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Chad Barb @chadbarb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Do you want Boltzmann Brains? Because that's how you get Boltzmann Brains.

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Chad Barb @chadbarb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'd have gone insane a long time ago hanging out in that place! Just feeling like vibes on Bluesky have been off recently (very subjective obv.)

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Chad Barb @chadbarb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Oh I missed your post! But I knew you’d have to see this. I still remember how scary electing was.

Someone should work up a graph of average RAM per cpu core over time.

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Reminds me of the 90’s when “wait a year or two for computers to get twice as fast” was a viable optimization strategy.

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I applaud them taking risks though!

As a lifelong Mountain Dew fan, it's, uhhh, not great.

Tom @moll.dev · 05/10/2026

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the gamer entitlement is fucking insane. they're yelling at a developer who has spent a decade of his time writing Dolphin and PPSSPP for using Claude to build a prototype. the same people who don't pay for their emulator, certainly don't pay for ROMs are entitled to bully developers now?

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Chad Barb @chadbarb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There was backlash against home computers in the 80s and early 90s! I had teachers who didn't want assignments done with them, said they'd rot your brain, were a fad, or thought the computer did all the actual writing or whatever (I guess they were 40 years ahead of their time on that last one.)

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Chad Barb @chadbarb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Ahh, the "Fight Club" marketing strategy.

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Chad Barb @chadbarb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Reminds me of how the first time I saw Pete Davidson he was doing some bit with musicians and I was like "hey, that guy is pretty funny for a musician."

Chad Barb @chadbarb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Some people thought using anesthesia during surgery was immoral!

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Chad Barb @chadbarb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Kids today DEFINITELY don't understand!

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Chad Barb @chadbarb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I remember photocopying my junior high student ID to send in for the student discounted version of this! I think it was still $80, but that was dirt cheap for a real compiler back then. It was great.

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Chad Barb @chadbarb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This rule also applies to Senior Engineers

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Chad Barb @chadbarb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Oh, do you know Creepy Song Kid?

Chad Barb @chadbarb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yeah, I've been in the retro space for a couple years (mostly as a passive observer) and... I'm taking a break for at least a few months.

Chad Barb @chadbarb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yeah, this. I used to steadfastly avoid muting/etc. to not create a "bubble." But I recently broke down, and I believe not having to wade through toxic and stupid shit has given me _more_ mental energy to entertain reasonable counterarguments to my beliefs.

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Chad Barb @chadbarb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

These guys couldn’t turn the GDP of several small countries into a competent Second Life clone. Not addressing your broader question, but they, specifically, don’t have the juice.

Chad Barb @chadbarb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

lol, how about 4o ? Perhaps it would suggest you set up some kind of puppy-killing cult.

Chad Barb @chadbarb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“We are pressuring Congress to pass laws ensuring we are the only ones allowed to make burgers until the threat is contained.”

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D.W.A.P. (Ben) @andwap.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

When your gamedev friend shows you progress on their new engine.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Todd Achilles, a veteran running for U.S. Senate in Idaho as an independent, has a new ad about starting wars.

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Chad Barb @chadbarb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Evil baby is already planning his first leveraged buyout.

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Chad Barb @chadbarb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Tired: Benchmaxxing Wired: Menschmaxxing

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Laurasaurus @laurasaurus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Folks, you’ve gotta get comfortable saying “your behavior is fucked up, and justifying it using the language of social justice and therapy doesn’t change that.”

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Chad Barb @chadbarb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I had this happen, but for tub drains and the 1930s.

Chad Barb @chadbarb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

yep, DX10 basically killed the consistent versioning since it became programmatic/shaders at that point. DX11 was some new architectural catch up; and DX12 switched to "modern" resource management. Hoping we get a DX13 that's a less fucked-up DX12 one of these days ("No Renderer API" concept, etc.)

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Chad Barb @chadbarb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

TBF automating git is like.. a killer app for these things. I've been checking in a fair bit more often just because it's near zero overhead.

Chad Barb @chadbarb.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

That was like 70 years ago, in AI years.

Pedro Vezza @pedro.vza.net · 15/09/2026

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The DOOM demo is fascinating

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

technical details for anyone interested in trying something like this: the rule family is orthodiagonal compare. the rule is [[0,1,0,0,1], [0,0,0,0,2], [0,1,2,0,0], [0,2,2,1,1], [1,1,1,2,2]]

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Chad Barb @chadbarb.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Ironically, just like flight, AI may turn out to be world-changing, yet still a bad financial investment given how capital-intensive it is, while many involved seems to be unable to sustain any sort of durable competitive advantage.

Ross A. Lincoln @rossalincoln.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

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Oh shit I made Hall and Oates.

It's minifig Daryl Hall and minifig John Oates in happier days, decades before Hall turned into a weird resentful psycho and broke the band up. Scene's based on the program booklet for their 1985 tour.

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Chad Barb @chadbarb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It's just not a very in-the-box verifiable problem. Do we think LLMs can solve hard problems without the ability (like in math or code) to throw thousands of kinda-smart ideas at a wall, evaluate the results in-silico, and iterate?