failrate

Joined 17 years ago

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Programmer and tinkerer
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Comment · 2 months ago
For me, cracking open the data for some castle adventure ascii character game was one of the first steps to being a real programmer.
Comment · 4 months ago
One thing that really helped me was to start viewing my news media in black and white. Without the colored dressing, a lot of (especially partisan political) articles have much less emotional impact on me. Note: this worked particularly well for written media and less well for vocal media
Comment · 4 months ago
It certainly has killed some people looking to it for self help.
Comment · 7 months ago
Some of these are considered rude, but ibd I do a lot of them, anyway e.g. rubbing disposable chopsticks to remove splinters, because a chopstick splinter in the gums is miserable, and using chopsticks to cut apart food. They seem less like faux pas and more like strategies. Plus, not Japanese.
Comment · 9 months ago
https://imitone.com/ is what I use.
Comment · 11 months ago
The background is that Night Dive tried to do this back when they formed, but it turned out to be intractable for a number of reasons including no one knew who actually owned it.
Comment · 11 months ago
Comic books already use changes in font, weight, size, of text and the shape of the word balloon to indicate tone and expression.
Comment · 1 year ago
Don't make tap the sign: "A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE

THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION"

Comment · 1 year ago
The article did not also point out issues like the compiler or interpreter having a runtime error, the hardware the software is running on having a defect, etc. Do we consider these out of scope of the discussion?
Comment · 1 year ago
My lived experience is that high stress situations frequently make me feel like just going to sleep.
Comment · 1 year ago
I recommend @robinswords on YouTube for historical fencing.
Comment · 1 year ago
The main caveat is that you have to enable developer mode on the Android device to load the apps, but that is typical if you are running your own apps.

Godot uses a Python-like language instead of Lua, which is good for me. Lots of people groove with Lua, but it gives me the ick.

I did not get very far trying to make 3D or physics-based games with Godot 3. I did not like the 3D interface, and the physics engine was too brittle for e.g. a pinball simulation. Too much tunneling and other inconsistent behavior.

But for 2D applications that are a mixture of text and images, i find it fits the bill quite well.

(For 3D apps and physics, I currently use Unreal Engine 4. Some tunneling, but I know tricks to mitigate that, and I much prefer its 3D interface.)

Comment · 1 year ago
IIRC it is an array of cilia of different sizes that filters sound into different frequencies in the human ear.
Comment · 1 year ago
Godot 3 and 4 are very good for bashing out apps for both desktop and Android phone.
Comment · 1 year ago
LLMs are using the corpus of existing software source code. Most software source code is just North of unworkable garbage. Garbage in, garbage out.

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