Widdershin

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by Widdershin 4mo ago
Brogue was released in 2009 for what it’s worth.
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by Widdershin 2y ago
One of the other bidders, like when Yahoo won the bidding in the early 2010s.
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by Widdershin 2y ago
Try add it to the Gemfile of a modern Rails project, the dependencies are very out of date and it won’t install.
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by Widdershin 2y ago
This is the sort of thing people said about Blender for a long time, and my understanding is that it’s now often used in commercial contexts. Not a given by any means, but it’s happened before and it will happen again.
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by Widdershin 3y ago
Gonna get even worse once this sort of work is outsourced to language models en masse
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by Widdershin 3y ago
Sure, but a lot of studios still maintain and upgrade bespoke game engines to ship projects. All it would really take is a company of decent scale deciding they want to base their engine around Godot and having an appetite to upstream some
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by Widdershin 3y ago
Treesitter based highlighting can handle nested languages in some cases, maybe that’s available for your editor?
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by Widdershin 3y ago
I missed this comment first time around, but I really appreciate this write-up. I apologize for being a bit snide in my original challenge, I'm fairly sensitive to the "why don't you just" attitude, but I agree with pret
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by Widdershin 3y ago
Never considered that Memento was a cinematic adaption of Reflections on Trusting Trust.
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by Widdershin 3y ago
Can you give any examples of times you’ve easily anticipated X when a whole field of subject matter experts have demonstrably overlooked it?
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by Widdershin 3y ago
This has happened a few times to me. First was some downhill skateboarding projects - a bushing recommendation system and a site that allowed me to search all NZ skate shops from one place. A popular US skate shop posted on Reddit looking f
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by Widdershin 3y ago
Props to the writing in Endless Sky, probably has the most nuanced and interesting plot of any open source community built game I’ve played.
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by Widdershin 3y ago
In the board I served on in the past we had an agreed quorum where we could make binding decisions if ~2/3rds of the members were present. Probably a similar situation.
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by Widdershin 3y ago
I started cycling again a few years ago. I avoided taking the lane while I started, but after being forced into the gutter and nearly side-swiped multiple times, I started regularly taking the lane for my own safety. That’s what really disa
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by Widdershin 3y ago
One step closer to stillsuits
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by Widdershin 3y ago
Title of the article is quite misleading given that it’s entirely voluntary for the purposes of a survey, feels like that detail was omitted for clickbait purposes.
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by Widdershin 3y ago
ARM Safari is an absurdly energy efficient browser as well. They’ve definitely made some significant missteps over the last few years, mostly around breaking storage APIs and being slow to fix it due to being part of the macOS release caden
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by Widdershin 3y ago
Yeah I though this was about Smash Ultimate and was very confused for a second
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by Widdershin 4y ago
LLMs being used for math by programmers or engineers always makes me think of the rocket that blew up because they mixed metric and imperial units. It definitely happens in the wild as well, I’ve seen devs using copilot for napkin math far
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by Widdershin 4y ago
Firefox already used SQLite internally for history as well, I wonder if any other browsers do the same.
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by Widdershin 4y ago
Try to get chatgpt to solve a basic math problem using BEDMAS instead of PEMDAS, even with multiple interactions and reminders it still gets incredibly confused.
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by Widdershin 4y ago
Ah that makes sense, thanks for clarifying.
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by Widdershin 4y ago
STUN servers are only required for NAT punching, they don’t relay traffic. Only TURN servers are used as relays in the event that a direction connection can’t be established.
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by Widdershin 4y ago
How is it prioritised over these subjects? Surely a student can take math, science and Welsh and still have time for a few more subjects.
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by Widdershin 4y ago
This is good to know about, used a similar window function in Postgres recently. Will double check the performance of that query.
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by Widdershin 4y ago
I recently ordered a magnetic usb-c adaptor and the box turned up empty. I left a review warning others this was a possibility, but Amazon removed it since it was critique of a seller rather than the product. It’s impossible to tell if you’
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by Widdershin 4y ago
Not the poster you’re responding to but I think they’re referring to the current need to allocate more memory when updating immutable data structures. Not that there aren’t ways to represent mutability in Haskell, just that the de facto use
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by Widdershin 4y ago
This is actually an area where there’s room to improve FP languages. If you track ownership in functional languages, you can statically determine if a value is used more than once. If it’s only used once, you can apply any updates to that v
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by Widdershin 4y ago
https://gato-docs.its.txst.edu/jcr:4646e321-9a29-41e5-880d-4... Here’s one analysis that takes those factors into account, and eReaders still come out massively on top on average. Paper isn’t the problem, it’s the fact that
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by Widdershin 4y ago
I hope you’re not reading any paper books - the environmental impact of paperbacks is phenomenal when compared to eReaders. And of course, you would never waste energy by purchasing a hardcover, that would be morally reprehensible. Honestly

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