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hesdeadjim

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About hesdeadjim

Game developer by day and night.

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    Comment #47753528

    100%. Tmux didn’t click for me but Zellij did within 5 minutes. Lifelong Vim user so it felt a lot more familiar.

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    Comment #47220454

    My brother has built a game using python on the CLI and I've been trying to find a way to package it. Your project seems very promising for my use case. Project mentions Windows co…

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    Comment #47220419

    Never heard of this, thank you!

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    Comment #47208522

    Random advice question. My brother taught himself to program and has been making a terminal-based game. What started out small has turned into a highly polished game with ascii art…

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    Comment #46330843

    I’m sure they just dump the image into another LLM to gauge “safety” and pretend it’s good enough.

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    Comment #43673891

    Caught me, C#. Library quality has improved a lot in ten years, the language feels modern, and one of Go's biggest advantages, single binary cross-compile, is way less relevant now…

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    Comment #43673319

    Go user for ten years and I don’t know what happened, but this year I hit some internal threshold with the garbage type system, tedious data structures, and incessant error checkin…

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    Comment #43634061

    $0.28/gb for net traffic on the Maincloud is pretty brutal.

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    Comment #42330936

    Maybe all models should be purged of training content from movies, books, and other non-factual sources that tell the tired story that AI would even care about its "annihilation" i…

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    Comment #42258131

    Yea, OP couldn't have picked worse companies for aggressive copyright protection.

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    Comment #41911800

    Do they manage to cut out the sound of people eating and messing with their candy packaging? Drives me nuts.

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    Comment #41689425

    I live in a wealthy area in the US, we have many food banks and social support services, and still there are huge numbers of kids suffering from food scarcity. It always comes back…

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    Comment #41689089

    I hope you are aware of your immense luck in life if you think a kid in a situation like this has agency of any kind, let alone access to resources to help them “escape poverty” as…

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    Comment #41301817

    I always wonder with these things if game anti-cheat software will flag you based on the hardware identifiers not matching known manufacturers of peripherals.

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    Comment #40837929

    Exactly my experience. I have a big cup of cold brew in the morning and nothing the rest of the day. When my head hits the pillow at night I’m out and sleep without any interruptio…

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    Comment #40587384

    If you care about privacy and security it should be a whitelist, not blacklist.

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    Comment #40587219

    Not sure how this addresses some of the real concerns behind Recall, an example being if my password manager is open and showing data I don't want saved anywhere else.

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    Comment #40418464

    Unless you were involved with negotiating the deals, what happens in face to face meetings (i.e. no email and paper trail) during contract negotiations is a not-so-subtle battle of…

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    Comment #40418154

    "Give us all your 2nm or we'll start funding other chip fabs with our infinite capital".

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    Comment #40336145

    Easier to scale up than down once you have a starting point like this.

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    Comment #39801855

    Absolutely incredible.

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    Comment #39716566

    I dream of a world where the majority of humans could come close to 59% after attempting a ten step logical process.

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    Comment #39581875

    Huge topic, what are you trying to optimize? What language(s), hardware, etc. Optimizing games sends you deep down a fun rabbit hole, but that will be very different than trying to…

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    Comment #39551607

    Start grinding leetcode and find another gig?

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    Comment #39090961

    My father was a GP who ran and taught a residency program for the speciality. In the 80s and 90s the program was extremely competitive, but by the 00’s they struggled to fill a cla…