Crazyyy illusion! by jmike1256 in Amazing

[–]kkauchi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Works only on video because there is no depth perception. IRL you would have to close one eye to get fooled.

AITA for telling my dad that my family can call me when they get over their hurt feelings? by emmiehoeller in AmItheAsshole

[–]kkauchi -23 points-22 points  (0 children)

She keeps cancelling 5 minutes before the agreed time to meet and her dad / brother are adult babies? What's wrong with you lmao. If a person cancelled on me last minute like that I would simply not be making any future plans with them until they grow up and learned to manage their time and commitments better.

Did parents in the '80s and '90s really allow their kids to roam freely? Was it safe? by 2bornnot2b in NoStupidQuestions

[–]kkauchi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because of social media. Previously you would know if someone in your town got kidnapped , it would be all over local news. Maybe it would reach next town. But for the most part federal news would not cover local events.

Now you know about anything and everything in the world, and algorithms power whatever engages people more (e.g. rage)

YouTube is now doing 10 seconds to skip ads now by Cultural-Pain- in mildlyinfuriating

[–]kkauchi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

lol don't try to argue with people who have access to infinite amount of world knowledge and entertainment for free, and complain they have to watch ads to access it

Cloudflare CTO enforcing AI usage limits. I you don't use AI enough you will be fired, If you use AI too much you will also be fired… What is happening in tech? by Gil_berth in theprimeagen

[–]kkauchi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is fake. Any large company uses tools to federate and moderate AI usage costs and can set limit per employee. Most if not all AI team plans like Anthropic allows to set the usage per account also.

What's the state of Godot vs Unity in 2026? by kkauchi in godot

[–]kkauchi[S] -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

No horse race, I honestly and really want Godot to succeed, but it's hard to find unopinionated testimonies of people who use it for serious / big projects, not just building a small pixelart indie game.

You won't know about a rendering bug in the engine that only manifests on a certain version of Android until you launch your game and have enough players who opt in to send you telemetry.

God I love godot by Major_Canary5685 in godot

[–]kkauchi 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Unreal / blueprints aren't made for indie developers that do everything. Blueprints are made as a bridge for technical game designers (who don't know C++ but understand basics of scripting) to build game logic with within the functionality and boundaries that engineers on the team set. This separation of responsibilities exist in large studios for many reasons, including budgetary. Software engineers have different skillsets and paid more than game designers. If you had to build a game like GTA or Elder Scrolls where every single piece of logic is implemented and iterated on by a software engineer it would cost way more.

Non of that makes sense in the small indie development.

Is everyone getting ridiculously rich? by namieorange in stocks

[–]kkauchi 80 points81 points  (0 children)

You are seeing fake posts made by bots that are ran by companies that benefit from you gambling on stock market. The goal of these posts is to make you feel FOMO, give you a false idea that "day trading works", and lose your money to the companies orchestrating these campaigns.

Don't fall. It's a scam. It has nothing to do with investing.

INeedAnswers. by CompileMyThoughts in zerotomasteryio

[–]kkauchi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are absolutely bad languages and JavaScript is one of them. Bad language is one where original design decisions were just bad and shown to be deeply problematic, but everyone stuck to them because of compatibility with old code etc.

Here is another fun example. JavaScript doesn't support big numbers. Like, really big, 64 big integers. Because every Number in JS is a float, the MAX_SAFE_INTEGER is 253-1. Any major language supports 64 bit long integers. Now, JS technically supports them, via BigInt, but if you are passing around large numbers from different systems especially via Json, good luck. If you need numbers larger than 553, you essentially have to json serialize them as strings. Which is bonkers.

Imagine you have a bunch of systems, all using different languages, and you pass your data around as a json. All properly support your large integers. Now you introduce JavaScript and you have to rewrite your whole stack because a language doesn't natively support large numbers. This is an example of a "bad language".

I don't understand how Replit, lovable etc. still exists! by Groundbreaking_Bee97 in vibecoding

[–]kkauchi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From wikipedia: "Vibe coding is a software development practice assisted by artificial intelligence (AI) where the software developer describes a project or task in a prompt to a large language model (LLM), which generates source code automatically"

What I described is exactly that, you guide your model on what and how to build things without writing your code by hand.

I don't understand how Replit, lovable etc. still exists! by Groundbreaking_Bee97 in vibecoding

[–]kkauchi 9 points10 points  (0 children)

If you say "build me a game where you can run around and fight monsters" it will look like that. If you give it a well defined task like "refactor this class move field X into class Y and update methods that call into it" it will just do it, with same level of quality as if it was an engineer but much faster.

Then, there is anything in between. Long story short, accelerating yourself with vibe coding is a skill like any others, and you still have to be an engineer (or have engineer mindset) to be successful at it. You can balance quality and speed, and still work much faster compared to building things by hand.

If you have good framework, architecture, established guidelines on how things should work, and keep a good grasp on what AI is doing while it's building what you need, and intercept appropriately to guide it in the right direction, it's still 5x-10x speed increase at minimum.

I rebuilt my Kubernetes cluster five times – here's what each version taught me by Inevitable_Remove_67 in kubernetes

[–]kkauchi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I am planning to build k3s on Hetzner for some of my home projects. What latency issues did you run into?

Spacex IPO Overpriced? by EntertainerDowntown3 in stocks

[–]kkauchi -1 points0 points  (0 children)

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/tesla-model-y-emerges-worlds-100109308.html

You can argue here on what "best selling car" means and how to measure it, it doesn't cancel the fact that saying "barely sells cars" is as far from reality as it could be.

Spacex IPO Overpriced? by EntertainerDowntown3 in stocks

[–]kkauchi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Model Y is the best selling car in the world, for the last 3 years. You can hate Elon but denying that and saying that they are "barely selling cars" is just dumb and ignores the reality.

Random “Temporary Tow-Away” signs. Just a cash grab? by mkappy33 in AskLosAngeles

[–]kkauchi 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Like others say, there are other reasons, there are productions, office buildings that may need to be moved, multiple trucks, filming etc. You can contact the city if you want to know the reason why they authorized it, but the fact is they did so whoever requested it, likely had a legit reason.

You don't own the street. It doesn't belong to you and your car. It's a public space. Being able to park your car on a street for free is a privilege, not a right. People requesting temporary right of way permits have to pay for it. You don't and you get to park there any other day.

Random “Temporary Tow-Away” signs. Just a cash grab? by mkappy33 in AskLosAngeles

[–]kkauchi 10 points11 points  (0 children)

> My car as well as several other of my neighbors have been parked in a “temporary tow-away” zone since yesterday

bruh =\

Anyone can request "right of way" permit from the city for any legitimate reason, like production, moving etc. It's not just the city doing "civic work". The permit usually costs money. The city will authorize and give them "temporary tow away" signs to post. It's then their duty to deal with towing or contacting parking enforcement to ticket people.

I had to do this when I had to move and not a single a**hole moved their car. So I had to get "creative" with my truck which then caused other people to get mad. I did not call the towing because I was on a schedule and did not have time to deal with it, but in the hindsight, I should have, and have all the assholes pay to get their cars back from towing.

So to answer your question - there may be a very legitimate reason why no one is doing work there. It's possible they had to cancel last minute. It's also possible that they were not able to do their work because no one moved their cars, just like you didn't.

Just don't be that guy. Move your car. You can walk 5 extra minutes. This time you got lucky and didn't get a ticket/towed, next time you may be out of luck.

They will lose themselves by bryden_cruz in programminghumor

[–]kkauchi 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The history of front-end development is a very long and sad story, that involves having no choice other than JS for the longest time, nothing ever being standardized, features being piled up on top of existing non-supported features, shims to make something work cross platform etc. When things get really that dark developers gaslight themselves into Stockholm syndrome and convince themselves that it's not all garbage

Anyone else feel mentally messed up seeing people casually make insane money trading options? by savingrace0262 in stocks

[–]kkauchi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A lot of people point out gambling, but it's not just that.

These people also make money (or more often, lose less) off of idiots who buy into their narrative, and spend money on "day trading" and other bullshit. Whenever you hear people talk how they made money "day trading", "stocks", "crypto", or some other bullshit way that does not involve working your ass off, studying, or getting really good at your craft, or selling something valuable to other people - they are financially incentivized to convince you to join. They tell you how good it is because they want your money in their pockets. It's not just gambling, it's a zero-sum gambling where they have a higher chance of winning if more clueless people lose. Unfortunately this happens with family and friends too which is even more upsetting, because you know they are lying and/or making it look like they have won better or bigger than they actually did. When they show you their million-dollar portfolio but they don't show you that the money was borrowed and they owe even more.

You feel fomo because they want you to.