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by zemo 6y ago
> So, owning a Blizzard "magic sword" token might give you a sword item in WoW, another one in Diablo, and a sword card in Hearthstone, each adapted for its own game. This is a small use case, in my opinion. I'm like 90% c
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by zemo 6y ago
what is the use-case for an NFT for an in-game virtual good? A sword from World of Warcraft (WoW) can already be traded between players within WoW, since the environment in which it appears is already centralized and that's already pro
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by zemo 6y ago
> the tendency to prioritize accessible fast iteration in early stages over performance and scalability well, I'm glad you're describing the way you see the tradeoffs, I just have a hard time seeing how hanging your hat on the
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by zemo 6y ago
... all this and no mention of Scriptable Objects? Not sure about this
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by zemo 6y ago
func (db *actualStoreImplementation) GetTask(t *Task) error { if (t.ID != 0) { // query by ID, mutate the parameter, return nil } if (t.Tag != "") { // que
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by zemo 6y ago
tbh I've been using this method for years and the first one has never been an issue, because practically speaking you should only expect to give a single struct with a field or two filled in if that field or combination of fields is un
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by zemo 6y ago
usually for stores like this I just do this: type Store interface { GetTask(*Task) error } instead of having "GetTaskByID" and "GetTaskByTag" and whatnot. Then in the caller you just do this: t
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by zemo 6y ago
running python servers is annoying, you have to have a menagerie of stupid little parts and things to get it all to fit together. I haven't done this in years but I always wound up with some mess of virtual envs, pip, gunicorn, nginx p
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by zemo 6y ago
I dunno how long it's been available but I installed Unity Hub and Unity on Ubuntu yesterday. Haven't played with it much yet though.
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by zemo 6y ago
I dunno, I've been programming Go for 9 years and have had far fewer problems with dependencies than I ever did with pip, gem, or npm. I don't think it's perfect by any means, but none of them are.
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by zemo 6y ago
I just write everything in Go nowadays, since I didn't have any hard Python requirements like numpy to worry about.
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by zemo 6y ago
Python used to be my tool of choice for all of my small programming tasks, but nowadays I find messing with Python to be an absolutely massive time-waster for me. It used to be my favorite programming language. Now I avoid it entirely becau
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by zemo 6y ago
is there any evidence to support the idea that having places for hate speech to grow has a quarantine effect, reducing hate speech elsewhere? Studies on the effects of banning hate speech communities suggest that the mechanics don't wo
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by zemo 6y ago
have you ever even heard of hindsight bias? Yeah, Rockstar received all of the same criticism for a few weeks, then people stopped talking about it and forgot. Give it a month or two and people will stop talking about this one too. > It
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by zemo 6y ago
lot of problems with this comment. First of all, it's not a double standard: Rockstar faced similar criticism because of the crunch culture surrounding the development of RDR2. The specific article you mentioned wound up being terrible
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by zemo 6y ago
honestly I found playing Cookie Clicker to be really transformative in terms of perceiving those situations. Ever since then, I look at games differently. The most recent example of this is Hades. I played that game very compulsively, and f
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by zemo 6y ago
eh, I dunno. I used to do that, thinking that I "needed to get my money's worth", but I've started bailing on games if I'm not having fun after 2 or 3 hours and don't ever regret it. The way I look at it now is
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by zemo 6y ago
it's not "assuming you know better" to talk about the subtext of someone's comment.
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by zemo 6y ago
uh I'm a gamedev at my dayjob and I'm working on a game design mfa so ... I know? my favorite game is INSIDE and it's a total chore to play. But I think it has a LOT going on and is extremely interesting. OP is saying Cyberpu
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by zemo 6y ago
that's the sort of claim that really needs to be substantiated with any sort of evidence whatsoever.
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by zemo 6y ago
> I completed it twice ... There is no emergent gameplay which is simply unacceptable getting some really mixed signals here
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by zemo 6y ago
you're really going with "it works on my machine" as justification for why it's good enough ... on a programming forum?
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by zemo 6y ago
> Presumably CDPR employees are not afraid to convey such bad news to the management. it seems pretty clear that they're terribly abusive employers, so if anything I would assume the opposite is true: that it's an environment w
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by zemo 6y ago
my argument is that PG's writing is weak specifically because he rejects dialectics. Your argument is essentially that he's writing in a genre that is not dialectic in nature. This is like if I said "I don't like this co
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by zemo 6y ago
is your argument that he's a genre writer and his genre is his own cult of personality, and that his pieces should not be judged on the coherence of their arguments, because making strong arguments is not the point of his writing?
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by zemo 6y ago
hmm, I think the way I worded that sentence is getting in the way of what I'm trying to say. Perhaps this is more clear: If you're interested in how something works (e.g. self-driving cars), but not what it does, you're not
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by zemo 6y ago
> What do you call it if I'm interested in my own mastery, but only for some subset of all things I can have mastery in? specialization. I don't know why you thought this question was some sort of gotcha. I'm not rejecting
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by zemo 6y ago
no that's ... really not true. Those terms all have precise meanings and express new concepts more succinctly. In programming, we call this abstraction. Yes, there are obviously people in academia that are full of crap: other people in
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by zemo 6y ago
one of the surest signs that someone is full of it is that they have a long history of essays with no citations. PG's essays almost never cite anyone else's work or act as continuations onto a line of thinking started by another p
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by zemo 6y ago
he poses the idea of being earnest about something in a way that is disingenuous. > Why can't there be people interested in self-driving cars or social networks for their own sake? If you are interested in self-driving cars, but you

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