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New comment by butlike in "Why is Meta destroying its engineering organization?"

butlike — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:24:32 +0000

The scales are different. FB has far and away more users. Could you imagine the headlines? "AI tool now thought police for articles on Facebook"

New comment by butlike in "There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing"

butlike — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:02:55 +0000

I wonder if you could prompt for configurable values "knobs" like:

"Let's make a super mario 2D sidescrolling clone. I want the impulse, angular velocity, and gravity influencing the feeling of the jump to be configurable"

So you essentially design the parts that require detail while building up a custom engine

New comment by butlike in "Pac-Man, but you're the ghost"

butlike — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 21:06:17 +0000

Pac-Man: Chaos version

One person plays pac-man

Two people play the 4 ghosts, 1 stick for each ghost on a dual stick controller.

One person plays the floor, and can rotate the game world clockwise or counter-clockwise.

New comment by butlike in "Pac-Man, but you're the ghost"

butlike — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 21:04:25 +0000

It's a Sim City like god game where you have to build up life on the pellet as much as possible until some startlingly-fast pac-man eats it.

New comment by butlike in "Pac-Man, but you're the ghost"

butlike — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 21:02:38 +0000

Incredible concept. It's a little easy to figure out how to game the pac-man's movement, but I can't stress enough: incredible concept.

New comment by butlike in "Not everyone is using AI for everything"

butlike — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 20:59:07 +0000

If you're outright lying to yourself to land a job to make rent, fine, but for god's sake internalize it as a temporary stepping stone and immediately start looking for a better fit.

New comment by butlike in "Not everyone is using AI for everything"

butlike — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 20:57:46 +0000

To this point, there are many advantages to answering truthfully. The job might be tailored (a little) to your expertise. Maybe the heavy AI tickets will get de-prioritized from your queue if you say you have light experience. If you say you're all in on AI, you just might find yourself becoming an AI expert out of necessity. Not because that's what the company wanted out of filling the position initially, but because that's what they got. It's expensive to have an open seat. The interviewing door swings both ways. You're looking for a fit just as they're looking for a fit. Going in every day pretending to be "a fraud" (or however else you might start to internalize it) eventually starts to weigh on the body, soul, and mind.

New comment by butlike in "Google Flight Simulator"

butlike — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 20:18:51 +0000

"If you land correctly at Kai Tak you get emailed a job offer from a major airline" could work.

New comment by butlike in "Google Flight Simulator"

butlike — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 20:16:06 +0000

This is wonderful. It would be cool if I could take off from an airport. Maybe I search an airport, and with that one "selected in search results", choose "Tools > Flight Simulator" and it starts me from the ground.

New comment by butlike in "CrankGPT"

butlike — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 20:09:54 +0000

If they're not scroll hijacking, then we're just jacking it ourselves. Think about it.

Thanks, web designers <3

New comment by butlike in "A short history of Cerro Torre, the most controversial mountain (2012)"

butlike — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 20:06:23 +0000

Because it breaks down if we use another example. Would you want to solve a rubik's cube that was pre-turned so there were only 3 flips left to complete the cube? Changing the state of the activity (adding bolts/belays/ladders/etc.) is not in the spirit of the event, just as almost finishing a rubik's cube for someone else isn't in the spirit of actual event.

Put a different way: the climb becomes the bolter's experience, not the mountain's experience. It is no longer intrinsically mountain climbing, it's hiking.

New comment by butlike in "A short history of Cerro Torre, the most controversial mountain (2012)"

butlike — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 20:02:07 +0000

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New comment by butlike in "A short history of Cerro Torre, the most controversial mountain (2012)"

butlike — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 20:01:14 +0000

Just goes to show you money can't buy everything. Can't buy you being in good enough shape to climb the mountain at the mountain's level.

New comment by butlike in "A short history of Cerro Torre, the most controversial mountain (2012)"

butlike — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:59:12 +0000

Why not just install ladders at that point so everybody can join in and climb. Or maybe a ski lift system to the top? Where's the cuttoff? When it becomes personally too hard for you, the tool that assists you is allowed? Someone else's bolts make it easier. It's a shame the local community chose this route.

New comment by butlike in "A short history of Cerro Torre, the most controversial mountain (2012)"

butlike — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:55:42 +0000

The bottom line is the mountain didn't have bolts from the get-go. You're still free to climb it, and if you can't; you won't.

New comment by butlike in "A short history of Cerro Torre, the most controversial mountain (2012)"

butlike — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:54:15 +0000

I agree with the old school climber's philosophy. It's almost like the old school emphasizes the sense of adventure, and the new school emphasizes the sense of experience via touring (which in my mind are two different things).

New comment by butlike in "A short history of Cerro Torre, the most controversial mountain (2012)"

butlike — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:50:28 +0000

Mountain didn't come with the easements at first and it was still possible to summit. It should be possible to do it without them again. The bottom line is anything else besides that is lazy. As the article says, there's many alternate mountains for more inexperienced climbers.

New comment by butlike in "How to earn a billion dollars"

butlike — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:46:53 +0000

That's a fair point and your comment is good.

New comment by butlike in "A short history of Cerro Torre, the most controversial mountain (2012)"

butlike — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:45:53 +0000

It reads like the scandal was only from the first attempt at the free climb, where a bunch of belays and bolts were left behind. He since went back and on attempt 3 was able to free climb the compressor side completely. This was after they removed the 120 bolts.

New comment by butlike in "How to earn a billion dollars"

butlike — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:00:12 +0000

One thing I'm gathering from reading this thread is that the 'spending money' is different than the 'power money.' The 'power money' may not actually exist as it's tied up in valuations. If your company is the 'power money' generator, then of course you'll need to work more, since you're in it to be more powerful