fartsparkles
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- Comment on Paradox Interactive's return-to-office policy may be driving employees away from the studio 1 day ago:
Personally, these mandates have been a positive. We’ve been hoovering up incredible talent to join our team since we’re a remote-first org (we have offices and co-working spaces for those that want or need it; some don’t have space in their homes to work or want the in-person socialisation).
The stupidity of these orgs with these mandates - their best and critically important talent are the first to leave. Not to mention how some of the best talent have long left the major urban areas and will never be moving back.
I feel incredibly bad for the juniors though, who will be left picking up the pieces of these terrible management decisions.
- Comment on How come id Software / Bethesda have never sued Bungie / Microsoft over the similarity between Doomguy and Master Chief? 3 days ago:
- Comment on Recommendations for a TOTL used/new laptop under $1000? 1 week ago:
Depends where you live. Just look up regional PC builders and see if they do laptops. They pretty much all sell Clevo, often unbranded or you can request they don’t brand it.
eBay might be another option. Or a laptop refurbished. I’ve picked up several refurbished Clovos over the years that were ex workstations of some big enterprise.
- Comment on Recommendations for a TOTL used/new laptop under $1000? 1 week ago:
Custom PC builder in a Clevo case or something is my guess. Chomsky but far easier to get better parts in them and since they’re for custom builders, they’re easy to open and upgrade etc.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 1 week ago:
Keka is FOSS, supports 7z for both commission and decompression, and is native to macOS.
- Comment on Unlike in movies, most smart people aren't good in chess. 1 week ago:
They thought it was because the leather was from a pig…
- Comment on Unlike in movies, most smart people aren't good in chess. 1 week ago:
Chess is mostly a memorisation game for gambits / openers and subsequent sets of follow-on moves.
After that, it’s mentally simulating the board state a few moves ahead, varying pieces and guesstimating probability of what move the opponent will make. A lot of that you start to memorise, especially since other chess enthusiasts will often play well-known gambits / strategies.
Intelligence often correlates with memory but they’re not one and the same. I grew up knowing a competitive chess player and remember the time they referred to their “hambag” (handbag). English was their mother tongue…
- Comment on The US Secretary of Education referred to AI as ‘A1,’ like the steak sauce 2 weeks ago:
And that’s the bottom line… ‘cause Stone Cold said so!
- Comment on The US Secretary of Education referred to AI as ‘A1,’ like the steak sauce 2 weeks ago:
That’s because it is. I worked at a place that did this kind of photography for businesses years back. That steak probably got 20 seconds on each side to sear, the grill marks and caramelization painted on, the juice around it some colored glue, the steam some guy’s vape; those sorts of things.
You’d never want to eat the photography subject afterwards.
- Comment on The US Secretary of Education referred to AI as ‘A1,’ like the steak sauce 2 weeks ago:
Repeating old Reddit memes seems to be a bit of a faux pas around here.
- Comment on The US Secretary of Education referred to AI as ‘A1,’ like the steak sauce 2 weeks ago:
That changed on June 27, 2024. You can now have dual citizenship with any other country.
- Comment on BAFTA Crowns Shenmue "The Most Influential Video Game Of All Time" In Surprise Result | Time Extension 3 weeks ago:
Dreamcast was the best console of the sixth generation. If Sega hadn’t spun up MegaCD, 32x, and Saturn in such a short time, I think developers would have embraced the Dreamcast more rather than be weary Sega would abandon it for another system a couple of years later.
- Comment on BAFTA Crowns Shenmue "The Most Influential Video Game Of All Time" In Surprise Result | Time Extension 3 weeks ago:
Shenmue was insanely cool when it came out in 1999. To consider Ocarina of Time came out the year before, open world games were a brand new thing. Shenmue paired that with an epic action life-sim. It was just so unexpected; so many minigame-like mechanics for doing things around the world. It was incredibly immersive and ahead of its time.
I don’t think it has as big an impact on players as it had on developers.
The Yakuza series sticks out as greatly inspired by Shenmue / spiritual successor, as with Persona series. Also games like Lake, Fahrenheit / The Indigo Prophecy, GTA/RedDead, FFVII Remake, all owe a little to Shenmue.
- Comment on Infrastructure construction in Britain is defective. The most budget UK tramway is more expensive than the most costly french tramway 4 weeks ago:
Why is this the case?
- Comment on Javascript/Linux is what I call it 4 weeks ago:
*Javascript (Java is a different language altogether).
Side thought; you just reminded me of the days when websites were running Java applets or Shockwave all over the place. shudders
- Comment on Zen browser had a backdoor enabled by default 5 weeks ago:
I thought it just allowede easier debugging, sorry
Fuuuuck. I wouldn’t eat a sandwich made by this person let alone a web browser. Forking and mucking around in a code base they clearly don’t understand. I get the feeling they’re one of those
chmod -R 777people. - Comment on PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now 1 month ago:
NetHack takes me waaaay back. Blows my mind DevTeam are still working on it. I haven’t played in a few years. NetHack, Angband, C:DDA, etc are all games I play on long haul flights since they use the least battery and I’ve not been on a long haul since the pandemic.
- Comment on PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now 1 month ago:
That and Dwarf Fortress; learning curve is steep but they’re rogue-likes. Death is an opportunity to have a whole other adventure and learn from your mistakes and see what RNG has in store for you this time. And there’s infinitely repeatable!
- Comment on PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now 1 month ago:
Also big up for Cataclysm: DDA. One of the greatest games ever made.
- Comment on PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now 1 month ago:
Free means you can easily get any friends to dip in and play which is a big factor.
- Comment on I've been replaying Into The Breach lately and stumbled on what I think is an insane power squad. 1 month ago:
Subset Games rock. Really looking forward to whatever they put out next. It’s been rather quiet from them but they said in an AMA they have several prototypes kicking around. Fingers crossed.
- Comment on Do not stand at my grave and weep 1 month ago:
I love the indentations and line breaks of the original when first published:
Do not stand
By my grave, and weep.
I am not there,
I do not sleep—
I am the thousand winds that blow
I am the diamond glints in snow
I am the sunlight on ripened grain,
I am the gentle, autumn rain.
As you awake with morning’s hush,
I am the swift, up-flinging rush
Of quiet birds in circling flight,
I am the day transcending night.
Do not stand
By my grave, and cry—
I am not there,
I did not die.— Clare Harner, The Gypsy, December 1934
- Comment on Google/Apple map navigation should overlay weather 2 months ago:
Apple Maps already shows weather conditions, temperature, and air quality in the bottom right when using the app (might need to check Settings as I don’t know if it’s in by default).
But while driving / with a destination set, the interface is far more minimal to avoid distractions.
You can always say “Hey Siri, what’s the weather like in Cummertrees?” or wherever you’re going.
- Comment on Skyblivion, the fan remake of Oblivion in Skyrim's engine, nears completion 2 months ago:
Yeah an ex Virtuos developer said they had been working on a remake in UE5 for Bethesda. Can’t find the reference but it was a big rumour a while ago.
- Comment on Skyblivion, the fan remake of Oblivion in Skyrim's engine, nears completion 2 months ago:
They need to. Strong rumours that Bethesda has tasked a studio to remake Oblivion in a different engine.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto FiveM Players Quit In Disgust As New Sources Corroborate The Rumors 2 months ago:
If true, this whole story is utterly appalling. I feel so bad for the original founder.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Apple do have a history of putting “Ad” next to anything that is an advertisement so hopefully they continue with that design pattern.
- Comment on Doom NPCs with Zero-Knowledge Proofs 2 months ago:
AI is a magical black box that performs a bunch of actions to produce an output. We can’t trust what a developer says the black box does inside without it being completely open source (including weights).
This is a concept for a system where the actions performed can be proved to those who don’t have visibility inside the box to trust the box is doing what it is saying it’s doing.
An AI enemy that can prove it isn’t cheating by providing proof of the actions it took. In theory.
Zero Knowledge Proofs make a lot of sense for cryptography but in a more abstracted sense like this, it still relies on a lot of trust that the implementation generates proofs for all actions.
Whenever I see Web3, I personally lose any faith in whatever is being presented or proposed. To me, blockchain is an impressive solution to no real problem (except perhaps border control / customs).
- Comment on Bitly adds interstitial ads to shortened URLs, unlocking new revenue stream 2 months ago:
Does this break tools that expand these URLs without visiting them?
If so, they’ve just made themselves incredibly attractive to malicious actors since determining what is behind the URL will be harder to do safely and quickly for security controls.
- Comment on Apple Maps now shows the Gulf of America 2 months ago:
I’m in the UK. Just says Gulf of Mexico for me, even when I select it.
