Ben "Manacaster" Kelly

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Arr-Tard-Maxxing old enterprise CPUs & GPUs for game hosting

[Martin Scott @fizzychicken]

I'm not sure a lot of people understand what game coders actually do. We're not spending 9 hours a day finely hand crafting artisan software and expressing our inner dreams... 90% of the time we are fighting compilers and existing architecture, having to work out how undocumented code works, and tracking down obscure bugs and behavioural issues.

Most of game programming is just difficult, tedious, laborious grunt work, and the cognitive load we have to endure to get anything done is tiring and frustrating. No game coder is doing it for this 90% of the job.

We make games because the 10% that IS actually about making things fun and expressing ourselves is so incredibly rewarding it makes the other 90% bearable.

Now imagine if there was a tool, some kind of AI agent maybe, which could do most of the 90% grunt work for you, leaving you to just make all the decisions and express your creativity. How amazing would that be. How completely revolutionary would that be.

[Tim Sweeney @TimSweeneyEpic]

@cmuratori @rfleury See the reply threads to my recent posts; a substantial number of users would love to have mandatory political opinion disclosures for developers, with several saying they take it upon themselves to surface this info in reviews since it’s not disclosed on product pages.

[Ben "Manacaster" Kelly @ManacasterBen]

@elonmusk @StephenKing wait there's a tribe of people named Benjamin? ...why was I not invited? so sadd

[Ben "Manacaster" Kelly @ManacasterBen]

"ask clarifying questions" is a good one! the rest...yeah, midwitshit

[Larsen Cundric @larsencc]

This is how the top 0.01% eng operate btw.

[Larsen Cundric @larsencc]

This is how the top 0.01% eng operate btw.

[Ben "Manacaster" Kelly @ManacasterBen]

@SyntheticBeef @larsencc "this seems totally wrong. what am i not understanding? or is this actually just broken? either way, fix it" half the time works every time

[Ben "Manacaster" Kelly @ManacasterBen]

@mario21ic godspeed. you can do it

[Ben "Manacaster" Kelly @ManacasterBen]

@Clint_Davey1 I thought that said "Mein Axis Powers"

[ℏεsam @Hesamation]

the mathematicians pushing back on AI say that it might help with proofs, but not our HUMAN UNDERSTANDING of math.

so I got curious how chess players think AI engines help them better understand chess.

and found this clip of Magnus Carlsen:
“the neural nets have improved our understanding of the game immensely.”

watch his HUMILITY towards these engines:

“it’s just that my understanding is not good enough. And that is useful.”

“I rarely play against engines at all because they just make me feel so stupid and useless.”

[Ben "Manacaster" Kelly @ManacasterBen]

@dhh I've probably been on this blessed site since before half its users were born.

Not a lot of internet websites that used for 18 years.

[DHH @dhh]

Amazing endorsement of X. This really is where you'll find the most optimistic, forward-looking people in tech.

[Ben "Manacaster" Kelly @ManacasterBen]

@CorpseKings @grok @imagine a new logotype for @manacaster_game that looks as bad-ass as these four.

[Corpse Kings @CorpseKings]

Modern Logo design is so boring. We need to go back.

[Paul Kim @writeclimbrun]

Q: "What do you call a magician who has lost his magic?"

A: "Ian."

[Ben "Manacaster" Kelly @ManacasterBen]

@FullyHydratedFH yes, but only because I did zero legwork to understand what i was looking at :)

[Ben "Manacaster" Kelly @ManacasterBen]

@TheCartelDel The right number of wishlists to launch with is unfortunately now zero

[Ben "Manacaster" Kelly @ManacasterBen]

@keennay @TheZachMueller for a moment i thought you meant the country and i was like "uh, i think there are zero datacenters there at all"

[Ben "Manacaster" Kelly @ManacasterBen]

@mfranz_on @mudler_it i have to find the place where I said "i think I'm good with wireguard, caddy, and a prayer"

[Ben "Manacaster" Kelly @ManacasterBen]

@Giulio6686 ♾

[Ben "Manacaster" Kelly @ManacasterBen]

@PeasantSmith hold spliff to sky

call down lightning bolt

smoke