TIL about Git Brag because of your blog. It is interesting.

Love Astro and it is exactly my stack with Cloudflare but wow, the "Forward-Looking Statements" disclaimer is longer than the press release itself

One of the lead developers is a friend of mine. In the mid 90s he was part of the Dust demo group, eg https://demozoo.org/groups/360/ so I guess then a lot of the algorithms were used for Max Payne then as well

Also interesting how his life changed after the game, he went a totally different route and left programming for good.

Remedy was heavy with Future Crew too. It was demo scene crew all the way down.

I came out of the demo scene into pro game dev, and there was a lot of useful overlap, especially at the time (mid 90s) when you were really trying to get anything 3D on the screen.

That’s what struck me immediately - these are all typical tricks from the 90s. I remember demos ( I think complex/dope in 95) where the awesome ‘real time reflections’ where actually an animated texture. I was quite impressed when someone explained the trick.

What's he doing?

Tech is an exhausting treadmill for me at this point. Hard to find somewhere I can work where my high empathy is a positive power and not a stressor.

Focusing on chinese medicine, meditation, mindfulness.

He had a burn out. He mentioned to me in the mid 2000s after Max Payne 2 that he could not touch or see a keyboard anymore.

I just saw him last year, he is in good spirits, programming a bit again iirc but we did not talk that much about it. Still one of the smartest people I ever met.

With many modern TVs just turning off energy savings will already enhance picture quality by a magnitude.

To my understanding the lawsuit is not about Reddit's content or copyright infringements but in more detail about using proxy farms and other measures to get Reddit content via Google's results and thus breaking the DMCA and they go against services providing the infrastructure to do so.

A bit comparable to how pressure was put onto payment providers to restrict sites with extreme adult content.

Side note: I find it super interesting in the filing https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/xmpjezjawvr/... that Google was able to provide them with the exact number of automated requests broken down by company.

the new 0.47 has a better performance now imho

this seems like a crazy idea as the cli client has nothing to do with how many tokens per second the api streams

The api is never the bottleneck but how fast the cli provides context. So just by using ripgrep it will be faster than using grep. On top of this concurrent code search compared to sync etc

Just yesterday they released a new 'Shared regular performance' offering https://www.hetzner.com/cloud/

Thanks for that link. It seems with that introduction, they also lowered prices on the dedicated-core on their vservers - at least I was paying 15€/month and now they seem to offer it for 12€/month. I will try to see if shared performance is an option for the future.

"Sam says today Codex is out of preview and into GA. But which one! Codex CLI or Codex Cloud or both?"

The cloud version as "Starting October 20, Codex cloud tasks will also begin counting towards your Codex usage"

The "live" coding demo felt very staged with codex reasoning set at "low" and everything working ootb.

Probably didn't want to risk the same embarrassment that was the Meta live demo.

Every single person I know had nothing but respect for the meta people doing it live. I think they garnered more attention that way

We clearly don't have the same friends then! The event was the ridicule of the day on Twitter (wrongly, in my opinion, given that the tech is very good).

Remember "GPTs" and the thing before it which I don't even remember now. I think this will go the same route .. to nowhere

The GPT App Store (which is technically now obsolete with this SDK) was funny.

Are they still expecting us to get paid based on “revenue sharing”?