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Happy New Year, everyone.

I was laid off back in 2023 from my development job.

I'm hoping to be able to get back to work in the New Year after taking some time off.

Wish me luck!

Awesome, I'll take a look

The GitHub page is no longer available, which is a shame because I'm really interested in how this works.

How was the entirety of HN stored in a single SQLite database? In other words, how was the data acquired? And how does the page load instantly if there's 22GB of data having to be downloaded to the browser?

I never liked the analog stick layout. I think they're too close together.

I used to follow system wars. I used to love following which home console was performing the best and then hopping online and trolling the people who bought the console with the least support. I was a huge fan of the 360 when I was younger. It had a superior controller, awesome online play, and decent graphics. I was never a fan of Sony's consoles. I didn't like the controller layout, and the exclusives never appealed to me. I typically owned a Nintendo and a Microsoft console when I was a kid. I started with the N64, GameCube, 360, and I had an Xbox One.

I stopped following mainstream gaming not too long ago, to me, I just couldn't care less at this point. The Series X doesn't appeal to me at all as I've gotten older.

It would be interesting if Microsoft went the way of Sega and stopped producing home consoles. I still think they have the superior controller.

I believe that's one of the primary issues LLMs aim to address. Many historical texts aren't directly Googleable because they haven't been converted to HTML, a format that Google can parse.

It would be nice if we could get an LLM to simply say, "We (I) don't know."

I'll be the first to admit I don't know nearly enough about LLMs to make an educated comment, but perhaps someone here knows more than I do. Is that what a Hallucination is? When the AI model just sort of strings along an answer to the best of its ability. I'm mostly referring to ChatGPT and Gemini here, as I've seen that type of behavior with those tools in the past. Those are really the only tools I'm familiar with.

A few games developed entirely with AI. I'm using GitHub CoPilot to drive the development, and I'm having the AI come up with the graphics programmatically as well. It's a pretty fun project.

Technically stagnant is a good thing; I'd prefer the term technically mature. It's accomplished what it set out to do, which is to be a decentralized, anonymous form of digital currency.

The only thing that MIGHT kill it is if governments stopped printing money.

And by "dog feces," I assume you mean fiat currency, correct?

Cryptocurrency solves the money-printing problem we've had around the world since we left the gold standard. If governments stopped making their currencies worthless, then bitcoin would go to zero.

I was going to try having an AI agent analyze a well-established open source project. I was thinking of trying something like Bitcoin Core or an open-source JavaScript library, something that has had a lot of human eyes on it. To me, that seems like a good use case, as some of those projects can get pretty complex in what they're aiming to accomplish. Just the sheer amount of complexity involved in Bitcoin, for instance, would be a good candidate for having an AI agent explain the code to you as you're reviewing it. A lot of those projects are fairly well-written as they are, with the higher-level concepts being the more difficult thing to grasp.

Not attempting to claim anything against your company, but I've worked for enterprises where code bases were a complete mess and even the product itself didn't have a clear goal. That's likely not the ideal candidate for AI systems to augment.

Wow, come to think of it, Siri failed; ChatGPT completely eclipsed the tool.

So you're writing the game in C and targeting the N64? Utilizing your custom Impact game engine, which is also written in C?

Do you flash the game to a custom cartridge for testing?

How are you doing this? Do you have a blog going over the work or a Github page? Just curious, it's an interesting project.

Location: Philadelphia, PA

Technologies: JavaScript, C#, React, Vue, Typescript, SQL Server, Express/Node.js

Email: joshsiegl(at)gmail(dot)com

Resume: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1H9wcZtK4QWJVJBU0deaGG78kiox...

I'm a software engineer with five years of solid in-office experience. I've worked for two companies in the office, and recently I've worked a remote contract with Comcast doing front-end development.

I'm open to remote work and also full-time in-office positions. I've found it difficult to find work since my last contract ended in late 2022, and I would love to find a long-term, full-time development position that I could put many years into in the near future.

I applied, and I thought the idea of having a secret was pretty neat. (I've never seen that before) Hoping to hear back at some point in the near future.

I was wondering the same thing

Yeah, it's the hottest tech company around right now, so there's probably a lot of parallels to Google in its heyday.

Wouldn't this work better as a browser plugin? Why is there a need for an entire app?

That's a very libertarian viewpoint of which I've always tended to agree with, drugs should be legal no matter the circumstances. I remember coming to this forum in the early days of Bitcoin which is also favored by libertarians, I wonder what the majority political viewpoint of HN is. Seems like it would skew toward the libertarian viewpoints of socioeconomics and public policy

I'm working on a card game for android, it's being built with Monogame and C#. It's just go fish at the moment, but I'm thinking of expanding it into a full suite of card games like solitaire and poker. The source is available on GitHub if anyone wants to poke around and perhaps collaborate. https://github.com/joshsiegl1/GoFishRefresh

That's cool, I love cruises I find them fascinating although I know quite a few people who don't like them - to each their own. I've never taken a Celebrity cruise but I've been on Royal Caribbean and Disney with my family, I know they're massive undertakings and huge profit machines. They employ hundreds of people from chefs to musicians and nautical engineers... It does make you wonder about the IT part of the operation though.

I haven't been on a cruise in a long time, does anyone know if there are on-board IT people? Might be an interesting job if I ever get bored again.

Short Story: this is just a website.

If you go to parrot.live from your browser it automatically redirects to the GitHub page for the project; The code for which is on line 103: https://github.com/hugomd/parrot.live/blob/master/index.js#L...

You'll notice though that if you change the user agent from your browser to include the string 'curl' you can reach the site from within the browser as the redirect logic encapsulating line 103 doesn't fire.

You can do that by:

* Opening Chrome,

* Opening Chrome Dev Tools within Chrome,

* Going to the Network Tab within Chrome Dev Tools,

* Clicking on "More Network Conditions" within the Network Tab,

* Go the the "User Agent" section and type 'curl' whithout the parens,

* Navigate to parrot.live with the network tab open and you should see the ascii animation in your browser.

Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. USA

Remote: Open to Remote

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Javascript, C#/.NET, Azure, AWS, PHP, React, Vue

Resume: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11X2I_HP2JUCYubt-V0EhuhX7xtw...

Email: joshsiegl@gmail.com

Software Developer with about 8 years of experience.

I've been out of work for a little while now so any new opportunity would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for your time.

I taught myself to code in high-school, entering my first job was daunting but I remember just sitting back and absorbing information like a sponge. Obviously I came in with some fundamental knowledge and I was working with a language I had been using personally for years but if I had any advice for someone who's new it's to just sit back and learn as much as you can. Nothing wrong with it in my opinion.

That's 130,000-150,000 annually if you clock 40 hours 5 days a week, not hourly.

I don't know in what universe you think $150 per hour is low, I've never seen anything near that rate. Maybe for highly specialized work but not any general purpose development.

I haven't seen this at all, I'm currently contracting and I see rates anywhere from 63.50 per hour to 80+. Depending on the locale and whether we're talking FAANG or not those are pretty good rates. (130-150+ respectively)

I wholeheartedly disagree, would you feel unwelcome at an Asian restaurant or a place that serves authentic Mexican food?

Simply creating a space that caters to culture specific creativity is a good thing, and as others have pointed out its been done before with BET.

Can we open source the Olympics?