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realaleris149··on Fuck it, make it anyway
I can create the programming part of the game. I have done a couple. Where it stops working for me is at the visual assets. And especially sewing the code to the art.

Also tried it with AI generated art. Is not there yet. I can generate a beautiful image but then cut it to pieces so I ca use it in a game breaks apart.

It can be done but it looks obviously underwhelming.

realaleris149··on Fuck it, make it anyway
Do they? It might have been true month ago, not sure right now.
realaleris149··on AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement
Or some solar panel arrays closer to the sun and it does not matter?
realaleris149··on AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement
We would have heard if there was any result?
realaleris149··on How to Build an AI Software Factory: Agents That Open, Review, and Merge PRs
> agents work in public channels, never DMs.

Recently I’ve been looking into why LLMs tend to write in some off putting ways. This one apparently is for LLMs to get better results.

It puts the cases to avoid closer to the main requirement so is easier for a LLM to follow without losing track with more ambiguous language.

Is very interesting because is harder to read by a human but it gets better results for an LLM.

realaleris149··on How to Build an AI Software Factory: Agents That Open, Review, and Merge PRs
I am using a very similar approach and seeing about the same. It works well and fast with some attention to details.

I also do not understand the obsession with “software factories”. Like “JIRA to product” nonsense. Is like we can hand wave the details that matter and somehow the end product would still be what we want.

Not even talking about the degenerative codebase you mention, which is also an issue I am seeing after some time in any project.

realaleris149··on Show HN: Cockpit for you Claude Code agents in Rust
Looks quite useful. Especially like the caffeinate integration with "until agents idle". Is there a way to see more details about the tools activity from claude? Sometime I would like to see what was executed and the output, would be nice to have a detailed view from "Activity by tool" section.
realaleris149··on AIs don't do what you want. This is bad
> "PC LOAD LETTER? The fuck does that mean!?" — Michael Bolton, Office Space (1999)

The error message is mocked in the 1999 comedy film Office Space, when employee Michael Bolton becomes frustrated as he doesn't know what it means.Later in the film he and his coworkers are shown destroying the printer with a baseball bat.

realaleris149··on Sick leave: Germany rising but not the worst in Europe
> from one of Germany's large insurers

Is this voluntary insurance? It changes meaning to the statistic to % from those that made an insurance.

realaleris149··on GPT-5.5 hallucinates 3x more than MIT-licensed GLM-5.2
Take a look at a sufficiently old random internal repo which was not written with LLMs and compare.

My observation is that they are equally bad and hard to maintain or even more so than the new ones.

One thing I’ve noticed is that the LLM assisted ones have a lot more comments which is nice but take more time to read.

realaleris149··on The Miller Principle
The agents will read them
realaleris149··on Show HN: Kanban-md – File-based CLI Kanban built for local agents collaboration
From an agent perspective is very well documented but from a human perspective is not very clear - how you would use it?
realaleris149··on RAG accuracy jumped from 10% to 60% when I added outcome scoring
> When I say "thanks, that worked," that memory gets promoted. When I say "no, that's wrong," it gets demoted. … > No manual tagging.

I think this is also a kind of tagging.

realaleris149··on Wilson's Algorithm
I always had problems understanding algorithms from such descriptions. Even from pseudocode I find it difficult to understand. What I usually do is search for an implementation, even in a language I am not familiar with is still better. When you have code you can run it, test it, debug it - not so much with descriptions and pseudocode.
realaleris149··on Why are 2025/05/28 and 2025-05-28 different days in JavaScript?
> 6 digit years

Totally insufficient for capturing important future events like the dead of the sun.

realaleris149··on What’s new in Swift 6.2
Not op, but I think "doesn't play nicely" means does not work so you have to do it in other ways. This has been my experience as well, albeit it was couple of years ago.
realaleris149··on Git Commands That Cover 90% of a Developer's Daily Workflow
There are other commands?
realaleris149··on OpenAI looked at buying Cursor creator before turning to Windsurf
They just launched Junie https://www.jetbrains.com/junie/
realaleris149··on Benchmarking LLM social skills with an elimination game
As LLM benchmarks go, this is not a bad take at all. One interesting point about this approach is that is self balancing, so when more powerful models come up, there is no need to change it.
realaleris149··on Gleam v1.8.0 Released
Still can't get past "Gleam doesn't have loops". I did try to stick with it as the doc suggests, but I guess is a steep transition for me. I like everything else about the language.

https://tour.gleam.run/flow-control/recursion/

realaleris149··on Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers
In America!

The intro paragraph in the original URL https://openai.com/index/announcing-the-stargate-project/ mentions US/America for 5 times!

realaleris149··on Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon
The number of people is irrelevant. What is relevant is what each one did. If they did something illegal that is punished with prison time, they go to prison.
realaleris149··on Mathematics of the daily word game Waffle
Or https://wafflegame.net which looks a bit more polished.
realaleris149··on Making Beautiful API Keys
I used https://github.com/jetify-com/typeid for generating api keys for a project. They are nice because you can use prefixes for different type of keys and know immediately what they represent. No dashes also makes them easier to copy paste.
realaleris149··on A web app to read Latin texts with inline translations
After finishing DuoLingo’s Latin course, I wanted to read some Latin texts, but I didn't find easy enough texts and going back and forth to a dictionary was cumbersome.

So I created this app for reading basic Latin texts. The idea of the app is to have a Latin text with translation of each word under the paragraph line, which makes it easy to grasp the meaning but also focuses on reading the original Latin text.

It only has one book, if I finish it I might add others.

I used OpenAI to do the translation which looks pretty good for me, with the caveat that... well... I do not know Latin. This approach will not probably work for more complex texts.

This mode of reading works for me, not sure if is of interest to anyone else.

The app source is on GitHub if you are interested:

https://github.com/aleris/duplex-lectio

A couple of details about the dev process:

https://adi.earth/posts/duplex-lectio-read-latin-bilingual/

realaleris149··on How I ship projects at big tech companies
Politics is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups.

All the bad connotations we get from the word are because humans are humans. There is no better model that works in any kind of society/ organization/ group other than "politics".

Somebody "ethics" may not be the same as others. (Is it ethic to spend a lot of money and deliver something that does not fit the expectations of the ones that provided the money? It may be easy to make users happy - just give them free movies, etc.)

realaleris149··on How I ship projects at big tech companies
> Sometimes you are doing working everyone tells you is critical the day before they show you out the door.

I know this may appear so but the signs are there. We only want this to be true so we do not see it.

I've been in a similar situation where all we were seeing was high pressure to deliver something. This made it appear that is because the project is important. But the underlying reason was that if we didn't, the project would be dropped. Which they did.

A project may be critical but even more so is to be in a certain time frame and budget, otherwise the project doesn't have a reason to exist any more. But until that moment is still very important because, at the very least because there was a lot of investment into it.

realaleris149··on UK sleep experts say it's time to kill daylight saving for good
This was the last year we had to change the clock... And was the last one for about 5 years.
realaleris149··on Is 7 days a week the new norm (for YC)?
I guess some respond with “yes”. We have a saying around here something like: “is not stupid who is asking, is stupid the one that gives”.
realaleris149··on Actual Size Online Ruler (Mm,Cm,Inches) – Screen Measurements
A rule app that requires cookie consent for like 200 “legitimate interest” vendors.
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