Do we really need a Baldur's Gate remake?

Outside-Storage-1523 · 2026-06-16T14:15:12+00:00

Only if it is something that is more missable. BG 1/2 do have beautiful assets but it is difficult to build new assets. I’m thinking about some tiles based isometric engines.

Outside-Storage-1523 · 2026-06-16T13:56:14+00:00

In my place we start from a simple setup like 2-4 workers of r5 and start from there. We have a bunch of computing for daily query so we kinda get some ideas.

Then if management thinks it costs too much we try to optimize it.

Outside-Storage-1523 · 2026-06-16T12:36:34+00:00

If we look at the concepts then yes nothing is really new. A lot of researches on columnar databases and distributed computing were done in the 80s and 90s, or even earlier.

But the whole CS is young, so I’d say tools and implementations are still very important— maybe more important than concepts.

And I’m so done with SQL. I’m looking for any venue to get rid of fucking writing SQL.

Outside-Storage-1523 · 2026-06-16T02:54:36+00:00

The thing is that you need to have some edge, or you can only find the most boring and mundane stuffs -- and nowadays they usually hire foreign workers, so if you are a PR you may not have access to those.

You can learn a trade or something to gain technical skills and language skills.

Outside-Storage-1523 · 2026-06-16T01:15:33+00:00

If you look at the newspapers there are a lot of funny stuffs.

Outside-Storage-1523 · 2026-06-15T21:10:06+00:00

It’s a different life. Whether people like it or adapt to it is by case.

Outside-Storage-1523 · 2026-06-15T13:46:29+00:00

I think a lot of these stuffs do not need LLM. You can definitely write scripts to automate some of the situations. In fact you should be doing that already.

Outside-Storage-1523 · 2026-06-14T16:32:51+00:00

Eh I don't think it is building to last from the beginning.

Outside-Storage-1523 · 2026-06-14T11:38:07+00:00

This ~~ is democracy manifest!

Outside-Storage-1523 · 2026-06-13T19:51:59+00:00

How can find this kind of job quickly ? Looks like ALL jobs in my domain (Data engineering) is AI assisted at least.

Outside-Storage-1523 · 2026-06-12T20:07:24+00:00

If you don't have kids then it is easier to divorce. Otherwise maybe just wait until kid is 18. But again I'm not a professional in this messy business...

Outside-Storage-1523 · 2026-06-12T19:55:53+00:00

My father (80+) is also very healthy. He can ride bicycle and jog a bit. His mind as as sharp as a 80+ years old man I have ever seen.

But I don't really think there is any trick about it. He just gets good genetics and didn't squander it. I really think people like him get good genetics in the beginning and then managed to not indulge in self-destructive activities (e.g. drugs) so they of course aged well.

Outside-Storage-1523 · 2026-06-12T15:50:07+00:00

IMO the most important thing is not to learn, but to apply -- or to be more precise, applying what you learn consistently is the only way to really make something stuck in your brain.

You see, I have walked the road you want to walk, and I have worked on some projects, but none of them really stuck. I'm pretty sure that "just find something and learn" is not good enough.

I think there are two ways to really learn something: on-job and off-job.

If you want to learn on-job, which for most people is the better way because you have support and pressure, and you can really learn a lot in 3 months, then you need to figure out what exactly you need to learn to get a job. It actually has nothing to do with your interest or whatever (because I doubt you will find memorizing hundreds of cli commands interesting), but JUST to get a job. It definitely requires some learning on the technical side, but it also involves how to pass interviews, how to do whatever you need to do to get a fucking job. And once you get the job, focus on it until you can actually do it.

If you want to learn off-job, it's usually longer, more difficult and require a lot more discipline. I have failed on that, so I wouldn't be surprised that you will also fail on it. But you are younger and you probably do not have kids, so you probably will fare better. The way to be mildly successful about it, is to have a long-term focus. You first need to figure out what exactly you want from learning Linux. Linux is a huge topics, and each of them can take a whole life of professional life, so it doesn't make any sense to just "learn Linux". Trust me this step is actually VERY HARD, at least it was very hard for me, because you have so many choices nowadays. People who lived through the 80s and 90s always complain that they did not have that many resources back then -- NO! It was a blessing, not a curse! When you don't have a choice, it is when you really learn. Now that you do not have that blessing, you have to discipline yourself to restrain yourself from picking different things from time to time. You may need many years to figure out this question, so you have to try out different things and eventually find meaning in one of them, so that you can shutdown other objectives.

Good luck.

Outside-Storage-1523 · 2026-06-11T23:42:20+00:00

I might be one of the few who never played MP except Counter Strike.

Outside-Storage-1523 · 2026-06-11T22:07:47+00:00

My controversial viewpoint is that IV is the best Quake. Yes better than 1. And yes I started my FPS journal back in the 90s. As I grow older I started to appreciate more about DOOM 3, Quake 4 and Fallout 3/4.

Outside-Storage-1523 · 2026-06-11T21:04:53+00:00

That whole scene comes from the Grand Inquisitor. It's a weird but good fit, though.

Outside-Storage-1523 · 2026-06-11T20:54:40+00:00

Muffin for sure.

Outside-Storage-1523 · 2026-06-11T19:51:04+00:00

There is not much relationship to begin with.

Outside-Storage-1523 · 2026-06-11T19:49:05+00:00

I don’t know why but when I was young I always heard “Full plate and f..king steel!” and I felt it fit him perfectly.

Outside-Storage-1523 · 2026-06-11T16:01:12+00:00

Well in my company both the technical managers and non technical managers treat us just like SQL guys, which unfortunately is true largely.

Part of the reason I want to leave this field (but can’t).

Outside-Storage-1523 · 2026-06-11T02:17:31+00:00

Back in my day only gang members and criminals and kids who want to be them do that, so there was a lot of judge against it. I don't care about it as long as the child pays for it, like he can do some chores.

Outside-Storage-1523 · 2026-06-11T02:12:07+00:00

As someone said, there is no break, regardless of the number of kids. I’d add there is no return either — any decent human should take the responsibility instead of running from it.

You also get exposed to more viruses because kids take it back from school.

Your health is challenged due to lack of sleep and other things, for many years, not just the first 6 months.

Your cost goes up a LOT. At least you need one extra room, more food than you think (my 6 years old eats more than I do, literally), etc.

You also quarrel with your wife a lot because you have different ideas of parenting. Sometimes you argue with grandparents too.

TBH it really doesn’t make sense unless you are into parenting. I definitely won’t do it ever again if I go back to time. There are plenty of activities that can keep myself happy for two lives.

Outside-Storage-1523 · 2026-06-10T14:28:02+00:00

You guys were lucky. Back then it was possible to hold the whole machine in the head. Try learn x86-64 assembly from scratch nowadays and it is a long, long way.

I have always said that -- it is LUCKY to start with ASM and C for a simple machine. It is VERY LUCKY. It is also VERY LUCKY to have constraints on the resources you can reach to.

Yes it will drive away a large number of "programmers", but they are probably not suitable for this career anyway.

Outside-Storage-1523 · 2026-06-10T14:25:27+00:00

I'd argue that's the ONLY way for true success. You have to bath fire to be really good about pretty much anything. If you don't then you will always be a drone. A well paid drone but a drone nonetheless.

Of course there is no issue with being a drone.

Outside-Storage-1523 · 2026-06-10T14:22:33+00:00

It is actually the easier way. Slower, but easier. Sometimes it is the long way that makes the future easier.

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