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[-] popcar2@programming.dev 15 points 3 weeks ago

Why? Automod is just a tool, the issues people have with it is how overzealous the mods using it are. If you're moderating a community with 10,000+ people you can't expect to filter and manage everything yourself, so a bot scheduling posts and filtering potential spam/low effort content is necessary.

[-] popcar2@programming.dev 28 points 1 month ago

inexperienced big brain developer see nested loop and often say "O(n^2)? Not on my watch!"

complexity demon spirit smile

This hits too close to home.

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[-] popcar2@programming.dev 28 points 3 months ago

Compiling to bash seems awesome, but on the other hand I don't think anyone other than the person who wrote it in amber will run a bash file that looks like machine-generated gibberish on their machine.

[-] popcar2@programming.dev 5 points 4 months ago

"Merge pull request #8 from [branch name]"

Not the most exciting but hey, someone has to do it.

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[-] popcar2@programming.dev 1 points 5 months ago

Be sure to check where the trackpad is. Centralized is better. My new one is more to the left and my wrist hits it when playing tf2 and I do occasionally get some movement from my wrist in game, but not much.

There should be an option in your OS to disable the trackpad while using the keyboard. My laptop also has a trackpad to the left and I often have my hand over it when playing but never had this issue.

[-] popcar2@programming.dev 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Make sure you get a laptop with a modern Ryzen processor since the battery life (and performance on battery) is often a lot better than Intel. There are a lot out there that fit the bill like Lenovo's yoga/ideapad lineup. Just be weary of two things:

  • Some 14" laptops may have soldered RAM or SSDs making them impossible to upgrade
  • Don't go off of processor names, they're often pretty misleading. For example a Ryzen 7 7730U is significantly worse than a Ryzen 7 7840U.
[-] popcar2@programming.dev 2 points 5 months ago

A mod launcher is a program that lets you set up and configure mods for a game, then launch the game with everything set up for you. They exist because configuring everything yourself can be a real pain.

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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/12340077

I made a mod launcher for classic Doom (specifically, GZDoom) because I wasn't a fan of what currently exists. CleanDoom focuses on simplicity and usability.

If anyone here is a Doom fan, give it a try and let me know what you think!

[-] popcar2@programming.dev 7 points 6 months ago

This is really cool. It seems to be getting hugged to death though, I'm getting a lot of server errors when I attempt to open most apps.

[-] popcar2@programming.dev 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It saddens me deeply that consumers (gamers) just don’t give a flying fuck about this and continues to pay a premium for Nvidia cards.

It doesn't help that AMD isn't competing that much price-wise. Their only saving grace is higher VRAM, and while that is nice, raw performance is becoming less relevant. FSR also does not compete with DLSS, it's strictly worse in every way. They also barely exist in the laptop market, I was just considering buying a new gaming laptop and my options are an RTX 4060 or paying more for the one laptop with a weaker AMD GPU.

I would argue Intel is shaping up to be the real competitor to Nvidia. They had a rough start but their GPUs are very price-competitive. Their newer integrated GPUs are also the best currently, they're good for gen AI, their raytracing performance trumps AMD, and XeSS is a lot better than FSR. If I were in the market for a new GPU I'd probably grab the Intel A770. I'm looking forward to their next generation of cards.

[-] popcar2@programming.dev 127 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

That just because I'm a programmer that must mean I'm a master of anything technology related and can totally help out with their niche problems.

"Hey computer guy, how do I search for new channels on my receiver?"

"Hey computer guy, my excel spreadsheet is acting weird"

"My mobile data isn't working. Fix this."

My friend was a programmer and served in the army, people ordered him to go fix a sattelite. He said he has no idea how but they made him try anyways. It didn't work and everyone was disappointed.

[-] popcar2@programming.dev 23 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Good read, and I think you might want to look at OnlyOffice. It's open source and while it is kindof a shameless Microsoft Office clone, it does seem to support LaTeX when adding equations. Not sure how well it works as I don't use it though. The slides app is pretty decent, the only bone I have to pick with it is that there aren't many animation types and most of them are very basic. Otherwise, might be what you're looking for.

Screenshot of OnlyOffice's LaTeX option

Edit: I just tried it and it seems to work pretty well. Select LaTeX, type your equation, then select professional in the dropdown menu and it'll show the equation.

A LaTeX equation shown in onlyoffice

[-] popcar2@programming.dev 2 points 7 months ago

TL;DR you'll enjoy it if you like casual puzzle games lol.

Voxelgram is a spiritual successor to an older game called Picross 3D. Picross 3D is a 3D version of a popular logic puzzle called Nonograms.

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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/8955176

I made a blog post on my biggest issue in Lemmy and the proposed solutions for it. Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.

The irony of crossposting this is not lost on me

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I made a blog post on my biggest issue in Lemmy and the proposed solutions for it. Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.

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I've been browsing job posts lately and found a lot of poorly written posts looking for collaborators. Here's a blog post I wrote highlighting common pitfalls, and how to convince collaborators to join your project!

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