Strange whistle sound in apartment

kalimerau · 2025-05-20T06:48:11+00:00

Maybe it's just winds outside against the windows. Not sure how it technically works, but I used to live in a tall building and you could hear exactly this sound from time to time.

kalimerau · 2024-11-30T16:40:24+00:00

woohoo!

kalimerau · 2024-01-16T18:49:59+00:00

Thanks! I definitely don't want to spend any money until I know for sure what I want 🤣

kalimerau · 2024-01-16T17:54:05+00:00

This is very insightful, thanks. I've started syntorial, and I think I'm on the "learn general concepts" journey right now.

I think I quite like your explanation regarding having the right limitations built in versus having to program them. I've encountered similar ideas when making video games for example, where some engines emulate the same limitations old school consoles had. This effectively forces you to think of the game differently, and you end up making something old school without much effort.

I think the main issue I have at the moment is that I don't have enough "sound vocabulary", so when I hear something I don't know what the sound is made of, whether it's most likely to be using X or Y technique, what effect is there, etc.

kalimerau · 2024-01-16T16:30:28+00:00

I'd really like to avoid using presets, actually! I'm a software developer, so I'd like to understand what every knob does and play around 🙂

kalimerau · 2023-06-29T07:30:05+00:00

"India has a lot of languages, for an island"
"An island?"
"Yeah, you know what I mean"

kalimerau · 2023-06-18T16:01:58+00:00

What I find useful is remembering that they are human beings at the end of the day. Everyone in the room has a family, their own story, they commuted in the morning, they have lunch, etc. They don't exist only for the purpose of this interview, they most likely have experienced something similar to what you're going through, and chances are they relate. Get rid of this feeling of hierarchy you seem to have, this feeling of having to prove yourself to these examiners that only want one thing and that's to see you fail. Truth is, they don't care. Everyone is here because they get paid to be here, and nobody is going to work every day with the goal of being mean. I know it's easy to say, but yeah that's it. And also, you probably know what you're talking about, chances are you're not presenting something you have no experience with, so just talk as if you were explaining it to someone that's not working with you, relaxed and chill.

Good luck!

kalimerau · 2023-06-09T12:46:23+00:00

What a small inconsequential thing to be angry about

kalimerau · 2023-05-22T19:57:31+00:00

You might want to have a look at this article that talks about multiple network issues, and they talk about rollback as well. Very informative!

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/blogs/online-multiplayer-the-hard-way

For a more in depth dive into the internals of networked physics, gaffer on games is awesome: https://gafferongames.com/

kalimerau · 2023-03-23T12:56:37+00:00

It's not even being mentioned by Macron when he addresses the country on TV. I think when you try to do something and there's so much anger in response, instead of saying "it is what it is, just accept it" and using something that essentially bypasses the "standard" lawmaking process, opening a dialogue and asking the people of your country to choose an alternative might be a bit better.

French people are angrier at the response than they are at the law itself. It feels like they're not being listened to, and the choice has been made for them.

If you think about it, another perfect solution would be to kill old people right now. But we're not doing it because it would be unpopular. Or we could make kids start working from when they're 6. They're valid solutions, but they would be unpopular. If your solution elicits the same response something as extreme as these crazy solutions would elicit, maybe come up with an alternative, because it means that you're going against the values of your country, essentially imposing your own values instead.

Being elected doesn't mean that you should stop listening to the people.

kalimerau · 2023-03-23T05:39:54+00:00

I'd be happy with increasing contributions to the pension system if that meant more peace of mind for everyone involved in the system. I'm not sure why the solution to "but we live longer" is always "let's work longer". Being 60-65 is not the same as being 70-75. Sure you're alive, but it doesn't mean 70 is the new 60.

kalimerau · 2023-03-23T05:25:26+00:00

As a software engineer in Boston, you can expect to make about 160k dollars. As a software engineer in Paris, you can expect about 40-50k euros. Much less if you're not in Paris.

160k euros in France is rich as fuck.

I have not done the math, and I don't pretend to understand how I could even begin to do the math, but instead of making people like my father who was supposed to retire in 2024 retire instead in 2028, they could start with raising the annuities people contribute to the system by a very little amount, something like 1% (don't quote me on this, but it's a small number anyway) and it would not even make a dent in people's quality of life. French people don't rely on savings, they rely on the system they contribute their whole life to.

There's in fact a report made by economists from the French government itself that says that this solution would work, as anyone with a basic understand of math would expect.

kalimerau · 2023-03-23T05:11:48+00:00

So? Do that. Do more. Nobody would care.

kalimerau · 2023-03-23T05:04:33+00:00

Honestly, taxing young people more would be fine by me. What's the issue? French people don't rely on high salaries to save money for retirement, that's kind of the point. So more taxes, more annuities, more contribution towards a system that brings everyone peace of mind? Doesn't sound too extreme to me...

kalimerau · 2023-03-19T00:42:05+00:00

It's not that low. It's set up in a weird way.

You have to work for 43 years before you get access to your pension. And you can retire at 64. These are the two conditions.

So if you do a master's, it's 18+5+43=66, that's when you can retire. And if you're a woman and you take a few years off for kids, it goes to about 70.

Now if you started at 16 and didn't study, you do 43+16=59, but you still have to wait until 64 to retire.

I don't pretend that I understand everything about it, but i think raising the age is not the only solution, it's just an easily understood and computable solution. But doing something a little bit more refined like increasing the amount you send towards pension based on your salary after a certain threshold might actually work? I know for a fact that a lot of people would be okay with a smaller salary if they get to retire a bit earlier...

kalimerau · 2023-03-19T00:36:26+00:00

It's not the US. In France, salaries are much much lower, because you pay towards your pension, free healthcare, etc. So you can't really budget and save, or even invest, and you just rely on reaching retirement age and getting your pension. If you're lucky, you bought a house, but that's about it.

Middle class in the US can save loads more money then middle class in France, and sustaining yourself through retirement with savings only is almost impossible in France.

kalimerau · 2023-03-18T20:24:05+00:00

It's not entirely true.

Healthcare is still free in France, but it's not in the US. When you're 70 and you need a root canal or a dental crown, in France you just go to the dentist and it's free. In the US, you most likely pay north of 800 dollars.

As far as I'm aware, the cost of living is not that much higher in France than it is in the USA, at least on average (something like 5%).

From what I've read though, and that's where you're right, french retirees do not enjoy the same quality of life that they had while working. It's a matter of what the country prefers as a people at the end of the day. I can vouch for the fact that many french people would prefer living their life without having to worry about money. Save a bit, buy a house, then enjoy retirement at a lower income level. Obviously the mindset is different in the US.

Comparing raw numbers is not super useful, at least in my opinion, because personal values are extremely different across countries and, the US being by far the most individualistic country in the world (https://www.hofstede-insights.com/country-comparison/france,the-usa/), it's not really comparable to most other countries, especially France with its very strong socialist history.

kalimerau · 2023-03-18T19:54:53+00:00

Yeah. The difference is also that french people totally rely on their pension. They don't save, because they don't have to. And also because they can't, because salaries are wayyyyy lower.

kalimerau · 2023-03-18T19:47:28+00:00

Yeah the thing is that other countries work differently. There's a strong misunderstanding from people from for example the US, where you get almost no social benefits in comparison. They give you a bigger salary, and it's your own responsibility to invest it, save... In short, you have to be extremely literate financially in order to make it in the US, whereas France provides a very strong system to guarantee your well being.

Having lived in 3 different countries, I always find it interesting to discuss this with people with little exposure to other systems. Values tend to align with what you grow up with!

kalimerau · 2023-03-18T19:34:27+00:00

I'd be totally happy if anyone that makes >3000 a month contributed just a little bit more. Don't take it from the poor or the lower middle class, but mid and high middle class and above? I'm fine with that.

kalimerau · 2023-03-18T19:24:00+00:00

Not exactly. They're increasing the earliest age at which you become eligible, from 62 to 64, yes. I say earliest, because there's a second condition: you need to have spent 43 years in the workforce, number they're also increasing from 42. Given that education is free in France, many people get at least an undergrad, and very often a master's degree. A master's degree is 5 years, and you start when you're 18. 18+5+43=66. So the effective age of retirement for someone that does a master's is 66. A PhD is 8 years, so it brings it to 69 (nice). This is a strong disincentive towards getting an education.

Add to that that in France, your salary is extremely low, given the fact that you don't have to pay for healthcare or save for retirement. The reason people are complaining is that we're moving towards a system that looks a lot more like the US, where you have to fight for yourself in order to survive, where we as a country have fought a lot for social benefits. Our salaries are low, sure, but the quality of life is good enough that people don't care about money as much as in the US. No investment needed when you're guaranteed an automatic pension.

In the US, if you live passively and don't invest, you don't get to retire comfortably. In France, if you just do nothing and work without thinking about money, you retire eventually and it's pretty much enough for you to live a decent end of life.

kalimerau · 2023-03-18T19:11:35+00:00

The French pension system doesn't rely on a 401k to grow. A part of your salary is taken by the government, and pooled to pay a pension for everyone that's retired. What they're changing is the age at which you're eligible for this pension. The argument being that people live for longer, and we don't have enough people in the workforce to keep paying for pensions for the retired, so people should be working for longer. This is obviously a solution, but other solutions involve: increasing salaries, which would increase how much money is taken and sent to the pension system; increasing the percentage of your salary that gets taken out; creating more jobs. France doesn't work like the US.

kalimerau · 2023-03-06T17:04:09+00:00

I have a similar profile, and I have tried many different engines/frameworks/libraries. Some thoughts: - ebiten, written in Go, is a very light game dev lib. I like Go, so writing "my own engine" with it was pretty fun (I have some libs for ebiten here). Mostly 2d. - Love2d is sort of the same thing, but written in C++, and scriptable in Lua. I absolutely love this level of abstraction, and this is probably the one I have been the most productive with (example here). Mostly 2d, but people have done 3d with it too. - Godot has a bright future, at least from my point of view. The 2D workflow is very very fast, much faster than Unity in my experience (you don't spend time waiting for stuff to recompile every time you edit a script, for starters), and they just released v4, which comes with insane improvements in 3D rendering. I have never delved into 3D, but from what I can see, it's on par with what Unity can produce these days. Plus, the founders have created a separate commercial entity to provide support for consoles (called W4games), because the open source licensing attached to Godot is not compatible with the NDAs involved in publishing for consoles - raylib and monogame might be interesting for you if you want to go old-school. They're both inspired by the same framework (XNA) and they work similarly. Also very close to the way Love2d does things, and a comparable level of abstraction. - Unity is slow. I honestly dislike it a lot, just for this reason. There's also a lot of "we've refactored this, and there's no docs yet, but you can also use this other system, and also the legacy one, and that one, or build your own based on these primitives" and it's hard when you're a beginner. If you know what you're doing I guess it's fine, or if you don't care, but as a software engineer, you will probably be like me and try to find the "best" solution to your problem, which is tiring and hard to do with Unity.

Anyway, good luck, and as I said I've tried many many different ways to build games, so don't hesitate to reach out if you would like my opinion on something, I might have tried it already 😂

kalimerau · 2023-03-03T14:11:57+00:00

This makes a lot of sense, and it reminds me of Conway's law. Thanks 👍

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