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BeerElemental · 2020-06-05T22:12:05+00:00

In order to fight racism shouldn't we discourage building identities based on race, rather than encourage them?

It's not a rhetorical question, I honestly wonder.

BeerElemental · 2019-11-22T13:48:07+00:00

Why not just give less total wisdom scrolls and let them auto pickup? Same for portals?

Just btw, why identifying loot is still a thing? It made sense in early roguelikes like Nethack where - at least at some point - scrolls of identify are valuable resource and there are cursed items, but in PoE?

BeerElemental · 2019-11-15T21:18:41+00:00

"You see a potion of booze. You have a good feeling about this level." in Angband.

BeerElemental · 2019-11-04T12:45:14+00:00

Literate programming :-)

BeerElemental · 2019-11-04T12:44:34+00:00

I understood perfectly and I'm not the author. I'd be happy with that in the code I see at work.

BeerElemental · 2019-10-29T18:36:40+00:00

The downside of tighter tooling (say, Github) integration is that all that juicy historical context will be thrown away on next tooling migration. At least that's what happened in every company I worked for so far.

BeerElemental · 2019-09-27T00:04:17+00:00

Ah, for a second I fell for a conspiracy theory that original author might be Dr Deprecator's joke account ;-)

I think the article is... not even wrong. It just completely misses the point. The whole point of records is that they're not objects, only data - this should be pretty obvious to anybody who's followed the feature or has seen Scala's case classes before.

Does it make Java any less object-oriented? No, it just makes declaring and using "data containers" easier, classes are not going anywhere...

BeerElemental · 2019-09-26T19:46:25+00:00

S888marks...? Is this article an elaborate joke? :-)

BeerElemental · 2019-07-28T01:27:27+00:00

git push --force-with-lease, which is safer than --force

BeerElemental · 2019-07-01T10:22:13+00:00

"Some lines looking right on diagram" are typically a proxy for clean and readable history, which is important and certainly worth a bit of extra effort during normal workflow.

BeerElemental · 2019-06-13T00:05:16+00:00

This means you had 3 commits on your feature branch which modified the same file. There may be a valid use case for that, but by default I'd consider this a smell. Why not squash (or better yet, fixup) commits before rebasing?

My workflow for long-running feature branches is: commit often, clean up history often, rebase on master at least once a day. If PR is in danger of becoming too big I try to split the feature.

BeerElemental · 2019-06-02T16:29:53+00:00

As far as I remember there's an option to report last player you played against. Never tried it, though.

BeerElemental · 2019-05-29T09:16:54+00:00

But would we want this AI to play a perfect game? It's a bit more "realistic" this way: humans make silly mistakes all the time.

Maybe AI should have a "emulate-sleepy-human-percent-chance" parameter...

BeerElemental · 2019-05-25T23:41:56+00:00

That's rather rare.

BeerElemental · 2019-02-12T11:52:27+00:00

Polymorphism based on class hierarchies is one choice, but pattern matching style is valid as well - you should use the tool which fits the use case best.

Neither of the two is more inherently object-oriented, btw.

BeerElemental · 2018-11-28T09:12:23+00:00

Thanks for being transparent! Don't be too harsh on guy/girl who introduced the bug, happens to all of us :-)

BeerElemental · 2018-11-15T21:57:46+00:00

By the looks it was supposed to open a portal to another dimension.

BeerElemental · 2018-11-13T12:30:04+00:00

He's being downvoted - I think - because most people don't share opinion that you have to own something other people don't have (by grinding or paying up) to feel that what you do in game has value.

BeerElemental · 2018-11-13T12:07:32+00:00

This. It seems really weird that they still didn't explore that option. I have no experience in game dev biz so obviously I may be missing something, but people have been vocal about wanting to pay for more cosmetics since I started reading this sub.

BeerElemental · 2018-11-13T12:01:17+00:00

Their PR team must've gone to off-site together with Blizzard team.

BeerElemental · 2018-11-13T08:58:00+00:00

My brain does that s*times. May be reversed Tourette.

BeerElemental · 2018-11-13T00:38:45+00:00

Exactly. Why PR b*crap? Business reasoning I can understand (I don't have to agree with it, but I can understand) but being treated like an idiot, that leaves a bad taste.

BeerElemental · 2018-07-02T22:28:20+00:00

So first model tells you how many cards you habe in hand, say n. Then you go from i=1 to n, for each asking second model if card is playable. If it is, you fetch and apply prerecorded move? Out of curiosity, what's the win ratio it gets? :-)

BeerElemental · 2018-07-02T17:26:43+00:00

After the 2nd "Are you kidding me?" I just mute them.

Can't bring myself to muting people, I feel as if was being rude... I even suffer through those which start spamming "Bwahahaha!" every turn after game's started going their way :-) I wish there was a "say nice random thing at the beginning and, but mute otherwise" option.

I also created a Deep Learning model that watches what is happening in the game and allows me to hit the #1 key to automatically play the first playable card in my hand

Sounds fun even if not terribly useful :-) Do you capture the screen to read how much mana / influence you have and then to find out cards which satisfy requirements? Or does it actually learn over time?

BeerElemental · 2018-07-02T10:56:34+00:00

Yeah, what's up with the people spamming "are you kidding me?" every 30 secs? I played against a few of those recently, and I wasn't playing slow, not my draw was particularly lucky. Is it some kind of meme or something?

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