I am in the exact opposite boat - AI is significantly improving my programming flow and having to use VSCode (well, VSCodium in my case) rather than something lightweight like Sublime is suboptimal - I would love a good plugin for LLM integration ala Cody and frankly that's the only way I could see myself as a paying customer.

I'm in the best boat, I don't want to use LLM but I think ST having hooks to allow people to make such plugins (if those don't already exist) would be a fine thing. Luckily, that boat has loads of space and you're all invited :P

Sure, I'm fine with this boat :D

Could you elaborate on these tendrils (?) - I haven't looked at the Romanian situation from that vantage point.

Eloquent truth pointer right there! ;)

It always amazes me that this is possible (to some extend anyway, I mean, the base layer is binary so obviously simpler higher-end CPU instructions are possible!)

Is there any potential performance win in this? What I mean is; since this general direction could, in principle if not in practise, enable the targeting of say, the 5-10 most efficient CPU instructions rather than attempting to use the whole surface area... would this potentially be a win?

> I love the EU but it certainly has its idiosyncrasies.

That is an acceptable position and you will likely nor require further investigation as long as the criticism remains vague and is offset by positive sentiment. I too love the EU.

I have a family member of retirement age who got into the habit of anonymously expressing their love of the EU in the comments section of a local newspaper.

After a few months of this they received a phone call on their landline warning them that such public expressions are inappropriate and that there could be consequences should they not find a new hobby.

I too love the EU but I loved it much more 15 years ago.

If this story is true then I'm suddenly in favor of brexit while before I thought it was worse for everyone. Of course I live in the US and so my opinion should be of zero interest on anyway. Still if you live in the EU I would hope you are concerned.

Someone at the newspaper, or someone in state security?

Not 100% sure as they didn't introduce themselves but whoever called was able to get the phone number that the IP address was linked to and I assume both would have to have been involved in order to do that.

Creepy. If you don’t mind me asking - eastern eu?

Yes; former communist but not former soviet union. Old habits die hard I guess.

Not sure if we’re talking about the same situation, but the last time I was in Bulgaria, there was massive brain drain and a lot of, eh, ‘false nostalgia’ for a very different past.

But tons of money coming in from the EU. I can imagine a lot of public quiet, private ‘angst’ about the kind of situation you’re describing.

Wild guess - Romania? (If not Bulgaria)

Your guess is correct. However I've not personally witnessed any nostalgia for communism in Romania though.

I never said someone from the EU called, we think it was someone from the national government. Or it could just be someone from the newspaper who knows someone at the telecom company and they decided to have a laugh.

Agree with this take. Additionally it brings geopolitical stability by not putting the onus on just one-to-two countries (Taiwan, US) to produce the majority of the worlds info-tech infrastructure. A 16nm process is still very very modern in the grander scope of things.

Be interesting to see if there's integration with research environments within the EU.. otherwise it could fizzle in terms of it's true potential positive impact.

Indeed, Apple* seem to be one of the only companies with the long term vision to integrate vertically and improve industry as a result. The short term pennies-on-the-dollar of outsourcing is just brain-dead and non-innovative.

*this is an observation from someone who has never bought a new apple product due to their increasingly closed eco-system

Super neat re Willison article.. would something like this work under powershell though?!

Any indication of what frequencies are at play here? A regular ultrasound baby monitor is set at either 3Mhz or 2Mhz scan frequency and those have already been shown to induce stimulating effect when used on the head/brain afaicr.

Are there any Godot FAQs or documentation with "blessed" paths for the various mainstay gamedev needs?!

This conversation got me looking into the Godoy asset library, where I found a number of examples that wound up being very helpful. There are a few 2d platformer examples made by the Godoy team that emphasize just how many options there are (and for good reason). The ‘thing is a thing’ mentality that comes with learning OOP (or at least the way I have been learning) is probably a good one to get past, because indeed there is are many reasons to do one thing different ways based on the little differences between implementations of said thing.

So the project I just looked at had 3 types of platforms that I could tell:

The level was made up primarily of a tile map. It had its own collision set in the resource per tile and represents the most copy-cut type platforms you’re likely to see

Then there was a static body tile, which had a polygon2d shape, used to create an irregular platform that would have been more painful (maybe near impossible) to make in the tile map.

Finally, there were two moving platforms that were instances in as scenes.

So the big revelation for me today is that I need to not get hung up on doing any one conceptual thing anyone one way. Any (seemingly minor) difference in fundamentals about what that thing is or does may lead to another basic node type being the best thing to use. I need to not be afraid of making use of more varied tools, even if things feel like they should be all just be the same simple thing in the head.

Parent’s call methods on their children, while children use signals to communicate with parent nodes.