wouldn't get another because of how annoying that is.

Re:Ship traces journey Spanish Armada sailors made in 1588 on Saturday July 04, 2026 @08:48AM (#48785046)
I am finding an interest in this subject as well. Just wondered if you (or any reading) had any good book recommendations about the age of sail. I seen one of the Spanish first ship of the line's flags and the scale was incredible. Plenty of stuff going on in the UK as well, but I'd like to visit Netherlands and Spain's museums too. Hopefully we both make the trip some day to learn more.
Re:The Coming Loop on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @09:48AM (#48644950)
The way I answer this question is, I don't because my boss is saying to basically accept whatever LLMs spit out which is fine by me because I have explained the risks of doing this to our only product and it was shrugged off. I am both disgusted and excused and just take the salary.
Surprised there isn't a "Fake Face" market like a mannequin face delivered to your door.
Re:Your CEO is suffering from AI psychosis on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @06:06PM (#47955364)
Is there a term for something similar?

My boss is injecting hopium. He barely sleeps compiling massive massive documents which don't answer anything. We literally have a "(LILR Design Language)" spec which when you keep slicing through it, doesn't actually say anything.

It takes 70 seconds to full scroll through it with the fast scroll mechanism, but the whole thing boils down to "basically if it looks good then its good".

And even worse, he is asking for access to the codebase of the product since "I can do 90% of what we need and all the devs need to do is review the PR".

What is this called?

Re:Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @06:09PM (#47159361)
It's not like I am thrilled, but it has at least some value over the last what, 5-10 years of windows changes. I can see me mistaking markup. I can't see me mistaking copilot.
Re:Andrej Karpathy talks about "Claws" on Saturday February 21, 2026 @05:15PM (#47105397)
I read all 500+ comments at the time of writing and I don't understand. Something about something, with people saying something isn't a claw.
Re:AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton on Thursday February 19, 2026 @06:32PM (#47081340)
Agree. I can't be bothered with the random viewpoints. Call it whatever you want. Does it really matter?
They are all telling you "Just buy a mac". Exactly the point that you and I were downvoted for saying.
You can't debug it in anything other than a mac
Re:A WebGL game where you deliver messages on a tiny planet on Saturday September 27, 2025 @08:49PM (#45400767)
It's really unique and beautiful. I want to see more of this. I grew up with random interactive experiences in Flash, this is far more amazing that those days but we need more of this and less of the form crud crap.
Re:U.S. once again hits new low in World Happiness Report on Thursday September 25, 2025 @06:04PM (#45379774)
Its not genocide though. Feel free to provide a link to the legal judgement.
Re:Getting AI to work in complex codebases on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @06:45PM (#45353783)
You were never an engineer. I'm 18 years into my career on the web and games and I was never an engineer. It's blind people leading blind people and your somewhere in the middle based on 2013 patterns you got to this point on and 2024 advancements called "Vibe Coding" and you get paid $$ to make it work.

Building a bridge from steel that lasts 100 years and carries real living people in the tens or hundreds of thousands per day without failing under massive weather spikes is engineering.

Re:That boolean should probably be something else on Thursday August 28, 2025 @06:07PM (#45057606)
Please if you are in this situation do not take this advice. You just generate massive garbage abstractions upstream. If boolean arguments are out of hand, the problem isn't the boolean.
It's just so tragic to read it like that but, that's exactly how it is.
Re:TimeGuessr on Saturday June 14, 2025 @07:51PM (#44279624)
It's not that. They changed recently to 100% zoom. It used to be much more fine. Zoom in a little, Zoom out a little. For the past week, it's been max zoom in either direction. Kinda annoying.
Re:TimeGuessr on Saturday June 14, 2025 @07:48PM (#44279608)
Its not true!

I have been playing TimeGuessr for 11 months, I do it before bed.

I have been all over, I personally really struggle between Vietnam and Thailand and got even that wrong with Cambodia. I am simply ignorant but it's not just rich countries.

There needs to be some kind of hackernews library or goodread. I have enjoyed many books (and some no so much) but always on the look out for books.
Re:Gemini-2.5-pro-preview-06-05 on Thursday June 05, 2025 @04:00PM (#44195264)
I really appreciate that. I will see how I get on and may well give you a shout. Thank you!
Re:Gemini-2.5-pro-preview-06-05 on Thursday June 05, 2025 @03:55PM (#44195222)
I am really struggling with this. I tried Cline with both OpenAI and Claude to very weird results. Often burning through credits to get no where or just running out of context. I just got Cursor for a try so can't say anything on that yet.
Re:Gurus of 90s Web Design: Zeldman, Siegel, Nielsen on Thursday May 29, 2025 @06:00PM (#44130817)
I worked as a Nailgun operative in a Palette factory for a few dollars with people shooting nails at eachother for fun. I seen turtleshell.com one day and at the time I was like woah.

Flash was my route out of garbage and I miss it on behalf of younger people. I remember making a circle and keyframes. Attaching bits of code to frames to make it do what I want. Remember living at my moms house in the bath reading Flash Math Creativity or Colin Moock's books. I spent so so long understanding the concept of an Object or a Class or functions that call functions.

I feel that if I went back today, I'd be assaulted by package managers, dependencies, build systems, frameworks. No easy and beautiful way to draw a circle that weekend and animate it to an oval.

It is a real loss.

Stuff moves on and I am a developer, but my interest in motion (Penner! Keith Peters!) gave me a real solid feeling of what feels good with interactivity and motion and sometimes I open that ticket but it is rare. Everything is just the same now and I solve the same problems many of you do over and over again. It's boring. No creativity, no inspiration.

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