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mentos··on Cost of enum-to-string: C++26 reflection vs. the old ways
Yea from my discussion/research with ChatGPT it seems compilation times would suffer.
mentos··on Cost of enum-to-string: C++26 reflection vs. the old ways
Curious to see if Epic Games ever refactors their reflection in Unreal Engine to use C++ 26 reflections or not.
mentos··on A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro
I watched the movie '21' (2008) for free on YouTube yesterday.

The opening of the movie features the MIT campus full of students navigating its grounds and all the promise and status that higher education brings. [0]

Gave me the same sense of sadness realizing how much will fall to AI.

[0] - https://youtu.be/0lsUsWdkk0Y?si=TJl7f_b1RcWcDqF8&t=278

mentos··on Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like
Why is it one or the other and not one THEN the other?
mentos··on Reverse-engineering the 1998 Ultima Online demo server
Same, when I got into UO emulation I used Sphere for a month then this new C# emulator called RunUO was announced haha and I moved over (~ Aug 2001). There's still a forum post from 26 years ago of me remarking about all the brackets { } involved in writing C# code ha. But I remember that spark when I made a change in a sword file and saw it reflected in game. Been chasing and riding that high ever since. Led to a career in software development but more importantly unlocked some of the greatest joy in life I'm sure everyone here can attest to.
mentos··on Reverse-engineering the 1998 Ultima Online demo server
Did you ever get into Ultima Online?

UO was the only Ultima game I played. I got into programming doing Sphere and RunUO emulation as a kid without ever knowing about the long history of Ultima games. Assuming that all of the brilliance of UO was architected in a few year span of development. Now looking back at the series seeing all the foundations is incredible. Overnight success 20 years in the making.

mentos··on A desktop made for one
AGI or bust
mentos··on What did you love about VB6?
Amazing

So many fond memories of that time.

I remember getting VB3 in 300 emails from an AOL chat room.

mentos··on What did you love about VB6?
Fate X 3.0
mentos··on The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy
ha I had this thought a few months ago made me wonder how a model trained on just John Carmack's code would fair.
mentos··on DeepSeek v4
Me neither makes me question now if all of these comments are botted
mentos··on State of Kdenlive
Id say ask AI to ‘describe the problem and solution from a high level. avoid code excerpts if possible.’ Submit as a bug report and mention you have an AI solution for reference if desired.
mentos··on Franklin's bad ads for Apple II clones and the beloved impersonator they depict
Yea I feel like if even one kid was introduced to the world of computing through a Franklin it justifies their existence.
mentos··on Microsoft isn't removing Copilot from Windows 11, it's just renaming it
And since Cortana isn’t a widely used name like Alexa, it spares a whole generation of people named Alexa from that inconvenience.
mentos··on Are We Idiocracy Yet?
The music for that episode still takes me galaxies/dimensions away

https://youtu.be/IYpO3EbvMK4?si=n70N7hi8v29NiZvr

mentos··on Ask HN: Is there any interest in a native Qt/C++ Discord client?
I think Discord performs great

As an Unreal game dev what I’ve wanted to remake in QT is the Epic Games Launcher.

I think Epic may be underway on this now but if you did a good enough job I feel like there may still be a window to pitch them on acquiring your work.

mentos··on From zero to a RAG system: successes and failures
I assume it’s not possible to get the same results by fine tuning a model with the documents instead?
mentos··on Turns out your coffee addiction may be doing your brain a favor
Caffeine -> Suppresses appetite -> Lowers Caloric Intake -> Reduces Cell Turnover -> Prevents Dementia ?
mentos··on A pig's brain has been frozen with its cellular activity locked in place
Absolutely not sounds like a be careful what you wish for Black Mirror episode where you wake up trapped in some simulation you can’t break free from but it’s ok because you signed on the dotted line to donate your mind and body to science.
mentos··on After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes
What are we going to do about software for critical infrastructure in the coming decade?

Feels inevitable that code for aviation will slowly rot from the same forces at play but with lethal results.

mentos··on Global warming has accelerated significantly
What if global warming is beneficial to keep the next ice age at bay?
mentos··on Microgpt
Curious if you could try to explain it. It’s my goal to sit down with it and attempt to understand it intuitively.

Karpathy says if you want to truly understand something then you also have to attempt to teach it to someone else ha

mentos··on What AI coding costs you
>> That deep, focused, creative problem-solving where hours disappear and you emerge with something you built and understand.

Yea but for how long? Go back and read any code you wrote a year ago and realize it could have been AI that wrote it.

mentos··on Gamedate – A site to revive dead multiplayer games
Ha funny I had a similar idea I was calling ‘GameFlock’ but game date is much better.

To the creators I think there is something here worth continuing to push and try to find traction. As a game developer this is just a matchmaking algorithm with a week to month long wait time :)

My plan was to try to prime the pump with a few popular games and reaching out to existing communities to make them aware and possibly help organize the software/tools to help onboard new players.

For example Ultima Online has Outlands. Tribes2 has a popular discord that arranges matches. I imagine WoW classic and I know C&C Generals have active communities on Discord and I think they’d be willing to work with you to help prime the pump.

Then once you’ve got that critical mass of usage hope that players will participate in other games outside their main passion to make other game dates a success.

mentos··on Automatic Programming
I believe the future of programming will be specs so I’m curious to ask you as someone who operates this way already, are there any public specs you could point to worth learning from that you revere? I’m thinking the same way past generations were referred to John Carmack’s Quake code next generations will celebrate great specs.
mentos··on Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant
What’s the main use case for you or feature with the greatest promise?
mentos··on What Is Clawdbot? (and Why People Are Losing Their Minds over It)
I bought a Mac mini m4 last year to compile UE5 for iOS/iPad. It’s just been sitting around while I do my main dev work on Windows. Been wondering how I might put it to greater use and recently saw the hype around Mac Mini + Clawdbot. It would be fun to think that the Mac Mini unlocks some sweet spot of performance but I’m seeing responses from the Clawdbot developers showing how you can run Clawdbot on AWS’ free tier so guess the mini is not necessary / just a fantasy.
mentos··on Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC
What do you estimate the cost would be to have each tile hand drawn by an artist?

I don't think there are enough artists in the world to achieve this in a reasonable amount of time (1-5 years) and you're probably looking at a $10M cost?

Part of me wonders if you put a kickstarter together if you could raise the funds to have it hand drawn but no way the very artists you hire wouldn't be tempted to use AI themselves.

mentos··on Predicting OpenAI's ad strategy
The pragmatic side of me wonders if there is any way to shape this inevitable future now so we might see a better outcome 20 years.
mentos··on We put Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon
The opening paragraph I thought was the agent prompt haha

> The park rating is climbing. Your flagship coaster is printing money. Guests are happy, for now. But you know what's coming: the inevitable cascade of breakdowns, the trash piling up by the exits, the queue times spiraling out of control.

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