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by mewse 4y ago
I have a custom game engine, and I make games that use that engine. I have about ten different games, all using the same engine, but they were written over the course of many years and so are written against different commits within that en
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by mewse 4y ago
This is all true, although note that I was not a founder or initial employee; I definitely arrived during the second half of the company's decades-long lifespan. The test was just developed years after I was hired, and I was not invo
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by mewse 4y ago
I have explicitly and repeatedly pointed out that individual applicants each engaged with only a very small portion out of a very large test — the entirety of which had its questions printed across 40 pages. There was obviously no “sadist
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by mewse 4y ago
I mean, obviously exceptions were frequently made for folks with special needs or just personal preferences. I’m aware of many times that was done for both situations. I assure you that I’m not a monster and I would really appreciate it if
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by mewse 4y ago
I once worked at a tech-focused games company (sadly no longer existing) which had the best interview process I’ve ever seen. They had this massive programmer test. It was something like 40 pages long, hardcopy, double-sided. With answe
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by mewse 4y ago
From the article: > The proposal would only apply to social media companies that had at least $100 million in gross revenue in the past year And also: > Also, companies that conduct regular audits of their practices to identify and re
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by mewse 4y ago
I'd argue that when you're doing it properly, the cable is responsible for at least 50% of the aesthetic of any nice keyboard setup. Going wireless would be considerably less visually interesting than what you can do with a nice,
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by mewse 4y ago
It's pretty common to use one or both of the innermost thumb buttons on the bottom row as the space bar, for this style of keyboard (you often have to learn to partly ignore the labels on the keycaps, when your keyboard is this minimal
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by mewse 4y ago
> people mysteriously vanishing because their laptop can't charge as fast as Zoom draws power and their computer just dies This doesn’t seem to have anything to do with your “wires are more reliable” thesis, does it? A laptop with
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by mewse 4y ago
> something that rhymes with money laundering Oo, sign me up for some "bunny conjuring", please! Alternately, "sunny wandering" and "honey squandering" both sound like they could be delightful ways to pass a
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by mewse 4y ago
Wait, can people really not just go into their CI systems and click a “build again” button? People actually insert ‘dummy’ commits to trigger builds? I’ve been using Concourse to run my CI for years and years and just sort of assumed that
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by mewse 4y ago
Yeah, I agree that you'd never get anywhere with a "this is the best way to do it because X" approach; it's just too divisive and often there's no single "best" answer that can be equally applied to every
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by mewse 4y ago
Geez, now I want to write an article about how a game engine works, explaining the rationale for every piece of it; I don't think I've ever seen somebody do that before. It's all kind of spread around in disparate bits and
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by mewse 4y ago
Most people have an above-average number of legs. There's really no contradiction there; all it takes is for there to be a couple low scores pulling the average down.
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by mewse 5y ago
Oo, yeah; "inspired" is precisely the word I was looking for! (I'm a little embarrassed I couldn't draw it to mind by myself!) I'm much happier with saying (for example) "Star Trek inspired the modern warp dr
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by mewse 5y ago
I sometimes wonder how much those things were “predicted” and how much it was a case of the people with lots of money having read the same books we did and being primed toward those outcomes. I mean, we all read Snow Crash when we were teen
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by mewse 5y ago
How does the ledger being public fix the scenario you’re talking about, here?
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by mewse 5y ago
A “No” answer by itself implies one of two longer answers; either “No, and you should already know why not” (i.e.: “Hey, do you want to rob that bank with me?”), or “No, and I don’t owe you an explanation” (i.e.: “Do you want to go out som
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by mewse 5y ago
“skeuomorphism” isn’t even a real UX concept; it’s just been carefully designed to look like one.
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by mewse 5y ago
Yes absolutely, but it’s typically harder to measure for laptop users and will vary a lot based on laptop hardware. On the Steam Deck, every device has the same hardware, and Valve even puts an (optional) display in the top left corner of t
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by mewse 5y ago
I spent some time at university doing psychological research on rats. In my experience they’re the sweetest things and actually quite affectionate, as long as they’re given somewhere safe to live, aren’t too hungry, and you handle them wit
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by mewse 5y ago
> Booster doses cut the risk of infection in vaccinated people by about half across all age groups. I’m not convinced the story actually says what the title claims it does.
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by mewse 5y ago
Wait.. are you saying that the conditional was actually: if (isSignatureValid == isSignatureFromGuardian) As variable names, “validSignature” and “signatureFromGuardian” sound like they’re storing the literal signature values, but
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by mewse 5y ago
Obviously there were some amazing physics hacks to make it possible at all to drive a car over the sorts of extreme slopes (and extreme changes in slope) from SimCity 2000 maps, where the ground was always either completely flat or else a
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by mewse 5y ago
I worked at Maxis for about six months during the middle part of the events described in the article. I started during the tumultuous days surrounding the initial attempt at SimCity 3000 (I didn’t work on that project, though I saw its pro
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by mewse 5y ago
I suspect that "teach coding by making Battlefield V: Definitive Edition" would likely require marginally more than the nine chapters proposed in the article for a basic card game.
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by mewse 5y ago
My project is around 600k lines of C++ code, with around 1000 source files. Not even half as big as yours, but for what it's worth my incremental build time is a bit under 3 seconds (and is almost entirely taken up by linking). A full
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by mewse 5y ago
Hi. I think you may have got the wrong end of the stick, here. This conversation is about a company that's released their movie to theatres and is simultaneously streaming it via their own subscription streaming service, and trying to
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by mewse 5y ago
I think the key point is that streaming companies don't think of it as "our customers are paying us a subscription fee and then our catalog is free to them", but rather as "our customers are paying us a percentage of the
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by mewse 5y ago
Yes, but only because of a silly off-by-one bug Steve left in the human credulity AI subsystem. Again. We've been trying to roll out a patch to address that along with several other, related issues (you can probably guess which ones th

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