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by and0 4y ago
I find it interesting that I keep seeing these document-driven approaches to game development. You can also see this in some of the more advanced online DnD engines out there. Documents and update streams are simple but super powerful. I th
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by and0 4y ago
> That doesn't mean I need to understand the entire code base, but if I'm modifying a portion of the code base, I'm loath to touch it till I understand what it's doing. This is also me. I get flack for spending too lo
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by and0 4y ago
The two that I used to maintain personal connections and communicate in ways worth archiving were Myspace and Facebook. For Myspace I was a teen. Same with Facebook. My connections were from school so if either disappeared I'd just hav
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by and0 4y ago
I think there's a lot of honesty and practicality in your response but not the transparency or clarity needed for this to scale. These networks require buy-in / critical mass to function as intended, and not knowing if I (or my fr
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by and0 4y ago
I think the point is that many had other preferences, but our two party (and FPTP voting) system doesn't address them. Who I voted for in 2016 and 2020 weren't nearly my first choices, and I think that's a fairly common exper
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by and0 4y ago
A couple generations ago wasn't too far past the gilded age, and on the tail end of the Standard Oil empire, the Pinkertons, etc. Before that slavery and serfdom. The idea that power was only used exploitatively after financialization
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by and0 4y ago
I couldn't imagine navigating macOS without gestures. Great on touchpad, non-existent on any comfortable third-party mouse (the magic mouse is made for toddlers apparently.. I don't even have particularly large hands). Thankfully
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by and0 5y ago
That's what makes all of this so ironic to me. Social media platforms and their users (especially Facebook) are not left-leaning. That a vast majority of Twitter users feel he will improve it means that the bias is fictional.
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by and0 5y ago
They do, actually! All of the public help requests and feature suggestions have been in Jira since, like, the early 00s. It's weird to see when they pop up in Google results with ancient screenshots attached.
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by and0 5y ago
I'd be curious to see examples of these. I only know of Trump as having been banned. Plus I guess people who commit shootings tend to get memory holed by all the major social media brands, which might be a good idea? Thousands that you
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by and0 5y ago
I'm pretty far into a project to create a Typescript framework for turn and tile-based (think roguelikes) client/server games: https://github.com/chaos-framework . Mix of entity-component and event-driven design (i
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by and0 5y ago
All for compensating OSS devs, and doing so automatically and implicitly via contributors and the packages they built on is a neat idea. But the blockchain. Ugh. Going by the owner's blog, which is a bit more in-depth on his reasoning
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Satisfactory was fun for a while, and I want to try the v5 features still, but even as an FPS vet I get headaches and frustrations trying to do accurate placement of buildings, let alone tightly optimal. Amazing graphics optimizations, cons
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by and0 5y ago
DSP is excellent. I beat it before Factorio, and liked it a lot more, but I then went back to Factorio to scratch the same itch and after beating it think it's a bit better. The modding support and multiplayer, especially, DSP is prett
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by and0 5y ago
He walked within a hundred feet of my old apartment so I'll happily use my local card to call absolute gibberish on this entire thing. I really have no idea what he was babbling about or why he's so confident in that weird reducti
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by and0 5y ago
Also wanted to pop in to recommend his Twitter. Watching these games get made has been a blast. Just the right mix of interesting math and creativity. I always dig into his blog posts and threads.
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by and0 5y ago
After Googling for an embarassingly long time I think I'm figuring out what gasket mounting is.. how does that meaningfully changed how the keyboard feels? Just makes the whole typing surface a little flexible / bouncy?
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by and0 5y ago
The most useful way for me to think about a rebase is "replay my commits over an updated branch, as though I started coding when those updates had already happened" So if you check out on day 0 and rebase on day 5, then it becomes
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by and0 5y ago
Odd, I was going to comment on how poor the communication with his partner was in the updated post. I realize he'd written the 2021 update after their separation (hard to tell if these individual sections were real-time but even worse
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by and0 5y ago
Yeah! More accurately just EC, no real systems here. Roguelikes are highly deterministic and are not real-time, so a system updating all its respective components for every "tick" wouldn't really fit. The biggest obstacle wit
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by and0 5y ago
TL;DR multiplayer roguelike (or general tile-based) framework in Typescript https://github.com/and0p/chaos-core
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by and0 5y ago
Yeah, nothing in Factorio can quite match watching all of your solar sails and ships orbiting and snapping into place around the sun in the sky. Which you can also fly right up to and watch all the little details in person.
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by and0 5y ago
To anyone who loves Factorio as much as I do, I strongly recommend the new game Dyson Sphere Program. I never truly beat Factorio the way I did DSP, so I can't compare them completely, but DSP takes the concept to a 3D planetary scale
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by and0 5y ago
I can say as someone who fell in love with coding that doing it professionally did not extinguish that fire. Still spent 12 or so hours doing game dev this weekend, and a few hours every night this week. e: To clarify I started learning in
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by and0 6y ago
My assumption was that they wanted to cash in on the renewed interest with Disney+.
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by and0 7y ago
They didn't fail. They were doing just fine, but the private equity firm that bought them up wanted them to completely change their editorial style.
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by and0 7y ago
I can see some issues with trying to unify disparate communities / features for power users, but I would love a streamlined HN / Reddit comment browser with better nesting that sits on my Mac desktop. Signed up for the beta. EDIT:
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by and0 7y ago
Vertical scrolling, and emulating the weird side-effects of the registers being written to, was the hardest part of recreating the NES using 3D meshes. It took me a few weekends to get Zelda 2's intro working reliably. I wrote about it
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by and0 7y ago
Radiohead were pioneers in social media announcements, between the sudden pay-what-you-want digital release of In Rainbows to, as far as I know, inventing social media blackout / cryptic profile picture shenanigans.
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by and0 8y ago
That's way off. While it's true public hospitals can't turn you down for emergencies, they'll still send a bill (which is normally much higher due to not negotiating through an insurance company) that would bankrupt the

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