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hackers.town: 2024-07-23 Tue 08:54
#Stardeus dev started talking about 0.11 pretty much the minute he pushed out 0.10, so I’ve been holding off — for a while!
But now it’s out I can play again.
Stardeus Bioverse Update - YouTube
for those who prefer reading:
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1380910/view/4217134728153497436
hackers.town: 2024-07-23 Tue 09:02
https://hackers.town/users/drwho/statuses/112836636773873365
hackers.town: 2024-07-23 Tue 09:52
A lot of times studying is just learning names for things I already knew.
Which honestly is a nice feeling.
hackers.town: 2024-07-23 Tue 10:37
But kinda knowing the subject means when my studying hits a bit that doesn’t sound right, I get suspicious of the bits that did sound right.
hackers.town: 2024-07-23 Tue 10:46
@ovid hey you watch your mouth I’m now in one of the states where I’d have to see somebody driving down the road, rolling coal with a codpiece strapped to the front of their spotless F150
hackers.town: 2024-07-23 Tue 11:06
@ovid No I think the Teslas are more around Phoenix.
hackers.town: 2024-07-23 Tue 11:30
well almost interview time
should set thinks up
maybe think about pants?
nah
hackers.town: 2024-07-23 Tue 11:46
no but for reals it’s currently a mild 96F outside which still means my situationally appropriate, event-driven wardrobe means I look nice for the interview from about 15 minutes before to about 20 seconds after.
hackers.town: 2024-07-23 Tue 11:56
@bmac Yep and that’s why I spend a solid five minutes beforehand making sure the camera’s pointed only where it needs to be.
hackers.town: 2024-07-23 Tue 13:14
Done!
(unceremoniously strips off nice shirt, with the pit stains he’s been hiding off camera for 45 minutes of the last hour)
hackers.town: 2024-07-23 Tue 14:18
@mhoye “the experts agree”
hackers.town: 2024-07-23 Tue 14:21
@mhoye it is now
hackers.town: 2024-07-23 Tue 14:49
@IamMrsGeek see at least you appreciate my magic
hackers.town: 2024-07-23 Tue 16:31
ah yes the “check email every five minutes even though you already reminded yourself it’s past office hours in their time zone” stage of the interview pipeline
hackers.town: 2024-07-23 Tue 16:41
@lmorchard you’d think Apple would understand the inherent hostility of proper punctuation in modern communication
hackers.town: 2024-07-23 Tue 19:30
@blogdiva @farah @noondlyt@mastodon.social I brag about how my family’s been freaks, weirdos, petty criminals, and artists for generations, I guess it only makes sense that some families have “fascist” as their cross-generational tradition.
(sigh)
hackers.town: 2024-07-23 Tue 21:19
@genehack fair point.
hackers.town: 2024-07-23 Tue 22:42
Initial version of my Go learning project used too many pointers.
Curious how the code would look and run with fewer pointers, so I’ve been cleaning that up in a branch.
Still got a ways to go, but it looks — well, it’s Go. It looks a different kind of clunky than it did before. But it is more obvious what’s going on.
Fewer pointers means trusting the compiler more. Turns out this is a good idea. Execution time went from ~1.75s to ~1.25s on Linux.