popcar2
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- Submitted 4 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 2 comments
- Comment on UFO 50 is a retro gamer's dream - I highly recommend it 1 month ago:
I’ll post it on Lemmy once it’s done. I’m still not entirely sure which gaming communities would be most suitable but it’ll definitely be in !blogging@programming.dev :)
That said, UFO 50 is truly massive, so it’ll be some time before I finish this thing. One of the games I haven’t started yet is apparently a 20+ hour JRPG, so that’ll be fun.
- Comment on UFO 50 is a retro gamer's dream - I highly recommend it 1 month ago:
I have been obsessed with this game since it came out. I’ve already put in 60 hours and got 14 games cherried (which means 100%ing them, getting a true ending, or beating a difficult challenge).
I’m writing an incredibly long blog post where I review every single game in the pack. Excited to finish & share it once I’m done playing through everything.
- Submitted 6 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 4 comments
- Comment on Introducing Me.Programming.Dev 9 months ago:
Thanks again for managing such a great instance. The effort put into everything really shows.
The iceshrimp instance looks neat too - Comment on "🤣-Lang": A revolutionary new way to write HTML 9 months ago:
Total missed opportunity to write this in Emojicode, but I love it nonetheless.
- Submitted 10 months ago to programming@programming.dev | 1 comment
- Submitted 10 months ago to newcommunities@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on Instance admin updates + Blahaj 10 months ago:
I generally agree they’re very dramatic but defederation isn’t necessary. If you’d like you can block it at a user level, there’s no reason for bad blood between instances and users getting caught in the crossfire.
- Comment on Community Creation Changes 10 months ago:
I can see it now, thanks! Might’ve been some cache issues.
- Comment on Community Creation Changes 10 months ago:
I can’t seem to find the create community button. It should be here, right?
- Submitted 11 months ago to programmer_humor@programming.dev | 33 comments
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
I’ve heard this a lot and I get it, but I feel like there’s a breaking point where most juniors just won’t put up with it and there will be a drought of genuinely good talent in the industry. Personally the vast majority of people I know have given up on working whatever they wanted to work in (Embedded systems, cybersecurity, gaming, etc) and just became web developers. Ironically you catch companies that don’t hire juniors say things like “It’s so hard to find anyone that cares” or recruiters saying hiring for one spot takes months because they can’t find the perfect candidate. Something has to change imo, the path should become clearer than telling everyone to get 5 years of experience then come back when they’re ready.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
I know this post probably wasn’t intended to be malicious but it is insane you wrote this without realizing how it’s emanating privilege and not understanding why people can’t find a job.
I graduated over a year ago from my CS degree. Excellent GPA, with honors. I’ve been learning game dev since college and have been (sort of) doing it professionally since graduation. I’ve done a 4-month internship, two mediocre part-time jobs, some freelancing, and I still can’t find a proper job. The industry is collapsing and the job market is flooded with talent that have a dozen years of experience. Combine that with the fact that I live in a poor country where there aren’t many game dev jobs, and finding one is a nightmare.
Let me get this straight. The blog post says you’ve been working for 10 years, maybe more. You already have insane amounts of experience and a past history with companies. Not only that, but you contacted people you’ve already networked with to help you find a job.
I contacted a company that I had done interviews with but had been biding their time. I let them know that I needed to make a decision NOW and I really wanted to work with them, so pretty please hurry up, thank you very much. Thankfully, they made an offer and I accepted before my 2 weeks’ notice was up.
Well alright, I guess I’ll contact my manager friend at Google and tell them I want a job now and have him refer me. I guess it wasn’t so hard after all.
So what did I do right?
Maybe working in the industry for a dozen years has something to do with being able to find a job easily
- Comment on GitHub Desktop or Git CLI? 11 months ago:
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git pull
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git add *
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git commit -m “Some stuff”
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git push
And occasionally when you mess up
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git reflog
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git reset HEAD@{n} (where n is where you wanna roll back to)
And occasionally if you mess up so hard you give up
- git reset --hard origin/main
And there you go. You are now a master at using git. Try not to mess up.
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- Comment on GitHub Desktop or Git CLI? 11 months ago:
FWIW not everyone using source control is a programmer. I’ve seen artists in game dev using GUI tools to pull new changes and push their assets.
- Comment on What are your opinion on in-person conferences? 11 months ago:
We have a big conference every year where I live for the tech industry. It’s hit or miss depending on the person presenting, and it’s usually a miss. Many talks can last over an hour when they could’ve been a much shorter youtube video and are just there to pad time. Also 95% of the people are there for other motives. Looking for investors, trying to get hired, browsing the booths, etc. Despite being very crowded it’s very clear most of the people don’t actually care about the talks and do anything else on their phones.
I think in-person conferences can be great experiences when done right but I really got anything out of it. For all the talks about networking with others they give very little opportunities to do that. When everyone is looking for opportunities from other people it felt almost like a competition to try and talk with companies and important people, and it usually boils down to them asking for my contact info so they can flush it down the toilet. I don’t know, I just have a bad experience with them.
- Comment on GameMaker swaps 'indie' and 'creator' subscriptions for one-time fee 11 months ago:
Fiiiinally some good news on GameMaker. I honestly don’t know what they were thinking with a subscription just to use the engine, their main audience is indie devs that are just starting out so they just chased them away to engines that are free to use like Godot, Unity, Unreal, etc. You can’t even export web games in Gamemaker for free unless you upload it to Opera’s website.
I briefly used gamemaker 2 and it was a pretty good, polished engine. Shame Opera sabotaged it so much. It was becoming clear that Godot was quickly taking its users, so the timing of this announcement is good.
- Comment on Discord is Now Officially Verified on Flathub 1 year ago:
Surely this will mean they have plans to fix screenshare audio on Linux, right? …Right?
- Comment on Results of the "Can you tell which images are AI generated?" survey 1 year ago:
Oh nice, do you have a link for where it was posted?
- Comment on Results of the "Can you tell which images are AI generated?" survey 1 year ago:
Technically you’re right but the thing about AI image generators is that they make it really easy to mass-produce results. Each one I used in the survey took me only a few minutes, if that. Some images like the cat ones came out great in the first try. If someone wants to curate AI images, it takes little effort.
- Comment on Results of the "Can you tell which images are AI generated?" survey 1 year ago:
God DAMN it
- Comment on Results of the "Can you tell which images are AI generated?" survey 1 year ago:
Are there any statistically significant differences between the different generators?
Every image was created by DALL-E 3 except for one. I honestly got lazy so there isn’t much data there. I would say DALL-E is much better in creating stylistic art but Midjourney is better at realism.
- Comment on Results of the "Can you tell which images are AI generated?" survey 1 year ago:
No, the AI didn’t try to copy the other art that was included. I also don’t train the model myself, I just tell it to create an image similar to another one. For example the fourth picture I told it to create a rough sketch of a person sitting on a bench using an ink pen, then I went online and looked for a human-made one that’s of a similar style.
- Comment on Results of the "Can you tell which images are AI generated?" survey 1 year ago:
Done, column B in the second sheet contains the answers (Yes are AI generated, No aren’t)
- Comment on Results of the "Can you tell which images are AI generated?" survey 1 year ago:
No idea, but I would assume most results are from here since Lemmy is where I got the most attention and feedback.
- Comment on Results of the "Can you tell which images are AI generated?" survey 1 year ago:
I would say so, but the sample size isn’t big enough to be sure of it.
- Comment on Results of the "Can you tell which images are AI generated?" survey 1 year ago:
Sure, but keep in mind this is a casual survey. Don’t take the results too seriously. Have fun: docs.google.com/…/1MkuZG2MiGj-77PGkuCAM3Btb1_Lb4T…
- Comment on Results of the "Can you tell which images are AI generated?" survey 1 year ago:
I have. Disappointingly there isn’t much difference, the people working in CS have a 9.59 avg while the people that aren’t have a 9.61 avg.
There is a difference in people that have used AI gen before. People that have got a 9.70 avg, while people that haven’t have a 9.39 avg score. I’ll update the post to add this.
- Submitted 1 year ago to technology@lemmy.world | 124 comments
