luciole (he/him) @ luciole @beehaw.org

Doesn't know the lyrics. Just goes meow meow meow.

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No more bugs… but lots of humans. Time to return to primordial form.

I'm really happy to live in 2025 because that means I don't have to cope with how the climate will be in a century. If I could bring something back it would be pre-industrial climate.

I don't know about Kenya, but in Canada it's too late to plant trees. Climate change has intensified forest fires in such a way that the forest has been a net emitter in recent years. Furthermore human planted trees are extremely flammable compared to an actual forest, so they accelerate emissions instead of helping. A forest is not the plural for trees, it's an extremely complex system that cannot be substituted with an afternoon of good actions.

I recalled differently so I looked it up. Here’s a video of a random person claiming their points. No code-in-box, just the console phoning Nintendo with cartridge inserted.

Nothing is stored to tie carts to hardware or accounts.

Do you remember the discontinued gold points program? For any brand new physical cartridge you could claim equivalent to 1% the game’s price. Obviously the points could only be claimed once, by a single account. This seems to point pretty strongly to carts being uniquely identifiable and to Nintendo’s ability of keeping track of usage.

I preferred the first one's contemplative side, the slow pace, the aesthetics... but I've yet to meet someone who feels the same so yeah

Yakuza: Like a Dragon does this and I’m grateful.

When the game is such a precious labour of love, so obviously cared for, and constantly improved, that there’s no way the dev has any time left for gaming.

DUCKIES!! They so smol

I saw some wild geese a week ago and their offspring were pretty big and well into shedding their dawn. They were in that awkward age

Both translation and subtitles have highly efficient tooling when in the hands of a professional. Translators nowadays use a mix and will build up a dynamic database as they go through a corpus that needs coherence. What's bad in this instance is not the usage of some AI, but of a badly adapted AI and ultimately of mediocre results which gives an amateurish impression.

things you can do to kill time in confinment

No. February 12, 2015 actually was an extremely polluted day for Paris. The fine particles count was through the roof and you can find articles about it. Please don't pull stuff out of your ass.

sunk cost fallacy let's gooo

So that we can discuss the issue without triggering abuse survivors would be a reason.

Hopefully they said "adieu" (very respectfully fuck off forever), not "au revoir" (see you again friend).

having to wait for javascript to load, decompress, parse, JIT, transmogrify, rejimble and perform two rinse cycles

This is whole sentence is facetious nonsense. Just-in-time compilation is not in websites, it's in browsers, and it was a massive performance gain for the web. Sending files gzipped over the wire has been going on forever and the decompressing on receival is nothing compared to the gains on load time. I'm going to ignore the made up words. If you don't know you don't know. Please don't confidently make shit up.

EDIT: I'm with about the nags though. Fuck them nags.

Some non peer reviewed paper with a tiny sample size is hardly enough to go "The Science has spoken". On the other hand, one can make an appeal to the intuitive idea that lack of practice implies lack of skill.

This immediately points to the pernicious effects of touting LLMs as a machine to do all the thinking for you. Heck, the enthusiasts are even using LLMs to do their social interactions for them.

This is a warning to people as much as workplaces: is this task you're offloading to LLMs really a skill you want to see atrophied?

Oh I love it when the language has advanced type inference! I have fond memories of tinkering with Haxe.

I know far too little about compilers & interpreters to have anything to say about performance so I’ll leave that subject to wiser programmers.

What I can say about the usage itself of dynamically vs statically typed languages is that I struggle with assessments that attempt to quantify the differences between the two paradigms. I’ve come to consider programming has a craft, and as such the qualitative properties of the tools, and especially the languages, matter significantly.

I’ve been switching back and forth between dynamic and static languages lately. Although dynamic languages do feel more straight to the point, static languages are easier to navigate through. All that typing information can be harnessed by intellisense and empower the non-linear reading needed to understand a program. That’s valuable for the whole life cycle of the software, not just the time to reach initial release. It’s kind of a rigid vs fluid dichotomy.

I'm with you. Very puritan, kinkshaming article. Stellar Blade might not be my thing, but I know not to yuck people's yum. One could take the opportunity to discuss sexual objectification, but apparently that's off the table.