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I’m not the droid you’re looking for, move along.
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reactordev··on 2004 RuneScape fit a multiplayer RPG into 56k dial-up
I no longer have the time to invest
reactordev··on 2004 RuneScape fit a multiplayer RPG into 56k dial-up
Oh Britannia, how you were so amazing before the Tramel/Felucia split.
reactordev··on ravynOS: Pre-alpha open-source OS based on Darwin, FreeBSD, Apple open-source
Correct, but to dismiss the NeXT contributions from BSD into modern mac and Darwin would be to dismiss Darwin entirely. Macintosh from the System7 days was a dramatically different beast.
reactordev··on ravynOS: Pre-alpha open-source OS based on Darwin, FreeBSD, Apple open-source
why do anything? why Linux? why FreeBSD? why Mac at all? Why build your own wind turbine when corporations make large ones? Why build a cyclekart when you own a car? Why workout when everyone's going to die?

With that mindset, everything is useless and nothing has a point. Have I made my point?

reactordev··on ravynOS: Pre-alpha open-source OS based on Darwin, FreeBSD, Apple open-source
a lot of the kernel extensions are closed source proprietary. The core is still open but a lot of what makes modern Mac, Mac, are those kexts.
reactordev··on What I Learned About AI Trust from Reconciling over 100B Transactions
This site scrolls at a snail's pace.
reactordev··on Yen weakens past ¥160 per dollar, eroding intervention gains
FX futures, but yes.
reactordev··on EVE Online moves to Python 3
pre-plex, yes
reactordev··on EVE Online moves to Python 3
It's one guy and 40 alts now
reactordev··on Guess which of these LLM outputs is watermarked
Wow I actually got a 7/10. It was hard to tell at first but there are signs that tipped me off to which one probably had a higher score out of the multiple choice.
reactordev··on OTel isn’t going well
Signoz?

But yes it seemed like OTel was more interested in being a spec than a tool.

reactordev··on Go 1.27
Oooof… well played go team, well played.
reactordev··on GIMP Development Update
At no point did I mention myself or what programs I know.
reactordev··on GIMP Development Update
>"I don't get everyone's complaints about the interface. I've been using it for years..."

That's the problem, you have a bias because you've already learned the tribal knowledge. Having to learn it from scratch, GIMP's UI is sorely lacking. While it does have the tools, the organization of them is all over the place.

reactordev··on The AI Situation in Software Development
I think you misread. I never said not to learn it. In fact, for your entry level I would recommend testing for it. At senior+ it should be more about software architecture, design patterns, and distributed systems.
reactordev··on The AI Situation in Software Development
There are still companies who refuse to believe this and still put Senior+ devs through hell during an interview process with junior level algorithm memorization.

In all aspects there will be dinosaurs and deniers and there will be embracers.

reactordev··on AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?
they won't even need that as agents talk to their own lanes in some Linear project management workflow that your sales team agents are connected. The entire system is going to end up agentic and even the CEO will be out of work unless they are founders and owners of the company. We'll all have our own business this way. Or it all collapses. Time will tell.
reactordev··on How we used to get jobs: A newspaper classifieds story
Fourth unpopular take: without it Silicon Valley wouldn’t exist.
reactordev··on More than 10 firms pay up to $100k a month for access to Truth Social posts
Reinforced by the Parnas', Lambert's, Kirk's and Loomer's on TikTok. Ready to vote in the next midterms. Thinking 9/11 was an inside job...
reactordev··on 50k Boat Names
I bought a sailboat in 2022 and sailed all over the caribbean from florida from 2022-2025. I came across a lot of funny boat names.

My boat was not among them sadly as I was serious about mine.

Fishizzle, Boat Float, Unsinkable II, Knot for Sail, etc.

reactordev··on Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386
Microsoft was big enough as they were already selling DOS and DOS software.
reactordev··on Making difficulty curves in games
Experience curves are just as important.

However, this article reminded me of this meme

https://imgur.com/gallery/eve-online-learning-curve-jj16ThL

reactordev··on Don't use your phone while you poop
On the other hand, it's the only time I have a few minutes to actually check my phone...
reactordev··on Show HN: Wyzer Programming Language
wait what? You're joking. Some rando just picked a fight, walked it back, then gave you his HN account?
reactordev··on Another Corner of the Internet Has Been Ruined
It’s also entirely ok to manage something for a long period of time and reach your end. No shame in walking away.
reactordev··on Show HN: Wyzer Programming Language
https://github.com/Wyzer-Lang/wyzer#3-control-flow

Is mut a thing? looks like rust.

reactordev··on Another Corner of the Internet Has Been Ruined
for one-shots and non-developers, it was useful. Simply because you found no utility in it doesn't mean there isn't one.
reactordev··on US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects
This is the word smithing they are known for. By labeling “common sense” means anyone who argues against it is against “common sense” because every argument is a strawman argument.
reactordev··on Cyberpunk Video Games
I think you are taking things way to literally. Walking around in GTA and in RDR2 was a NN trained in bipedal locomotion (Dynamic Motion Synthesis - NaturalMotion Euphoria). LLM api's are how many are going to use the GPT's without wasting 6GB of VRAM on your GPU for a language model. No, there won't be some novel local neural net powering your next video game but there will be a neural net trained on the games narrative to provide you a more robust experience.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyP5Pl7pzG0

People are finding ways to include it in existing games but its going to take some time for the game devs themselves to release the games where narrative and dialog are more free-flowing.

Outside of that, there's also a huge huge opportunity in the TRELLIS.2 / Pixal3D space for quickly generating props and 3D assets.

I don't disagree with the points you made, I just never made it clear that upcoming games that utilize AI like this are not exactly how you would picture it. Still, expect some deeper integrations in the years to come.

reactordev··on Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects
Now you’re getting into the realm of old SOA… where data exchanges are just as stochastic as services on the pipe.
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