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It's interesting. I was expecting the bar to follow the cursor as you move it and clicking a second time would place it wherever it was.

But, that's on desktop. The scrolling works a lot better on mobile.

The Witness is a 3d engine made from scratch. Not all AAA companies use Unreal or Unity.

That's true, a game like Blue Prince doesn't suffer from bad engineering because of the type of game it is. There are plenty of other games, like Cyberpunk 2077, where the lack of engineering made an otherwise good game unplayable and unenjoyable.

The fact remains that Blue Prince would have been more enjoyable for those people who did see those bugs had some time been spent on better engineering.

I would pay for a guaranteed technical interview. You still have to pass the interview, so it would make sure people are more careful about where they apply.

Unfortunately, if this became standard, interview scams would skyrocket. It would become very difficult to tell if you're giving your money to an entity who wants to hire vs a scammer who wants to collect the "entry fee" from as many people as possible.

> is it common to price them without key caps and switches?

Yes, it is for the enthusiast mechanical keyboard community. Everybody has their own preferences for switches and keycaps and there are hundreds of varieties of both.

This is blowing my mind. I didn't know Blue Prince was a remake. I've read several interviews with Tonda Ros. He mentions some of his inspirations, including the 80s game Maze, but never mentions the original Blue Prince game. I wonder if he omitted that because there could be spoilers or hints there he didn't want to draw attention to?

Has anybody had any success with a post-only approach to social media? Or is the temptation to check the timeline too strong?

It must be a breed trait. Growing up, my neighbor had a Samoyed. My brothers and I would go over and play with him for hours on end and he would wear us out. We were young and had crazy kid energy, but he would wear us out. No amount of attention was enough.

> And the answer is that different people prefer different things.

Exactly. There is no winning here.

When I was in college, I built a system for the college radio station that plays music while there are no DJs on the air. What I enjoyed most is keeping track of what songs played when (which we needed to do anyway for FCC compliance) so that we never play the same song twice until every song was played. This "felt" more random even though it wasn't.

Some people didn't like it. They wanted to hear a smaller subset of songs more often (the equivalent of putting a playlist on random). We solved that by letting users request songs through the website.

I wonder if there's a way to solve this by adding a setting called "repetitiveness". It's a value between 1 and 100. 1 is the least repetitive "play all songs once before repeating any" and 100 is "play the same sequence of songs every time."

Used car prices have skyrocketed in the past 10 years. You used to be able to get a decent, reliable car for under $5k. Now that number is closer to $10-15k, which is just as out of reach for most Americans as $30k. If you're going to go into debt anyway, why not buy the new car?

People get hired all the time based on their online content. Or, at the very least, they get interviews when they wouldn't otherwise. Don't forget about the luck surface area!

> I feel like this is the biggest lie ever told in this industry.

It's not. I've been in a number of interviews where the interviewer has told me straight up "I didn't read your resume. Mind giving me a second to give it a scan?"

To be fair, as you mention, resumes are horrible tools. They should only be used as a place to start a conversation, so does it really matter if the interviewer reads it in depth before starting the interview?

I think you're right. I think what confused me was the phrasing here:

"After 15 days, Audio Hijack will nag you to register at launch and will quit after 15 minutes. Additionally, the recording feature will be disabled."

"Instead, from day one, the app was limited to 15 minutes of recording."

My brain didn't make the jump from "the app quits after 15 minutes" to "the app is limited to 15 minutes of recording."

The text in the alert says "You've reached the recording time limit" and "Once you register, the recording length will be unlimited." That requires more than just changing the time variable. They went from "show this after X days" to "show this after X recorded minutes." It's a completely different metric that is reflected in the alert text.

Am I the only one who thinks that describing this as a "bug" sounds a bit off? Most bugs don't come with their own updated alert text. It sounds a bit more like they had planned to switch to a different trial method and enabled it earlier than they expected? Or maybe a "rogue" employee added the feature as an experiment and didn't tell anybody?

Is there a market for apps that use local LLMs? I don't know of many people who make their purchasing decisions based on security, but I do know lawyers are one subset that do.

Using a local LLM isn't a surefire solution unless you also restrict the app's permissions, but it's got to be better than using chatgpt.com. The question is: how much better?

I've found threads online that suggest that running gpt-oss-20b on ollama is slow for some reason. I'm running the 20b model via LM Studio on a 2021 M1 and I'm consistently getting around 50-60 T/s.

Why not just use BASH or Python?

What would make it more pleasant?

If you're really worried about it you could buy an airbag.

FortNine on motorcycle airbags: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2jZryt607U

Unless there's a fundamental change in how the technology works, it'll never get to the point you're talking about. We're still waiting on our self-driving cars, remember.

Also, when it comes to music, who are the people in the rock and roll hall of fame? Those who can play the guitar real good? Or those who crafted songs that people love? AI will never be able to do the latter. But, AI can play power chords better than any session guitarist. That session guitarist is going to have to learn how to compete in another way than his guitar playing skill.

It's all about competition. Musicians dislike AI music because they're being outcompeted by AI. Same with artists. And, ironically, same with programmers.

AI programming isn't going to improve the state of the craft. Developers hate AI coding tools for the same reason they hated Dreamweaver back in the 00s: the generated code was crap. You'd spend more time "fixing" the generated code than you'd spend writing it from scratch.

What it is going to do is finally kill this obsession the tech industry has with moving fast and breaking things. We can't compete with AI on speed and breaking things. It's just not humanly possible. It's going to force the entire industry to find other metrics to compete on. I hope that's going to be quality (performance, uptime, and reliability), but, then again, I'm an optimist in this regard.

It's the same with music and art, too. AI isn't going to replace musicians and artists, but it is going to make them compete on different metrics than they're used to.

No mention of Orca[0]? WebAssembly Apps Without the Web. A brand new stack for cross-platform applications.

https://orca-app.dev/

When somebody creates something better.

Do you get raises? Or is the starting salary there so good that it's not a factor?

It's curious he doesn't mention that the appropriations bill currently under consideration by the Senate repeals section 174.

Manufacturing, sales, or crazy inventor who ends up blowing himself up with his inventions.

I'm surprised nobody's talking about the hireability of FE vs BE engineers. The specialist vs generalist debate has been raging on for multiple decades now and the general conclusion is that only early stage startups hire generalists. Everybody else wants a specialist.

I'll go one farther: nobody hires senior FE engineers.

FE is perceived as having a lower skill ceiling than BE[0]. I rarely see an FE position (or a "senior" FE position) require more than 3 years of experience. And can you blame them when FE technologies churn so much faster than BE ones? It's still fairly common to have a decade old Java backend running against an equally old postgresql database. Who still runs jquery (other than levelsio)?

[0]: I do not agree with this, but it's a common perception.

You could start a business. Not a startup and not necessarily even a software business, although your experience would make it easier to hire programmers. Understanding how the business end of the business works is valuable.

You could go into management.

You could do SW work in a non-technical field. Manufacturing is making a resurgence.

I had a similar issue, but I chose to solve it another way.

I connected both computers directly to the monitor and used lunar[0] to use a keyboard command to switch inputs. I then used a Deskhop[1][2] to share the KB and mouse between both computers.

It sounds awful, but in practice it was surprisingly nice. My monitor (LG Ultragear+) switches inputs fairly quickly. The process was something like this: hit the keyboard shortcut, then move the mouse off the left side of the screen. To go back, you reverse it: move the mouse off the right side of the screen and hit the keyboard shortcut.

[0]: https://lunar.fyi/

[1]: https://github.com/hrvach/deskhop

[2]: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1763041320/deskhop-jr-keyboard-...