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matthew-wegner

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About matthew-wegner

Currently programmer/infra stuff at Capybara Games.

Previously Aztez (Aztez.com), a two-person project. I was the programming half.

Other things: Founding advisor of the Independent Games Summit (inside GDC) + 10 years. Independent Games Festival co-chair at one point. Still host TIGSource/TIGForums.

Wrote the submission/judging backends for both GDC and IGF.

Unicycled through Vietnam and parts of Africa! And sometimes photographer, sometimes downtempo DJ (https://www.mixcloud.com/gannett/)

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    Zoom out one step. The experiment should have been searching for "build website with AI", or "build website with ", not "hey use this very specific UI to do something I know will f…

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    Comment #49163376

    Are you describing a "chat window" experience here? This is apples to oranges.

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    Comment #48742523

    An Anthropic subscription is a 90%+ off discount for tech influencers to hype up an IPO (no different from companies directly paying Instagram influencers, except less overt). And …

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    Comment #48194730

    From the article: "new features for controlling power wheelchairs with Apple Vision Pro" Someone using this feature will want motion cues as well. And in your quote: Dwell Control …

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    Comment #48087604

    Very cool! Do you know Thomas Shahan's work? He once contributed his woodcut artwork to a videogame, so he does seem very technically curious. I bet he'd be interested in trying so…

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    Comment #45626400

    Tahoe can also: https://github.com/apple/container

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    Comment #45594364

    > You're not able to virtualize the build machines. Sure you can. And officially, too. Apple still ships a bunch of virtualization drivers in macOS itself. Have a look: /System/Lib…

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    Comment #45341900

    > E.g., in Windows apps, menu items are keyboard-addressable by default. This is brilliant for accessibility, and for accustomed power users. MacOS has no _by default_ equivalent. …

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    Comment #44428921

    It would work even better. From the linked support page: "Motion is detected based on the amount of signal disruption taking place between the Xfinity Gateway and your selected WiF…

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    Comment #44066591

    > that changes randomly Moving the mouse pointer to middle of bottom edge of a screen will permanently move the Dock there. As far as I know, there is no way to disable this behavi…

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    Comment #43204580

    > Right-click on directory > Services > New Terminal at Folder. Note that you can also bind a hotkey to this! And in general in macOS, you can a bind to a hotkey to any menu item i…

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    Comment #42121535

    Is it 4x the performance? Passmark shows 38,951 / 4,282 versus 24,724 / 4,555: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i5-14600... https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?…

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    Comment #42090666

    Minecraft's origin WIP thread, too! https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=6273.0

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    Comment #42067386

    People were much more motivated to vote against Trump while he was actively president and his nonsense was dominating the news on a daily basis. But 4 years later? It's like making…

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    Comment #42003276

    Huh! I regularly max CPU for long stretches (game development), but I found I could only get the fans to move if I engaged the neural cores on top of everything else. Something lik…

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    Comment #42001933

    Some of it depends on which variant fits you best. But yeah, in general the M1 is still very good--if you hear of someone in your circle selling one for cheap because they're upgra…

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    Comment #41874225

    It's a 1:1 scrape of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events

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    Comment #41865471

    You might want to give appropriate credit! And by "might" I mean specifically https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_Creative...

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    Comment #41865423

    How would you compare/contrast this to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events ? Edit: You appear to be scraping it, actually?

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    Comment #41560498

    I realize it's a very Apple ecosystem thing to shore up gaps in macOS with 3rd party apps, but BetterDisplay can do this for you: https://github.com/waydabber/BetterDisplay (Run no…

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    Comment #41462194

    Some consumer gaming data points: - Geforce 3090 with 24GB will be 4 years old at the end of this month - The PS5 is also almost 4 years old - The Nintendo Switch is 7.5 years old …

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    Comment #41231356

    I guess the precise definition would be most ungulates, but not migratory ungulates? > Although not extensively studied in non-humans, endurance running is unique to humans among p…

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    Comment #41231321

    I was trying to help with a simplified mental model. Sorry, I thought the "another way to think about it" part was clearer than it might have been. The linked paper in the parent c…

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    Comment #41231232

    Another way to think about it--i.e. hoofed animals can only walk or sprint. Humans can jog, so as long as a human hunter can pick up the trail after the animal sprints out of sight…