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by chipsy 11y ago
Remember, the stuff we want to get rid of by automating is the boring stuff! And we discourage automating it now because our economic model is centered on full employment with abundant labor. What this model has produced is consumer demand
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I agree with the sentiment. I don't think there's a solution in focusing your rumination inwards - in my case it's a good way to feel more anxious. But I do have a bit of learned rationality in me, in the form of "I know
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Even in 1985, the applications were only sort of there. You had word processing and spreadsheets and a few other office apps. After that, the only things left for consumers were programming, education and games. And in 1985, games were &quo
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by chipsy 11y ago
You could always go the route of many 80's and 90's RPG's and mash up some fantasy and science fiction themes - time travel, alien worlds, other dimensions, etc. Nearly every popular franchise of that era pulled in those trop
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As someone who has commented on your engine threads in the past(and pointed out this challenge) it's good to see that you're getting towards the content stage of dev. Here is my tip this time: try to find a lot of anchors outside
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This article provoked me to think about devices I had purchased in the last 5-6 years and left to rot. I charged up an Android tablet I got in late 2012. Then I brought out the Asus EEEPC 900 I got, two years earlier. The tablet has always
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Complex applications are the worst of both worlds. They don't do things intuitively, they invent unconventional UI paradigms, and they are extensively configurable, so they need a manual that begins with "how to read this manual&q
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I've been able to play with one of those in the past year. It's still an attractive device even today, a bit like a form factor and OS variant on the TI graphing calculators. If someone announced a new version with small updates(e
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The framework level stuff is definitely reusable. Anything that involves rendering or collision touches on design decisions and thus impacts engine reuse. The off-the-shelf systems do conventional designs and workflows well, basically. But
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I'm feeling a lot more interested in OOC now than the last time I looked, not because the language changed but because I did. I've tried everything else that's popular in the domain at this point and overwhelmingly, the probl
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In general it's safe to assume that the world will default to thinking that you, I, and technology are all irrelevant. Like, people will say that it's important in the same way that politicians say that voters are important. So wh
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This is a really important perspective. It comes up in all sorts of fields: If your project is too big to fail, nobody wants to cancel it. Therefore, everyone tries to make their project too big to fail. It doesn't matter whether the o
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There's a trick one can pull if you decide to engage with literal thinkers head-on, and that is to give them bait by inserting a "great error" somewhere in the text, for example: > ...this method is justified, because we k
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In support of your comment, I would point out that gaming has become progressively less interesting for its technical developments over time. The first videogames really were revolutionary, even as they were derided for being crude, inauthe
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I think there are some answers to be found in technological histories, both creative tools and otherwise. The main point to consider is that new technologies augment the possibilities - outright replacement is actually the unusual case, b
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by chipsy 11y ago
There is a point, but I think the wrong things are compared to indicate that it's "apples to oranges". XML is designed towards a type of problem that is not an everyday programming problem. It is designed for a full-fledged
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> Many nations in the EU have some form of basic income No, they don't.
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Thus, esoteric philosophy will return to the world.
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It's one of the tricks of any creative form to set down a lot of design rules and conventions - and not necessarily to make something more easily, but just to make it distinctive and cohesive. This is something I never had explained to
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Without looking at the article, my answer was yes, because it's a philosophical nature-of-truth kind of question. (Then I skimmed the article, which is a mildly interesting Cold War intelligence piece.) What guides my answer is that da
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by chipsy 11y ago
Minecraft was memory-bound and bandwidth-bound such that it only really became possible in the late 2000's. A typical PC in 2000 would have, if generous, 128 or 256 megabytes of RAM. A typical connection, if any, would be dial up, with
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by chipsy 11y ago
1. Battery powered automotive devices, both small(hoverboards, drones) and large(cars), continue picking up steam; articles circulate about the potential danger and disruption of the new devices 2. Multiple new operating system projects ann
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> it rarely makes any sense to even think about these things before you have working code you can run through a profiler. Almost always, spending your time and effort finding and using higher-level abstractions pays off much more than ti
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The simplest parser style is assembly code: one line, at most one statement. But there's always some desire to get a little more code density than assembly, it's just a matter of how one wants to go about the problem. The syntax o
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Proclaiming that the syntax only causes problems stands in complete defiance of most people's preferences in programming syntax. We like syntax errors because they mold thoughts more precisely. Going against that is also going against
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I disagree with this form of dismissal as a rule. If someone says something and then says "it was a joke", "it was a game", "I was just making a point", that doesn't cancel out the words and their impact -
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Stop-and-start development is completely normal when you introduce a lot of project tooling and it's new and shiny. For this reason, projects run by a solo developer tend to use less tooling and process than team efforts; the friction
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There's been a boom in small, low speed transportation devices in the last five years. For $100 you can get an "adult kick scooter" with a brake - I ride one to connect with transit. Small-wheel folding scooter designs hit a
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People are faced with any number of ways to distract themselves electronically now. That makes it hard to enforce the environment of necessity that builds traditional skills. On the other hand, when they do show an interest in something - a
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by chipsy 11y ago
This may be a British/American English gaffe. Collective nouns in British English are referred to using plurals, e.g. "Apple are planning a new product," vs. the American "Apple is planning a new product."

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