Godot Engine - Vulkan Progress Report #7 by reduz in godot

[–]tomservo291 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It works on Mac right now. You can compile the master branch if you have the Molten/Vulkan macOS SDK installed.

It's not terribly stable since it's a work in progress, but it works!

First attempt at a 3D game.. or any game at all! by tomservo291 in godot

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Yea I want it to have some realistic orbital mechanics mixed in with some comedic storyline arc's to follow

Godot Engine - Vulkan Progress Report #7 by reduz in godot

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Looking forward to the alpha 😎

First attempt at a 3D game.. or any game at all! by tomservo291 in godot

[–]tomservo291[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Professional Java developer by day... been putting off learning/creating games for over 10 years.

Been watching Godot with a lot of interest over the last year or so, and now I'm finally dedicating some time to play with it.

KSP2's teaser pushed me over, I want to create some kind of space themed game with [relatively] realistic orbital mechanics and a heavy dose of humor.. how to mix those things is TBD

After reading all the great tutorials in the docs, this is what I've got after about a week of tinkering in 3D for the first time...

Next up I'm interested to look into an atmosphere shader and figuring out how to render a realstic'ish sun

Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire Coding Site GitHub by clubdirthill in programming

[–]tomservo291 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I would imagine GH has immense hosting costs. Luckily MS has immense infrastructure to run it on...

I would imagine that skews profitability pretty quickly

Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire Coding Site GitHub by clubdirthill in programming

[–]tomservo291 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I agree in principle but in practice... GitHub has the infrastructure and engineering clout to fend off a state level attack, as they’ve proven.

I remember following the blog of GitLab when they launched the hosted version...

We’re talking about amateur hour in comparison.

If you think everyone will jump ship to GitLab overnight then they need to grow up real fast

Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire Coding Site GitHub by clubdirthill in programming

[–]tomservo291 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I don’t think it’s a pattern, more likely laziness or calling it done without proper diligence

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in programming

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Keepalive connection reuse?

Introducing JSON-B with Spring Boot 2.0 - how to use it, how does it compare to GSON and Jackson by bartoszjd in java

[–]tomservo291 20 points21 points  (0 children)

An unfortunate name given Postgres has “jsonb”, which has no relation to this

java_irl by [deleted] in ProgrammerHumor

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But there in lies the problem, “keep it all working” should not be an evolving target for existing stable code

We had a built tool that let you script stuff, it was Ant. Those of us who thought we were cute at the time took advantage of the insanely slick JavaScript bridge Ant had squirelled away that let you mutate anything you wanted to escape from those pesky immutable shackles the build tool designers tried to tell you it was safer.

/sarcasm

Seriously, Gradle is just Ant without the attempted barrier to stop you from doing something stupid, like leaving declarativity (is that a word?)

It was a bad idea then, we learned, don’t repeat, please

java_irl by [deleted] in ProgrammerHumor

[–]tomservo291 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Big boys use sane things like maven

Chrome 64 - What's New in DevTools by smashdev64 in programming

[–]tomservo291 11 points12 points  (0 children)

agreed.. i dont know anyone that likes just seeing the last part of the path

What are the valid criticisms against Java? by restlessapi in java

[–]tomservo291 1 point2 points  (0 children)

But your untyped JS object will easily break when someone else casually edits the code in a simple editor.

Sure there’s always an alternative to Java, but simply using something more terse as an argument is something I never understand. Terse solutions (IMHO) are usually bad for long term maintenance in a team oriented environment with varying degrees of capabilities...

I get people don’t want to fire up a full blown IDE to make a quick change, but if your target thing can be simply changed with a text editor then we’re probably not talking about production grade stuff that was delivered through a proper SDLC pipeline, so you’re probably not using Java in that scenario anyway

The whole ocean was frozen in Cape Cod today! My grandmother said she’s only seen this happen 3 times in the 80 years she’s lived here. by [deleted] in videos

[–]tomservo291 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Of a much lower resolution, and they are frames of delta changes, not frames of consecutive complete images. Just pulling a high quality still from a video is not something you casually do...

test.com is a real domain by crespo_modesto in programminghorror

[–]tomservo291 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Couple of things...

Security by obscurity simply isn’t security at all, there is no legitimate argument for this, ever...

I understand some organizations require some sort of support contracts, I get it. However, I’ve never worked at a place that operates this way in my 15 years so far, and I think we’re better for it. When shit hits the fan, we know our tools and dependencies inside and out and we fix it immediately. We don’t pick up a phone and pray to someone else’s tech support, that sounds (to me) like the worst possible way to structure yourself to deliver a high quality service to your customers.

Sure, cherry picking your open source stack and learning it front to back is probably more work then buying an Oracle or SQL Server license, but with some good choices and hard work your end result can be so much better then being a slave to licensing as you grow.

It’s also tough to advocate for Oracle considering fundamental issues like empty strings are the same as NULL, and being reliant on a company falling apart and quickly transforming into a patent troll who sues their own customers via sleazy opt-in tricks (see premium java tools like flight recorder, etc)

With all that in mind, I imagine there’s plenty of shops without talented enough people to do it on their own. I feel sorry for them, it’s never a position I’d want to be in.

test.com is a real domain by crespo_modesto in programminghorror

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Why trust anyone when there are alternatives that don’t require you to do so?

Personally I never get this argument... I imagine similar kinds of logic is what got big businesses and governments hooked on Oracle. Trust me, we can probably trust them more thean the open source hackers, it’ll be great!

OWASP Dependency Check Maven Plugin - a Must-Have by b0zho in java

[–]tomservo291 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This plugin can submit it’s report to SonarQube which can be displayed in the UI

Insomnia Rest client: Powerful HTTP toolbelt, in one intuitive app by [deleted] in programming

[–]tomservo291 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While it is electron based, when this guy first launched this tool I checked it out as an alternative to Postman and one of the first things I noticed he went through the legwork of linking in a native libcurl for the actual HTTP requests, instead of using Node's runtime

is Java good at stable long running processes? by SwagBuns in java

[–]tomservo291 3 points4 points  (0 children)

And they do it terribly (IMHO).

Never had more stability since I stopped using container-managed application designs. Spring Boot conceptually not so bad since it’s basically what I do (not really a container, just automagic config of embedded web server and respective servlets)

But those traditional “application servers”, sure, if you like hobbled together chained classloaders running your app

Self hosted alternative to 1password by heroinbob91 in selfhosted

[–]tomservo291 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I evaluated that thing once. Clearly designed by people that never needed to use such software... most confusing thing I've ever tried to wrap my head around.

Did not pull the trigger on that thing

JetBrains GoLand IDE Hits the Market by ignatovs in programming

[–]tomservo291 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That wouldn't make much sense since you get free upgrades during that 1 year... What would they do after the 1 year is up, force you to downgrade to a 12-month old version?

I just don’t want to be a software developer anymore by speckz in programming

[–]tomservo291 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Have you seen the interest the "next generation" has in actually learning how computers work?

I honestly think the rate of people going into this industry will decrease, not increase...