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BatFastard

1,876 karma · joined February 22, 2014

Admirer of all things, software developer by choice, electrical engineer by training, maker by nature. Father, cyclist, martial artist, lover of great entertainment. Years ago I could say I had tried just about everything once, sometimes twice. Now I am content to contemplate life in Atlanta.
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BatFastard··on A new Bigfoot documentary helps explain our conspiracy-minded era
Wasn't Epstein a conspiracy theory once? Epstein cover up has made me believe that cover ups DO happen, and if this one was covered up, what else has been cover up?
BatFastard··on The Hive Mind
How we are moving towards a hive mind with AI as the bridge
BatFastard··on Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion
IMHO any idiot can create a piece of crap. It takes experience to create good software. Use your experience Luke! Now you have a team of programmers to create what ever you fancy! Its been great for me, but I have only been programming C++ for 36 years.
BatFastard··on Don't become an engineering manager
As someone who has been a coder/em/vp/founder for over 40 years.

The last 3 months of using Claude Code has convinced me that in order to have a job in software very soon you will have to a both a coder and an engineering manager.

It takes both of those skills to effectively manager AI, and managing AI teams is all it will be about within 2 years. Problem is if you dont understand coding, its hard to see the traps AI falls into. They are both amazingly smart, and incredibly dumb at the same time. Just like people!

BatFastard··on Voxile: A ray-traced game made in its own engine and programming language
Does anyone know if this uses Microvoxels or an Octree? As someone who has built an Octree engine I am curious. I will say it is gorgeous!
BatFastard··on Excommunicated devs making games with AI
yes, we are using gpt-image-1.5
BatFastard··on Excommunicated devs making games with AI
>I mean all the major hurdles of making a game aren't really helped much by AI...

I have been using Claude Code to develop a game in unreal engine. It is fricking amazing. Its like hiring someone with 10 years experience to work for you. I am really impressed by how it know game patterns.

>It definitely doesn't get anything visual right really. Sometimes it struggles to things things right visually, other times it nails it!

I have been using an MCP from gemini image 1.5 to generate my icons. And once it go my styles down, after 20 experiments, it does really good. Notice: It uses high quality by default which will burn up your credits. But if you turn down the image quality to low, it cost around 3 cents an icon.

>There isn't large amounts of automated testing.

Some things can be easily automated for testing. But other things require play testing.

>The art is also going to all be really derivative plagiarism

I am just using it to generate icons, and it does great. For 3D artwork I either use things from the FAB Store, or I pay a team of artists in Pakistan to do it.

Overall I say it is the equivalent to have a senior dev on your team, for 100 bucks a month

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BatFastard··on Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth
I applaud Anthropic choice. Choosing principle over money is a hard choice. I love Anthropic's products and wish them success!
BatFastard··on Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder
anyone have a suggestion for a good ad blocker for chrome?
BatFastard··on Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros
Honestly the HBO streaming engineers should be promptly shot (or possibly their managers). HBO has the worst streaming interface of any service. Netflix on the other hand is quite good.
BatFastard··on Some thoughts on personal Git hosting
I recently began running Gitea on my NAS to host an unreal5 project which requireds significant LFS, Github's free LFS limits are very small. And honestly trying to decipher their paid account limits was too much for my old brain that day.

Anyone have experience with LFS on other repos?

BatFastard··on The $25k car is going extinct?
https://www.slate.auto/

With rebates a 20,000 truck. Who knows what it will cost when it actually comes out. But I love the concept.

BatFastard··on Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting
Only thing the Russian people have to fear is falling out of a balcony in a hotel, those things are REALLY dangerous
BatFastard··on How Medical Research Cuts Would Hit Colleges and Hospitals in Every State
Ez, just vote to eliminate the filibuster. Only takes 51 votes
BatFastard··on Making a watch from scratch
You and a few hundred thousand...
BatFastard··on Can we make a camera see behind walls? [video]
Very misleading.
BatFastard··on Nikolai Fyodorov wanted to resurrect the dead to live among the stars
A new life, albeit a very short one. Great book though.
BatFastard··on Scientists found a way to make sound travel in only one direction
Have to wait for them to discover girls, or boys...
BatFastard··on Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read?
"Name of the wind" would be on my desert island list!
BatFastard··on Ask HN: Platform for 11 year old to create video games?
Have you checked out https://haxe.org/ It supports Action script, and is the spiritual successor to Flash
BatFastard··on Google Cache is fully dead
I recently started with YouTubeTV, and its great. And Waymo is coming to my town soon. So I agree, lots of abandoned products, but still quite a few good ones.
BatFastard··on Pediatricians Created the Peanut Allergy Epidemic
I see the capcha, and I can't get by it, seems like it just doesn't work.

I tried turning off uBlock, still no luck getting it to work correctly.

BatFastard··on [dead]
Tried it, not obvious how to operate it. I put in some text, it seemed to version it. But not generate a web page from it. Is that what it is supposed to do?
BatFastard··on Can solar costs keep shrinking?
Could you convert electricity into a infrared laser and beam the energy into space?
BatFastard··on Can solar costs keep shrinking?
Heat is just a frequency in the spectrum right? What percent of emissions in an LED comes out as infrared?
BatFastard··on Can solar costs keep shrinking?
Does converting sunlight to electricity reduce the amount of heat absorbed by the earth? If so, how many solar panels would be required to reduce the temp by 1 degree?
BatFastard··on Meta cancels high-end mixed reality headset after Apple Vision Pro struggles
Evercrack, I knew a number of people who bought 3000 dollar computers in the mid nineties to play Everquest.
BatFastard··on I wag, therefore I am: the philosophy of dogs
I believe you are projecting your feeling onto the dog. My dogs(2) favorite place in the world is curled up in the crook of my legs. But I do think solo dogs are lonely.
BatFastard··on ImRAD is a GUI builder for the ImGui library
I am just starting with imGui, tell me how this will save me time please?
BatFastard··on NASA says Boeing Starliner astronauts may fly home on SpaceX in 2025
Do they have any assignments or tasks? Boredom is my version of hell.
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