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by oersted 2y ago
I've played both, I absolutely love both, but they don't have that much to do with each other. Against the Storm is all about setting up complex production chains, not necessarily linking them explicitly like in Factorio, but more
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by oersted 2y ago
> It's the trucking game for truckers Exactly yes, I wouldn't say it's only for engineers, it is perfect for smart people who chose a different path in life and need to feed this part of their brain with a fun simplified s
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by oersted 2y ago
I do get the appeal of games, it is one of my long-time passions, but indeed that's the issue with games like Factorio specifically, they feel too much like work, so might as well do work.
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by oersted 2y ago
Isn't the film industry struggling too? Perhaps not as much financially but still. Holywood is dominated by Marvel and a handful of recognizable directors like Christopher Nolan, Denis Villeneuve, Martin Scorsese, Ridley Scott and Quen
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by oersted 2y ago
I agree, but I'm more interested in understanding why everyone is making these mistakes over and over again. It's naive to think that they are all stupid, it's just not possible. It's not just old soulless corporations,
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by oersted 2y ago
I agree, but there's somewhat of a selection bias here. Pretty much all big games, successful or not, are designed by committee. Auteurs have always been rare in gaming and the few that exist are mostly a marketing front and don't
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by oersted 2y ago
I'm not sure I agree... There's certainly somewhat of a AA resurgence, but that's mainly because AA all but died a decade ago squeezed between AAA and indie, and it's slowly coming back to fill-in the gaps. But AA used t
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by oersted 2y ago
Indeed, Skyrim was really not that good, the modding community made it a >decade-long success. Bethesda has acknowledged that to some extent and built some infrastructure to facilitate it, but they also tried to get a cut from it, so the
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by oersted 2y ago
I agree, again, there's a surprising endemic difficulty throughout the whole industry to empower decent writers and designers to make properly engaging and interesting games, and that's not really a budget issue. There's a co
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by oersted 2y ago
Yes, relatively speaking Sony is not doing too badly. They might have been doing better a few years ago, but it hasn't changed that much. PS5 was a real success story despite supply-side struggles the first few years. They still have a
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by oersted 2y ago
Indeed, they pushed hard for a few years trying to figure out recurring revenue with Live-Service models. A few early entrants did well, like Fortnite, Destiny, Division... Although they also struggled for years before hitting their stride,
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by oersted 2y ago
I wholeheartedly agree, just to add that currently even the most competent industry leaders have been seriously struggling in the last few years. - Bethesda's Starfield and RedFall flops. - The tumultuous Cyberpunk 2077 story from the
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by oersted 2y ago
At least in the EU, in public universities (most of the top universities are public), publishing papers and getting citations are critical metrics for getting grants and any kind of position. Post-docs often need to get a grant to fund thei
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by oersted 2y ago
One of the best things about Markdown is that it is also a great plain text format for when rendering is not available. But I do agree that HN’s format should be a strict subset, it is so close.
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by oersted 2y ago
There's a flip side to this that I think is quite positive. When you build a tool that improves efficiency, the users either do more with the same effort or do the same with less effort. The former might be more constructive, both are
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by oersted 2y ago
Some say that the Roman Republic lasted for so long because it gave just enough voice to the people so they felt heard and the ones in power could not afford to fully ignore them, while not giving the people sufficient power to elect someon
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by oersted 2y ago
I think there's a broad misunderstanding about the core goal of democracy. It's obviously not the optimal system to ensure that the best possible decisions are taken, it's not designed for that. It's more about allowing
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by oersted 2y ago
There's obvious utility in learning about the specific tools and methods that have been successfully employed in the past to enforce covert oppression in a democracy, so we can collectively protect against them. If you want a more down
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by oersted 2y ago
I have read the paper in the past, I am well versed about WEB, and I believe I have done literate programming at length for a number of non-trivial projects. I have explained my thinking in a separate comment (apologies for creating two bra
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by oersted 2y ago
Awesome links, thank you. I did come across "Physically Based Rendering" at some point, I forgot about it. This is definitely an excellent example of Literate Programming.
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by oersted 2y ago
What I'm saying is simply that as you describe it, you are first writing the code normally, and then separately writing some documentation about it accompanied by code snippets for context. But if that's Literate Programming then
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by oersted 2y ago
It seems like the site got the HN hug-of-death. Mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20221130150047/http://brokestrea... I have skimmed the TeX literate PDF (I did a number of times in the past too). Fran
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by oersted 2y ago
Perhaps I came across as too critical, I have a lot of respect for what you did and for the craft of technical writing. And I definitely understand that writing is not done linearly and is very iterative. Correct me if I'm wrong, but i
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by oersted 2y ago
Thanks for the insight. Just to be clear, writing documentation after the fact with lots of code snippets is obviously good and is standard practice. You can take the next step and ensure that the entirety of the code is in your documentati
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by oersted 2y ago
I tried to do it seriously a number of times. Perhaps I am doing it wrong, but my productivity drops like a stone. Writing down your thoughts as you go and maintaining them takes serious time. The romantic notion of writing (and reading) co
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by oersted 2y ago
He seems quite gentle in the video, he uses the windowsill as support and just vibrate the thin stick a bit. The pea shooter method looks quite fun :)
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by oersted 2y ago
Gotta love british boarding school jargon. In the 90s no less! Sounds like 18th century.
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by oersted 2y ago
As I understand it they come from Muslim heritage, from the 700 years of Al-Andalus in the Iberian peninsula. The word clearly points to "Persian". I know them from Spain, but I'm not surprised that they came to Brazil from P
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by oersted 2y ago
"almost all" is correct, they are nearly universal. At least for residential windows, maybe not in offices.
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by oersted 2y ago
I don't think you have the right mental image of Spanish blinds (persianas). They are indeed built into the window frame and are fully retractable. The windows also open to the inside. They have a similar function as awnings, because y

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