danschuller

20 days agodiscuss

I've found this skill to work well: https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/tree/main/skills/produc...

27 days agodiscuss

A few things that have worked well for me:

  - Like normal software engineering - building small parts in isolation, verifying they work and then bringing them together to make the whole.

  - Asking Claude to do things using sub-agents to keep the parent context clean. i.e. reviewing plans, research, code reviews
  
  - If there's ever something you can have verification on - a test suite, a screenshot with pixel reading, a certain output to match. Then with `/goal` it tends to work very well with little guidance (in my experience)
  
  - If it keeps getting things wrong, then I make it write a skill. i.e. for some reason it always had errors running playwright but would get there in the end, and it would always have trouble with auth on my NAS but with the skill it can follow the path that's worked for it in the past and not burn tokens

danschuller

2 months agodiscuss

I'm reading Accelerando at the moment and I kept thinking about The Quantum Thief. I enjoyed the Quantum Thief more, but Accelerando feels more relevant to the current times.

danschuller

3 months agodiscuss

No many hit games started as mods. League of Legends is the one that immediately jumps to mind, but I know there are many more coming from Quake and Doom mods etc.

danschuller

7 months agodiscuss

Probably now or the very near future you could have an LLM that's provably trained on dataset where the leaked spec isn't included in the dataset and have it perform the reverse engineering work.

danschuller

11 months agodiscuss

Your solution is for everyone in the world to foster a degree of self-discipline they've never shown any inclination for in the past?

That doesn't sound like a scalable solution. These apps are so pervasive and their use adopted at such a young age (with a large degree of social pressure) it seems like legislation is the only way to curb these dark patterns.

Like other commentators have said these are extremely well resourced companies looking for ways to exploit human psychology at scale. It's in a walled garden, compiled app so it's you have very limited ability to modify what you're shown. End-users of apps need to be given more power over what they can be shown and if that kills companies then to me that's an acceptable tradeoff.

danschuller

11 months agodiscuss

I don't know if you intended this to be only spent selfishly. But if you look to how the old robber barons spent their money they did things like giving the US a large portion of it's public library system. I don't think it would be hard find things to do like this that make everyones lives better.

danschuller

12 months agodiscuss

It feels they should be a neutral payment system. They're implementing global policy otherwise due the monopoly they have, that's something that should handled at government/state level.

danschuller

last yeardiscuss

How do you infer swimming in an ocean is dangerous?

danschuller

last yeardiscuss

It's telling this sentence has the student as one to blame, when it's a structural issue and the weight of the blame rests more heavily on the shoulders of the universities.

danschuller

2 years agodiscuss

I also find this an interesting thought. Maybe an inability to monetize ideas in the space?

I've read many many anecdotes over the years of Europeans learning or perfecting their English language skills playing classic point and click adventure games that were either unavailable localised or the localisation was bad. It feels like that's an interesting language learning entry point.

I also like the idea of an AI plugged into a glasses video camera just narrating what you're doing in your target language.

danschuller

2 years agodiscuss

If you want to follow someone playing with this, there's Steve Grand, who wrote the original creatures game and kickstarted something a bit more ambitious https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1508284443/grandroids-r...

danschuller

2 years agodiscuss

For me Mastodon misses some common workflows I have. When I find someone interesting I like to easily see who they follow with bios and then I may follow some of those. In Twitter and Bluesky this is pretty easy, in Mastodon it's hard and has a lot of friction points.

danschuller

2 years agodiscuss

I have been trawling through the Wizardry 1 decompiled pascal source code for the Apple II. Uncovering neat little bits like:

  PROCEDURE PAUSE1;   (* P010011 *)

  BEGIN
   FOR LLBASE04 := 0 TO TIMEDLAY DO
     BEGIN
     END;
  END;

The perks of having standard hardware and a compiler that doesn't optimise away empty loops.

danschuller

2 years agodiscuss

Business of Software forum, as far as I can tell there's nothing similar anymore for a group of small one-person commercial software devs discovering how, and helping each other, to be successful.

There used to be cool art forum called eatpoo that lots of nice art and tigsource is no longer anywhere near what it was.

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