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There a lot of great games with branching narratives, for example The Outer Wilds, Baldur's Gate 3, The Witcher 3, all the FromSoft games have extremely powerful narratives with multiple branches and multiple possible endings based on player choice. Done well there's a lot of replayability that arises from the desire to experience different paths within the overall general experience, as well as the immersion that comes from the player truly feeling they have agency in the world in the way that an on-rails experience just cannot do. For example there was one quest in the Witcher 3[1] where I remember being haunted by the consequences of an extremely difficult choice I had to make and wondering for days whether or not I had done the right thing. I eventually replayed the game and when I got to that point .... decided to make the same choice. sigh. So I still don't know whether I did the right thing. I just couldn't bring myself to try the other branch - it just wasn't right for me. One of the most powerful things a game has ever done to me, and very true to the complex and ambivalent moral tone of the books in my opinion.

Done poorly, you end up with something like Fallout 4. Theoretically there are choices but they don't matter that much and many of the branches get little to no QA love so have bugs and problems (eg when I did my playthrough of fallout 4 I unwittingly managed to avoid the main choice you're supposed to be forced into doing which is to choose which faction to align yourself with) which had numerous buggy consequences because the devs clearly had never expected anyone to play in this particular way (I basically did a breadth-first traversal of all the different quests but put off a couple of key decisions because I couldn't make up my mind. In the end this pushed me past the point where I was supposed to make the choice and I ended up friends with just about everyone. Except the institute. Screw those guys). Yet another reason that game was so disappointing.

[1] The whispering hillock. If you know, you know.
He has three hundred million reasons to "cozy up" to it. Trump believes (and not without evidence) that he lost in 2020 because of $300M+ Zuckerberg spent on electing Biden. Really difficult times could be ahead for Meta - Trump is extremely vindictive. I strongly suspect Musk will be "cozying up" to the next administration similarly in 2028, or outbidding everyone else again. Neither Zuck bucks, nor Musk bucks bode well for democracy, IMO.
But that may be bad actually.
This is necessary sometimes when you’re simply working on an existing code base.
> otherwise you don't know what to ask for

there's a perfectly working LLM for which you can query the answer! Ask it to tell you what are the important aspects of product XYZ.
Our Robocop Remake is a scene by scene remake, made in the same spirit as this FreeBee Movie.

Worth a watch with friends present:
https://vimeo.com/85903713
> Well, yeah. You are. It's built to answer questions people actually ask, not solve new logic puzzles.

Isn't the causality inverted here? It's trained on questions people have asked before, so that's what it's better at. New logic puzzles illustrate this flaw
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I've found that having the coding assistant do large tasks like this unsupervised is the worst way to use it. Asking the assistant to do narrowly defined tasks and then checking the work is the only reliable way.

I've been using Cursor since the summer and wrote up a few tips here https://betaacid.co/blog/cursor-dethrones-copilot
It would never have occurred to me to ask an LLM to convert an entire library from one language to the other, with tests, and everything.

I've started to think of them merely as smarter auto-corrects, like for when you forget the syntax or which order a functions arguments go in, you can just use copilot's inline chat to write "Convert this array of tuples to a dict" and it saves you the 20 seconds it takes to look up the syntax. Or "See above line where I deserialized a uint32 from a binary file. Do the same thing for all the other fields in the foobar struct".

I just never even thought to ask it to simply build my whole app for me.
This would be an opportune moment to enumerate the problem you had, the solutions in brief that didn’t work, and the one that did.

Some details, even just a link to the chat would be helpful. At the very least, you might help someone experiencing the same issue.
> But on many systems these options do not exist because the vendor likes people dependent on them.

Dependent is not exactly the right thing here. Lower support costs probably is. If a vendor gives out root access. If that root access can brick a machine. Then you will get a small percentage of very high touch broken things as returns. Customers like this are in the 'dangerous enough' but not 'good enough to do it correctly' stage of hacking. They will then not claim any responsibility for breaking it. As they are hoping you just fix it for free.

I had one customer who would randomly change out stored procedures on our code. Then yell at our tech support for thing not working or being broken. Wasting hundreds of hours of time until we realized what he was doing. Locking him out is very appealing. Instead we sold him and his management on 'we will do the work for you for a fee'. Which was more along the lines of 'you do this again we will fire the customer'.

That is but one small thing that can/will happen.
I feel like the quality got bit better recently...
Assuming you don't have a book in your possession?
Maybe same salary, more output required, like it’s been when new technology allows for more/better work to be done in the same time.
Ok, maybe logic puzzles are "unfair", but there are other situations where you ask it a question that is similar (but different in an important way) to a problem it was trained on, and then it will provide the answer to what it "thinks" you asked, not what you actually asked. Hence, hallucinations.
Never heard of nexstand but it looks suboptimal for keeping the small laptop screen as close as possible to your eyes

My preferred design is like https://amzn.eu/d/0KB8nGM (2x U shapes of metal), which lets you have the keyboard underneath the laptop , so the laptop is as close to the edge of the desk as if you weren’t using an external keyboard
Isn't this mostly solved by a "collapse comment(s) / function(s)" text browsing feature ?
I've just hopped on. I agree completely and I've had the distinct pleasure of avoiding the past year's worth of churn as the tooling & best practices were changing frequently.
I'd assume they're going to install AC anyway, because who wants to be in NYC in the summer without it.

So the extra utility of big views etc outweighs running the AC a bit more.
So it's great for answering questions you know the answer for and can guide it if necessary?
The Gramsci Gap
Ask HN: Is maintaining a personal blog still worth it?
Remember when maintaining a blog was THE way to build your developer brand?

When thoughtful technical writing could lead to speaking gigs, job offers, and meaningful connections?

But in 2025, the landscape has shifted dramatically:

- LinkedIn's algorithmic feed heavily favors short-form "broetry" over substantive technical content
- Twitter/X has become a battleground of AI-generated hot takes
- Medium is drowning in SEO-optimized tutorials that all say the same thing

Unless you're already established or willing to play the AI-SEO game, it feels impossible to build genuine readership for a technical blog in 2025.

Yet part of me wonders if I'm just being cynical. Maybe there's still value in writing for its own sake? Or perhaps there are distribution channels I haven't considered?

For those still maintaining personal blogs: How do you find readers? Where do you share your content? And most importantly - why do you keep writing?
maybe check out the book "termination shock"? getting humanity into sulfur-addiction is running hard towards danger don't you think? Also who decides, and who gets the blame and anger when anything climate related has a big visible impact?
I'm not convinced this is going to happen to competent engineers. I've done my fair share of consulting gigs and some of the best money was in fixing spaghetti that was so long gone that even the original team behind it struggled to move the needle. My gut feel is that with LLMs, this kind of work is going to be even more valuable than before.
To further this point, while the vast majority of people could go without such skills, there are jobs where such skills are valuable. So developing skills pretty much everyone has given up on allow one to carve a unique niche for themselves.
> privatize everything else [including] food

yet:

> Nationalize the things that [...] need to be fair and accessible to all

Should food be accessible to all?

Or is food production privatized because market economies more accurately meet consumer demand?
Suno AI CEO says making music the traditional way is not enjoayble anymore [video]
“It’s not really enjoyable to make music now… it takes a lot of time, it takes a lot of practice, you have to get really good at an instrument or really good at a piece of production software. I think the majority of people don’t enjoy the majority of time they spend making music.” Founder of Suno AI.
This just reads like the usual anti-intellectualism.
As opposed to the US, which is famous for its hands-on, consumer-friendly attitude to business?

The challenge for the UK is actually building this stuff to a non-zero level of competence. The usual suspects in the IT consulting industry must be collectively having seizures over the prospect of being paid another 7 figure sum to deliver absolute slop several years behind schedule. Sunak beating himself up over the missed opportunity to inject another billion in cash to InfoSys.
Supreme Court lets Hawaii sue oil companies over climate change effects
Good point.

I note that they've announced "work starting on a brand new supercomputer", so this is potentially backtracking on a very poor decision made last August to cancel a new exascale supercomputer at the University of Edinburgh. (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cyx5x44vnyeo)
Their newer speakers (Era 100, Era 300, Arc Ultra are the ones I know of) are Bluetooth enabled.
What about changing the hyper-parameters and killing all the poor?
OO elevated encapsulation, inheritance and polymorphism to fundamental language features. Polymorphism especially has become ubiquitous in modern languages in the same way types have.

And perhaps we’ve moved past inheritance hierarchies (though multi/parent inheritance has been interestingly used recently) but even then, knowing about it and its negatives seems as fundamental as understanding goto.

Are they on the programming side of the computer science curriculum rather than computational math? Yes! But much of the normal curriculum is. Similar to how I’d expect the relational calculus to be taught as well as how sql relates to it.

I think you’re pretty far out on a limb here and I’d be very skeptical of a curriculum that didn’t have a segment on oo early on.
> feed AI through cameras to spot potholes and help improve roads.

This example only makes sense if we're in a position where all the potholes we know about are fixed, and all of the pothole fixing masterworkers are sitting idle, waiting to leap into action at the next report.

But the reality is there are many, many potholes that are known about, but we can't/won't fix them due to things like budgets and staffing constraints.
> Businesses always evaluate any additional revenue against the cost of getting that revenue

nit: this is still coming from the vein where businesses are taken to be super-computational agents/oracles. whereas really there is a lack of evaluation of the possible revenue being left on the table, and the focus is on what has already been found to be profitable.
Microsoft tried to put their games on their own store but they crawled back to Steam.

Honestly Windows is more open than MS haters give it credit for.
> I’d also challenge the fact that I don’t need to make lewd jokes as extending to the premise that they need never be made. (Or that our refraining from making them doesn’t cover up something darker.)

They don’t ever need to be made in polite company. I don’t consider “polite company” to be comedy, what you do or say in the privacy of your own home, etc.

I’m a Black guy and the amount of times you will here the “n word” and “fuck” fly out of my mouth in private and with family of my generation rises to the level of Samuel Jackson.

And I know no Black person that says “African American” outside of some professional circumstances.
In my experience, VMWare attempts to force this model on everyone using tactics like not giving quotes until the very last minute, forcing buyers into a "take it or leave it" decision.. thinking (rightly so) that it will work in their favor most of the time.

It takes a lot of balls for a company to "leave it" right as their contract is expiring, and speaks to talent and experience on the customer side to be able to stand up to bullying, and be able to pull off such a large migration.
I await JobCentre being filled up with prompt engineers in about 2 years.
They can't stop publishers from targeting steam/proton, though. The publishers will go to where the market is. Sure maybe they can restrict the version published to whatever store windows has but they can't prevent the one distributed with steam targeting an older version.
IME on Linux the only things that use random CPU while idle are web browsers. Otherwise, there's dbus and NetworkManager and bluez and oomd and stuff, but most processes have a fraction of a second used CPU over months. If they're not using CPU, they'll presumably swap out if needed, so they're using ~nothing.
Speaking of older games that never had a successor that quite managed to capture what they did well, there's also SimTower, where the main successors are Yoot Tower (which never really made it out of Japan) and Project Highrise, which just doesn't scratch the same itch.
Back when I was maintaining an IRC client, my go-to stress test was to hop on Wikipedia's IRC network, where they have a bunch of firehose channels showing edits to Wikipedia stream by in realtime. Both super high load and occasionally edifying :)
> I constantly run into functions called doSomething that also do something else.

You have to have some trust in your fellow coders that doSomething doesn't do something else and this is often false. Still in most cases it doesn't matter on a first read as doSomething is close enough to only doing that something. LP won't help here anyway. Documentation can be wrote just as much as the function name.

You say LP is not about teaching the language, but the examples from Knuth himself are often documenting the language and not the codebase. This is a common problem with documentation.
Unfortunately, a company making deliveries won't necessarily need an expert at orientation once GPS is reliably available.
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this is why I use arch btw
Harris baited Trump on the debate stage, the later outcome does not change this fact, as that was determined by other factors and around 100k voters
I don't do colocation myself, so I don't know what makes a good co-location provider. However, Hetzner has a Colocation offering: https://www.hetzner.com/colocation
I don't think the stores that used to exist had the same or superior choice of goods and the same prices as Walmart did. I mean there might be some that did, but they persist even in the presence of Walmart - I have several Walmarts within 15 min drive of me, and still know a bunch of local grocery stores and specialized shops that still do fine. But I am not sure why "local store" is inherently superior to Walmart unless it does something better, or how it will be able to deliver on the all three.
Gender dysphoria is also a condition, not an illness.

Having studied or lived through something makes you far more likely to be correct than simply thinking about it with your giant brain. You don't need them to be correct, but they really help.
Why not upgrade to 11 LTSC? It does strip out most of the bloat
US Dementia Cases Estimated to Double by 2060
> It is sad that part of a state's response to a disaster has to include defensive propaganda[1]...

Funny how tables have turned. Once upon a time, the right had to do the same because Facebook/IG/Twitter/etc. were pushing for and allowing leftist propaganda.
Their government was eventually dissolved and they were ruled by Germany directly, IIRC.

Switzerland remained independent throughout the war.
I always thought large buildings have more windows because the inner spaces would otherwise get 0 natural light.
NATO's newest member comes out swinging following latest Baltic Sea cable attack
Luck Be a Landlord features none of these things.

Balatro doesn't feature bets.
> The government, or at least who ever is writing this report, seems to imagine "AI" as a uniform and distinct process, where you turn on the AI machine, electricity goes in and AI comes out

This is how a large chunk of the general public think of "AI" as well. They're just waiting for someone to flip the AI switch or add a bunch of `from ai import magically_do_everything` to products and services they use.
What an amazing idea. Carry 2kg book of necessary size instead of foldable cardboard. Truly genius.
Use whatever's lying around. Some more ideas:

- A shoebox
- An old binder
- A food container
- Some coasters
- Egg carton
- Jenga blocks
- Cereal box
- Legos
- Picture frame
- Tennis ball (cut it in half)
- Door stoppers
- Cake pan
- A screwdriver box
- A few junk mailer magazines
- Crumple up a couple newspaper pages

Or better yet, order one of these and make 3 more with the shipping box it came in. That'll help once it wears out, or you accidentally sit on it.
> Yes, consumers do sometimes harm themselves by using these products. That's the price of freedom.

"Freedom" is also a terrible argument for this. What does it even mean? Freedom from what? Freedom to do what? It's such a meaningless word you're going to lose half your audience just by bringing it up.
We Built a Phone Agent the Hard Way – You Can Do It in 30 Minutes
The veterans in the data set are all deceased, and I have not heard any complaints from them so far.
So copyright should only apply to stuff that’s not useful?

Whatever the term of copyright should be, there’s no doubt that it was a significant endeavour to create it, and it creatively expresses the topography of London.

Your analogy doesn’t work very well I’m afraid. The Mercator projection is 500 years old, and generally speaking, you can only copyright specific works, not processes. If you want to protect a process from being used by others commercially, you need a patent, and generally patents are not as long lived as copyright.
Well, the Black Death killed ~15% of the world's population in the 14th century[1]. 15% today would be about 1.17 billion people. It's horrific but not implausible.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consequences_of_the_Black_Deat...
Hand-Crafted-WASM
There is a version of Solitaire that is a gambling game. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poker_squares
The Supreme Court may take up the case later:

'As SCOTUS mulled taking on the case, justices asked the Biden administration for input. But the Biden administration suggested it was too soon for SCOTUS review, urging the court to kick the cases back to Hawaii state courts. Apparently, the justices agreed. Biden suggested that SCOTUS denying review wouldn't hurt oil and gas companies' cases.

"The state courts may well address those additional federal issues in further proceedings," Biden's filing said. "In particular, the state courts could conclude that the Constitution bars the state-law claims to the extent they rely on conduct."'
I felt that The Outer Worlds did quite a good job, too. From the devs who built Fallout New Vegas.

Funny little game. I find it quite charming in its eccentricities.
Weren't they saying, Once you are captive to a Broadcom product, Broadcom will have no qualms about totally screwing you with bait&switch huge price jumps?

Isn't that an interesting message to be sending, when much of their business involves getting some very price-conscious companies (think electronics bill-of-materials) to build upon their products?

Or do customers of other Broadcom products already not trust them an inch? So Broadcom wasn't costing themselves valuable reputation here?
> The real conversation is about how to best balance these.

How do you even formulate these values so that they're in conflict in the first place?
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It may seem pedantic but once independence is granted Greenland would become a sovereign nation. Sovereign nations have the right to request annexation into another state. Whether that happens within days or a century after independence is immaterial.
> It’s very sad that otherwise unrelated parties are incentivized to spread misinformation...

Two parties scrutinizing each other is the reason the US is the closest we've got to democracy in centuries. Look at other countries that are mainly one-party states and see how they're doing.
> Have you tried asking it to do something useful rather than ask it to solve gotcha word problems?

What you call "gotcha word problem", I'd compare to typical math problems where you need to understand a text, extract the required information, solve the issue, and then present your results. Maybe this is a toy-example, but compared to reading the specs of some Microprocessors, this is rather easy. These AIs seem apparently be able to solve school or even college level math problems. Shouldn't my example be a walk in the park, then? Especially since it's a large LANGUAGE model?

> You seem to be implying people are confused (or lying?) about the things they are able to get LLMs to do.

I am merely stating observations and was hoping for an explanation. What good does it me if I accuse people of lying?

> Often it comes down to prompting skill. Try to read about different prompting approaches as that may help you.

"You are using it wrong" it is, then. So how do I differentiate between a good sounding but wrong answer, whether that came to be due to my apparently lack of prompting skills or else? They all sound equally well, it just starts "being wrong" at some point.

> In general, you need to be specific about what you need, and you need to give all relevant details.

What details should I have added in the given example? The prompt was probably more comprehensive and detailed than if this task was given in primary school.

> Like the post author said, treat it like a junior programmer or an intern.

I would, if it acted like a junior programmer or like an intern. For them, you can usually see if they are unsure or making things up (if they do these things). For an AI I've yet to see something like "hey, I might be wrong about this, but this is my best effort, maybe we can have a look together."
Havard's private companies are collectively worth $393B
It's the mechanical turk (not Amazon's, the medieval one) all over again.

Instead of a small dude inside the machine, there is training data.

Instead of pulls and levers connected to chess pieces, we have vectors and weights.

If we scaled the turk to have millions of people inside, it would appear to be intelligent as well.

I don't need it to reproduce everything. Just show me one convincing non-anectodal evidence that this is not another mechanical turk.
I would also recommend Night in the Woods, it was a big inspiration for the 'gameplay' of Pentiment. mostly just walking through a world, talking to people with some minor minigames thrown in.
It's implied, "And if someone doesn't reach out to say “Sorry for your loss”, it will hurt the relationship a little".
It turns out copyright doesn't apply if you violate all of it at the same time. Weird trick.
I export our 1Password vaults more or less quarterly, encrypt them using openssl, and stash them in an encrypted, expiring, s3 bucket.