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by abcde777666 2y ago
Whilst I do like having shows and movies on to the side as I code... it's on the condition they're actually interesting and have good writing. Otherwise I just can't bring myself to be interested.
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by abcde777666 2y ago
A lot of these types of books and posts only deal with the low hanging fruits of software design difficulty, such as the provided discount service example. The trouble is that kind of thing's pretty much software development common sen
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by abcde777666 2y ago
Short version: good refactoring = improve maintainability, brevity and usability without compromising functionality. Basically, make it simpler without breaking it or actually making it not simpler.
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by abcde777666 2y ago
There are many pillars of our own intelligence that we tend to gloss over. For instance - awareness and the ability to direct attention. Or something as simple as lifting your hand and moving some fingers at will. Those things impress me fa
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by abcde777666 2y ago
"There is no such thing as death at all for this body. The only death is the end of the illusion, the end of the fear, the end of the knowledge that we have about ourselves and the world around us." "There is no such thing as
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by abcde777666 2y ago
I've found it quite easy to build and deploy to Linux, also curious what challenges you've run into.
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by abcde777666 2y ago
My instinct is that this is probably on the naive side. For instance, we use separation of concerns in our systems because we're too cognitively limited to create and manage deeply integrated systems. Nature doesn't have that prob
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by abcde777666 2y ago
Our brain is a face reading machine. We're very attuned to inferring emotion and inner state based on subtle facial movements. Most of uncanny valley is down to the face moving in a way that sends disturbing emotional signals. Not too
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by abcde777666 2y ago
Game dev is one of the most unconstrained software domains. On the one hand it's what makes it exciting and endlessly interesting, but it's also what can make it a nightmare. Perhaps most simply because computers are really not up
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by abcde777666 2y ago
It's easy to make something lean when you can start from scratch. Backwards compatibility and large user bases resistant to change are overlooked as primary causal factors of the modern state of affairs, imo.
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by abcde777666 2y ago
Anecdotally, looking at code written by someone else always goes to 'unfamiliar' territory. I can only read code I'm very familiar with like a book.
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by abcde777666 2y ago
Another reason this unfortunately wouldn't be viable is latency - a video feed has no client side prediction.
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by abcde777666 2y ago
The standards have gone up a lot over time. Your average player now knows who the tops teams are and watches them play. Vastly different from the early 2000s when just knowing to aim at heads set you apart. Even to be a top 10% player these
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by abcde777666 3y ago
Feels like one of those 'neat on paper, bad in practice' kinds of ideas. I can imagine it being pretty bad for code readability if not used judiciously, and it adds an extra layer of complexity and troubleshooting when things go w