Agentlien

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by Agentlien 3mo ago
When I saw the title I immediately thought of Xbox Adaptive Controller. It's such a cool initiative. Microsoft has a lot of really cool accessibility tools and services. For example their extensive usability guidelines, which is a mass
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by Agentlien 3mo ago
On the teams where I've worked which had a proper code review policy not understanding has been explicitly stated as a reason to pause and ask for clarification. You cannot give a pass for code you don't understand.
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by Agentlien 3mo ago
That doesn't seem to address my comment. I was specifically asking why esalman wrote > In the last couple of weeks there's been some good news coming through for Xbox Since I wasn't sure what good news they were referring
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by Agentlien 3mo ago
What news are you referring to? The only news about Xbox I've caught is that it's declining in profit because they removed Xbox exclusives.
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by Agentlien 3mo ago
> The Apple II was dying as a platform by the time the game came out [...] it was rereleased on PC in the US and sales picked up. You wouldn’t get that second chance today. On a much smaller scale, I was actually part of something simila
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by Agentlien 3mo ago
This is a cool project and I really like the author's technical and aesthetic choices of how to limit themselves. But what really stood out to me is this line. > a linear frame buffer where each pixel was represented by a single byt
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by Agentlien 4mo ago
This is why, after spending my whole youth learning programming to become a game developer I had a crisis of faith and spent a few years working on something else (surgical training simulations) after graduating. I had done summer jobs at a
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by Agentlien 4mo ago
When I worked for EA (2015-2019) it was better than some horror stories I've heard, but still way too much overtime and many weekends spent at the office. The worst part that it was unpaid in exchange for an extra vacation week and the
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by Agentlien 4mo ago
Exactly. And it shows. It knows all the sayings, the expressions, etc. But shows very little actual practical understanding of them. Especially how to apply the knowledge it simulates.
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by Agentlien 4mo ago
I have a lot of friends from other countries so I've ended up doing a lot of tourist stuff together with them when they've been visiting. It has been great, gave me another layer of appreciation for my hometown Gothenburg, Sweden.
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by Agentlien 4mo ago
I have had the same result when trying similar things for graphics on modern consoles. I hear so much great stuff about AI coding but in my niche it just seems to fall flat. Even just rubber ducking around graphics and performance they soun
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by Agentlien 4mo ago
Checking the link again half a day later and now I get the original text I first saw. Very strange.
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by Agentlien 4mo ago
It's working now and I have to say I love this. The whole project is whimsical and gives me a strong SCP vibe but (sometimes) without the creepypasta aspect. I was very pleased to see that articles generated from links retain the conte
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by Agentlien 4mo ago
I tried it myself but I only get page generation failures https://halupedia.com/the-alien-wizard-war-of-1425
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by Agentlien 5mo ago
This resonates so strongly with me. Everything he wrote about how he wrote in his youth and the analysis of motivations to write is so spot on. It's also really interesting to know that he was actutely aware of the tendency to let the
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by Agentlien 5mo ago
I met my wife through Dungeon Siege back in 2003. We were both teenagers and had a long distance relationship throughout our student years - meeting for a few weeks every holiday - before moving in together in our twenties. After we both go
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by Agentlien 5mo ago
A personal anecdote which was on my mind as soon as I read the title but doesn't relate to the actual topic at hand.
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by Agentlien 6mo ago
Regex search and replace is definitely among my most used features and the preview in NeoVim is amazing That said, I do find myself using recursive macros quite often. They're an easy way to make a set of random little changes which wo
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by Agentlien 6mo ago
> kernel panics are part of life with consumer hardware. This isn't right. It was certainly true in the nineties, but I haven't seen one in years on Windows and I spend many hours a day in it both for work and play.
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by Agentlien 6mo ago
I've been using Vim daily for 13 years and switched to NeoVim about a year of two ago. For me the main advantages over Vim are just the Lua scripting instead of Vimscript, its support for language servers, and better handling of termin
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by Agentlien 6mo ago
I'm skeptical because this is not a new system part of those lobbyist agendas. This is a recommendation system which has been in effect for over 20 years. And this is a tweak to how they update recommendations.
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by Agentlien 6mo ago
How does an age recommendation take away liberties? I have kids and as a parent I use these ratings as a very loose guide combined with my own experience and understanding of the game in question. Other parents ignore them completely. I agr
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by Agentlien 6mo ago
I remember this period of my own life. I had taken over my father's old 486 and spent my days and evenings trying to learn the basics of programming in C. I was making silly text based games, dreaming I'd one day be creating the g
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by Agentlien 6mo ago
It seemed to be the monitoring side of it which caused a lot of crashes. It was apparently a very common issue in many games around that time.
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by Agentlien 7mo ago
That's a really cool anecdote. The overclock makes sense. When we released Need For Speed (2015) I spent some time in our "war room", monitoring incoming crash reports and doing emergency patches for the worst issues. The vas
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by Agentlien 7mo ago
Six Math Essentials as a title reminds me of Six Easy Pieces. I wonder if that's intentional.
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by Agentlien 7mo ago
I use this a lot when trying different ways of solving things or debugging. Just today I was looking into a bug when I started worrying that it might be caused by a fairly recent improvement I made to the feature. I went to the file in ques
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by Agentlien 7mo ago
I just checked these out and Limelight feels wonderful when editing and reading prose in Vim! I will definitely be using this in the future - especially when writing things for my blog.
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by Agentlien 7mo ago
I've used a few facetious comments in ChatGPT conversations. It invariably misses it and takes my words at face value. Even when prompted that there's sarcasm here which you missed, it apologizes and is unable to figure out what i
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by Agentlien 7mo ago
I remember my father had installed Windows 3.10 (not 3.11) on our home pc (I must have been 6-7 at the time). I complained that it was just awkward to use compared to DOS and all games required you to reboot in DOS anyway. I didn't see

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