Andy Baker

@migtronix @markecline @daisyldixon Git is not backup. Please don't tell people to use git for backup, especially if they aren't developers. Use any good automated - ideally off-site - backup service. I still favour Backblaze because it just works on the whole. (I also use git but I don't pretend it's my backup)

@markecline @daisyldixon Just use git for crying out loud

crying and throwing up, my Mac just seemingly deleted my draft paper which had all my thoughts in that I’ve been working on for weeks. This is the error message. I went to ‘save’ it and Word just said the file was missing. The file is not in my trash. Please someone help me recover it 😭

@Batfox_Pictures I'd find that question very easy to answer. It's Wonderwall.

Noel Gallagher is asked to name a great song by an artist he cannot stand.

@suriyaswamii Person here. Stop speaking for me please.

people love sims, but not face bricks :)

@willeastcott @playcanvas Are they all using PlayCanvas?

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@UnityCodeMonkey Depends. On. The. Language...

Let's say I saved my game data in a text file and I am now trying to load it, does this work? string savedHealthData = "100"; int healthAmount = savedHealthData; A) Yes B) No C) Yes but healthAmount will be 0 (answer in reply below)

@OG_VR_Gamer The great thing about not being into multiplayer games is that I can still play all the games I loved from back then.

I swear, people don’t realize how insanely epic #VR was exactly 8 years ago! Really feel sorry for those that missed out! #Farpoint was crazy!… the #AimController, environments, multiplayer, cinematic music…..etc

@buildwithparas @coffeeflux2 Submitting the same prompt twice can also give you a wildly different answer.

@coffeeflux2 funny part is rewording the same prompt still gives you a totally different answer

one of the funnier things about LLMs that the ai-pilled people were wildly wrong about is how long prompt tuning would stay relevant

@_perandersson @LundukeJournal @dhh Everyone's a junior in some language/environment/problem domain

@LundukeJournal @dhh One could say that experienced developers using AI is not the same as junior developers using AI thinking they are writing senior developer code.

Everywhere you turn in Linux, major projects are going AI / Vibe coded. According to @DHH, the next release of Omarchy Linux is “30,000 lines of new code. The majority of it was written by GPT5.5”.

@AtelierElysara @SamCole I think his point is that expecting mass adoption was a mistake. Or at least that's*my* point. I've been saying it for years. It's a great niche product and niches can be very big.

@SamCole 100% wrong, the one that makes it an extension of your daily life is the one that gets mass adoption kicked off, one of the main reasons it isn't huge already is friction, how uch more friction do you wanna add making it so we all need 50 different fucking headsets?

VR isn't going to be a general computing device. It's going to win as a specialist Movies on a plane. Games at home. Fitness. Monitor replacement. Each one is a real category The "VR is dead" takes always measure it against the wrong success criterion

@mindingmyps @NameOnCooldown @JihadalHaqq No. I've read the thread again and that's not how it reads. So I'll file this under "misspoke" (I still think you're wrong in spirit even by your own reading but I'll let that slide)

@andybak @NameOnCooldown @JihadalHaqq heavily seasoned here being defined as “using 200 powders” so it’s neither, it’s you not understanding context or language

The thing with "European food is nasty" is that it isn't a "European" thing, it's a "these people live in the north" thing. All the "nasty foods" people associate with Europe—blood pudding/sausages, fermented fish, meat in jelly, etc.—can also be found in China, Korea, Japan,

@trikcode I've been vibe-coding additions to a C++ library.

I haven't seen a C++ vibecoder yet. I wonder why?

@thebeardingway @JesusTSaviour @EricIdle Stop willfully misunderstanding what people are saying.

@JesusTSaviour @EricIdle Anyone who disagrees with me is a bigot.

He will be 87 this year. Try and remember how funny he was.

@mindingmyps @NameOnCooldown @JihadalHaqq You said "East Asian food is not heavily seasoned at all". Either you mis-spoke or you're wrong. I don't see what other option there can be?

@andybak @NameOnCooldown @JihadalHaqq No it's quite accurate, EA food is not "covered in 200 different powders". When you jump into a conversation between 2 other people and start arguing your own point against a strawman, you shouldn't expect to get treated with respect

@mindingmyps @NameOnCooldown @JihadalHaqq "Lost in the weeds" is a funny way to say "My previous statement was wildly inaccurate"

@andybak @NameOnCooldown @JihadalHaqq Yeah you're lost in the weeds here because the argument is about whether EA food's popularity or enjoyment can be attributed to seasoning or spiciness. That EA food has SOME spicy dishes is not a counter-argument here.

@the_duriel Yeah. But your posts just appear in my feed despite the fact I know nothing about you? That is sadly how Twitter works. Such. Maybe it's just a "me" thing.... :(

@andybak If you see my tweets and don't know, then that's twitters fault. It also is the first sentence in my bio. ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯

Still to find a nice solution to assigning init args to public properties. Prefixing new is dumb. Using SELF is ultra dumb and will not be considered. Prefixing with _ is bad for docs and code completion.

@mindingmyps @NameOnCooldown @JihadalHaqq Seems like you know nothing about East Asian food. Even Japan has many heavily spiced dishes. About the only region that remotely counts as "not heavily seasoned" would be Guangdong. But even that has a lot of warming spices and aromatics.

@NameOnCooldown @JihadalHaqq You're confusing East Asian food with South Asian or ME/African food. EA food is not heavily seasoned at all, many Asian dishes only use soy sauce for seasoning. Yet sushi or ramen still manage to be flavorful and enjoyed worldwide.

@AndyFidel_ Am I the only person that prefers the stock headstrap? I just want cloth, not a lump of plastic that sticks into the back of my head if I lean back on something.

🤔 What are folks using for Quest 3S? No offense to the BOBOVR, but it doesn't fit my head right. Just keeps slipping. Got any other recommendations? #Quest3 #Quest3S

so funny to see PMs vibe-coding software and then users complain about the things PMs used to complain about and then the PMs give all the "excuses" they used to give Engineers shit about (turns out they weren't excuses after all! creating good sw does in fact take time! )

@TimothyEveland Blocked for idiocy