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by amyjess 4y ago
My question is what engines are the AAA companies hiring people to work with? Yes, Unity is the default engine in the indie scene, but what are EA, Ubisoft, Embracer, Take Two, etc. hiring people to work with? Because these are the meat gri
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by amyjess 4y ago
No technical reasons, just the social mores of the wider community. Go to any large instance, hit up their about section and look at their list of banned servers: a good chunk of them have ban reasons like "'free speech' serv
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by amyjess 4y ago
This is true to an extent, but the problem with Mastodon is that you have to be really careful about who you federate with. Hosting your own Mastodon is like hosting your own email in that unless you set up your anti-spam capabilities perfe
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by amyjess 4y ago
> I can trust that an update to cat or ls will not break my system because enough people have looked at it, but I really don't know what's gonna happen when I update left-pad (without even knowing it, because a it's a tran
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by amyjess 4y ago
I would call the original Game Boy well-designed but put the GBC in the same "Underpowered, but a surprise smash hit capturing that era’s sensibilities" category as the Wii. With the tech at the time, the Game Boy wasn't goin
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by amyjess 4y ago
There were some good JRPGs for the DS, but it was nowhere near as dominant as the Switch is now.. The PSP was a pretty strong contender, since it had the 2.5D Trails games, FF7 Crisis Core, and some of the best remakes of FF4, FFT, and Tact
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by amyjess 4y ago
Unless you like JRPGs, in which case the Switch is a first-class console. Except for a few AAA-scale action RPGs that launch on PS4/5 (e.g. FF7R, upcoming FF16), the vast majority of JRPGs being released today come to Switch first. And
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by amyjess 4y ago
Computing was originally seen as clerical work, and it was one of the few acceptable career paths to women even before the social upheaval of the '60s. What changed was when home computers became widely available, causing society as a
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by amyjess 4y ago
I would like SQL better if jOOQ-style libraries were common across every major language. A standardized query language is good, but passing in queries as strings will never not feel wrong to me.
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by amyjess 4y ago
My team switched from Scrumban to full Kanban last month, and it's the best thing we ever did. Everything just feels so much more natural and fluid now that we don't have sprints anymore. FWIW, Scrumban wasn't bad either, and
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by amyjess 4y ago
The people who clutch their pearls over other people saying fuck are far more harmful to society and culture than anyone saying fuck.
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by amyjess 4y ago
> I was not a Stadia user, but events like this reinforce my motivation to drop all the Google products I possibly can before they drop me. I currently do AWS infra. This is job security to me, because every time Google shutters anothe
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by amyjess 4y ago
I have multiple reasons for not wanting to use Emacs. I detest every facet of the UI, among other things. Also I don't care about Vim bindings. I use Kate for writing code about 75% of the time anyway and would prefer to continue doing
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by amyjess 4y ago
> A better developer experience. Emacs + Slime is way better development and debugging experience than either Emacs + Geiser, or Emacs + Racket-Mode or Drracket. I've thought about learning a Lisp in the past, but the Lisp community
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by amyjess 4y ago
English word order is janked, though. It's really annoying that we're modifier-modified when it comes to adjectives but modified-modifier when it comes to relative clauses. We say "the red car", but "the car, which
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by amyjess 4y ago
From my experience, the Japanese love four-katakana abbrevations as much as English-speakers love our two-letter and three-letter acronyms. For example, we abbreviate "personal computer" as PC. In Japanese, it's パーソナルコンピューター
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by amyjess 4y ago
Japanese grammar is starkly minimalist. It's not hard to learn at all, the basic structure is almost purely agglutinative, and the word order is consistently head-final in all cases (e.g. SOV for sentence and modifier-modified for no
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by amyjess 4y ago
This would explain why I've seen groups.c code pop up in various TV shows as filler when someone is writing code on the fly.
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by amyjess 4y ago
I use Messenger and Discord to talk to all of my friends. The only people I use SMS to talk to are my parents, who are too non-technical to install any apps that didn't come with their phones.
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by amyjess 4y ago
It's not just the tooling of the modern world. I remember installing teTeX (the predecessor of TeX Live) back in 2003 and I despaired at the file size because I knew it would take days to download on the shitty dialup connection I had
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by amyjess 4y ago
I've seen so much damaging misinformation through viral tweets and tiktoks that no AI-generated imagery is necessary. It just takes one person with a large number of followers pretending they're an authority to post complete lies
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by amyjess 4y ago
> it's called 'and per se, and' It was more that they just called it "and". Rattling off the last few letters of the alphabet, it would have sounded awkward if they ended it with "X, Y, Z, and and". So
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by amyjess 4y ago
The last time I was under anaesthesia was in 2004, so my memories are definitely hazy here, but from what I remember, they started wheeling me into the OR while giving me something potent . It felt good, like in the morning when your alarm
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by amyjess 4y ago
Does Germany not have any concept of promissory estoppel?
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by amyjess 4y ago
The older I get, the more I've slid towards the opinion that I'd much rather configure cloud SaaS via terraform than waste days of work maintaining a self-hosted application.
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So I basically have two concerns with that: 1. A much bigger issue is NTSC composite. Making it look like a CRT is a much smaller part of the picture than what NTSC composite effects do. For example, If you were to hook up the RGB headers o
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by amyjess 4y ago
They'd rent video game consoles too. Speaking of which, I miss video game rentals. I spent so much time as akid at Blockbuster looking for games to rent. Even now, I'd like to be able to play with a game for a few days before comm
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by amyjess 4y ago
For video games, there's another factor: much of the artwork in old-school games was specifically designed to be altered by both CRT scanlines and NTSC composite effects. So many sprites in 2D games and textures in 3D games rely on N
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by amyjess 4y ago
If they take all of Musk's shares in SpaceX and acquire a voting majority, they can then use those shares to vote to sell off the company's assets at the next board meeting.
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by amyjess 4y ago
Bugs Bunny is the source of a lot of weird misconceptions. Example: people think rabbits mostly eat carrots because Bugs Bunny likes to snack on them while leaning on something and saying "What's up, Doc?". Except Bugs doing

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