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fixed, i think.

part of the 2001 charm?

yeah this is what happens when you let LLM design the UI. The whole flow needs to be updated.

WebSockets.

yup, this is the original website. The domain kept auto-renewing I guess :)

yeah, that's the original. It is better than this remake but no multiplayer.

you probably got damage. If stuck like this, go to menu and select "mass kill"

yup, it was a java applet. Stopped working when Java in the browser died.

for the 25th anniversary (approximately) I vibecoded what i wanted to do for years -- port of the original remake (yes) to JavaScript. Alive again.

I so hate it when people fill these postmortems with marketing speak. Don't they know it is counterproductive?

to be fair, they needed to scale to roughly a thousand concurrent users (where concurrent is used very loosely here). so I wouldn't say that scaleability was really a requirement. …

You think I was rude asking you about your experience. Now think how rude this unsubstantiated allegation of obvious simplicity of the code in question is to the person who wrote i…

"The technical implementation can be roughly inferred by any programmer", "such a foreseeable failure state"... how many years of experience do you have?

All the talk about how crappy Boeing engineering here was is bullshit and speculation and I am surprised PG participates in it. What we can discuss objectively here is incident res…

how about they just use ML for once and detect the typist and mute her automatically?

Meh, it is not as hard as it seems. Just get yourself 2 kids in quick succession. Adding second one will be both easier than getting first and it will highlight how silly it was to…

Dude I lost 10 pounds and keeping that is constant work. You go!

I agree. I know some doctors and while they do tell stories about the patients (obviously completely anonymously) and sometimes have a laugh about them, you can always feel certain…

I wonder if it would be possible to design a system which would power down some of the memory when not plugged to a power source. I do all my dev on an MBP and would be more or les…

Oh man, I don't care (as much) about typewriters but yeah, what a happy story. It's like visiting a town for a day and learning by accident that the band you've loved for years but…

I've interviewed probably dozens of people who couldn't code, but never worked with one. I've had plenty of bad coworkers, but all of them could write code to a degree where they w…

wait, but what is it that you do? If you are getting hired to write code, you should be ok demonstrating that you can code in the interview. If you are interviewing for an architec…