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I often refer to this as word salad and have for the moment written some guardrails as an attempt to keep claude/gpt/whatever from outputting this sort of text. Claude especially likes to ignore the guardrails though. I've tried a few skills as well but it too easily will avoid those as well.

It reminds me of some TV show or Hollywood movie where the nerdy tech person says gibberish and the word "mainframe" a few times, and the main characters have to say "In English please?" I feel like the main character when reading some of these AI-isms.

thanks for trying, it could be a lot of requests hitting it? I haven't seen that issue yet but if you got any kind of console error feel free to share it with me and I can take a look!

Thanks, I used Phaser to build it. The nebula textures are exported from art I did in Photoshop using some cloud brushes from brusheezy. It has a few dozen color palettes that it chooses at random that are used for the connections and the final nebula art.

Super kind of you, thank you.

Good to hear! Looking forward to the updates. Thanks for making a simple, non-invasive app.

I've found the posture and blink reminders have been really helpful. I do find myself having to postpone the breaks because they like to pop up when I'm in deep focus. Thing is, I never really mark when I'm in deep focus because I honestly don't realize it when it happens, so it's hard to provide a constructive solution for this app around that.

I haven't seen it in the settings but some "drink water" reminders or just customizing those would be great.

I’m working on Starglyphs, a Euler path constellation tracing game. Mostly I just like pretty space things. Hoping to get it out on desktop and mobile apps soon.

https://starglyphs.com

Yep. Maybe there's some additional configuration I'm missing to mitigate the delay but clients don't seem to want to deal with the delay with STT -> Prompt -> TTS. They'll happily suffer occasional quality issues if the conversation feels "real".

for video game assets this is massive.

Storefronts like Steam require disclosing use of AI assets for art. In most indie dev spaces, devs are scolded for using AI art in their games. I wonder if this perspective will change in a few years.

Too often I read something frontend related on HN and am disappointed to find it’s full of hyperbole and/or just a lack of experience or knowledge at what having an actual job writing code on the frontend of a real software customers pay for is like. And half the time their “solution” is swapping out some predetermined mashup stack (usually nonsensical or worse, thrown together by a first year grad) for some other trendy tech.

It feels like the jquery years all over again when the landscape was filled with frontend influencers peddling their speaking services to talk about their naming semantics for css or whatever.

Not saying complexity doesn’t exist and maybe some of it isn’t needed but a surface level blog post that conveniently smooths over all the nuances and problems developers encounter in the real world doesnt do much for me. At worse it just adds to the pile of misinformation about front end in non toy applications.

Many designers stuck with Photoshop sadly. Back when I did agency work it was absolutely normal to get PSDs of mockups.

These people existed in the Apollo era just not on a website. We weren't exactly living in a utopia then either and you'd have difficulty convincing some folks to be excited about space exploration then too.

Some people feel their outlook on the world takes precedence. And they'll shit in other people's celebrations to get their point across. Best to downvote or ignore them and embrace what nuance you can find.

Perhaps I just haven't noticed them, which is unfortunate. I have noticed that I often have to double or triple click to open a ticket on my board. There's no reason for such a core functionality to be that slow.

No, thus why I said it could be boiled down to.

However as I say in another comment, most of my family are educators so these experiences represent what they've been dealing with for the past 20+ years.

before laptops there were bad teachers who used books to teach the kids instead of actually teaching - as in: "read chapter 7, there will be a test!"

I think both could be true and I'm not excluding either. The issues I've heard almost always come down to entitled parents who don't want to raise their own kids but have the schools do it for them, then complain when their kid brings home a disciplinary document for not being able to follow simple conduct rules in class.

I can definitely see the push for using technology in schools - what you're saying makes sense.

It's not the individual teachers I blame. I come from a family of educators and a lot of the crappy enforcement falls to the district level, who just want to make the parents happy. There is literally no reason a child needs a cell phone in class. Computers are great. Lock them down. There is nothing unreasonable about this.

This article tries to put the blame on laptops when the real culprit could simply be boiled down to a failure in classroom management and lack of enforcement against cell phones in class, whiny parents who rage when their children are told they can't be playing video games in class, and teachers who are using computer programs to teach the kids instead of actually teaching.

Ban phones from class. For real. Lock down websites that are irrelevant to the subjects being taught. These are all technically possible with the tools schools have. Even Youtube. If something is important enough to show the class, the teacher can show it on their larger screen.

Half these issues can be solved by teaching kids how to use technology meaningfully instead of using it as a babysitter.

I'm working on a cozy animal sanctuary game in Godot. Having used Unity and Monogame only in the past, Godot has been a lot of fun and easy to use.

I know some people get annoyed at this because of the unspoken obligation to keep it going, but more than once I've been in a drive thru line where the person in front of me paid for my food. Whenever it's happened, I've tried to do the same for the next person. Just little things like that where I realize some stranger who has never met me wants me to have a better day mean a lot.

Moonlight/Sunshine is a great steam link alternative if you have a tv box (like an apple tv or similar) that has the Moonlight app available. I'm able to run both steam and non steam games pretty well.

San Diego Machine Learning! They're a meetup but did remote discussions for this one.

I struggled with it as well, and the experience was made worse by the echo chamber of people around me insisting it was the greatest secret to being successful in software architecture. Who knows if they actually read it.

What helped was to watch a youtube series run by a book club where they actively discussed and took notes together on it. It cut through a lot of the dry writing and got to the point of what the author tries to say. I didn't come out of it feeling more confident, but if I think of something relevant I vaguely remember from the book, I know I can pull it out as a reference at any time.

Thank you, I think I’ll be looking into this.

With mods, Freespace and Freespace 2 are still especially awesome.

My dog does this too!

Love The Far Side. “Went to market” with the missing toe had me in tears when I first saw it!

My aunt’s dog does the same! Horses are not allowed nor are people swimming in any way on TV. The dog also seems to prefer when the actors have British accents.

What a great story. We have a 3 year old Bernedoodle who resembles a walking sheep on stilts and is around 90 pounds. It is always a joy to take her out at pet allowing public places and see people’s faces just light up when they see her trotting around, tail wagging. She is friendly but also doesn’t greet strangers unless we initiate it. Never had to train her for that, she just always seems to know my comfort levels.

I had no idea about this! Thank you for linking!

How do you coach the former to behave more like the latter?

Being blunt isn’t the same as being an asshole imo. Did your manager give any actionable feedback on what you should say instead or what exactly you said that was inappropriate? If not, then your manager is enabling a bad or undertrained employee and I would expect this to happen again.