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871.
by psyc 6y ago
I try to read them. I think it’s harder than it should be. I think it’s weird UI to use eye strain as a disincentive to read something controversial.
872.
by psyc 6y ago
The technology that made my jaw hit the floor hardest was the Super NES, running Mario World. Mine eyes did fall upon it suddenly, at a mall kiosk, when I was 14. I was so used to NES graphics, my brain could not fully process the color dep
873.
by psyc 6y ago
Like everything else, it will be imperfect, there will be scandals, the occasional lawsuit, and we'll muddle through.
874.
by psyc 6y ago
It is if you round up.
875.
by psyc 6y ago
I’m not sure how to think about it philosophically. Reminds me of the anthropic principle. But as a graphics / game programmer I am elated to have lived through the evolution from monochrome to 4K TrueColor. And beyond? Still unclear o
876.
by psyc 6y ago
I’ll consider it a revolution when user friendliness and low-config are the default.
877.
by psyc 6y ago
Don’t worry. Captain Edward Smith died.
878.
by psyc 6y ago
Seems like Americans have less and less in common, especially in ways adjacent to patriotism, all of the time. Much has been written about anti-intellectualism in these circles, where most of us have distinguished ourselves from the rabble
879.
by psyc 6y ago
If you really want to get to know your fellow church goers, you’ll have a hard time passing as an atheist for long. Sooner or later you’ll be asked to lead a prayer, give ‘testimony’ to when you ‘got saved’, be tested on your working knowle
880.
by psyc 6y ago
I have no problem diving into a new code base on a new team with a style that’s unfamiliar. I absolutely do not want to switch styles as I work on the same project. I don’t much care what the style is. Successful implementations I’ve seen i
881.
by psyc 6y ago
Yeah this is the one point I don’t get. I’m not sure what “stress over it” means here. I don’t know why I’d stress over it. I’d stress over having indeterminate and mixed styles. Strict style greatly lowers mental overhead, particularly on
882.
by psyc 6y ago
How low level? I don’t know how to design silicon or write in hardware languages. I don’t fully understand how to write drivers, even if I understand a lot of the concepts. I abhor web UI and server side business logic. I adore user interac
883.
by psyc 6y ago
Are we talking about Stardew though? Because IMO it excels in half your criteria and is pleasantly adequate in the rest. If you mean games in general I mostly agree. Most teams just don’t seem to prioritize these things and it can be frustr
884.
by psyc 6y ago
SDE in a very non mission-critical org at Microsoft. Best work/life balance ever. As a bonus, my coworkers and managers weren't stressed either, and so were pleasant to work with. My friends in Windows couldn't understand how
885.
by psyc 6y ago
We used to do this in middle school. That was 30 years ago. We used to do it a lot. You stumble around on autopilot talking gibberish. The world looks like that shadow world Frodo goes to when he puts the ring on. Then you come to on the gr
886.
by psyc 6y ago
I have mixed thoughts about this. An upside is that you can accomplish things that surprise you, that you probably wouldn’t otherwise experience. But if it leads to knocking your head against a wall, it’s probably not the way to go.
887.
by psyc 6y ago
I really wish we could move beyond this tired thought-stopper in these equally tired debates.
888.
by psyc 6y ago
It can appear that way, sure. But it usually means broadcasting your ‘goodness’ visibly, to ingratiate yourself with certain people. It can also mean seeking to establish one’s moral superiority, creating a power imbalance for offensive or
889.
by psyc 6y ago
And why stop this line of reasoning with our local star system? There’s no absolute reference frame.
890.
by psyc 6y ago
I’m on board provided you automatically text-replace stuff like “your right to swing your fist ends where...”, “fire in a crowded theater”, “private companies can do what they want”, “free speech isn’t absolute”, etc with hilarious statemen
891.
by psyc 6y ago
When I worked at Facebook, the wide-audience internal feeds were kind of dominated by very um.. progressive, enthusiastic messaging that I’d even call activism. And it was considered cool to participate and be in that.. well, ‘clique’ may
892.
by psyc 6y ago
Genuinely curious: the insurance industry worries about space?
893.
by psyc 6y ago
That was also my introduction to A*. Say, does anyone have insights into optimizing path finding for speed, as the map gets larger and number of entities increases?
894.
by psyc 6y ago
At 40, it isn’t that I don’t care . It’s that I no longer worry or even think about it at all. I’m confident enough that people think well of me. It isn’t likely that nobody thinks about me at all, given that I think about everyone else qu
895.
by psyc 6y ago
Pardon my ignorance as I have few years of web dev experience. What exactly does it mean to store data on a domain? Does he mean serve data via a domain URL? And if so, how does Google have discovery of that data?
896.
by psyc 6y ago
The various quarks would like a word.
897.
by psyc 6y ago
As I type this, all the other replies have been Poe's Law'd by this comment. Well done.
898.
by psyc 6y ago
That’s what you get when you elect a tabloid celebrity billionaire to the most important office in the world. I’ve been mostly disappointed with our selection of candidates for a long time, but I never thought I’d see that. It’s as if nobod
899.
by psyc 6y ago
I used to have a close friend who was constantly getting into trouble (and calling me to bail her out, sometimes literally). Minor run ins with the police, car accidents, making shady deals or getting into debt to random lowlifes she just m
900.
by psyc 6y ago
It means if someone says beer is free in whatever circumstance, we can assume they mean no cost. They don’t mean the beer has liberties or is unencumbered. If anti-prohibitionists chanted “free the beer!” that would be a different story.

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