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by lfowles 11y ago
It's also about memorizing the tricks. I would recommend finding videos of it from Awesome Games Done Quick or Summer Games Done Quick. Bonus! An even more challenging variant exists: I Wanna Be The Boshi. Here's the Boshi speedru
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by lfowles 11y ago
>I thought DCSS was boring, 15 runes is way too much of a slog and that's with an easy class. If it wasn't so grindy I would like it a lot more, the skills are fun. It's only 3 runs for minimal ascension, right? It's
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by lfowles 11y ago
Heh. I think wizard mode pops up a dialog when you die "Are you sure you want to die?". Same effect, but probably less trouble!
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by lfowles 11y ago
It's a "sneaky collaboration effort". The original tale is that travellers couldn't get any food from the nearby village, so they started a pot boiling with a stone in it. They then asked the villagers for little bits to
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by lfowles 11y ago
Are you talking about wizard mode or actually in gdb?
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by lfowles 11y ago
I found it more worthwhile to move to Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup and Brogue than beat my head against Nethack until I ascend. Something to be said for a game with a clear vision vs the kitchen sink.
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by lfowles 11y ago
> patching the source or running it in the debugger? Both of those are pretty invasive. Studying the source code and wiki is pretty fair game and definitely not an "instant win"!
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by lfowles 11y ago
That's not necessarily "lazy" in the normal programming context, it's specifically short-circuit evaluation in Python. Although as Wikipedia points out: "In languages that use lazy evaluation by default (like Haskel
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Everyone asks questions(groups.google.com)
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by lfowles 11y ago
> In comparison, The Human Resource Machine has far better production values, but it's really an assembly class in disguise. The end level is to write a sort, so I see it a lot more as an educational tool for kids than a game that c
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by lfowles 11y ago
Bingo, the best part of these games (TIS100 and HRF in particular) is having a well chosen instruction set and glossing over the other annoying parts of working this close to the hardware. I want the puzzle to be figuring out how to make do
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by lfowles 11y ago
Not a stretch at all! I spent many nights playing factorio trying to make an efficient static typing (dumb inserters but smart belt routing) system to replace a costly dynamic typing quick hack (smart inserters with big bus belt routing). D
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by lfowles 11y ago
Consider that most driving is done feet away from another vehicle. If those cars start being replaced by self-driving cars, then the you are safer (system safety x personal safety). The car might make more dubious decisions than you would y
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by lfowles 11y ago
The value is in making a legitimate platform for the lowly CLI app then. I like it :)
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by lfowles 11y ago
Like Google Photos, this might just be something I have to see to believe. However... Google Photos routinely categorizes pictures of my dog as Bear or Cat. My greatest concern is about being able to acquire the conversations necessary to t
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by lfowles 11y ago
Ultimate outcome is that I want to buy a good pair of shoes for myself :) I'm not particularly interested in the conversation unless the bot happened to be a domain expert (I find it unlikely that there is enough training data availabl
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by lfowles 11y ago
* level 1 — command & response Functions? * level 2 — hard-coded conversation flows Scripts? * level 3 — fuzzy/continuous/fluid state. Threading? I can't shake the feeling that deep learning is being shoehorned into a bot
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by lfowles 11y ago
Heh, and I own a car from one of the "most unreliable" brands, Fiat. Only issue so far has been that cruise control disabled itself once.
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by lfowles 11y ago
Naming inspiration: Department of Drones
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by lfowles 11y ago
Exactly, I was thinking that something like the XKCD What-If notes would be easier on the reader and the writer.
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by lfowles 11y ago
To nitpick, the computer readable language is machine code. ASM is just an even thinner veneer on top of that.
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by lfowles 11y ago
Your workers will be more invested if they can comfortably afford the product, though. Obviously this depends on the market.
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by lfowles 11y ago
Quick google for "oculus interpupillary distance": http://www.roadtovr.com/oculus-says-consumer-rift-has-ipd-ad...
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by lfowles 11y ago
I agree, both are really important. I think integration tests get passed over because they require a higher level view of your software. Personally, in my day job, I'm not extremely familiar with the domain, so I'm pretty ineffect
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by lfowles 11y ago
I'm writing a translation wrapper (very high surface area:volume), but I might have the advantage that A and B are in my project, so I can have a good idea of how they behave. C isn't, but I have an additional test suite for the s
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by lfowles 11y ago
There might be confusion about terminology here. I think of unit tests as testing contracts of individual units and then each appropriate level of abstraction has its own set of unit tests. Integration tests are those that use the external
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by lfowles 11y ago
My experience with integration tests first is that a handful of use cases get stuffed into these test cases, but it's harder to figure out what you are actually testing. It's good to test that everything comes together and works i
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by lfowles 11y ago
> Coding, even if not meant for job-work, should be taught as an essential skill in the modern world. Really, just being able to deconstruct a large process into meaningful steps would be beneficial for many people. Coding only makes thi
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by lfowles 11y ago
So, the ideal to-do list will be defined in prolog?
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by lfowles 11y ago
> The todo-list of an average home-maker today would be more complex than that of the princes from a few centuries ago. Well yes, they had other people to manage their todos :)

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