awfulneutral

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by awfulneutral 2y ago
I think about this a lot because I was the same, I couldn't stop messing around with computers and I owe my career to it. But if I was a kid today I'd probably just get caught up in the easy distractions and not learn to program.
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by awfulneutral 2y ago
The existence of these loopholes creates two options: 1) Follow the spirit of the law, which is that on your death, your assets are taxed as they are passed on, thus you contribute to funding the laws and society we are supposedly working t
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by awfulneutral 2y ago
You may not "owe" the government, if you can find a loophole where you can technically avoid paying legally. But in my opinion ethics definitely comes into it, why wouldn't it?
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by awfulneutral 2y ago
(deleted my previous reply as I wasn't happy with it.) 1. I'm not sure what the implication is here. 2. It sounds like he is attempting to create dynastic wealth by avoiding taxes owed after he dies. So, to me it does not seem li
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by awfulneutral 2y ago
It sounds like you do think the law defines what is ethical then. I disagree with that take.
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by awfulneutral 2y ago
If you're referring to the desire to avoid unreasonable taxation without representation, it does not seem like the same thing to me. I don't know - maybe he is avoiding taxes so he can give it all to charity. But greed seems pre
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by awfulneutral 2y ago
The law does not define what is ethical. Of course you can blame somebody for trying to hoard an unreasonable amount of wealth. As George said, we live in a society.
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by awfulneutral 2y ago
Well, in the future you could imagine that instead of programming a game, you can just generate each individual frame on the fly at 60fps. You could be playing 2D Mario and then the game could have him morph into 3D and take off into space
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by awfulneutral 2y ago
To me it looks like pieces are chosen that show a contrast of good and bad - they have amateurish or weird proportions and colors, but generally they have good or at least interesting composition. I couldn't really say how much is int
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by awfulneutral 2y ago
I was trying to do something like this a while back, our approach was to have a different color underneath each piece, with an elaborate setup to get the colors reflected into a camera, but I could never get the color detection working reli
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by awfulneutral 2y ago
Haha, this is the first thing I thought of too. I knew adult hippos walk on the bottom, but from looking at existing videos it looks like small (baby/pygmy) hippos do too, they don't float at the surface like this.
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by awfulneutral 2y ago
If superintelligence happens, then money won't matter anymore anyway.
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by awfulneutral 2y ago
Why not do like with popups, and show a little toast with "x tracking cookies were blocked, click to allow"? Cookies could have to register whether they are essential or not. It's really wild how much work must have been cr
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by awfulneutral 2y ago
Same, my coworker used this argument when I tried to get them to write more comments. The number of hours I've wasted due to there being no comments at all is way, way, way more than the very small number I've wasted due to a no-
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by awfulneutral 2y ago
Well, cynically that fits with my own experience. :) But I don't know if I'd say it's simpler, just that you don't have any choices. For me Apple UX often feels complicated and I can't figure out how to do what I
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by awfulneutral 2y ago
As a "tech person" I feel like we've all been told for 20+ years that we can't have UX that makes any sense to us, or lets us do simple things we want to do, because we are power users and software has to cater to some i
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by awfulneutral 2y ago
Thanks for the recommendation! I'm currently doing a small project in Monogame to see how it is (maybe too low level to be practical for me), but I think you've convinced me to give Stride a look after this.
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by awfulneutral 2y ago
It just feels like C# is always going to be the better choice though. Why have both, with one of them inevitably getting less attention, and why spend resources reinventing the wheel?
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by awfulneutral 2y ago
I have FINALLY made the decision to leave Unity for my hobby games/programs, after about 10 years using it fairly heavily. It is just making my life miserable and I sincerely hate using it, with the latest beta being almost literally
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by awfulneutral 2y ago
I spent a while working on a digital painting app in Unity. UIToolkit is not complete, but it is pretty good for web-like UI, and you can leverage existing knowledge of HTML/CSS layout. With some tweaks you tell Unity to only redraw
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by awfulneutral 2y ago
Another one is Oak: https://oakproof.org/
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by awfulneutral 2y ago
What makes you think they are doing nothing else with their talent? Lots of speed runners are just high achievers and are doing it on the side while they work through college. Some have built a career on speed running. Some do it for cha
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by awfulneutral 2y ago
The article is asserting that there's some meaningful absence of famous outliers in this generation, but it doesn't really support that assertion...are you sure there aren't any? It took a while for me to be aware of the peo
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by awfulneutral 2y ago
That's true, but if it isn't able to be honest when it doesn't know something, or to ask for clarification, then I don't see how it's workable.
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by awfulneutral 2y ago
In the customer support example, he tells it his new phone doesn't work, and then it just starts making stuff up like how the phone was delivered 2 days ago, and there's physically nothing wrong with it, which it doesn't actu
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by awfulneutral 2y ago
Also, on the internet, you can't tell who's a teenager. Social groups in real life are usually divided by age. If a much younger person has an overly extreme or overly argumentative opinion, it's kind of expected.
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by awfulneutral 2y ago
Ah, that's interesting, thanks for the info!
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by awfulneutral 2y ago
From this video it seems like there's no record of timing or emphasis, like you'd get with music transcribed today. So I wonder how close this was to how it sounded...if you take a familiar song, and just play the notes strung to
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by awfulneutral 2y ago
I dunno, Carmack's take seems weird to me...there are tons and tons of games and apps made by tons of different companies and people, what would the common thing be that is holding them back? The OS is not that hard to use, you can pi
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by awfulneutral 2y ago
Yeah, for me it's more than fast enough except for the Microsoft pylance and C# extensions, both of which I really need to feel productive, and both of which (especially pylance) make VS Code much slower and buggier. It has been getti

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