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  1. Comment on Starting a video game creation club in ~creative

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    I hope you're right about AI, I'm not worried about being replaced right now, it's just that it's hard to see what they'll be in the future. But I guess that's about the same for all professions...

    I hope you're right about AI, I'm not worried about being replaced right now, it's just that it's hard to see what they'll be in the future. But I guess that's about the same for all professions right now, at least the ones where you sit behind a desk to do your work.

    1 vote

  2. Comment on Starting a video game creation club in ~creative

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    While doing a "proper" videogame is hard and timeconsuming, people do bang them out on the regular over a weekend or a couple of weeks at gamejams as you mentioned. I think this sounds fun, and as...

    While doing a "proper" videogame is hard and timeconsuming, people do bang them out on the regular over a weekend or a couple of weeks at gamejams as you mentioned. I think this sounds fun, and as long as you set the bar appropriately I bet you could do something fun. My recommendations is to try and do smaller things, basically gamejam-sized things to start with, and then once you know how that's done you can potentially build something bigger. I wouldn't worry about money, and I would not try to make money selling your games, it's really hard and probably also counterproductive to your main goal - the portfolio. If you're doing this for the portfolio, it's great if anyone can just pick them up and try them out. I wouldn't worry too much about filling roles for the projects you do. As long as you've got someone that can code, you can create a game. And depending on how you feel about agentic coding that could be almost anyone. I recommend using an engine, that's going to be helpful in many ways, but also writing your own thing from scratch is a great learning experience. Once you know what you're doing the engines mostly help with polish stuff.

    I think meeting up regularly sounds great, that way you can help each other out and share ideas. Not to mention that networking might be one of the most important things when building a career.

    I think I should also mention that the video games industry is in a great turmoil, and nobody really knows where it will end up. Even with a great cv/portfolio it can be hard to get a job today, and things are changing rapidly. I'm working as a programmer at a gamedev company, and I don't know if my skills will still be valuable within just a couple of years.

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  3. Comment on Norway's $2.3 trillion sovereign wealth fund has proposed significantly cutting its exposure to US Treasuries as part of a wider shake-up of its bond investments to improve returns in ~finance

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    This sounds like a big deal, but I can't honestly say that I understands the implications and consequences other than that they don't trust the US economy as much anymore. Anyone with more...

    This sounds like a big deal, but I can't honestly say that I understands the implications and consequences other than that they don't trust the US economy as much anymore. Anyone with more knowledge around the global economy want to elaborate?

    2 votes

  4. Comment on What are your current pain points with Linux? in ~tech

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    Does it convert between package manager formats or package formats? The thing I'm missing most is the ability to upgrade automatically. Looks like it doesn't handle dependencies well either.

    Does it convert between package manager formats or package formats? The thing I'm missing most is the ability to upgrade automatically. Looks like it doesn't handle dependencies well either.

    1 vote

  5. Comment on What are your current pain points with Linux? in ~tech

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    That there are too many package managers. I've been running ubuntu for a long time, and apt used to be the one that everyone supported because of debian. Nowadays it's not uncommon that a program...

    That there are too many package managers. I've been running ubuntu for a long time, and apt used to be the one that everyone supported because of debian. Nowadays it's not uncommon that a program I want to install has support for 5 or more different package managers, but not one that I can use on my system. I'm really not a fan of installing a snapshot, even if it's a "stable release". I want bug fixes and more importantly security fixes.

    3 votes

  6. Comment on 10,000 people rallied in Stockholm to demand stronger action on climate change, weeks before Sweden's general election in ~enviro

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    Yeah, I was pretty early in the train, next to Vasaparken, and we hadn't even started moving yet at 14:00, when I had to leave. Which is the time when the train was supposed to be done. Great mood...

    Yeah, I was pretty early in the train, next to Vasaparken, and we hadn't even started moving yet at 14:00, when I had to leave. Which is the time when the train was supposed to be done. Great mood though people were very positive and the weather was perfect for a demonstration. I was surprised that the above article reports it at 10000 participants. The number I have seen was also 50000, just like you.

    4 votes

  7. Comment on Artists built a site to escape AI. Scrapers are coming for it anyway. in ~tech

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    It's probably also good for the ai companies that this "training data" is already vetted as ai-free. Saves them from doing that vetting themselves.

    It's probably also good for the ai companies that this "training data" is already vetted as ai-free. Saves them from doing that vetting themselves.

    5 votes

  8. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    I finished the little odin game that I wrote about a couple of weeks ago. The gameplay is rudimentary at best, and there's a large number of rough edges that could be filed off. But it's playable...

    I finished the little odin game that I wrote about a couple of weeks ago. The gameplay is rudimentary at best, and there's a large number of rough edges that could be filed off. But it's playable and has all the most important parts, and I learned the basics of odin. So I'm gonna declare it done and move on to the next thing, whatever that will be.

    Source at https://codefloe.com/bwerf/odin_game/ if anyone is curious.

  9. Comment on Fairphone Gen 6+ now available in the US in ~tech

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    I'm using usb-c headphones with my fairphone 5, works great. Only problem I can see is that I couldn't charge it at the same time as listening, but so far I've never had to, so in practice that's...

    I'm using usb-c headphones with my fairphone 5, works great. Only problem I can see is that I couldn't charge it at the same time as listening, but so far I've never had to, so in practice that's ok =).

    The bluetooth earbuds were ok, but I dislike anything bluetooth due to the fact that I think it very often ends up using the standalone speakers when I want earbuds, or earbuds when I just want the sound on the phone, etc...

    1 vote

  10. Comment on South of Spain / Northern Africa travel recs in ~travel

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    Haha, yeah, e.g. the swedish foreign department says that no-one should go to Syria or Lebanon atm, and avoid big chunks of Pakistan, so there's that.

    Haha, yeah, e.g. the swedish foreign department says that no-one should go to Syria or Lebanon atm, and avoid big chunks of Pakistan, so there's that.

    2 votes

  11. Comment on South of Spain / Northern Africa travel recs in ~travel

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    Al-hambra in Granada is really cool and I can recommend it. But if temperature is a problem Granada is even warmer than the places by the sea, with no access to nice beaches (well, double check...

    Al-hambra in Granada is really cool and I can recommend it. But if temperature is a problem Granada is even warmer than the places by the sea, with no access to nice beaches (well, double check that last one, but you won't be swimming in the Mediterranean).

    Temperature map: https://weather-and-climate.com/averages-Spain-August/temperatures

    3 votes

  12. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    I'm trying to learn odin, so I'm creating a small "game" with box2d and raylib. It's been surprisingly painless so far, and fun :)

    I'm trying to learn odin, so I'm creating a small "game" with box2d and raylib. It's been surprisingly painless so far, and fun :)

    1 vote

  13. Comment on Reminder to myself that my employer does not give a shit about me in ~life

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    Thanks, I suspected something like that. I guess it's something along the lines of "unlimited PTO, as long as the job gets done", and then you feel you need to deliver more, because nothing is...

    Thanks, I suspected something like that. I guess it's something along the lines of "unlimited PTO, as long as the job gets done", and then you feel you need to deliver more, because nothing is perfect, right? Or something in that vein?

    7 votes

  14. Comment on Reminder to myself that my employer does not give a shit about me in ~life

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    It's also possible that they're in the red and this is a make it or break it moment where they decided to push on everything hoping it doesn't give. I wonder, how does it work with unlimited PTO?...

    It's also possible that they're in the red and this is a make it or break it moment where they decided to push on everything hoping it doesn't give.

    I wonder, how does it work with unlimited PTO? Could you in theory (well, up until now), just take 300 days off each year? I have never heard of unlimited PTO before, and it seems kinda strange to me.

    11 votes

  15. Comment on How has climate change affected your life / plans? in ~enviro

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    Mostly by making me worried about the future and flying less which has been both frustrating and interesting as me and my family loves to travel. Currently also by the wildfires in France causing...

    Mostly by making me worried about the future and flying less which has been both frustrating and interesting as me and my family loves to travel.

    Currently also by the wildfires in France causing our train back home to be cancelled and "forcing us" to fly instead ironically enough. it makes us a bit inconvenienced and we lose a bit of vacation money, but I feel very bad for the people living in the burning areas who are obviously affected much worse.

    3 votes

  16. Comment on Linus Torvalds says Linux is not "anti-AI", tells haters to 'fork it' and 'just walk away' in ~tech

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    Not sure if it's an option for you, but there are other places than the "big ones" that are paid, but much cheaper and using open models. I tried fireworks.ai, and it was competent enough for...

    Not sure if it's an option for you, but there are other places than the "big ones" that are paid, but much cheaper and using open models. I tried fireworks.ai, and it was competent enough for easier things at least.

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  17. Comment on Linus Torvalds says Linux is not "anti-AI", tells haters to 'fork it' and 'just walk away' in ~tech

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    I can see your point, I'm not sure it'll change much in practice though. From what I see they already feel pretty justified.

    I can see your point, I'm not sure it'll change much in practice though. From what I see they already feel pretty justified.

    8 votes

  18. Comment on Linus Torvalds says Linux is not "anti-AI", tells haters to 'fork it' and 'just walk away' in ~tech

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    I didn't read the whole mail chain, but in this case I think the context is an AI tool for finding bugs in the code, and whether that should be applied automatically to commits, or something...

    I didn't read the whole mail chain, but in this case I think the context is an AI tool for finding bugs in the code, and whether that should be applied automatically to commits, or something similar. From what I understand it's not even about writing code. Linus is being kinda vague though, so I assume it can also be interpreted as "use any (ai) tools, as long as they improve the outcome".

    This is the message that I gathered the "AI as reviewing tool" from https://lore.kernel.org/linux-media/20260715125058.3692aa03@gandalf.local.home/. The tool itself is called Sashiko.

    12 votes

  19. Comment on Elixir Is All You Need in ~comp

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    In guessing with popcorn somehow? https://popcorn.swmansion.com/ Popcorn compiles and runs elixir code in a vm in webassembly, but I think it's more geared towards building websites, so I'm not...

    In guessing with popcorn somehow? https://popcorn.swmansion.com/

    Popcorn compiles and runs elixir code in a vm in webassembly, but I think it's more geared towards building websites, so I'm not sure if you can actually build extensions in it.

  20. Comment on I'm looking for an adage or "law" (like Conway's law), but for dealing with AI slop in ~tech

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    I think shorter is the main reason, but you could also have it filter output into only things that you care about, removing everything that doesn't have budgeting implications, or do an iterative...

    I think shorter is the main reason, but you could also have it filter output into only things that you care about, removing everything that doesn't have budgeting implications, or do an iterative process of it where you get a very high level summary first and then drill down on the things you think sound interesting. You could have the ai pull numbers or other info from other sources that are relevant and compare. There are many options. I personally don't currently do any of this, but I can see many opportunities.

    2 votes