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Had an 15" XPS 9550 a few years back. With standard everyday use I needed 3 trackpad replacements in 12 months. To Dell's credit their support and onsite repair was excellent.

"Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it."

Related; Kurzgesagt recently released a nice animation demonstrating where Earth "is" once you consider orbital dynamics

https://youtu.be/Pj-h6MEgE7I

This is a great usecase for diff tracking.

1) Store all actions by a user as as an array of add/remove commands (where a change is remove+add).

2) Whenever you need to re-render take the cached version from the last render and perform the new add/remove commands that happened since the last render.

3) Cache the result for the next render and repeat.

I initially thought the same, but using even the current gen avatars for multiplayer on the Quest 2 feels great and is surprisingly convincing. The speech to mouth movement detection looks natural and combined with the body language being accurately represented with reverse kinematics I felt like I was colocating very realistically.

Looks like we got the entire Firefox userbase in this thread.

I see this more in the same vein as Slenderman or The Backrooms - no one is taking this seriously, it's just the right mix of creepy and expansive that makes it perfect for the internet to iterate on.

I'd really like to hear more from Svelte devs about what non-happy paths look like. I specialise in React.js and there are any number of escape hatches to make sure you can get something working just the way you want. What I fear about Svelte is getting to 95% complete and finding the one obscure thing a stakeholder will not budge on is not possible.

This is like when I need to get ready in a hurry I count the seconds and it's surprising how quick you end up moving :)

Yep this is it. If you nest IDs you just end up burdening all consumers with having to mimic your hierarchical structure when they don't need to.

Pretty much the definition of uncanny valley.

Thank them for their request, say you're busy, never implement it.

Yep, this is the big one! Bonus round:

The "pictures" you're allowed to use (sprites that aren't the map, objects or system UI), must be explicitly set so if you want to render an integer as a picture you need 10 if statements per digit to select the right image. This has been resolved in re-release on Steam/etc, and also originally could be worked around using Cherry's PicPointer patch (which my project would've been impossible without).

Probably not :)

The funny thing is that I implemented all the mechanics but burnt out on the pixel art, and I can't see myself wanting to grind that out. The game has 700+ scenes!

The project was started around 2008 iirc! XP and VX were out at the time, but the larger resolution and mapping limitations were dealbreakers for me. They've since fixed these issues in the more recent engines so I wouldn't choose that again.

I say this as probably one of the most skilled rm2k3 devs (credentials: rpgmaker.net/games/5794/), don't develop using this generation anymore.

I think this project is neat from a preservation perspective, but there are so many limitations to its target engine that you will quickly bump into if you try to make anything that even approaches the quality of a real SNES RPG.

You're much better off using one of the later gen engines that uses JavaScript (probably whatever the very latest is).

Yep. Even in a language like JavaScript it'll come up for handling binary data blobs/streams.

Really healthy mindset imo, am happy for you :)

I could see this maybe breaking assumptions in an onTransitionEnd callback, but if it's mostly working for you then good for you :)

What solved it for me was trying meditation, just of my own accord. I wasn't even trying to sleep, but nearly blacked out 3 times in 20 minutes just clearing my mind and focusing on my breathing in a dark room. After that I just do the same thing in bed and it works a treat. Before I figured this out it felt like I forgot how to sleep.

This doesn't really prove anything; there's many weights that go into page rank that will overpower a hypothetical weight for GA, especially for popular sites like these.

This is what really struck me when I tried some game dev in my free time. All that experience and intuition that makes me feel smart was missing. I imagine the feeling is significantly more intense when you're literally studying the unknown.

This. At my current company any blockers that need more than a minute discussion inline get moved to an optional "parking lot" session at the end of standup. The point of this isn't to deepdive but just give a people a bit more support by ensuring there's a plan in place to either solve or further discuss the issue. I've found this really useful, but you need some discipline to not deepdive the parking lot - although sometimes if your team is desperately in need of more alignment, just do it. People not process, and all that :)

100% this, my statement was short therefore very incomplete :)

You know what makes a senior dev? They've already made all possible mistakes and learned from them. You're on the right path.

A common attack is to impersonate a trusted institution and ask for confirmation via an SMS code. The attacker is going through the lost your password recovery flow for 2FA, but pretends it's just for confirmation of identity. If they're smart they can even perform the attack twice and change the 2FA number for your account. If the code was accompanied by an explanation of the intent it would mitigate the attack, that's why.

People's willingness to engage in risky behaviour tends to increase with how safe they think they are. So basically they're staying out in the sun for longer, but either not using or reapplying enough sunscreen.

100% the bane of my trying to use Google for Mozilla docs.

No one here is disputing the concept, just the execution. You know, the part that actually matters.

Fork, aka the footgun git UI that repeatedly causes me to lose productive time to help junior devs unmangle their local repos.

I usually recommend SourceTree to them, not because it's particularly amazing, but it does enough while not breaking repos (as often).