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- Comment on Are there any games like Diablo but not Diablo because Diablo? 9 months ago:
The reason I don't think it's all that in line with Diablo these days, though, is simply the pacing of the gameplay. You blow up screens of enemies at a time, and your deaths are often so fast that you're not really sure what killed you.
Yeah, that's why I don't care for POE anymore these days.
- Comment on Are there any games like Diablo but not Diablo because Diablo? 9 months ago:
It is a classic Roguelike
Listen I get that Roguelike is basically a vaguely defined genre now, and though Torchlight 2 in a great game it's definitely not a "classic Roguelike".
- Comment on How much 1 TB of egress costs by cloud provider 9 months ago:
The more surprising part is that there are companies I've never heard of that cost even more.
- Comment on Fuck Ubisoft. 9 months ago:
I'm on Linux and Valve and Itch are the only ones with first class Linux support. Everyone else you have to dick around with running their launchers through wine or lose features.
- Comment on How will I find financial stability if I live in a third world country with a toxic sociopathic/narcissistic mother, I have no skills (at least I think so), no time and therefore no money? 10 months ago:
Gotta start somewhere. It would be enough to rent your own place and get out from under your mother.
- Comment on How will I find financial stability if I live in a third world country with a toxic sociopathic/narcissistic mother, I have no skills (at least I think so), no time and therefore no money? 10 months ago:
Missed the part where he doesn't have a computer?
- Comment on 8 Years later my Steam Link is still getting regular updates 10 months ago:
If you have proper full continuous deployment infrastructure setup then you can do minor updates of things like dependencies automatically. I'd guess that's what's happening here.
- Comment on If Gamers Want More Powerful Women Then Stop Being Afraid Of Them 11 months ago:
Yeah, "people don't like the racist authoritarian because she's a woman" sure is a hot take.
- Comment on Epic explains why it hasn't sued Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft over 30% fee 11 months ago:
Man, just imagine the shitstorm if a game launched at $50 on Epic, then a year later increased prices to $62 everywhere due to Steam's terms and conditions so that the dev could maintain the same profit from steam.
Of course that will never happen because there's zero consumer benefit and instead they just launch at $60 on Epic. If that did happen and the savings were benefiting the consumer then Epic might have a point.
- Comment on Epic explains why it hasn't sued Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft over 30% fee 11 months ago:
And they're hemorrhaging money
- Comment on I want to talk in an American accent but how can I transition into it slowly for people who know me without them noticing a sudden change? 11 months ago:
Just truly "Nah but it's fun"
- Comment on I want to talk in an American accent but how can I transition into it slowly for people who know me without them noticing a sudden change? 11 months ago:
Life is too short, just do it and when people notice say you're trying it out for fun for a bit.
This is probably something you'll think was really silly in a few years but who cares, live a little.
- Comment on Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Realms of Ruin Flops, Frontier Shares Tank Nearly 20% - IGN 11 months ago:
I played the demo and got turned off by constantly saying "Orruk" instead of orc and lack of base building.
- Comment on Flipboard leaves X for Mastodon 11 months ago:
Kbin does the microblogging thing
- Comment on Wasting water with tankless heater 1 year ago:
Living in the US I've never seen what you're describing
- Comment on A really nice Lions Mane is fruiting! 1 year ago:
Looks like cauliflower. Would eat.
- Comment on Typing is not a programming bottleneck 1 year ago:
People who can type and type fast(-ish) ... make less mistakes when spelling, etc.
I wish.
-Guy who types over 100WPM but still makes a lot of spelling mistakes.
- Comment on Lemmy 0.19 updates 1 year ago:
Yup, that makes total sense. Kind of surprising they didn't have the TZ on there in the first place but it happens.
- Comment on what's the highest increase in salary you've had or seen? 1 year ago:
Yeah, that would probably do it.
- Comment on what's the highest increase in salary you've had or seen? 1 year ago:
What the fuck are you doing that makes you 1.5M/yr?
- Comment on The only thing doing tech tests has taught me is that I'm too stupid to do the job I've been doing professionally for the better part of 2 decades. 1 year ago:
You'd be surprised by the number of applicants that can't write a for-loop. There's a middle ground between no test and complex tree search algorithms.
- Comment on The only thing doing tech tests has taught me is that I'm too stupid to do the job I've been doing professionally for the better part of 2 decades. 1 year ago:
Why are you assuming FAANG resumes can't do system design?
- Comment on The only thing doing tech tests has taught me is that I'm too stupid to do the job I've been doing professionally for the better part of 2 decades. 1 year ago:
"Here's an icky piece of code, tell me what it does and what you would do to improve it" seems to have fallen out of style, though it's not clear to me why.
Because reviewing code is easier than writing it, unfortunately.
- Comment on The only thing doing tech tests has taught me is that I'm too stupid to do the job I've been doing professionally for the better part of 2 decades. 1 year ago:
There's a story/joke about a company that has a large, important industrial machine that stopped working. They call in a specialist engineer, who walks up, hits it with a hammer, and it starts working again. He then hands the manager a bill for $2000. Incensed, the manager demands an itemized invoice because this was outrageous for something that took 2 minutes. The engineer kindly obliges: hammer $5, knowing where to use the hammer $1995.
- Comment on The only thing doing tech tests has taught me is that I'm too stupid to do the job I've been doing professionally for the better part of 2 decades. 1 year ago:
There's a story/joke about a company that has a large, important industrial machine that stopped working. They call in a specialist engineer, who walks up, hits it with a hammer and it starts working again. He then hands the manager a bill for $2000. Incensed, the manager demands an itemized receipt because this was outrageous for something that took 2 minutes. The engineer kindly obliges: hammer $5, knowing where to use the hammer $1995.
- Comment on Linear code is more readable 1 year ago:
I don’t like nesting single use functions.
At a certain point this is necessary due to overall length. You don't want a single function that is hundreds of lines long - they suck to debug and to test. Single-use functions break that up into logical chunks that make it easier to understand.
The moment I follow a function and it’s just another abstraction for more functions I start feeling dread.
This can actually be ideal in many cases due to the Single-responsibility Principle. Think of the purpose of those functions as coordinating the workflow of the other functions.
- Comment on [Meta] Is it OK to ask questions in here or should there be an AskProgramming community? 1 year ago:
It's fine IMO. Traffic isn't high enough for a split to make sense
- Comment on need help with some fundamentals of for loops. it looks like im so close to fully grasping grabbing an item out of a list, but not quite. examples below 1 year ago:
Yeah, I'm not a fan of them overall. I think multiple lines is more readable. There are a LOT of people that disagree with me though.
- Comment on Is it really a breaking change if a method changes output after an update? 1 year ago:
That's not a functionality change. The method still does the same thing: "outputs the current version of the software".
- Comment on What software stack would you have chosen for Lemmy? 1 year ago:
So, kbin then?