Putnam
@putnam3145.bsky.social
dwarf fortress programmer (lesser)
Pay for people to go to medical/nursing school? That's ridiculous. We're already reaching the cap on amount of doctors that can be licensed yearly that's there for some reason
November 25, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Pay for people to go to medical/nursing school? That's ridiculous. We're already reaching the cap on amount of doctors that can be licensed yearly that's there for some reason
You're assuming quite a lot about me from this? All I'm saying is that bitcoin is a complete failure of a currency because it encourages holding onto it (bitcoiners like to call this "saving") instead of spending it, which is pretty much the opposite of what money is actually for, is what i'm saying
November 23, 2025 at 10:09 PM
You're assuming quite a lot about me from this? All I'm saying is that bitcoin is a complete failure of a currency because it encourages holding onto it (bitcoiners like to call this "saving") instead of spending it, which is pretty much the opposite of what money is actually for, is what i'm saying
they liked this thinking i wasn't making fun of them, which says a lot about reading comprehension
November 23, 2025 at 8:06 PM
they liked this thinking i wasn't making fun of them, which says a lot about reading comprehension
smart people who will deny basic economic theory because it disagrees with their intuition that it bad when number that i have doesn't go up
November 23, 2025 at 6:03 AM
smart people who will deny basic economic theory because it disagrees with their intuition that it bad when number that i have doesn't go up
i don't even know what spiritual direction is dude i'm doing fine. why is my lacking it bad. come on. it's pretty clear "haha so true those atheists need jesus" stuff
November 20, 2025 at 9:50 PM
i don't even know what spiritual direction is dude i'm doing fine. why is my lacking it bad. come on. it's pretty clear "haha so true those atheists need jesus" stuff
(washington doesn't either)
November 19, 2025 at 7:12 PM
(washington doesn't either)
it's not quite a suggestion to use rust so much as "there's a better way than relying on undefined behavior", though actually C++ also has a way to do that too (bit_cast)
November 19, 2025 at 9:14 AM
it's not quite a suggestion to use rust so much as "there's a better way than relying on undefined behavior", though actually C++ also has a way to do that too (bit_cast)
I've been working in C++ professionally for years and hobby years before that. With that in mind,
doc.rust-lang.org/std/primitiv...
doc.rust-lang.org/std/primitiv...
f32 - Rust
A 32-bit floating-point type (specifically, the “binary32” type defined in IEEE 754-2008).
doc.rust-lang.org
November 19, 2025 at 9:08 AM
I've been working in C++ professionally for years and hobby years before that. With that in mind,
doc.rust-lang.org/std/primitiv...
doc.rust-lang.org/std/primitiv...
i had to look this up because i've genuinely never been in a situation where I'd want to copy a subclass to a superclass. actually i'm very rarely in a situation where i want inheritance at all. in fact, let's stop thinking about inheritance
November 19, 2025 at 9:07 AM
i had to look this up because i've genuinely never been in a situation where I'd want to copy a subclass to a superclass. actually i'm very rarely in a situation where i want inheritance at all. in fact, let's stop thinking about inheritance
apparently my first name is unknown and i'm an intensely private person with no background besides dwarf fortress, which is fascinating stuff
November 18, 2025 at 11:36 PM
apparently my first name is unknown and i'm an intensely private person with no background besides dwarf fortress, which is fascinating stuff
I think it's kinda iffy because it smacks of early '90s "girl power" which just consists of "look she does Man Things and is Rough and Had A Lot Of Brothers Growing Up", but also it'd be nice to have some stone cold women who aren't thus depicted as Freaks For Not Being Motherly, which is bad
November 16, 2025 at 9:35 PM
I think it's kinda iffy because it smacks of early '90s "girl power" which just consists of "look she does Man Things and is Rough and Had A Lot Of Brothers Growing Up", but also it'd be nice to have some stone cold women who aren't thus depicted as Freaks For Not Being Motherly, which is bad
yu-gi-oh set a deck size limit because someone came to a tournament with a deck of several hundred cards and included as many searching cards as possible in it
November 16, 2025 at 9:32 PM
yu-gi-oh set a deck size limit because someone came to a tournament with a deck of several hundred cards and included as many searching cards as possible in it
this happened to me like 6 hours in
November 16, 2025 at 4:50 PM
this happened to me like 6 hours in
to clarify, there was no bug report, toady just kinda noticed it
November 16, 2025 at 4:40 PM
to clarify, there was no bug report, toady just kinda noticed it
Reposted by Putnam
stolen from oomf
November 14, 2025 at 10:53 PM
stolen from oomf
Like, I hear that and I go "oh, tutorial NPC, got it", not "oh no, a guy who will keep talking to me forever and ever without pause"
November 15, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Like, I hear that and I go "oh, tutorial NPC, got it", not "oh no, a guy who will keep talking to me forever and ever without pause"
I'm not entirely sure why everyone's taliking like this guy is going to be a consistent part of the game, or even that NPCs in general are going to be "helper NPCs" at all? There's just no reason to extrapolate all that from "there's a guy who gives guidance in the first hour of the game".
November 15, 2025 at 6:10 AM
I'm not entirely sure why everyone's taliking like this guy is going to be a consistent part of the game, or even that NPCs in general are going to be "helper NPCs" at all? There's just no reason to extrapolate all that from "there's a guy who gives guidance in the first hour of the game".
are we really confused by the concept of a tutorial npc in 2025
November 14, 2025 at 8:25 PM
are we really confused by the concept of a tutorial npc in 2025
the term was not appropriated, the technologies leading up to LLMs have been called "AI" for well over 30 years beforehand, it's a historical quirk, not a marketing gimmick
November 12, 2025 at 8:38 PM
the term was not appropriated, the technologies leading up to LLMs have been called "AI" for well over 30 years beforehand, it's a historical quirk, not a marketing gimmick
my steam controller broke after they stopped selling them and i have been so sad. but the sadness... it's over...
November 12, 2025 at 8:35 PM
my steam controller broke after they stopped selling them and i have been so sad. but the sadness... it's over...