nik9000

joined 1 year ago
[–] nik9000@programming.dev 2 points 8 hours ago

I think blind itself drives some interesting bias. The public posts are pretty incel. You need a critical mass of folks at your company to have a company private board so it attracts folks from bigger companies. It doesn't seem to represent average folks well. Unless I have no idea what average is.

I'm not sure what to do with that instinct. The overall results say a thing I wanted to hear. It all feels weird.

[–] nik9000@programming.dev 2 points 5 days ago

Catch 22 is just about the funniest thing I've ever read. I don't think you'll finish it in a day, but it's amazing.

[–] nik9000@programming.dev 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Never Let Me Go is the most "not for me" book I've ever read. I can see why people love it. And I respect what it's doing. I just don't want to play a long.

[–] nik9000@programming.dev 2 points 5 days ago

Project Hail Mary used to come up on r/books from time to time and was polarizing. Lots of folks loved it. Lots thought it wasn't good.

If you loved the Martian I think you'll like PHM. I did.

[–] nik9000@programming.dev 5 points 6 days ago

I've stopped using stash and mostly just commit to my working branch. I can squah that commit away if I want later. But we squash before merge so it doesn't tend to be worth it.

It's just less things to remember.

[–] nik9000@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago

I'm just a hacker. I'll never be a thought leader. But I am passionate about my work. And my kids.

I love solving the problems. I have a few posts on the company blog but they put a chat bot on it a while back and didn't care that it felt offensive to me.

But I'm here, reading this. Maybe I'm grey matter.

[–] nik9000@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago

My guess is the big video ram is high resolution textures, complex geometry, and a long draw distance. I honestly don't know much about video games though.

The smaller install is totally the map streaming stuff. I'm unsure quite why it has to be so big, but again, I don't know video games. I do recall you having to tell it where you want to start from and it'll download some stuff there.

[–] nik9000@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

I recommend it. Try to go in blind.

[–] nik9000@programming.dev 6 points 2 weeks ago

Many years ago the Unicode Consortium has a fundraiser where you sponsored and emoji. Someone at my company sponsored one and posted to the internal mailing list. Short story short a couple dozen of us sponsored stuff and the company paid us back and wrote a cute blog post. Cheap marketing. Felt good.

[–] nik9000@programming.dev 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

"I once ran the Indy 500. I must confess I'm impressed how I did it I wonder how close that I came."

[–] nik9000@programming.dev 2 points 3 weeks ago

I don't know but the suggest makes me so happy.

 

I've always loved this list of sci-fi books. The 2000s web design compells me.

A while ago I tried to read the ones I hadn't. It was a lovely tour. My biggest surprise was enjoying Childhood's End.

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