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Re:So, you want to make a game engine (2023) on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @06:16AM (#49095481)
In my experience it's closer to the other way around.

For example, one of my recent games has 20k lines of engine code and 40k lines of game code.

Re:AI made coding more enjoyable on Thursday February 19, 2026 @12:12PM (#47076186)
I don't care about the product as much as I care about the code.
Re:AI made coding more enjoyable on Thursday February 19, 2026 @11:43AM (#47075737)
I used to share this sentiment but the more I used AI for programming, the less I enjoyed it. Even writing "boring" code (like tests or summaries) by hand increased my understanding of what I wrote and how it integrates into the rest of the codebase, which I think is fun.

Letting a robot write code for me, however tedious it would be to write manually, made me feel like I was working in someone else's codebase. It reminds me of launching a videogame and letting someone else play through the boring parts. I might as well not be playing. Why bother at all?

I understand this behaviour if you're working for a company on some miserable product, but not for personal projects.

Re:I built ChatGPT with Minecraft redstone [video] on Thursday October 02, 2025 @06:00AM (#45447856)
"They" can also refer to an individual
This is written like an LLM trying to be witty and it's nearly unbearable.
Re:Minimum Viable Blog on Saturday May 03, 2025 @06:33AM (#43878106)
Three lines in a Caddyfile would be sufficient
Re:Two examples of hover styles on images on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @04:57AM (#41923175)
Use outline instead:

  outline: solid 10px red;
Nearly identical to border, but without affecting layout at all.
Re:Just use fucking paper, man on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @02:59PM (#41371438)
I've tried many note taking methods, including paper, and none of it really fit my needs. So I wrote my own application, just for me, with nobody else in mind. It's perfect and I recommend everyone to do the same.
The spinning logo has an off-center pivot
Re:YouTube Accused of Censoring Pro-Palestine Song on Thursday May 09, 2024 @01:14PM (#40310405)
Why do you bring that up?
Re:Guess the Video Generated with AI on Friday February 23, 2024 @04:27PM (#39486333)
(Un)fortunately every Sora video has the OpenAI watermark in the bottom right.
Re:Smoking has long-term effects on the immune system on Friday February 16, 2024 @11:37AM (#39399325)
The difference between those two is that, by smoking, you become the aggressor. If being considerate and empathetic is "solving someone else's problem" then I don't see how that's entitled. Don't smoke in public.
Re:Gene Therapy Allows an 11-Year-Old Boy to Hear on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @07:00AM (#39116292)
Did you mean "literate"?
Re:High Performance Voxel Engine (2021) on Saturday December 30, 2023 @08:23PM (#38820967)
I'm fairly certain that pixelpoet is referring to direct raycasting, not raytracing (light transport simulations). These aren't noisy.
The stats comparison is of the US and the whole of Europe.

The difference between states is big but you go on to say that it's as big as the difference between two European countries. Your comparison only points out Europe is as least as diverse as the US and still has a significantly higher life expectancy.

Her sign is more credible because it's backed by basically every scientific institution, not because she's an autistic Swede.
Re:Recognize Anything: A Strong Image Tagging Model on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @05:07AM (#36323326)
E.g BLIP image is captioned "missing: dog" despite the dog being detected in the image.
Re:Recognize Anything: A Strong Image Tagging Model on Sunday June 11, 2023 @11:06AM (#36282069)
It looks like the comparison images at the top have inaccurate captions?