WolfLink

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[–] WolfLink 6 points 8 hours ago

The games came complete out-of-the-box. No day 1 patches that still didn’t fix all the game breaking bugs on release. No DLC, required online connectivity, or kernel-level anti-cheat. No worry that the game will stop working once the company that sold it decides to turn the servers off.

[–] WolfLink 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

I’ve worked on a library that’s Python because the users of said library are used to Python.

The original version of the project made heavy use of numpy, so the actual performance sensitive code was effectively C++ and fourtran, which is what numpy is under the hood.

We eventually replaced the performance sensitive part of the code with Rust (and still some fourtran because BLAS) which ended up being about 10x faster.

The outermost layer of code is still Python though.

[–] WolfLink 3 points 1 day ago

It lacks the main benefit of a digital game: not needing to keep the card with you.

It lacks the main benefit of a physical game: not needing an internet connection, which also means these fake cartridges will stop working once servers shut down

It captures the vibe of having a physical card, which I appreciate, but that’s about it. Otherwise it’s worthless.

[–] WolfLink 1 points 2 days ago

Somehow I’m thankful this image is AI generated for once.

[–] WolfLink 6 points 2 days ago

They can call it Trump Train if they want I just want a train that will get me between Chicago and NYC cheaper than a plane but faster than a car.

[–] WolfLink 1 points 2 days ago

I certainly won’t lol. I’m actually running a custom build of the mobile app with some tweaks.

[–] WolfLink 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Built on Moonlight! That’s what I use already lol.

[–] WolfLink 8 points 3 days ago

Name an anime without a shower/bath scene. It’s a lot harder than you’d think.

[–] WolfLink 2 points 3 days ago

The Apollo spacesuits were pretty impressive, but they didn’t account for radiation that much. There are two reasons why we care more for planning a trip to Mars: we simply know more about solar radiation and what it can do to you, but also there’s a factor of dosage. A mars trip is a lot longer and would expose astronauts for much longer. We already consider radiation dosage frequently on earth. When the doctor gives you an x-ray, they go to the other room behind a lead wall because if they were in the room every time they x-rayed a patient, they would get a dangerous dose of x-rays over time, but you getting a very high dose of X-rays once in a while is not a big deal.

[–] WolfLink 21 points 3 days ago (2 children)

The Lego website had a huge collection of games.

[–] WolfLink 4 points 3 days ago

For starters:

The last time we went to the moon was in 1972, towards the tail end of the big Apollo spike.

[–] WolfLink 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

For the most part it’s best to use system provided sorting implementations, but somebody has to write those implementations, so every once in a while somebody needs to do it (in practice by looking up a reference implementation of course).

But also it’s good to understand things like big O scaling and why we use quicksort rather than a naive insertion sort and when to use quick sort vs merge sort or some other form of stable sort.

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