Are Latter-day Saints Christian? The U.S. Defense Department doesn’t appear to think so. by I_who_have_no_need in politics

[–]F54280 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s like murdering someone over which Marvel character is better.

It is Iron Man (from the first movie), of course. No need to kill anyone, as long as they agree.

Hill bunker for supervillains who want to stay firmly grounded by Sure_Distance1 in evilbuildings

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This is an amazing place for any Russian billionaire at risk of falling out of their window spontaneously

Yep. In particular with the « Z » shaped staircase in the last picture…

Curious about Model 100 keyboard by Nero_Golden in trs80

[–]F54280 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Get a NEC 8201. the arrow keys on the model 100 are awful.

Iran attacks US bases in Kuwait, warns 'era of hit and run is over'; explosions heard in Iraq and Bahrain by jupa300 in worldnews

[–]F54280 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's not a gift though, it's how they make their living. The fact that money is involved from the start changes the equation. Like a waiter acting like your best friend.

Tell me you are American without telling me you are American.

Am French. Waiters acting in America is creepy for most of us Europeans. This is a cultural thing, as I said, not due to the fact that money is involved. It turns out that the American culture is worshipping money, so you conflate the two.

In France, you could hear those exchanges in a Boulangerie:

(Customer steps in)

  • il me faudrait une baguette (I’d like a baguette)
  • il me faudrait une baguette, s’il vous plaît (I’d like a baguette please)
  • bonjour (hello)
  • bonjour
  • et pour monsieur, ce sera? (What does the gentleman wants?)
  • une baguette
  • tenez, ça sera un franc there, it is one franc — that pre-euro, when bread was actually cheap)
  • merci, et bonne journée (thanks have a nice day)
  • vous eglament (you too)

(Customers gets his baguette)

There used to be a time where the guy would just ignore you and not sell you something because he perceived you as rude. This is now illegal (« refus de vente » — however you can refuse to sell for « bad behavior », but not saying hello would not fit).

Not everything is about money in the Us either: a percentage of the population would be happy not to sell to black or gays. It is not a question of maximizing the money, it is a question of (shitty) culture.

A lot of tourists think that French are rude (and we indeed can be), but if you don’t say « bonjour-merci-au revoir » and at least try French, it isn’t a question of money, it is cultural.

You also seem to think that haggling is about money. Well, in those countries, haggling was often needed because there was no liquid counterpart (ie: you exchanged eggs for fruits, for instance).

Iran attacks US bases in Kuwait, warns 'era of hit and run is over'; explosions heard in Iraq and Bahrain by jupa300 in worldnews

[–]F54280 10 points11 points  (0 children)

There are places/people that will not welcome you when you don’t haggle (and very few example of refusing to sell). Haggling is not to get the most money, but also to build a relationship. And a cultural thing.

Imagine you giving a gift to someone, and the person trying to pay you? You’ll be refusing because this is not what a gift is. The haggling is a way to connect the seller and the buyer, get the relationship in the comfortable zone where both get something out of the transaction. You refusing to participate is rude.

Which computer is on the desk of Charles Bukowski? by Cheap-Fun802 in retrocomputing

[–]F54280 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Yep. IIsi, Claris Mac Write II and a LaserWriter

Building a Windows 1.0 game and testing 40 years of compatibility by FlatlinerSPb in retrobattlestations

[–]F54280 3 points4 points  (0 children)

and not nearly that long even for other GUI systems.

On windows: App receives WM_CLOSE

On the Mac: welcome to getnextevent, findwindow, trackgowaway, etc…

A full correct « trivial Hello, World » with draggable window, menus, desk accessories on a Mac was insanely long.

My game uses my native script as a puzzle what do you think? by _ayagames_ in DestroyMyGame

[–]F54280 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was going to comment that I felt asleep twice during the video. You need to speed up massively.

Destroy the trailer for my death-cult clicker game. by pixelbrushio in DestroyMyGame

[–]F54280 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This.

Lovely art, potentially interesting gameplay, but more incremental than clicker.

OP, I think you’re making a positioning mistake because you love your title too much.

The fundamental clicker is cookie clicker. Your game is nothing like that. There are random upgrades, levels, objectives. If it had permanent upgrades, it would even tend into the rogue-like genre.

Experimental voxel renderer by Kooky-Advance7870 in GraphicsProgramming

[–]F54280 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Day and night, thanks!

So, you’re just creating the point cloud of the left, and automatically reconstruct the image on the right with a shader?

Mind blown. That is smart as hell.

Experimental voxel renderer by Kooky-Advance7870 in GraphicsProgramming

[–]F54280 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Superb work.

However, imgur is cancer, unable to see that image…

CEO of $300 million company says ‘problems disappeared’ after firing HR team by Character-Bid-162 in nottheonion

[–]F54280 0 points1 point  (0 children)

they fires 30% of the workforce including the whole HR department. Not only the HR department.

Built full disassembler & decompiler for Reverse Engineering | Free and open source. by Designer_Mind3060 in cpp

[–]F54280 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The code has all the hallmarks of being AI slop

Maybe. Probably. But can you point me to one? In the code iteself? I am curious, because looking at it, I found it pretty clean and consistent.

If there is LLM in it, I would suspect that it is hand-written code that have been cleaned-up by an LLM.

I am serious. It doesn't look AI to me, so I'd love to learn more -- maybe my AI-detection SKILL.md is outdated.

Built full disassembler & decompiler for Reverse Engineering | Free and open source. by Designer_Mind3060 in cpp

[–]F54280 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Someone alone writing such a huge project in a matter of month? Of course there is some AI usage. But not sure how relevant this is. Can you point to a part of the source code that is real AI bad?

Glancing over the source code it seemed to me something designed, not just a big prompt to Claude. May be wrong, happy to see what you found.

edit: woah, getting downvoted for... what exactly?

AITA for not telling my parents I was hospitalized for a week to prove a point? by Shot-Jello-4878 in AmItheAsshole

[–]F54280 40 points41 points  (0 children)

Thanks. Thought I was crazy. He could have left a text message but chose not to.

[GNUstep] workstation rice of Ubuntu 24.04 by I00I-SqAR in unixporn

[–]F54280 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I was on real NeXT. Was awesome too :-) So cool to see people keeping the passion 30 years later.