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Create video game. Play video game.

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pharrington··on Google flags Immich sites as dangerous
They have to fix their SSL certs. "Kubernetes Ingress Controller Fake Certificate" aint gonna cut it.
pharrington··on Paying AIs to read my books
That's a whole lotta words to say AI companies want to extort artists.
pharrington··on A beginner's guide to deploying LLMs with AMD on Windows using PyTorch
I mean I also want AMD to simply make the better video card. I'd give them advice if I could, but that ain't my field of expertise.
pharrington··on A 16.67 Millisecond Frame
Moving an absolutely positioned element never caused a reflow, by design. The AI slop is just wrong.
pharrington··on Gore Vidal: American Prophet
This is a hit piece for a man who's been dead for over a decade.
pharrington··on NSA and IETF: Can an attacker purchase standardization of weakened cryptography?
You're arguing against deliberate cooperation.
pharrington··on Microsoft allows use of personal Microsoft 365 subscriptions at work
I unilaterally declare that it's "Satya Nadella gives all Microsoft employees a $30,000 raise from his own bank account" Day.
pharrington··on Why we develop EloqDB mainly in C++
Am I reading too much into this, or did Mr. "EloqData Core Team" choose C++ because that's what they're comfortable with, but don't want to say it?
pharrington··on The AI coding trap
Alternatively - there's 5 million other things I could be learning and practicing to improve as a programmer before trying out the new AI codegen-du-jour. Until I'm Fabrice Bellard, focusing on my fundamental skills will make me a better programmer, faster, than focusing on the hype of the day.
pharrington··on Shipping 100 hardware units in under eight weeks
Do we just believe anything we see on the internet now? I don't believe there's any useful product here.
pharrington··on YouTube addresses lower view counts which seem to be caused by ad blockers
"Why not?" Because invisibly tallying a view count is completely different than displaying a visible advertisement.
pharrington··on YouTube addresses lower view counts which seem to be caused by ad blockers
You know full well that almost nobody expects their adblocker to block an *invisible view count incrementer".
pharrington··on US backpedals as Hyundai factory ICE raid enrages South Korea
Is this legal advise?
pharrington··on Should we drain the Everglades?
I'm way more afraid of the humans that want to drain and eradicate the native population of the Everglades!
pharrington··on KDE launches its own distribution
Sorry for the late reply. Earlier this year, I tried KDE Neon User Edition. It offers updates everytime any KDE software you've installed gets an official update, meaning you're shown updates practically everyday. That isn't stable. Again, the website copy undersells this, saying it "Featuring the latest officially released KDE software on a stable base (emphasis mine)."

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pharrington··on Why do we keep gravitating toward complexity?
You think you're getting into the afterlife in a measly $2000 casket? Nah, the dead pharaohs had to ride in style.
pharrington··on Fighting human trafficking with self-contained applications
Strict chain of custody requirements prohibit this kind of thing from being SaaS.
pharrington··on Fighting human trafficking with self-contained applications
Do you disagree that its easy to cross compile and create static binaries with?
pharrington··on KDE launches its own distribution
Neon is explicitly a bleeding edge KDE testbed (but I'll agree that their website undersells this fact)
pharrington··on Microsoft is officially sending employees back to the office
>How big could that tax break could be?

Many are asking this!

pharrington··on Windows 10 resists its end: usage share climbs while Windows 11's falls
The first person to figure out how to backport Direct12 and AMD/NVidia's drivers to Windows 7 is gonna be a billionaire.
pharrington··on Show HN: Downloading a folder from a repo using rust
Since this is a "Show HN," did you mean to post using your https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=zikani_03 account?
pharrington··on Microsoft is officially sending employees back to the office
May you explain why ruthlessly profit driven CEOs of megacorporations don't care about the commercial value of the real estate they own?
pharrington··on YouTube is a mysterious monopoly
There will always be a new kid on the block.
pharrington··on The elegance of movement in Silksong
You're right. I guess I just think you're being really pedantic, and that pedantry is what I was reacting to.
pharrington··on The elegance of movement in Silksong
Again, you don't have to believe the people who are sharing their sincere opinion, but A LOT of people regard Hollow Knight as one of the best games ever made. I'm one of the people. I grew up in the SNES era, and I think Hollow Knight is an all around better game than every SNES platformer I've played, including Super Metroid which it's directly comparable to.
pharrington··on The elegance of movement in Silksong
>How did it manage to do this? What's the formula?

The formula is making incredible art that you're passionate about, giving or selling it to alot of people, and getting lucky enough that word of mouth takes over from there. In other words, there is no formula.

pharrington··on The elegance of movement in Silksong
Silksong is infinitely more forgiving then Spelunky 2. The game just doesn't stop you from going into the harder areas of the map early in your playthrough.
pharrington··on The elegance of movement in Silksong
Nope! Alot of people just really love the game. I'm one of them! I only heard about the game after its release, and the first time I played it was in during the end of 2017. The only expectations I had for it were that it was a difficult exploration game. What captivated me was the music, the level design, getting lost before realizing what exploration options were available to me - I could go on forever about the game.
pharrington··on The elegance of movement in Silksong
You absolutely don't have to grind geo to buy maps, or really anything (except three very specific charms) in Hollow Knight. Just kill stuff as you go exploring. However, if you don't like the game's combat, then the game is definitely not for you.
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