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Same, while I use it for Beat Saber all the time, after testing virtual desktop and the new native desktop sharing, I quickly abandoned attempts to use it for work.

Not only because of the resolution, but also it’s tiring to have something strapped to your face, and it makes it hard to have a cup of coffee or a snack.

I would like to try this, but I use Synergy to use two computers with the same keyboard. I have Aqua Voice now on the server computer, would be great if I could input text to the client computer using it as well.

With a boss that goes around whipping the developers as well. As a kid this was forever etched into my mind as what a game software company looks like.

"The House is valuable because it is the House. It is enough in and of itself."

I'll take this opportunity to drop the fact that I'm kind of obsessed with the book "Piranesi", where the main character (named after the artist in the article) survives in a world which is just endless corridors of classical architecture, statues, and staircases.

It's an incredibly calming experience, I've listened to the audiobook over 10 times before sleep. Highly recommended.

The current equivalent of Flash games is Roblox games.

They also start instantly, and can be created quite quickly. Creators there are often young, experiment rapidly. There are platform-specific trends that someone invents, and which then spread. I fully expect to see new genres and widely known creators being born there.

For instance the creator of the massively popular Steam game "Lethal Company" got their start making Roblox games.

There are actually products you can buy right now that show text and color shows on LED spokes like that, although last time I tried you couldn't upload your own frames.

You may be right, he tweeted about it already last year, and seemed to confirm it again yesterday https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1861801046949191686 https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1891388509191049307

It seemed to me that he was joking.

For things you write a lot, learning how to quickly autocomplete them can pay off.

I don't autocomplete everything, as picking things from a list is if not slower then at least more annoying than just typing that thing, but for common things it's helpful. For instance I type "game.ReplicatedStorage" all the time, so taking a few moments to learn that "game.reso<tab>" is the same has saved time.

What upped my motivation to learned some shortcuts was switching from one keyboard layout to another (qwerty->colemak) and having 20-30 WPM for a week. Typing everything was so painful that I could doubly appreciate it.

Well, it's been a while since it was last posted, so seems fine. Interesting how it only caught on once it triggered some techy interest.

I can understand why. My thought pattern was also like "oh YOLO, I know that, interesting to see some application for it, oh cool idea, upvote".

What I'm most curious about is how does one get 40 million hotel photos? Is this offered through some Booking.com API etc.?

"My First Nokia" designs were funny in this presentation: https://repo.aalto.fi/uncategorized/IO_47c69f41-6009-4520-9e...

This happens if I take too much melatonin. The dosage in US-sold melatonin is unnecessarily high. Finnish tablets are typically 1.9mg, while US ones can have 10mg in just one.

Trying to do things 100% properly isn't necessarily good.

I know it's sort of a difficult shift in mentality especially for anyone with a programming background, but not doing anything at all for fear of doing it incorrectly, or delaying doing the thing because of all the setup seem much higher risks to me.

In my experience, you can just start doing the thing. It probably won't make any money anyway, in which case you can just stop. If you make some money, then you give some (say ~$1k) of that money to a bookkeeper who will then figure out how to declare it properly.

I get your fear though, as I used to have it. But this world is not like an API call that completely fails if you have one thing wrong. Instead it's people, who talk with you and figure things out with you.

Media likes to all cover some random silly hot story periodically, and they constantly need new ones.

So I’d say it’s actually not limited, although being the one they happen to cover this week would need some luck for sure.

There are fascinating descriptions of patient hallucinations after loss of vision in the aptly named book "Hallucinations" by Oliver Sacks.

Tons of examples, but one that many musicians with partially lost vision experienced those missing parts of their vision randomly replaced by sheet music. Stare at sheet music your whole life, and your brain starts to predict sheet music anywhere. But when they tried to play the music, it didn't make sense.

For those with complete loss of vision, the hallucinations became immersive, featuring complete scenes with people and events.

“Piranesi” by Susanna Clarke.

Refreshing and beautiful because it’s a totally new kind of world for a story to take place in, essentially survival in a world of procedurally generated endless architecture.

Most of the time there is just one or two characters among repetitive environments, which was relaxing as I get easily confused if there are 5+ characters to remember or extensive mental visualization required.

Or walk very close to something and then look away.

There may be some, but the people who find them have no incentive to tell others.

I tried this a few times since my family speaks Finnish and son speaks Japanese, but the issue is that it keeps forgetting the task.

It’ll work at first for a sentence or two, then the other party asks something and instead of translating the question, it will attempt to answer the question. Even if you remind it of its task it quickly forgets again.

I love Factorio, because in real life it's difficult to fully automate things so abstractly. It's so wonderfully simple to think that oh this thing goes here, is combined with this and this... profit.

You then walk away from the game, inspired to apply such process-thinking to your actual work and life, and realize that it's actually rare to be able to do.

0.37s is only 11x away from realtime 30fps. I wonder if that will enable some cool new popular application for it besides batch image generation.

As a gamedev coding is maybe 1/3 of my work, but I aim for 3h/day (plus some on weekends) total for all productive tasks.

Flux genuinely is the best model I’ve tried though. If there is a better one I’d love to know.

Many bouncing balls are also doable without knowing any actual physics. Balls overlap? Push them away from each other such that the next frame they'd no longer overlap. The result looks surprisingly acceptable.

And if you add some blur (I think in Flash this was just a property you can set) based on how fast the ball is moving, it somehow looks more satisfying still.

I used to build in public (Candy Japan), and now don't.

Good things. It does bring customers directly. At least for blogging, building in public posts can get some backlinks, which is great for SEO. For some time I had the #1 result for my top search term. That might make it worth it overall.

Negative things. It motivates others to clone your project, as now people know that $X/month can be made doing that. Almost no-one will, but if your posts are seen by say 100k+ people then you'll have a few in there who might.

It warps your own thinking, as now you have a bunch of people on social media who see your project as your identity. You start buying into the narrative of being this X project guy so you can't just go away to do Y, even if on a rational level you know no-one actually cares that much whether you do X or Y.

Seems @levelsio has been immune to this, as he's been smart to have his identity be a guy who ships a variety of things quickly vs. just being say the "Nomadlist Guy" forever.

I made one for fun last year. It was quite easy to get two hosts talking to each other in a natural manner. It's just a python script where I tell it which Reddit discussion or other topic to make an episode segment about, and it works fine as long as I cherry-picked out of a few generations.

Here's an example segment, demonstrating an extra feature where they can call an expert to weigh in on whatever they are talking about: https://soundcloud.com/bemmu/19animals

I'm a solo dev, but have an accountant (remote) almost for the sole purpose of making me sleep a little bit better at night. I still have to gather all the receipts etc. info for them, but it's great to worry a little less.

The accountant itself is also a deductable expense.

Absolutely, it's better to have a smaller slice of a bigger pie, which is why I'm OK with this.

What I meant by "wild" is that in this case, the dev of the game is the one receiving that ~30% slice. Apple+Google get about the same as the dev does.