WorldMaker

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by WorldMaker 7d ago
Technically the 2023 film. It's delayed release to theaters was an interesting debacle of Hollywood Accounting. Given it claims to be "Based on a True Story" the biggest implication is that Discovery did not want you to see
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by WorldMaker 16d ago
I saw a dyslexic/speed reading app that did something like this once. I don't know how useful that was in practice, but the theory of it was pretty compelling. Most sight reading is based on the overall shape of the word (rather t
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by WorldMaker 16d ago
The original git flow suggestion [0] was posted more than 15 years ago (date on the post is 2010). It didn't entirely invent the branch names/conventions from whole cloth, it was based on plenty of prior history in SVN spaces es
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by WorldMaker 16d ago
Similarly OpenStreetMaps has some sidewalk/pedestrian access layers but as the name suggests is still biased towards the one-to-one assumption that most streets have sidewalks on both sides (and the opposite problem that pedestrian con
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by WorldMaker 16d ago
By referencing the 90s it is a reminder that Mac started on an entirely closed source kernel. It's a regression towards the Mac mean more than a regression away from it.
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by WorldMaker 19d ago
There are old words for this: Monopolies and Trusts. The US around this point last century put a lot of work in Trust-Busting and Anti-Monopoly/Anti-Corruption work. The other related word is Oligarchy, rule by a select few that think
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by WorldMaker 21d ago
I think Banks would argue that books like Consider Phlebas are set on the border planets and outskirts of the Culture for many reasons, including keeping the books relatable to the audiences of their time. The in-universe explanation is u
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by WorldMaker 21d ago
The second half of the book is about an AI leading unionization efforts [0] and it amuses how often I get downvoted on HN for pointing out that if we are on a path towards AGI, things like worker's rights would be important to get
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by WorldMaker 21d ago
I thought the article covered a lot of it without harping too much on any particular aspect: the roadtrip is in peril because inter-state travel becomes harder and the tourist activities and sights to see when you get there disappear. They
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by WorldMaker 21d ago
The company Dolly helped build to run Dollywood (and Kennywood and other attractions) Herchend Entertainment bought Kentucky Kingdom out of a lengthy auction process (caused by Six Flags bankrupting the park). So far it has seemed a blessin
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by WorldMaker 21d ago
It used to be lot worse before the 2018 rebranding put Dolly Parton's name in place of a Lost Cause associated term. The old Dixie Stampede was Civil War themed and had plenty of Confederate flags and other things that were questionabl
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by WorldMaker 21d ago
Relatedly, my immediate reaction was "tooltips on logos? Just use alt attributes and browser native tooltips, stop reinventing wheels that are already decently handled in HTML".
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by WorldMaker 22d ago
This (straw) man scenario feels like a proximate cause versus root cause situation to me. You've managed to establish a relatively strong proximate cause (or so it seems) as "won't take his meds". Where did he get the
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by WorldMaker 22d ago
The causation arrow isn't unidirectional, though. Mental illness causes some homelessness, particularly often because in the US healthcare system medications are expensive and can lead to bankruptcy. (And it is certainly not the onl
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by WorldMaker 23d ago
Consistency in viewport size versus consistency in relation to the width of text. It's a little bit of a "top-down" versus "bottom-up" distinction in thinking. (I often find the best answer is "both". vw&#
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by WorldMaker 23d ago
Even when em is literally the width of "M" and ch the width of "0", the difference is often pretty stark, with "M" being most commonly the widest character in the latin set and "0" being among the mos
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by WorldMaker 23d ago
rem is related to the ch, though. It's not an awful compromise if a designer insists on tools like Figma. Sometimes just taking their work in rems and just removing the `r`s is enough to meet their designs and also have better relati
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by WorldMaker 23d ago
Ultra zoom approximates a pixel grid, but the pixel grid it approximates no longer exists (and arguably never physically existed, it was always a mapping scheme). We tend to think of pixels as square bricks, but even in the CRT era they wer
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by WorldMaker 23d ago
Some of it is convergent evolution at work. 60s/70s/80s specialized formats as much predated modern database designs and data structures as coexisted with them. SQLite is the culmination of decades of database design. Some of th
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by WorldMaker 23d ago
It's a tool. I use it as a tool. I'm a pragmatist as much as I'm a skeptic. In the one phone screen I've had since April (!) I was asked if I could be a cheerleader for it. I can't do that . So far I haven't
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by WorldMaker 29d ago
EverQuest and Ultima Online had a huge overlap with MUDs of their time. Both in terms of developer experience (parts of EverQuest allegedly came about by starting from a Diku MUD codebase; several UO designers such as Raph Koster had been
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by WorldMaker 29d ago
That's the existential threat right now, isn't it? So much of our industry is top-down being told "agentic programming is the only way forward" and anyone who disagrees is laid off. (I'm in that boat. I've be
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by WorldMaker 29d ago
PowerShell has a built-in command parser that all cmdlets share (provided commands; `function` based command scripts; so forth) and it's in a C# library that other .NET-based CLIs can import if they like (though today it's still n
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by WorldMaker 29d ago
Also a fascinating tale on game economics in 2026. Thimbleweed Park 1 was half or so financed with a Kickstarter and some "passion" work from its staff (underpaid versus time commitments). Thimbleweed Park 2 is apparently getting
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by WorldMaker 29d ago
Be careful, it will also cache any mistakes in merging including things like bug regressions. Especially if you also have a git history full of cherry-picking and reverts.
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by WorldMaker 29d ago
It's not that roundabout compared to what `git history split` is doing. It's sort of the missing tool in a lot of the rebase discussions (in the Stack Overflow answers). Basically `git history split` is most useful for "split
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by WorldMaker 29d ago
GitHub's wikis are just git repositories with folders full of Markdown files. That's the easiest thing to pull out of GitHub. Just git clone the wiki repo. At that point I often just use a git headless merge to merge the second re
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by WorldMaker 1mo ago
Z-Machine is also useful to point out because it's one of the clearest lines to draw from it to the modern JVM and .NET CLR. Whereas AGI/SCI/SCUMM all have very game specific virtual machines, Infocom's was Lisp influenc
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by WorldMaker 1mo ago
The vector art also included some complex dithering patterns that balloon RLE-encoded bitmaps. Dithered drawing is actually one of the worst cases for simple, pure RLE. For dithering compatible bitmap encoding you would want other more comp
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by WorldMaker 1mo ago
Yeah, I think overall it is trending better again, with the strictest terms being the Xbox 360/PS3 era. (Especially under the banner of Accessibility.)

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