spartanatreyu @ spartanatreyu @programming.dev

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It's worth it for the price.

General:

• Explosions / killing / respawning
• Lots of Star Wars location and sound-design fan service

Campaign;

• Gameplay is fun, but simple. The most complicated part is just reading the controls in the settings menu since the game doesn't tell you how to do one of the first things in the first mission (the button you need is 3)
• Story is basic but it works well as a sequel to Episode 6 and a prequel to The Mandalorian.

Multiplayer:

• Take turns being on offence / defence
• Keep playing the same class / hero character to unlock more abilities for that class / hero character
• Servers are populated, even for niche locations

Replayability:

• Depends
• If you like regular FPS games, you might get bored of it in 10-20 hours
• If you like playing the same game over and over again to slowly grind up new things, you'll probably play it for 100+ hours

Other stuff:

• Purchase through steam
• Running the game downloads and installs the EA launcher (but you can log in using your steam account, no need to create new ones)
• As far as launchers go, the EA launcher is tiny, surprisingly fast, isn't annoying and doesn't get in the way of anything (only setting you'll change is turning off the autolaunch when you start your pc)
• Achievements work through steam
• Invite friends through in-game party system. This can only see your friends on the EA launcher, but you can import all your steam friends in the EA launcher in a second and you only have to do it once.

It's not about caring, it's about the lawyers making the argument javascript's genericness easier

Imagine if god showed up one day and said: "It's actually Jod" then left

Try this link on an iPhone: https://jpegxl.info/resources/jpeg-xl-test-page.html

The future is webp JPEG XL...

And telling software patents to burn in hell.

It wouldn't, a simple finite state machine that any intelligent entity could emulate would be enough.

But people have completely deluded themselves into thinking that (what CEOs and marketers call) "AI" is actually intelligent, and this case study shows how preposterous that fantasy actually is.

They told you to use "ed"

You missed the joke

I really want to switch from VSCode to Helix but not having a file tree is a deal breaker.

Luckily there's been a lot of work on adding a plugin runtime with one of the proof-of-concept plugins being a file tree. Assuming the plugin runtime comes out this year in a helix release, and adding on a year for the community to settle on the first wave of plugins while giving them time to mature, I can see myself using helix fulltime in 2027 (before Microsoft has enshitified vscode enough to be unpleasant to use).

For a complicated project I get it, github's PR system is kind of bad (horrible branch based workflow and no stacked diff support resulting in increased churn) compared to the alternatives.

That's why we have tools like Graphite to add stacked diff support on top of github, and other devs creating new VCSs because git still hasn't made it's interactive rebase and merge conflicts easy enough to handle for juniors and it should be simpler.

Flip-flopping in and of itself isn't bad.

What it is - is a symptom.

A symptom of being an absolute dumbass. Now that is what's bad.

Polonius

"Well it's about damn time" smokes cigar

Yes, I know it's not out out yet, but we're nearly there

Gay panic is still a legal defence in many parts of the world

How would you even know?

^ this

Using AI leads to code churn and code churn is bad for the health of the project.

If you can't keep the code comprehensible and maintainable then you end up with a worse off product where either everything breaks all the time, or the time it takes to release each new feature becomes exponentially longer, or all of your programmers become burnt out and no one wants to touch the thing.

You just get to the point where you have to stop and start the project all over again, while the whole time people are screaming for the thing that was promised to them back at the start.

It's exactly the same thing that happens when western managers try to outsource to "cheap" programming labor overseas, it always ends up costing more, taking longer, and ending in disaster

You’re kind of missing the point.

I'm making fun of them by pointing out how they're wrong

It’s an easily falsifiable statement.

Yes

It’s an incendiary statement designed to foment division.

Yes

Everyone knows there are more than 2 genders.

Actually no, not everyone knows. You'd be surprised how people are ignorant to these matters (by choice, or repressive environment)

There are only two genders...

Except for: <giant list of genetic, epigenetic, developmental, etc... things that happen with human beings>.

Not to mention all the other things that happen with other living things

This is why you're meant to comment your code.

Your code tells you "what", your comments tell you "why".

Here's a good review of comments in the redis codebase: https://antirez.com/news/124

and those who prevent history from being taught, want to lift themselves up at the expense of others

I would advise against using pixels for margin/padding since it'll have issues for users who have different zoom/text sizes than you do.

Stick to rem for margin and padding.

If you're still early days with css, it's worth pointing out that you should use a "css reset" file. It will solve problems for you that you don't even know exist yet.

Does everyone who’s following the old account automatically refollow you when you do that?

It doesn't port over any old comments/posts, but I'm pretty sure that when anyone @'s you, it's forwarded to the new account.

IMO it’d still be useful to be able to use an identity you control, like a domain name.

Mastodon already does this