I've done a lot of programming on various sub sections of the disciple and it still remains to me the hardest one to crack for AI.

It's undoubtedly am incredible tool for accelerating output but I think it's going to be the hardest for ai to commoditize as a whole.

I really appreciate you sharing your story. Know that it does not define you and you are absolutely loved and are worthy of love, especially from yourself.

There's no doubt that Unity has put its users through the ringer over the last few years or so.

That said I still for the most part enjoy working with it. I think Unity had the right idea in regards to a lot of the toolset but unfortunately it's suffered in regards to stability.

With Unity 6+ though it really feels like we're starting to see the fruits of Unity labor. UI Toolkit, input system, rendering pipeline the package manger and more are finally starting to feel stable.

Additionally the engine itself feels far more rock solid then it had in years.

A rather large piece for me also really just enjoys programming in C#.

I'm actually super pumped that we have a great open source game engine to keep Unity on the straight and narrow. I'm also pumped that we have an amazing tool like Unreal for things more AAA in nature (although that's certainly not all). I personally think Unity is perfectly sandwiched in the middle of those options.

With the right ideas and execution I think it's going to be really exciting to see where it ends up.

The pessimism can get old.

I've been using unity for almost a decade now and enjoying it despite the many caveats and idiosyncrasies I come across.

The bottom line is, I definitely don't want to throw away the decade of experience I have using Unity if I can help it. Ultimately I want them to learn from their mistakes and move forward. While Unity has had a fair share of missteps ultimately it's the devil I know.

The biggest issue in the US is the will to change things. As you've mentioned, during the pandemic, we've seen how rapidly things can change when everyone is aligned in one direction. Whether you agree with those changes or not the fact is many cities had al fresco dining , and portions of streets reclaimed for it in as little as a year.

Another interesting observation I've had about the US is that commercial space for rent always tends to look way larger than it needs to be! Instead of subdividing a space and cutting the rent potentially in half many commercial units are huge and I can only imagine the rent is so high that only the big chains can afford to rent them.

Of course this also means that things tend to be a little less quaint and walkable, because instead of having 2/3 small businesses you have a massive chain in it's space.

I live in a fairly walkable area in Los Angeles (go figure right?) and I can't tell you the amount of giant open commercial / retail spaces I see that have been dormant for quite a while. I can't help but think I'd they were to slice up the space they would be filled in no time.

It takes a lot of patience, learning and failure. Even after 10 years I still feel like there's so much more to learn to get to where I want to go.

On that note, search in that regard always reminded me of those times where you ask a teacher how to spell a word and they say to look it up in the dictionary.

I don't often see a lot of game dev content on hacker news, so I thought it would be fun to add some!

I just spent the last 5 months updating my mobile game Command Center Earth to version 2.0.0. The trailer on the website posted is a culmination of all that work!

The funny part is that while the "Fully Deterministic" refactor made to the game only gets a small callout in the trailer, it's what took the majority of the time! I could have never possibly imagined how much time, energy and testing it would take to get the game reproducibly deterministic with Unity! And even with all that work, I can't 100% guarantee that it is deterministic across all devices (although my testing shows things hold together on all devices I've tested). All things considered though, I'm very happy with how things came together!

In addition to the deterministic refactor, I added 3 new levels to the game, 2 of which were only possible as a result of the refactor! Without it, all the bumping of those meteors (on Haxer & Frank) would have produced a different level scenario on each retry! Additionally, having things deterministic means that my leaderboard is now accurate to 0.01 seconds!

There were some big visual overhauls as well, but I thought the HN community might be the most intrigued by the determinism updates!

Thanks for checking out my game!

P.S. I plan on writing a blog post on all that I've learned, in the hopes that the next developer to come along has a better go of it than I did btw.

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Given the above, I've been looking in to a good ChatGPT client that offers additional functionality (exporting chats for example). There were quite a few out there, but I was curious what the community was using?

I am currently using Windows, however it would be awesome to hear what the community thinks of the best clients for any given platform!

To start things off, here is some I've found * lencx/ChatGPT (Windows, MacOS, Linux) * lisiur/ChatWizard (Windows, MacOS, Linux). * EasyChat AI (Windows) * Machato (Mac) * ChatHub (Chrome / Edge)

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I get the feeling though that the scales are starting to tip in their favor where we are going to be needing them more then they are going to be needing us soon haha.

Kudos to valve though, it feels like they have been driving toward this dream for a while and they're finally starting to hit the sweet spot with the steamdeck.