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arkh commented on D2 (text to diagram tool) now supports ASCII renders d2lang.com/blog/ascii/... · Posted by u/alixanderwang

fzeindl · 5 days ago

1. how does this add value over mermaid? I like how it looks and works, but is there any real reason to switch over.

2. in my opinion, what all these tools are missing is the ability to add a manual „corrective“ layer, meaning to be able to adjust the automatically created output by moving and resizing boxes by a certain x/y amount.

arkh · 5 days ago

> 2. in my opinion, what all these tools are missing is the ability to add a manual „corrective“ layer, meaning to be able to adjust the automatically created output by moving and resizing boxes by a certain x/y amount.

Something like Struturizr? https://structurizr.com/

arkh commented on Counter-Strike: A billion-dollar game built in a dorm room nytimes.com/2025/08/18/ar... · Posted by u/asnyder

dreamglider · 6 days ago

Seems it is not just about geeks VS general population but rather the classical case where success (ease of access) & popularity inevitably bring failure. Few open (loosely or not actively moderated) "spaces" left. No wonder given the general attitude of the, lol, "invaders". :D In the past - you pick an IRC server and a room and 4 out of 5 times you'll learn something interesting, have actual fun with ppl you don't know and just enjoy the interactions. Now similar experience can happen only in closed/invite only or hard-to-find groups. The mainstream ones (different "social media" services) seem filled with people who want only to show off while remaining as alienated (and as consequence hostile) from one another as possible. Good or bad - the old Net is dead. The new one is predominantly for making money and BS. The same trend can be observed virtually anywhere. In the past - people experimented with games, lots of cr@p titles but also pure gems, games that last. Today? AAA titles that repeat the "successful" pattern, over and over again. Anyway - it is what it is, the good thing is there are still meaningful places and people worth reading/listening to, just way harder to find through the noise. News.y seems one of the few remaining and open islands.

To bring this further - it's like the migration from villages to cities and towns - proliferation of alienation, loneliness, broken communities, fake smiles and treating anyone not part of your close circle as potentially hostile psycho ready to steal your kidneys, sneeze in your coffee or /dev/null ya. Anyway, no more laments for the past given the current situation presents interesting problems that nobody has solved-solved yet, perhaps because they won't make you a billionaire lol.

arkh · 5 days ago

> Today? AAA titles that repeat the "successful" pattern, over and over again.

Nope. Maybe that's what you see because you don't have the time to check for diamonds in the coal mine but there are a ton of indie games being released every day. Many trying random concepts.

Yes modding is not en vogue nowadays but frameworks like rpg maker, godot etc allow a lot of people to experiment and materialize their ideas (good or bad). And that's without factoring in what LLM will allow when some get trained on those tools and related tutorials.

I'm just basing my views from what is available on Steam. I think there are a lot more experimental games and genres being developed and shared in those channels I don't have the time to discover and enjoy.

arkh commented on Counter-Strike: A billion-dollar game built in a dorm room nytimes.com/2025/08/18/ar... · Posted by u/asnyder

JFuzz · 5 days ago

I was part of a group of high schoolers that found each other on IRC and ICQ. We built out what became Day of Defeat-another HL mod. We followed CS-were early adopters of their betas and realized we could also mod. We were fortunate that we had parents that let us build on a very wild internet . I know a few from the group made it with Valve-I kept in touch with a couple- and my parents stayed involved but I dropped it before Valve moved a few out to an apartment. If there was a way to find those channels/chats again… awesome time to come of age while being completely naive to how the world operates. To have that level of dumbness and overly eager confidence again

arkh · 5 days ago

> We built out what became Day of Defeat

Thank you for that. This mod was awesome in LANs.

arkh commented on Counter-Strike: A billion-dollar game built in a dorm room nytimes.com/2025/08/18/ar... · Posted by u/asnyder

dev0p · 6 days ago

This kind of interaction is what makes me miss the "old internet" the most...

arkh · 6 days ago

My intuition is it still exists.

This "old internet" sentiment is due to the fact it was mostly academics in their world and geeks in theirs on internet at the time. Then it made it easier for everyone to use so everyone used it.

But I bet there are still the same proportion of geeks in the population. Which are still socializing on niche area of internet. We don't see it because we're old farts and have jobs and habits so we won't be trawling what are the current young geek channels. It was forum, IRC, ICQ and their ancestors for us. It is some other things for them. The story about the group of teenagers embedding messages in the One Million Checkboxes database shows "the old internet" is still alive.

arkh commented on PYX: The next step in Python packaging astral.sh/blog/introducin... · Posted by u/the_mitsuhiko

bastawhiz · 11 days ago

Well I started with pip because it's what I was told to use. But it was slow and had footguns. And then I started using virtualenv, but that only solved part of the problem. So I switched to conda, which sometimes worked but wrecked my shell profile and often leads to things mysteriously using the wrong version of a package. So someone told me to use pipenv, which was great until it was abandoned and picked up by someone who routinely broke the latest published version. So someone told me to use poetry, but it became unusably slow. So I switched back to pip with the built-in venv, but now I have the and problems I had before, with fewer features. So I switched to uv, because it actually worked. But the dependency I need is built and packaged differently for different operating systems and flavor of GPU, and now my coworkers can't get the project to install on their laptops.

I'm so glad all the Python packaging challenges are "solved"

arkh · 11 days ago

Coming from the php ecosystem this kind of package manager problems feels crazy.

Maybe Python and js people should just use composer too.

arkh commented on The value of institutional memory timharford.com/2025/05/th... · Posted by u/leoc

Nevermark · 13 days ago

I had long term business relationship with a company, originating and developing a product for them.

From 50 - 1000 employees things worked very well. There was a great deal of continuity in the relationship. Lots of trust and flexibility in both directions. Our product quickly became the best available, by a long margin, and for a couple decades.

But after they passed about 1500 - 2000 employees they got more organized. A formalized organization and process system. Things quickly went downhill. As someone working from outside the company, their processes were incredibly disruptive and inefficient for me. Likewise, their turnover replaced a situation of working with long time friendly colleagues, who knew me very well, to working with people who had no idea what my positive reputation was, my track record of delivering quality without the hammer of conformance, etc.

The project's ambitious upward trajectory stalled. Even then it took about ten years to fall behind other players. But it never recovered. Today it operates deep in the shadows of others.

Virtually every employee I worked with was wonderful, inclined to be as supportive as restrictions allowed, etc. But the institutionalization smothered the organizations ability to operate with any flexibility, no matter how dysfunctional or value destroying the results.

The company became like someone who has permanently lost the ability to form new memories.

You can't build anything special with someone who keeps forgetting any context. I spent many years cycling between depression and resurrected determination trying. But finally gave up.

arkh · 13 days ago

> The company became like someone who has permanently lost the ability to form new memories.

I like this. But reality is more like companies have Alzheimer's disease. They're losing memory on top of not being able to form new ones. Slowly at first and when people notice the symptoms it's already too late.

arkh commented on Starbucks in Korea asks customers to stop bringing in printers/desktop computers fortune.com/2025/08/11/st... · Posted by u/zdw

pstuart · 13 days ago

Seems like an opportunity for a coworking-lite space -- rent a seat/desk spot for 1 hour blocks.

arkh · 13 days ago

What a novel concept!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_bang

arkh commented on Starbucks in Korea asks customers to stop bringing in printers/desktop computers fortune.com/2025/08/11/st... · Posted by u/zdw

shinycode · 13 days ago

People bring printers to Starbucks… really ? I’m kind of surprised it feels like an abuse to me o_O it would never cross my mind

arkh · 13 days ago

South Korea is cyber café country. If you open a café there, people expect some specific services.

I guess the fact people come with PCs and printer is a way to demonstrate how they don't want this part of US culture and would like to keep theirs. So either adapt and start offering PC bang in South Korea or go home.

arkh commented on How to sell if your user is not the buyer writings.founderlabs.io/p... · Posted by u/mooreds

spauldo · 17 days ago

I'll tell you how not to do it.

Require me to give you my contact information just to download something. Have sales people blow up my phone and/or email and ignore polite brush-offs. Keep reaching out to me periodically with requests to have a meeting about how you product can help me.

I don't have buying power, but I do have bitching power and your product will wind up getting bad-mouthed by the whole team eventually. And when the engineer asks us for recommendations, guess what we tell him?

Lookin' at you, Veeam, AWS, and Keyence.

arkh · 17 days ago

Add Microsoft products to the list.

Requires a "professional account" just to register. And tend to refuse gmail accounts to create said microsoft professional account.

So the 30 day trial period you could use to check what's possible and see if you can integrate their shit with your IT infrastructure? Not happening. And if it's a bother just to get to try your shit, I can't fathom how bad the rest of the experience can be so you can keep your AI enhanced CRM, ERP, Dataverse etc.

arkh commented on Ozempic shows anti-aging effects in trial trial.medpath.com/news/5c... · Posted by u/amichail

some_random · 19 days ago

I find it fascinating how much a pretty large group of people just hate semaglutides and seemingly need to believe that it's some kind of Faustian bargain. I'm not talking about the people who are cautious or suspicious, that's more than reasonable, but it's clear that it's not cautious optimism in many.

arkh · 19 days ago

> I find it fascinating how much a pretty large group of people just hate semaglutides and seemingly need to believe that it's some kind of Faustian bargain.

There have been some scandals about "miracle drugs" which bad effects have been found only years after being on the market. And side effects can be crazy: I use D2 agonists which works wonder to handle a prolactinoma (like shrinking a tumor with a simple pill every 2 weeks wonder), side effects of this kind of medication can be different addictions (sex, gambling, purchasing etc.) which is always fun when you're one in a thousands to get it.