novagameco

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by novagameco 3y ago
Dystopia is when white collar workers are no longer secure in the labor force. Basic economics is when blue collar workers are no longer secure in the labor force
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by novagameco 3y ago
Tip for anyone trying to show off a language: put a hello world or fizz buzz on the front page
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by novagameco 3y ago
Your phone is still available and really cool. But it mirrors your phone instead of running the apps on your PC
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by novagameco 3y ago
Mostly client SDKs for different RESTful HTTP APIs
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by novagameco 3y ago
"Cornjerker"
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by novagameco 3y ago
I think there are modern frameworks which render everything in webgl/webgpu with the canvas
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by novagameco 3y ago
I've tried to get into IRC but the public servers have so many dead channels. On the one channel I did find active someone called me a racial slur because I use Windows. I wish there were more people using these alternative, somewhat d
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by novagameco 3y ago
It's always interesting to me to see CLI users who are so invested in their development environment that they end up recreating the GUI IDEs they so disdain. Like vim users who insist that Jetbrains or VS Code is unnecessary after they
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by novagameco 3y ago
I use this one: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LZVDMEL
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by novagameco 3y ago
I found a cheap MP3 player a couple years ago for like $30 on Amazon. It looks like a 2nd gen iPod nano and takes an SD card slot. I have literally never needed to charge it, the specs are so tiny.
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by novagameco 3y ago
The build quality looks really cheap. Since it's only a kickstarter, I assume the 3D printed case is only for prototyping, but it doesn't look like it would last very long. For $250 I would expect a much better case than that
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by novagameco 3y ago
Yeah the problems it is meant to solve are not problems that most frontend developers have. Frontend developers are often constrained by development time and maintainability, not performance. Frontend developers care about expressing their
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by novagameco 3y ago
Apparently, but when I use Dall-e 3 on OpenAI, the images it generates look like shit. Under-developed, with crappy eyes and hands, the kind of typical mutant stuff you see with AI generated Images. Bing seems to be much better at those typ
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by novagameco 3y ago
> It does not integrate at all with the host platform SDL does in fact make system calls and have OS-specific code (DirectX implementation, Metal implementation), even if most of them don't directly manipulate OS UI controls, though
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by novagameco 3y ago
Well my experience with Mastodon has been that it's almost entirely tech people who are joining mastodon for the technical novelty. If every NPR/PBS station launched a social network concurrently, then people would quickly find ot
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by novagameco 3y ago
Change the code and it becomes way cheaper to renovate them. Turn them into dormitory style buildings with communal bathrooms and interior apartments with no outward facing windows
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by novagameco 3y ago
I always thought it would be cool if every NPR/PBS station also ran Fediverse nodes of mastodon or whatever the Fediverse version of Facebook is. Would provide a public-funded option with more transparency
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by novagameco 3y ago
You can easily sideload apps on android with only one setting change. This alone makes Android better than iPhone
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by novagameco 3y ago
Well the iPhone is a worse device than a flagship android already, so I think it would still remain popular because of the fashion aspect of being an apple user
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by novagameco 3y ago
With an imperative style, you need to learn a programming language before you can start making applications. With HTML, you can start making applications immediately by just writing HTML, and then you can learn the programming language (jav
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by novagameco 3y ago
It is totally possible to have a "runs on anything" UI framework; it simply has to have bindings for every applicable platform. SDL does this, for example, in 2D Graphics. Java has a few "run anywhere" UI frameworks, and
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by novagameco 3y ago
Then nobody will go back to making native apps
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by novagameco 3y ago
Maybe when native languages manage to come up with a single good UI framework
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by novagameco 3y ago
Powershell cmdlets make the CLI really nice to use; you declare the variables in your program parameters and then hitting tab will auto-suggest/auto-complete them for you, and you can generate help docs for each cmdlet as well
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by novagameco 3y ago
Within DirectX I like the usage of types compared to OpenGL, where everything is GLuint. I like the explicit management of state and the use of views on resources to bind the same memory to different contexts. I vastly prefer HLSL to GLSL
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by novagameco 3y ago
At the very least, layoffs should be seen as an indication of failure. Sundar Pichai should not be making as much money as he is with the amount of layoffs they did
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by novagameco 3y ago
Then you'll probably disagree with me when I say that I think the world wide web in general has had a net zero impact on the world. I believe it's had as many positives as negatives. Perhaps if we could've frozen it circa 200
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by novagameco 3y ago
I'm worried that SteamOS would make Linux to default target and game development platform and that a lot of tooling would shift in the direction of Unix-likes and the Windows + DirectX ecosystem would wither as a result. I want windows
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by novagameco 3y ago
I'm not talking about the industry in general, I'm talking about my personal preferences. I like to use C++ with Visual Studio and DirectX. I would hate to find myself in a position where I had to develop everything in Linux for c
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by novagameco 3y ago
If compatibility isn't an issue (I have yet to have any compatibility problems with my Steam Deck), I don't see why they shouldn't move to SteamOS. However, I fear a future in which people develop games on Linux targeted dire

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