Mikina
@Mikina@programming.dev
- Comment on The increase in literacy rates around the world is perhaps one of the most beautiful occurance of the past 100 years, perhaps the most beautiful thing in the entire history of humanity. 2 days ago:
It’s sad to see that we’re heading towards a future where people can’t read a text longer than one summarized paragraph, and write anything longer than a sentence without using LLMs.
Children are already skipping learning of very important skills by offloading it to AI in school.
- Comment on Guild Wars Reforged Announcement Trailer 2 days ago:
That sounds kinda cool tbh. I’m mostly intrigued about the class system, although I’ve bever really looked into it.
It sounds just like Fellowship, though, and I’m loving that game.
- Comment on Guild Wars Reforged Announcement Trailer 3 days ago:
If I’m getting back to a game with gear treadmill, I can just clean uo my inventory and start the next exoansion with a clean slate.
I have around 70% of the world cleared, several characters leveled to max, but I got through kike half of HoT and a bit of Path of Fire. I opened my full inventory that had a lot of random crafting stuff, consumables a a gew gear sets and I had no idea what’s anything for, or what am I even supposed to do next. Did a few quests then gave up in trying to sort it out, since it was just too overwhelming.
I’ll probably give it a try again, love thw game.
- Comment on Guild Wars Reforged Announcement Trailer 3 days ago:
I’ve hear good things about GW1, but never got to play it.
GW2 is my top favorite MMO, although I haven’t really played much recently, because due to the lack of gear treadmill it’s soo confusing to pick it up again when you stopped playing for a few expansions.
Will probably give GWR a try.
- Comment on Insane: Microsoft's latest ad proves how useless Copilot on Windows 11 actually is 4 days ago:
Youre not the first comment that mentions this, and technically it’s right. But the fundamental problem for me is that the AI had a well defined problem - it had one correct answer. Increase text size. It failed, and chose a solution to a problem that 'people who usualy have it, want this solution".
It was just mediocre solution, that works for median of people.
It didn’t matter that you specified concrete problem you have - I want larger text. It just averaged it.
Thats the problem with AI. If you want mediocre solution to a very common problem, it works.
But thats the only way it works.
- Comment on Insane: Microsoft's latest ad proves how useless Copilot on Windows 11 actually is 5 days ago:
The article doesn’t really mention it and only focuses on it providing an incorrect value (150% when it’s already at 150%), but this bit that’s added as a reader context to the Tweet is even bigger blunder:
The user asked how to increase text size, but Copilot incorrectly advised changing the “Scale” option in Settings > System > Display. This enlarges text, but also resizes UI, apps, and other elements
To change only text size, go to Settings > Accessibility > Text size.
- Comment on Insane: Microsoft's latest ad proves how useless Copilot on Windows 11 actually is 5 days ago:
The article does not mention this, but it’s also not a correct solution at all for increasing text size (which was what the guy was asking it how to do). From the reader context of the tweet:
The user asked how to increase text size, but Copilot incorrectly advised changing the “Scale” option in Settings > System > Display. This enlarges text, but also resizes UI, apps, and other elements
To change only text size, go to Settings > Accessibility > Text size.
- Comment on Finally a month that's relevant to me 1 week ago:
You’re right, I used a wrong word there. It wasn’t science, more like public perception maybe? I’d consider lack of research as a part of science, though.
I’m not sure what better word would fit there instead. I wouldn’t say it’s the fault of marketing, I’m giving them the benefit of the doubt that they thought it’s actually healthier to use this kind of filter.
The comparison that sparks to my mind are vapes. There’s AFAIK lack of research that can tell us anything about long term issues, but a lot of people consider it as healthier. But in this case, common sense is also not correct - because it kind of makes sense that it probably isn’t, and it’s just marketing.
But in the case of an asbestos filter, I can see why people (and common sense at the time) would asume that it helps.
So, I guess common sense is the word that I should’ve used, because that’s what was wrong at the time.
- Comment on Finally a month that's relevant to me 1 week ago:
While I get where are you comming from, and I’m also not fan of smoking, isn’t asbestos extremely worse?
I remember my friend had a roof over his summer house that was using asbestos, and it was extreme problem. Like, you can’t even take it down without investing heavily into protection, or hiring a company that specializes in it’s diasposal, because it’s just that much toxic to handle.
- Comment on Finally a month that's relevant to me 1 week ago:
My favorite asbestos trivia, which I learned only recently, is that at the start of public realozing that smoking causes cancer, one company came up with the solution of “cigaretes with asbestos filters”.
It’s kind of morbidly funny reminder how catastrophically wrong can current science be.
- Comment on Square Enix says it wants generative AI to be doing 70% of its QA and debugging by the end of 2027 2 weeks ago:
They already have a really cool solution for that, which they talked about in their GDC talk.. I don’t think there’s any need to slap a glorified chatbot into this, it already seems to work well and have just the right amount of human input to be reliable, while also leaving the “testcase replay gruntwork” to a script instead of a human.
- Comment on Square Enix says it wants generative AI to be doing 70% of its QA and debugging by the end of 2027 2 weeks ago:
Square Enix actually has a pretty sick automated QA already. There’s a cool talk about how they did that for FFVII remake in GDC vault, and I highly recommend watching it, if you’re at all interested in QA.
It has nothing to do with AI, it’s just plain old automation, but they solve most of the issues you get with making automated tests in non-discrete 3D playspace and they do that in a pretty solid way. It’s definitely something I’d love to have implemented in the games I’m working on, as someone who worked in QA and now works in development. Being able to have mostly reliable way how to smoke-test levels for basic gameplay without having to torture QA to run the test-case again is good, and allows QA to focus on something else - but the tools also need oversight, so it’s not really a job lost. In summary - I think the talk is cool tech and worth the watch.
However, I don’t think AI will help in this regard, and something as unreliable and random as AI models are not a good fit for this job. You want to have deterministic testcases that you can quanitfy, and if something doesn’t match have an actual human to look at why. AI also probably won’t be able to find clever corner-cases and bugs that need human ingenuity.
Fuck AI, I kind of hope this is just a marketing talk and they are actually just improving the (deterministic) tools they already have, and they are calling it an “AI” to satisfy investors/management without actually slapping a glorified chat-bot into the tech for no reason.
- Comment on Square Enix says it wants generative AI to be doing 70% of its QA and debugging by the end of 2027 2 weeks ago:
Large companies probably do that anyway.
Take Blizzard for example. They just released a new patch, where class campaign quests for 8/12 classes do not work. Sure, it’s a remixed version of older expansion, and with all the phasing stuff I can kind of imagine some of the phasing issues being caused by, I don’t know, the player having a weird combination of completed stuff that’s hard to properly catch in testing, since there’s quite a lot of variables.
But the fact that one of the class quests requires crafted items to be completed, while crafting isn’t available by design in the Remix, there’s just no excuse. They either just don’t give a fuck about an issue that’s literally a progression blocker with 100% repro rate, or no one ever tested it even once.
As someone who worked in QA and gamedev, I can’t imagine how could something as obvious as this ever get approved for release. That’s something you catch immediately. Hell, you don’t even have to play through it to realize that this might be a problem.
- Comment on How long? 3 months ago:
Tbh I have no idea, I just like the evolution stone analogy :D
- Comment on How long? 3 months ago:
That’s my favorite thing about axolotls.
They do live in water, but if you neglect them enough (or feed them special [hormone] evolution stones), they will say “fuck this”, grow legs, evolve into slamanders and leave.
- Comment on mensa 3 months ago:
Thank you, that makes perfect sense. It’s easy to fall from the outside into the trap of judging it by the “smarter than you club” label, and forgetting that probably isn’t the point for most members, and the club part is the important one.
- Comment on mensa 3 months ago:
I don’t get why something like Mesa even exists. Like, what even is the moment where pulling out your Mensa card is a good idea?
Assuming you are inteligent, you should know that flashing a card from a gatekept “clever people” club will probably not impress many people, just like you should recognize that the test you did doesn’t mean shit and IQ is not a good way how to measure people.
- Comment on Do you think a story that mixes magic with super advanced technology can work? 5 months ago:
Shadowrun kind of does the same. It’s not really super-advanced, since it’s cyberpunk, but it’s cyberpunk with magic. And it’s my favorite setting, it’s such a cool idea.
- Comment on An OpenAI whistleblower was found dead in his apartment. Now his mother wants answers 9 months ago:
I think I know who killed him.
By 11, he was programming on his own—a skill he used to playfully torment his friends. One remembers Balaji’s idea of a middle-school prank: writing code that deleted a friend’s Skyrim save file.
- Comment on Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search 9 months ago:
the quality of search results tends to be degraded [without JavaScript].
Lol, how? That’s such bullshit.
- Comment on Michigan to clear 400+ acres of state forest for solar farm to meet "clean energy" goals 10 months ago:
I’d love to see the math behing how much power cpuld be generated from the 400 acres of wood, and how long will it take for the solars to break even.
Also, how much co2 is saved by the solars in comparison to what the trees would generate.
- Comment on SOUL PARK (in early access), a themepark "at the gates of hell" management game, releases demo on Steam 11 months ago:
What drove the point home for me was seeing a Twitter account (it was years ago) that posts short 6 second segments of every new game released on steam.
It was posting almost hourly, and while there was a lot of trash, most of the games were of pretty “standart” smaller indie quallity. It’s ruthless.
And in addition with the GDC talk of someone who made literally millions by making a generator that generates super basic slot machine games on various themes (as in, generate a theme (cars, bird…), download a few pictures, place them on slot machine) and uploads them to Play Store (back then you had a limit on 20 games a day, and they did include some more rules about quality in reaction to this talk), and the game were getting thousands of downloads and when they checked how is their script doing after few months, they had like over a million in revenue with thousands of downloads. Sure, it’s about mobile games, but it is hearbreaking when you realize how do the consumers work in reality.
