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451.
by tombert 5mo ago
Oh yeah! For some reason I was convinced that Gabriel Knight was LucasArts but nope, just misremembered. Gabriel Knight was awesome, I'd love a new one.
452.
by tombert 5mo ago
I actually didn't play the game until I was fifteen, in ~2006. I didn't know the answers, but I found out you can just hit ctrl-alt-x and skip the questions.
453.
by tombert 5mo ago
Why would we be ashamed of that? The early Leisure Suit Larry games are a lot of fun; yeah the humor is crass and low-brow, but that's sort of the charm. It's meant to be silly.
454.
by tombert 5mo ago
If I'm anything like my parents, I don't think that's something I have to worry about. My dad is constantly buying new textbooks and trying to teach himself different types of physics. Either that, or he's designing new
455.
by tombert 5mo ago
Interesting. I haven't read the paper yet so forgive a bit of ignorance here, but I feel like when I'm unemployed, I actively spend all my time trying to learn new things. This is no small part because otherwise I get depressed b
456.
by tombert 5mo ago
I broadly agree though I have noticed that it seems to be getting a bit better. I hate how patronizing pretty much every LLM tends to be, but at least I've noticed now that the AI support is better at figuring out what it is I actuall
457.
by tombert 5mo ago
What was wrong with their logo? Or did you mean to type "obsessed"?
458.
by tombert 5mo ago
I still get briefly confused when I see a post on here about X, only to realize they're talking about Twitter, and not the display server. There are 26 letters and millions of words; people should choose other ones.
459.
by tombert 5mo ago
Damn, for just a moment I thought the Sierra Online company was coming back. I want a new official Quest for Glory game.
460.
by tombert 5mo ago
To be clear, I enjoy the games, I've played through MGS2 all the way through twice. It's a good game. I even enjoy the story, but I view the story as something like a soap opera; a story that is extremely compelling and addicti
461.
by tombert 5mo ago
The first one gets a bit goofy with the evil twin stuff, and the unintentionally funny dialog like "Do you think love can bloom on the battlefield???", but certainly doesn't go nearly as off the rails as the second one.
462.
by tombert 5mo ago
I've only completed the first three, but at least in those, the stories get progressively off the rails and weird as they go on, especially MGS2. It's one of those weird things, because the stories are kind of incomprehensible,
463.
by tombert 5mo ago
Everyone focuses on that part, but what the hell was with the girl that could repel bullets but it turns out that it was magnets but actually maybe she does have powers? And what about the weird thing where you start sword fighting your fat
464.
by tombert 5mo ago
Sure; for reference most of what I end up doing is concurrent and distributed systems, so that's more or less what I focus on. I don't know if this stuff translates to other domains. Basically, when I have an idea for a project,
465.
by tombert 5mo ago
When ChatGPT came out, I was beyond excited. I had a tool to generate config files, and bounce ideas off of, and help unblock me when I got stupid arcane logs I didn't understand. That didn't feel existentially depressing at all;
466.
by tombert 5mo ago
Maybe with the source code, I'd be able to figure out what the hell happened in the last ~2 hours of the game.
467.
by tombert 5mo ago
Yeah I guess I should correct and say that I do use an HP 50G emulator on my iPhone cuz I like RPN. But even still, the iPhone can do many things and is many times more capable, and you can buy a used iPhone 12 that works fine for about the
468.
by tombert 5mo ago
That was my first graphing calculator in high school, because it was way cheaper than the equivalent TI. Like seriously 1/4 the price for "beginning of the school year" sales. That thing was fine, and if I hadn't droppe
469.
by tombert 5mo ago
I sort of agree. You're paying $100 for completely antiquated hardware where its core feature is "it doesn't do much". Pretty much any professional environment that you will need calculations will have access to a comput
470.
by tombert 5mo ago
I had the same one. I thought it was pretty cool. One perk I found is that if I kept it in RPN mode, people stopped asking to borrow my calculator, which was a valid excuse to learn how to use RPN, which is basically all I use now (and ind
471.
by tombert 5mo ago
Thank you. I have my immigration attorney's number directly available if the worst happens. As I said, I'm not that worried; the only concern I have is that we are traveling internationally at the end of the year and while I ha
472.
by tombert 5mo ago
My wife is a US citizen now. I'm not that worried, but of course I see the reports on TV about the Trump admin abducting and imprisoning lawful residents and citizens. To be clear, we were completely honest on every form required to
473.
by tombert 5mo ago
I haven't been able to fully justify it (and sadly I don't get paid for F# anymore :( ), but there was a competent port of the Scala CTrie structure available [1]. My local benchmarks got pretty decent performance, and often a bit
474.
by tombert 6mo ago
Yeah, and even if you need concurrency/parallelism within the function, it can be forgivable to use ConcurrentDictionary or ConcurrentBag or one of the many, many other thread safe mutable data structures built directly into .NET. I wi
475.
by tombert 6mo ago
I've found that with F#, I get better performance if I do dumb imperative stuff, but keep the side effects within a function. At that point, the functions can basically be "pure" but you can get decent speed. For example, I
476.
by tombert 6mo ago
Carmack is a smart guy, and there's no question that he's amazing at optimization, but his code is pretty messy, especially early versions. In the Doom engine, for example, he has hard coded lots of things directly in the C engine
477.
by tombert 6mo ago
I've grown a little annoyed at people just blindly committing AI code. I don't even have an issue with AI generated code; it's a tool, and if it works you should use it. What bothers me is that we're getting millions of
478.
by tombert 6mo ago
Sure. That still is different than expecting 10-15% yearly growth like publicly traded companies are.
479.
by tombert 6mo ago
You know what; I use ZeroMQ all the time. Thanks for bringing to my attention that the community is waning, I will look into contributing to it tonight.
480.
by tombert 6mo ago
I hadn't heard that particular quote. I was thinking Squid Game :) I do pretty ok now, but in 2016, I was completely broke. I was unemployed for awhile, but even after becoming employed it felt like I couldn't catch up with my d

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