Posts by skybrian@cmpwn.com
(DIR) Post #9nnvWBPZ4YHJlwIQ0e by skybrian@cmpwn.com
2019-10-11T04:10:45Z
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@pounce Well, the usual advice is to slow way down. You probably know that already though. Maybe listen to it played really slow?
(DIR) Post #9pDDIoFGy1nLxflWT2 by skybrian@cmpwn.com
2019-11-22T06:49:51Z
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@pounce memes are basically bumper stickers from hell. Your choice, though.
(DIR) Post #9pDGErcEnHhd7QJjn6 by skybrian@cmpwn.com
2019-11-22T07:22:49Z
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@pounce I am genx actually :)
(DIR) Post #9pL3IHpA408T8FLMH2 by skybrian@cmpwn.com
2019-11-25T21:16:21Z
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I built a thing. It's just a 9-bass but it can play a few songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6V9Kw87OYE
(DIR) Post #9pMHQkr26zBcisAcK0 by skybrian@cmpwn.com
2019-11-26T15:48:35Z
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@pounce auto reformat both branches to have the same tab settings and then merge? Diffs should work better then.
(DIR) Post #9phKe6vSLqsXZLnZ3I by skybrian@cmpwn.com
2019-12-06T19:33:31Z
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@salixlucida I guess we've started believing in summoning spells again, but apparently all you get are more ads? It seems a bit weak compared to older myths.
(DIR) Post #9qb0zZtzTJNKxVl4kq by skybrian@cmpwn.com
2020-01-02T16:17:07Z
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@pounce I do like how Go uses capital letters for public identifiers though.
(DIR) Post #9rylxXiIPSwTTh50ee by skybrian@cmpwn.com
2020-02-13T01:13:48Z
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@pounce Wow. Seriously?
(DIR) Post #9sJtjnGjnj02kYsySO by skybrian@cmpwn.com
2020-02-22T18:41:13Z
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@nolan This depends on the software's connections to the outside world. I have hobbyist programs running on App Engine that I need to touch maybe once every 5 years or so. (But it would be different if I had used anything other than core services.)Or consider emulators. The games themselves doesn't need to change because the software changes around them. Check out ifarchive.org for some decades-old games that still run fine today.Software running on embedded systems tends to last as long as the hardware it's embedded in. This is probably fine as long as it's not connected to the Internet.
(DIR) Post #9sa55bjJtqXbJxgd6m by skybrian@cmpwn.com
2020-03-02T01:12:30Z
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@pounce what kind of work?
(DIR) Post #9sa5XNfdlWmPpDD0Rk by skybrian@cmpwn.com
2020-03-02T01:17:34Z
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@pounce seems like good experience. What's scary?
(DIR) Post #9saDAwaWZnTp5nd0Ii by skybrian@cmpwn.com
2020-03-02T02:43:09Z
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@pounce I don't know anyone there and it's a big company. But assuming things aren't all that different from Google, I'd guess people are kinda liberal (like other bay area companies). Also you'd be working more closely with full time employees, not other interns? Might be a good question to ask.
(DIR) Post #9saTorcS4JDwX1aRJg by skybrian@cmpwn.com
2020-03-02T05:49:38Z
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@pounce @steph retired: curse the project to ensure nobody ever touches it again?
(DIR) Post #9smsPni63h0aMpGEWO by skybrian@cmpwn.com
2020-03-08T05:21:43Z
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@pounce would constructivist math make it go away?
(DIR) Post #9snxyJbyWo8HRrE2gC by skybrian@cmpwn.com
2020-03-08T17:58:45Z
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@pounce axiom of choice means I have a choice about whether to believe it, right? 🙂
(DIR) Post #9st1m01KucFUouGoxk by skybrian@cmpwn.com
2020-03-11T03:44:03Z
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Cancel culture? Coronavirus cancels everything.
(DIR) Post #9suGcm0zJAzJFM7sRM by skybrian@cmpwn.com
2020-03-11T18:56:00Z
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@pounce just a dumb joke. There have been lots of event cancellations in the news recently.
(DIR) Post #9szIIKOfSADTUvNdlg by skybrian@cmpwn.com
2020-03-14T05:08:15Z
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@pounce did you end up with Facebook? They're rich and they probably have fancy videoconferencing, so hopefully they won't cancel even if it's not over by then.
(DIR) Post #A1scU5crAGzxLCgcQC by skybrian@cmpwn.com
2020-12-05T04:40:25Z
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@InvaderXan It seems like it should be about how the people react to the situation, to try to solve it or otherwise deal with it? Also it needs to be an interesting problem to have, where how to deal with it isn't immediately clear.
(DIR) Post #A1w734Zge2LsJcgHCa by skybrian@cmpwn.com
2020-12-06T21:07:00Z
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@InvaderXan It seems like if it's an interesting problem then a character should learn something from having to deal with it. And if they learned something then they should do better in the future. If they didn't learn anything, that would be disappointing.But it's not clear to me whether it's how people change that's inherently interesting, or if this is just a good sign that the problem is interesting? They go together. It seems hard to separate.I guess a way to test this would be to compare a story where the problem is vague but you see how the protagonist changed, versus one where you get a good idea of what the problem was and how it was solved, but what the protagonist learned is unclear.But I think either of those would be weaker than a story that has both?