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New comment by ClimaxGravely in "Aldous Huxley predicts Adderall and champions alternative therapies"

ClimaxGravely — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 00:30:19 +0000

There was also a drink with same name hiropon that was generally available for some time.

I tried googling for more info but I haven't been able to find much in English and my Japanese isn't good enough to read at that level. I've only heard about it from my wife and a few other people in Japan. I've seen a few old posters for it at old bars.

New comment by ClimaxGravely in "Microsoft executive closes replies after Windows 11 "Agentic OS" backlash"

ClimaxGravely — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 21:33:50 +0000

100% It just worked and very few issues.

I'm trying to switch to desktop linux these days. It's way better but still a few kinks relative to my windows7 experience but if they get there I'm done with Windows for personal stuff, hopefully work as well some day.

New comment by ClimaxGravely in "I'm making a small RPG and I need feeback regarding performance"

ClimaxGravely — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 19:35:05 +0000

I though about mentioning that but I didn't want to muddy the waters. There other option in opengl like you said but I can count on one had the times I've used them in a professional context and I think possibly zero for anything that I've shipped. Also I have never looked into what it does under the hood in those cases. You might be right.

New comment by ClimaxGravely in "I'm making a small RPG and I need feeback regarding performance"

ClimaxGravely — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 23:07:30 +0000

It's built of triangles so a quad is 2 triangles etc.

The advice about using quads I'm not sure is really a tautology. I tend to work with quads until one of the quads is non-planar then I cut it so that when I bring it into a game engine the import/bake step doesn't triangulate the mesh in a way I didn't want it to.

New comment by ClimaxGravely in "Show HN: Git Auto Commit (GAC) – LLM-powered Git commit command line tool"

ClimaxGravely — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 21:18:54 +0000

Maybe it's because these days I use perforce more than git but I tend to find myself writing 80% of my commit message before I write any code and touch it up a little at the end.

New comment by ClimaxGravely in "Video game union workers rally against $55B private acquisition of EA"

ClimaxGravely — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 19:02:33 +0000

Worked at many game development studios, only one truly bad experience. Granted I probably got extremely lucky but there are good studios/jobs out there.

My current company is a 4 day work week, fully remote and good pay. I feel I get more work done in a 32 hour week than I did at another company where I had hit ~90 hour weeks a few times. I'm not going back and fixing code I wrote while sleep deprived.

Also worked outside games in STEM, education and a couple startups. I wouldn't say they were particularly better.

New comment by ClimaxGravely in "Beliefs that are true for regular software but false when applied to AI"

ClimaxGravely — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 22:00:03 +0000

Still get them fairly regularly except now they come with a QR code.

New comment by ClimaxGravely in "Vancouver Stock Exchange: Scam capital of the world (1989) [pdf]"

ClimaxGravely — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 03:25:06 +0000

I just happened to be going through every stock in the TSX from smallest market cap to largest. Many of the stocks at the bottom were mining companies that started with some huge spike then faded into nothing for the next N years until the current state of what seems to be basically dead.

New comment by ClimaxGravely in "AMD and Sony's PS6 chipset aims to rethink the current graphics pipeline"

ClimaxGravely — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 18:32:15 +0000

I'd hesitate to call the temporal hacks progress. I disable them every time.

New comment by ClimaxGravely in "Do YC after you graduate: Early decision for students"

ClimaxGravely — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 17:58:01 +0000

I suspect Erlich might have died of an opium overdose at this point.

New comment by ClimaxGravely in "AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks"

ClimaxGravely — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 00:12:50 +0000

For me the text has changed from "don't show me this" to "show less of this" and they come back about once a week now. I also have no option to remove them from the subscriptions feed.

I think a similar thing is happening with their crappy games too. They keep coming back (the games still say "don't show me this" though).

New comment by ClimaxGravely in "'Starter packs' have played a central role in Bluesky's rapid growth"

ClimaxGravely — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 02:32:38 +0000

I kind of feel like G+ got this right the best. It was great being able to subscribe to a circle of pixel artists, chili cooks, whatever niche etc.

For me the golden age of social media. Lots of niche hobby discussion and not a lot of noise.

New comment by ClimaxGravely in "Why F#?"

ClimaxGravely — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 01:43:26 +0000

I work in an industry where F# is a non-starter but I still love to use it outside of work. Also what I learn from F# and functional programming still benefits me in my day job (mostly c++). I think I tend to write a bit safer code after understanding the benefits of a functional language.

New comment by ClimaxGravely in "Station of despair: What to do if you get stuck at end of Tokyo Chuo Rapid Line"

ClimaxGravely — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 02:57:37 +0000

I always wondered what would happen to those people on the train. I tried waking them up but they do not budge.

New comment by ClimaxGravely in "AI isn't going to kill the software industry"

ClimaxGravely — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 04:22:47 +0000

Interesting I found SO to not be that helpful even during the golden years.

I should not that I tend to work in codebases that have little to no public information though so that might be the differentiator. Presumably an LLM would be less useful due to that but I'm looking forward to trying again in the future.

New comment by ClimaxGravely in "Spotify Shuts Down ‘Unwrapped’ Artist Royalty Calculator with Legal Threats"

ClimaxGravely — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 21:12:42 +0000

It seems to be happening more and more these days. JPEGMafia is a good example

New comment by ClimaxGravely in "Spotify Shuts Down ‘Unwrapped’ Artist Royalty Calculator with Legal Threats"

ClimaxGravely — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 21:00:33 +0000

I have youtube premium and music. I've never tried spotify but I have to believe it's better than youtube music. It's hard to believe it could possibly be worse.

New comment by ClimaxGravely in "Google's Results Are Infested, Open AI Is Using Their Playbook from the 2000s"

ClimaxGravely — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 17:43:13 +0000

The few times I gave it a try it was dead wrong. The dream is nice but the execution is lacking.

New comment by ClimaxGravely in "Unity is cancelling the runtime fee for games customers"

ClimaxGravely — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 00:27:05 +0000

If you were really paranoid you could use a framework like ceramic where unity is just one of the many output targets.

I wouldn't necessarily recommend it though.

https://ceramic-engine.com/

New comment by ClimaxGravely in "AI's $600B Question"

ClimaxGravely — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 03:59:54 +0000

Thanks for the insight! I'm still skeptical that it would be great for me as someone who does this for a living but I can see how it might help me for projects outside of my domain.

I'm happy to wait for now and let the tech mature though.