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HELLGORITHM@hellgorithm.bsky.social |
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self-published author of a Zelda fansite. best viewed in Netscape Navigator 3.0
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HELLGORITHM
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Also house style here: catch-all matches that just propagate nil. If that weren't enough, they also love to `rescue` from literally any exception, quietly log a message, and return nil. Can't count how many hours this shit has wasted for me alone tracking down these nils and silent failures
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Drives me fucking crazy. I recently had one of the leads rewrite one of my PRs to remove descriptive function names in favor of this house style. Nothing I can do about it because the job market is still in the fucking gutter
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The company style here is to have basically no more than 2-3 separate function names in a module, but with at least 25-50 pattern-matched function heads per name. With no comments or anything indicating what each head is for. Just "read the code" I guess!
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idk who needs to hear this outside the appointed tech leads at my current gig, but while Elixir's pattern matching is a beautiful feature of the language, its advantage is not that it's supposed to free you from coming up with good names for your functions
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Actually I love this idea
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Someone needs to invent a city builder sim that focuses deeply on allowing this kind of creatively terrible thing being possible to try
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Okay yeah you should see my MSNBC normie lib mom's text message that happened within 60 seconds of the debate ending. That was media-driven mass hysteria right? You're either dumb as rocks or willfully spinning yourself for effect
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My MSNBC mom texted me the night of the debate, in real time and well before any media color, in basically a panic
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There is also greater emphasis on resource logistics which looks sweet, kinda what I liked about Transport Fever 2, but in the context of city building
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So far what appeals to me is the emphasis on pedestrianism. You can, nay *must*, build a walkable, transitable city. Every other modern city builder has an Amerocentrism that forces you to build around cars, which is really off putting from the possibility to experiment creatively. Not here though
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I think I’ve just stated everything you needed to hear lol. Fr tho check out City Planner Plays playing it and decide if it’s something you’d enjoy
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Anyways just reminding myself now and then that, despite the absolutely dismal state of this current place I'm at in my career, I am in fact a capable and innovative engineer
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I once had an interview where I was asked to write FizzBuzz, and then iteratively make it more flexible and sophisticated as the CTO demanded new or more complicated rules. In the end he declared "this is the most elegant implementation of FizzBuzz I've ever seen", and ngl it was a proud moment
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Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic; finally, a city builder where you can place Lenin statues without having to mod it in
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Wife wants to watch an America-ass movie due to the holiday. She wants The Patriot (her dad loved it) and I’m like na, this is a calling for Bullworth if I’ve ever heard one
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This congrats was labour-intensive
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I don’t even know what this game is but this post is proof of the memetic viability of the taco. It does sound really good rn
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I for one will stand before the Elden Ring, and become Elden Lord. First I need to figure out wtf Miquella’s been up to tho
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The new manager that was assigned to my team late last year loves to open DMs to you with "Hey buddy" and I just gotta say, I hate that
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Of course, it is clear to anyone reading this who isn’t predisposed first and foremost to cultivating a smug sense of personal moral superiority over one of the least consequential individual decisions they can make, that this little fit was very clearly about specifically the 2024 presidential race
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I have voted in every non-presidential election I’ve ever been eligible for you condescending prick
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Hell yeah. Great post from a great blog. I've been devouring his writing since coming into contact with it twice in the last 6 months or so. The guy really puts a fine point on so much of what's wrong with the tech industry today, above and beyond just AI
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This is such a cool, normal thing to say
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Kind of harsh to the approximately 47 million voting-age US citizens who live in a state that's actually in play, but statistically that likely doesn't include you so go off I guess
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lmao true
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Tang dynasty era figurines of various Chinese Zodiac animals, aka From Soft mobs
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When dogs piss on things they're basically leaving From Soft messages on the ground that only other dogs can see
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Randall Munroe
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[Thread] Some bad map projections I’ve drawn:
#45: Exterior Kansas xkcd.com/2951
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All the resources being put into inflating the AI bubble not helping matters
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Literally every engineer I talk to at my current gig wants to leave this place, even if it means accepting a pay cut. If the job market were to improve, they would lose 90% of their staff overnight. Unfortunately the market seems likely to get worse before it gets better
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I gotchu
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If your player isn't constantly second guessing whether to take the grand, obvious main entrance to some newly discovered ruin or temple, or to instead search left, right, under, or above it first for an alternative way in, throw your whole thing away and start over
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If you don't show a player a shiny item on a corpse hanging over an unreachable ledge that they will later find themselves on top of, grabbing that item while also taking in a vista of the road they traveled to get there, are you even doing level design
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Bet this geek doesn’t even have any truth tables
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I had to stop myself from going deeper to get ready for bed. SotE is not a DLC, it's a sequel priced like a quality DLC.
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So why the hell would I trade away the easy part of my job to exclusively do the harder part, which is reading and modifying existing code? It's honestly frightening how many supposed professionals in the field found this tech useful. I hated every time I heard "I just let it write my unit tests"
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Yeah ever since the start of ChatGPT writing code, and after having tried it myself out of curiosity and to see if it was anything like what was being breathlessly reported, I had the same conclusion. And you know what, reading code even you wrote yourself is much harder than writing code!
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I would say this tech is in fact very bad even at anything that demands predictable repeatability, with the added downside of terrible inefficiency. I certainly don’t need a computer to guzzle a liter of water and burn a kilowatt to tell me the square root of N and get it wrong
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The disdain for creative work is palpable, but a bit more subtle is the tacit admission that AI “creative” output is of particularly low quality
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I love capturing a win after dying a bunch and you play it back and it was like oh, a win of this fight can be just a minute and a half of not getting killed. I think I only died to this guy 2-3 times before I got him but still, isn't this sick www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOK4...
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SotE is fucking sick as hell. It is hard, especially if you insist on beating it without summons (I do, at least for my first playthrough). But it's so goddamn good
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I've yet to even beat the "intended" first legacy dungeon boss of the Elden Ring DLC and it's just vast. "About the size of Limgrave" was laughably underselling it.
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Love working at an engineering org where if I get an email with the subject line in ALL CAPS, that just means I can almost definitely ignore it
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Even if the mobile experience of their website is, at best, in a state of deliberate neglect, yes, still don't want the app, tyvm
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The Elden Ring DLC drop has turned a number of YouTubers who are not ordinarily game streamers into temporary game streamers
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Fashion looks positively drippy
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DougExeter
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gimme fuel gimme fire gimme hobbits in the shire
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Nevermind. I had to take several breaks for it, but eventually I got him.
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I got absolute shit for sleep last night and cannot beat Mohg in this state, so despite counting down the hours, I'll likely not be getting into the DLC today, which is sad
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I have come across this blog by a frustrated software developer a couple times this year and it should be required reading for everyone in the industry today (not just this individual post, but the whole blog):
ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-...
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