andolanra

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by andolanra 3y ago
I'm not sure what "cool advanced projects" you're thinking of, but to my recollection, there was very little in the way of finished work created with the original Blender Game Engine. There were two game efforts associat
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by andolanra 3y ago
Nobody mentions the idea or recommends it anymore because the game engine was removed from Blender entirely back in 2019, in favor of purpose-build game engines like Godot: https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Reference/R
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by andolanra 3y ago
The former is referring to representing an AST using a GADT in order to include the typing discipline of the target language in the host language. For example: data Term t where Num :: Integer -> Term Integer Bool :: Integer
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by andolanra 3y ago
That's kind of the point of default values, though. If you wanted to make a change to the method and you want it to break to alert you to all the calls , then you can add a keyword without adding a default value for it. def foo(
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by andolanra 3y ago
Since Ruby 3, the automatic coercion of keywords to a hash—the second example underneath "Passing Hash to Functions" in this post—is considered a legacy style and is generally frowned upon in new code. That is to say, code like th
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by andolanra 3y ago
If you know git: a federated wiki works like that. To make a federated wiki work like a traditional wiki, you can think of there as being a "canonical copy" which you can clone, make edits, and then use a 'pull request'
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by andolanra 4y ago
The other one I mentioned— Maze Rats —is licensed as CC BY 4.0, so that might be a good place to start! ( The Black Hack is licensed under the OGL 1.0, which unfortunately means it's not immune to the whole mess that this thread is ab
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by andolanra 4y ago
It depends on what you're looking for! I'll give just a handful here, but I'm happy to expand if you have a specific follow-up questions to these. If you're interesting in something very D&D-like, there's obvi
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by andolanra 4y ago
Absolutely and then some! I personally would argue that D&D itself—5E in particular here—is actually a fairly middling tabletop game. It's held back by a lot of historical cruft because even new editions end up being forced to st
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by andolanra 4y ago
There are a truly massive number of RPGs out there with a wide variety of open licenses, especially the various Creative Commons licenses. The indie RPG sphere is massive and includes tabletop systems that range from "mild variations
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by andolanra 4y ago
Sure is lucky that the title of the post explicitly says "mostly dead" and includes a big disclaimer about how not all of them are dead, then!
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by andolanra 4y ago
The short form is that Corrode is effectively deprecated in favor of c2rust. Indeed, Corrode hasn't been updated since 2017, while c2rust still gets active development—last commit as of my writing this was 2 days ago. It's worth n
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by andolanra 4y ago
> This all works, people have been doing it for years in C, C++, Java, Rust, and more. In Zig, we can do better. We can also do better in those other languages, too. For example, in Rust, I can use a crate like `bitfield` which gives me
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by andolanra 4y ago
It is not at all the point of this talk, but as a side-note: > …the functional programming language Haskell [compiles] via C, for example… This is not correct. GHC, the de facto Haskell compiler, targets an intermediate language called
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by andolanra 5y ago
This research is built on some pretty shaky ground—including some very loaded picking-and-choosing of vocabulary—and because it doesn't have very strong predictive power, hasn't made much of a dent in the community in the last dec
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by andolanra 5y ago
This isn't a unifying standard, which is what the XKCD comic is about. It's not attempting to take other standards and develop the One To Rule Them All—you know, like the first panel of the comic describes—but rather building a
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by andolanra 5y ago
I think people have a habit of taking relatively surface-level features of functional programming and focusing on them to the exclusion of the real benefits of functional programming. The use of something like compose3 in the "functi
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by andolanra 5y ago
Well then, you should make sure that you're providing a useful service with that data, or allow data collection to be turned off. Think of it like this: if I'm actively using an app that's giving me turn-by-turn directions, t
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by andolanra 6y ago
It's worth noting that a properly-configured linter will give you an unused variable warning here, since you've bound to NOT_FOUND but not used it for anything.
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by andolanra 6y ago
I tried using Pony for 2019's Advent of Code, and I ran into this problem. I ended up writing a whole blog post about the way that I tackled error-handling, which I don't think is the solution (especially since the Pony team is
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by andolanra 6y ago
Rust is a reasonably complex language, but—having programmed professionally in both—I don't think it's nearly as complex as C++. Rust features for the most part are orthogonal to each other, whereas C++ features tend to have wei
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by andolanra 6y ago
That example, while technically correct, is a little bit misleading. From a practical point of view, the thing that Pijul/Anu both do is not "automatically resolve conflicts" but rather "allow repo operations to happen e
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by andolanra 6y ago
I've used a self-hosted version of Stringer for a while: it's a barebones single-user RSS reader with very few other features. Probably not great if you plan on following lots of feeds in different categories, but it's perfec
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by andolanra 6y ago
Matrix is based on an open documented protocol, which means it welcomes multiple implementations. There are several terminal-based clients, which you can see on their current client list, and I wouldn't be surprised if more appear over
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by andolanra 6y ago
You should probably read the whole article, because it describes strategies for dealing with exactly this problem in the section under Memory safety considerations and then again in the update at the end. The short form is: if you have a
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by andolanra 6y ago
Pony now includes both partial division (which raises an error when dividing by zero) and checked division (which returns a tuple of both a result and a boolean which indicates whether an error occurred): https://tutorial.ponylan
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by andolanra 6y ago
It's worth noting that there's a truly massive amount of precedent in other languages for Python implementing it using the syntax as proposed. Languages that have or are planning to include pattern-matching where the pattern syn
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by andolanra 6y ago
Nobody I know who used Inbox feels that the current Gmail interface—even with some Inbox features backported—is an acceptable substitute for Inbox.
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by andolanra 6y ago
This is literally the last paragraph of the post: > But, sadly, I don't think this year is the 'Year of the Linux desktop'. In general, I think 'Linux on the Desktop' for a mainstream audience is always going to
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by andolanra 6y ago
I'm not sure why the conclusion is, "Linux on the Desktop isn't possible," when the big blocker the author had was pretty consistently finding and installing software compatible with a small ARM64 machine. (That's n

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