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kalkr··on Act on Press
"Devil Daggers" has an action on release scheme, you play as a floating hand that shoots daggers with two firing modes, a "shotgun" like dagger blast, and a "stream" of individual daggers. The first, which you activate by clicking then quickly releasing, does a lot of damage, but suffers from a cool-down. the latter, which you get by holding for a certain amount of time, is good if you need constant damage.

Interestingly, the game programmed this behavior by moving the position of the hand. When you press LMB, your hand begins traveling forward. If it reaches a certain position, it will start the dagger stream. If you let go before it gets to that spot, it activates the "shotgun" and teleports the hand backward to naturally introduce a cool-down, returning to the neutral position after some time.

People figured out that, because holding the mouse down moves the hand forward, if you shotgun then re-hold the mouse button, your shotgun cool-down is much lower. Most runs will do this because it allows you to do the most damage in the quickest time, but initially learning it is really strange because you don't expect the action to be on release.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNrCdNFAYW4

kalkr··on Clever code is probably the worst code you could write (2023)
Traditional C style for is terrible compared to what you can do with iterators in my opinion, but idk if C++ has those.

    list.iter().sum()
ezpz
kalkr··on Apple announces new accessibility features, including eye tracking
of course it’s surveillance technology.

an iphone constantly broadcasts your location to third parties, can deduce where you work and live, understands the unique shape of your face, has a built-in microphone and multiple kinds of cameras, stores all of your conversations, stores all of your photos, stores your health information, can figure out when you go to bed.. all on a completely closed and proprietary operating system.

it’s like asking “why hasn’t anyone mentioned that we’re all using a website right now”

kalkr··on Some notes on Rust, mutable aliasing and formal verification
What about Arc<Mutex<T>> ?
kalkr··on LDAPjs decomissioned by maintainer over hateful email
As the maintainer he gets to call the shots, so this response is perfectly fair. It's easy for me to say "I wouldn't have reacted like this", especially since I'm kind of numb to this type of shit-slinging, but I haven't had such visceral anger directed towards my hard work, so I really don't know.
kalkr··on An FDA approved device offers a new treatment for tinnitus
You may be experiencing this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnagogia

I have read a few anecdotal experiences of people allowing these kinds of hallucinations to continue and they have reported that they can become quite vivid and even interactive. Maybe try waving your arms around when this happens to see if it goes away? That should indicate if it's sleep-related or not.

kalkr··on Humane AI Pin
Forget the goofy badge, if I’m moving my arm towards a device to query an llm, I might as well just bind the button on my phone.
kalkr··on Terraform makes carbon neutral natural gas
man wtf does virtue signaling even mean anymore
kalkr··on [dead]
No it isn't, you've linked an un-merged RFC.
kalkr··on Iowa fertilizer spill kills nearly all fish across 60-mile stretch of rivers
9 hours ago "more comments", 1 hour ago "less comments".
kalkr··on Emad Mostaque resigned as CEO of Stability AI
decentralization != coinshit
kalkr··on U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly
Motor companies should not be able to gate physical features (seat heaters) behind software.

My opinion isn't changed by the fact that I can purchase from a company that doesn't do that.

kalkr··on FCC Officially Raises Minimum Broadband Metric from 25Mbps to 100Mbps
what would you propose instead? would you keep it the same?
kalkr··on Why are most sofas so bad?
I ordered a dresser once from a local store, they bought some cheap crap from Amazon and passed it off as "shipping from storage". It arrived broken and I couldn't get my money back, which I probably would have if I got something similar through an online retailer.
kalkr··on U.S. students will take the SAT online
When I took my SAT someone crashed into a utility pole and the power went out. We ended up having to retake, which was super annoying since that test was so damn long. I wonder what they'll do this year if the same thing were to happen?
kalkr··on Sky High Sabotage: Major Airlines Are Using TSA to Shut Down Competitor
I sometimes sometimes wonder what the airline industry would look like if America had meaningful high speed rail.
kalkr··on Frozen embryos are 'children,' Alabama Supreme Court rules
New trolly problem!!!

would you rather save a freezer full of 1000 embryo children, or one newborn baby?

kalkr··on Not all TLDs are Created Equal
https://www.gnunet.org/en/gns.html
kalkr··on Where Will Virtual Reality Take Us?
Tiktok and other social media sites allegedly derank posts with controversial words (suicide, porn, murder) so people butcher the words to talk about things without triggering the debooster. There isn't really evidence that this helps or hurts post discovery, so people mostly do it out of an abundance of caution, which is what seems to have happened here.
kalkr··on Where Will Virtual Reality Take Us?
> Can the everyday miracle of the real world be appreciated enough?

I always roll my eyes when I see this or things that share a similar sentiment. I have dreams every night that aren't "real", but produce real emotions, feelings, and sensations. Whenever the dream machine comes out, I'll be hanging out in my cool af castle and all you philosophers can keep kneecapping yourselves with "what's really real".

kalkr··on Why America doesn't build
Don't know if it's just me, but all of the archive.today sites have been putting me into a captcha loop for the past couple months. :(
kalkr··on Pre-Order ALEF Flying Car
I'm going to be so mad if I get crushed by one of these things
kalkr··on Svelte 4
Thank you ChatGPT
kalkr··on You should be reading academic computer science papers (2022)
Daan Leijen's papers on Algebraic Effects are top notch.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...

kalkr··on Walter Isaacson's book about Elon Musk is available for pre-order
>When Elon Musk was a kid in South Africa, he was regularly beaten by bullies. One day a group pushed him down some concrete steps and kicked him until his face was a swollen ball of flesh. He was in the hospital for a week.

Didn't his dad come out and say that he pretty much deserved the whole stair thing?

kalkr··on Wind and solar are now beating coal in the US
Probably at the thing they're designed to do (generate electricity)
kalkr··on Animal Sedative Mixed with Fentanyl Brings Fresh Horror to US Drug Zones
This entire issue stems from the lack of regulation in underground drug distribution.
kalkr··on SvelteKit 1.0
IMO Svelte feels much more like HTML than JSX does.
kalkr··on ElonJet Is Now Suspended
How are those two things related at all?
kalkr··on Elon Musk tells Twitter employees ‘bankruptcy is not out of the question’
The way things have been going make me question if he even wanted Twitter to survive in the first place.

What happens to him if Twitter goes bankrupt? Is it possible that it could potentially be a loss minimization strategy?

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