Jeffool

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

Good point. Does anyone know an animator? I'll write some promotional material.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I will give respect where due: I like the sweep button. It's handy for me personally, as someone who is on several email lists that are public-facing. That's about it.

Every attempt to help me automatically is a pain. Like most things in this vein it never learns what you're trying to do, only what they would do in a given scenario that's vaguely like ours.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Every little bit counts. And finding ten people (especially out of ten) who agree on anything is pretty impressive. Congratulations. I hope this does well for you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I remember reading columns saying soon, when multiple cores become common, compilers will thread your program for you...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Nah you're good. I'm absolutely going to suggest we give Warframe a try. And if we get off of Warzone, maybe I'll end up moving sooner rather than later.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

hah, respect, but I play Warzone with some cousins who are on console. (Actually I just searched, and I didn't realize Warframe had crossplay now! I might have to at least get them to give it a shot, thanks for the mention!)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That WOULD be a fraction of the cost of a new PC. But given my current one is a 2017 build with a 1080 in it, I'm really hoping to make next year the time to free up some money for it regardless. But I do appreciate the thought!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I actually used Mint for about a year a decade ago, and really liked it then. What made me switch back was the gaming. That said, I hear gaming on Linux has just gotten better and better; just like people in this thread are saying. Whenever I get around to putting together a new PC I'll probably either dump something Linux on this one or dual boot myself. Sadly I don't expect Activision to really support it. But hey, Lord knows I've been wrong before. (And yeah, printers are often kinda universally assholes though; that we all know.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Y'know GPS didn't even enter my mind. Hell, depending on GPS 3 accuracy (isn't it supposed to be in the centimeters?) my talk of signals is completely moot. That measured against a map of roads on a server somewhere would probably let you download an entire map of nodes toward your destination. Along the way the car just measures against its current location and does the math for obstacles. Great point. This is why I ponder shit out loud. Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (11 children)

I'd love to make the move, but there's a one-two punch of: I play Warzone with family. I think anti-cheat there is only going to get worse. Second? I already get caught with the fiddly bits of errors on Windows sometimes and spend too long searching for answers. Any time I see that on Linux it looks like I'd need years more of active learning new problem solving to reach my current level of comfort.

I'm at that "is it worth planting the apple tree now that I didn't plant 20 years ago?" thinking.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Anyone knowledgeable about city planning? Why did we never put some type of signal in our roads? (I don't know. Passive RFID every few feet?) It would only cost what, ten, twenty thousand on top of each million spent paving every mile?

Seems it would be better baseline navigation than self driving cars and occasionally map apps. The cars would still have to do obstacle avoidance, of course.

I'm not particularly knowledgeable about self driving tech or city planning. But if interstates are replaced every 10 years, and highways every 20, and Musk first made these claims in 2013? Then we'd have the base tech for every auto manufacturer to do moderately reliable self driving on interstates and a lot of our highways already.

Or maybe that large view pathfinding is the relatively easy part? That's why I'm asking. I'm sure there's something more obvious from an informed viewpoint that I don't know.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's okay Jeff. It's okay. And yourself?

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

The current mod of c/gamedev hasn't been publicly active just under a year. I tried messaging them months ago about joining, and more recently about taking it over if they weren't interested in trying to develop it. So now I'm asking here, with the assumption that they're just not that into it.

Figured I'd ask now in case you wanted to look into the person making such a request. If granted I'd probably start putting a little work into it the weekend after this one.

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