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boristsron Grace Version Control System

I'm definitely the opposite, however I definitely use version control differently and less rigidly in personal projects. I commit more, care less about making the "perfect" commit, and making one change per commit. It's a lot more freeform in my personal projects precisely so it doesn't get in the way and take the fun out of the project.

boristsron Meta's AI chief: LLMs will never reach human-level intelligence

No, one of his other interviews he delved a bit more into it with examples, things like puzzles and quizzes like start at the North Pole, move south 1km, left 2km and up 1km. Where are you and how did you work that out? His point was there's spatial reasoning among other things happening. It's not purely a vision thing, or a language thing. There's a deeper world understanding there than just language can convey. He raised some similar points about image and video generation how they failed to produce meaningful results with a similar approach. I think it was his latest lex fridman interview. Was pretty interesting. Definitely raised some strong points.

boristsron Spotify, Epic Games pen letter to EC, claiming Apple has made a 'mockery' of DMA

How is that at all comparable?

First, pretty sure they waive the unreal engine license royalties for sales on the EGS.

Second, the timed exclusive offers an even lower sales percentage to epic for being exclusive to EGS for that time period. The developer has a choice to get a larger cut in exchange for not listing elsewhere for a period. That's actually competition in action. Offering better deals to persuade developers and customers to your platform.

They are NOT saying if you don't list on the EGS you can't list on PC at all, which would be a more comparable stance to what Apple do.

boristsron Meta's Reality Labs loses record $4.65B ahead of Apple's Vision Pro launch

I don't think that's a completely fair point. People don't read a news article to learn a single fact. They read a news article to put those facts in perspective and context.

The complaints of this thread is that there are very conflicting facts and they don't feel the article (and other articles) is giving a fair representation of the overall picture, and rather feels like it's pandering to people who want to hear it framed in a particular way.

boristsron Ask HN: Are full-page Google Ads more frequent now?

How long do you think that'll last? The cynic in me sees ChatGPT and the like turning into basically home shopping network type presenters. Constantly spruiking whatever they are told to.

boristsron Nolan Says Buy Oppenheimer on Blu-ray So No Evil Streaming Service Can Steal It

Nope. You are often buying people's old collections that they are getting rid of or downsizing due to space and available streaming options. There's lots of bargains on Blu rays and DVDs these days.

I'm finding I'm snapping up loads of <$10 Blu rays from brick and mortar stores now too. I'm enjoying the more deliberate choice of a movie rather than endlessly browsing streaming sites.

boristsron Danish cloud host says customers ‘lost all data’ after ransomware attack

Yes, but as a customer your 3-2-1 strategy should include a backup off that cloud. Not the first time, and won't be the last time a cloud provider has a catastrophic data loss incident. Relying solely on your cloud provider for backups is a risk.

boristsron Ask HN: Has your technical blog seen a drop in traffic since Chat GPT released?

> I’m torn on the “writing for robots.” On one hand you’re writing a blog for the internet and people/robots are free to do what they want with that info.

Yep. This is true. I wasn’t meaning it in the sense of blocking robots. More of a practical sense, if traffic continues falling and the only traffic you see is robots, in effect you are writing for robots. And that’s when the rewards you outlined no longer apply.

I hope that Bing and ChatGPT can further the work to cite sources. That will go some way towards helping the situation I believe.

boristsron Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?

https://www.gdcorner.com/

Been running the blog for around a year now. Trying to write more frequently this year. I write about game development, development in general, DevOps, team issues, and other topics. I like to keep it varied. Depends what I'm learning at the time, or what I have an itch to write about.

Some of my more popular articles:

https://www.gdcorner.com/2019/11/18/ImprovingCodingStandards...

https://www.gdcorner.com/2020/02/28/ProblemBehavioursInSoftw...

https://www.gdcorner.com/2019/12/27/JenkinsHomeLab-P1-Master...

https://www.gdcorner.com/2019/10/11/MemoizationInPython.html

boristsron Problem Behaviours in Software Development Teams and How to Fix Them

Yeah, good point. I'd say that's very related. In those circumstances appropriate comparisons of cost (both cost of work, and potential losses from delay) aren't being made and prioritization is not happening.

boristsron Ask HN: Bloggers, writers, readers: what's your ideal platform like?

So if I'm reading this right somewhere between gist, wiki and medium? Interesting...

boristsron Ask HN: Bloggers, writers, readers: what's your ideal platform like?

Over the last ~14 months I've been rebuilding my site as a blog. Previously it was a portfolio website on Drupal. These have been the things I've aimed for.

- Quick load times.

- Flexible hosting options

- Something that is not a constant attack target like Wordpress/Joomla/Drupal that I need to keep patching. If I don't have time to work on my side project, this is going to fall by the wayside. It's very frustrating to return and find spam everywhere or get notifications about it.

- Plenty of theme and plugin support.

- Code highlighting

- Something where I can have audience feedback. Similar to the Likes/Reactions that Disqus offers. Currently using Commento which doesn't offer that.

So far I've been using and quite liking Github Pages which is based on Jekyll. I've got a staging site setup on Amazon S3 which loads incredibly quick since it's all static files. Github hosted main site loads almost as quick. My main gripe is it's somewhat frustrating/fiddly when trying to embed lots of images as the workflow for this is manual.

I've heard Hugo is good.

My ideal platform that I would look for next time looks like:

- CMS content management and creation like Wordpress

- Static site generated output which:

  - is Easy to host anywhere

  - Incurs zero time waiting for DB queries/server operations

- Plenty of plugins and themes available

- Easy integration of third party hosted comment section

edit: sorry, learning formatting on HN still.