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Why even comment then?

OP explained up front what the tool does

Its like walking by a poster advertising guitar lessons and exclaiming out loud "I don't want guitar lessons!"

That sounds like a premise for a comedy sketch

Its not

At my uni HCI was an optional elective

You're not wrong

In my experience if you want interesting work you need to seek out a more niche domain like systems programming, graphics, computer vision, audio, embedded, AI, GPU programming, robotics, gamedev, etc...

Something that hasn't been streamlined/optimized to death by 1000 other developers

Otherwise its just wiring together APIs, shuffling data around, and wrangling deployments/infra.

I can't read ProgrammerHumor anymore for that reason

Its like every joke is aimed at someone who just took their first CS class

Its because of crazy gamers online

If you even mention the game/studio you work for they might come at you

So what current action are you going to take based on your prediction?

And then your manager is wondering if you're a software engineer why you can't debug it

Tech Tangents did a good video on that recently

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

The idea was you could use the scanner instead of manually typing in programs from magazines

Why does it seem like everyone on the internet is an extreme safety ranger nowadays?

Everything you do must follow the exact best practices and maximum safety protocols

Someone in this very thread is saying OP could die from wearing jeans hiking

Its honestly ridiculous the exaggeration that goes on in internet hobby forums

And the risk acceptance is arbitrary anyway

You can argue that wearing jeans hiking is taking a risk

Then I can 1-up and ask why don't you wear a full 1-piece high-vis yellow suit and wear a helmet at all times whenever you leave your house?

You could get hit by a car?

Why would you take that risk?

I think a project like this is a good idea with the popularity of retro 3d games and "de-makes" now days

Using a modern engine seems overkill

My main takeaway from reading that book was that working in tech in the late 70s was not that different from now days

Just different technology/hardware/timescale

Same workplace problems, personality types, company politics, etc...

Did not expect to find it so relatable in 2024

Ah neat

Great article by the way OP

I know exactly what you mean

I went the other way from webdev to working in games and in my experience it really is as fun/interesting as it sounds, the satisfaction of the work is so much higher and the ceiling/depth of the topic is very high.

Been doing it for 4 years so far and I've never hit a wall of boredom like I did in webdev

Nothing beats coming in to work on monday, opening up the engine editor, seeing the mini world you're working on being rendered, and thinking about what cool feature you'll add next

The edge detection part reminds me a lot of the game Rollerdrome

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1294420/Rollerdrome/

I wonder if they used something like that

I think a lot of people just got burned out on "if err != nil"

That is kind of crazy to donate something to a museum and they just sell it off

You would think there would be a provision that if they ever close you have the option to take it back.

> The Living Computer Museum, it turns out, cost millions, over ten million a year

I don't get how it could cost 10 million / year

I experienced a lot of the benefits mentioned in the comments on this one but rather than an e-bike I just got a cheap used 50cc gas scooter

Its so much easier/faster for doing quick errands around the neighborhood

Taking the car now feels overkill in comparison

Just another option to consider rather than getting a second car

Its interesting to me that a lot of products the R&D comes from some big company

But for at home 3D printers it seemed like it was the hobbyists who did most of the R&D, then the companies came in later

That's a really good point

Those AliExpress clone kits were really popular in the community in the beginning

Ya I've updated the title to consumer to be clearer

Sometimes I spend multiple days debugging and end up only changing one line as a fix

If you need to change something in your DB wouldn't you just have a job running in the background doing the migration and have your application code handle both cases when reading the DB (migrated/unmigrated)?

Ya but say I'm a small business and only have 6 servers for my website

Why do I need to take all 6 offline to do maintenance?

And why _exactly_ is that?

Why does the service need to be taken offline?

I'm not talking about general availability, just wondering why would a whole website need to be shut down to do maintenance?

What is this specific kind of maintenance that cannot be done live?

Why would you need 100K instances

Came across this article randomly

I feel like now I'm going to be listening for this in anything I'm watching

Is that even enforceable?

What's stopping me from selling an appliance that burns down your house?

As long as I claim no responsibility in the fine print