2026-04-07T15:49:40Z https://yabu.me Seth Richards https://yabu.me/npub1rkzwa66ayvwtq6q5f20sftpdwhqwhx6jueafaz9qtlulm6hcw65s8cncmz https://media.mas.to/accounts/avatars/109/322/649/082/687/893/original/9dee50565c367b07.jpg https://media.mas.to/accounts/avatars/109/322/649/082/687/893/original/9dee50565c367b07.jpg https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsplgqfmapnqga6g9uptmqk4u5j5udffwzdnpfcg8fn2v079apfdtqzyqwcfmhtt533evrgz39f7p9v946up6um2tn8485g5p0lnl02lpm2jtfpnes In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9rtj5agdu2l96f5jeutl8ttxtensjlexw27vj5w35knjpl5qntncucvt9t'>nevent1q…vt9t</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>“I can cite several dozen very specific examples in the last 2-3 weeks where it saved me, or my team, quite a bit of time.”<br/><br/>Please do, if you can. Because most time I’ve tried to use LLMs for work the error rate ends up costing me MORE time than I would have spent without, and most AI boosters are short on specifics. We just had a presentation at my job on how we all need to be using AI with no case studies of how it’s actually been useful so far. 2025-09-28T03:35:28Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs07m6ryfzwmzpaqzket6mktpp3q6x327x3z7d26946gelmwl74z5qzyqwcfmhtt533evrgz39f7p9v946up6um2tn8485g5p0lnl02lpm2jdngnp5 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsw46ml6laj0he7sgrukrh86kfhh8asyw5m98se37lxdt7zaapjnnq2yr82u'>nevent1q…r82u</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I seem to remember that you could also do very early windowed 3D games using similar tricks, back when Voodoo cards were separate boards. But I might be making that up; it&#39;s been a few decades. 2025-06-21T14:14:33Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsw46ml6laj0he7sgrukrh86kfhh8asyw5m98se37lxdt7zaapjnnqzyqwcfmhtt533evrgz39f7p9v946up6um2tn8485g5p0lnl02lpm2jjfslcx In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspahr99jwr55ayxvgzquq7gafp4urzzzjfd7vqd93kxgv23ymp5dqpk4z5g'>nevent1q…4z5g</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>My recollection is that the graphics accelerators of the time had a sort of single-purpose compositing function that could use a combination of scaling and chroma-keying to overlay video from a TV tuner or MPEG-2 accelerator card in a window on your desktop. I think it worked at the video output hardware level since the systems were too slow to stream video into the framebuffer consistently. By setting the background to the chroma-key color you could do hacks like this. 2025-06-21T14:13:45Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqspahr99jwr55ayxvgzquq7gafp4urzzzjfd7vqd93kxgv23ymp5dqzyqwcfmhtt533evrgz39f7p9v946up6um2tn8485g5p0lnl02lpm2jwwq8yp In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9gkffte2qmsuaa96antjtdcqsz9wrdnffpp6eldxl2rjlcg35hjgtjdxnz'>nevent1q…dxnz</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I definitely remember hearing about this, although I&#39;m not sure I ever did it myself. I vaguely recall it was misusing the &#34;overlay&#34; feature of the graphics hardware that was required to get smooth video playback back in those days? 2025-06-21T12:53:58Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgwadkrtjqhy9aw2p64zx8p09zdz5kx3emm2mgdr42u9sj874yjeszyqwcfmhtt533evrgz39f7p9v946up6um2tn8485g5p0lnl02lpm2j7dwmdd In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrt8apxwv2ycqjpd2lrc74lx3jvhsfrmcett74ldeft5u6wqvynysmjsx0q'>nevent1q…sx0q</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>My experience has been that the most expensive bugs to find and fix, requiring teams of engineers and small armies of testers, are the ones where someone either didn&#39;t fully understand the problem or didn&#39;t fully understand the code, and the misunderstanding was subtle enough to elude code review and unit test, only showing up in full-scale testing.<br/>As we have more systems where *nobody* really understands the code, both the frequency and cost to fix these bugs seems likely to skyrocket. 2025-05-26T11:20:38Z