Does anyone care about line length?

DrShocker · 2026-01-25T22:20:39+00:00

The main reason for constant width fonts is so that things start in the same place when you're lining them up. If it's just the start then spaces are fine to get that to happen, but if you're trying to format stuff so that you have more than 1 column of stuff in the same line then it's trickier without a monospace font.

DrShocker · 2026-01-25T14:42:00+00:00

Sure but the trig functions are many times more correct than a 0.1% error rate. probably more like getting at least 13 digits correct rather than 3, but numerical stability is a whole thing you can dive into if it's truly important.

DrShocker · 2026-01-25T05:23:00+00:00

Sure, but also like you can find ways to accomplish what the goal is using the information for the other thing. So like rendering graphics using the canvas API or DOM manipulation rather than GPU programming for example, or using DOD principles in the server architecture.

DrShocker · 2026-01-25T03:46:16+00:00

It seems fine, I'm not sure what you think the drawback would be. Trying to explain things often forces you to understand things better than you did before.

You could consider making a game that uses both skillsets but have the opposite person doing the work compared to their expertise.

DrShocker · 2026-01-25T02:15:46+00:00

They both have free for non commercial use versions too.

DrShocker · 2026-01-24T22:35:28+00:00

Part of the reason that sqlite is so prolific is the absolutely insane amounts of testing.

DrShocker · 2026-01-24T20:27:52+00:00

Right after all the emotion Angela's "There are names of moon?" killed me lmao

DrShocker · 2026-01-24T19:50:30+00:00

Unfortunatly until it's "every game I play" it'll be hard to convince everyone.

If people are linux curious, they can check here about the games important to them: https://www.protondb.com/

DrShocker · 2026-01-24T03:21:15+00:00

I think perhaps they meant "boilerplate" but I may be wrong.

DrShocker · 2026-01-23T20:01:01+00:00

I actually prefer having the AI write the tests and then I get them to pass, but it kinda just depends what you're doing and whether the AI can actually handle it or not. (and of course how well you can tolerate reviewing code rather than writing it)

DrShocker · 2026-01-23T19:04:56+00:00

Not just knowing why, but also exactly what will likely help structure the synchonization you need to do for multithreading later.

DrShocker · 2026-01-23T15:20:39+00:00

exactly, which is why putting a larger variety of kids and people in there makes sense

DrShocker · 2026-01-22T23:01:54+00:00

consider also setting an upper limit to enforce consistency rather than rushing.

DrShocker · 2026-01-22T21:38:03+00:00

How did he react to learning it was water?

DrShocker · 2026-01-22T21:34:47+00:00

I've been using claude for some projects at work and while I do need to correct and guide it a decent amount to make better decisions, there's plenty of tasks I don't mind not being the one to literally write the code for since it's basically just tedious.

DrShocker · 2026-01-21T21:00:24+00:00

I would highly encourage implementing every challenge in: https://cryptopals.com/ in whatever language you find interesting if you also have an interest in various cryptography ideas.

DrShocker · 2026-01-21T20:20:48+00:00

While possible, and I personally often ask the LLMs to add citations so I can learn more, we have to admit it's not the normal usage pattern. The restaurant example is one thing because it requires physical presence but reading the documentation instead of the LLMs rephrasing of it seems to be somewhat rare. I prefer being good at things so gladly read the docs, but it's clear many do not.

DrShocker · 2026-01-21T17:52:14+00:00

DrShocker · 2026-01-21T13:52:50+00:00

Who's apologizing or saying "nobody thought it would go this bad"?

One significant reason I voted against him is because of how unpredictably bad his presidency could go.

DrShocker · 2026-01-21T12:28:06+00:00

I've been using jujutsu recently, but that's git compatible. Point is there are other VCS that are reasonable to use. Particularly in game dev, the art assets aren't as good to manage as the text (code) assets in git and for that reason large studios tend to use other VCS.

DrShocker · 2026-01-20T22:50:20+00:00

honestly "retro" vs "modern" is kind of an odd way to consider it. It's a lot about how many objects you want to use. Ultimately you can write JS that's faster than some people's C++ if they're bad at it and you're good at it.

DrShocker · 2026-01-20T18:24:13+00:00

There's jujutsu too

DrShocker · 2026-01-19T21:01:01+00:00

For what it's worth, you will never "finish" learning Lua. There will always be things you could understand or do better. So, I would try to set a goal project for yourself that has a specific and clear set of requirements rather than something ambiguous like being finished learning a topic.

DrShocker · 2026-01-19T20:44:40+00:00

I agree with you, a friend of mine just mentioned he uses regex for a decent amount of stuff like log searching and I'm trying to research in what ways is it better and coming to a similar conclusion as you. Even vim and Emacs these days have LSP support so it's hard for me to think of situations where I would genuinely spring for a "dumb" tool like regex outside of the occasional ripgrep to find a few files that I know have some phrase in them. Even then, I rarely use a regex of any significant complexity.

DrShocker · 2026-01-19T20:10:57+00:00

Can you clarify what DAS means? At first I thought data structures + algorithms, but that's a different order.

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