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Off Topic / Re: What do you guys use to follow tech?

« on: September 16, 2022, 12:20:47 PM »

I can't believe you can make so many unhelpful posts. Oh wait, yeah I can.

edit: programmers amirite????

hes right though, hackernews is a VC-curated libertarian hellhole where they debate how they can make more startups to give even less rights to workers.

its fine as a news aggregator but the comments are some of the dumbest people ive ever seen in my life, the userbase is almost entirely privileged ivy league 1st year CS undergrads that want to be mark zuckerberg but more evil

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Off Topic / Re: What do you guys use to follow tech?

« on: September 14, 2022, 04:55:37 PM »

i get my news by working in tech

outside of work i like to purge all the contents of my brain and shut it off

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Off Topic / Re: blf might outlast kiwi farms lmao

« on: September 05, 2022, 01:46:33 PM »

The argument can be simplified: We all know it is categorically evil to tell people to kill themselves, threaten to bomb them, to send fake threats to the police, and to coordinate real life harassment against people, but the idea that KF is culpable just isn't compelling. Originally we were posting screencaps of hilariously pitiful bad actors, then the sentiment very quickly changed to 'the posts don't have to exist. the users don't even have to be registered with the site' because it is now plainly discoverable that KF and KF's users only condone a "look don't touch" modus operandi. Wherever it is that these words are jumping off the screen to kill people, KiwiFarms being there "in spirit" shouldn't be enough, and I think anyone who's being sincere can agree on that.

It seems the actual crux of the argument is, "It is evil to publicly investigate, compile, and archive people's stuffty online behavior", which is what KF is truly guilty of; making the facts and history readily available to anyone and everyone, whether they're just there to innocently discuss the behavior or to go secretly coordinate with their black ops trolling unit discord about how to get pizzas sent to their apartment. In either case, it doesn't take the collaboration of the entire website to get someone swatted, nor is it even possible because it's explicitly against the rules which we know are being enforced.

When we tell the truth, is it our responsibility to conceal and suppress it so that it doesn't make it into the hands of people who would act maliciously? Personally, I loving hate equifax.

you make an interesting argument but you forgot to include that not only is it an archive for peoples stuffty behavior, people on KF make up evidence as well

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Off Topic / Re: blf might outlast kiwi farms lmao

« on: September 03, 2022, 04:54:35 PM »

looks like cloudflare just blocked them: https://blog.cloudflare.com/kiwifarms-blocked/

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Off Topic / Re: blf might outlast kiwi farms lmao

« on: September 02, 2022, 06:47:58 PM »

if iban ever does somehow get caught and arrested it's gonna be crazy how there 100% will be a documentary on him and some people in here are bound to be interviewed

i call dibs on explaining cityrpg

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Off Topic / Re: U.S.A. Politics Thread

« on: August 30, 2022, 11:50:49 AM »

it should just be legal to kill billionaires and not vice versa so they'll either have to waste a bunch of money to protect themselves or donate it

this would be loving hilarious

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Off Topic / Re: U.S.A. Politics Thread | Left threaten to EXECUTE Annoying Orange.

« on: August 25, 2022, 03:28:44 PM »

when the government takes 30% of your salary elsewhere in the world: "give us it back in the form of social services and aid for the working class"

when the government takes 30% of your salary in the us: "oh sorry mr government keep giving more to ukraine and raytheon, i didn't mean to upset you i dont expect anything in return i am pulling myself up by my bootstrapts by working for 7.5/hr at mcdonalds for 80 hours a week, hike my taxes and cut taxes for the rich, mr bezos deserves an extra 5 trillion dollars he works so hard"

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Off Topic / Re: U.S.A. Politics Thread | Left threaten to EXECUTE Annoying Orange.

« on: August 25, 2022, 03:20:36 PM »

forgive student debt without plugging the hole and ending student loan programs is a great idea bc then you can buy another few million votes in a few years when the situation occurs again, print more money and cause inflation, taxing the very people who need it by devaluing the currency they own

but whoop whoop no debt teehee

handicapped but that's abt what I expect from this admin

except he has plugged the hole, you didnt read the legislation at all

on top of forgiving 10-20k of the student loans, he made it so that anyone paying student loans only has to pay back a small amount per month (5% of their total income minimum) and all of that interest free

this makes it so that instead of being investment vehicles for interest the loans just become loans to help students, this has cut down the repayment time for some people by like 20 years.

even if he was bribing people, literally why the forget arent politician bribing people, it's their literal JOB TO DO THAT, to help working people.

holy forget you americans are so loving cucked into giving the government forgettons of money and defend them when they give none of it back and do nothing with it.

i do not understand how brandon has devalued our currency when almost every other currency on earth is now worth less than ours

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Off Topic / Re: U.S.A. Politics Thread | Left threaten to EXECUTE Annoying Orange.

« on: August 24, 2022, 05:41:28 PM »

more like dems wouldnt get as much money from rich donors or something cause cancelling student debt would require an offset probably made up via tax increases

or god forbid, they would have to stop funding the military

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Off Topic / Re: Hiring dev(s) for a Blockland-inspired game engine

« on: August 15, 2022, 04:08:51 AM »

oh man i love being able to build stuff with bricks so i can EARN money during my spare time so i can feed my family of 4 please my family is dying why do you only pay us 4 cents a month this is the last thing i ever will read gootbye

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Off Topic / Re: Hiring dev(s) for a Blockland-inspired game engine

« on: August 12, 2022, 11:06:02 AM »

my going rate is about

$250000/yr

based on the current market salary for my field

dm for resume

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General Discussion / Re: v21 was ten years ago

« on: August 09, 2022, 02:18:59 PM »

I remember finding out this stuff didn't work on my laptop and being mad as hell. and on the one PC we had in the house it did run on, it ran at 5 fps on low.

badspot bricked like over 50% of the games install base so he could advertise it better on steam lmfaoo

theres no kid in 2012 that was running blockland on a good computer, im sure if he had polled the hardware capacity he would've known like 8 people could run it

that and the fact that blockland is so dogstuff optimized that it run poorly on new computers as well

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Off Topic / Re: U.S.A. Politics Thread | Dems seeing their Polls, Desperately Raid Annoying Orange's Home

« on: August 09, 2022, 02:08:27 PM »

why is everyone mad at DT getting raided who the forget cares

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Off Topic / Re: Unreal Engine 5

« on: August 07, 2022, 02:40:06 PM »

supposedly UE is going to get a scripting language soon. I've read that it's expected this year, but apparently epic keeps their cards pretty close to their chest until it's nearly time to release, so it's hard to know for sure
personally I don't really get the appeal of designing a brand new language for stuff like this. you're making it harder on yourself and the game developers who will use it. but maybe it'll be cool

i'd rather them not designing a language lol

the funny thing iirc is ue3 and older versions had unrealscript, but was so full of stuffty holes that let you do dangerous stuff on clients from the server that they dropped it. a friend once demonstrated this to me by having me join their killing floor 1 server and showed me they got my client to download zip files off the server into places outside the kf1 directory + modified my client files so i had everything unlocked

for these reasons exactly

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Off Topic / Re: Unreal Engine 5

« on: August 07, 2022, 11:16:11 AM »

too bad about the part where you have to use C++ to do anything real. blueprints (like any other visual programming system*) suck ass. by far the best thing unity has going for it (perhaps even the only thing) is that it allows you to use C#. use godot instead. I don't like gdscript much myself but it's Okay and you can also use C# instead if you want. the main benefit of godot though is the whole licensing situation

*I would make a distinction between "visual programming" and node-based editors that don't define program behavior; node graphs are excellent for shaders and materials in general etc, along with lots of other use cases where it actually makes sense like organizing dialogue trees
visual programming on the other hand results in impossible to maintain software that is frequently slow to boot

also to be clear I'm not a C# stan or anything it's just that C++ sucks fat balls and if it's between C# and java I will choose C# every single god damn time. but there are other options that are probably better. rust might be neat in a game engine

i wholeheartedly agree, c++ is probably the thing that is kneecaping the growth of ue5. if I where them I would invest considerable amounts of time into making their game development process less of torture experiment.

but honestly, they seem to be moving in that direction anyways with how they have refactored their editor these last few years so inshallah they keep making good improvements

i would personally suck off every dev at epic games if they introduced rust in a non-buggy way like some people are doing right now. I would even settle for some kind of scripting intermediary language like how torquescript worked

i've never used godot because it used to be only 2d until recently so I might look at it