How often do the two studies disagree, casuing the drug to be rejected or revised? If it’s “never” then this is probably actually a good move.

Cool story Still illegitimate. (the court, that is)

Shatner’s earned the right to be a kook. I’ll be giving it a try.

The fact that Fortnite has been going THIS STRONG for THIS LONG, and is still basically the most profitable competitive online game ever just proves that none of that shit is necessary.

shrug To each their own, I guess.

I can definitely appreciate that opinion, I just… disagree. I don’t really give 2 shits about a file having some stuff in it that I don’t personally use, so long as it still has a purpose. I.E. I’ll take a little clutter in a file like that, that basically never gets looked at or edited, over the chance of cluttering up the repo itself, or PRs, or history with stuff that has no purpose at all.

Anyone else dislike the idea? Like, having ignore patterns be ported automatically to everyone that wants to clone the repo just seems… always better than making people do it themselves. At basically no cost.

What you describe seems sound, but I’d say you need a final “decrypt and confirm” pass on each matched result, to work around the hash collisions, especially if you only store partial hashes, like you describe (which also seems sound).

Also, depending on your database implementation (whether it has good text-search-indexing support), it might make more sense to not recombine the hashed tokens, and instead store them in a 1-to-many mapping table.

Dear lord, why are they running a database in a browser?

Well, THAT wasn’t on my bingo card. More power to 'em, I guess.

I never really understood the appeal of jQuery, it doesn’t do anything that you can’t do natively, and it’s not like it does any of the things it DOES do significantly better than native. Just not worth the cost of adding a dependency, for me.

5 Repeat until completion

What the fuck IS completion here? Just running indefinitely until the user manually kills the loop?

I’ll hazard a guess… OPAM was using a text-based utility to get the list of groups, and 33 is the point where the list would wrap to a new line.

I enjoyed my brief time with gRPC and protobuf, when I was trying them out, and I’d happily use them again, but I think it’s obvious why JSON and REST are more dominant.

For one, gRPC works great for simple server/client apps, but it makes them VERY tightly coupled. If your product is an API itself, open for public use, tight coupling is a hindrance more than a benefit.

And more to the point… have you ever tried to DEBUG gRPC traffic? The efficiency of gRPC is top notch, t optimizes for serialization, deserialization, and bandwidth, all at once. But JSON is human readable, and when you throw in HTTP compression, the efficiency is close enough to protobuf to serve the vast majority of scenarios. JSON is just far more practical.

Unfortunately, the alternatives are really lacking. JetBrains Rider REALLY feels underbaked. No deal-breaking issues, but lots of little low-impact ones, and lots of design decisions that go against common conventions, for no apparent reason. The “Visual Studio Mode” doesn’t really help.

On top of that, I’ve had several issues with RUNNING Rider, on account of being on Bazzite, an immutable distro. It was fine on Mint, but Mint had its own troubles with my NVidia card.

Not QUITE a program, but I’d have to say my own little GBA ROM hacks for the original Fire Emblem. On account of the following story…

IIRC, it was 2007, and I was a senior in high school, reorganizing some of the stuff for the robotics team, in the cabinets in the big science classroom where we met. There were some freshmen interested in the team (season wouldn’t start for a while yet) who’d taken to hanging out there, after school.

They all had laptops and I recognized the menu theme when one of them pulled up Fire Emblem in an emulator, from across the room, and immediately called out “Who’s playing Fire Emblem?”. When I went over and saw he was using Virtual Boy Advance, it occurred to me what I had in my pocket. Or rather what happened to be ON the flash drive in my pocket.

At the time, I didn’t have my own laptop, so my flash drive had years worth of random crap on it. And over the years, I spent a LOT of time tinkering with ROMs and VBA over the years. In addition to a few copies of different hacked ROMs and save files, I had a portable hex editor, and a LOT of text files with hex tables and memory maps and other research I’d collected over the years.

So, yeah, I pulled out the flash drive, said “Wanna see something cool?” and proceeded to apply many crazy hacks as I could think of, in the most obtuse manner possible, just editing hex values directly in memory as the game was running. Free XP, free items, end game equipment, sprite swaps, etc. At one point, one of them says something like “What kind of wizard ARE you?!”

It’s what comes to mind for me when you say “cool” because I like to think I inspired those kids to get into software and programming themselves, or at least consider it as an option. They certainly stuck around with the team for the rest of the year. Also, it inspired ME to really realize how much I’d grown just by tinkering and being curious, and how much you can accomplish through incremental effort.

I don’t see the point of limiting the nominees to just one-per-game, for best performance. There’s still only one winner, and if that game legitimately had that many fantastic performances, more power to 'em.

I’ll second the idea of keeping Best Indie and Best Debut Indie separate. I’ll go further and say E33 just isn’t an Indie game, it’s pretty solidly AA.

I went into this article hopeful, but then realized there’s not single mention of how their model is TRAINED. Like… what the hell do they think the primary ethical concern of LLMs IS?!

Code by Charles Petzold was formative for me, over 20 years ago. So, excellent choice.

So, it’s C#'s Nullavle Reference Types feature" but for Java, and not baked into the language.

So, it’s C#'s Nullavle Reference Types feature" but for Java, and not baked into the language.

So, it’s C#'s Nullavle Reference Types feature" but for Java, and not baked into the language.