@WindowsLatest well i guess its better than the literal 1.5 seconds it takes to have windows explorer render. but holy fuck how bad are we at when this is considered good?
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PeteyFoReally
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PeteyFoReally
@petey_fo_really
Used to do computer engineering now I make computer games. Shitty blog: https://t.co/xUAUzQp6wg
Vancouver Katılım Şubat 2014
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Microsoft confirms Windows Run dialog is getting a modern look on Windows 11!
- Modern design: A refreshed look that matches Fluent Design and Windows 11, with dark mode support.
- Faster than before: Perf was top-of-mind when rewriting Run, and with a **94ms median time-to-show time it’s faster than ever before.
- Quick user directory access: You can now type ~\ to jump to your user directory, then keep navigating just like you would from the command line.
The modern Run dialog is slowly rolling out in current Insider builds of Windows as an opt-in feature, ensuring we are collecting your feedback.
To enable the new Run dialog, you’ll need to:
- Be on Windows Insider Experimental Channel.
- Enable to Settings -> System -> Advanced and toggle on the new experience with the “Run Dialog” option at the top of the screen.
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bbc.com/news/articles/…
nytimes.com/2025/07/30/bus…
Should probably do your own research instead of taking it from a twitter comment thread, but some of the data collection methodology as a result of significant manpower reductions at the BLS are rather questionable.
CPI for example is something like 4% officially but I don't think there is anything a consumer can buy that has /only/ gone up by 4% in the past year
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@petey_fo_really when you say its not reliable at this time, are you referencing how the government shutdowns affected the data or something else?
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every software engineer i see is nervous about the job market. students are switching majors. twitter makes you feel like you should quit your job and start a company.
I dug into the data to see the truth for myself. it's not as bad as you think. it's not great either.
excited to share my findings & hear what y'all think:) link below.
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@samhogan you're allowed to do both. slop out some code to try out ideas.
hand write the stuff that matters.
GIF
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All the best programmers I know are starting to write code by hand again
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@bmcnett do you really? theres about 6000 games on steam released every year with a dev time of about 10 months.
are you buying any of those?
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i wish the best for these folks, but it is so depressing to hear about another 10 year dev cycle. i want more games made in 10 months
Indie Game Joe@IndieGameJoe
This solo indie dev spent 10 years making an RPG game that looks 3D… but is actually 2D. - Camera shifts from orthographic to perspective views - Depth is simulated using parallax & warped sprites - Hand-painted semi-open world Would you play this? It’s called Bridgebourn.
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Yeah that's been my experience too. but I think what this whole experience has shown me is surprisingly how many things can get by with just total dogshit in terms of code.
even things where I really want something solid, i find using the LLMs to shake out that terrible first draft immediately shows me a lot of issues with what my original plan was. (or validates it)
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from my experience, even the best models (Opus 4.6, 5.4 xhigh / 5.3 codex) cannot write good code today without an amount of work that is equivalent to just doing the work myself
am excited for a world where they can, but in the current state i have very low trust in them
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> hat does a coder who relies heavily on AI tools do in cases like that?
Fall back to using their normal coding and debugging skills?
Tbh a lot of the vibecoding bros are just slopping it out with javascript frontends, dont even know how to attach a debugger. but i suppose they don't really need it either.
What was your problem that you had to debug anyway?
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So I just debugged a problem that took me a while to figure out. It required inspecting the code through various phases in the debugger.
And it made me wonder: what does a coder who relies heavily on AI tools do in cases like that? After AI has given them wrong results after countless "fix this" queries? At what point do you accept that AI won't solve it for you? What if you don't know or don't care what a debugger is?
Honest questions btw.
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For human code- If i'm reviewing something im unfamiliar with all i can really do is provide superficial spot checks- ensure that you do your due dilligence and try to ensure your changes are internally consistent.
I make this very clear when someone asks me to review their PR that im unfamiliar with- that all i can do is spot checks.
if i have time ill ask them to walk me through the code change.
AI code is a different beast entirely, it likely wont have any obvious issues i can catch. But rather issues tend to be more regarding alignment and architecture and hallucinations
I also notice AI code has insane rte of code churn. I've noticed that its almost pointless to try to keep up b/c its likely going to change in a week anyway.
In that case what's important is that the person whos doing the feature is one who's responsible for it and is on the hook for any breakages and has a good ability to keep up with what its needs are.
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To people who are *good* at reviewing code (or claim to be hehe) - how is that possible?
To what extend you can properly review the code with low familiarity with the codebase?
Eg. New project, you jump in, Claude Code PR - 500 lines changed - review now
What's the strategy?
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Had a strange thought;
Code tends to self-replicate, you can write docs on how to implement things, edge cases gotchas etc...
and in the heat of the moment. if I really want to do something- I will just look at some code in the codebase that does that already. If the code that's already there is bad, then the coder that references it will just copy that pattern.
Doesnt matter if the coder is LLM or human you get the same results.
In this way its a good idea to get rid of or tag bad code whenever you see it in your codebases
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@Bitcoin_Teddy very nice, now show the graph from 2016 onwards
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For all the morons who say capitalism doesn’t work
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@cryptopunk7213 @AnushkaaTyagii The internet's big and twitter only allows for short form ragebait discussion. Most artists i know especially pros have very complex feelings and relationship with AI.
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@AnushkaaTyagii yeah i get it i just don’t agree with the knee-jerk reaction to hate on the technology itself. software engineering is a good comparison, ai is replacing their art but they’re levelling up to orchestrate agents and tools. a lot of them are happier
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genuine question: why are the arts and gaming communities so fucking touchy about ai?
i get that 99% of examples are slop but we’re reaching a point where ai-generated media is indistinguishable for 90% of the world
that shouldn’t go un-acknowledged just because you want to hide behind a professional identity
ai isn’t going away, it’s getting (a lot) better, so why not try and figure out how to work with it to your advantage? isn’t that what a bunch of hollywood is realising now?
doomer: “NO THIS IS NOWHERE CLOSE TO PIXAR GRADE”
8 year old (target audience): “haha that’s awesome”
what am i missing?
Is this a 3D model?@IsThisA3DModel
no and this is nowhere close to "Pixar-grade"
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@_trish_xD malloc is just a function with a lot of convention. it is not some holy thing that is enforced by the mechanics of the language itself.
almost all serious C projects libraries wrap it anyway. (and a lot of platforms dont even give you a malloc)
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malloc(0) is legal C.
let that sink in for a second.
some compilers return NULL. some return a valid pointer you can't dereference but CAN free().
both behaviors are correct according to the C standard.
you can allocate zero bytes of memory, get a pointer to nothing, and then dutifully free that nothing.
and the language just shrugs and says "yeah that's fine."
this is why C developers have trust issues.
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@IamAroke well its generally a bad time to be in games at this moment.
epic just laid off 1000 people.
outside of established AAA- theres millions of indies releasing close to 30k games on steam per year
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Its actually really simple. the bottleneck is now your understanding. so instead of using it to do 50 things at once.
use it to do the same thing multiple times and go really deep on one topic.
Really enjoy working with it this way.
also just go take a break when you're done. World was doing fine before this stuff made you 50x faster
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My single biggest pain point right now: AI-induced attention deficit
I have 5 Claude Code sessions running
10 Terminal tabs open
50 browser tabs open
100 X articles in my bookmarks
When there are multiple AIs working for you, you're constantly task switching
When you're waiting for AI to output, you're constantly distracted
Because what used to be hard is now so easy, you always wanna do more, more, more
Because of the speed of the AI news cycle, you feel a constant need to be on this app
Add all this up and the result: you live in a constant state of distraction & delirium. Focus & deep work is harder than ever
If anyone has figured this out pls teach me how
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@MHBrasil I cant tell if this is a minecraft mod or a monsterhunter mod
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Se Minecraft fosse bom:
(Creditos a FishyFish - Mod nos comentarios)
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@Hidekazu__ @theo The low level os apis aren't sexy or ergonomic but llms kinda don't give a shit about that it seems.
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It’s not hard, it’s that no one gets taught low level languages enough, teaching render APIs and no companies are hiring for those fields as much. If they do create native desktop apps, optimizing and supporting multiple platforms and compilers becomes increasingly difficult to maintain.
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“Why not use Electron? Tauri is bloated and slow, it uses so much ram”
EGOIST@localhost_5173
ChatWise idle memory usage Before (tauri) vs Now (electron)
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@theo ok but grok's summary of this situation is funny as fuck unless im misunderstanding here.
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1800 lines of c. no stdlib.
this produces a binary that is 59KB and it includes a custom sdf based font format that encodes roboto for 117KB, 15MB working set charge when running (seems like its mostly drivers).
The entire package together to ship is under 200K and is DPI aware, no dependcies other than what the os provides you already. This is more than sufficient to begin creating a ui system.
Possibility here for a very tiny desktop application framework?
github.com/peterino2/Arca…
#coding #programming #buildinpublic
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