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desdenova commented on You can now play Grand Theft Auto Vice City in the browser   dos.zone/grand-theft-auto... · Posted by u/Alifatisk
charcircuit · 6 days ago
reVC is clear copyright infringement distributing a derivative work based off the code of the game.
desdenova · 6 days ago
It was already brought down by Rockstar as well.

This isn't just reverse engineering, it's a decompiled source from the original binary.

desdenova commented on Ask HN: Is it just me or techno-optimism died in the past few years?    · Posted by u/shubhamjain
raw_anon_1111 · 19 days ago
As far as Uber, was it better when there was both a medallion system monopoly in cities like New York and less access to cabs? Where people had to rent overpriced medallions and couldn’t make any money

Or sometimes depending on what you looked like, where you were going or where you were coming from, you couldn’t get a cab at all.

https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/race-cab-hailing-ride-black-white...

I have used Uber all over the US and in a few other countries. Most Uber drivers I talk to like the flexibility.

Half the “benefits” that people bemoan that Uber drivers don’t get shouldn’t be the responsibility of any private employer. For instance health care shouldn’t be tied to your employee anyway.

desdenova · 6 days ago
The US is a terrible example for anything, anyway.

I was talking about the civilized world.

desdenova commented on You can now play Grand Theft Auto Vice City in the browser   dos.zone/grand-theft-auto... · Posted by u/Alifatisk
amarant · 6 days ago
Oh damn, my cousin had carmageddon! We'd stay up all night long playing it when I visited him!

Now I gotta find that other game he had, but I don't remember what it was called. It was kinda like reverse GTA: you played as a female cop and you had to stop the criminals. Iirc there were corrupt cops later on in the game.

desdenova · 6 days ago
Would that be Urban Chaos?
desdenova commented on Ask HN: Is it just me or techno-optimism died in the past few years?    · Posted by u/shubhamjain
desdenova · 19 days ago
Airbnb, Uber and Amazon were already making everything worse. We're past the "bleak threshold" for over 10 years now.

Airbnb is inflating the real-estate bubble everywhere. Apartment building now are mass produced, tiny, and expensive, targeting investors who are only interested in Airbnb.

Uber/ifood and other transport/delivery apps are just working around labor laws, undoing centuries of progress towards worker rights and approaching slavery-like situations.

Amazon is just another monopoly, not sure why you put it beside the others, but it's one of the companies lobbying to make the world a worse place.

Then came crypto"currency", which started the "age of anything goes", where tons of money are thrown in the trashbin for the next speculative pseudo-tech bubble.

AI is just the bubble that came after crypto, little practical utility with lots of hype from billionaires who threw money at it.

After it bursts, there'll probably be another.

desdenova commented on This Month in Ladybird   ladybird.org/newsletter/2... · Posted by u/net01
whytevuhuni · 5 months ago
I assume that simple technique is to not write any C++, despite being pretty good at it?
desdenova · 5 months ago
Yes, that was the joke.
desdenova commented on This Month in Ladybird   ladybird.org/newsletter/2... · Posted by u/net01
tormeh · 5 months ago
Nobody's good at C++. I've written C++ and even got to the point where I felt I had things under control, but tbh that's just delusion and hubris.
desdenova · 5 months ago
I'm pretty good at C++.

By using a very simple technique, I've managed to write 0 bugs in it in the past 15 years.

desdenova commented on This Month in Ladybird   ladybird.org/newsletter/2... · Posted by u/net01
its-kostya · 5 months ago
Unfortunately for c++, the industry is moving towards Rust. Even conservative gray-suit Corps are using rust for their new projects. The limiting factor is available rust devs. Writing c++ is a sure way to get hired maintaining a legacy codebase.

Ladybird is an outlier and there are probably a few more project like it, but anyone looking to be employed should pick up the new skill that is rust. Contribute to ladybird and learn c++ if the project interests you, but don't learn it for a career.

desdenova · 5 months ago
I wish I lived in the same world as you.

There's basically 0 rust jobs available that aren't scam startups.

desdenova commented on I tried vibe coding in BASIC and it didn't go well   goto10retro.com/p/vibe-co... · Posted by u/ibobev
chuckadams · 5 months ago
Fixing bugs is also changing project code to make tests pass. The assistant is pretty good at knowing which side to change when it’s working from documentation that describes the correct behavior.
desdenova · 5 months ago
That's the main problem with vibe coding.

The whole point is having the LLM figure out what you want from vague hand-wavy descriptions instead of precise specification.

You don't need an LLM to parse a precise specification, you have a compiler for that.

desdenova commented on I tried vibe coding in BASIC and it didn't go well   goto10retro.com/p/vibe-co... · Posted by u/ibobev
DecoySalamander · 5 months ago
> This is not a bug

It's not a bug if we're talking about a mischievous jinn granting wishes instead of a productivity tool.

desdenova · 5 months ago
A jinn granting wishes is the best analogy for LLMs I've seen so far.
desdenova commented on Show HN: MCP server for Blender that builds 3D scenes via natural language   blender-mcp-psi.vercel.ap... · Posted by u/prono
halflife · 5 months ago
It is also very choppy on my iPhone 16, not sure why.

Edit - I tried watching the demo, and it seems that on my phone the site is not usable, I can’t play the video, clicking on play does nothing and the page keeps scrolling and jumping

desdenova · 5 months ago
The site layout is completely broken.

Probably vibecoded slop.

u/desdenova

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