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Seems well-designed. Great job! Sorry you didn't hear back from the comittee.

The interesting bit about this physical experiment is that the water in the cup never starts at 100 celsius. That the act of pouring significantly reduces temperature is well-documented, so in some sense the LLM output is surprising.

They're entertainment, yes, but really not the same. I'll look for a specific game to play, I'll look for a specific movie to watch, and I won't play a game when I want to watch a movie.

Really think it’s entirely wrong to label someone as a bully for not conforming to current, perhaps bad, practices.

I use rust for gamedev (not bevy). I'm unlikely to consider anything else exactly because of stability and throughput.

Just as a thought experiment: Governments could mandate banks to prevent their customers from spending beyond what'll go to rent/mortgage. It'd certainly prevent overdue or missed payments. Would that be a net positive, or would that prevent or slow people from learning fiscal responsibility and the benefits that go along with that?

- Mad Max is not a great example of anarchy, as the last couple of movies featured a government led by an autocrat (haven't seen the other ones)

- The Play Store being bad does not mean the App Store is not also bad

- How do you know most of the world likes the authority of the App Store? Is it not more likely that most of the world are ignorant of its rules, and assumes a free and open marketplace?

Maybe it's not a great idea to allow a company to decide what software users can run, and I am inclined to believe that Murphy's Law will apply. Ultimately, software is freedom of speech.

Interesting tool. I do something similar when I think it's important to focus on just getting the words out: I close my eyes, or look away from the screen.

AI is already tricking people -- images, text, video, voice. As these tools become more advanced, so does the cost of verification.

Based on your workflow, I think there is considerable risk of you being wooed by AI into believing what you are doing is worthwhile. The plan AI offers is coherent, specific, it sounds good. It's validation. Sugar.

I think most programmers would agree that thinking represents the majority of our time. Writing code is no different than writing down your thoughts, and that process in itself can be immensely productive -- it can spark new ideas, grant epiphanies, or take you in an entirely new direction altogether. Writing is thinking.

I think an over-reliance, or perhaps any reliance, on AI tools will turn good programmers into slop factories, as they consistently skip over a vital part of creating high-quality software.

You could argue that the prompt == code, but then you are adding an intermediary step between you and the code, and something will always be lost in translation.

I'd say just write the code.

It's pretty fun, but not in any way part of the survivor-genre.

That entirely depends on the game. Recent example is Risk of Rain 2, which had frequent hitches caused by the C# garbage collector. Someone made a mod to fix this by delaying the garbage collection until the next load-screen — in other words, controlled memory leakage.

The developers of Risk of Rain 2 were undoubtedly aware of the hitches, but it interfered with their vision of the game, and affected users were left with a degraded experience.

It's worth mentioning that when game developers scope of the features of their game, available tech informs the feature-set. Faster languages thus enable a wider feature-set.

From experience, I can say that there are many games with transferable skills.

At the top of my list is Factorio, and second is actually World of Warcraft.

More generally, there is a lot to learn from game design that you can learn through playing. The question of how to make taxes palatable, for example, is really no different to the question of how to challenge a player without frustrating them.

I believe the value of games are poorly understood, partially because chess, a game that has nothing left to teach us, muddies the conversation

Can't release unfinished/broken games, when what they're releasing are not games at all.

> There are about 30-35 quality titles being put out on steam alone, every day of the week, weekends included.

Absolutely not. The vast majority of games released on Steam are not good. You can verify this yourself by looking at new releases. Maybe one or two out the ones released the 19th of June are _potentially_ interesting.

Quality, defined as well-produced games in unsaturated niches, is really the only thing that matters, but marketing can be a multiplier of that quality. I've seen many games that blame marketing for their failure, and I have seen many games that fail despite their marketing. Usually those games are not compelling, and reviews will confirm this. It's rare to see games fail despite their high quality.

What is government for, if not for solving the issues of the populace it is governing?

I choose supporting laws that allow devices to be more open, so that those devices can better serve their users.

Just because many users are currently comfy in their Apple bubble does not mean that the bubble should be allowed to exist.

While you responded factually, it feels disingenuous to portray an Apple computer as a capable gaming device. It is not. Not for the newest, not for the best. Not for the classics, not for the indies. Streaming has failed to impress the market, and the Apple Arcade remains an unfulfilling curiosity for those who think of gamers as a bit stinky and unproductive.

Anectotal, but my current engine of choice does not support Metal. As OpenGL is deprecated on MacOS, I do not wish to release my games there.

Supporting open APIs does matter, moreso if «everyone» can get onboard, allowing for momentum to grow in service of continued support and development.

Pointlessly injecting a remark relating the birthday of a project to the "great day" of 4th of July is absolutely america-centric and presumptive. By extension I view it as a definite case of nationalism.

It's frustrating to see so much nationalism in this day and age.

You can't be serious. By definition exoplanets are planets outside our solar system.

If you want to be romantic about it, feel free to consider the hunt for exoplanets a challenge to confirm that there is no planet equal to Earth.

Just echoing what others are saying, no, we called them Intel chips/CPUs. What I don't get is why people go along with it. I personally prefer not being a miniature speakerphone for the marketing department at Apple.