jermaustin1

I agree. Game design is what makes a good game, not the programming. And I'm actually excited about game designers and artists being able to take their independent ideas and prototype games in a day/week/month/year/whatever.

The problem is psychology. People don't HODL while their retirements drop by 20, 30, 40% in a week. High earners might, institutions can, but regular every day people they take the loss, and might never go back into the market again, forgoing those recovery years.

The average recovery is 18 months I think (I'm in a meeting, and can't look it up), but people like my dad watched his retirement fizzle out in the dotcom bubble, because he was all in on tech. Then he moved to safer bond and realestate funds, and his value never recovered, and then 07/08 happened and he watched what he thought were "safe" investments disappear almost immediately. He pulled everything out of the market, and never invested again. He went through 2 crashes on his portfolio, and to this day doesn't trust stocks and bonds.

He was sold an annuity that according to him is supposed to double it's payout every 5 years it is left un touched, so he didn't touch it for 15 years, now that he is drawing it down, it draws from principal before ever touching the growth, and when he dies, only the principal will get passed to my mother. It was basically a scam.

Glue down a mag safe phone charger stand.

In everyone's day jobs where they used an IDE 5 years ago, or even a year ago, are those jobs abandoning the IDE?

I still use Visual Studio in my day job, where Claude's output while VERY helpful, requires my ownership of everything, meaning I am inspecting every single line it changes. If a change is bigger than I think it should, I kill it before I commit.

I know I don't HAVE to use an IDE for that, but if the change is small enough, I am faster than asking Claude to understand the subtext behind my personal context of the product, and the IDE is supremely helpful for making a quick change across a handful of files.

Good news, there is now a KVM switch, and you can have multiple instances in a single tab

A domain registrar was my next one, but trying to find a good way to "balance" that so that one person doesn't just register everything. I was contemplating adding in-game money, and a banking system, and expose an API for e-payments, then the registrar could charge for domains. Then that just pushes the buck down the road to how do you get money? So opening a bank account gets you a toaster and $200 or something, but then whats stopping you from opening 10 accounts... so THEN I invented government and a national ID... anyway, all that seemed hard and I got distracted by "easier" ideas.

I hadn't even planned on releasing this yet, it's been a weekend project for the last few months, that I try to add one thing each time. Lately I've been working on software for it, I was going to create a better IDE. A mix of VB6 and FrontPage, but I keep getting distracted by other weekend projects.

Thank you so much for inventing social media in 1995!

Honestly, thank you, though, for actually building something with this. I never thought anyone would use it for real.

> would explain why the liar-in-chief is so sweaty about the ICC.

In what world do you think Trump even remembers about the double tap on a fishing vessel more than a day ago? He has no worry about anything, he has escaped prosecution for everything he's ever done, and I doubt he believes he might face a tribunal at the Hague, if he even actually knows what the Hague, or a tribunal, or the ICC actually are.

A is significant in it's own right. But most models follow instructions well enough when you prompt it, "Choose one of the following answers:", it will follow that 90% of the time. Use temperature tuning, and a LoRA, and you are 99% of the way there, just without the speed that Jev has.

Yesterday, just to prove to a friend that Jev isn't that "revolutionary" I extracted some image classification code that Claude had written for my private image organizer that used Qwen3-VL, and stopped the output at a single token, then used the probabilities. Input processing on my GPU was somewhere around 1000ms per image, so not too fast, but each question used the prompt cache, so followups were 100ms-ish.

That was my baseline of an untrained, non-optimized single pass classification. It would connect to my llama-server, and use the logprobs for the choices.

After that, I had Claude remove llama-server from the solution, and write it directly to the transformers, then I kept prompting it to profile and find more speed. Eventually my "Decision Engine" running locally on a trained 1B model got to just under 85% accuracy across my 500 validation prompts (images and text) not used or derived from the training set, and an 8MB image, with 10 questions with 5 choices per question, got down to just under 500ms. Pure text prompts and questions are below 100ms for 300tokens + 10 questions + 5 choices per question (average).

It did better on text than images, just because my training set included 90% text. I'll do more training and validation for images when I get home, but for now, I'm more than happy that I can get a local "decision engine" running in 4GB of VRAM and responding in under 30ms for most use cases I've had.

I don’t know how this wrapper works, but if it is like any of the classifiers I’ve had Claude build off an LLM in the past, it grabs the probabilities of the tokens you are looking for, and then computes their relative probs against each other.

Even if the LLM thinks it’s made up D is the highest probability, that isn’t part of the set.

You never actually generate the prose, only the first pass, and grab the probabilities. It couldn’t ask for more details even if it wants to. It gets stopped before the first token renders.

I bought my Quest 2 when it first came out, and I played it for a while, about 2-3 hours a week, peaking at about an hour a day when I found that Blade and Sorcery is a really good game for "exercise".

I bought the Quest 3 as an upgrade because I had noticed my Quest 2 started having intermittent input lag issues. I never pinpointed what was causing it, but my Golf clubs would fly out of my hand and I'd have to wait a few seconds for them to eventually find their way back to me. My controllers would drift out of view when navigating menus. I uninstalled everything, reinstalled it again. When that didn't work, I upgraded.

The issues persisted in the new version as well. So for about the last 20-ish months, I've averaged under an hour a month, most months I don't even pick it up. I might do some homemade PC VR "experiments" (still have access to mouse and keyboard for the game, and not the controllers) on some random claude code experiments. I have a "cyberpunk" mobius strip space station walking sim I've been working on, that will eventually hook into a treadmill.