Piatro

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[–] Piatro@programming.dev -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What is this headline?

[–] Piatro@programming.dev 4 points 1 week ago

I had similar issues with other distros on old MacBooks, unfortunately it's the locked down nature of their drivers, especially WiFi. I would have continued to use the hardware as it's good enough for simple use cases but fighting with custom WiFi drivers isn't my idea of fun. Gave up and got a second hand ThinkPad a year or two ago, no hardware issues since.

[–] Piatro@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Genuine question, how did you know BDSM but not gimp?

[–] Piatro@programming.dev 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Ah yes the famously sparsely populated capital city of London, and the entirety of Scotland.

[–] Piatro@programming.dev 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Python is very much "good enough" for that kind of environment. The touch screen drivers on the other hand, yes, should probably be rust/c.

[–] Piatro@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago

Huh, it's almost like you're at war or something...

[–] Piatro@programming.dev 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Been using it for ten years. Great language with great package manager. Nowadays it feels like it's missing a lot of the development experience improvements of other languages, but I still prefer it to python. Apparently it's good for LLMs too.

[–] Piatro@programming.dev 23 points 4 weeks ago (7 children)

Remember that we're only seeing the part AFTER the crew decided to intervene and remove her from the plane. We don't see what she did to trigger this response.

[–] Piatro@programming.dev 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

No because just copy-pasting, or god forbid gEnErAtInG notes defeats the purpose of the note. Reading an existing note is secondary to having written it in the first place, because by writing it I can think about the topic and process different lines of thinking which may spawn other threads of interest or related issues.

Your example of git is one where I would particularly benefit because I could write about how git is structured or how a particular command works using the docs as reference and then find a difference between my understanding and the docs that I wouldn't have found by reading just the docs or just my notes. This isn't theoretical, it's happened to me every time I've started writing something on a topic.

[–] Piatro@programming.dev 6 points 1 month ago

It's funny because I've worked with ruby on rails my entire career and can barely see how he built the tool that such an open and inclusive community formed around. He was always an outlier in that setting and even more so now. My understanding is that he's not very involved with the project and even if he was it would be pointless to boycott it since he doesn't gain anything from it anymore. Hey and Basecamp on the other hand, yeah, neither are seeing a penny from me.

[–] Piatro@programming.dev 22 points 1 month ago

Yeah but from an interviewing perspective it's a win-win. Either the guy answers the question for those elections more clearly, showing that he only has a problem answering the one about 2020 and therefore clearly doing it because of the orange man, or he still refuses and he looks like he can't answer simple questions.

[–] Piatro@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

The article covers this.

 

Hopefully the title is self-explanatory but some more details:

  • game is in isometric perspective with the camera locked to the player but from a significant distance away, creating high likelihood of obstructions by the level and decorations occuring
  • I want the player to see their character's vision and not have these obstructions block the player's view.

One way to achieve this might be to use raycasts from the character to hide objects (like walls or buildings) if they collide with an object on the opposite side to the camera. A slight problem there is if buildings have interiors then the rays wouldn't necessarily hit all relevant objects. Sometimes both the interior and exterior of the building would need to visible.

I've seen a few videos on stencil buffers but my understanding is that this might not apply, but I will admit to not understanding them well. Any help appreciated for this newbie to game dev.

 

Looking for recommendations for developers who have been around a few years and stagnating a bit. Searching around I just get the same recommendations over and over so please don't say "Clean Code" or "Pragmatic Programmer".

 

Hi all, my trusty (but honestly always pretty terrible) Amazon basics tripod finally died, does anyone have a tripod they'd recommend or brands they'd avoid?

Typical usage for me would be travelling/hiking and landscape photography so ideally small and light without breaking the bank (which I know is pretty tough). Budget is variable but call it £100-£200 for now.

 

It's being rolled out in stages so you, like me, may not have it yet.

 

Title. Friend group and I play regularly but most of us are bad at the role playing part of it to the point where it's hard to tell when the player or the character are speaking in some scenes. Conversations are stiff. We can't use too heavily modified voices because we're playing remotely. My character is about to die (probably!) so help me pick a character or trait of my new character that someone not comfortable roleplaying can stick to without feeling weird about it!

 

What do you have, what do you recommend, and why?

Asking as I've got a lot of spare components lying around that I'm planning on turning into a NAS. If it doesn't work out I'll buy a pre-built enclosure and reuse the drives.

 

Not affiliated I just find this useful and it exposed me to a few of the new features of Ruby 3.2 like not having to specify the value in kwargs if the variable is defined in scope, eg:

foo = 'bar'; call(foo:) is equivalent to foo = 'bar'; call(foo: foo)

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