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vmg12

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About vmg12

Software engineer, currently working on https://snack.game

Personal site: https://vmg.dev Twitter: https://x.com/vmg__0

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    No browser support issues, the pain I run into is people running on vpns or their company's internet which block udp and by extension webtransport.

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    Comment #49233690

    I made a site https://snack.game where people can upload and share multiplayer games. It uses webtransport instead of websockets for the networking transport so the games feel a lo…

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    Comment #49189055

    Geo-sync? I'm pretty sure durable objects are tied to the datacenter they are created in.

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    Comment #49188552

    All we need is a way to run these on spot instances

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    Show HN: A fast, native, open-source Spotlight search alternative

    Hey, I want to share an app I made over the weekend called Floodlight. I saw some people complaining about spotlight the other day and I've had the same problems with it for a long…

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    Comment #49108587

    Elixir / Beam take this approach with byte strings. Once they exceed 64 bytes they are allocated to shared reference counted memory.

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    Comment #49047088

    The actual term for this is hedonic adaptation.

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    Comment #49014615

    I can sniff out AI writing immediately but from what I hear AI writing is more popular than ever

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    I get this same feeling when I see people taking photos for social media. I see the number of photos people take and I think of how sad it is that they are ruining their own experi…

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    The argument is that doing it all on a single thread will result in high cpu utilization and that is what makes the power usage spike and the pc feel hot. Thats it. A lot of people…

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    > If you think this is actually nothing, prove it. Put the code up on github that shows taking a constant random stream of markdown, code, and diffs and displays it in the terminal…

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    Comment #48970893

    Drawing to the terminal / rendering / whatever, this is all arguing semantics and very uninteresting and not insightful. > they need a high powered game engine rendering loop Don't…

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    Comment #48970872

    It's basically idle because it's not doing anything. If you are streaming in markdown and code and then doing syntax highlighting on this code in real time, then rendering it on th…

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    Comment #48969728

    The fundamental problem with all Js based apps is how they are very single threaded. With js you get 1 thread at 100% utilization. Power usage and heat scale non-linearly with cpu …

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    Hardware wearing out is not common at the individual component level. It only becomes common when you are running a large number of servers, those individual small probabilities ad…

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    Comment #48949171

    Anthropic's willingness to completely change how claude code works is one of the stated reasons why the Pi coding agent exists. When people are dedicating significant time to build…

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    Comment #48949155

    The nice thing about the chatgpt subscription is that they allow you to use it in any harness.

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    Comment #48939131

    One of the hard issues was supporting full text search locally and in the cloud. Also it's not that the entire app needed to be written twice but that parts of it needed it needed …

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    Comment #48921549

    > We considered completely rebuilding the application from the ground up, or even splitting it into separate applications for online and offline use This is actually non-trivial. T…

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    Comment #48874008

    I used to row and even the tiniest of waves could make it annoying. You'd slide to the front of your seat and try to insert your oar and catch air instead of water. Then if you ove…