TillE

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811.
by TillE 3y ago
RimWorld has so many ways to kick your ass if you're getting too comfy, unless you're playing on peaceful/builder. Some of the late game random events are brutally unfair unless you know specifically how to prepare for them.
812.
by TillE 3y ago
He's essentially a Mitch Hedberg style comedian, just doing tweets instead of standup.
813.
by TillE 3y ago
They're super useful for any kind of creative brainstorming. Give it some background information, ask it for a list of ideas about X, make some refinements, etc. I think LLMs are pretty bad at producing any kind of finished material. T
814.
by TillE 3y ago
Yeah I'm always delighted to use clang-format rather than worry about where I should put the brackets. Code style is the epitome of bikeshedding. Anything consistent is fine, and using a tool to automate that is a huge productivity win
815.
by TillE 3y ago
Yep, I've been working remotely for 20 years and meetings have always been super rare. We have better text-based work communication tools than ever, there are so few good justifications for getting large groups together at the same tim
816.
by TillE 3y ago
Smart ransomware will wait weeks or months before revealing itself. So you'll have been backing up a lot of encrypted documents, and your last clean backup may be quite old. It may be totally gone if you're rotating quickly. But I
817.
by TillE 3y ago
Why use an open source project if it doesn't meet your standards? Do your own work, or pay someone to do it.
818.
by TillE 3y ago
Our CS101 course (or maybe 102?) involved building a clone of the board game Carcassonne in Java, which was pretty fun.
819.
by TillE 3y ago
Game development, and really anything that needs fast native code.
820.
by TillE 3y ago
Those were fun gimmicks and all, but Homestar Runner worked because of the cute character designs, funny writing, and Matt's genuinely outstanding voice acting. It holds up just fine on YouTube. It was more about Flash being a really p
821.
by TillE 3y ago
The "AI is going to destroy creative work" view requires either 1) wild optimism about the future of AI, a belief that it will quickly become orders of magnitude better than anything we can do today, or 2) a lack of understanding
822.
by TillE 3y ago
C++ debugging on VS Code is pretty good in my recent experience (macOS / lldb), though not as full-featured as Visual Studio.
823.
by TillE 3y ago
There are a hundred good reasons Apple won't touch NFTs, but not even joking, one of the biggest reasons is that the standard bearers for NFTs - the first thing everyone thinks of - are the ugliest, tackiest cartoon avatars ever made.
824.
by TillE 3y ago
It'd be really exciting if they make a safe Rust API for kernel drivers. You can technically write a driver in Rust, but the bulk of your code will be interacting with the unsafe, complex C API, so it's a bit pointless.
825.
by TillE 3y ago
Mike's Hard Lemonade fills basically the same ecological niche that cider does in the UK, and does it really well because American-style lemonade is great. Canned cocktails are generally pretty bad, and hard seltzers are fine but does
826.
by TillE 3y ago
Just the UK CMA standing in the way then, with its flimsy decision resting almost entirely on speculation about the "cloud gaming" market. Microsoft should be offering to to swear off cloud gaming entirely, they should be deligh
827.
by TillE 3y ago
It is extraordinarily difficult to win any kind of defamation lawsuit in the US. The bar is really high. I certainly wouldn't try to run a business like that anywhere else in the world, but in America they're probably fine, with j
828.
by TillE 3y ago
There are a zillion reasons that C++ is still widely used (existing software, brand new software that relies heavily on existing libraries / game engines), so it's really nice to have lots of helpful features being added to the la
829.
by TillE 3y ago
You use the search box, just like you find settings in macOS / iOS / etc. No sane person is expected to memorize configuration GUIs these days.
830.
by TillE 3y ago
Godot is primarily developed on Linux, but I recently tried it out on Ubuntu (NVIDIA drivers) to check compatibility, and it was shockingly laggy. Worse than macOS, and far worse than Windows, where it runs quite well. Maybe there was somet
831.
by TillE 3y ago
Certificate revocation is a really interesting problem, because it's obviously vital but also pretty rare. Currently, to validate a certificate, every client has to walk through every certificate in the chain and ask for the CRL or mak
832.
by TillE 3y ago
Mostly true, but you can do a lot of direct development work now with .NET hot restart: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/maui/ios/hot-restar...
833.
by TillE 3y ago
For me at least, it's basically a substitute for a good bookmarking system. I want to get back to that tab eventually, but if I just bookmark it, it'll get lost in the churn and forgotten forever. I hope some day there will be a h
834.
by TillE 3y ago
It's the usual argument for any domain-specific language. Personally I loathe DSLs unless you genuinely need something really fast and really simple. Otherwise please just pick something off the shelf and save everyone the headache.
835.
by TillE 3y ago
I assume you're mostly joking, but honestly that's a really good insight into how something like Vision Pro might appeal to people. Your environment is super important to your mental/emotional state. If you can jump into diff
836.
by TillE 3y ago
The "popular science" takes on QM have generally been an enormous failure, focused on irrelevant fluff like this. I mean, I get it, it's a subject that you can't seriously understand without a degree in physics or chemis
837.
by TillE 3y ago
One is a person, the other is a computer program. Legally quite distinct! Note that nobody is even seriously claiming we have an AGI, there's no Star Trek discussion of whether an android is a person. Everyone agrees this is just a com
838.
by TillE 3y ago
In Germany if you torrent stuff (without a VPN), you're very likely to get a letter from a law firm on behalf of the copyright holders saying that they'll sue you unless you pay them a nice flat fee of around 1000 Euro. It's
839.
by TillE 3y ago
Yeah there's been an enormous resurgence in astrology in recent years, some semi-ironic but most of it absolutely sincere. You can say "oh but isn't this harmless", but it's not really. Critical thinking isn't
840.
by TillE 3y ago
I've seen that advice about (electric) guitars too, and it's so wrong. A cheap shitty guitar will feel awful to play, have problems staying in tune, etc. If you're at all serious about it, I'd go straight for one of the

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