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Contains secret code?

Wow, that's offensive, especially the last part. Good job!

The last developed in Assembly, but as he admits, not the last successful bedroom coder game.

There are still a few successful solo developer or small team games even today. Manor Lords, Tiny Glade and Townscaper come to mind. But certainly fewer than 30-40 years ago.

I understand that concern. Ideally, internal politics should remain internal, without outside interference.

But when it gets to a point where a country's administration (the long term one, not the 4 year one) doesn't trust its citizens to make the correct and informed choice and be loyal to their own country and interests and actively tries to meddle with the results, then the name is all that's left of that democracy.

Might as well start putting "People's" or "Democratic" before that country's name. Like in DPRK or PRC. At least they're being honest about it.

I am reminded of the commotion over this way back in 2016:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_20...

They said Trump won with Russia's help.

I wonder, are voters so easily manipulated that some other (hostile) country can make them vote like sheep?

And should people in the state administration (who are appointed, not elected) have the power to cancel valid election results because of suspected foreign interference?

What if they make a mistake? Will they ever be held responsible for it?

Thank you, it worked for me!

I saw the building steps in the description, but missed the link in the About section.

Hmm, since it runs in the browser, I wonder why they didn't put it on github pages (github.io)?

Or to put it differently, if I need to compile it first, what is the advantage over the desktop version?

Thanks!

I wish you would have given some concrete examples as I was curious what experiments are possible with your code in OpenTTD.

There was only one I could find: "exploring the performance of trAIns". I looked at the "trAIns" link and cannot understand what it does, other than being GPL licensed.

It's all very cryptic, without any explanations. To me that stands for "if you don't know already, you need not apply". Too bad.

Hmm, if anyone wants to play them or add to the collection, buying them from GOG instead of Blizzard should be a pretty easy decision.

I think he has been open and honest about his journey. It's much better to look at these articles for inspiration and to know that if others have done it, than so can you, if you want it bad enough. Or at least more than your present situation.

We're all different and each must find their own way. I'm pretty sure it wouldn't help it he would spill out all the details for you, because what works for others will not work for you and vice versa.

To complete the thought, when I saw your art, I was reminded of these shaders that I came across:

https://www.shadertoy.com/view/wljfDw

https://www.shadertoy.com/view/Xs2GDd

https://www.shadertoy.com/view/XccXzr

https://www.shadertoy.com/view/dlBBzc

https://www.shadertoy.com/view/WdlSRX

Not quite on the same level, but I think the essence comes through.

Anyway, I just finished looking at all your works on display this morning. Such beautiful arrangements of patterns and colors.

Thank you for posting, I'm in awe!

Wow, some of them look very artistic, I think they would look quite at home on shadertoy too.

Sounds like perfect advice for maximum intensity training, but did he ever manage to write a good song that people appreciate?

I'm not at all convinced that this is all there is to it, or that a 5 year boot-camp results in greatness.

I love this, thank you for sharing your story, and congratulations on achieving your dream at 31!

Coca-Cola has the superior brand, but I grew up drinking Pepsi for the most part, so that might be a factor. Coke tastes good, but it's not the same, it just doesn't satisfy.

I'm quite sure I'd feel the same way on blind tests and I was assuming that most people have this keen sense when it comes to their favorite drink.

> It's a shared fiction that becomes real because we share it.

It's called the network effect, I believe.

I was following along nicely until I hit this line:

> This is despite the fact that they are identical in both taste and colour.

The only way I could ever mistake Coca-Cola for Pepsi is if I were to completely lose my sense of taste. I'm quite surprised to encounter someone who considers them identical or interchangeable.

He's right, though, that I could change the supplier for airlines, browsers (or ChatGPT) and my world wouldn't be all that different. It would taste the same.

Update: They finally fixed it on the latest patch (13th of November).

Thank you GOG!

No. Just a programmer. Sorry to disappoint!

The world is like a fruit that can be eaten over and over ad infinitum.

Though some people want to save it.

I prefer eating.

IIRC (this was a while ago), it saves a key into the Windows registry. But somehow, it overwrites it the next time I launch or quit the game, so I can skip the intro after I modify the key, but then it reverts.

I haven't had the patience to debug it and see exactly when it changes the value.

Hmm, this is kind of off-topic, but I'm unable to skip the intro on the HoMM3 I own on GOG. Not that I play HoMM3 often, but I'm still kind of pissed off because they won't fix that.

Glad to see 64 bit wasm is beginning to take shape. I'm wondering how many years it will take until all major browsers support it.

20 years is a long time, but except for a few years when I used Chrome, I'm still using Firefox today.

I think that's called a wizard. Staff engineers are not allowed to cast spells themselves, they just help keep the wizard's staff in good order and troubleshoot technical issues.

My take from this article: so basically, what separates a staff engineer from a freelancer or company owner is mainly uncertainty or risk adversity.

They must already have everything else it takes to succeed, since it's a requirement for the job. But the vision and drive to go in for themselves is not a requirement and if they don't have it, they will become a valued staff engineer.

I'm not sure I buy it, but that's how it comes across, since a staff engineer is supposed to be blessed with all these wonderful talents.

Will Google turn into a university next?

Because this sounds to me a bit like how things work in academia. I think the push there is to publish, but the essence is that, for every decision, committees rule.

It's pretty easy to make that mistake. Tbh, can you really say you understand something until you've built it yourself?

I think LLMs are still pretty much "magic" black boxes for most people (programmers included).

I won't comment on the validity of this view, but I think the people who hold it miss one very important lesson from his unlikely comeback: the power of perseverance.

The man was basically finished politically when he left office and not very far from actually ending up in jail. Most were pretty sure of that.

So what happened?

Not only did that not come to pass, he's the next U.S. president now. Out of all the detractors, who is still laughing now?