PretzelPirate

> Godot is for people who want to make games but don't care for programming and would rather use a GUI for development.

You can write a lot of code when using Godot and mix that with capabilities provided by their editor.

You never have to use editor features, but can use them to avoid wasting time reinventing the wheel.

Your comment is like saying that game engines are used by people who don't care for programming and would rather make a call to handle physics interactions.

From your /en route, clicking on a card brings me to the /nl/cards route.

You spelled Iraq as "Irak". Is there a meaning to this? I couldn't find a reference but wonder if that's somehow a meaningful spelling.

They use the email example, but if Google bans me, my identity is also banned and that may be how people contact me.

We also need decentralized identity so my identity can exist independently of service providers, but still be owned by me and not an impersonator.

My company would never let me expose my calendar data to Slack. That's why they like M365, all the integration is there with less risk of oversharing data.

I have a signed copy of 'The Left Hand of Darkness' and I will never let it go.

I do wish my copy of 'The Dispossessed' was signed. That book is a masterpiece!

> Judging by the numbers, it’s too easy

I don't see how the numbers support that claim.

What percentage of the population would you like to see made up of immigrants? Would you make immigration harder if the immigrant populating was above 1%?

If it got too high, would you start deporting people or forcing native people to have more children?

An Agentic coding tool like Github Copilot will do this for you.

> naturally suggests multiplying by 11

Is this a named concept that I can learn about?

> Payments are handled by Solana smart contracts, with a React frontend (TanStack Start).

This is disappointing.

Solana has a highly centralized validator set that will keep shrinking over time as the cost to run one out paces the rise in the SOL price.

This leads to it being very centralized.

Solana is also missing core cryptographic primitives like state receipts, meaning I can be easily tricked by a dishonest validator about whether my transaction happened.

Without a mempool, sending transactions is a nightmare during high network usage and my transaction can dissappear forever, or be executed multiple times.

Solana isn't even significantly cheaper than the alternatives anymore.

You want to call it AIDS (AI derangement syndrome)? I'd choose something else.

> Ok if the cost is low why not then?

There are still budgets that constrain on how much you can achieve.

If Microsoft thinks using AI to add more AI features will be more profitable than increasing performance, the that's where they'll spend their budget.

> Yet no better vscode, still bloated teams etc etc

Why do you assume that Microsoft would focus on building a better (to you) VSCode or less bloated Teams?

I assume they'd use Github Copilot to make a more profitable VSCode and Teams, which doesn't require focusing on speed and bloat.

> Microsoft reintroduced stack ranking over the last year or so

Microsoft has forced differentiation, not stack ranking. They aren't the same and differentiation is much better for employees.

> The individual in question was definitely under pressure. I worked rather closely with them, and this is well documented in the source article as well

I'm sure you're feeling a lot of options due to your proximity, and I'm sorry for what you're going through.

The article says he was under pressure, but it didn't say the source of that pressure. Perhaps it was due to a series of "lower than expected" reviews, or the constant worry about losing their job and their visa. It didn't say that the pressure was caused by internal policies.

I've known many people who put pressure on themselves and burnt out because of it, despite no one expected them to do so. I suffered through that in my own career and nearly quit software engineering because of it.

If you have real details about the situation and that it was internal Microsoft policy or the pressure put in them by their manager which may not have aligned with Microsoft policy, that woukd be very useful information to share with the public.

Microsoft operates like many big companies vs a single company, and some teams go beyond standard Microsoft policy and have unrealistic expectations of their employees. Those departments and managers should be called out and shamed.

You're implying that he was under performing, and therefore felt the pressure to avoid a bad review and the resulting PIP.

We don't have enough information to support that.

Bi-annual performance reviews themselves aren't a bad thing that force overwork.

If he had a history of good performance reviews (100% or higher on average), the risk of getting a PIP would be very low.

Microsoft stopped stack ranking years ago.

I don't think we should speculate on people's behavior or how they aligned with company policies, because we might accidentally be insulting this man.

In reality, the outcome doesn't appear to be the result of "pure chaos and randomness" if you ground your tools. Test cases and instructions do a fantastic job of keeping them focused and moving down the right path.

If I see an LLM consistently producing something I don't like, I'll either add the correct behavior to the prompt, or create a tool that will tell it if it messed up or not, and prompt it to call the tool after each major change.

I started with Github Copilot and VSCode. It has a free tier and is an easy way to try out AI-assisted development.

Being able to use natural gas isn't a valuable public good.

I used to live in an area with regular tornadoes, having public weather data is life saving. People shouldn't have to die from tornadoes because they're poor.

I'm on an M2 and when I have the dog near the stick and it shows the hovering mouse, I left-click and nothing happens other than the do whining. How do I pick up the stick?

That's confusing to me because back in 2020 when they were looking into GKR inside of a Snark, they were worried about these attacks. Following up in 2022, Ethereum researchers were talking about attacking GKR by forging proofs and not having sufficient randomness/collision resistant.

It's hard to align what's being researched on Ethresar.ch and this statement.

> When he shared his thoughts with Ethereum’s cryptographers, he was startled to learn that they were unfamiliar with this work

It would be nice if the article included timelines. Ethereum researchers have been talking about GKR since 2020,so it's hard to imagine the lack of familiarity.

It must be since they use a blockchain for this to decentralized and verify the timestamps.

There's an incredible article on Google's calculator and the math behind it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43066953

It's easier to relate to people on a trip than in a war, too many people died during the great war so being concerned is overwhelming, the Titanic had the perfect headline as the unsinkable ship, rich people were on the Titanic and we care about them more than poors dying in a war, etc...

> The whole movie felt like "reels" stitched together, with no scene lasting longer than 5 minutes.

I felt the same way about the first hour of the new mission impossible movie. It was so annoying to me that I left after that, so maybe it got better in hour two.

A properly decentralized blockchain won't have downtime unless there's a severely botched update that 51% of the nodes deploy.

Solana has way too many instances of downtime.

This is a new marketing effort for Eth release by Etherealize.

They also have a tweet here: https://x.com/ethereum/status/1933148760160284991

It goes into the monetary case, but not into practical use cases for blockchains/Ethereum.

I miss CodeFlow everyday. It was such a great tool to use.

I used it and the timer stopped when I was in the Hold command. Am I allowed to exhale?

I think the timer should be a multiple of the time to complete one full cycle, ending on an exhale.

When I got tinnitus after months of high stress, the ENT told me that all of my jaw clenching may have changed the pressure on the muscle that's connected to the inner ear, and that could be the cause. I never got a definitive answer about the cause, and that seems pretty common.

I've heard that TMJ can cause it as well.