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Challenging fun is the kind that defers satisfaction to near the end of the process - so the more challenge there is, the more uneven the satisfaction is likely to be. It's the same satisfaction one experiences with language fluidity,
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I think the problem can be defined equally as: we can't invest in something more abstract than "plain text" at this time. When we try, it gets downgraded to a plain text projection of the syntax. The plain text encoding itsel
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You can emulate the Tandy in a web browser, e.g. https://dosee.link/#emulator So if you evaluate it by hardware, it's true that the phone isn't giving the same I/O capability. But the application software is
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Marshall Vandruff, one of the teachers on the popular art education channel "Proko", spoke at length about working with airbrush in discussing his illustration career: https://youtu.be/8qDI8NfCyeg To hear him tell
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I don't disagree, but I think the optimization potential tends to be limited to trivial automations in practice. The idioms we use to code at a higher level are mostly wrappers on something we know how to do at a lower level with a mac
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It's a question of verisimilitude, not realism: we are looking for experiences that we can believe in. Firearms in games tend to be less real because they prioritize making you believe in the power fantasy of a gun: it looks and sounds
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Tulip CC is the modern C64. The software is mostly fleshed out for audio apps right now, but feature for feature, it's doing the same kinds of thing, with the same eye to budget: https://github.com/shorepine/tulipc
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The difference is that in the exploitative AAA shop, the company pays salary and benefits. In the exploitative indie shop, "something" will happen that means you are also unpaid and have no recourse because the company either does
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Peri's approach is built around his Hollywood production experience: you don't have to be the real thing, you have to be believably close to the real thing. IOW, verisimilitude. And that's exciting, that's the path to a
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Typically it's done through source code generation or a runtime interpreter - state machine systems implementing a "DSL->source code" mechanism have been around for nearly as long as high level languages, and by taking thi
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Precisely the opposite. Rent-seekers eagerly invite comparison for purposes of valuation, and push the lens of art towards technical and political measurements. When a work is incomparable in the way in which it achieves verisimilitude it
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I think it's healthy, because it creates an undercurrent against building a higher abstraction tower. That's been a major issue: we make the stack deeper and build more of a "Swiss Army Knife" language because it lets us
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Quick-dry gel formulas are the new wave of gel pen and they are pretty easy to use as a lefty. Bic actually has my favorite of them, the Gelocity. It's very good if you like the Bic ballpoint's oily rolling action and want that as
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For most pens, it's really all about the quality of the writing surface, and blame is incorrectly attributed to the pen when it's taken outside its design limits. Paper that is overly thin or rough with a hard backing(like most sc
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I think I do some of this, but my framing is not explicitly about adopting monastic practices - rather, it's about having a "novelty budget" each day. Every novel stimulus is an opportunity to careen off course. However, if t
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The majority of what we make is temporary, and a majority of software amounts to wheel reinvention. But this is true throughout history. Crafted objects had always have their design iterated upon and adjusted to meet the available dependenc
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I did spend a little while evaluating what GPT could output for a fairly intensive gaming task - implement a particular novel physical dynamics model. (Yes, there are newer tools now: I haven't used them and don't want to pay to u
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There's an aspect to Waymo's plan that means that they never really have to solve highway driving to capture market share. Highways are appealing to car manufacturers because they incentivize speed, acceleration, braking, and mo
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There's a related phenomenon in that we now have an "iPad kid" generation that gets sucked into these extremely precise digital tools without a lot of context, following the beginner's trope of overvaluing rendering and
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The thing that really drove the PC era was that the commodity desktop spec was rapidly gaining capability, compilers for them were getting good enough to depend on high-level languages, and the most affordable way to meet the market where i
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There are movements towards making these. It's an integrated SW+HW stack problem and Apple has had years of leadership on that space. Times are changing. What you would see in the past are "PC or Android with a tablet manufacturer
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Over generations, we'll get to where the software tools are relatively more important, but as of right now, it is almost a certainty that the quality of the software you write benefits from writing less code and relatively more of it w
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There's a quiet rumbling left over and doing more background development, trading is still taking place. The major impasse is really with "what's the framing for this invention now" - the invention is still interesting b
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Yesterday, the operators of Artfight, the yearly art trading game, reported a breach that affected perhaps a few hundred people(an XSS attack through a news post comment that scooped up autofill information). Users were panicked, in large p
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The pipeline bottlenecks all changed in favor of bruteforcing the things that BSP had been solving with an elegant precomputed data structure - what BSP was extremely good at was eliminating overdraw and getting to where the scene could ren
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I occasionally dally with XML in hobby code as a document source format, but I think what drives me away at the end is silly stuff with syntax, because it is a big spec well beyond the angle-bracket stuff, it wants to cover all the bases, d
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It's built into the premise of productivity, which ultimately derives from Locke's "labor theory of property" - if you put labor into something, you have a claim on its ownership. Later philosophers studying trade and ec
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I got sour on games for a while but I think there are good things awaiting them, because we're starting to get past the hurdle of "new technology usurps the old" actually being germane to the artistic processes that go into g
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I think the reason, if you had to pin it down to one instead of "confluence of factors", could be almost entirely demographics: * The Boomers, an extremely large generation, enter the workforce in number in the 70's... * Simu
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I think it would be more productive to define tech in terms of "constant size vs variable size". Small is relative, but constant is constant, and the lie that is particularly enabling of bloat is that we scale between "zero a

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