pinball_wizard
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- Comment on Does vibe coding sort of work at all? 2 weeks ago:
Is all vibe coding actually like that too or does some of it actually work?
It’s all like that.
How bad that is - for you - depends on your patience and your learning style.
When I use it, my experience usually lets me recognize the mistakes and correct them quickly. So it’s just a lazy convenience. Most of the time.
I’ve had it make subtle mistakes that cost me significant amounts of time to cleanup after letting the vibe code run for a few minutes.
I’m aware that particular mistake cost me more time that vibe coding has ever saved me.
I don’t mind, because my employer is excited about AI right now, and I get paid for my time, and I don’t work unpaid overtime.
So - to your implied questions:
Is AI bad at coding?
Yes. It will get better. But today, it is worse than most people think. Obvious problems are easily fixed. Subtle problems are being released daily all over the Internet to combine to cause headaches later.
Should you try it, anyway?
Of course! You’ll learn something and it might do a good enough job for what you need. If you stick with it, you’ll learn enough to do what you need.
Is vibe coding a better oath forward than learning a programming language?
Absolutely not. If you need to succeed, and had to pick one, learn to code.
But they’re not mutually exclusive. It’s probably impossible to vibe code for long without learning to actually code.
So I say, Dive in! You’ll be complaining with the rest of us, soon! Maybe together we will make it a bit better.
- Comment on Big Tech CEOs Spent Millions to Influence Trump and Republican Lawmakers, Attempting to Secure Billions in Tax Handouts Paid For By Ripping Health Care, Food From Families 2 weeks ago:
“U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, pushed Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon; Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta; Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla; Tim Cook, CEO of Apple; and Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet, on their attempts to secure billion-dollar tax handouts paid for by ripping away health care coverage, food assistance, and other services from millions of American families.”
I wish headlines like this would use their names. These aren’t an amorphous immoral blob responding to stimuli, these are specific human individuals who can still be held accountable to the rule of law:
Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Tim Cook, Sundar Pichai [are] Attempting to Secure Billions in Tax Handouts Paid For By Ripping Health Care, Food From Families
- Comment on Let’s Encrypt ends certificate expiry emails to cut costs, boost privacy 2 weeks ago:
Time to go out and buy a “The Far Side” desk calendar, and mark the correct page, I guess.
- Comment on How do animals in the Peppa Pig universe work? 2 weeks ago:
Animals is Peppa Pig get dumber as they age, and some become so dumb that the rest cage them or eat then. Peppa’s father is about 70% of his way there, already.
I joke. But on a serious note, there’s so many better children’s shows out there. I hope you manage to switch it up, before it becomes the favorite of any young people in your inner circle.
Some of the jokes in this show seem targeted to adults, which makes no sense, as absolutely nothing in this show is watchable to anyone above the age of 4.
Exactly. They don’t seem to know who the intended audience is.
- Comment on What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes? 2 weeks ago:
I haven’t seen the Lego games mentioned here. (Lego Indian Jones, Lego Batman, etc.)
They tend to be story driven, and have excellent amounts of play-testing, resulting in an enjoyable playthrough that I’ve always been able to finish.
(Except Lego Dimensions, which was developed separately, and not to the same play-testing standards.)
- Comment on What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes? 2 weeks ago:
I may have missed it, but Dave the Diver deserves a mention here.
Boss battles are very rare, and slow paced enough that I have not run into the dreaded “I understand the pattern but I lack the dexterity”. (I often have this problem with other games.)
- Comment on What is the canonical version of STVI? 2 weeks ago:
I saw Star Trek VI in the theater, and of course I own the VHS home video version, (as I assume everyone who saw it in the theater has…)
I honestly thought that I had spaced out and forgotten Rene’s scenes.
I remember slapping my knee and getting up to start cleaning up the snacks, before being surprised that the VHS version kept on going.
- Comment on Stung by customer losses, Comcast says all its new plans have unlimited data 2 weeks ago:
Ðat is delightful!
- Comment on Microsoft pushes staff to use internal AI tools more, and may consider this in reviews. 'Using AI is no longer optional.' 2 weeks ago:
Results are nice, but shortsightedly juicing the appearance of shareholder value for a single quarter is forever… Somehow.
- Comment on No criminal charges over British woman shot in US 2 weeks ago:
For Brits, while there’s many possible worse interpretations, the usual reason for US law to function this way is if the weapon was fired by a very young child.
And yes, we have a “usual” regarding children getting their hands on firearms. That sucks in it’s own special way.
US law seals many records in cases for child offenders.
If the weapon was fired by a child too young to understand firearms, that could result in no charges - although it’s more usual to see a charge against the caretakers in such cases.
Disclaimer: Since tone doesn’t convey in text - I want to clarify I’m not trying to advocate for the US system. I just want to share that there are explanations - in addition - to our usual ones.
None of what I’ve shared is meant to attempt to address the concerns that must come with having a gun culture.
Everything still sucks in this situation, and everyone has a right to how they feel about it.
Whatever else we feel, we can all agree we need to find ways to do better than this. Nothing is okay about this.
(And yes, I know I’m saying that in one country where this kind of thing still routinely happens.)
- Comment on What are some great retro games that I can play with my 5yo? 2 weeks ago:
Sure thing. Happy gaming!
- Comment on What are some great retro games that I can play with my 5yo? 2 weeks ago:
Ooh. Good one! Joust even gives nice bonus points for managing not to kill each-other.
- Comment on What are some great retro games that I can play with my 5yo? 2 weeks ago:
chase your kid,
Oh, that’s good advice for playing with a kid. I forgot that I used this approach with my kid brother, back when Micromachines was new.
so it’s good for teaching patience lol
That’s true, lol. I recall telling my brother how he’s building character.
- Comment on how do I stop itching? 2 weeks ago:
I find a nice large bandage helps. The difference in how it feels under my fingers gives me just enough pause that I get a chance to notice and stop myself.
- Comment on What are some great retro games that I can play with my 5yo? 2 weeks ago:
Oh, and sorry for so many responses, but I figure that posting these separately will let the votes give you some idea where to start.
The votes I’ve seen so far very much reflect the order I would try these games out with a five year old gamer.
- Comment on What are some great retro games that I can play with my 5yo? 2 weeks ago:
Fun-N-Games (Genesis/Megadrive) is mostly single player, but has many mini games accessibile to young gamers.
- Comment on What are some great retro games that I can play with my 5yo? 2 weeks ago:
It’s single player, but too good to miss: “Richard Scary’s Busy Town” (Genesis) is a fantastic open ended set of mini-games that are fun and accessibible to almost all skill levels of gamer.
- Comment on What are some great retro games that I can play with my 5yo? 2 weeks ago:
These are great! All with little to no violence, too.
I will say, Micromachines needs more patience than some 5 year olds will have, since the controls and speed aren’t very forgiving until learned.
- Comment on What are some great retro games that I can play with my 5yo? 2 weeks ago:
Does Sonic Spinball on the Genesis have multiplayer?
Technically yes, but it’s old arcade style “pass the controller, it is player 2’s turn” - so not really.
- Comment on What are some great retro games that I can play with my 5yo? 2 weeks ago:
Ms. Pac-Man (Genesis) is fully co-op throughout, and has adjustable difficulty by choosing smaller maps.
- Comment on What are some great retro games that I can play with my 5yo? 2 weeks ago:
Mega Bomberman (Megadrive)and Super Mega Bomberman (SNES) both have multiplayer mode where players can team up against bots, and the bots have adjustable difficultly (different bot skins have different AI).
- Comment on What are some great retro games that I can play with my 5yo? 2 weeks ago:
Dashin’ Desperados (Genesis/Mega Drive) is a racing platformer, where the adult can control the difficultly by slowing down or backtracking.
- Comment on What are some great retro games that I can play with my 5yo? 2 weeks ago:
Super Baseball Simulator (SNES) is competitive, but can be really chill if the adult player throws easy pitches, and the super powers are hilarious.
- Comment on What are some great retro games that I can play with my 5yo? 2 weeks ago:
“Toejam and Earl: Panic on Funkotron” (Genesis) has a very well designed “little kid mode” in the options, and it’s still really fun.
- Comment on Microsoft Plans Major Job Cuts at Xbox Gaming Division 3 weeks ago:
That’s the official reason, yes.
It has also been the official reason for every illegal merger in the last 50 years.
And somehow almost every merged organization ran into tough financial times about 5 years later (or less), and had to reduce staff, disperse the previous competition’s staff, while filing away the dangerous intellectual property safely out of sight.
But sure, we could assume that Microsoft meant to do the right thing, and that it just went wrong this time.
- Comment on Microsoft Plans Major Job Cuts at Xbox Gaming Division 3 weeks ago:
Honestly maybe the last Xbox will be the last one I buy.
Yes. I also stopped buying XBoxes with the Series…G. (I’m lying. I have no idea what my Xboxes are called. Is the 360 still new? Was there a G? It felt like we were doing letters for awhile.)
Even if they put out another one what’s even the point anymore?
I agree. But I gave up when I had to do research to figure out which one was the new one.
- Comment on Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month as customers switch to Chinese EVs 3 weeks ago:
Telsa used to be a status symbol, and sexy.
But then their chief chap couldn’t seem to publicly pronounce the popular phrase “Nazi’s suck and I wish to have nothing to do with them”.
Now Telsa is an anti-status symbol.
- Comment on You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning 3 weeks ago:
I remember. But don’t quote me on that. Actually, I guess no one can quote me on it, it was in a discussion on Google Wave, anyway.
- Comment on Microsoft Plans Major Job Cuts at Xbox Gaming Division 3 weeks ago:
That’s a relief. I was starting to worry about them, with all these breakout indie game successes.
Maybe the indie developers will start buying the AAA CEOs a coffee once in awhile.
(This is intended as surrealist humor.)
- Comment on Why does America feel the need to control the world? Do what they say? Instead of taking care of their own problems at home? When did the US become police officer of the world and enforcer? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know the name of the theory, but it’s sure noticeable that candidates have diverse values while sitting presidents act earily similar.
A generous assumption could be that they have consistent advisors.
A realist assumption could be that they have consistent funding sources.
A particularly dark assumption is that they face the same threats to their loved ones.
And of course, an adorable meme child says “Why not both?”