It honestly varies by game, but in my experience "Playable" is usually a great to okay experience but has small text, a launcher you need to use a touch screen for, or maybe only partial controller support.

Game breaking bugs are rare in playable titles from what I've seen.

The majority of games I play on SD are "only" playable and it's still a great experience.

Absolutely. This project is super cool!! I'll likely use this to send a postcard to some friends.

Such a cool little website to start and it feels so indie!

More proof that "if you're not paying, you're the product" doesn't hold up.

Companies will put an ad anywhere the market will tolerate it.

Wrong conclusion, just because if you're are not paying, you're the product doesn't mean, if you are paying, you aren't the product.

It's just: you are the product, no matter if you pay or don't pay.

Except that that's not actually true either; I don't pay for Debian.

One thing I just cannot wrap my head around is this: Where does all the money to make the ad business viable come from? Are all those ads resulting in a profit down the line? Or is it all just just a pointless waste of money to begin with?

Indeed, advertising and data collection is ultimately there to drive a profit in real money - at some point, someone still has to put actual money into the system - in advertising, this is typically from consumers buying the advertised products. If everything turns into an advertising platform with no actual way for real money (as opposed to "engagement") to get into the system, it will fall apart.

However, the same kind of people who are willing to sacrifice long-term brand trustworthiness of a previously-reputable OS supplier in exchange for some quick "engagement" metrics to justify their salary and/or promotion will be in other companies paying for these ads and then finding a way to coerce the data/metrics to justify that ad spend, even though in the long term none of those ads may actually bring net profits to the company.

As long as there is enough money being available from previous profits and/or other sources, both of these camps will independently cooperate with each other to further their own careers at the expense of their respective companies' long-term outlooks.

Paying for something means you have money. People with money make more valuable ad targets.

Even when you pay, you’re still the product.

They're paying for it with a slightly more expensive laptop/computer price. The manufacturers don't get Windows for free, they ultimately pass that cost on to the consumer.

Yes, of course, but I think it's a slightly shallow perspective.

It's a push-pull between the hardware vendor and Microsoft. You can bet that a hardware vendor with large numbers can get a better deal on the Windows license. Why? Because the vendor effectively "sells" you, the customer to Microsoft.

Very few? Most machines sold have an OEM version, which I'm sure was paid for by the OEM (Dell, HP, Lenovo, etc)

I think this is where something like the reAct framework would be super helpful.

A human dungeon master doesn't pull a random enemy from the aether super well (or at least I don't!!). When I pick monsters I either logically think what makes sense for the area, pick something that's cool or vaguely humorous that I'm feeling the vibe of, or... use a random encounter table.

For treasure and rewards... if it's not something hand picked, I'm again getting the loot tables out and rolling. And heck even for gold rewards and things, I'm rolling the dice.

After trying basic stuff with langchain, an AI integrated with these types of tools is really promising. I think more systems on top could make it into a passable DM- at least until context becomes an issue.

I believe they're referring to the bailout YC (and others) were asking for- going so far as to arrange a petition last night.

YC asked for exactly what just happened. (Depositors be made whole.) They did not ask for anything beyond what regulators ultimately deemed reasonable.

That seems like the short term future of the profession, at least with a certain class of problems.

I just tried this out and it's basically exactly what I want! No frills, basic feature set. Was going to make something myself but now I can be even lazier than normal.

This is FANTASTIC! There's a ton of naysayers here, but I'm going through songs and having a great time with this.

It seems most forms of EDM work great with this setup! One funny thing is for heavily remixed tracks, all the remixes pop up as suggestions. :)

Thanks! <3

The current model does tend to do well with EDM, but got a new model in the works that should hopefully address a lot of the shortcomings of the current one!

I spent a few days working on using ChatGPT to write code. I've been meaning to write a blogpost about my experience, but here's my synopsis.

Where ChatGPT was best was when I wanted to do generic data structure work with common tools. Prompts like "make a Python class that stores keys in a redis sorted set, with the score as a timestamp, that removes members older than a configured time on access / insertion." I know how that code should work, I know what's correct- but it's nice being lazy and letting ChatGPT spit out a class for me I can clean up.

Anytime I want to do anything weird or nonstandard, ChatGPT is an uphill battle. Try asking it to write a convolution function without using Numpy (say you're using PyPy or AWS Lambda and C extensions are a no go). It will often insist you have to use Numpy- it argued with me at one point it wasn't possible without it! (This has gotten a bit better since, but was still quite interesting)

Working with pre-existing code, especially anything database related, was not worth the time spent at all. Terrible query plans, misinterpreting the schema that was provided, etc. I do love SQL though- I'm quite biased here.

It was interesting in that when it worked best, I needed to know what to ask for. I asked a good friend who started learning to code a few months ago to try it, and she was way less successful with it versus reading documentation.

Ultimately I think with tight text editor integration it will be great, but it's still going to require someone skilled and who knows what to ask for- at least for a couple years. As for how productive it's made me, I've stopped using it for anything except greenfield work with common libraries I already know how to use.

> I asked a good friend who started learning to code a few months ago to try it, and she was way less successful with it versus reading documentation.

This was my experience. As a learning programmer, I determined it is easier to read the documentation than learn from chatGPTs code snippits

Wow, incredible. You can't make this stuff up.