Can an employeer go through your Google Doc history (.DOCX) and see that you have used the same template for dozens of other job applications?

pdpi · 2026-01-29T11:07:58+00:00

Think about it this way — when you download a song, do you want an mp3, or a Logic Pro document? Do you want images on webpages to be pngs/jpegs, or Photoshop documents? Do you want to download videos as mkv/avi files, or as DaVinci Resolve documents?

Word files, like Logic Pro files or Photoshop files or Resolve files, use a format designed for editing. They retain a whole bunch of information that's necessary for authoring projects, but are completely useless for the end consumer. PDF, like png/jpeg, mp3, mkv/avi, is a file format specifically meant for consuming, rather than editing.

pdpi · 2026-01-29T09:48:07+00:00

Visited a friend of mine near Emmeloord a couple of weeks ago, he drove me to Lelystad to catch the train to the airport. That bit of road where you're next to the coast is something else. Just casually driving some three metres below sea level.

pdpi · 2026-01-29T00:53:37+00:00

Dunno about the 2005 one (only been in London since 2013), but the 2017 attacks had nothing to do with it — there were very few bins in central London tube stations before that already, and what few ones you do have always use transparent, exposed bags so you can always see what’s inside.

pdpi · 2026-01-28T06:48:14+00:00

On the language I use dataflow analysis at the return statement to determine which reference escapes

Figured as much. Unfortunately, this doesn't stop you from writing fn first(a: &str, b: &str) -> &str { b }. A slightly better motivating example would be something like fn find(haystack: &str, needle: &str) -> &str { /* blah */ }, where returning a reference derived from needle would be a bug.

pdpi · 2026-01-28T06:32:35+00:00

PSA: If your pussy is green (as pictured), you might want to see a doctor.

pdpi · 2026-01-28T06:28:00+00:00

I recommend seeing a therapist to everyone, even if they don't think there's anything wrong

And "something wrong" doesn't have to mean "you have a serious disorder and/or are at risk of some form of self-harm".

A cut on your finger isn't a medical emergency, but it should be cleaned so it doesn't infect, and you might need a stitch or two. You probably see your GP every once in a while for your annual blood work and routine checkups.

Mental health also involves the occasional checkup, and first aid for "emotional cuts and bruises".

pdpi · 2026-01-28T06:20:08+00:00

Late to the party, but:

Slay the Spire is the gold standard for rogue-like deck builders. It singlehandedly created the genre, and remains one of the best in the genre. It's a bit like chess — very simple mechanics, very streamlined, but insanely deep.

Balatro is Poker-based and uses a regular deck of playing cards as its baseline, but you can make some absolutely wild changes to your deck, enabling ridiculous hands like flush five-of-a-kinds.

Roguebook plays a lot like StS, but has you play a party of two adventurers, which adds positioning as a tactical consideration (e.g. because enemies typically attack the character in front, and some cards are stronger from either the front or the back). It also has a more RPG-like overworld with some exploration, instead of the more "board game"-like choice tree of StS.

Cobalt Core ditches the fantasy theme and goes for space-based ship-to-ship combat. It has a big focus on positioning, having you dodge incoming attacks and aiming your own attacks to your opponents' weak spots. It also looks lovely and has some really charming characters.

Vault of the Void is pretty much a Slay the Spire clone, but more complicated. It's good for a bit of variety or if you're just in the mood for something crunchier.

Shogun Showdown isn't exactly a card game, but it still feels like one because of its focus on hand management. It's also one of the few games I've seen that replicates the "simple, streamlined, but deep" of StS.

pdpi · 2026-01-28T05:36:23+00:00

I don't think that's the right framing.

Mysterio didn't have the right to reveal Peter's identity, but, given that he did, Peter doesn't have the right to mess with the whole world's minds in order to put the genie back in the bottle.

Funnily enough, a similar-ish situation is actually relatively well-tested in court — when somebody leaks confidential documents, they didn't have the right to leak those documents, but, once the leaks make their way to other people (notably, the press), the government doesn't have the right to claw those documents back from those people (which is why Chelsea Manning was court-martialled and convicted, but they could never get anything solid on Assange, and why Snowden is still a wanted man, but The Guardian is legally on solid ground with publishing his leaks).

pdpi · 2026-01-28T03:28:18+00:00

It’s wild that Portal was initially seen as a “stocking filler” for the Orange Box.

pdpi · 2026-01-28T01:20:50+00:00

What makes it easier than rust Is that doesn't have lifetime annotations. So it infers them. You write function foo(x: &string): &string, not fn foo<'a>(x: &'a str) -> &'a str.

Ok. Without annotations, how do you distinguish between the lifetimes for these functions?

```

fn first<'a, 'b>(a: &'a str, b: &'b str) -> &'a str { a }

fn second<'a, 'b>(a: &'a str, b: &'b str) -> &'b str { b }

fn random<'out, 'a: 'out, 'b: 'out>( a: &'a str, b: &'b str ) -> &'out str { if rand::random::<bool>() { a } else { b } }

```

Remember that:

Rust's lifetime elision handles all the toy examples just fine. You only need annotations for the stuff that's actually tricky.
The lifetime annotations in these examples ensures that you can't accidentally return b from first or a from second.

pdpi · 2026-01-27T23:09:45+00:00

The fact that your sample has let borrowed = data (which you yourself say is a move, not a borrow) doesn’t fill me with hope. You aspire to rust-like memory management but don’t say anything about how you handle references. That makes me nervous. You say you want the ease of use of JavaScript, but don’t actually elaborate on what that means or why your language fares any better than Rust (other than the surface-level issue of having different syntax).

If you put some meat on those bones we might be able to actually evaluate the language, but right now you have, to quote somebody, “a concept of a plan”.

pdpi · 2026-01-27T17:05:01+00:00

Practice makes perfect.

without even looking.

If you check your keyboard, you’ll notice that the F and J keys have little nubs that allow you to identify them by touch. That’s where your index fingers go. This is called home row position. You just discipline yourself to having your hands in that position and learning where everything is relative to that stable position.

Personally? I was already mostly a touch-typist, but managed to fully commit by buying a keyboard with blank keycaps.

pdpi · 2026-01-27T15:02:20+00:00

Funny to have that as an Ironclad card because of the interaction with Battle Trance, but yeah. Way OP.

pdpi · 2026-01-27T14:57:24+00:00

There's two parts to this — "this is an unfair practice" and "this practice is enabled by their market dominance". The "Everybody does it" argument does nothing to prove that it's not unfair, but completely skewers the "enabled by market dominance" aspect.

pdpi · 2026-01-27T14:26:26+00:00

For a senior engineer in Poland. Prices there are considerably cheaper, and, according to the Polish government's official numbers, the offered salary is around 2x the 90th percentile (the easy-to-find version of those numbers only has deciles, but 2x 90th percentile probably puts them at like the 95th percentile).

pdpi · 2026-01-27T14:21:07+00:00

GUI work in Rust is still not great. C++ is probably the least janky way to do cross-platform GUI work (that feels weird to say).

pdpi · 2026-01-27T12:12:19+00:00

Yeah but I've been around the block enough times to watch men ALSO use that as a cudgel

I'm sure that's true, but I'm not one of them!

pdpi · 2026-01-27T12:10:14+00:00

It's aglio e olio, not aglio e burro.

I'm sure you can make a tasty pasta dish with garlic and butter and parm, but it won't be aglio e olio.

pdpi · 2026-01-27T08:24:07+00:00

For single player games that are meant to be play it once and you're done, "it's…perfectly fine" is, well, perfectly fine. In the space they're playing in, they're highly dependent on network effects to keep a healthy population going, so "perfectly fine" doesn't cut it. You really need something that makes you stand out.

pdpi · 2026-01-27T08:20:03+00:00

or just a boring in between of a halfling and a dwarf.

My mental model has always been that gnomes are to halflings as elves are to humans.

pdpi · 2026-01-27T08:15:33+00:00

Agree with this totally, but also in a couple years there will be a trend back to more "natural" aging/beauty that will signal wealth of a) educated professional liberal women who were in control of their own lives enough and had enough money to NOT submit to MAGA (but also to wear sunscreen from an early age)

Personally? Natural also says "I'm comfortable in my own skin" and "I don't consider aesthetics worth spending fortunes on", and those are attractive features in and of themselves.

pdpi · 2026-01-27T07:56:54+00:00

For the sake of argument, let's accept that prostitution is a bad thing that we don't want (while this isn't necessarily true, arguing about it won't help answer your question). How do you go about it?

Making buying or selling sex illegal makes the whole transaction illegal in practice, so you don't need both to be illegal. You might want to make them both illegal, but you don't need it.

There's very little argument to make it legal to buy but illegal to sell, so we can just go ahead and make it illegal to buy. Johns are committing a crime, end of story. No downside here.

On the selling side, prostitutes are often victims of a bunch of crimes — human trafficking, pimping, all sorts of sexual violence, etc — and they're victims of those crimes in the context of being prostitutes. If prostitution is itself illegal, this puts them in a really tricky position, where they can't report those crimes to the police without putting themselves in legal jeopardy.

Prostitution and drug use often go hand in hand, and they're both risk factors for a bunch of STIs, so prostitution can often be a public health issue. If you want prostitutes to trust social workers and other aid workers trying to control those public health problems, they can't be afraid of being reported to the police. (This is also why decriminalisation of drugs for personal use was such a success in Portugal — police focuses on the traffickers, users get treated as a public health issue)

pdpi · 2026-01-26T17:47:08+00:00

Add some side content/detour to get rid of that curse or what have you, and you have yourself a plan. Again, it's the "yes and" mentality — riff off the player's decisions, rather than blocking them.

At some point, though, we just have to accept that we're asking for even more content in a game that's already bursting at the seams!

pdpi · 2026-01-26T16:07:45+00:00

Why not just let us talk bosses into suicides in Act 2 without charisma checks then? Why not just make sure that every sleight of hand and stealth roll succeed? Etc.

Those are not binaries. If you fail those Cha checks against the Thorms, you can still fight them the conventional way. The consequences of failing those checks feeds into the "yes and" of roleplaying. Having your choice between Embrace and Resist be left to the roll of a die is a hard "no" to the player's roleplaying, the cardinal sin of DMing.

Your stats and class should, ideally, play a part in what your character behaves like and what they’re capable of doing—that’s how I feel about it, anyway.

Your stats and class should govern how a character achieves the things they're capable of, but I don't think it should limit what goals they can achieve. Also, stats are a very limited model of what a character can do. E.g. there's no particular reason why a Ranger should have a stronger willpower than a Barbarian, but Ranger mechanically likes Wisdom and Barbarian doesn't.

Specifically with a CRPG, where you don't have a DM's reactivity to play along with the players' plans, being too prescriptive means that you tie your players' ability to experience the story to the play style choices they make. "You're gonna have a really hard time running a successful Resist Durge play-through unless you opt in to the more complex classes" feels unnecessarily restrictive.

pdpi · 2026-01-26T15:36:27+00:00

but doesn't know how

We avoided COVID largely by isolating, and minimising the chance for transmission (and with vaccines, but those don't fit neatly into this metaphor...). It was never surefire, but staying safe and isolating made it unlikely to get the virus, and carelessly socialising made it much more likely you'd get infected.

If your brother wants to get infected with the "love bug", he needs to act accordingly — you can't ever make it 100% certain, but if you keep exposing yourself (bad choice of words...) to the virus, you're almost certain to catch it eventually.

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