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geuis commented on Traps to Developers   qouteall.fun/qouteall-blo... · Posted by u/qouteall
nextworddev · 8 days ago
The biggest trap of all: building things that no one, including yourself, wants
geuis · 8 days ago
I would agree on the self part. But otherwise this point of view is distinctly in contrast with the recently republished "work on things that don't scale" article from pg.

Also as a corollary, I was thinking about games from the 90s I spent hundreds of hours playing back then earlier today. Bolo and Escape Velocity in particular come to mind. They were "simple" games with immense depth. But after some fruitless searching, all I find is scattered questions and comments over the last few years looking for modern equivalents are a handful of recommendations for games that are no longer developed or are defunct.

There's clear prior evidence of both success and lack of modern supply. Want to have a minimally minor successful game with established nostalgic audience? Make a new version of EV that is that game at its core. Don't be fancy, just do the thing Ambrosia did. Expand from there.

The simple model is look forward, and also look back. The first itch is small. For yourself. Find some others with a similar itch.

The hard part is pushing your idea into something more people want. That's where pg's 2013 article comes in to play. That's the hard part.

But that leaves a huge space between 0 and 10 where someone can find a successful niche.

Hell I've thought about trying to make a modern EV. It's tantalizing. But I've never made a game in my life. Ok I've rewritten Game of Life a lot. Good concept to try new ideas with. But the amount of work for a solo dev trying to recapture that original magic with no background in game dev is daunting.

geuis commented on Telo MT1   telotrucks.com/... · Posted by u/turtleyacht
geuis · 23 days ago
Who is the target market here?

* Purely subjective opinion: It's ugly as hell. The front of vehicles isn't just for engines, it's also for aerodynamics.

* It's crazy expensive.

* The bed looks too short to be practically useful.

* The wheels look comically small.

* The ground clearance doesn't seem to make it useful for more than suburban and urban road environments.

geuis commented on Sleep all comes down to the mitochondria   science.org/content/blog-... · Posted by u/A_D_E_P_T
amelius · a month ago
Something I thought was just an internet tale: mitochondria are close descendants of bacteria, and so taking antibiotics will potentially harm them. But turns out this is actually rooted in science ...
geuis · a month ago
Be very careful when stating this kind of thing. It's extremely easy for people that already have a hard time understanding science and medicine to take this as evidence to support their anti science and anti vaccine/medicine.

Different antibiotics target different cellular mechanisms depending on what the microorganism is. And almost none of them target the mitochondria at all.

Yes the common hypothesis is that mitochondria were originally a symbiotic separate organism that joined the cells that eventually became the origin of most complex life.

Remember that if that's what happened, it was over 3 billion years ago. After that immense amount of time, mitochondria aren't really separate organisms anymore. They're deeply entwined into every complex organism in the world. Very unlikely for common antibiotics to have any effect on them at all.

geuis commented on Congress moves to reject bulk of White House's proposed NASA cuts   arstechnica.com/space/202... · Posted by u/DocFeind
geuis · a month ago
It's refreshing that given everything else happening, Congress is still at least functional at this level.

Should be noted that many of NASA's programs are situated in predominantly conservative areas of the country. Brings lots of jobs and resources to the local economies.

geuis commented on Supreme Court's ruling practically wipes out free speech for sex writing online   ellsberg.substack.com/p/f... · Posted by u/macawfish
geuis · a month ago
I can't take a post seriously when it uses AI images. How do I know the rest of the content isn't AI slop?
geuis commented on Everything around LLMs is still magical and wishful thinking   dmitriid.com/everything-a... · Posted by u/troupo
standardUser · 2 months ago
> Like most skeptics and critics, I use these tools daily. And 50% of the time they work 50% of the time.

I use LLMs nearly every day for my job as of about a year ago and they solve my issues about 90% of the time. I have a very hard time deciphering if these types of complaints about AI/LLMs should be taken seriously, or written off as irrational use patterns by some users. For example, I have never fed an LLM a codebase and expected it to work magic. I ask direct, specific questions at the edge of my understanding (not beyond it) and apply the solutions in a deliberate and testable manner.

if you're taking a different approach and complaining about LLMs, I'm inclined to think you're doing it wrong. And missing out on the actual magic, which is small, useful and fairly consistent.

geuis · 2 months ago
Hmm. Ok so you're basically quoting the line from The Weatherman "60% of the time, it works all of the time."

I also use gpt and Claude daily via cursor.

Gpt o3 is kinda good for general knowledge searches. Claude falls down all the time, but I've noticed that while it's spending tokens to jerk itself off, quite often it happens on the actual issue going on with out recognizing it.

Models are dumb and more idiot than idiot savant, but sometimes they hit on relevant items. As long as you personally have an idea of what you need to happen and treat LLMs like rat terriers in a farm field, you can utilize them properly

geuis commented on Whole-genome ancestry of an Old Kingdom Egyptian   nature.com/articles/s4158... · Posted by u/A_D_E_P_T
prmph · 2 months ago
And where did the Mesopotamians move from? If you don't see the political context of the science then too bad.

Like, you know people till now take pride in the exploits and culture of their supposed ancient ancestors, never mind that for the the vast majority of people, there is no simple and direct line from some ancient illustrious people to them.

The latent political context is the assumption driving the research, that Egyptian culture had to have come from somewhere else, so let's go look for it. You see the same thing when evidence of cultural achievements elsewhere in Africa is unearthed.

Of course you will find a somewhere else, no matter how tenuous the connection, in which case my first sentence above comes into play: let's keep finding the somewhere else until we all get back to Africa, supposedly the birthplace of it all.

EDIT: Since this is being misunderstood, this what I actually mean: For some reason, this finding somewhere else is not applied consistently. Either we should keep finding the somewhere else for all cultures for as far back as we can, or else stop with this nonsensical subtext that just because a culture has some roots from elsewhere, so therefore it cannot have made innovations by itself beyond its supposed origins.

geuis · 2 months ago
Stop downvoting this comment please.
geuis commented on I Dropped the Production Database on a Friday Night   vince.beehiiv.com/p/how-i... · Posted by u/vincejos
geuis · 2 months ago
Owww. The first or second paragraph of this made me cringe

"I had just finished what I thought was a clean migration: moving our entire database from our old setup to PostgreSQL with Supabase" ... on a Friday.

Never do prod deploys on a Friday unless you have at least 2 people available through the weekend to resolve issues.

The rest of this post isn't much better.

And come one. Don't do major changes to a prod db when critical team members have signed off for a weekend or holiday.

I'm actually quite happy OP posted their experiences. But it really needs to be a learning experience. We've all done something like this and I bet a lot of us old timers have posted similar stories.

geuis commented on Cursor goes rogue in YOLO mode, deletes itself and everything else   machine.news/it-felt-like... · Posted by u/LargeLingoMod
SV_BubbleTime · 2 months ago
My short list of agent allowed commands...

      "Bash(ceedling:*)",
      "Bash(find:*)",
      "Bash(grep:*)",
      "Bash(ls:*)",
      "Bash(rg:*)",
      "WebFetch(domain:docs.anthropic.com)",
      "Bash(git checkout:*)",
      "Bash(gcc:*)",
      "Bash(git add:*)",
      "Bash(mkdir:*)"
I'm OK for now!

geuis · 2 months ago
There a place in Cursor settings to add these? Just poked around and not seeing one.

u/geuis

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