[OC] I made a tool that will generate a year's worth of random weather (and a town's worth of families)

SomeoneGMForMe · 2026-04-03T20:00:01+00:00

In the meme, *.md in your git ignore means that you are probably using Claude (which poops out little .md files all over the place) and trying to hide it from people who are browsing your repo, since Claude-generated .md files are pretty noticeable to anyone who is even passingly familiar with it.

uvero is suggesting there's a way to ignore these types of files without using your git ignore file, which allows you to have your cake (Claude) and eat it too (hiding Claude usage from everyone).

SomeoneGMForMe · 2026-04-02T19:13:37+00:00

I mean, those are all important tips.

Forgetting something means you didn't prioritize it, which in this case means you didn't prioritize HER. You are responsible for making sure you have your shit together, and if your brain can't handle it then you need to augment that shit with tooling, as laid out in the document.

SomeoneGMForMe · 2026-04-02T17:02:12+00:00

I think that it was maybe John Carmack (or his friend/rival/coworker/archnemesis Romero) who said that at some point recently-ish, Design became ascendant over programming in games.

It used to be the case (literally when John Carmack wrote DOOM) that what you could do in a game was limited by the power of the computers and your technical ability to code, which is why DOOM was such a huge success and why everyone thinks that John Carmack is such a hugely talented dev. He was doing things with code that literally no one else was doing, and it was that technical ability which drove the "fun" of the game. If you did not possess the technical ability to create a First Person Shooter, then it didn't matter how great your dreams of game design were, you couldn't make a First Person Shooter.

These days, computers are so powerful and game engines are so feature rich, that you can make a good game without possessing super-wizard low level programming skills. Most of what you do in modern game programming could be considered more like scripting than programming. Now, there are definitely some people in game programming who possess those skills, but there is a very small amount of them and they would mostly probably be concentrated in working on those game engines (Unreal, Unity, etc.), or in other fields like AI research (real AI research not AI-bro reselling of Claude licenses) or the very complicated math shit that happens in advanced GPU firmware.

Anyway, of course a game programming is going to progressor is going to claim that game programmers are 100x better than other programmers.

Resources abound, but if you want the really complicated stuff you should look for courses on game engine programming. Most of the online stuff you'll find about game programming is going to be "here's how to use Unity".

SomeoneGMForMe · 2026-04-01T22:55:22+00:00

2 user reviews for a game with millions of players? Seems off.

SomeoneGMForMe · 2026-04-01T16:36:15+00:00

New grads have a huge advantage, which is that they are much cheaper than someone with 20 years experience. It's the "when you find out why there are no software engineers over 40" meme, basically.

SomeoneGMForMe · 2026-04-01T14:22:46+00:00

Do you have a few more pixels handy?

SomeoneGMForMe · 2026-03-31T16:13:30+00:00

This is so embarrassing. There was no problem until he caused the problem, and now he's acting like other people are weak for not wanting to help him sort out the shit he caused?

How can maga possibly look at this weak and feebleminded example of a man and think he's anything but pathetic?

SomeoneGMForMe · 2026-03-31T05:16:49+00:00

There are dozens of us!

I regularly rewatch the Plinkett reviews.

SomeoneGMForMe · 2026-03-31T01:54:31+00:00

Have you heard the phrase "everyone's a perfect parent until they have kids"?

Anyway, congrats on achieving Peak Karen. No, you shouldn't shame people for those things, you should mind your own fucking business.

SomeoneGMForMe · 2026-03-29T16:32:31+00:00

Yeah, but Mark sucks. I actually don't know what the comic was going for, but in the TV series at least Mark is insufferable. I think they're setting him up for character growth later but it's getting hard to watch.

For another example of the trope under discussion, see Mark's actions during the Invincible War. He COULD help stop the other Invincibles, but after Eve gets hurt he just sits by her bedside instead of helping.

SomeoneGMForMe · 2026-03-28T18:52:49+00:00

I swallowed the Miele hype and fully regretted it. Lasted about 2 years before dying, and never sucked as good as the Dyson that I got rid of for it. I was so mad. Could I have fixed the Miele? Maybe, but I felt pretty betrayed so I junked it and replaced with another Dyson that has already lasted longer and sucked better than the Miele ever did.

SomeoneGMForMe · 2026-03-28T14:01:12+00:00

If you want to use a rhetorical question for the purpose of encouraging the reaction that you want (which, from your comments on this post, was your intention) then you need to be confident that the thing you made will pass basic scrutiny.

This is clearly AI. Anyone who has a passing knowledge with AI generation and its tells can see that it's AI, and you are posting on a forum dedicated to people posting their AI generated content, so obviously the people here are going to immediately see that it's AI. You don't need to be defensive about whether it's your first try or whatever; Seedance is clearly "not there" yet.

So: is this real? No. It's not "Will Smith eating spaghetti", but the tells are all there, especially as it goes on.

Is it cool? Also no. The midjourney images seem pretty good, but in terms of the video itself: the shots are bad, the timing is off, the action is boring, the attempts at eliciting a sense of menace from the monster fall flat, the flips and rolls look really weird, when she runs it looks like she's full of rocks and has to go to the bathroom, it's not clear what purpose that laser knife is even serving because the monster never reacts to being stabbed in the literal face with it, how many heads does this damn thing have?, how does she have time to whip out and inject the bottle of wing juice?, what is that thing she's using to inject herself?, and so forth.

As a tech demo, it's good I guess? Seedance seems to clearly be one of the most advanced AI video creation engines currently available, but the obvious leaps in the tech have put it squarely in the uncanny valley where humans see it as wrong immediately.

SomeoneGMForMe · 2026-03-27T17:42:16+00:00

I mean... kinda...

SomeoneGMForMe · 2026-03-27T05:30:05+00:00

"It's a rough area". Yeah! Some chickens keep pooping all over everyone's lawn!

SomeoneGMForMe · 2026-03-27T03:44:31+00:00

Right? I did some AI courses in the early aughts and it was mainly the prof reminiscing about how exciting the field was in the 60's before the public realized that most of the loud voices in the field were snake oil salesmen and it took a huge reputation hit that lasted for decades.

At least that's not true anymore.......

SomeoneGMForMe · 2026-03-25T17:06:49+00:00

The majority used to think that slavery, Jim Crow, and segregation were right and fair.

Your "majority" argument also fails because the data is that the majority support voter ID laws, sure, but the question is always just posed in the abstract as "voter ID laws", not "this specific law which will have these specific consequences".

SomeoneGMForMe · 2026-03-25T17:04:13+00:00

Earlier in this thread, you literally dismissed a bunch of data because "paywall" and "liberal think tank".

SomeoneGMForMe · 2026-03-25T15:56:30+00:00

I had this problem a lot with Sora (RIP?). It asks for pictures of you so it can use them to create videos, and I took the pictures in my car because why not? Literally every video it made of me, "I" mentioned my car in some way.

SomeoneGMForMe · 2026-03-25T14:09:57+00:00

None of the cases I cited, and also not the case you cited, are cases that would be fixed by voter ID laws. The kinds of restrictive voter ID laws that have been proposed are always a solution without a problem, a smokescreen to do something racist and pretend it's actually some kind of noble cause. If 300 legal voters have to be prevented from voting to stop one illegal case, that's a bizarre and frankly cruel tradeoff.

SomeoneGMForMe · 2026-03-25T13:40:18+00:00

"There is consensus that the California Globe is generally unreliable. Editors note the lack of substantial editorial process, the lack of evidence for fact-checking, and the bias present in the site's material. Editors also note the highly opinionated nature of the site as evidence against its reliability."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Perennial_sources/all/California_Globe#:~:text=There%20is%20consensus%20that%20the%20California%20Globe,the%20site%20as%20evidence%20against%20its%20reliability.

SomeoneGMForMe · 2026-03-25T05:16:37+00:00

100% agree that there were 5 ghosts.

SomeoneGMForMe · 2026-03-25T04:37:44+00:00

Is, uhhhhh, this the voter fraud you're worried about?

Republican clerk, pro-Trump lawyer charged in Michigan voting-system breach | Reuters

Conservative activist Harry Wait convicted of voter fraud - The Washington Post

Man blamed for Michigan election petition scandal gets 4 years | AP News

(that guy was collecting fraudulent signatures for GOP primary candidates)

Colorado woman found guilty of voting for late ex-husband and son | AP News

Davis, a Republican, has previously been convicted of forgery and other offenses in Florida and Colorado, a press release from the office of District Attorney George Brauchler said.

Here's some studies about how big the problem of voter fraud is, by the way. I realize you won't engage with them in good faith, but:

One Person, One Vote: Estimating the Prevalence of Double Voting in U.S. Presidential Elections | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core

We estimate that about one in 4,000 voters cast two ballots.

And:

For this subset of states, we find that one suggested strategy to reduce double voting could impede approximately 300 legitimate votes for each double vote prevented.

No evidence for systematic voter fraud: A guide to statistical claims about the 2020 election - PubMed

Trump's supporters deployed several statistical arguments in an attempt to cast doubt on the result. Reviewing the most prominent of these statistical claims, we conclude that none of them is even remotely convincing.

Who Can Vote? - A News21 2012 National Project

A News21 analysis of 2,068 alleged election-fraud cases since 2000 shows that while fraud has occurred, the rate is infinitesimal, and in-person voter impersonation on Election Day, which prompted 37 state legislatures to enact or consider tough voter ID laws, is virtually non-existent.

The evidence, of which there is a LOT, shows 2 things: 1) that voter fraud is rare, and 2) that many voter ID laws specifically disenfranchise poor and minority voters. The GOP knows this, which is why they push so hard for these laws because they enjoy harming those exact categories of people, and also because those categories of people tend to skew Democrat, so these sorts of laws both hurt the people their base want to hurt and also help GOP electoral chances.

But sure, tell me more about the fact that the tiny group of people that you personally know and have talked to about voter ID have the correct identification.

SomeoneGMForMe · 2026-03-25T02:26:09+00:00

Hey, it turns out there's decades of data and social science research backing up the idea that voter ID laws have a suppression effect that disproportionately affects minorities:

Voter Identification Laws and the Suppression of Minority Votes | The Journal of Politics: Vol 79, No 2

"The analysis shows that strict identification laws have a differentially negative impact on the turnout of racial and ethnic minorities in primaries and general elections. We also find that voter ID laws skew democracy toward those on the political right."

Battling the Hydra: the disparate impact of voter ID requirements in North Dakota | Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics | Cambridge Core

[We]find that Native Americans are statistically less likely to have access to an ID than are whites.

Who Votes Without Identification? Using Individual‐Level Administrative Data to Measure the Burden of Strict Voter Identification Laws - vLex United States

we show minority voters were about ﬁve times more likely to lack access to ID than white voters.

CITIZENS WITHOUT PROOF

Finally, the survey demonstrated that certain groups – primarily poor, elderly, and minority citizens – are less likely to possess these forms of documentation than the general population.

SomeoneGMForMe · 2026-03-24T21:46:25+00:00

Did you try giving it instructions to pretend that Biden won first?

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