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mark38848··on Testing how hard it is to cheat with ChatGPT in interviews
Why? Maybe you just use good programming languages instead.
mark38848··on Show HN: GodotOS – Fake operating system interface made in the Godot engine
I would love it. I would also love for it to switch to silence instead.
mark38848··on The biggest losers: Metabolic damage or constrained energy?
This is all so obviously refutable if you look at the fact that this affects the USA so much more than other countries and even there if you go back three generations, peolr with essentially the same genes just at fewer calories and - surprise - were less fat.
mark38848··on Fewer people are buying electric cars in the US
How can you have peace of mind whilst burning the only inhabitable planet for life as we know it?
mark38848··on California Cops Can't Ask Drivers 'Do You Know Why I Pulled You Over?'
Why is this worded as cannot rather than must not?
mark38848··on Did English ever have a formal version of "you"? (2011)
People really overestimate the importance of this. If you go to le or la gare doesn't matter much. But if you don't know "gare" in the first place you could have a harder time. Also "embarrassing yourself" doesn't happen because everybody loves it when n-th (for any n > 1) language speakers attempt to speak their language.
mark38848··on ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Prepared for 100k Concurrent Players, They’ve Gotten 700K
Graphics might be good in BG3 but the art style is non-existent. Generic clear skies or scorching red purgatory fantasy setting. People flying around on dragons fighting Cthulhu's aunt. Man I'd love being able to love that.
mark38848··on ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Prepared for 100k Concurrent Players, They’ve Gotten 700K
I know I stopped after two days.
mark38848··on ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Prepared for 100k Concurrent Players, They’ve Gotten 700K
That has actually been my experience for about ten years now. I've tried TOTK, Elden Ring, Hogwarts Legacy, BG3, and quite a few more and found them not engaging at all. It's not quite as bad as the movies yet, but still bad enough as to not warrant simply playing older or more indie titles.
mark38848··on Enhance – HTML-first full stack web framework
One would expect better reading comprehension from people who want websites to look like it's 1993.
mark38848··on What dif­fer­enti­ates front-end frame­works
Don't you find a language without higher-kinded types or type classes frightening, too?
mark38848··on Svelte is a language
If you want a good language that turns into Javascript I recommend PureScript
mark38848··on My First Impressions of Nix
Nix is only fast if your time has no value :D
mark38848··on JavaScript private class fields considered harmful
Which OOP language is not fundamentally broken? Smalltalk?
mark38848··on The contagious visual blandness of Netflix
From episode one it was a telenovela with more nudity, wigs, and CGI. There was one good scene between Cersei and her husband, though.
mark38848··on “When we all have pocket telephones”
There is Tatortreiniger and Stromberg, both of which are funnier.
mark38848··on Please don’t theme our apps
I think these apps still have a long way to go in terms of aesthetics.
mark38848··on The Benefits of Being Cold
No, Canadian homes are not built to resist the cold. They have the same silly 3cm cardboard walls that American houses have. This was very stunning for me coming from a country where the temperature rarely drops below 0 degrees Celsius. I have learnt that the Canadians only feel like they are being eco-friendly because the only place they are comparing themselves with is the US. I mean: a remote control for your car's motor so you can have it pre-heat, half of the people driving around in pick up trucks or the toilets having about a million litres of water in them.
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