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by lazypenguin 3y ago
I’m not too familiar with cppfront and the other new “c++2” projects but I welcome anyone making C++ nicer to use. It’s not a bad language, just like uranium is not a bad material, but easy to mishandle and the consequences are fatal. Have
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by lazypenguin 3y ago
How is it virtue signaling? They can either ship their products from one warehouse to their stores, then you drive and pick up your item. Or they can just ship it directly to you which presumably means the item travelled the same distance?
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by lazypenguin 3y ago
People have, for example https://www.raylib.com/
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by lazypenguin 3y ago
I’ve used this library fairly extensively and it’s very enjoyable and productive. A hearty thanks to Emil and all the contributors
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by lazypenguin 3y ago
Gitness, an open-source GitHub competitor which hosts their open-source code...on GitHub... with a prominent call to arms on their landing page to star their repository...on GitHub... If you don't even use your own product why should a
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by lazypenguin 3y ago
They tried, it was called sandstorm https://sandstorm.io/
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by lazypenguin 3y ago
Powershell is underrated and I actually prefer it over bash but indeed the syntax can be a slog sometimes. I used it a lot but I never felt I was “fluent” and found myself usually often needing the docs for even basic syntax (for loop, func
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by lazypenguin 3y ago
The lack of a standardized patch system for games is mind boggling! Sure there’s some for desktop software exes which just ship the new version every time but those apps are rather small and games can be several GB! We had to roll our own f
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by lazypenguin 3y ago
I don’t know why your comment was downvoted but as someone working on a game with some commercial success this is 100% accurate. From my experience game dev requires a large amount of effort from a few motivated people to succeed. Having mo
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by lazypenguin 3y ago
Correlation is not causation. I do suspect productivity is decreasing but more related to things like “quiet quitting” and myopia from inflation destroying most people’s lives and less so because people are working from home. Hard to stay m
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by lazypenguin 3y ago
Very interesting product. It seems a natural extension to server side ECS. As someone currently running an MMORPG it's true that the game is essentially a real-time DB. Being able to collapse the serialization layer and the runtime lay
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by lazypenguin 3y ago
Same, I do a lot of starlette/sqlqlchemy/etc. and I often miss Django and it’s batteries included approach. Django has its warts but my god is it productive.
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by lazypenguin 3y ago
None of these things are fundamentals
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by lazypenguin 3y ago
Meta materials look very cool, thanks for sharing!
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by lazypenguin 3y ago
I live near a large interstate and the noise produced by it is loud enough that the state has approved a sound barrier to be built. Naturally it will be made out of wood or, if I’m lucky, stone. When the project was announced I couldn’t hel
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by lazypenguin 3y ago
Well said and matches my experience as well. A breadth of features but once you start actively using them in depth you find that the experience is not as polished.
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by lazypenguin 3y ago
We actually did self-host the community edition for several months using the omnibus version (some features you still need a license for that is same price as hoested). After initial setup it worked okay and was mostly hands-off except for
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by lazypenguin 3y ago
I've said it before and I agree with this comment. Their pricing structure is just too aggressive for smaller teams and I think they missed out on capturing a market segment. Maybe they determined it would be unprofitable to support sm
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by lazypenguin 3y ago
What are you going on about? Please get off your high horse. Your disparaging comments have contributing nothing to the conversation except to virtue signal your alleged moral superiority. Perhaps instead of going online and lecturing peopl
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by lazypenguin 3y ago
The past 6-7 years or so I personally noticed a steep increase in homelessness in most metropolitan areas I visited and then slowly started to see an increase in homelessness in the surrounding areas. What was never clear to me was whether
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by lazypenguin 3y ago
“We got out of the car and went inside” “I stood in line to pay for groceries” “He hosted a party to celebrate his son’s birthday”
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by lazypenguin 3y ago
This was an excellent article and should be required reading for managers
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by lazypenguin 3y ago
I think the mistake I’ve seen made time and time again is not recognizing that the software engineers are just problem solvers. That means if you have a good team with a good structure, all you need to do is bring the problem to the team wi
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by lazypenguin 3y ago
Must have been some big backlash
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by lazypenguin 3y ago
I didn’t search “python docs” I searched “python abs”
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by lazypenguin 3y ago
I asked ChatGPT to give me links to some sources for one of its answers and it responded it didn't have access to the internet. I think this could be "solveable" by adding a "show your work" or "provide referen
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by lazypenguin 3y ago
Yes it's broken, try searching 'python abs "Return the absolute value of a number"'. That string is directly lifted from the Python docs for the `abs` function. The official Python documentation does not appear for
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by lazypenguin 4y ago
I didn’t mind blueprints for things like animations or shaders but when building actual logic my programmer bias still preferred to write code. I’d be interested to see how this develops and if it supplants blueprints.
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by lazypenguin 4y ago
I know someone from FSU (former Soviet Union). Their grandparents saved for decades, literally keeping their cash under their mattress. The grandmother wanted to buy a car but the grandfather said it’s better to save. One day they woke up i
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by lazypenguin 4y ago
There is a very sizable group of game developers who use C# thanks to Unity so it’s actually pretty common advice for entry level game devs to learn C#.

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