It’s inconsistent and annoying. Expressive, yes. Gets it’s job done, yes. Absolute nightmare of a spec, YES.
The fact that JSON is a subset of YAML should tell you everything about how bloated the spec is. And of course there’s the “no” funny things.
Personally, my favourite way to write configs was using lua (because it was already part of the project so why not), but JSON does fine.
“What’s up everypony?”
Fair enough, lol.
Never figured out how to start listening to podcasts, tbh.
Break it up with the daily dungeons/raids. Also, ARR is the longest slog to ever have slogged - they cut it down significantly already and it’s still a massive slog.
Take a break, return for the actually good expansions later. It will still be there.
What is it, JavaScript?
Reason is “Game state is hard”.
If you want to save, you gotta be able to take the current state of everything and serialize it, then read what you’ve serialized and put it back. If you only do checkpoints, you can make assumptions about game state and serialize less.
Generally, it is much easier to develop AI and such when you never have to pull it’s state out and then restore it, because if that is done improperly you get bugs like the bandits in STALKER forgetting they were chasing you after a quicksave-quickload because their state machine is reset.
With checkpoints, you can usually say “right, enemies before here? Dead or dealt with. Enemies after here? they’re in their default state. Player is at this position in space. Just write down the stats and ignore the rest.”
And autosaves just make it one less menu to fiddle with.
Yeah, that’s fair.
Hey, doesn’t mean you can’t aspire to be a systems architect :D
You know, make enough decisions that weren’t perfect in the long term and you’ll learn something! …totally not speaking from experience, no.
I could imagine there being a cause for FreeCAD if it ever gets accepted as the “we don’t want to pay for AutoCAD” solution in some less developed nation education system.
On a more optimistic note, it does seem to be improving with time. Maybe one day it’ll have the Blender transformation happen to it.
Well, one question is how it’d be paid for. You can’t really have a federated payment provider, can you?
So would you have to pay for each separate server somehow, gathering them up like streaming service subscriptions?
Yeah, I was being a little tounge-in-cheek there.
Well, time to switch to watching Nebula?
I can’t see how it will work for small-time creators though. Or for people who just want to show a video online.
Just use FreeCAD! \s
Although you can do things in it. There’s also OpenSCAD but I have never done anything complex in it and I can’t imagine it being used in a professional environment.
Math notation is just terrible in general because a lot of it is shorthand made up by someone who likes single-letter variables. A symbol you can’t type, something above, something below.
A for loop is clear and descriptive.
Or if you’re feeling fancy, you could go functional with reduce(add, range(0, 5), 0).
I mean, ginger lemonade is a thing. Why not make garlic or mustard lemonade.
Imagine actually posting anything.
There’s a reason I refuse to try parsing names as a string separated by spaces.
Separate fields, bitches.
As someone who had tried to wrap their mind around YAML spec…
Fuck yaml. It is ridiculous how much junk there is in that spec.
Personally, I prefer duplicate keys to be eaten by the parser but I can see how it’d be beneficial to prevent them.