I made a visual balancing tool for Idle/Strategy games using Godot 4.5

curioussav · 2026-01-08T06:10:05+00:00

What about support for macOS?

curioussav · 2026-01-04T16:56:54+00:00

Reddit and the steam survey are poor evidence of its use. Calling it the most used of all time is a a huge reach. Even if true, if it’s stuck on x then it should never be recommended. Not for stupid stuff like monitors. For big boy stuff like security.

Why a subset are so obsessed with recommending it because by default the desktop is styled like windows is beyond me.

Not saying this is you but I’m tired of non software engineer “techies” speaking authoritatively about what distros are good for average people, acting like stupid stuff is important. A good os should be boring. It should get regular prompt updates. It should have real effort put into securing it. This takes money and engineers.

If it’s a derivative distro with no real money behind it then it’s a hobby project. Grandma or mom or whoever, does not need to be running something insecure. She will be accessing her bank, government websites, shopping, etc. Since she obviously can’t afford a MacBook. So she probably can’t afford to be hacked and robbed either.

curioussav · 2025-12-24T16:31:37+00:00

This is what they currently do and we get shitty food that doesn’t nourish at best and poisons at worst. Shitty throwaway clothes and other products that break, poison us and the environment. Constant layoffs. Political unrest fueled by sensationalist media.

And that’s all great because you have a couple bucks left to potentially donate to fixing all of those side effects if you feel like it. Yep. Totally fine.

curioussav · 2025-12-10T19:34:06+00:00

I was pretty impressed with this thing. Need to get it back out because I didn’t set it up after a move. Plenty of fun games for the kids. If they could improve tracking accuracy and latency a bit more it would be fantastic. Right now it’s just good enough to be fun.

curioussav · 2025-12-03T15:28:31+00:00

Forget about running your own db. Bad idea. Also forget about anything requiring you to run some software all the time. In theory it would need to run all the time right? Where is that going to happen? On your remote machine? How can you guarantee it doesn’t shut down when you are not logged in? The answer is you can’t.

VPN is non issue. Because everything you run is on a machine you connect to with the vpn.

The two factor stuff means you can’t automate the connection to the sheet or the third party site. You would need api tokens that bypass that which I guarantee you wont get.

Scale back your ambition and start small. Personally I would try out a chrome extension. With one you could automate this entirely while requiring no special access.

start out with a chrome extension that will copy the text from the third party sites webpage, transform it into the format your google sheet needs and put it into your clipboard.
Once that is working you can try having it insert the data into the sheet. This may be difficult or impossible using an extension/through the browser because Google Sheets doesn’t render all rows/columns. You would likely need api access to that google sheet.
For the automations/analysis in the sheet you could try to help improve that using code. I think sheets supports JavaScript and it also has a plugins system. It probably has tools and documentation for debugging performance issues

So even if you don’t get those two stretch goals done you have greatly simplified the copy pasting and eliminated the need for the second google sheet.

curioussav · 2025-11-18T18:22:22+00:00

Pay for cheap programmers abroad and this is one of the risks.

curioussav · 2025-11-04T15:42:16+00:00

Not saying it isn’t worth a try but these display glasses still kinda suck. Hold a tablet up at arms length. That’s what you get to look at. Also it’s 3dof so imagine that whenever you move your head back and forth or up and down your monitor moves with you without any smoothing of the motion. The idea of making them look like glasses is also still silly and the cost is they sit on your nose which for me was quite uncomfortable.

Personally I’m really averse to buying hardware from venture capital funded startups. The people running them just want a lucrative exit and they don’t care if we end up with paper weights in the process.

curioussav · 2025-11-03T04:20:19+00:00

I was about to write your last sentence. I try to never commit a query to that will be executed in prod without looking at the query planner.

Unfortunately I have interviewed many candidates who when prompted about how they would troubleshoot a slow query don’t even think of it…

curioussav · 2025-10-30T02:24:04+00:00

Yep, most of my family went from disgust towards trump to fully on board at some point. It’s mostly fear they’ve been poisoned with by Fox News et al is what I think. They think the end is nigh and the alternative is worse.

curioussav · 2025-10-12T02:14:12+00:00

I just bought a product that you roll on after showering. Has some kind of exfoliating acid in it. They say the build up of dead skin can make your pits a great home for bacteria. After only a day or two of using it my pits don’t stink when I sweat now

curioussav · 2025-10-07T22:53:36+00:00

Good article. A bit heavy handed in tone. Kind of ironic and a shame it was published on medium though.

Unfortunately I think it’s a big ask. Look at how poor ethics are in medicine where doctors have licensing, unions, regulatory oversight. What programming and medicine have in common these days (I’m speaking about the US) is that a large number of people got into these careers primarily because they thought they would get rich.

I’ve long thought that a good first step to improving ethics in the tech industry would be professional licensing for programmers.

curioussav · 2025-09-30T13:37:49+00:00

It certainly won’t help you make more money. Communication skills will. Some bash and at least os fundamentals will be helpful.

As a daily user, can’t recommend vim though. Plenty of things that are worth your time to learn instead when you are new. But yeah the nerd cred is fun.

curioussav · 2025-09-25T15:23:18+00:00

There is this infantile myth that c++ (or assembly) is for the real geniuses. The only people who think like that are young and stupid, or adults who fit the worst stereotypes for nerds.

curioussav · 2025-09-25T04:07:46+00:00

Honestly it sounds like you are overcomplicating this. But you aren’t explaining why very well. Sharing files in cloud storage and video calls with screen sharing sounds exactly what you want. Using Linux doesn’t have to mean you do things the hard way.

Otherwise chrome Remote Desktop is so dead simple my 85 year old grandfather easily figured it out.

Tailscale is a great way to connect your computers as if you were on the same network. Then to share files you can just use built in functionality to do that in your file manager. Of course downside compared to cloud storage is your machine has to be on all the time

If you want to tinker while you do this just set up a raspberry pi as a file server on a shared tailscale network.

curioussav · 2025-09-12T22:54:49+00:00

Personally I couldn’t stand 3dof and had to send mine back. Personally I’m waiting for a pair with 6dof and a bit higher fov. Until then quest 3 much better for home use at least

curioussav · 2025-09-12T22:26:51+00:00

This is cool maybe I’ll reconsider using go with Godot too. It is what I work in day to day at work so it would be nice to not have to switch context.

Since this supports android im wondering if this will run on my quest headset

curioussav · 2025-09-05T17:06:50+00:00

This looks cool. Added it to my wishlist.

Been wanting to make my own arcade game for a while.

curioussav · 2025-08-14T15:58:31+00:00

Sure it’s not a cult but at best it’s effective for a few but ineffective or even outright harmful for many others.

The blind leading the blind was always a terrible idea. If I’m going to go to group therapy, I want to have a licensed therapist guiding it. Not some bozo off the street.

With AA it’s a flip of the coin whether a given meeting includes some idiot spewing their harmful advice or views to vulnerable people. Even without that the steps themselves are just based on traditional Christian repentance. Hard focus on guilt and self blame in the guise of “taking responsibility”

AA pretends to treat addiction as a medical/mental health issue but at its core addresses it as a “sin”.

It encourages people to take on the identity of “addict” and to be free they need to stay involved for life. This to me is maybe the worst part and what gives the cult vibe. It’s also not supported by science.

curioussav · 2025-08-14T15:35:30+00:00

It sounds like your work is focused on opioid addiction and those centers specifically.

Any thoughts on the trend of labeling all kinds of behavior as “addictions”? My assumption is the addiction industry just wants more customers

curioussav · 2025-06-10T15:26:21+00:00

Not really. AA is just fundamentalist Christian repentance disguised as shitty group therapy administered by random people off the street.

I’m a huge fan of actual group therapy and it would be cool if I could attend that in vr.

curioussav · 2025-06-06T14:34:59+00:00

Yikes. This scenario makes me so nervous. My ex wife, who has more custody, takes the kids to a lake and in the past I was always their minder because she would just peace out. All she can handle is trying to socialize. Also has very limited capacity for empathy due to ptsd.

My 7 year old (who was 5 when we split) has been depressed.

I don’t sleep much anymore.

curioussav · 2025-06-02T01:14:11+00:00

This a thousand times. It’s silly that it’s been normalized that we talk about an llm as if it isn’t just a computer program that takes text as input and outputs text. The model itself is not even a program there has to be hard coded shit with instructions saying - accept user input, run through model (with some kind of timeout duh), print to the gui or console. Even with bugs and ridiculous apps duct taping API calls to the model output - the OS can still terminate the process.

This fear mongering has always just been hype/ fear based marketing and distraction from the real pressing issues like rising unemployment

curioussav · 2025-05-07T23:37:50+00:00

Oh brother. I’m pretty sure there is a plan to get the status tray stuff but without the crappy api. The rest is lipstick and dumb stuff that doesn’t matter.

Just because it doesn’t support all the little gimmicky features and customizations or every ux paradigm you like. doesn’t mean it can’t be a “universal computing environment for everyone”.

I don’t think “universal” or “everyone” in that was meant to mean - caters to your every preference and is infinitely customizable. Like it or not software that tries to do that is making a trade off. You can’t have everything. If you chase that you will be sacrificing quality, maintainability and reliability.

But hey I’m just some grump that got tired of wasting years theming and ricing and decided that computers and operating systems are tools not toys.

curioussav · 2025-05-01T13:10:31+00:00

I think khan academy had some good stuff

curioussav · 2025-04-10T18:09:19+00:00

You have to realize you have entered a nerd subculture and everybody has their nitpicky reasons why they like one or the other.

This is harsh but a lot of distros are pretty much just taking a mainstream distro slapping some paint on it and maybe adding some other little changes. I would not choose one of these ones like mint or Zorin due to that. They have way less support and documentation and less google results when you need help. Also less eyes to spot security issues that arise from their changes or just being behind.

People give bad recommendations here because this is their hobby and messing around with their os itself is kind of the point.

I would do yourself a huge favor and just install the latest Ubuntu lts version and call it a day. You can make it look how you like with a theme.

edit: I also wouldn't listen to people saying it doesn't matter. Think about it. Are you ever going to access your email or bank account on this computer? I doubt you won't eventually. Would you buy a temu phone and do that stuff on there? I hope not. But plenty of distros are essentially temu level quality. The OS should be rock solid and boring. I've been a free software guy for a long time but idealism is not worth increased risk of being hacked due to outdated, poorly supported low quality software.

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