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louhike commented on Unleashed Recompiled: PC port of the Xbox 360 version of Sonic Unleashed github.com/hedge-dev/Unle... · Posted by u/garrettjoecox

LorenDB · 6 months ago

Similar Sonic projects include SA2 Redux[0] and Project 06[1].

[0]: https://gamejolt.com/games/SA2R/939490

[1]: https://youtube.com/c/ChaosX (best link as there is no official website)

louhike · 6 months ago

SA2 redux looks more like a remake than a recomp. I didn’t know the project though and it seems promising!

louhike commented on Wizardry Co-Creator Andrew Greenberg Has Passed Away timeextension.com/news/20... · Posted by u/homarp

kleiba · a year ago

Final Fantasy?

louhike · a year ago

Dragon Quest (which came before Final Fantasy and inspired it) took inspiration from Wizardry. Most RPG from the 80s were inspired by Wizardry. It had huge influences.

louhike commented on Brazil's X ban is sending lots of people to Bluesky theverge.com/2024/8/30/24... · Posted by u/rvz

pfraze · a year ago

Copying over my latest backend status update; figure folks would find it interesting

Servers are holding up so far! Fortunately we were overprovisioned. If we hit 4mm new signups then things should get interesting. We did have some degradations (user handles entering an invalid state, event-stream crashed a couple times, algo crashed a couple times, image servers hit bad latencies) but we managed to avoid a full outage.

We use an event-sourcing model which is: K/V database for primary storage (actually sqlite), into a golang event stream, then into scylladb for computed views. Various separate services for search, algorithms, and images. Hybrid on-prem & cloud. There are ~20 of the k/v servers, 1 event-stream, 2 scylla clusters (I believe).

The event-stream crash would cause the application to stop making progress on ingesting events, but we still got the writes, so you'd see eg likes failing to increment the counter but then magically taking effect 60 seconds later. Since the scylla cluster and the KV stores stayed online, we avoided a full outage.

louhike · a year ago

That’s interesting. Why do you use event sourcing? Is having a full history important for a website/app like bluesky?

louhike commented on Ask HN: What nonfiction books do you keep rereading? · Posted by u/mucle6

louhike · a year ago

The Myth of Sisyphus By Albert Camus. A great philosophy book, not that hard to read, about the absurdity of life. Camus talks about suicide in this context, and why life still has meaning despite its absurdity. The Art of Not Giving A Fuck by Mark Manson. As the title implies, it talks about caring less about what other think (while not being a narcissist). And how it can make you more happy and more likeable.

louhike commented on Has Xbox lost the console wars? theverge.com/2023/6/24/23... · Posted by u/mfiguiere

nichcat · 2 years ago

Microsoft are going to put the price of the console up in August (in addition to their game pass) in Australia, among other places. Not sure by how much.

https://www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/microsoft-to-raise-prices-o...

louhike · 2 years ago

It will be 30 australians dollars

louhike commented on Has Xbox lost the console wars? theverge.com/2023/6/24/23... · Posted by u/mfiguiere

erinnh · 2 years ago

Seems like a uniquely Australian thing.

The PS1 cost 299$ at launch.

Nintendo64 cost 199$.

Here is an article comparing it:

https://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/every-game-console-pric...

louhike · 2 years ago

Inflation ajusted, the prices are similar to now. But the games do cost less now when you take inflation into account.

louhike commented on Loneliness is stronger when not alone pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3... · Posted by u/hirundo

swampthing · 2 years ago

Is that accurate though? Standing on a street and yelling at people actually requires effort, and arguably some risk.

It seems more likely that a lot of these people actually do want to help others but simply didn’t consider the possibility that what seemed helpful to them wouldn’t be. You can want to help someone without being good at it.

louhike · 2 years ago

It requires effort but less than trying to understand how you could help them, so the point still stands. And even though they might genuinely help others, it’s important to educate people to stop doing it this way, as it can be more harmful than doing nothing.

louhike commented on Tips for better coding with ChatGPT nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/isingle

cardanome · 2 years ago

I am absolutely disgusted by the idea of people using ChatGPT for serious coding work.

Maybe I am just getting old but the idea of using a non-deterministic tool that can hardly be reasoned about that will straight up hallucinate facts for any professional work sounds insane to me.

Yes, I do see the value for Junior Devs as I am sure it can drastically increase their output in the short term but aren't they shooting themselves in the leg in the long run? That might sound elitist but at the end of the day, you will need to learn to read technical documentation anyway and once you understand it there is no need for ChatGPT.

Yes, if you are constantly hopping from one framework of the month to the next big thing, you just don't have the time to learn anything in depth and then again ChatGPT can help. But do you really want to live like this? Instead of band aid solutions we might want to push for less hype-driven and more pragmatic development styles that allow us the time to learn our frameworks.

louhike · 2 years ago

I don’t think it’s more insane than copying and pasting code from anywhere on the internet. You have to understand what you use and you must not trust it blindly, whatever the source.

louhike commented on Third-party Reddit apps are being crushed by price increases kotaku.com/reddit-third-p... · Posted by u/isaacfrond

Roark66 · 2 years ago

Come on, it's web we're talking about here. How difficult is it going to be to scrape the data and present it in a nice format to the user? I bet apps will show up that do just that very quickly.

louhike · 2 years ago

There’s documentation usually with an API and you have changelogs. If you scrape the website, if there is a change in the UI, it will break your product. So it is feasible, but it will make all products worse and harder to maintain.