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by dazzawazza 1y ago
We all just accepted CMake. It's not perfect but it works. C++ with SDL and Lua in a mono repo should be trivial. SDL3 supports CMake and Lua is simple to compile and make a CMakeLists.txt for.
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by dazzawazza 1y ago
For context: There are three root comments and six comments in total right now. All seem reasonable.
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by dazzawazza 1y ago
man that's an ugly man page. The FreeBSD one is a lot easier to read. https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=dialog
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by dazzawazza 1y ago
When I give short talks at schools about game dev I try to make it super clear that we are all born game designers. We all make up games as children and a large part of that is story telling. Every child has seen a face in a cloud and &#x27
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by dazzawazza 1y ago
Getting lost is important in life. As you say, you'll discover more and experience more. How you remember something has more value than how it was. Over time it will morph in to the truth you experienced. In the same way a painter capt
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by dazzawazza 1y ago
Surely AI will use this when training to limit the AI slop feedback loop... oh.
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by dazzawazza 1y ago
Luckily I live in London, UK. There are many metal, rock and alternative pubs. Most cities will have at least one. Small rural town will not though :( But the metal pub is really just an example. Any activity where people regularly come tog
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by dazzawazza 1y ago
I love heavy metal. So I go to metal pubs. I meet people, we talk and listen to each other. I've been talking to the same people for 30+ years but I meet new people EVERY time I venture out. I may see them again, I may not. Who cares?
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by dazzawazza 1y ago
Here is peak Bri'ish philosophy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAh8HryVaeY
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by dazzawazza 2y ago
After a few paragraphs I just assumed it was a marketing post and moved on.
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by dazzawazza 2y ago
Everything is of it's time. They pushed the barriers back in their time so that we could enjoy a better world now. They never claimed to be omniscient and that is to all our benefits. Casual racism has and always will be there. No poin
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by dazzawazza 2y ago
On of the many reasons I switched to FreeBSD over 20 years ago. Kernel and user-space developed together. No surprises, just consistent productivity.
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by dazzawazza 2y ago
For the best reason, curiosity, I am learning about amplifier circuits. I really appreciate this link. Thank you. I also appreciate the no bullshit nature of the website and texts contained within. What a joy.
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by dazzawazza 2y ago
Agree 100%. Using something like py2exe creates a self contained "python script". This comes with a lot of problems for the developer but minimum problems for the user.
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by dazzawazza 2y ago
There is a certain type of tyranny to the mindset in this blog post. The constant pressure to perform for an imagine audience, the "self worth through the prism of others" trap etc. More chilling is the dismissing of others that d
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by dazzawazza 2y ago
Ah, that's cool. Thanks for writing the article.
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by dazzawazza 2y ago
> Embrace the strengths of DYI. Create what you need and little more. Be wary of abstractions made for fabricated use cases. DYI?
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by dazzawazza 2y ago
The only really reliable use I discovered for AI so far is rubber-ducking. As you dig down it's often so hilariously useless it sparks my decaying intelligence to offer up a gem. Less fruitful than talking to a Junior Engineer but more
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by dazzawazza 2y ago
"We are planning to replace all essential Linux tools." It would be nice if they commit to replacing more than just Linux tools. There are numerous quirks/additions to the GNU utils that the BSDs don't want or need.
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by dazzawazza 2y ago
I'm a long time Directory Opus (dopus) user which costs around 50 US$. Dopus is more extendible but probably not as fast. Seems like a reasonable price to me. When you deal with a LOT of files like I do as a game dev it pays for itself
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by dazzawazza 2y ago
It's still used with Unreal Engine when people don't want to pay the Perforce tax. Although most of the "hip young kids" waste their time with git+lfs the people actually getting work done on LARGE projects still rely on
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by dazzawazza 2y ago
Exactly, the LLM-RAG boffins are all over stuff like this.
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by dazzawazza 2y ago
As a non-audiophile I really enjoyed this dive in to FreeBSD. I use FreeBSD every day but I've never needed to dig in this deep. I really shouldn't be surprised that it was an audiophile that would just keep digging until they got
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by dazzawazza 2y ago
I made a web delicious-alike many years ago called Beep My Stuff that I happily shut down. No regrets, I hated it. What I discovered was: * amazon (at the time) will aggressively shut you down by cutting off the only "viable" acce
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by dazzawazza 2y ago
It's important to remember that the most powerful form of code reuse is copy and paste.
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by dazzawazza 2y ago
yeah, it's a pretty dark pattern.
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by dazzawazza 2y ago
Learning how to prototype a game is a skill. I've prototyped hundreds of games over 30 years for work and pleasure. Seeing the potential is genuinely hard but it IS a skill you can learn. Understanding that the general public should no
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by dazzawazza 2y ago
Ideally it's crap umbrellas all the way down. Everyone should be shielding everyone below them from the crap slithering its way down.
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by dazzawazza 2y ago
Can I also recommend Kay Lousberg's work as well: https://kaylousberg.com/ Similar business model and usefulness. A lot of free and you can purchase via itch. I've used both to prototype many games in Unreal and h
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by dazzawazza 2y ago
I miss the days when we used to implement custom versions of stuff like this. Now it's all "just use Unreal" and every game has the same tedious bugs, glitches and frankly gameplay. Oh well.

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