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Re:How to engineer an AI harness for game development on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @02:23PM (#50076263)
did you build games before the advent of llms?
I've always wanted to get into game dev but never did for lack of time or sustained interest. I tried to slop together some ideas and mechanics that I've been toying around with in my head for years now. And llms have no concept for the nuance that goes into actual enjoyable mechanics. Maybe it's just me, because I never put the time in myself so I can't get the results out that I want.
I hate code reviews, but I owe it to my coworkers that I know will read my PRs to review my own generated slop line by line. Most of these agents are still overly verbose and I'm in a situation where no, not every single edge case is relevant enough to warrant the additional loc or complexity introduced.
Re:Dots: Always-on agents on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @10:20AM (#49909382)
I hope you have them interacting with customers from behind an mcp.
Re:Claude partial outage on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @12:53PM (#49896399)
It may sadden you to find that the majority of the population can go days, even weeks without ever seriously "reasoning" about anything major.
Re:Allow Carriers on Planes on Friday September 25, 2026 @12:59PM (#49847080)
The vast majority of the rest of the world simply doesn't use car seats at all. Even here in the US, in my very multinational city, I only see one demographic that consistently uses car seats at all, regardless of economic status.
> just needs to be made sure that nobody (taxpayers) will rescue them.

oof.

Re:Astra for Law on Thursday September 17, 2026 @10:49PM (#49749675)
There is a huge problem in at least family law where a tactic is to simply ddos your opponent with motions and frivolous complaints until someone runs out of money and settles. I'm watching someone finally successfully defend themselves using a Harvey like tool they built themselves. An appellate attorney they consulted with recently, told them they had never seen anyone going pro se get as far as they had in appellate court. So I'm hoping that this serves as a return to making the legal system more accessible, and not just something used to railroad people.
Re:When Google Cuts Off Access: Poland and the World on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @09:13AM (#49712040)
Probably not a native speaker.
good for you
They are using gas because it's more reliable during peak usage. Wind generation in Texas isn't optimal throughout the entire state and conditions aren't optimal all the time. They still use wind, but from a pure numbers perspective, gas infra already exists, the gas is there, and gas is more reliable, so wind isn't always the cheapest form of energy. There are also diminishing returns on just adding more wind turbines.
Re:RamenHaus on Saturday August 01, 2026 @08:42AM (#49133955)
I've been able get better or equivalent results than most non-japanese ramen places near me by starting with miso paste and fresh noodles from the local h-mart, without the massive amount of work that typically goes into ramen.
I'm surprised that there are so many still think that this is really about protecting kids. This is not an organic movement at all.
Re:Apple Defeats Liability for Not Scanning iCloud for CSAM on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @10:34AM (#49007522)
Full auto handguns are quite popular now despite being effectively illegal.
Re:Who's Afraid of Chinese Models? on Monday July 20, 2026 @09:44PM (#48987128)
This is true, but there is another foreign country that can send people to your door. What's to stop China from eventually buying that type of influence over our govt officials?
Have you tried sprint workouts as a complement to powerlifting?
Re:Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds on Thursday July 09, 2026 @11:01PM (#48855261)
One on one "tutoring" is the most effective way to make early education productive and it's not even close. Even the outcomes of parents spending 20 minutes a day reading to their infants and toddlers correlates with better educational outcomes. and I'm sure there are many here that share my own story. The only reason I was somewhat academically successful was because my mother took the time to teach me how to read when I was 3-4. Without that early literacy, I'm sure I would have never been able to achieve anything I've done, especially with ADHD. By the time I was in kindergarten, I knew how to read already, but, even there, reading was taught 1 on 1, with students taking turns with the teacher to learn. I don't think that's done anymore at most places, especially when you have 30:1 teacher ratios. 5 year olds can be way more capable than we give them credit for, but they need personal attention.
I think there is a lot of discord over medicare/medical, social security, and interest at least, but maybe I'm just in a bubble.
All the drone footage is actually pretty horrific to see.
Re:Road to Elm 1.0 on Monday July 06, 2026 @11:18AM (#48805876)
If you have a blog or something anywhere, I'm very interested in your journey.
Re:My Favorite Keyboards on Thursday July 02, 2026 @08:18AM (#48760305)
I switched to colemak, but I paired this switch with split keyboards. So qwerty is still easy to use on regular keyboards, but I'm sure I'd get super tripped up if I used qwerty on a split kb.
Re:My Favorite Keyboards on Thursday July 02, 2026 @08:17AM (#48760286)
I switched from the moonlander to the glove80, and the low switches are nothing compared to the much more intuitive ergonomics.
Re:My Favorite Keyboards on Thursday July 02, 2026 @08:12AM (#48760231)
Do you just buy more of the footpads online or have you figured out a more permanent solution? I pack mine up and travel with it frequently, and the rubber feet are always coming off.
Idk if I'd say that Americans like bigger vehicles. There are just a lot of incentives that push us that way.
Re:The AirPods Effect on Friday June 19, 2026 @08:59AM (#48598061)
Since the advent of EVs, its not a safety issue imo. When Tesla's first came out, and the first adopters were all people that wanted to drive FAST, I was often surprised by them, especially since I always rode slightly faster than traffic as a safety mitigation technique. I quickly learned to use my eyes more.

My eyes are my ears and you cannot rely on sound to know who or what might be coming up from behind you. Mirrors and head on a swivel are way more important.

I agree with your sentiment but not your conclusion. They don't want this administration specifically to have gatekeeping authority, what they want is any administration to say that they are gatekeeping, so that they can regulate the competition out of existence. Of course the actual checks and balances will be near pointless in effect, but expensive to implement nonetheless.
Yes, I'm well aware of how big it is, and of course there are aspects of it that I do agree with. What I came away from the conversation with was "wow, this other guy has zero understanding of how important individual liberties are in the United States"
They could have fled for any number of reasons- that doesn't mean that they aren't exactly in sync with the culture they are coming from. And even if they aren't in sync with the culture they are fleeing- they very likely still hold radically different values than you.

I met a man from Afghanistan sometime last year, however, once we got past the introductions and realized we shared things in common- he opened up to me and began trying to make me realize the value of Sharia law in America, and how much better it would be here if it became the cultural norm.

"America First"

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