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by b0rsuk 6y ago
I have a pretty pessimistic approach to programming nowadays. I like Rust language because it gives a very good result "on the first try" - meaning, the compiler does a very good job making the program bulletproof. I don't be
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I don't like central silos, but I do love threaded discussion in the style of newsgroups/HN/reddit over message boards. PHPbb is vulnerable to a form of chat flooding where two people start arguing on some piddly issue for se
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I recently downloaded the video of cat listening to classical music, using youtube-dl, just to disable a youtube card obscuring the screen. Between this and "please log in" pop-ups, I can see myself downloading videos before watch
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I was about to tell you to play some board games. I forgot about the pandemic.
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I remember Sacrifice not for having amazing textures or artwork, but models and animations. Spells are a joy to watch. The game plays a lot like Magic Carpet.
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You've been gaslighted into believing that DooM is primitive and archaic. Simply put, DooM perfected what it set out to be. No one ever bested it in the visceral, action-packed shooter category. Maybe a game will do in the future, but
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
My hypothesis is that many game designers have actually forgotten what makes a game fun. Games have become a cargo cult of sorts. Games have character levels, level ups and skill trees but why exactly? Does it make Project Warlock more fun?
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My school teacher also told us that anonymous, blank slate characters are often used to represent everyone, or the reader. This is what most people don't get about the Doom Guy or Gordon Freeman. If you try to fix it, you're actua
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I think you're underestimating Quake's sound design and Lovecraftian influences by Sandy Petersen. For me the games that best illustrate this are ancient Ultima games. Ultima I-IV have tile based symbolic graphics. Ultima V also i
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Which games imitate Goldeneye and Turok? I mean I guess you have a point that these games work, but the fact they've been ignored by game designers is telling something.
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Most FPS games were literally consolized. Until Halo came around, no one could make a FPS work because a controller was too slow and imprecise. Halo's trick was to sloooow the action down. The chunky thing was why making levels for Doo
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It would be more intriguing to apply agriculture in data science.
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I got a bit carried away, but the gist is that you don't measure bow/crossbow power in draw weight. You measure kinetic energy of the projectile. Formula: (mass * (velocity * velocity)) / 2 Weighting is simple, but for measur
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Crossbows would totally work, but the problem is getting your hands on enough of them. No single person could realistically make a crossbow. You needed materials from several guilds. In practice, peasants would have to capture an armory alr
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A crossbow has several advantages, but it's main advantage is NOT power or armor piercing ability. That is likely a myth perpetuated by armchair historians with poor grasp of physics. The main advantage of a crossbow is that it's
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I think the split has already happened, but I'm not convinced maintainers are perceived as valuable.
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I've used the document drawer metaphor in the past. When you start getting paper documents, it's okay to put them in their own drawer and you're done with it. But they keep piling up, and after a while, if you do nothing, you
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
Metaphors are a powerful tool when trying to illustrate complex topics. They're very helpful in philosophy. I need to learn making better metaphors.
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What if technical debt happens on purpose ? Clever programmers incur technical debt, then leave company. Debt incurred becomes another bullet point on their resume, and they eventually become Senior Developers. Their debt is paid by someone
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Scale often represented something else, for example how important someone was.
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> It's funny that we assume historical things must be significant, even though in our day-to-day lives there are plenty of things that are just ... kind of silly. No, it's not funny. Literacy was rare and symbolism was literall
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There is a game coming out in 2021 about this. It's called Inkulinati. They have their own explanation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb_hbTojKvw (3 minutes)
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No, there are two of us. I know mosquitos are pollinators. Their larvae are also very good at cleaning water - they eat algae, plankton, fungi, and other microorganisms. My guess is that if they succeed in collapsing the mosquito population
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Cyberpunk is a whole genre of fiction which attempts to steal computers from introverts. It's about cowboys, bravado, style, gifted people.
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I think either way is fine, life will find a way. The important bit is to stop cutting it .
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Maybe we should just go back to analog video?
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So people will believe what they choose to believe . A populist's wet dream. Truly nothing to be afraid of!
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I think the biggest casualty of deepfakes are going to be citizens. Record a video of police brutality or crime footage and it can all be shrugged off as a deep fake. TV stations and journalists can afford 'signed videos'.
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This method seems to rely on the assumption you can trust everyone. If one person shares his personality information and another doesn't, it puts the first person at a disadvantage. Manipulative coworkers are a thing. Narcissistic and
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Because every time you mention Linux in a 'casual' setting that one person who tried it 15 years ago will rise up and say how it will never be ready for desktop. How Gimp and LibreOffice might work for a while if you're an am

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