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by mcv 1y ago
How do they know where to go? How can they find Tonga or the Sargasso Sea unerringly in the vastness of the ocean?
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by mcv 1y ago
I haven't played Rogue, but I've played a lot of Moria, Nethack, and AdoM. Those are what I think of when I hear "Roguelike", although even AdoM might be stretching it a bit with its massive non-random outdoor area.
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by mcv 1y ago
What do you mean by "carry over"? Even in Nethack, you can find the graves of previous characters.
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by mcv 1y ago
Yeah, the word "roguelike" seems to have rapidly lost its meaning these past couple of years.
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by mcv 1y ago
Nice project, although often the text falls off the screen of my phone.
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by mcv 1y ago
Empower the user, protect the data. My Latin is too poor for this, but Google suggests "usorem potestatem da, data protege".
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by mcv 1y ago
Well, one issue with the app store solution at my workplace is that you can still download anything, even if you can't install it. And executables can still be executed even from your downloads folder. Or your personal bin folder. So p
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by mcv 1y ago
Getting a real diagnosis is a big obstacle. Waiting lists are ridiculous, and the medical landscape is confusing. In recent years, I've become increasingly convinced that I've got ADHD. Before, I used to think I've got Asperg
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by mcv 1y ago
There is an app store here too, but lots of vital dev tools simply aren't in there. We should probably make sure they get added.
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by mcv 1y ago
Good point. The current security model of desktop OSs sucks. I was recently reminded of this by an issue at work. I'm used to devs having admin rights on their laptops, but here they closed that down: you have to request admin rights f
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by mcv 1y ago
> It’s through this control of the operating system that Google is exerting control, not at the hardware layer. True, but many phones use the hardware layer to prevent you from installing a different OS. It's all part of the same sy
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by mcv 1y ago
I would certainly hope junior developers don't rely too much on AI; they need the opportunity to learn to do this stuff themselves.
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by mcv 1y ago
The idea that there are even AI metrics to hit... AI should not be a goal in itself, unless you make and sell AI. But for anyone else, you need to stick to your original quality and productivity metrics. If AI can help you improve those, th
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by mcv 1y ago
It's important to understand the difference between easy and simple. It's easy to add complexity, it can sometimes be hard to keep things simple. But with that in mind, I do agree that a lot of systems are more complex than they n
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by mcv 1y ago
Yeah, I first want to know there's an actual performance issue to fix. That's basically what Knuth said, and that's what I live by. > People get lulled into a false sense of security because tests pass but test just aren&#
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by mcv 1y ago
I use IntelliJ with the Copilot plugin, using Claude. My employer has a big subscription for everything from Microsoft, and that includes Copilot, so that's free for me. But somehow Copilot also gives me access to Claude. No idea how t
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by mcv 1y ago
> When was the last time you saw someone profile their code? A year ago. I heavily relied on one to optimize a complex data import that took an hour for a million line Excel file. The algorithm translated it to a graph according to a use
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by mcv 1y ago
Yeah, but those people still have roads, large buildings and factories in their backyard.
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by mcv 1y ago
The issue here is: should the newspaper with hitman classifieds be banned from kiosks, or should you go after the actual owners and advertisers and put them in prison? Hiding the crime from public view doesn't make the crime go away.
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by mcv 1y ago
I've noticed this for a while, when I accidentally click on YouTube Shorts. (I want to avoid it, because it's brain rot, but YouTube keeps enabling it and pushes it hard in notifications). It's most glaringly obvious in TV sh
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by mcv 1y ago
This sounds to me like Microsoft is saying they cannot legally do business in the EU. And there are a lot of companies and other organizations that use cloud services from American companies. All of them have to migrate away, because Americ
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by mcv 1y ago
Yeah, but how much of that is wishful thinking? If your job depends on believing this is real intelligence, you're more likely to believe that.
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by mcv 1y ago
I guess the article conveniently skipped over that detail.
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by mcv 1y ago
There's a big difference between creating an atmosphere of hate against vulnerable minorities, and and criticizing a minister of economics. Criticism of the government is absolutely vital. It's the very reason why free speech is s
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by mcv 1y ago
Yeah, there's a massive difference between a system that can handle a specific number of well-defined situations, and a system that can handle everything . I don't know what the current state of self-driving cars is. Do they alre
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by mcv 1y ago
The FBI caring more about people's rights than the German justice system? That would be an interesting twist.
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by mcv 1y ago
Not on your own; you're with a community that supports running GOG games on that Windows emulation layer. Heroic can run most GOG games very well. Steam is more reliable because it's Valve itself that's behind it, but Heroic
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by mcv 1y ago
We had an Electron. It was a fun little machine, that you could expand to a fun big machine. Originally 32kB RAM and 32kB ROM, ours eventually ended up with 224kB ROM due to all the expansions you could hook on the back of that thing. Didn&
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by mcv 1y ago
I don't think Acorn "dropped the ball". They were doing amazing things, but they simply weren't IBM, and their PC wasn't an IBM PC. The corporate world was rapidly standardizing on PCs and MS DOS, and that it was cr
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by mcv 1y ago
I don't recall the Archimedes ever getting called a "BBC Micro". I remember the introduction of the Archimedes. We had an Acorn Electron, and we'd seen the introduction of various "BBC Masters"; BBCs with more

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