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by dkersten 3y ago
My main monitor is 31.5” and my portrait monitor is 27”. My main is raised maybe 10” above my desk and set up so its center is approx. my eye height, while the portrait monitor is on the desk (so it’s bottom is lower, but it’s too is about
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by dkersten 3y ago
That’s actually a good point. My main monitor sits on top of a stand so it’s raised above my desk, set up that the center is roughly eye height. The portrait monitor is on the desk and its top is about the same height as the main monitor. T
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by dkersten 3y ago
I tend to use two split windows in my code editor and I’ve found this generally more pleasant than a separate window on another monitor (although part of that is that many editors don’t have great multi window support)
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by dkersten 3y ago
I use the right hand monitor for slack and documentation. Sometimes a terminal, very occasionally code that I’m reading (not writing). I also used to think is want a portrait monitor for code but it turns out that the Jack of horizontal res
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by dkersten 3y ago
I used to use the “cube” but with six or seven sides (so whatever a hexagonal or septagonal cylinder is called), with the faces being transparent so you can see the windows floating in the background. Nowadays I use an open laptop with two
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by dkersten 3y ago
That’s setting a cookie/local storage that can be used purely client side to determine whether to show the message or not. No tracking required because the server never has to see or store this.
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by dkersten 3y ago
It really doesn’t. Steam or other stores still have to cooperate ro implement the items on each of their stores to make them work on their platform and then have to honour what the NFT claims. That’s still very heavily replying on the platf
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by dkersten 3y ago
You are still relying on sites to hold your item for you. Items don’t exist in a vacuum, having ownership over an NFT doesn’t suddenly mean things will just interoperate. For example, if it’s a game item, you still rely on one or more games
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by dkersten 3y ago
Ah, you are correct about Candy Crush. After being promoted by your comment to investigate further, I see that King seems to only ever have released one game using the engine: Blossom Blast Saga in 2016, at least according to the showcase[1
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by dkersten 3y ago
In this video[1] he mentions +- 9V tolerance of the switches: “each connection can pass plus minus nine volts at fifty megahertz and are tested up to a hundred milliamps” [1] https://youtu.be/_k0aKM68Xl4?si=xjVgkdbT7TK3dkT
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by dkersten 3y ago
IMHO that’s much uglier than using caps. Sometimes when I use C++, I will namespace them however: namespace constants { static constexpr int name = 42; } … int x = constants::name; The exact name of the namespac
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by dkersten 3y ago
Defold, the engine by King that powers Candy Crush, is a solid free contender for 2D mobile games.
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by dkersten 3y ago
I’ve come to the conclusion that GPT produces code at a level of a new graduate at best . In actually getting it to solve something more or less on its own, it did ok on simple tasks and failed as soon as requirements became a bit more nua
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by dkersten 3y ago
It’s not so much about using the code as it is about writing the code (or at least, providing utilities to the code being written). Yes every program uses the runtime, but very few people write the runtime. That is, perhaps the default prov
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by dkersten 3y ago
Oh, yes! DF is an excellent example. I don’t play it either, I tried it once or twice and it was just too much for me. I might try their new graphical steam version that they released last year sometime, it looks a little more accessible.
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by dkersten 3y ago
I recently watched a video about craftspeople who spent a lifetime mastering their particular craft and one was a Japanese calligraphy brush maker who had been working on a particular brush for 25 years. He called it “no compromise craftsma
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by dkersten 3y ago
From having tinkered with it before and also from using the Godot editor (which is itself made with Godot), it does seem viable (and even quite pleasant), however it’s worth noting that it’s unlikely to have Qt’s level of accessibility supp
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by dkersten 3y ago
Defold is mature, used in many real games with millions of players, and has wide platform support.
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by dkersten 3y ago
> when you get a license I was going to comment that it’s viewable by anyone on their GitHub, but you are correct: you have to be part of the Epic GitHub organisation to access the repo. Getting access is easy, but you do have to agree t
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by dkersten 3y ago
The next generation (going by some comments I’ve read on HN) are already non-programmers gluing (I assume terrible) LLM-generated code together until it (appears like it) works. Hell, my non-programmer brother recently sent me a message lik
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by dkersten 3y ago
I suppose mostly superficial reasons such as liking the keyword syntax better that using string keys in json, but also the richer set of data types (like sets), although that mostly doesn’t matter in practice, but it is very nice when using
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by dkersten 3y ago
I love EDN (especially the integrant extensions) for configuration of the stack — that is, dependency injection and so on, the developer-focused configuration. For user-facing configuration I still favour TOML. I think it’s a bit applicatio
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I especially love the Integrant[1] version which uses the E from EDN (extensible) to add references: {:adapter/jetty {:port 8080, :handler #ig/ref :handler/greet} :handler/greet {:name &qu
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by dkersten 3y ago
I’m not sure, I haven’t used it myself in a few years and back then my experience was like yours. However I do know that it has improved a lot since then, especially with the 4.0 and beyond releases. Is it there yet? I don’t know, but it’s
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Godot. For 2D (especially mobile) games Defold is a strong contender that can boast billion dollar have releases.
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by dkersten 3y ago
In Clojure we have (using :require in the namespace declaration): (:require [foo.bar]) (:require [foo.bar :as quux]) (:require [foo.bar :refer [x y z]]) …etc There’s no reason you couldn’t have similar syntax in Python.
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by dkersten 3y ago
> They are already at 7nm. Given that the nanometer rating is purely marketing/branding and doesn’t translate to actual sizes of anything nor translate between manufacturers, this really doesn’t mean anything.
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Sure. I wasn’t really commenting on pros and cons of any particular system, just that the statement I quoted is true for any system but unrealistic.
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> It sounds like the system works as long as the judge really is an honest broker, and above corruption. Well… a dictatorship works too if the leader is above corruption. The reality is that this is not usually the case.
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> How does that even work for a statically linked binary? I learned it this way: LGPL is basically GPL unless you dynamically link. Sure, there are workarounds to make it compatible with static linking, as others have mentioned, but unle

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