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  • I think some people are upset that the voices aren't 100% true to Justin, and maybe some anti-cancel culture typed as well.

    There are some weak episodes, and they are REALLY weak, but I think it also has some of the strongest of the entire series. I'd say it's worth a watch.

  • Anon considers playing Stray
  • Personally that's the dream game for me. I haven't got time for hundreds of mid-tier grinding hours. Give me something with emotional impact and an absorbing world that lasts at most 10 hours.

    If I want just gameplay I'll just play one of numerous ranked games to get that fix

  • The coding experience
  • Yeah I completely agree with you, but sometimes there are other things that jankier languages allow you to do. Say in python, you can do direct property assignment. This is gonna be annoying for someone later to figure out why their object has suddely changed, and without getters and setters, you'll have a harder time picking apart what's going on. The benefit though is that it's very quick to just tack on a property onto some global object and then have that read elsewhere down the road.

    It sucks, and you will curse yourself later, like you don't even know what type it is, or maybe it's just null, however it did allow you to ship a project. Maybe that bodge solution is indicative of needing a complete overhaul on how you structure your project, but until you get to that point where you've scoped out what the final idea looks like, it might not be time for static typing and good code design.

    I also think that static typing and such makes you move a lot slower when making changes. I love rust to bits, but maintaining an old project is like wading through treacle. I only jump towards using it now once I've got a really great understanding of all the needs of the system, and have the time to really think about the problem in its entirety. Maybe you suddenly need a mutable self in somewhere that you didn't before, perhaps that means going and refactoring a whole load of traits that were designed without mutability (for good reason).

  • The coding experience
  • Time to delivery is important. Moving quickly withing a language and frameworks that prioritise speed over safety gets a product out the door is important when testing whether a business idea holds merit. Once you're established with a better scope of the project you should be rewriting this in a static language.

    Dynamically typed interpreted languages should never be used for long term support imo

  • Hamas official says group is open to discussions over truce with Israel
  • From what I saw, there was one developer spouting some abhorant things, talking about how all Israeli citizens were targets at this point. I haven't seen anything else about other developers sharing these views though so I'm considering it an isolated nutter until we see more

  • Two games free on Epic Games - Model Builder and Soulstice
  • You don't have to use the platform. Competition is good, and steam taking 30% is massive. I'm a huge fan of steam but the fears of what happens post-gabe should have us all wanting other companies to put pressure on them. Hopefully it'll drive them to promise continued pro-consumer practices such as proton (let's gloss over DRM)

  • LISP is ugly
  • It feels like maybe this could be a code structure issue, but within your example what about something like this?

    fn main(){
        let mut counter = 0;
        let output_array = array.into_iter()
            .map(|single_item| {
                // breaks the map if the array when trying to access an item past 5
                if single_item > 5 {
                    break;
                }
            })
            .collect()
            .map(|single_item| {
                // increment a variable outside of this scope that's mutable that can be changed by the previous run
                counter += 1;
                single_item.function(counter);
            })
            .collect();
    }
    

    Does that kinda syntax work for your workflow? Maybe it'll require you to either pollute a single map (or similar) with a bunch of checks that you can use to trigger a break though.

    Most of the time I've been able to find ways to re-write them in this syntax, but I also think that rusts borrowing system although fantastic for confidence in your code makes refactoring an absolute nightmare so often it's too much of a hassle to rewrite my code with a better syntax.

  • LISP is ugly
  • Oh sorry, I misread what you typed and went on a tangent and just idly typed that in.

    One thing you could do for your situation if you're planning on iterating over some array or vector of items is to use the inbuilt iterators and the chaining syntax. It could look like this

    let output_array = array.into_iter()
        .map(|single_item| {
            // match here if you want to handle exceptions
        })
        .collect();
    

    The collect also only collects results that are Ok(()) leaving you to match errors specifically within the map.

    This chaining syntax also allows you to write code that transverses downwards as you perform each operation, rather than transversing to the right via indentation.

    It's not perfect and sometimes it's felt a bit confusing to know exactly what's happening at each stage, particularly if you're trying to debug with something mid way through a chain, but it's prettier than having say 10 levels of nesting due to iterators, matching results, matching options, ect.

  • Nvidia Says Native Resolution Gaming is Out, DLSS is Here to Stay
  • Eh, in my experience that's not how development works. With every new tool to improve efficiency, the result is just more features rather than using your new found time to improve your code base.

    It's not just from the publishers and shareholders either. Fixing technicial debt issues is hard, and the solutions often need a lot of time for retrospection. It's far easier to add a crappy new feature ontop and call it a day. It's the lower effort thing to do for everyone, management and the low down programmers alike.

  • Which GPU to choose for Linux gaming?
  • I'm on a 2060 super with Manjaro and I haven't had any issue with drivers other than when I accidently uninstalled all the drivers at once, and then it was just a matter of running a command found from googling to get it back up and running.

    I haven't tried an AMD card, and I'm strongly considering it for my next, but I just haven't seen you have a issues people report.

  • What film, show or game that is not necessarily 'underated' didn't have the level of social impact it deserved.
  • Beyond good and evil.

    It's sales were poor but the reviews were great. A fantastic adventure game with a great story and a world that felt so incredibly lived in. It had a bunch of interesting mechanics that focused on stealth rather than confrontation.

    Playing it now the scope feels pretty small but it's still a very tight experience.

  • Hey, we should all really stop using racist slang to refer to customozation
  • These are of course bad words, but it ignores words that have decreased in sensitivity as they've moved away from their original meaning. How much intent should we unknowingly accept from words we don't know the origins of?

    The word "daft" used to be used as a term for someone "crazy" or "mad". Nowerdays this has been socially softened to be used when someone makes a basic mistake.

    Lame used to be for someone physically impaired but now is used to denote something that's uncool.

    And then if we wanna dive super deep into it and we look at a lot of high fantasy, the origins are possibly abhorant. Some species are believed to have been directly influenced by racial stereotypes in their formation.

    Should all high fantasy be destroyed because of this? Or have we socially evolved past using those comparisons as a way to separate each other in society?

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