stressback (u/stressback)

stressback commented on Quake Engine Indicators fabiensanglard.net/quake_... · Posted by u/liquid_x

I'm old enough to remember all of these. Under the link below, you can still find old screenshots from deathmatch games we played in clans back in 1998. On dial-up modems with pings sometimes exceeding 400ms. It was terrible, but we played anyway :) That unplugged icon would appear when there were connection issues (not lag) and sometimes just for a moment. https://archive.quake.world/clans/ol-team/walki.zip

stressback · 19 days ago

I'm with you on everything except "it was terrible" :) The only problem with 300+ping, at the time, was when those damn LPBs connected

In-match comms between teammates is my favorite memory. The ease of voice chat in MP games since then is underappreciated. Feeling like a dinosaur writing this but...

... before discord/mumble/ventrilo/teamspeak, the only choice to gain an edge in competitive online gaming was to be physically in the same space or team text chat binds. The binds would cover 10-15 common situations so we could communicate while playing.. In hindsight, when things got hectic, reading the team chat text spam hindered us more than helped us. But we had good intentions with those binds and boy we had a blast competing. And let's be real, that's all that really matters.

stressback commented on X's new country-of-origin feature reveals many 'US' accounts to be foreign-run hindustantimes.com/world-... · Posted by u/ourmandave

ceejayoz · 23 days ago

> For comparison Twitter has over 100 million.

We're on a thread about widespread fake/inauthentic users on Twitter right now. I see very little reason to trust those numbers.

stressback · 23 days ago

Is it any more trustworthy than you saying above that "one side has largely left X"?

stressback commented on How I use every Claude Code feature blog.sshh.io/p/how-i-use-... · Posted by u/sshh12

dfabulich · a month ago

> If you’re not already using a CLI-based agent like Claude Code or Codex CLI, you probably should be.

Are the CLI-based agents better (much better?) than the Cursor app? Why?

I like how easy it is to get Cursor to focus a particular piece of code. I select the text and Cmd-L, saying "fix this part, it's broken like this ____."

I haven't really tried a CLI agent; sending snippets of code by CLI sounds really annoying. "Fix login.ts lines 148-160, it's broken like this ___"

stressback · a month ago

Better? Hard to say. Different? Yes. Worth evaluating? Absolutely. Using it for 30 minutes will answer your question better than any reply here. I think you'll answer your own question quickly.

I've been coding seriously for about 15 years. No single tool has changed how I code more than claude code and I'm including non-"AI" tooling/services. This sounds like I'm shilling but I am not affiliated. It's played a large part in injecting my passion back into building stuff.

stressback commented on Serverless Horrors serverlesshorrors.com/... · Posted by u/operator-name

stressback · 3 months ago

I read a lot of the posts at the little blog here and, uh, every single one sounds like a complete amateur making a cloud configuration mistake. I haven't found one that is the provider's fault or the fault of "serverless"

I would be embarrassed to put my name on these posts admitting I can't handle my configs while blaming everyone but myself.

Serverless isn't a horror, serverlesshorrors poster. You are the horror. You suck at architecting efficient & secure systems using this technology, you suck at handling cloud spend, and you suck at taking responsibility when your "bug" causes a 10,000x discrepancy between your expected cost and your actual bill.

Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it sucks