ramirezmike

@ramirezmike@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Platypuses⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  what the fuck

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discussions are like a game of telephone; you're converting idea into language and expecting the recipient to flawlessly translate it back into an idea.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d love to hear it if you find it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It genuinely upsets me that Valve spent their time and resources on another Dota variation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  MOBAs were cool at the time of warcraft 3. Let’s move on.

  What kind of statement is this? MOBAs are still insanely popular. And “move on”? as if there’s no reason to iterate or improve on a genre?

  I don’t even play MOBAs but I’ve heard this same sentiment on arena shooters and it makes as much sense there as it does here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨. . .⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  lol for real, every sentence I was like “dude… no, stop”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is Lemmy better than Reddit?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  it’s such a backward argument but the fewer comments means I don’t spend a lot of time on each post and just move on with my life. I like it for the most part.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any good casual/low-stress mobile games that aren't filled with microtransactions?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem isn’t that no one is making good games, it’s just that the mobile market is dominated by too many large companies intent on keeping it the way it is and enough of the consumers are ok with that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Automation⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  fasterthanlime is so cool btw

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Decades later, John Romero looks back at the birth of the first-person shooter⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  he was like 24-25 when Wolfenstein 3D came out (having designed like half the levels) and continued on, being an integral part of Doom, Doom 2, Hexen and Quake

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We have to stop ignoring AI’s hallucination problem⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  do you know what an analogy is??

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #2932: Driving PSA⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  yesterday a guy tried to wave me to cross then started angrily raising his hands like “FUCKING GO!” completely oblivious to the car that flew past his left side in the opposite direction

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  do you mostly communicate with people in your company or do you talk with external people too?

  Don’t get me wrong, I know teams has issues, I have my own list of complaints, I’m just surprised how different your complaints are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  how often do you use teams? And do you usually have network issues? I have pretty stable Internet and don’t run into any of these issues but I could see the occurring if teams doesn’t have a stable connection.

  Teams opening files in teams is super annoying though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly all Nintendo 64 games can now be recompiled into native PC ports to add proper ray tracing, ultrawide, high FPS, and more⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  that makes sense, it’s like only really feasible now that we have enough decompiled, readable n64 games

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly all Nintendo 64 games can now be recompiled into native PC ports to add proper ray tracing, ultrawide, high FPS, and more⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  a comment on that site really condescendingly claims this is how he would have handled it and that a script could be written in half a day to do the work.

  my understanding is that an emulator effectively recreates the hardware’s different components in software so that from the game’s “perspective” it’s running on a real machine more or less.

  This process instead decompiles the game code and recompiles for a new target machine.

  I suspect one can’t just pump out a script in an afternoon to do this, but I am curious what is the complexity here?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recompilation: An Incredible New Way to Keep N64 Games Alive⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I suspect it was my age when I first played it but when I play it now I don’t feel the camera pain. I know that’s the biggest complaint but what exactly is the pain? is it hard to articulate exactly other than it feels like a lack of control?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First human brain implant malfunctioned, Neuralink says⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the most famous one was the star wars jedi force trainer? Some people say it’s fake but… it’s like a headset you put on that they claim reads your brain waves and it controls a little fan that switches on and off to make a ball in a tube float

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elizabeth Warren slammed for wanting to ‘break up Apple’s smartphone monopoly’⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I studied news journalism in college and they kinda hammered in that in news journalism it’s more important to communicate information consistently and to target a wide audience than it is to make “good writing.”

  There are style guides you have to follow and words like “slammed” end up getting used a lot despite not quite being accurate because they’re words that are used a lot.

  The other thing is that usually the person writing the headlines isn’t the journalist… and sometimes they do a lot of versions of the same headline and when people click more because of the word slammed it ends up sticking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft’s VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  this is so dystopian. Imagine spending your career honing your skill as an actor, dying and then having a computer replace you with just a photograph as a source. How is that honoring an actor??

  An actual, practical example is generating video for VR chats like Apple has somewhat tried to do with their headset. Rather than using the cameras/sensors to generate and animate a 3d model based on you, it could do something more like this, albeit 2d.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boston Dynamics introduces a fully electric humanoid robot that “exceeds human performance”⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  the scientists build the robots. Society and its corruption will determine how they get used. I don’t think it’s a reason to not build robots or to say they’re not worth making. At some point in the future, society may collectively improve and the robots will be there to use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boston Dynamics introduces a fully electric humanoid robot that “exceeds human performance”⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  of all the things scientists do, making robots that can do dangerous or even tedious labor isn’t that bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My opinion on Bone conduction earphones⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  it does depend on the ones you have. The cheap ones are just speakers. I have one of the higher end shoks with audio boost and it feels like it has a little speaker on top of the bone conducting.

  if you’re in a quiet room and you put them on max and leave it on your desk you’d probably be able to pick out what it’s playing. I think at that point though the desk is somewhat becoming a medium for the sound…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the best indie games you've ever played?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  this is a great post. I do think the outer wilds description is a smidge spoilery. I know, people figure that out pretty quickly but it’s still a neat experience if going in blind

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Keywords tried to make a game using GenAI but said the tech was 'unable to replace talent'⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Kenney the guy that makes assets?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We are proud of you⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  isn’t this just the original comic?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are any self-cleaning cat litter boxes any good, or worth the money?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  do you use clumping litter? not everyone does, which can make it messy if you leave it for them to kick up the next time they go. Not to mention the smell… if you’re really leaving your cat’s pee go for days at a time you might be nose blind to the smell it makes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are any self-cleaning cat litter boxes any good, or worth the money?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  wait, you have robots?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rockstar Games regarding Grand Theft Auto VI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  GTA games are expensive to make. All that multiplayer bullshit subsidies the single player campaign. I was pretty satisfied with GTA 5 and GTA 4 and didn’t touch the multiplayer. is it a big deal if they continue that pattern?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An unofficial PC port of Nintendo 64's Perfect Dark is available for download, featuring mouselook, widescreen, FOV & 60fps support⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I just tried this out a little bit ago. I couldn’t get the Linux version working but I downloaded the windows version, added it to steam, set the proton version to the newest one (.8 I think? it had an 8 in it) and it worked pretty well

  haven’t tried changing any settings but beat the first mission without any issues 👍

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Flat-Out Refuses to Bargain With Workers, Prompting YouTube Music Strike⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I had albums with missing songs, a few albums wouldn’t transfer. I had versions of songs that were different.

  I didn’t lose everything but there was enough that I cared about that I no longer want to trust a system where I don’t actually own the music

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Flat-Out Refuses to Bargain With Workers, Prompting YouTube Music Strike⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  this hit me hard on multiple levels. There was a lot of live performances and remixes on Grooveshark that just don’t exist anymore.

  But, I also lived where they were headquartered. They had started a “Grooveshark university” for local programmers to learn the ropes and it was really cool. I was self-taught but learned a lot from that experience. Such a shame