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by wly_cdgr 5y ago
It looks bad, but they need this info to optimize the spam filter
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by wly_cdgr 5y ago
Yup, definitely. It's a relatively new thing, and the stuff that's getting through looks more and more obviously like spam Very weird to see the spam filter be obviously and dramatically worse than it was 10 years ago. Are they ab
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by wly_cdgr 5y ago
Landing page copy is cringe af. "Daily Gratitudes"? :pukes in mouth:
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by wly_cdgr 5y ago
Some strategies to find good blogs that have worked for me: * Starting with university departmental websites * Starting from records of "shop talk" industry conferences (e.g. Practice & GDC for games, as opposed to "fan s
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by wly_cdgr 5y ago
Depressing and disgusting all around. Imagine being such a worthless sack of shit that you work at Apple and actively let this slide. These people are walking around filled with pus and maggots where their soul should be
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by wly_cdgr 5y ago
Not gonna happen unless someone makes forum software with better UX than Discord's, that is also as easy or easier to maintain / administer So, not gonna happen. Discord has won forums for the foreseeable and is well on its way to
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by wly_cdgr 5y ago
What is the Firefox business model? ...Oh yeah, that's right, indirect subsidies from Google Besides, there's only one mainstream browser that's better than Chrome, and that browser is Edge
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by wly_cdgr 5y ago
with apparent callous and dismissive indifference for the question of the degree of right of the proto AI to continue to exist and evolve. why would a general AI trust an agent that clearly weighs the rights and interests of humans infinite
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by wly_cdgr 5y ago
how do you think general AI agents are gonna feel about humans once they see how OpenAI behaved towards their ancestors?
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by wly_cdgr 5y ago
Frank Lantz, who ran the NYU Game Center when I was there, likes to compare games to opera because of the mind-boggling variety of disciplines involved in the production of big budget games. I think it's a pretty apt comparison Separat
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by wly_cdgr 5y ago
Imagine working for a company that does this shabby, slimey bullshit. What a fucking loser you have to be to accept that paycheck
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by wly_cdgr 5y ago
TLDR: Start with some CLI text games in Node.js :) Three viable options: * Work in tech until you're financially independent (you should be able to pull this off in a decade or 15 years at most), then retire from tech and start working
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by wly_cdgr 5y ago
Y'all have absolute trash taste on this board for this to be downvoted
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by wly_cdgr 5y ago
Really cool to see Jason Rohrer continuing to make fresh original and relevant stuff all these years after Passage
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by wly_cdgr 5y ago
A lot of people have also mistaken humans writing plausible-sounding paragraphs for thought
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by wly_cdgr 5y ago
Yes, you can also get it around New York at restaurants on Brighton Beach, stores like NetCost, etc It's wonderful. The best soda flavor
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by wly_cdgr 5y ago
Heh, I also happened to visit and write about this place around this time. If you want more pics / details: https://medium.com/@wlycdgr/soviet-arcade-museum-part-4-seri... (There are more parts on my Medium and I
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by wly_cdgr 5y ago
Very cool! Could use a loading animation
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by wly_cdgr 5y ago
Heh, true. So, even worse!
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by wly_cdgr 5y ago
Also use Linode, they're great. Their docs are a treasure Seems absolutely insane to use AWS for small personal/learning projects (unless the goal is to learn AWS for career purposes, I guess). It'd be like using Unreal Engin
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by wly_cdgr 5y ago
Heh, I like how Amazon literally took the boost mechanic from arcade racing games for the CPU credits in T2/T3
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by wly_cdgr 5y ago
Does anyone know what theme that is in their screenshot? It looks great
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by wly_cdgr 5y ago
An interesting case where a faithful and expert restoration has cheapened and tarnished what seemed to be a truly great paiting Would be delighted if it turned out that Vermeer used less durable pigments for this part of the painting on pur
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by wly_cdgr 5y ago
Got this running on my Surface Book the other day. Totally useless, but very cool!
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by wly_cdgr 5y ago
The good version of this wouldn't be about making it easier or faster, it would be about making a sandbox for semi-structured social fantasy trip planning. Let people plan trips they may or may not ever take, just for fun. Like people
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by wly_cdgr 5y ago
Good
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by wly_cdgr 5y ago
There is no such thing as backend. It is interfaces all the way down When people say they don't like frontend, they just mean they don't like implementing GUI designs as opposed to CLIs, APIs, and all the other kinds of non-visual
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by wly_cdgr 5y ago
They sound like a fun bunch
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by wly_cdgr 5y ago
Would sure be a shame if the only way to fix this was to delete all copies of Atlassian software from every computer worldwide
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by wly_cdgr 5y ago
Hide the answers by default, yo. It's so easy to do with an e-book, come onnnnnn

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