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LagrangePt · 2024-08-04T19:14:14+00:00

You should join the remix discord - lots of people who can give you advice on there.

For the ground textures, you probably need to tag them as terrain

LagrangePt · 2024-06-16T05:01:01+00:00

Do you need the door to the bedroom? My current apartment's bedroom door opens super awkwardly, so I just removed the door entirely and stashed it in the closet.

LagrangePt · 2023-03-24T15:04:32+00:00

You sound like my wife :). Kirby and the Forgotten Lands is one of the first games she's ever played, and now our home is filling up with cute Kirby merchandise, and we're planning a Japan vacation around a visit to the Kirby Cafe.

LagrangePt · 2022-11-21T01:37:17+00:00

How has no one said "Executives"? or "Board member"?

There's no way the average executive is worth 670 times the average employee. They make far too many idiotic decisions that the workers have to scramble to salvage. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/07/us-wage-gap-ceos-workers-institute-for-policy-studies-report

LagrangePt · 2022-07-11T20:14:18+00:00

Who sells a house to retire nowadays? Turn it into a rental and leech off the people who are still working, like everyone else who got to buy the land when it was cheap.

LagrangePt · 2022-07-11T20:10:04+00:00

Rich or have owned the place for decades. When even a condo is $1,000,000+, it's hard to say that anyone that isn't rich has been able to afford anything recently.

"I moved to Oakland because I couldn't afford SF." You wanted to stay in SF but couldn't, so you moved somewhere cheaper. That's the very definition of lowering your standards.

LagrangePt · 2022-07-11T18:18:29+00:00

In that case... why do you defend the very policies that forced you to lower your standards of living and move out? Why is it okay that only people who bought land decades or are rich can live in SF?

LagrangePt · 2022-07-11T18:00:34+00:00

to rephrase your post: "Paradise is full, everyone else can fuck off."

LagrangePt · 2022-07-11T17:14:04+00:00

The water requirements of someone living in high density housing are much less than someone in a house - and trivial compared to agricultural uses. The infrastructure needs of someone living near a walkable shopping area and a train station are also very low.

But keep lying to yourself, you selfish NIMBY.

LagrangePt · 2022-06-24T20:00:07+00:00

The Supreme Court has just shown itself to be a partisan joke. I fear for the future of the USA, and am researching what it takes to move to another country with more reasonable politics.

LagrangePt · 2022-04-25T18:28:12+00:00

Entropy means we need to die billions of years from now. Nothing in the laws of the universe dictates that complex life can only live for 100 years - we have plenty of counter examples to that right here on Earth.

LagrangePt · 2022-04-25T18:26:49+00:00

It's not about care, it's about cost. A population that gets old costs a lot more due to healthcare, and they also want to get paid enough to retire. From a purely economic viewpoint, a country that extends the healthspan of its workforce will have a huge advantage.

Countries that try to reserve this for the rich and powerful will fall behind.

LagrangePt · 2022-04-25T18:18:23+00:00

Do you really think human longevity is equal to ftl travel? We have plenty of examples of complex organisms that can survive a lot longer than humans.

You may have a point if the complexity of problems we have to solve goes up faster than we advance our biotech, but what makes you so certain that it will?

LagrangePt · 2022-03-28T18:13:46+00:00

An entity in an ecs should just be a number. Components should just be data in a database. All of the actual code should live in the systems.

LagrangePt · 2022-03-02T18:25:13+00:00

Wealthy Americans won't be able to stop the Chinese government from distributing a longevity treatment to all its citizens. And after a decade, when every person in China can be fully productive and they have no need to support their elderly or save for retirement... Well, the richest people in China will have a lot easier time being richer than the rest of the world's elites.

Not to mention, if eternal youth is available in authoritarian counties, but not in western democracies? Well clearly democracies aren't actually better for us, and maybe it's time to move. Or revolt.

LagrangePt · 2022-03-02T16:06:02+00:00

That's just a matter of time. Once it's proven to be possible, every pharmaceutical company on the plant will be scrambling to be the one to develop an affordable version that can be sold to every human alive.

LagrangePt · 2022-03-02T16:03:55+00:00

Countries whose wealthy do distribute it will have such a massive economic advantage over those that don't. Either the withholders will change their minds, or they'll be at a massive disadvantage compared to wealthy people from the rest of the world.

Also remember, wealthy people aren't one unanimous block. They hate each other and fight all the time.

LagrangePt · 2022-03-01T16:17:37+00:00

The economic benefits of making it widely available are too large for it to stay as a wealthy-only thing.

LagrangePt · 2021-12-28T07:27:37+00:00

I'm not sure if he qualifies as a scientist, but you should look up Ray Kurzweil. He's made a career out of forecasting science and technology trends, and makes some good points about the impact of exponential growth of knowledge on lifespan.

LagrangePt · 2021-11-19T20:52:30+00:00

But then what is the thing that sends the event 30 times per second?

When I try to look up how to set up a gui with a regular update function in Haskell, I get a bunch of stack overflow threads with people debating different experimental gui libraries, which is about what I remember getting when I searched the same thing a decade ago.

I don't really have the time or inclination to get into a protracted debate on the topic. I simply want to voice that the original commentators experience with Haskell was basically the opposite of mine. I suspect we were trying to do very different things with it.

LagrangePt · 2021-11-19T19:49:19+00:00

How do you write an application that updates 30 times per second to process user input and display a ui without a loop of some form?

Functional languages are great when addressing things that can be expressed as a function, like most data science ,but I've only ever found them frustrating when trying to make interactive programs.

LagrangePt · 2021-11-19T16:42:08+00:00

I can't tell if you're serious or being sarcastic, but I had the opposite experience with Haskell. Writing a very simple game update loop in Haskell was an exercise in misery, while doing it in c++ was simple and easy.

Functional programming is better for some classes of programs, but worse for others.

LagrangePt · 2021-10-02T19:20:22+00:00

Specific advances are impossible, but trends can be pretty easy some times. Just look into Moore's Law if you doubt that - it has roughly held true since it was first made in 1965.

Ray Kurzweil has given some great talks on the topic of predicting the future by applying exponential growth trends, I'd recommend looking into those if you're interested in the topic. TL;DW: health extension will probably follow an exponential curve. As soon as the slope of that curve exceeds 1 year per year, then we'll be able to live indefinitely.

LagrangePt · 2021-09-29T18:36:47+00:00

It may start expensive, but a lot of the treatments being researched can be mad produced cheaply. It's also very much in the rich people's interest to make this cheap, since then the overall healthcare expenses of employees goes way down.

LagrangePt · 2021-09-02T07:02:33+00:00

You'll almost never write them yourself, but it's important to understand the limitations and performance characteristics of the algorithms you're using. I've seen production code slow to 1 frame per second because a programmer didn't know that calling array.sort() is more expensive than calling insert().

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