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A sane programmer according to the internet - He/Him - Icelander in Norway

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Lot of people telling me we know the Earth is round because the people in space look at it all the time but how do we know it's not just a very cleverly made sprite? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprite_(computer_graphics)

olafurw,
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@ZachWeinersmith all particles look at you, so they're just really tiny sprites? maybe?

olafurw, to random
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(context for non icelanders, ull means wool)

Are you tired of mistyping your git commands?
Introducing: git ull

Patricia, to random
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Sometimes I wonder if folks who have had mental issues since they were kids handle it differently than people who get them as adults.

olafurw,
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@Patricia oh definitely, more of "wait, I thought that was normal"

olafurw,
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@Patricia "It happens to me also and I just deal with it..."

kellogh, to random
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this is a terrible idea show me more https://borgo-lang.github.io/

olafurw,
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@kellogh "This playground runs the compiler as a wasm binary and then sends the transpiled go output to the official Go playground for execution."

wow

olafurw, to random
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Automated Message: "Our queues are longer than expected, please call later"
[phone hangs up]

Oh Nordics...

olafurw, to random
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MS-DOS is now open source, so in a time honored tradition. Lets look for curse words!

https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS

olafurw,
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Only 1 fuck? Impressive.

olafurw,
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Look at this compatibility workhorse.

olafurw,
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I feel you, I also hate to do this.

olafurw,
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That damn C compiler, always up to no good.

olafurw,
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Very gross, effective? Not sure.

olafurw,
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Who doesn't love a gross hack.

olafurw,
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And there we go, actually not bad for a source codebase. Go read it.

olafurw, to random
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Just do the right thing. Don't do the wrong thing. Why would you do wrong things? You should strive to do right things and anytime you feel the urge to do wrong things, stop and pivot towards doing right things.

This quality of insightful advice and more are featured in my upcoming book "Wrong things are bad, actually", preorder now.

thephd, to random
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I should post positive C content.

olafurw,
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@thephd careful to not overflow.

i'll see myself out

olafurw, to random
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It's beautiful.

@ciura_victor

kellogh, to random
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who tf made it thursday already

olafurw,
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@kellogh the pope

olafurw, to random
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Windows 95 walked so 98 could run so 2000 could sprint so Me could walk so XP could run so Vista could crawl so 7 could sprint so 8 could fall down so 8.1 could stand up so 10 could run so 11 could hide their shoes behind a "show more options" button.

olafurw, to random
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My inbox recently.

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olafurw, to random
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Dear Programmers of the world.

Thing Existing != Thing Is Used By Everyone.

Yes, version control system existed in the past. No, they weren't used by everyone.

There are tools that exist today that you don't use.

Hope that clears things up.

olafurw, to random
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Descent 3 source code has been released. And as a time honored tradition, let's look for curse words.

https://github.com/kevinbentley/Descent3

olafurw,
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God, I hope so as well.

olafurw,
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I'm sometimes asked, how did gamedev work before stuff like git? How did people communicate fixes and changes?

I present to you, a comment thread.

olafurw,
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Just in case.

Gamedev is never perfect, you should read game source code. It's fun. Any game released is a miracle.

End of thread.
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