@sol_hsa @GDCPresoReviews You could do something repetitive but predictable during the loop, e.g. clearing the screen, and keep checking the joystick every N pixels or so. At least then you're not just wasting time.

@GDCPresoReviews To clarify about the PC speaker - it's a single channel OF SQUARE WAVE. No samples, no ADSR envelopes. A single square wave, and it's sent through the absolute cheapest piezo buzzer speaker they could get away with, usually just glued to the inside of the PC case with no sound holes. Wheeee!

@StompyRobot @rygorous @danluu I don't believe this is true. If it is, then your test suite is now 75% of your codebase. Which means it has 75% of the bugs, and took 75% of your time. Which means it never shipped.

@rygorous @danluu Oh yeah I don't mean it in the architecture-astronaut modular blah blah way. As you say, that's largely horseshit.

I just mean - can someone else in six months figure out how to modify this code to also do the new requirement that just popped up, or is it truly write-only code, and the next person has to effectively redo it from scratch.

@rygorous @danluu Those programmers might be "successful" in shipping etc. But a question is whether those programmers produce code that other people would consider "good" in the more nebulous areas of maintainability, readability, ease of integration and so on, i.e. when another human is reading, versus a compiler. Of course the corollary is - if they're successful - who cares?

@neil Indeed - by the Oliver twins. I believe they're still making Dizzy games!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Twins

@MinervasRefuge @djlink
"The Old GPU crops 8:8:8 bit gouraud shading color to 5:5:5 bit before multiplying it with the texture color"

Yeah this is how I remember it. The vertex colour is only interpolated to 555 precision, THEN multiplied with the texture colour, THEN dithered down to 555.

The newer HW keeps everything in 888 right up until the last minute and then dithers down to 555.

@dee
The joke is that cats have... ah, you're way ahead of me.

And so but anyway, did I ever tell you about my most humiliating experience as a skilled and successful computer programmer?

@GeePawHill One of my uncles was medical offer on a submarine. Two weeks out of port, all the various *ahem* medical illnesses have resolved themselves one way or another. And so now his job is... entertainment! That really was his job for most of the time - keeping folks from going stir-crazy.

@glassbottommeg I know you know that's not a broadsword, but you also know I know it alliterates nicely. Touche!

Our next game is Verminsteel!

You're a bird with a broadsword, kicking thousands of fascists so hard they fly into the sun

PLEASE go wishlist it, it'll make me really happy and help me stop low-key panicking and stuff: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4352280/Verminsteel/ #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev (boosts super appreciated)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8_SQwxaAjE

@64kb That's a heavy book!

Haha, this one was written about 5 years before chatgpt launched. www.smbc-comics.com/comic/conver...

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cer...

@breakin @dougbinks @ashalah My caution with this is that (I believe) CTI can be caused by too little stress, or too much. Plenty of climbers do seem to be on the "too much" end. You want to be somewhere in the middle :-)

But most modern people do not subject them to huge stress or swing through trees or lift heavy things. They write or type or play piano. The tendons barely move, and certainly not under any real stress. And so they get "sticky" in their sheaths, which causes inflammation, and that makes them stickier, and so on.

This is like how bones get disorganized if you don't stress them, and leads to things like osteoporosis.

You gotta "reset" them - teach them what their purpose is. Use 'em or lose 'em.

My theory (and this is just me making up bullshit) is that our hands are immensely strong because of our monkey ancestors. We're meant to be swinging from trees with them. Now, we've lost a bit of strength over the centuries, but they're still insanely strong.

When I row, the full force of nearly all the major muscles in my body go through those little wrist tendons, and they're... fine. They have never been the limiting factor. Crazy strength for such thin things.

Conclusions: I should run the poll for longer!

Still, it's interesting the number of people (7) who did feel like LHT helped. I also have two family members who it helped.

A while back I did a medical literature search, but found no relevant studies. Lots of low-strength stuff like yoga and walking (mixed results), but nothing on relatively high-strength activities.

I certainly think the 14 people who have CTI but have not tried it yet should try some variant of LHTAPTDA.

La fleur de lys bananière est un meuble héraldique. C’est l’une des quatre figures les plus populaires avec les multiples croix, l’aigle et le lion (Wikipédia)

street art, Park Drive, West End de Glasgow
#streetart #food #culture de banane #banana #flowers #photography

@djlink You clearly missed a "hell no" tick box somewhere. Or maybe they added yet another secret one. The struggle continues.