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@Tsaukpaetra here you go http://www.zeldaspeedruns.com/
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@Buddy said in ๐ Quick links thread:
@Tsaukpaetra here you go http://www.zeldaspeedruns.com/
I'll do you one better:
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@flabdablet said in ๐ Quick links thread:
Apparently the issue is that I need to find a word other than "manbabies"
I would suggest "babyman", that that sort of sounds like superhero...
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@cartman82 reddit.com/r/oldbabies
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@dse said in ๐ Quick links thread:
The blocks based, easy to use setup tool for Raspberry Pi
Whoa! Awesome!
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@dse said in ๐ Quick links thread:
blocks based
I am frequently astonished by the willingness of otherwise competent programming types to jump on anything that lets them edit text without using a text editor.
Seriously, how much easier can this possibly be than calling scripts from another script?
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@flabdablet said in ๐ Quick links thread:
I am frequently astonished by the willingness of otherwise competent programming types to jump on anything that lets them edit text without using a text editor.
It could be because program source is a syntax tree, and its text encoding is problematic for humans and parsers alike. Would you be astonished that people are willing to jump to anything that lets them edit Unicode text or videos without a hex editor?
Seriously, how much easier can this possibly be than calling scripts from another script?
You don't need to remember all the manure involved with properly invoking said scripts and extracting the result. Just think of how you'd start, say, Apache on a given Linux system.
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@bugmenot said in ๐ Quick links thread:
Just think of how you'd start, say, Apache on a given Linux system.
apache &
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You mean like
systemctl start apache2
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@bugmenot said in ๐ Quick links thread:
It could be because program source is a syntax tree, and its text encoding is problematic for humans and parsers alike.
OK, sure, point taken. But just look at what that "blocks editor" is actually doing. It's letting you drag and drop lines in what really is no more than a line-oriented source file with some Fisher-Price syntax coloring.
There's a lot of merit in simplified, heavily-constrained configuration environments; it would be foolish to argue otherwise. But the point I'm trying to make is that once you've gone to the trouble of designing the constraints and providing the building block scripts that fit those constraints, that's essentially Job Done. I can see absolutely no reason why I should prefer building the master scripts that invoke the building blocks using a tinker-toy drag-and-drop "blocks editor" compared to any normal text editor (especially if it has syntax completion).
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@flabdablet said in ๐ Quick links thread:
I can see absolutely no reason why I should prefer building the master scripts that invoke the building blocks using a tinker-toy drag-and-drop "blocks editor" compared to any normal text editor (especially if it has syntax completion).
There are cases where it's sensible, such as if you're not just doing the program as written but also capturing other things such as provenance data. That can make it possible to do awesome things like rewinding a program to see what it was doing at a particular time or even restarting from part way through.
I wouldn't expect anyone to ever want to deploy such a high-power tool on an Rฯโฆ ;)
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Now we can go live on the Mars :) also keep polluting the environment, no worries. Only one day your ancestors may resemble this funny creature
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@dse said in ๐ Quick links thread:
Only one day your ancestors may resemble this funny creature
I think they're kinda cute.
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@antiquarian said in ๐ Quick links thread:
if you stop referring to people you disagree with as "manbabies"
@flabdablet said in ๐ Quick links thread:
Apparently the issue is that I need to find a word other than "manbabies" for people who react to others gaining access to nice things formerly reserved for them alone with the kind of squalling fury typical of an infant deprived of his favourite rattle.
@flabdablet: what you interpreted is not what @antiquarian said.
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@OffByOne said in ๐ Quick links thread:
what you interpreted is not what @antiquarian said.
I think he was going for "but they really are manbabies, so it's not a shaming tactic".
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@antiquarian said in ๐ Quick links thread:
I think he was going for "but they really are manbabies, so it's not a shaming tactic".
It was just a different shade of lipstick on his "Fuck off. I got mine," pig. Which never seems to apply when he says it, so it's probably just more projection.
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@flabdablet said in ๐ Quick links thread:
manbabies
Sexist. What's wrong with ladybabies? Or genderfluidbabies?
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@Jaloopa What if I identify as a manfetus?
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@boomzilla I'll identify you!
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http://www.onlysp.com/bethesdas-pete-hines-surprised-by-how-many-people-enjoyed-dooms-campaign/
Hines mentioned the lack of a โvoiced protagonistโ and โstoryโ as being his main worries for why people might not like the campaign as that goes against recent trends in the industry, for the most part.
Marketing person discovers that different people like different things
(can you please start making more single-player campaigns now?)
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@flabdablet said in ๐ Quick links thread:
@dse said in ๐ Quick links thread:
blocks based
I am frequently astonished by the willingness of otherwise competent programming types to jump on anything that lets them edit text without using a text editor.
Seriously, how much easier can this possibly be than calling scripts from another script?
A lot of non programmers buy raspberry pi, and speaking as someone who's configured Linux installs on my home machines at least a dozen times, the less time they have to spend that stuff, the better. When a user gets stored by a limitation of the system they'll post a question to the rpi subreddit or RPI.SE and they'll either just copy and paste the answer or they'll try to learn more ยฏ_(ใ)_/ยฏ
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@Jaloopa said in ๐ Quick links thread:
@flabdablet said in ๐ Quick links thread:
manbabies
Sexist. What's wrong with ladybabies? Or genderfluidbabies?
I'm ambisextrous!
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@dse said in ๐ Quick links thread:
Only one day your ancestors may resemble this funny creature
Do you mean 'descendants'?
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@coldandtired Maybe his parents are still alive and are being mutated hideously by the secret experiments of a modern-day Frankenstein.
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@dkf Or they'll be revived for experimentation!
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@bb36e The people who make block-based programming systems don't understand the real problem.
They see noobs struggling to make sense of the incredibly complicated development tools we have. So they think
- We must make simpler tools for them (correct)
- It has to be a single screen with simple functions where you write the a script it just runs with a single button click (correct)
- With simple and discoverable I/O APIs to allow access to all the device functions without having to use 45 libraries each with different coding styles (correct)
- And a language based on blocks because people could not possibly understand text-based code (WRONG)
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@anonymous234 I guess I'm being more specific about the rpi config tool...fully understanding all that stuff would require you to figure out multiple Linux systems and configuration formats and who knows what else
Basically, if my dad decided he wanted to make the rpi show a thing when you open it in a web browser he's not going to want to fiddle around with .htaccess files, and that's understandable
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@anonymous234 Lack of a story? Really? I mean, we haven't beat it (we should marathon it this weekend) but from what I've played, there's definitely a story. It's not an RPG, is that what he means?
Bejeweled is a game without a story.
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@anonymous234 said in ๐ Quick links thread:
a language based on blocks because people could not possibly understand text-based code (WRONG)
Yeah, that's the part I think is weird. Especially when the blocks are only distinguishable from one another by virtue of the text they're labelled with.
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@flabdablet isn't the block paradigm meant to make it easier to visualise loops, branching and other parts of program flow? Seems like a valid way of displaying a program to me
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huge thread in HN, in there a nice remedial (linux only)
Chrome seems to be doing similar.
We can't have nice things?
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@cabrito said in ๐ Quick links thread:
Firefox is eating your SSD - here is how to fix it
It's those damn cookies! In particular, it's the habit of sites to use content from all over the place (particularly via Ad networks) and for all of those sites to insist on fiddling with their cookies all the time.
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@anonymous234 said in ๐ Quick links thread:
And a language based on blocks because people could not possibly understand text-based code (WRONG)
Graphical languages are all very well, but after a certain level of complexity it just gets easier to use text. Languages (even impoverished ones like programming languages) handle complexity rather well.
And yes, I've hit this particular wall a few times now. I think I've written three graphical languages now throughout my career, and all of them ended up with lots of text getting involved anyway. I'm not saying it's impossible to create a fully graphical languageโฆ but nobody's yet managed to really do it without making the results either laughable or totally gimped, so it must be really hard.
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@Jaloopa said in ๐ Quick links thread:
isn't the block paradigm meant to make it easier to visualise loops, branching and other parts of program flow?
Yeah, and it does about as good a job at that as any indentation scheme.
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@Jaloopa said in ๐ Quick links thread:
@flabdablet isn't the block paradigm meant to make it easier to visualise loops, branching and other parts of program flow? Seems like a valid way of displaying a program to me
Sure. Now what about variables? Because I suspect most people find those harder to grok than loops.
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@dkf said in ๐ Quick links thread:
it's the habit of sites to use content from all over the place (particularly via Ad networks) and for all of those sites to insist on fiddling with their cookies all the time.
Chalk up yet another reason to browse with an ad blocker.
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@PleegWat said in ๐ Quick links thread:
Now what about variables?
I write something on a piece of paper and put it in a pigeonhole. When I want to know about it later, I can look it up, no problem.
But do I put the name of the thing on the paper or on the pigeonhole?
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@dkf said in ๐ Quick links thread:
do I put the name of the thing on the paper or on the pigeonhole?
Depends. How much time do you have available for searching through pigeonholes?
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@cabrito some dude on the internet said that given the numbers in the article most ssds will last at least a hundred years so ยฏ\_(ใ)_/ยฏ
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@dkf said in ๐ Quick links thread:
@PleegWat said in ๐ Quick links thread:
Now what about variables?
I write something on a piece of paper and put it in a pigeonhole. When I want to know about it later, I can look it up, no problem.
But do I put the name of the thing on the paper or on the pigeonhole?
Pigeon-holes have names? Also, how are you going to illustrate that in your graphical programming language?
Maybe something functional would be a better choice.
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@PleegWat said in ๐ Quick links thread:
Pigeon-holes have names? Also, how are you going to illustrate that in your graphical programming language?
We could use emojiโฆ
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@dkf said in ๐ Quick links thread:
@PleegWat said in ๐ Quick links thread:
Pigeon-holes have names? Also, how are you going to illustrate that in your graphical programming language?
We could use emojiโฆ
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I thought that was a picture, but then:
... Thanks, Anniversary Update?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in ๐ Quick links thread:
Thanks, Anniversary Update?
Emoji for the Unicode God! Emoji for the I18n Throne!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6Zrjz_hu8I
TLDW: VR can with fuck your sense of position in every way you can think of.
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@anonymous234 I've heard about the thing where they make you walk in a circle despite you thinking it's a straight path before. Pity that it seems to require such a large base area.
The other trick I heard of is that it's possible to mess with people's sense of direction when they turn. Essentially, when you think you make a 90ยฐ turn, you've in reality turned maybe 120ยฐ or more.
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