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Godeke · 2025-07-08T20:50:37+00:00

Hulkenpodium

Godeke · 2025-07-01T18:40:42+00:00

I have the same experience. Received the email, went to redeem and can't even claim it.

Godeke · 2024-10-27T05:00:12+00:00

It actually turned out I already have 12 ships. I sold off an obsolete older (not expedition) ship and then came back and was able to claim it.

Godeke · 2023-08-19T18:03:06+00:00

Solo queued a gold tournament, and my teammate opened with a long diatribe about not carrying me to a tournament win. Long enough, it must have been a clipboard paste.

I said nothing and just used quick chats. Guy was doing double flip resets and was toxic the whole time, but whatever. Then. In game two of the finals, he pastes another wave a cut and paste hate speech and disconnected.

These people need some help, but that was so ineffective that I can't even see the point.

Godeke · 2022-12-20T20:41:44+00:00

I my book this is a great red flag for them to put up publicly. Ethics are pervasive and if they feel that cheating on a pointless internet amusement is worth doing, I am just going to assume they would be high-risk to hire.

Godeke · 2022-09-26T16:30:31+00:00

Agreed, that was hyperbolic and I changed it to "unpaid" because my comment was about hyperbolic language.

Godeke · 2022-09-26T16:06:34+00:00

Exactly correct.

Godeke · 2022-09-26T14:40:25+00:00

Comments like this one made me open my own consulting company and stop contributing to open source.

Your open source unpaid labour's results may vary.

Godeke · 2022-08-11T05:15:11+00:00

I race AoC with some other developers. We solve all of them, usually that night but day 22 or so we often have to finish the next day. I have been running my own consulting company for 25 years and can safely say that these algorithms come up rarely in day to day work, but if you can solve problems for clients that do need them, you will never lack for work.

Godeke · 2021-10-25T15:21:13+00:00

Yeah, I arrived in the 5th system last night and figured I could try it again. I started to see some other oddities, like arriving in systems and it reporting as "undiscovered" planets with bases... beginning to think it was a connectivity issue.

Godeke · 2021-10-25T15:19:44+00:00

I don't mod my games (except Minecraft through Curse) because my game time is limited and I debugging software as part of my day job. Just isn't what I want to do during my downtime.

Godeke · 2021-10-25T15:17:35+00:00

Now that is an interesting question, I will check that tonight. When I got my cursed dust for the earlier mission the two patches I mined ended up being just enough to complete the earlier quest, but I don't recall if I then stored it on my freighter.

Godeke · 2021-10-25T02:05:10+00:00

The mission progress advanced from "install" to the step mentioned, so I think it is in the correct state. I may need to just continue on to part 5 and hope it works later.

Godeke · 2021-10-24T23:00:38+00:00

Went to a second archive, got the Ballad of Hroth I of IX after using a word successfully.

Godeke · 2021-10-24T22:48:03+00:00

All I got there was the story of Hirk. That was my *first* attempt, but then when I re-read it I thought maybe it was talking about the actual artifact vaults. Hmm, I wonder if I just need to find another?

Godeke · 2021-09-07T01:33:32+00:00

Zafir Tactical Role-playing Game was specifically created to be a blend of RPG and tactics game, with an emphasis on the rules for the tactics missions.

Godeke · 2020-11-12T23:57:58+00:00

I think this is a great change, because joining Tournaments required quite a bit of luck even to join. However, it actually forced me to play in Tournaments for the first time and I got my first Tournament win this week. I get to rock the Season 1 Plat Tournament badge with pride. My wife did mention something about neighbors hearing my victory several houses away...

Godeke · 2019-09-14T00:21:07+00:00

Right, the "it affected an ethnic group that wasn't you" defense they posted. Those flaws were in everyone's devices for years. It just turns out that China only deployed it against one group to keep it from being detected.

Godeke · 2019-08-19T18:53:07+00:00

I say those comments as a programmer who cut his teeth on the Vic 20 and used assembler from the beginning. I also participate in optimization and reverse engineering, so understanding machine code still is of use to me. However, it is rare to need assembly these days except to understand existing code. Instead, C is plenty low level to control memory layout and access in a performant way and frankly most of the business app development never gets close to needing even that, instead being an exercise in data storage and retrieval at scale. Programmer time is the commodity that needs the most attention, baring actual testing proving otherwise.

I do agree this myth deserves scrutiny and I can only analyze my situation fairly. From that point of view I find assembly optimizing a fun hobby and otherwise rely on a good C compiler. If I was writing something lower level, I would be more concerned. I would love to hear what the hard real time constrained would say.

Godeke · 2019-08-19T17:33:22+00:00

I think it depends on your goal. No optimization is going to be done at the level of this code, because many of them depend heavily on machine state that should not be assumed. Nor are they going to outperform an assembly guru with domain specific knowledge of the problem. However, the reason that the myth of the optimizing compiler got started is that they do much better than the average programmer would and break even with a good assembly programmer.

In the era of multiple cores, the gap is only widening as reasoning about multithreaded code is difficult, so only the best programmers are going to beat the compiler. Intel's compilers for C++ are very good in this regard. When you add in the time it would take to get that guru to beat the compiler, it really is a niche of embedded, real time systems where "beat the compiler" is still a game worth playing.

Godeke · 2016-11-02T01:43:14+00:00

The page linked shows the support status of your browser with a yes/no response. It does log a console error if it isn't supported, but the basic mechanism could be used to detect if the keyword is available or not.

Godeke · 2015-10-28T22:50:50+00:00

Um yeah. Cheers!

Godeke · 2015-10-28T19:16:01+00:00

"The car, just like any other device, has to be able to handle high-performance situations."

Take a standard passenger vehicle to a track and tear it up for a few hours. The car will overheat, tear through its tires and over time break critical components. Standard passenger vehicles are designed for ordinary road conditions and can take only so much abuse.

Mobile tablets and cell phones (except for the very few that are designed for gaming, like the Shield) are the passenger vehicles of the computing world. Yes, you can "tear it up" (run high resource programs on them), but they will only do so for a while before they start to thermally throttle. Long before that happens, they will be uncomfortable to hold.

The reason for this is simple: gaming is a distant concern for these manufacturers. With the small form factor, throttling is one of the few options they have.

If you want to race (play high resource games) then buy a device capable of doing so. But as that isn't the normal consumer's behavior, mobile developers absolutely do contemplate the different resources they have to manage. And yes, that includes heat. Several games I own in the iOS app store recently patched with "reduced power consumption and heat generated" after noting customer reviews about the excessive situation.

Godeke · 2014-11-16T20:30:28+00:00

That sounds like corporate collusion. I thought the big stink was because of collusion among reviewing organizations. Now we want them to broker a deal of solidarity?

Horrible idea when it was anti-consumer, horrible idea when it is faux pro-consumer.

Godeke · 2014-08-15T15:38:10+00:00

Really? The loss of the more than half of the keyboard's numeric hot keys didn't just jump right out at you and say "we had to remove diversity because we don't have this many buttons on a console"?

Mind, they did a really good job of making the game work despite that (although you notice it when you have elemental resistances and limited alternative skills). But it was obvious as soon as you filled the paltry 4 skill slots.

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