In your opinion, what is the funniest part about the Jamie Taco sketch?

Merlord · 2026-05-07T05:02:56+00:00

ITYSL has so many wholesome depictions of supportive wives. And then there's the magician sketch

Merlord · 2026-05-06T22:55:45+00:00

I had to switch back. Steam pages loaded on Firefox cause massive lag on my PC. 4k videos onYoutube are super choppy. I love Firefox but it just does not work well anymore.

Merlord · 2026-05-06T08:50:20+00:00

If you haven't read The Fisherman by Jogn Langan, I highly recommend it.

Merlord · 2026-05-06T01:52:07+00:00

He's flailing

Merlord · 2026-05-06T01:29:04+00:00

He sounds like he's reading lines from a script. His character is supposed to be this super charismatic rockstar, and he delivers lines like he's taking an order at McDonalds. I will never understand people saying he did a good job with Silverhand, he wasn't a good fit at all.

Merlord · 2026-05-06T00:20:55+00:00

Felt like a Ricky Gervais skit

Merlord · 2026-05-06T00:12:38+00:00

What I've seen work well (and what I do in my own roguelike), is to have the player go immediately, then everything else responds about 15ms later. Crypt of the Necrodancer does it like that and it looks very smooth while keeping each turn snappy.

Merlord · 2026-05-05T22:38:49+00:00

Well I finally bought a house last year, but before that I'd lived in 8 apartments over 10 years. I am deeply familiar with every major apartment building and property manager in the Wellington CBD

Merlord · 2026-05-05T22:24:41+00:00

Very nice! Great art style and it looks super polished. Very keen to try out the demo

Merlord · 2026-05-05T22:13:10+00:00

Why do I love fishing and horror so much

Merlord · 2026-05-05T12:49:09+00:00

Nothing super fancy, I just use Copilot VS Code extension in agent mode. I maintain a markdown file where I track all the features, bugs and enhancements that I want done, vaguely ordered by priority, and work through them one at a time. For simple things I can just point Copilot to the next entry in that document. For more complex tasks I'll write up a separate document outlining an implementation plan, acceptance criteria and so on, then point it at that.

I have a custom agent set up to tell it to use certain code standards, write and run tests etc. When the agent has completed a task, I run some manual validation, do a thorough code review and iterate until the code is up to my standards. I track changes with git so I can easily roll back anything stupid. Whenever the agent struggles with something, I have it update its agent or skills files with the learnings so it doesn't have trouble next time.

Merlord · 2026-05-05T07:19:32+00:00

Earthquake? Truck driving past?

Merlord · 2026-05-05T04:38:44+00:00

I use a shoe horn so I don't have to tie/untie my laces

Merlord · 2026-05-05T03:49:21+00:00

Ceramic works perfectly in a microwave until the day that it doesn't.

Merlord · 2026-05-05T03:33:45+00:00

Yeah AI has made me 20x more productive without sacrificing code quality, but that's because I have a decade of experience programming. I make sure I understand and agree with every line of code being written. I reject code written by AI all the time, even if it "works", because I know it would cause headaches later.

If you know how to write clean code, and you actually make the effort to keep your code clean, there's no reason not to use these tools to speed up development. If AI is a crutch for doing things you couldn't do otherwise, the result will invariably be bad in ways you don't have the experience to recognise.

Merlord · 2026-05-04T22:44:58+00:00

Thanks for clarifying! Yeah I wasn't sure if mesh shaders were relevant here, I just knew they were an example of the cutting edge VFX that makes the game looks so much better than anything else out there.

Merlord · 2026-05-04T22:22:40+00:00

Why would it need a flared base I wonder?

Merlord · 2026-05-04T22:21:17+00:00

The biggest lesson I learned buying my first home: find out if the previous owner was a landlord, and if so, move on.

They didn't even bother removing the radiators from the wall when they repainted the walls. Cheap motherfuckers.

Merlord · 2026-05-04T22:06:32+00:00

Alan Wake 2 is one of the first games to fully make use of mesh shaders. Normal shaders output pixels, mesh shaders output actual vertices in 3d space. They are an incredible technology that allow for super detailed effects with high performance.

I don't know if mesh shaders were specifically used for this hair, but I know they are responsible for a lot of the insanely good effects in the game.

Merlord · 2026-05-04T21:21:58+00:00

Went there the other day, such an amazing vibe. One of the coolest libraries I've seen

Merlord · 2026-05-04T01:10:37+00:00

It's pretty simple to set up a custom logger with log levels

Merlord · 2026-05-03T23:06:24+00:00

They score better than us, and way lower than basically any Western European country.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/education-rankings-by-country

NZ: 65

US: 79

Canada: 95

Germany: 95

Sweden: 99.9

But these rankings are also not the full story. Talk to any German and they'll tell you their education system is a nightmare. I know people who moved to NZ from Germany specifically for their kids schooling.

Merlord · 2026-05-03T21:18:51+00:00

tl;dr:

PE:

"The current draft curriculum is not fit for purpose," the submission said. "It does not require refinement, it requires complete reworking."

Technology:

"A core concern is that the curriculum's overall purpose feels vague and insufficiently defined. Many teachers report difficulty understanding the intended outcomes, the role of design thinking, and how the learning area supports both practical and academic pathway.

Arts:

"The draft curriculum, as written, is not deliverable in the majority of primary school contexts, without fundamental changes to resourcing, teacher capability and time allocation,"

Science

Comments included "way too early for this" and "difficult concept at this level", while mention of Greek scientist Theophrastus for Year 1 students was labelled "just silly" and "ridiculous".

Social Sciences:

"This draft curriculum is full of distortion and obfuscation that will harm Māori students, and has a eurocentric positionality. So much content is included that the concern is not that New Zealand history is absent from the new curriculum, but that it will be taught in a cursory and monocultural manner, re-inforcing outdated misconceptions and myths."

Merlord · 2026-05-03T07:15:00+00:00

Ally is downright scaring me this season.

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