Current VB enthusiast & vigilante. Former Language Designer & PM for VB.NET @ Microsoft. Support me on Patreon: patreon.com/ThatVBGuy
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Apr 27
A 59-page visual guide to what I'm doing with the VB language/compiler for ModVB. Hopefully this is the right height to let folks see the scale of the forest. It took a month to write. AFK for the rest of the day.
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Anthony D. Green retweeted
Jun 13
I want a refund on every minute I spent in 8th grade learning that monopolies are illegal and that our government would protect us from greedy men....
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Jun 14
In 50 years, due to inflation, a new generation will come off age and ask, "What the hell is a nickel?"
Fuck this, I'm going out today to spend $3k on a media setup. I'm going back to just pirating TV/Movies. It's not because I am not willing to pay, its I am tired of paying subscription services and having everything so fragmented and being Nickel and Dimed by the services.
When we worked on HD Streaming in the 2000's we set the foundation up for the industry to make video possible more easier. Even back then convincing Hollywood / TV Networks to abandon physical media for streaming was a huge undertaking in itself. They just were tied up in contracts with the creators of content and couldn't find a way to make online work.
Fast forward 20 years later and this is the shit we end up with.
It literally is just easier to pirate than its to keep doing this.
atm I pay for:
HBO Max
Stan
FoxTel
Primewire
Paramount
Netflix
Disney
BritTv (i forgot to cancel the trial fml)
AppleTV
Its about $160 a month AUD
I can't find half the shit i want to watch and the stuff that I want to watch is full of ads, or you have to then pay extra ontop.
I'm out. stfu ... I'ma use AI to setup a complete end to end media experience.
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Jun 10
Perhaps the real Order 66 was the 65 other orders we made along the way 🤔
Jun 9
Fascism does not arrive saying “I am fascism.” It arrives saying “law and order,” “border security,” “anti-woke,” “election integrity,” and “national emergency.”
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So, I've been thinking about the beginning of Twilight Princess were Ganondorf has the Triforce despite the sequence of events preceding that game not allowing it.
I suspect that if a person gets the Triforce in at any point in any timeline they kinda get it retroactively in all timelines. Similar to how Tony Stark felt quantum ripples through his arm in earlier Avengers films preceding him actually using the Infinity Stones in Endgame. Maybe also explains how TP Zelda had her piece; inherited from OoT Zelda.
weird detail. Link shouldn't have the Triforce of Courage here. that happens after Ganondorf gets into the Sacred Realm and the Triforce splits so Link doesn't have it until he's Adult Link. changing the story i guess? or maybe just visualizing the Triforce already chose him?
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41 f-ing years to see this! What else have I never considered?
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Anthony D. Green retweeted
Jun 8
Bright idea: Lightswitches that show what they are for.
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This is great news! If we can just NOT do this they won't be able to exist! I think it's great someone took the time to analyze and highlight a precondition we can ensure we never fulfill. Honestly, I'm relieved 😌
Now we know why Peter Thiel packed his bags for Argentina.
Milei just submitted his AI legislative framework to Congress, where he proposes:
- zero regulation on AI development,
- a brand-new "non-human corporation" category for AI/robot-operated entities with limited liability
-a low-tax regime with flexible governance rules.
The Dutch East India Company gave the world the limited liability company in 1602. Milei wants Argentina to do the same for autonomous AI agents in 2026.
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Stargate Atlantis and other settings where ancient technology is insanely advanced and usable but not reproducible. The magic nanites or drones are AI that can execute prompts but even the aliens have forgotten how they work under the hood and no one can repair them.
Jun 2
MIT's Nobel Prize-winning economist proved that AI is mathematically guaranteed to destroy human knowledge.
They published a massive NBER paper modeling the long-term impact of AI on human cognition.
And they found the most alarming conclusion in the AI literature so far.
It’s called "Knowledge Collapse."
Here is how human progress actually works.
When you struggle to solve a complex problem, you generate two things:
General knowledge about how the world works, and context-specific knowledge about your exact problem.
Normally, humans acquire both at the same time. You do the hard work to solve your specific problem, and in the process, you learn a general principle.
You share that principle. That is how human knowledge grows.
Then comes Agentic AI.
AI is incredibly good at giving you the exact, context-specific answer you need right now. It hands the solution to you on a silver platter.
So you stop doing the hard work.
And because you stop doing the work, you stop generating the "general knowledge" that society relies on.
Acemoglu calls it the "knowledge-collapse equilibrium."
When AI reaches a certain accuracy threshold, the incentive for humans to learn drops to zero.
Nobody verifies. Nobody explores. Nobody discovers new fundamental truths.
Society gets increasingly sophisticated automated outputs, while our actual capacity to generate new knowledge quietly erodes.
But here is the most terrifying finding in the paper.
Welfare is "non-monotone" to AI accuracy.
That means as AI gets more accurate, society actually gets worse off.
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A usual case of coding dogma out of context. I wasn't ok with goto until I worked on compilers. The issue isn't that they are magically evil, they're just usually not the clearest way to represent intent to maintainers. Sometimes jumping elsewhere really is the clearest though.
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Dijkstra called goto harmful in 1968
the Linux kernel contains tens of thousands of goto statements
the label out alone appears thousands of times
Linus's response on LKML in 1997: "there's nothing wrong with gotos, especially for handling error cases"
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May 30
If we were in space looking for an exoplanet to colonize and found one that looked like Earth 500 years ago we'd call it a f-ing paradise. Folks would ask if we'd found the original Garden of Eden. We started on the best case fantasy for our next planet and treat it like a fixer.
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That’s what I try to do with the game I make on my own.
I took inspiration of the OOT structure to design Essence Of The Tjikko
You can try the demo on Steam if you’re curious ;)
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May 27
I dream of a world in 100 years time where everyone is still working 40-hours a week minimum until age 75 because life expectancy is up, and 50 year mortgages become the norm but we're all unimaginably efficient because of technology. That's the kind of super productivity I want for my great grand children!
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May 25
I love how XP SP2 retcon'd XP into being this uncontroversial success story. It was not beloved at first. There were compat issues. Eventually it became good but I remember tempers flaring back then when we upgraded our labs.
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May 23
I'm fine with AI/automation handling dangerous tasks or tasks humans find a drugery. I get using tech to improve human lives. I don't get the push to have have AI do things people love. Even if you could, why would we celebrate that?
Capcom a expliqué lors de la conférence Google Cloud Next 2026 comment l’entreprise utilise l’IA dans le développement de jeux vidéo.
Certaines vérifications qui demandaient auparavant entre 3000 et 5000 heures par des humains peuvent maintenant être réalisées en 72h grâce à l’IA.
Selon Capcom, l’IA sert surtout à alléger les tâches répétitives et énormes liées au développement des jeux AAA, afin de permettre aux créateurs de se concentrer sur la partie "humaine" et créative : la sensibilité, les idées et le game design.
Le principal problème vient de la taille des jeux modernes. Plus les mondes deviennent vastes et complexes, plus les vérifications explosent : bugs visuels, animations, équipements, interactions, équilibre du gameplay… Des tâches qui peuvent représenter plusieurs milliers d’heures de travail.
Capcom utilise donc une IA capable de :
- tester automatiquement les jeux
- détecter des anomalies
- comparer les résultats avec la vision du directeur du jeu
- proposer des corrections potentielles
- et transmettre uniquement les problèmes importants aux équipes humaines.
Par exemple, certaines vérifications qui demandaient auparavant entre 3000 et 5000 heures humaines peuvent maintenant être réalisées en environ 72 heures grâce à l’IA.
L’entreprise affirme déjà utiliser ce système sur plusieurs jeux, notamment Monster Hunter Stories 3, avec plus de 30 000 heures de playtests automatisés par mois.
Techniquement, le système combine les modèles IA de Google Cloud (comme Gemini) avec des modèles internes créés par Capcom, notamment des IA entraînées à comprendre les choix artistiques ou les intentions des directeurs créatifs.
Capcom insiste aussi sur un point important : l’entreprise ne veut pas standardiser ou effacer la personnalité des créateurs. L’IA doit simplement gérer les tâches mécaniques pour que les développeurs puissent davantage se concentrer sur ce qui rend un jeu fun ou unique.
La philosophie de Capcom est claire : utiliser l’IA non pas pour créer l’art à la place des humains, mais pour libérer le potentiel des créateurs et améliorer la communication dans les grosses équipes de développement #Japon #Capcom #IA
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May 18
Without living parents, try losing your wallet and all vital docs then without a residence, mailing address, a job, money, or a bank account, and then try to get any of those things without all of the others easy access to clean clothes and hot showers.
When you fall between the cracks of society it's quite non-trivial to climb out.
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Anthony D. Green retweeted
May 18
still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them
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May 18
I maintain that we should assume AI can now do most of Congress as well or better than humans, reduce Congress by 80% as a cost-saving measure, and wait for data to show us which Congress members on what committees in which regions we should consider backfilling, preferably with younger, less expensive workers who aren't so entitled. I'm always hearing my government should be run like a business yet all I'm seeing is 2-6 years job security with no performance checks or so much as quarterly OKRs. Tf.
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May 16
"Why should we hire you?"
"I don't know. If I knew how to sell myself I wouldn't be single. I was just kinda hoping you were desperate."
May 16
Applying for jobs as a neurodivergent person is so wild because what do you mean I’m supposed to apply for jobs where I don’t fit every single criterion they listed for a reason?!
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May 15
That toothpick production gag has been living rent free in my head for almost 40 years.
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