Jeremie Pelletier

Self-dual

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Need more tools to bind all these feature together:

https://t.co/8VH3WRxoKR

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What happens when you combine Emacs with gaming?

You get an environment in which any panel can display any visualization for any data type.

And if it's not there, you just develop it right there, live.

Coded support for multiple viewports as it draws 60fps :)

#gamedev

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@flyasajet @nivi @millerman If anything, I'm more convinced physics itself makes for
the emergent principle over a yet to be identified center

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@flyasajet @nivi @millerman For one this view already gets rejected by biologists, but
relying on that alone would be an appeal to authority :D

Instead, I look at it more like I look at algebra and calculus to begin with; multiple theories with different foundations can still show confluence up to a degree

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@ProofofMaro MWI was never quite the same afterwards.

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@opdroid1234 Everything about that graph is so true 😭

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as a canadian: eh

[0x45 @0x45o]

the best engineers are from canada because of how messed up their measuring system is

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@rand_longevity @DeryaTR_ given no network access unless sandboxed plus open
source schematics and software only, otherwise nope

same thing as smart appliances; engineers who know
their contexts and limitations often stay away from it

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@nivi @millerman Also note, the dual of "nothing" makes "everything"

We have trouble keeping a physics configuration stable over long periods of time; both needing realtime adjustments in engineering and needing "magic leaps of faith" in the theory, like vacuum fluctuations to make the math work

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@nivi @millerman But it assumes our current view of science covers
everything going into biology and life itself as well

Takes just one paradigm shift to change the view;
say realizing reductionism lacks the relative view

We can simulate the known, which ignores the unknowns and the unknowables

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@avivafashion11 @Jonathan_Blow Seeing the problem makes the first step in solving it :)

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git = userland filesystem with versioning that networks

Linus could make it in two weeks because it makes a
simplified, dramatically, version of what he works on

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because its design mirrors how the os kernel works
and the way compilers want their inputs over disks
plus you can change the porcelain e.g. using magit

[zek @zekramu]

it blows my mind that people are still using git.

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@Jonathan_Blow @avivafashion11 Also feels like working in a big company:

Manager: you have until this deadline to get your work shipped. Gonna remind you every day until we hit it.

Deadline: okay the other teams or the customer or marketing or whatever wasn't ready, so your work idles for 3 months, have fun!

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@Jonathan_Blow @avivafashion11 45 minutes of the same thing mirrored:
- 51 reminders
- 12 emails
- 9 text
- bring your own carrier pigeon

Plus it helps pass the time, and if everybody did this
they'd start realizing the irony of the situation fast :D

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@nivi @pmarca 💯

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@pmarca By every body, every day.

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Momentum matters in production. Because changing it suddenly has the same feel as taking a sharp turn at full speed in a car to avoid a wall; the wall gets hit anyways.

Think game series for example, some reinvent themselves after every release and from the start have trained players to expect something different each time.

And other series have been consistently pursuing one way of designing the game, building an audience of fans along the way, then acting surprised pikachu face when the latest release heads for something completely new.

Respecting the product's momentum, and understanding its origins and community, makes for a team that respects their audience and the money and time they spend and pour into the series.

Game of Thrones makes another good example, when it ran out of original material and they had to write it to finish the show, the contrast got Stark. It feels like going from a classical symphony to circus music real fast.

Alien makes another good example. It started with the creative vision of keeping the alien hidden as a mystery and a source of suspense, plus empowering viewers to imagine their own versions of how the full animal looks like and thinks. Later titles in the series progressively forgot that vision, and matches the decreased ratings.

Of course, bad faith actors would reduce the argument to "I can't believe people don't like viewing full aliens" as a tell they got on the bandwagon after it made this sharp turn at high velocity, ignoring the splat on the wall, ignoring the creative vision gone down the drain, and cheering on what remains without looking in the mirror. But this feels like lowering the bar of quality then arguing from the remaining view; it misses the context.

If the Aliens movies, after Aliens, came as a new IP entirely, nobody would hear any complains. But it would also have to stand on its own as a work of creative arts, without the free ride afforded from the IP's past success. And I think this free ride makes people disconnect from these series. Then the group of fans who remains shrinks, new ones who didn't participate in the original come in, and that drives the metrics producers see for the rest of the series.

It becomes that meme of the planes making it back with bullet holes everywhere on them, except at the critical parts, and the data shows "make those areas more shielded" without anyone stepping in to say "no, make the parts *without* bullet holes more shielded, because the planes hit there never come back home."

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That was fun 30 years ago when everything was new

Still remember debugging audio issues in linux back then, but over time I came to expect "must work at all times" from big tech, otherwise it fuels my need to make my own of everything and study harder to make it happen

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Windows did something to my audio and I haven't figured out what it is yet

Sound stopped working yesterday, so I reboot the computer, which already gets annoying

And now every time audio starts it stays silent for a second before sounds comes out the speakers

Fighting software