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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Buying neices and nephews Christmas presents?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  one last gift with a final check and a letter congratulating them on making it to the real world. i think one of my aunts was still sending me stuff but i got a letter from my uncle i think telling me i’d made it to the real world. at some point the gifts felt nice but we’re also kinda pointless so I totally appreciated the letter and the congrats.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unity makes major changes to controversial install-fee program ...😑⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  fair changes, but the ONLY way forward is to fire riccitello. i don’t see how anyone can trust them again until that happens.

  removal of the retroactivity piece will likely appease a large number of devs tho (dunno if it’ll be the majority but that was the biggest wtf for me)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Friday Facts #373 - Factorio: Space Age⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  really glad we got to hear about a straight up comparison against space exploration. i’ll admit i was hoping they’d go a different direction (i’ve seen people mention going underwater which i think would have been a ton of fun and a guaranteed differentiator from anything currently available)

  all that aside, the most interesting parts for me are the engine changes:

  • improved blueprints? how? i can’t say i’ve ever had much to complain about with factorios blueprint system
  • better flying robots behavior. this one could be huge, when i built a large base it was hard to properly balance logistics robots and not feel like they were just not working as well as they should

  a year away tho! that’s okay, we’ll live, i just got sucked back into satisfactory (playing sf+ which is basically bobsangels for sf and it’s GLORIOUS).

  i know all us diehards will pick it up sight unseeen, but unless there’s something flashy, like a graphical overhaul (which i’m not sure the diehards would be in favor of), i do wonder how it will stand out and attract the newer players that have been playing the newer automation games and might only look at factorio skin-deep and not get as excited for.

  and i’m okay with all that, but i also want their work to be appreciated by as many people as possible so here’s to hoping they can nail the marketing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Show HN: Use Code Llama as Drop-In Replacement for Copilot Chat⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  i gotta ask - are people really coding like this now? telling an AI what they want to accomplish and then editing after the fact? or is this just a technique that’s being used by more junior and just-starting developers?

  if it’s truly all happening locally i could see it becoming a little more mainstream but i’ve never thought most companies would be comfortable sending parts of their codebase to an upstream AI source for processing

  i’ve spoken to a friend who’s learning to code and using chat-gpt to help him learn the ropes, and i think that’s a great use of it as a learning tool but i do hope we don’t go down a road where fewer and fewer people can write things from scratch (or what we referred to as “from scratch” a year ago).