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by dleslie 3y ago
Being interrupted while I work because someone walked over to talk to me, when they could have sent a message to request to talk to me, is the second strongest reason I refuse to work in an office. The first is that I am not paid to commute
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by dleslie 3y ago
Even for humans there was a transition period, and not a sudden explosion of new expression. Naturalist gave way to impressionism, which gave rise to expressionism, and eventually then came abstract works. There's a clear, gradual chan
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by dleslie 3y ago
I'm not convinced that most, or any, humans are ever engaging in truly original thought. This idea that AI cannot be creative but humans can is something that begs for a test; and that test needs to be applied against humans, as well.
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by dleslie 3y ago
That's the metaphor to a T: at one time it was necessary to have an operator, until technology reached a point where buttons would suffice. In the future, script production and revision will still occur via committee, but the actual wr
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by dleslie 3y ago
By AI guardrails they mean: AI cannot be used to write or rewrite scripts, and cannot be source material; but writers are free to use it if they wish. Reminds me of how elevators originally had operators, until everyone realized how wastefu
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by dleslie 3y ago
This is why I own a Titan Pocket. Physical keyboards are simply superior.
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It was easy to do in Win95 through to Win2k because the interface was consistent throughout. Then they started changing the interface guidelines, and toolkit, for every major release of windows; and sometimes several times during the life o
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by dleslie 3y ago
It's not unheard of for Ad-supported mobile games to have per-install revenues measured in the single cents or fractions of a cent, and total revenues over $200k.
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by dleslie 3y ago
Roblox is an example of this, and Fortnite is following its lead: the game is the social network, the distribution platform, the development target, and the runtime for other games. There's an entire generation of kids for whom "V
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by dleslie 3y ago
Interesting, apparently Fennel works with Zerobrane; so I could write Lisp with LOVE. https://wiki.fennel-lang.org/Editors
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Sonic Colors: Ultimate was recently released, and it's a Godot game.
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by dleslie 3y ago
The question is "Why aren't you using Godot?" Unreal is just another vendor with a hand in your revenues.
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by dleslie 3y ago
Heroic Launcher does a great job of getting GoG products working on Linux with minimal effort.
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> If you don't like people driving, then tax that directly. Canada is doing that with a carbon tax that impacts drivers directly, and it's become a hot target for populist outrage. Better to tax the owners of the office buildin
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Video calls have existed since before the Internet. They will continue to be a part of office life.
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by dleslie 3y ago
It really should be the other way; they ought to tax office space punitively in order to coerce people not to commute at all. Commuting is a major source of emissions, personal health ailments, and encourages human-hostile urban design.
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by dleslie 3y ago
Parse, comparse, parsec and PEGs come to mind. 1: https://github.com/massung/parse 2: https://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/5/comparse 3: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/pa
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by dleslie 3y ago
The Quake source has been around for quite a while, this release is just for the rerelease. Quaddicted is a great site to find mods; QuakeSpasm is a fantastic binary for enjoying them; and nQuake is where the multiplayer is at.
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by dleslie 3y ago
> In my experience 99% of the games work out of the box with wine-staging, DXVK and VKD3D-Proton (which works with wine-staging just fine). No need to mess around with anything, just install wine-string, install DXVK and VKD3D-Proton and
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The classic lisp way is to build a runtime image by editing the image while running it, then dumping a binary. You never specifically need to load a source file. But you can't easily collaborate with that style of development.
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JavaScript immediately comes to mind.
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Lots of languages that are not lisp have this ability.
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Eventually you need to work with other people, and using a common time-shared or multi user session is unlikely. Now consider that lisp images generally can't be easily diff'd or merged. And with that the edit-and-continue paradig
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by dleslie 3y ago
> More to the point, why is it always people in the US that have credible or semi credible (or for that matter ANY) evidence of UAP's, UFO's etc? That's selection bias from our media reporting on it. MUFON has tracked sigh
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by dleslie 3y ago
> Netflix churns out hundreds of thousands of hours of content each year at heavy, heavy losses, because they can afford to burn money to force the studios to the table Then that's just the cost of acquiring content, not a total los
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> What Blizzard wanted to avoid is having 4/5ths of the map no longer relevant because you're so far above the area level that you no longer get usable XP, loot or gold. In D3 there wasn't much to do at the high end other
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by dleslie 3y ago
> After ~25 years of playing this sort of game, I am increasingly sympathetic to the idea that exponential-power leveling is just a busted mechanic. There's a variety of good ways to use it, but there isn't a great way. Hero st
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by dleslie 3y ago
You can be god-tier in Diablo 3 with a simple autohotkey script. At least with Diablo 4 you have to _sometimes_ evade. ;)
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> I feel like, particularly with the new Diablo 4 they could make the leveling curve on the base game last MUCH, MUCH longer and it would actually be far more enjoyable for far more people. It would piss off the endgame crowd though, bec
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by dleslie 3y ago
Ah, implicit type conversions being a footgun yet again. int fgetc( FILE *stream ); But the retval is treated as a char.

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