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New comment by lukevp in "The Making Of Super Mario 64 – full Giles Goddard interview (2001)"

lukevp — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 14:18:03 +0000

Doom isn’t 3d, it’s raycasted 2.5d. It’s a completely separate type of rendering that has nothing in common with real 3d.

New comment by lukevp in "Cloudflare opens more Enterprise-only features to all customers"

lukevp — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 17:46:12 +0000

How would any DNS service proxy wildcards? Is that something that’s actually supported as part of DNS? What actually gets resolved in that case? I’ve always had to register every domain/subdomain that should get proxied.

New comment by lukevp in "Backblaze drive stats for Q2 2026"

lukevp — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 07:38:32 +0000

I also had a 6TB red that failed. It was SMR. The other 6TB reds I had were and are still fine, but they weren’t SMR. I didn’t even know what SMR was but that drive had awful performance til the day it died

New comment by lukevp in "GPT-6 Sol and Luna"

lukevp — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 14:25:19 +0000

Why is that? Humans are considered AGI and we make godawful software 90% of the time.

New comment by lukevp in "AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up"

lukevp — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:58:33 +0000

PS5 emulation has gone from barely working to running Dark Souls at 10+ FPS with virtually no graphical glitches… in 6 weeks. If you’re not familiar with normal emulator development time, this is… quite extraordinary. There have been insane progress on decompilations and many other things in the emulator space.

Everyone’s trying to figure out how to convert this speed to product features at scale, but enterprises are like container ships. Lots of might but slow to turn. The littler companies can actually take advantage of this and produce higher quality products at much faster speed. I think you’re expecting too much in the short term and too little in the long term. AI-native companies are gonna eat everyone’s lunch, once they figure out how to actually do it reliably.

New comment by lukevp in "I Don't Like LLMs"

lukevp — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 15:23:58 +0000

If you don’t have style rules baked into the PR process, you should. Tabs vs. spaces is a team decision and needs to be matched by everyone to reduce code churn. It’s correct to reject a PR if it violates the team style guide (although it should be automated and have tooling locally to enforce it as well.)

New comment by lukevp in "Cartesian – AI 3D Modeling for Design"

lukevp — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 23:01:15 +0000

this difference engine model has a lot of obvious flaws - the gears do not mesh with each other, the teeth directly overlap. the notches that are supposed to articulate to ratchet aren't actually engaging the teeth on the ratchet. the ratcheting mechanisms on the right are straight up just hovering in the air and are not attached to anything.

that's probably what people are talking about when they say it can't do CAD?

New comment by lukevp in "Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted board ouster"

lukevp — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 02:42:46 +0000

How do you actually do that? Is it all running locally? Cloud agents? Would love to hear about this. I see these deep agent loops mostly just burning tokens, but when I guide the AI I get very good results, so I’m not sure where the disconnect lies.

New comment by lukevp in "Re-Engineering YouTube for the Living Room: Bringing "Chrobalt" to RDK"

lukevp — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:38:00 +0000

We definitely need more spyware from Google in our smart TVs, can’t wait!

New comment by lukevp in "Desert Ant Labs: local, fast models that run on device"

lukevp — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 14:58:55 +0000

I would love to use Voz and Ear, but I’d need a version that is competitive with other audio transcription LLMs for platform availability - meaning macOS, Windows and Linux, and supporting GPUs if available.

New comment by lukevp in "OKF Agent Memory – Git-native persistent memory for AI coding agents"

lukevp — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:21:58 +0000

I love the idea! OKF 0.2 solves for the problem of the AIs generating massive amounts of documentation (far more than humans ever created) and giving it equal-weight over what a human actually approved and committed to. I've been using it to attribute my decisions with specific directions on how to ensure that it takes strong direction from my explicit decisions and clarifies implicit / AI-driven decisioning.

Adding on progressive disclosure to this is brilliant, and I love the idea of a fast, in-memory, single-binary tool. This is a great way to approach the solution to this problem.

One thing I will say though - I would never be able to use this in my enterprise. It would just be too much of an uphill battle to purchase something that is so niche in utility - this tool is not a ton different than just having the md files locally and having it use ripgrep to search over them, and telling CLAUDE to write the OKF files as well as an index when it makes changes, is it? is the index generated dynamically / is anything about the progressive disclosure different than just having the agent manage it while it documents?

If you're going for smaller teams that can buy tools without a ton of approval / procedural overhead, I think that might have some success. another possible solution would be to make the cross-repo search something that you can handle with OSS but you have to self-host, and then pay for support. if you got enough usage and penetration within an enterprise from the teams just using OSS and self-hosting, they might consider buying support after-the-fact.

New comment by lukevp in "How Dactyl Works"

lukevp — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 20:58:40 +0000

Running an iOS app on Android is still gonna look like an iOS app. This seems worse than Flutter (reimplement the whole UI) or React Native (abstract on top of native UI.) If we’re ok picking a non-native UI why not just build a Cordova app?

New comment by lukevp in "The August 17 outage"

lukevp — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 23:57:21 +0000

Why don’t you have your actions run on pr or push instead of on commit? Why would you even want that? I’ve never seen actions set up that way. If I push a branch with 100 commits then it’ll only run CI once. It’ll show the rest of the commits in the UI, sure, but that doesn’t mean that it’s the same performance impact. It could very well be 1 db transaction with multiple rows written instead of 100. I think you’re reducing this problem too much without knowing their architecture.

New comment by lukevp in "Auto-research with codex: How I achieved a 232x Faster Kernel"

lukevp — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 23:14:56 +0000

I wonder if this will result in discovery of edge cases in the logic that could be exploited to get higher scores (glitches/bugs and such!)

New comment by lukevp in "Learning more about Claude's mathematical capabilities"

lukevp — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 14:22:58 +0000

Jarred is the Bun creator who just got acquihired and converted Bun to Rust. Pretty sure his job now is to burn tokens to make news headlines. Like a developer advocate for LLM usage in general.

New comment by lukevp in "Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT, expanding GPT‑5.6 Luna access for free users"

lukevp — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:40:17 +0000

Well your comment adds no value and is just offensive. Why don’t you argue a counterpoint?

New comment by lukevp in "Linux desktop market share has hit over 10% in North America"

lukevp — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 06:13:29 +0000

What have they iOSed about macOS? The latest versions haven’t lost any features as far as I’m aware. But Windows lost the ability to even pin the task bar to the side of the window in Windows 11… and the ability to stop auto updates.

If anything, iOS is getting more Mac-like, especially the iPad version. It has multi windowing and a window manager now.

New comment by lukevp in "Nativ: Run frontier open models locally on your Mac"

lukevp — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 23:16:38 +0000

I’ve got a 32 gig m1 MacBook Pro. how would I go about trying Gemma like you mentioned? Would it run at an acceptable speed, and what could I do? Coding?

New comment by lukevp in "Fixing analog audio on the $2.58 HDMI-to-VGA adapter"

lukevp — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 20:12:09 +0000

It seems like this person is incredibly intelligent and resourceful. Why not just design a new PCB for this instead of modding one? Surely the component cost of 2 connectors and a little PCB could still be in the < $20 range and actually output good quality analog signals? $20 is the same as $3 if you’re also buying CRTs just to play Switch games. This is such a hobby level activity I’m sure people would love a kit + a guidebook, could even provide a 3d printed case.

New comment by lukevp in "Fossil Fuels Are 40% of Freight Shipping Tonnage, but Half Its Fuel Use"

lukevp — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 17:08:31 +0000

Why is the EV better? Because electricity transmission is more efficient than gas? What about the losses in the electricity transmission and the batteries and the conversion to motive force in the motor? Is it way less than that 40%? And wouldn’t there be more than 0% losses because refinery -> power plant shipping?

I’m pro EV by the way, I just want to understand your point better. Being able to go all the way to transportation using clean energy is an obvious benefit of EVs. The “dirty electricity” angle is less obvious to me.