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BikiniPrince··on Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software
It’s a little simpler than that. The games that use this engine have poor sales and no one is even buying idTech. There isn’t any reason to keep them around when Microsoft is losing 64 cents on every dollar. They chopped every unprofitable studio and cast several to their own budgets. Presumably they are going to sell off the mediocre studios and IP.
BikiniPrince··on OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router
Gl.Inet ships with their openwrt version. I have the last version and it can be flashed to vanilla openwrt or one a high speed branch. It’s been good and fast. I don’t need wifi 7 yet so I have time.
BikiniPrince··on Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass
Also his complaints about morale compass failure are largely activism goals. Hard to make money when you waste it.

I tell employers I’m clearly a mercenary and I am only here for the money. I do great work, but I’ve been compensated well.

BikiniPrince··on GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks
This is a joke right? I wouldn't install this in a sandbox.
BikiniPrince··on GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks
You have to forgive the GLM bot. It's not very good.
BikiniPrince··on Ask HN: Is "no source code was copied" still a sufficient copyright defense?
I looked at those screen shots. The language is similar but it’s not verbatim. The is itself is just the usage of the same framework. Business logic can’t be copyrighted. Is it too close? I agree. Does it cross the legal test. I wouldn’t waste my money on a court battle.
BikiniPrince··on Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
Eh, chatGpt coming out with a new garbage model. Great.

Fable had some really good cross project awareness. My only complaint is it backported a feature to my test application and then they killed it before I could finish debugging it. The new model behavior in the replacement application was 100% superior. I just didn't know it was going to start porting fixes so readily between projects. Awareness in the new model is amazing and the feedback I've had from other developers is the same. It feels like ultrathink with double the agents of xhigh effort. The real issue is they shipped it with incomplete guardrails and someone likely found an exploit.

BikiniPrince··on Halt and Catch Fire
No they are absolutely everywhere. Most people here don’t even know what HCF. This article is nonsense and paints it like some euphemism applied to modern coding. HCF was a joke and no actual implementation was proven. Fucking bots.
BikiniPrince··on About 10% of AMC movie showings sell zero tickets. This site finds them
It’s guaranteed to start 20 minutes or more after the listed start time. I get my seat and I don’t even show up early.
BikiniPrince··on Empty Screenings – Finds AMC movie screenings with few or no tickets sold
Quite a bit in the early showing for good movies. Project Heil Mary has continued to sell all the good seats out and I’m bad at planning ahead for entertainment. It usually isn’t obvious because most of the movies have been atrocious in the last several years.
BikiniPrince··on Can you stop beans from making you gassy?
Do you notice any flavor profile changes?
BikiniPrince··on After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes
That explains why it kept changing the estimated received date. It was doing weird things.
BikiniPrince··on After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes
It’s part of the change management process that all code is reviewed. This is needed as per several different compliance agreements. What’s probably happened is poor peer reviews from other junior engineers gets missed. That’s a lot of code reviews to send upstream.
BikiniPrince··on Global warming has accelerated significantly
The wild fires are entirely because of lack of management. This is why insurance companies noped out. The crazies believe it is an environment impact to manage the lands and then it all burns down. At least someone can blame the fires on something else. I guess it’s a win?
BikiniPrince··on Show HN: Respectify – A comment moderator that teaches people to argue better
Such wrong think! I think any forum that adopts this would be worth studying for simply helping to create a score to rate how soulless a site is. Maybe they could make the inverse that would rewrite whole forums for happy thoughts. Rose tinted glasses client? The name needs work.
BikiniPrince··on Show HN: Respectify – A comment moderator that teaches people to argue better
You found a loop hole! Need to patch that out!
BikiniPrince··on Show HN: Respectify – A comment moderator that teaches people to argue better
These types of tools always show the authors bias. It’s a good strategy to quickly move on when found.
BikiniPrince··on The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection
My friends kids have access to his home servers. They don’t get to roam on the internet. It’s shocking to think parents might structure their child’s lives.
BikiniPrince··on Micropayments as a reality check for news sites
I price most news sites at negative value.
BikiniPrince··on Claude Sonnet 4.6
I bullet pointed out some ideas on cobbling together existing tooling for identification of misleading results. Like artificially elevating a particular node of data that you want the llm to use. I have a theory that in some of these cases the data presented is intentionally incorrect. Another theory in relation to that is tonality abruptly changes in the response. All theory and no work. It would also be interesting to compare multiple responses and filter through another agent.
BikiniPrince··on An AI agent published a hit piece on me – more things have happened
If you find a nice pure tech feed I would jump for joy. Too many places have been overtaken with nonsense.
BikiniPrince··on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
We deleted it from someplace. It's not our fault we have more places!
BikiniPrince··on Discord Alternatives, Ranked
I spent 10 minutes on it this morning. I would rather go with ts6.
BikiniPrince··on Eight European countries face 10% tariff for opposing US control of Greenland
Sure if they want to chase away their tax revenue.
BikiniPrince··on Canada slashes 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs to 6%
Their train industry was built on ripping off companies they forced into poor agreements. They have wrecked industries with technological theft. I suppose it’s lawful from the CCP perspective.
BikiniPrince··on Why senior engineers let bad projects fail
That’s crazy sauce. I don’t lose.

The one time a project was heading to failure I went to the VP and explained the sabotage I was seeing. This was a very lucrative contract and failure was not an option.

He pulled that manager and his team so far off they had a new office on the moon. They were pulling non-sense like submitting the pseudo code I white boarded as a commit.

Two weeks in and I’m still explaining to them the plan.

Despite the setback I pulled off a mammoth project and strategically moved in devs to areas where they could succeed. If they slowed me down they were given the boot.

Success sometimes just takes drive.

BikiniPrince··on Why senior engineers let bad projects fail
Reminds me of one of my managers who said, “Sometimes, you have to let people fail.” It does take a lot of energy to keep some people afloat. My hope has always been they learn to swim as it were, but sometimes it’s just effort better spent elsewhere.

I know one project did not have my involvement and couldn’t have succeeded without my knowledge. They were so bad they would work in questions casually to their actual work.

I started avoiding all of them when I found out management had been dumping on my team and praising theirs. It’s just such a slap in the face because they could not have done well and their implementation was horrible.

BikiniPrince··on Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?
I always tell people to find a meetup group and then you will run into people with similar interests. I’ve made some good friends that way.
BikiniPrince··on Bose has released API docs and opened the API for its EoL SoundTouch speakers
Repairing the QC 35 was not difficult. It’s just a shame it requires soldering on a new battery pack. Even the drivers are replaceable with that little tool. A few years ago I gave mine an affordable overhaul with a new battery and replaced the earmuffs. Right as rain now.
BikiniPrince··on Bose has released API docs and opened the API for its EoL SoundTouch speakers
Thee noise cancellation was unmatched several years ago. I picked up mine because we were spending hours in the data center. Suddenly we could work and take calls in that hell. I still have those, but the AirPods have taken their place on flights. It’s just less to bring with me.
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