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by syntheweave 3y ago
This is true - proprietary tends to lead - albeit it doesn't address the societal concern here: Are these really the only roles a software developer can have? On one end, acting as a mercenary for platform monopolies doing the new stuf
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by syntheweave 3y ago
Governments often behave like gangster syndicates. Not in all cases or in every way, but if you take the premise as given, and then explain apparent deviations as outcomes of internal power struggle or PR campaigns to garner broad support,
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by syntheweave 3y ago
This is the comment I wanted to make. DNS is one of those technologies that has a simple explanation - "it's indirection" - with consequential ramifications that turn it into someone's job. Most people will not interact
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by syntheweave 3y ago
They can, but you have to shape it a little bit so that they're out of the comfort zone and playing in a different role than their usual. It's the role, not the formal structure, that is important. Improv acting, for example, cent
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by syntheweave 3y ago
With a lot of the Apogee shareware stuff it was exactly like that, especially if you actually tried playing the registered version "other two episodes". Lots of levels that were filled up with stuff to collect and enemies to bop,
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by syntheweave 3y ago
The early 2000's recession, which you would have just missed, brought about a major trend shift that realigned more of tech to Web 2.0 ideas. When good programmers are laid off, they find themselves pushing fundamental parts of the sof
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by syntheweave 3y ago
What combats enshittification is the commons itself. That is: if you can download a car, car manufacturers can't be rentiers. The commons isn't the same as "open", because it's about the norms, not the artifacts. An
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by syntheweave 3y ago
Inkscape is rapidly becoming an interesting project to follow. Martin Owens has been very active in doing outreach and reporting work, giving a lot of insights into what is happening beyond the changelog posts. As a general-purpose app it s
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by syntheweave 3y ago
On some level, all of them do. Programming lives in a grey area between human language and discrete, symbolic logic. The way in which we get to an "application" is in designing interfaces that look more like the domain, and less l
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by syntheweave 3y ago
When drawing, if I only use the mental imagery then I tend to draw blobs of value and symbolic shapes without respecting the true proportions of the object. What I fill in the details with instead are learned contours: motion patterns are e
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by syntheweave 3y ago
I believe a programming language could actually codify rules around how long names are allowed to be based on scope. In a local scope, aliasing to single-letters is OK, and many codebases are littered with i,j,k,b,v,x,y,z arguments and iter
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by syntheweave 3y ago
All Jai Alai needs is a promotional anime series, and it'll be back in business.
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by syntheweave 3y ago
What makes computer languages odd is in having syntax persistently be "born" in tandem with a desire for a certain semantics, and the two being hard to separate upon close inspection. You have to know the domain and have the exper
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by syntheweave 3y ago
The trick to these earlier VMs, from the Infocom Z-Machine and Wizardry's interpreted Pascal code, through SCUMM, Sierra AGI and SCI, Another World, the Horrorsoft games, etc., is that they recognized that the games they were making we
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by syntheweave 3y ago
I've gradually taken towards "always learn as if it's a sport" as the approach to learning. Which, if you look at the sports science recommendations is: * Isolate highly specific techniques into drills. * Then go directl
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by syntheweave 3y ago
I've been using Solus 4.4 for a few days. Best package install experience I've had - one tool to do it, no weirdness or scary messages about dependencies, and the hit rate on getting the software I'm looking for without issue
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by syntheweave 3y ago
Prime time is a relative construct - it's a kind of realization of the rat race that assumes that the world is moving in a directed sense "towards" a goal and you are left behind if you don't stay directly, vigorously co
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by syntheweave 3y ago
Once a fight goes to the ground, as it often does in MMA, it's much more technical in nature and someone who has put in a few years of effort into grappling techniques can trounce larger opponents by doing things that they simply aren&
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by syntheweave 3y ago
That already happened. Everyone who wants their own standard of moderation doesn't want to tangle with Meta's standards. Thus essentially everyone who preferences moderation over scale elected to defederate. The end.
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by syntheweave 3y ago
I suggest making your first experiences be a "journey" between instances to learn from each of them. You can test account migration as you go along.
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by syntheweave 3y ago
When cartooning without reference you have two general methods available: 1. Recall a contour you've committed to muscle memory, e.g. through blind contour studies. 2. Construct a form from primitive geometry, which can be memorized as
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by syntheweave 3y ago
Motion patterns in toolbars are strict: you have to start at the top and drill down. This seems like a hindrance, but it means that the motions develop into stronger muscle memory. If you know the names of what you are looking for, you can
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by syntheweave 3y ago
I think this ultimately just reflects on a certain generation of software that we're still using - a 1990's, Unix-ish, graphics-oriented, Internet-capable stack. I don't think we're staying there, either. C++ is very lon
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by syntheweave 3y ago
I had the experience of going to US schools among competitive immigrants from Taiwan and HK(in the late 90's, i.e. they left while it was still under the British), and a little bit of mainland China as well. Reflecting on it, it produc
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by syntheweave 3y ago
This sounds much like the same malady that has befallen movie production, and to some extent illustration and music. The kind of artistic result achieved with true "do everything in triplicate" drafting and capturing one good perf
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by syntheweave 3y ago
The two key insights that drive the game-physics approach of PDB(which follow decades of spaghetti-on-the-wall) essentially come down to: choosing a source of error that can be controlled, and not throwing away information too readily. You
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by syntheweave 3y ago
I wasn't sure I would be able to play on mobile but I was pleasantly surprised by the simple controls and managed to reach the third scene of chapter 1 before getting stuck, so, good job. I don't think anything needs to change wit
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by syntheweave 3y ago
Calling early winners is a longstanding pastime of tech...the Internet protocol stack was the dark horse candidate in telecom circles back in the 80's. Apple was "done for" in the mid-90's, in the same boat as Commodore,
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by syntheweave 3y ago
Seeing the code for King's Quest V definitely felt like a bucket list item. Although, in truth, it now feels more mundane than mysterious. Reams of code that is just walk and hitbox positioning, animation, "if player has item do
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by syntheweave 3y ago
It needs time to tell - not a lot of time, but more than a few hours. Lots of people sign up to park an account on new services and Threads is going to be one of the most heavily-parked of them all. It's DAU/MAU numbers and retent

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