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New comment by cloogshicer in "Every Frame Perfect"

cloogshicer — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 16:30:42 +0000

I think that's a false dichotomy. The examples the author gives would not be slower in any way if done correctly.

New comment by cloogshicer in "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"

cloogshicer — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:10:05 +0000

This short video is the best response to what you wrote above:

https://youtu.be/q_Rqvd1ayUE

New comment by cloogshicer in "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"

cloogshicer — Wed, 27 May 2026 21:57:34 +0000

This attitude of "individual cases don't matter as long as the average case is somewhat covered" is exactly why the world's going to shit.

The parent post's worry is warranted, IMO.

New comment by cloogshicer in "We've made the world too complicated"

cloogshicer — Sat, 16 May 2026 11:01:07 +0000

What a reductive world view that is.

New comment by cloogshicer in "Signals, the push-pull based algorithm"

cloogshicer — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 10:40:17 +0000

Super cool, thanks for explaining! Is the code available somewhere?

New comment by cloogshicer in "Signals, the push-pull based algorithm"

cloogshicer — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 07:47:21 +0000

What an amazing article. I really like the presentation of text scrolling together with the code. Wonder how this is done under the hood.

New comment by cloogshicer in "Swift 6.3"

cloogshicer — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 11:11:25 +0000

But you have to know all of them to read other people's code.

To answer your question: I would immediately get rid of guard.

Also, I think the complexity and interplay of structs, classes, enums, protocols and now actors is staggering.

New comment by cloogshicer in "Show HN: Gemini can now natively embed video, so I built sub-second video search"

cloogshicer — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:39:08 +0000

Could this be used for creating video editing software?

Imagine a Premiere plugin where you could say "remove all scenes containing cats" and it'll spit out an EDL (Edit Decision List) that you can still manually adjust.

New comment by cloogshicer in "Can I run AI locally?"

cloogshicer — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 09:55:47 +0000

Genuine question, will this actually give you the latest solid local model?

I would've thought no, because of the knowledge cutoff in whatever model you use to download it.

New comment by cloogshicer in "Nanolang: A tiny experimental language designed to be targeted by coding LLMs"

cloogshicer — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 08:01:06 +0000

I think this could be very useful even for regular old programming. We could treat the diffs to the code as the main source of truth (instead of the textual snapshot each diff creates).

Jonathan Edwards (Subtext lang) has a lot of great research on this.

New comment by cloogshicer in "Engineering dogmas it's time to retire"

cloogshicer — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 10:10:18 +0000

If you have a policy in place that forces engineers to wait for review before merging each PR, then yes, by definition they have less autonomy. It might still be worth the trade off in your situation, but I like the suggestion in the article where senior devs can decide themselves whether they want their code reviewed or not.

New comment by cloogshicer in "Engineering dogmas it's time to retire"

cloogshicer — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 01:57:26 +0000

In the article, they specifically exclude juniors and people who are still being onboarded.

New comment by cloogshicer in "Engineering dogmas it's time to retire"

cloogshicer — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 23:39:57 +0000

The author never suggested to eliminate code reviews entirely. Just to give individuals more autonomy, which is great in my book.

New comment by cloogshicer in "This is not the future"

cloogshicer — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 15:00:07 +0000

Your point of view is based on extreme reductionism.

New comment by cloogshicer in "Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?"

cloogshicer — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 22:09:32 +0000

> I've had Claude Code write an entire unit/integration test suite in a few hours (300+ tests)

I'd love to see someone do this, or a similar task, live on stream. I always feel like an idiot when I read things like this because despite using Claude Code a lot I've never been able to get anything of that magnitude out of it that wasn't slop/completely unusable, to the point where I started to question if I hadn't been faster writing everything by hand.

Claiming that software is now 90% cheaper feels absurd to me and I'd love to understand better where this completely different worldview comes from. Am I using the tools incorrectly? Different domains/languages/ecosystems?

New comment by cloogshicer in "Steam Frame"

cloogshicer — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 23:30:30 +0000

Thanks!

New comment by cloogshicer in "Steam Frame"

cloogshicer — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 18:07:02 +0000

Genuine question, if you already own an Index, why would you also get this? Wireless functionality, or something else?

New comment by cloogshicer in "PixiEditor 2.0 – A FOSS universal 2D graphics editor"

cloogshicer — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 20:51:44 +0000

FYI, this crashes the tab in the latest iOS 18.5 Safari and Chrome.

New comment by cloogshicer in "Use Your Type System"

cloogshicer — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 21:33:21 +0000

There is a major difference at the call site.

try/catch has significantly more complex call sites because it affects control flow.

New comment by cloogshicer in "The Big OOPs: Anatomy of a Thirty-Five Year Mistake"

cloogshicer — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 13:49:34 +0000

Thank you all for your recommendations!