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uncircle commented on Looking back at my transition from Windows to Linux scottrlarson.com/publicat... · Posted by u/trinsic2

jppittma · 5 hours ago

Still a ways to go. I found out part of the reason for my linux bluetooth woes is that a settings in bluetooth called “JustWorks” and “FastConnect” default to off. Like. Why?

As if most linux users who enable bluetooth want it to connect slowly and not work.

Being a bit hyperbolic intentionally but the point still stands

uncircle · 5 hours ago

Funny, I had issues with my adapter where I had to turn BT fast connect off. In computing there is no one-size-fits-all approach.

Windows has its own share of idiosyncrasies. You're just used to them. Bluetooth hardware is terrible, often proprietary and vendors write drivers only for Windows and macOS. What is Linux supposed to do about that?

EDIT: By the way, JustWorks and FastConnect are the official names of two Bluetooth connection techniques. The name is stupid because that's what the marketing people decided to call it, Linux is being consistent so you know what's going on when they're active, and I assume they have their downsides.

uncircle commented on Making games in Go: 3 months without LLMs vs. 3 days with LLMs marianogappa.github.io/so... · Posted by u/maloga

reactordev · 6 hours ago

https://gist.github.com/paulmach/7271283

It’s literally a one-liner of go to create an http server, http.FileServer that points to a directory.

    go run http.go

You shouldn’t have to use npx when the tool at hand is perfectly capable.

uncircle · 5 hours ago

Why write 27 lines of Go (not one line) when you can do

  python -m http.server

And still it is a silly argument because using npx is still less effort than having to write those 27 lines when zero will do. Sure, you dislike Javascript, do whatever you want. No need for pointless pedantry.

uncircle commented on Making games in Go: 3 months without LLMs vs. 3 days with LLMs marianogappa.github.io/so... · Posted by u/maloga

rustystump · 7 hours ago

I have done a decent amount of hobby game dev including completing several games. The comments here i think show a strong lack of real game dev knowledge.

Coding is a hard part of game dev. Coming up with interesting novel mechanics or plays on known genres is rather easy but bringing them to life is hard esp the code. Multiplayer vampire survivors but with giant battletech mech customization. See, very easy. Good luck building that with an LLM.

This uses well known card games as the mechanics which is about as interesting as snake games. This is not a knock at the op. But it is clear many people here havent done much game dev from the comments.

uncircle · 6 hours ago

> Coding is a hard part of game dev. Coming up with interesting novel mechanics or plays on known genres is rather easy but bringing them to life is hard esp the code. Multiplayer vampire survivors but with giant battletech mech customization.

I disagree. Sure, it's hard, but it's much harder to come up with novel and fun gameplay ideas. Once you have the fun idea, it's just a matter of splitting the problem in bite-sized chunks and iterating.

There is no methodology when you are faced with the dreaded blank page problem and need to come up with something out of nothing. Maybe going for a walk helps. Maybe taking a heroic dose of drugs. Maybe trying a few different things and see what sticks. It's a problem that has existed for millennia in all creative endeavours; whereas coding is "just" engineering.

I've been learning game dev the past month, had to learn a ton of maths to do anything, which was still easier than the question "what kind of game do I want to make?" which is still, to this day, unanswered. No 3Blue1Brown video is gonna help here, unlike learning how to do vector maths and what the hell is a quaternion.

uncircle commented on Making games in Go: 3 months without LLMs vs. 3 days with LLMs marianogappa.github.io/so... · Posted by u/maloga

yonatan8070 · 7 hours ago

Game companies already collect heaps of data about players, which mechanics they interact with, which mechanics they don't, retention, play time, etc.

I don't think it's much of a stretch to take this data over multiple games, versions, and genres, and train a model to take in a set of mechanics, stats, or even video and audio to rate the different aspects of a game prototype.

I wouldn't even be surprised if I heard this is already being done somewhere.

uncircle · 6 hours ago

> Game companies already collect heaps of data about players, which mechanics they interact with, which mechanics they don't, retention, play time, etc.

Yes, that's how games like Concord get made. Very successful approach to create art based on data about what's popular and focus groups.

uncircle commented on The AI vibe shift is upon us cnn.com/2025/08/22/busine... · Posted by u/lelele

theandrewbailey · 14 hours ago

I work at an ewaste recycling company. I expect we'll see some high end Nvidia Tesla GPUs coming through, just like the Ant Miners (Bitcoin ASICs) a few weeks ago.

uncircle · 14 hours ago

Good place as any to ask: can you give a rough percentage of how much material can be recycled from high-end electronics like GPUs? 5%? 20%?

Is it mostly rarer and more expensive materials like gold/lithium, or is it mainly bulk plastic and aluminium?

uncircle commented on The AI vibe shift is upon us cnn.com/2025/08/22/busine... · Posted by u/lelele

antonvs · 15 hours ago

It's roughly in line with Sturgeon's Law: 90% of everything is crap.

Except in this case, where AI can enable people with absolutely no experience in some area to produce something that at least superficially can seem plausibly viable, it's no surprise that the percentage of crap is even higher.

uncircle · 14 hours ago

This is an interesting point. As LLMs are not intelligent and trained on what already exists, their output is necessarily mediocre if not bad. We simply have found a way to increase the amount of crap in the digital world, to the point that Sturgeon’s 90% will become a very low estimate.

uncircle commented on The AI vibe shift is upon us cnn.com/2025/08/22/busine... · Posted by u/lelele

tra3 · 15 hours ago

I can’t help but feel like the hype generators don’t use the tech themselves. I can contrast this with crypto as a recent example. Sure there were some interesting tidbits there, but I just didn’t see the appeal.

With llms the changes are transformative. I’m trying to learn 3d modeling and chatgpt just gave me a passable sketch for what I had in my mind. So much better than googling for 2 hours. Is the cooling off because industry leadership promised agi last year and it’s not here yet?

uncircle · 14 hours ago

Then there’s me, spending my August learning Blender the manual way like we did before 2022 to escape the dreadscape of AI-infected software engineering, and discovering that, wow, I really enjoy 3D modeling to the point I might at least make it my hobby if not pivot my career to it.

I wonder if I should have listened to the hype generators (which you sound like one) and just have created ‘passable’ models with help of an LLM, instead of exercising my brain, learning something new and getting out of my comfort zone.

At the risk of sounding controversial, I’ll add that I also have a diametrically opposed view of crypto’s utility vs LLM than you, especially in the long-term: one will allow us to free ourselves from the shackles of government policy as censorship expands, the other is a very fancy and very expensive nonsense regurgitator that will pretty much go on to destroy the Internet and any sort of credibility and sense of truth, making people dumber at large scale, while lining the pockets of a lucky few.

uncircle commented on A guide to Gen AI / LLM vibecoding for expert programmers stochasticlifestyle.com/a... · Posted by u/ChrisRackauckas

dijksterhuis · 2 days ago

> You could commit and have to maintain 40% more code for the same pay if you had used an LLM.

that ... doesn't sound like a positive argument for using LLMs... was this sarcasm that totally passed me by?

uncircle · 15 hours ago

It was indeed sarcasm

uncircle commented on Thunderbird Pro August 2025 Update blog.thunderbird.net/2025... · Posted by u/mnmalst

wakawaka28 · 2 days ago

If you want to have your email offline, you must use an application built for that. Thunderbird has its shortcomings but it does actually do the job. Web user interfaces have their place (such as on phones, which make development harder), but there is no replacing the desktop email client.

uncircle · 2 days ago

Fair, though in this day and age I find being offline is quite a rare event, and when it happens (I’m driving in the middle of nowhere), I don’t need my emails.

I’ll give TB another try. Web apps always feel terrible.

uncircle commented on A guide to Gen AI / LLM vibecoding for expert programmers stochasticlifestyle.com/a... · Posted by u/ChrisRackauckas

dijksterhuis · 2 days ago

> mundane grunt work.

this is my favourite kind of work. i can switch my brain off and just do something repetitive for a bit.

boredom is necessary for good ideas.

uncircle · 2 days ago

Yeah, but what about your productivity? You could commit and have to maintain 40% more code for the same pay if you had used an LLM.