chrisdirkis

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by chrisdirkis 1y ago
Thanks for checking out my portfolio! I have to admit, it's a bit out of date, but I also don't think that my background in games matters all that much in any specifics. I can talk to principles. To try and understand where you&#x
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by chrisdirkis 1y ago
Undoubtedly? Modern video games are pretty good, and there's a lot of them. They're mostly written in mainstream programming environments. I don't see without explanation how the take is undoubtedly correct in that context.
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by chrisdirkis 1y ago
Do you not feel as though that's incredibly anti-social? It's a very zero-sum "I'd prefer if things were better for me in direct proportion to how much worse they'll be for '_others_'"
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by chrisdirkis 1y ago
A few quick q's, since I'm working on a game with a hand-rolled rollback impl (we have state copying, so we can do some nice tricks): - Is there anywhere we can follow you about the clock-sync trick? I'd definitely love to be
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by chrisdirkis 2y ago
I need to emphasise that this is dramatically different. Comparing the first clip of OoT to [1], I see: - Higher framerate - Real-time lighting - Real-time shadows - Higher render resolution - Water ripples/splashes (unsure about these
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by chrisdirkis 2y ago
Most likely, I'm just passing on what's noted in the post. There's likely a lot more nuance to the actual decision-making :)
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by chrisdirkis 2y ago
Specifically, he's not just investing in startups, but investing in ones that have a factor that is either unknown or unknowable. That's a different strategy from YC's "Invest in promising founders" or the typical V
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by chrisdirkis 3y ago
I believe the new legislation says, if GP were to be punished for not being available for such a call, that'd be illegal and they could launch some sort of action. This seems totally compatible with GP's policy; boss can call them
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by chrisdirkis 3y ago
I believe this is a feature that exists with Copilot in VSC too. I'm also not convinced it's useful. Either the commit message contains surprising information that cannot be derived from the changes, or it doesn't and the mes
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by chrisdirkis 3y ago
They're in the process of swapping out their Mono fork for a modern Core fork, which I believe they're planning on upstreaming changes to too. A few years ago, someone demonstrated a 1-week hackathon version of a game build runnin
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by chrisdirkis 3y ago
Troupo is citing facts, you're citing incentives/habits. While incentives are powerful and those habits have been borne out repeatedly by Apple, one of you has the clearly more documented argument. To be convincing, you need to de
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by chrisdirkis 3y ago
I disagree with Harriet Johnson in at least a few cases, but the entire thrust of that piece and her argument within is "it's insane that people make judgements on my quality of life, without asking me, and say that I should not b
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by chrisdirkis 3y ago
I hear this claimed a lot. They removed it from their motto, but have retained it in their code of conduct, according to Wikipedia[1], and Alphabet has also adopted a similar motto. Whether you want to argue their actions match this, that&#
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by chrisdirkis 4y ago
I'll note, for the purpose of discussion, that this is put forth as part of an example engineering strategy document. The author does not recommend _the reader_ do this, at least not here. With that said, yeah, I think "a static r
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by chrisdirkis 4y ago
I guess that's the parent's annoyance. It'd be nice to be able to use something like tags or labels for other things than releases, but since they're commit referents, they're pretty much only useful for releases an
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by chrisdirkis 4y ago
This is something that both interests me and seems difficult to build. I went to a random university in Australia, where there was a decent softdev club-ish thing with some graduates, and then moved to another city. I'd be happy to int
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by chrisdirkis 4y ago
I've heard of software shops in Australia that work on this model, too. I'm slightly unsure that it's actually beneficial for companies? Seems like having a bunch of juniors around and giving them more or harder work than the
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by chrisdirkis 4y ago
With "something meaningful", I'm using the parent's terminology. If Guzey has written arguments against non-meaningful stuff, I don't think that's evidence for the meaningful stuff being wrong. That's abou
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by chrisdirkis 4y ago
Not exactly a knockdown argument, but: if he was wrong about "something meaningful", Guzey probably would have added it to his list. More generally, if you make a claim and someone claims you're entirely wrong, it should be s
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by chrisdirkis 4y ago
If you think there's no value to present money flows, I'd love to take $1MM from you. I'll pay it back later, so there's literally no cost to you, right? Opportunity costs, or any other "virtual" cost, are stil
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by chrisdirkis 4y ago
Looks like a high quality execution of a product I've seen people hack together previously. Would work well for families and for parties, and lends a physicality to the music we listen to that's maybe a bit lacking in the modern a
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by chrisdirkis 4y ago
It seems fairly apparent to me that vegetarian != minimally-processed. Definitely a lot of "junk-food vegans" who eat lots of chips and other heavily processed food. Processed also != bad for the environment or for health. Don&#x2
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by chrisdirkis 4y ago
Melbourne beats Brisbane for it by a mile, as much as they're otherwise comparable cities.
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by chrisdirkis 4y ago
As an Australian, I wish I could pay less money and get less floorspace. Pretty much the only way to get that tradeoff is student accomodation, and the kitchens there aren't built to be particularly functional (and the locals are proba
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by chrisdirkis 4y ago
I sometimes like to read or write all-lower. Oftentimes, for me, it signifies a more casual air, so I tend to do it in text chats more often than not. I find the font and size in the article more annoying than the all-lower, personally -- i
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by chrisdirkis 4y ago
Personally, I'd have picked it the other way. "I am wrong" tends to go "the computer did exactly what I told it to, so I must have told it to do the wrong thing", whereas "computer is wrong" tends to have
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by chrisdirkis 4y ago
We had one of these, a carbon tax and cap-and-trade scheme, and it got dismantled after a few years :( forever unsure why "taxing externalities" isn't popular
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by chrisdirkis 4y ago
I'm not sure what else "economic damage" could refer to that isn't some sort of physical cost? If, say, an activist uses social media to incite people to blockade a road, making 10k people an hour late for work, that&#x2
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by chrisdirkis 4y ago
The checkbook must balance eventually, or at least grow in a controlled fashion. If you could add arbitrary expenses to the deficit and get +ve value out, a lot of things fall apart.
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by chrisdirkis 4y ago
Economic damage is real damage. If you break windows, and the govt has to repair those windows, it has less money to spend on welfare and charity and doing other stuff that a govt wants to do.

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