Seems pretty cool. You should chuck a screenshot or two up at the top of the README
Readit Newsomniscient_oce commented on Leaving Rust gamedev after 3 years loglog.games/blog/leaving... · Posted by u/darthdeus
That makes no difference if the game is boring.
You could say that about any game engine. Are you suggesting Bevy should try and not optimise performance because perf and fun are not correlated?
omniscient_oce commented on How do neural networks learn? phys.org/news/2024-03-neu... · Posted by u/wglb
In short we do know how NNs learn and work, but not what NNs learn. The corollary being we don't understand where do the emergent properties come from?
I'm not an expert by any means but there are some papers exploring this using category theory.
omniscient_oce commented on Hoppscotch desktop application hoppscotch.com/blog/intro... · Posted by u/0xedb
It has a clean UI and can be self-hosted.
The downside is that - Only one workspace is available when offline.
- You can't point your Workspace data to a specific directory like bruno does, and manage the data like git or other clouds.
- Self-hosting login is not possible in the desktop app.
- Cannot save specific responses like postman.
- Can't create documentation for a folder/request.
Now that we've just launched, I think we have a lot to look forward to. I hope it evolves to not force cloud synchronization like postman and insomnia, and to be free to use offline.
It's amazing how powerful and clean Postman and Insomnia both felt when they were young and followed such similar trajectories into bloat and UI-unfriendliness hell.
omniscient_oce commented on My personal C coding style as of late 2023 nullprogram.com/blog/2023... · Posted by u/zdw
Can anyone explain the use of ptrdiff_t instead of size_t (he has typedef'd "size" for ptrdiff_t) The macros are wrapping _Alignof and sizeof both which can't return non-zero numbers I thought.
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omniscient_oce commented on I Will Not Eat the Bugs (2021) astralcodexten.substack.c... · Posted by u/mutant_glofish
> "First, people keep trying to say you should eat insects to save the environment / help animals / be vegan. I don't want to do this. That makes it very convenient that it also seems to be potentially morally wrong."
Oh, please. This post reads like a very smart person going to great lengths to justify why they don't want to try eating a new thing. Like, no one is making you my dude. You don't need to flex a Shakespeare quote to justify not wanting to eat something.
I don't eat shellfish because they look gross, no one needs to read an essay about it. That's my one beef (hehe) with the rational crowd, and I love 'em to death, but dude you don't need a dive into philosophy to justify why you like pizza better than milkshakes. Let life have some whimsy in it.
Also, this is the third time this week I've heard people fretting about being "forced" to eat bugs. It is a common alt-right conspiracy theory that "the left" is going to force everyone to eat bugs. So there are endless memes about how they should courageously eat even more meat to "own the libs". At this point I genuinely wonder if this isn't just an extremely effective marketing campaign by the meat industry to turn meat consumption into a form of protest, right when meat is getting almost unbelievably expensive. My dudes, it ain't "the libs" jacking up the prices of meat and bringing in record profits.
So when I see someone fretting about eating bugs I have a hard time taking it too seriously. If you don't want to, then don't.
From a financial utility, whey protein is expensive, and not everyone can consume it. The veg alternatives taste like chalk, so I know quite a few athletes who are quite interested in high protein insect flour. If you could spend half the price for a better tasting shake...
I don't really understand why these kind of posts make it to the top page of HackerNews. Perhaps there is a bigger audience for this than you would think?
omniscient_oce commented on Show HN: Poser – Posix SERvices C framework zirias.github.io/poser/... · Posted by u/kazinator
This looks really useful!
I've just started working on a (mostly pedagogical) little project making a chat server/client in C and started reading through Beej's guide to networking which is great for the fundamentals but I was struggling with deciding how I want to structure my larger code in terms of sockets, clients, multiplexing, etc. I may just end up using your library if it fits (after reading through it some more), else take inspiration from it at the very least.
omniscient_oce commented on Single File Elixir Scripts fly.io/phoenix-files/sing... · Posted by u/clessg
I've only just dipped my toes into Elixir and Phoenix but so far really loving it. I feel like I've noticed it popping up on here way more often lately or is that just the ol' frequency bias kicking in?
I'm blown away.
I'm a very senior engineer. I have extremely high standards. I know a lot of technologies top to bottom. And I have immediately found it insanely helpful.
There are a few hugely valuable use-cases for me. The first is writing tests. Agentic AI right now is shockingly good at figuring out what your code should be doing and writing tests that test the behavior, all the verbose and annoying edge cases, and even find bugs in your implementation. It's goddamn near magic. That's not to say they're perfect, sometimes they do get confused and assume your implementation is correct when the test doesn't pass. Sometimes they do misunderstand. But the overall improvement for me has been enormous. They also generally write good tests. Refactoring never breaks the tests they've written unless an actually-visible behavior change has happened.
Second is trying to figure out the answer to really thorny problems. I'm extremely good at doing this, but agentic AI has made me faster. It can prototype approaches that I want to try faster than I can and we can see if the approach works extremely quickly. I might not use the code it wrote, but the ability to rapidly give four or five alternatives a go versus the one or two I would personally have time for is massively helpful. I've even had them find approaches I never would have considered that ended up being my clear favorite. They're not always better than me at choosing which one to go with (I often ask for their summarized recommendations), but the sheer speed in which they get them done is a godsend.
Finding the source of tricky bugs is one more case that they excel in. I can do this work too, but again, they're faster. They'll write multiple tests with debugging output that leads to the answer in barely more time than it takes to just run the tests. A bug that might take me an hour to track down can take them five minutes. Even for a really hard one, I can set them on the task while I go make coffee or take the dog for a walk. They'll figure it out while I'm gone.
Lastly, when I have some spare time, I love asking them what areas of a code base could use some love and what are the biggest reward-to-effort ratio wins. They are great at finding those places and helping me constantly make things just a little bit better, one place at a time.
Overall, it's like having an extremely eager and prolific junior assistant with an encyclopedic brain. You have to give them guidance, you have to take some of their work with a grain of salt, but used correctly they're insanely productive. And as a bonus, unlike a real human, you don't ever have to feel guilty about throwing away their work if it doesn't make the grade.