mntmoss

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I think I've gradually developed something like deliberate practice as I go along, in that I increasingly approach greenfielding with an "idiomatic muscle memory solution" like "write approximately this style of loop&quo
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I just started magnesium again after a month or so off the stuff. I have the bottle right here in fact... What I originally got it for was percieved joint pains in the morning jogging routine I had just started. I seemed to get some results
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I don't think you're wrong in a technical sense, but the human factors in a contemporary DAW environment are imposing a huge penalty on what's possible. The biggest issue is that we're using plugins written by third part
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I would wait the month or so for Navi cards to show up and see how they do on thermals and if the application performance is to your liking; Navi is intended for midrange cards(says the PR) but getting similar performance to your 1080 is p
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That's giving up way too early. This cat and mouse game is played on the regular between makers of online games and makers of online game cheating tools. If you invest a sizable amount of engineering resources, you can stay a little bi
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I think the main factor in my response is in how much you feel you're in control of your executive functions and emotions. If you can easily re-prioritize your tasks because abstract feedback mechanisms tell you so, and you can steel y
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I didn't have specific issues previously, but started doing 12-hour(sometimes longer) fasts relatively recently and have found that even this "skip breakfast, finish dinner earlier" version of fasting does have some kind of p
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That's a cynical way of putting it. This kind of approach, repeated over many permutations until I have various arrangements of shapes available in muscle memory, makes for good mileage, relative to many other ways that one could prac
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Expanding PL horizons is not a goal for this project. The goal for this specific usercode layer(of which there are four: WASM bytecode, the I/O memory map, the lower level operating system language, and the higher level interpreted lan
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Wren is small, and the language is aesthetically appealing, but it's small in the specific way of its C implementation being a small SLOC while implementing nifty features, not "anyone could study this codebase and port it to a ne
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I was looking for this and didn't realize it. I'm designing a fantasy console and wanted to include a modern-syntax, small, interpreted language that has many independent implementations - a new BASIC or Pascal. Lua comes close to
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The difference that adults have figured out is that announcing your current role is usually a better option than boasting your talents, both in terms of inner psyche and how it sounds to others: "I am a researcher" = oh, so you mu
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Or take current notebooks for example. Thinner and lighter devices in the same form factors were the trend for years, but now that that's hit the point where thin compromises every other feature, there are designs being shown, especia
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With nicer connectors, and non-standard connectors, there's usually additional manufacturing cost involved that makes for expensive plugs and cables. As such the standards get driven by every manufacturer wanting to save a few pennies
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It's more subtle than that. For any given technique used to illustrate a scene, you could come up with a means of automating it, and those means are employed by professional artists on the regular, from rulers to draw straight lines up
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It's kind of a fractalized representation of a dynamic that happens to businesses at every scale: they get good at one thing, so now the organization pushes back against changing that thing when conditions change. The business coasts a
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You send a message that sets a chain of events in motion that saves millions. A common trope in fiction, with some basis in reality(e.g. the nuclear attack warnings during the Cold War, which a few soldiers in bunkers decided to ignore). Po
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I think the broad historical sweep here is sort of along the lines of: * From the early microcomputer era onwards, applications development focused on getting developers that knew the base platform or operating system(e.g. if you knew &quot
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No, because digital processing adds distortion to the signal, which means that having an input beyond perceptual accuracy still matters to a production needing to apply lengthy effects chains. It just matters less than the case of a quie
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It can be coded with Lua. Graphics performance still required considerable optimization. No info on whether development will be open to the public. Source: know one of the lauch game developers, have cranked the prototype hardware
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I've gradually unlearned the anxiety-driven procrastination habits that I picked up in school but it's taken almost as long as the time I spent in the system: * I now focus on developing my own feedback mechanisms rather than worr
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At the same time, the Bay Area's concentration of tech labor has fostered a new left-leaning political force, one that is still in the process of decoupling from the bosses and party politics and realizing a unique voice. I do think th
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It's mostly restrictive on the side of game design. Once your goal is to support a large quantity of software features you automatically fall into the mold of a style of gameplay that will minimize impact on feature development. In the
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The actual outcomes of cheaper distribution have been realized as less equal outcomes: the biggest hits are bigger than ever, the rest are part of an ever-increasing undiscovered long tail. Even though distribution is cheap, when the produc
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Some simple things with good ROI: 1. Ergonomics tooling: Set up your screen at an appropriate height and your keyboard at an appropriate distance, so that you aren't in pain. If you use a laptop often, try setting it on a shoebox. Use
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Comparing SQL - a 4GL - to assembly language seems disingenuous at best, to the point where the Blub paradox applies. (And lo and behold, just four days ago you compared SQL to Lisp on the basis of incompatible implementation!) Unlike assem
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For a general reference I would look at Jason Gregory "Game Engine Architecture". For a deep dive into all game engine topics I would recommend the Handmade Hero dev streams: https://handmadehero.org (Note that Handmad
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As cageface notes - it's not that we can't "just use Lisp" - it's that the metaprogramming leverage added by those systems isn't the form of leverage that helps with shipping. You can achieve "good-enough&
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I also struggle with this, but I think the most important breakthrough I had was that my workflow is ultimately cyclical and practice-driven, and not project-driven. That is, I may allocate parts of my free time to "doing programming&q
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The industry filters first against people who don't want to crunch or to move: the old hands of game development are almost uniformly workaholics and willing to uproot themselves to a new country for each gig. They are numb to these pa

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