Jare

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by Jare 2y ago
We lost the source code in any usable form. Even if we dug up the printed copy, scanning it would be tedious as hell. :) So we ended up reverse engineering our own game, fun times. But yeah, "actual" in that it's a real comme
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by Jare 2y ago
I have an actual commercial game from 1987 :) https://github.com/TheJare/stardust-48k
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by Jare 2y ago
It's not so much "vastly superior", it is more fit for its intended design and context. And certainly more sophisticated.
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by Jare 2y ago
But the idea of the patches-for-night-vision is precisely to have one eye covered during the boarding, so when you enter the insides of the enemy boat that eye is ready for seeing in the dark.
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by Jare 2y ago
There's no evidence that this use was real. Mythbusters tried it and said the trick itself does work (which any of has may already know), but who knows if it was even practical in a pirate boat, vs the loss of stereo vision etc. The wh
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by Jare 2y ago
> Either the world was smaller and simpler back then, or my parents were crazy, or both. Back then, I can't imagine parents letting their daughters do that either. The kind of freedom to roam at 12yo that you describe was what allow
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by Jare 2y ago
Maybe they shouldn't (I'm not quite sure myself), but the arguments for that seem to me completely separate from any "self incrimination" angle. I frankly can't find a difference between the passkey being your finge
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by Jare 2y ago
They can't force you to volunteer information out of your brain, that's where it ends. They can do stuff with your body: restrain it, put it in cars and chairs and cells, take your fingerprint. Essentially, they can do anything th
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by Jare 2y ago
FA Off, or Flight Assist Off, is the mode in Elite Dangerous where your ship does not correct any momentum (angular or linear) that you have, except for imposing speed limits. In this mode, you will be using 6 strafe thrusts and 6 turning c
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by Jare 3y ago
It's a live service. If it "serves clients globally" with the minimal basic functionality at launch, then that's a valid launch. But that's achieved by being a mess under the hood ("technical debt"-like st
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by Jare 3y ago
I can't claim to have ran the numbers, but I suspect the amount per year of "serious" sci-fi media that was also good from those days is similar, if not lower than today. And today we also get the adventures and horrors and t
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by Jare 3y ago
A sheet covering the mattress, then we lying on top, then the duvet covering us to varying degrees of area and precision depending on temperature and activity while asleep. My son snakes over and under the duvet several times along his body
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by Jare 3y ago
I do that and while the shaking is unpredictable and often requires doing it from multiple sides, I find it a strong but strangely pleasant exercise for my shoulders.
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by Jare 3y ago
Like many others, I was a die hard Paint.NET person while Windows-only. When I went multiplatform 8 years ago, Krita took its place. Bulkier, buggier and in some ways less convenient, but so many great features and fully cross platform. I t
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by Jare 3y ago
I thought this was driven by ISPs inserting their own ads in normal HTTP.
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by Jare 3y ago
If the download includes a patched version of the game, the users may be better off since they'll need to download the (likely gigantic) patch anyway. But indeed it would be nice if the console asked first.
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by Jare 3y ago
Haha I didn't know there was such a direct connection! When we were building Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines, I think the games were referenced the most were actually both Lemmings and The Lost Vikings, with Cannonfodder as a 3rd one - t
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by Jare 3y ago
Despite all appearances, Spec Ops is a masterpiece and a really unique game, there's nothing else like it. I wish that some preservation effort managed to make a version without expiration date.
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by Jare 3y ago
You're comparing a whole billion people to someone who went on to earn a Nobel, it's a little unfair. There's plenty of people in the West (and East, and South and North) with massive, even unhealthy grit and determination, a
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by Jare 3y ago
Then it's a wearable display for the Mac, not a Mac.
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by Jare 3y ago
I just described it to my colleagues as > this uses GenAI in order to attempt being truly infinite, or at least not bounded by their ability to design and input combinations themselves It's fair to go for that name imho. Not strictl
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by Jare 3y ago
You hit the nail on the head. "git gud" as they say in online games, is not teaching, it's just pushing for competitiveness and survival of the fittest.
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by Jare 3y ago
This is an amazing writeup. I have lived the past 10 years in a situation with many parallels to yours, and at the same time unimaginably different. When you say "It's not hard" you hit on one of the things I've always f
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by Jare 3y ago
But I did give them my phone number. I'm pretty sure they already had it from Facebook anyway, I've had a FB account for 15 years. They just were unable to send the code to it, so I could not proceed with whatever appeal process t
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by Jare 3y ago
Offtopic but here we go: Once Threads became available in the EU I, like I assume many others, made an Instagram account from my FB account in order to check it out. 2 days later, and without having posted anything except perhaps a "He
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by Jare 3y ago
You're already using the stack for parameters without compromising reentrancy; using the stack for the return value is trivial. Just like parameters, it's easier and faster to use registers where possible in those old systems.
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by Jare 3y ago
> what kid growing up in the 80s would go out of their way to purchase a Pascal compiler and learn an academically oriented language I learned Pascal on my Atari ST as a 18yo. I had already done commercial games for years in assembly for
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by Jare 3y ago
What a rollercoaster of a life. [Edit: I was trying to make a joke reference but after reviewing the facts, no it doesn't look like the person referenced was Chris Sawyer of Rollercoaster Tycoon fame. He could fit the description thoug
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by Jare 3y ago
> I think you can consider your input part of the problem statement That would be fine if there was only one input. But we have seen countless cases of a solution working for some and not others (including/especially the test input)
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by Jare 3y ago
I think that completing a training or sharing the results are, technically speaking, deliverables not results; that's why that doesn't work as a OKR. OKR would ask for the measurable impact that completing those things has on busi

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