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by lfowles 10y ago
After starting to feel twinges in my wrist I switched to an Alphagrip[0] keyboard so that I wouldn't be tempted to rest my wrists on the desk or a pad. Haven't felt that twinge since... Alphagrips might be hard to find now, but de
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by lfowles 10y ago
I've always been a little disappointed that water is a hard barrier in factorio. Off-shore processing rigs or bridges would be a godsend.
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by lfowles 10y ago
I've been freezing for the past several months and in practice thawing just means "Set the mac and cheese/chicken fingers/chili in the fridge so it's ready tomorrow". I have about half a months worth of meals f
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by lfowles 10y ago
This reminds me: as fun as the sandbox nature of the game is... I enjoy the crafted adventure maps more. Or the challenge maps where you are just on a floating island and need to figure out the correct progression without wasting resources.
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by lfowles 10y ago
Hah, yes! Except it's more directly influenced (creating the recipes and what pickaxes can mine which ores) than the indirect influence on the procgen world by defining ore distributions.
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by lfowles 10y ago
Progression rate mainly. Simple Minecraft example (imagine it had more game bolted on, because I can't think of many proc-gen worlds off the top of my head)... Diamond is only available below X depth and at Y rarity. The depth is a har
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by lfowles 10y ago
I don't know about others but I really enjoy my day job. My only complaint is that I don't have enough free time to "idle", but I'd hardly quit just for that purpose. Maybe slow down to a 3 day week. Neither busting
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by lfowles 10y ago
This is C++ specific: CPPCon https://www.youtube.com/user/CppCon
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by lfowles 10y ago
Resistance heating is pretty poor compared to heat pumps.
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by lfowles 10y ago
D'oh, you're right! I looked at a non message command to refresh my memory.
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by lfowles 10y ago
They will only know the prefix for the server they are connected to. On a larger network such as Freenode, client B could be connected to another server with a different prefix length.
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by lfowles 10y ago
Funny you bring up Braunfuck, I've toyed with making a brainfuck game[0], but gave up because working with terminal IO is the pits .... [0]: https://github.com/lfowles/brainporn
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by lfowles 10y ago
Very few game engines throttle other than to meet monitor refresh rate. I thought it was ridiculous to play visual novels that made my laptop heat up as well.
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by lfowles 10y ago
>Because let's face it, masochism is what programming is about. True, but Zach is good at pulling out a simple representative subset for each game. There's no arcane syntax for using registers vs IO in TIS-100 for example. It&#
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by lfowles 10y ago
> HRM doesn't have the devastating difficulty that makes the Zachtronics game what it is This is true, I should mention I spent probably 2-3 hours and completed the game and most side optimizations. Definitely a solid buy for $5-10
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by lfowles 10y ago
There are a few related non-Zachtronics titles off the top of my head: * Human Resource Machine * Factorio * Chromatic Supercomputer[0] [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzfIqigXXh4
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by lfowles 10y ago
They are all at amazingly different levels of abstraction too. This game is probably my next buy. I have to admit I saw it yesterday and dismissed it as "some amateur is making Yet Another Programming Game that's going to be unbal
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by lfowles 10y ago
I'm still barely past the first set of multifactory stages in spacechem. Multithreading is hard.
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by lfowles 10y ago
Zeno's paradox or Ship of Theseus?
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by lfowles 10y ago
Perfect^W Purposeful practice makes perfect.
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by lfowles 10y ago
Well we did get `for (auto x : range)` not long ago!
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by lfowles 10y ago
>CoD started out as an authentic (or, authentic-seeming) WW2 shooter I seem to recall the draw of CoD vs MoH was that you weren't one lone soldier vs the axis of evil. You actually had teammates! And scripted events!
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by lfowles 10y ago
> On an unrelated side-note, if you've played Half-Life, Freeman's Mind is a must-watch: it's an astoundingly funny bit of comedy that is just so brilliant. Likewise, if you've played Half-Life 2, you owe it to yourse
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by lfowles 10y ago
> Doesn't everybody know that trees bring down the temperature? No.
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by lfowles 10y ago
Some sort of machine... think we could have it wash dishes too?
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by lfowles 10y ago
Mainly that you said you have never heard anyone talk about passion in this respect as well as the description of ignoring loved ones. Speaking as someone diagnosed with ADHD, I have intense periods of hyperfocus where I can spend days on a
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by lfowles 10y ago
Sounds a lot like ADHD hyperfocus rather than passion.
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by lfowles 10y ago
Figures (for 2016) from the midwest university I went to: 14 credit hours: $4206/semester in-state $11,159/semester out-of-state 14 credit hours of engineering classes (includes additional per-hour fees...): $5
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by lfowles 10y ago
Several factors of this: * Demand, since it is a new exam very few companies will be looking for a PE in software engineering. * Supply, it's not just taking the test (starting with the FE) but you also need to have worked under a PE i
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by lfowles 10y ago
It's actually not something I do while _asleep_, but when groggy. If I wake up in the middle of the night and decide I want to sleep on my side now, my sense of spatial awareness is pretty poor. I believe people can get by without issu

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