khedoros1

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by khedoros1 1y ago
A long while ago, I used Ubuntu. Then Mint. I had upgrade issues with both of those. Moved to Fedora kind of piecemeal after that. When I built a new gaming machine in 2020, that's what I used; no Windows on that machine. I've had
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by khedoros1 1y ago
A big chunk of the codebase I work on is C. "Distributed storage server" would be a fair description of the product. There's C for a lot of the nitty-gritty of the operation, going down into driver-level stuff. There's C
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by khedoros1 1y ago
I skipped typing classes altogether, and I'm not sure how; they were a requirement in every school district I attended and a prerequisite to the programming classes that I took instead. My typing has developed "organically";
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by khedoros1 1y ago
I have an Asus RT-AC66U B1. `uname -r` gives the version as: 2.6.36.4brcmarm So, yep, ancient version of Linux.
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by khedoros1 1y ago
I did that kind of thing a couple times in college, and basically got it out of my system.
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by khedoros1 1y ago
The constraints of the original game are the interesting point to me. Why would I want to remove those constraints? I feel like you haven't been paying attention to what I'm saying.
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by khedoros1 1y ago
The dude's 77, for one. A lot of people retire long before that age. Second, it's not hard to find articles about his retirement that state his reasons. One example: https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/05&#x
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by khedoros1 1y ago
Geoffrey Hinton has been called that. He left Google in May 2023, so I think it's reasonable that that's who the post refers to.
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by khedoros1 1y ago
> Our current TV experience was built for streaming shows and movies. That's a great description of literally the only use I have for streaming services.
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by khedoros1 1y ago
The advice I see passed around (to beginners) now is that "making a game" and "making an engine" are basically mutually exclusive. "Don't reinvent the wheel; just learn Unity!" I think for a lot of the peo
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by khedoros1 1y ago
I run into this problem trying to help people online. At work, it's often the opposite: complicated stream-of-consciousness dump of context, then a massive pile of unfiltered logs.
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by khedoros1 1y ago
With my current team lead, 90-minute standups aren't common, but they've happened. 30 minutes is "short", and most take 45 minutes. The previous lead kept things to about 10-15 minutes. The new guy has apparently never i
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by khedoros1 1y ago
The last place I worked had manual QA teams, which covered parts of the testing that weren't easily automated. In particular, they had workflows to go through for each expected function in the UI. I don't know how common that is a
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by khedoros1 1y ago
> but that's kind of like saying you enjoy playing zero sidequests in Skyrim or Oblivion. I think it's more like saying that I enjoy playing those games with zero mods (which is true). > what makes the game appealing. To you
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by khedoros1 1y ago
[..] second every 100 million years
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by khedoros1 1y ago
Might as well just rename that product entirely, then. Ditching the "Boy" part of the name loses the allusion to the Nintendo system.
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by khedoros1 1y ago
Shrug to each their own. I just like hollowing out large areas underground and using the cobblestone to build castles. Modded versions of the game don't add much to that.
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by khedoros1 1y ago
Very little. It's directly forbidden for my day job, and if I'm programming anything in my off hours, it's for my own enjoyment. All of the code that I've generated by LLM has backed itself into a corner very early on,
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by khedoros1 1y ago
I've got a desktop with a Core2Quad Q9300, originally built in 2008. Updated the motherboard in 2010 to one with USB3, updated the GPU in 2012. Kept using that machine as my daily-driver until 2020, when I built my current desktop. The
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by khedoros1 1y ago
And "apping" isn't even more ambiguous?
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by khedoros1 1y ago
Awesome, got it running in Dosbox-x on my Pi4...although I have to figure out how to set up MIDI over UART, using a software synth like Timidity or Fluidsynth. It's a piece of art, both aesthetically and technologically. Beautiful how
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by khedoros1 1y ago
I didn't expect the repeat arpeggio-like sounds. I wonder what the repeated structure in the binary was that caused that. I'd guess some kind of embedded data tables (e.g. gradients, fill patterns, or something).
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by khedoros1 1y ago
Depending on my mood, anything from death metal to elevator-music jazz. I usually settle on some kind of house/trance with a pulsing beat, though. That's mostly when I know roughly what I'm writing, and I'm just getting
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by khedoros1 1y ago
Doesn't that just mean that you'd have to provide your own copy of the WideVine library, or something?
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by khedoros1 1y ago
> JSON is 25 years old And in 2004, didn't have a published specification, or much use outside of webdev (which hadn't eaten the world yet). > and SAX parsers are 22 And, especially at the time, pretty much exclusive to Java
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by khedoros1 1y ago
Hmm. I guess I wouldn't have thought it would take 10's of thousands of lines.
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by khedoros1 2y ago
If a game isn't going to help me learn to play it with an in-game tutorial, it damn well better have a manual available. I don't see what "AI" has to do with the situation.
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by khedoros1 2y ago
I have some parallels. My father's parents had a late-40s or early-50s refrigerator in the kitchen well into the late-90s. It had an actual levered latch to hold it shut, and a small freezer section up in the top. Especially as a child
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by khedoros1 2y ago
2009 is around the last time that I remember going into a Radio Shack, with the intention of buying a Nintendo DS and a game. I watched the guy go to the back to get a baggie containing the system, manual, accessories, etc, and stuff it int
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by khedoros1 2y ago
I think I wrote an email along those lines, at some point, although it was as much annoyance with the persistence of a particular recruiter as it was a desire not to work at Amazon.

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