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I Cast Fist

@ ICastFist @programming.dev

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Just your typical internet guy with questionable humor

7d ago

The Vertical Codebase
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I Cast Fist @programming.dev 7d ago
TLDR; don't group files by "what they do in common" but rather the ones that "work with the same thing". So instead of components, libraries, icons folders, group them like table1, table2, etc

2w ago

What is a 'social rule' that we all follow but nobody ever actually agreed to?

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I Cast Fist @programming.dev 2w ago

That's a language rule, tho

2w ago

The Water Fountain [Shadowrun]

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I Cast Fist @programming.dev 2w ago

"Oops, looks like the packing step is taking a week again!"

2w ago

The Water Fountain [Shadowrun]

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I Cast Fist @programming.dev 2w ago

Phil was wrong in thinking that corps wouldn't make such blatantly stupid choices and products

2w ago

21-year-old Polish Woman Fixed a 20-year-old Linux Bug!

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I Cast Fist @programming.dev 2w ago

After digging through the codebase, Kamila traced the freeze back to the way E16 handled overly long file names. When a window title was too long and needed to be truncated, the algorithm responsible for doing so had no iteration limit. So it would spin indefinitely, locking up the desktop entirely.

Ah, no wonder it went unfixed for so long, most people would just rename stuff and carry on

2w ago

Lazy hunting

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I Cast Fist @programming.dev 2w ago

Obligatory shoutout for The Dawn of Everything, which explores the current findings regarding the "agricultural revolution", among other things of prehistoric civilizations. Fucking amazing book

2w ago

What they took from us

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I Cast Fist @programming.dev 2w ago

I rewatched some Tiny Toons episodes a while back, and thought that overall they held up well, ignoring the dated references. Animaniacs held up better, but the references still show their age.

2w ago

If I'm not mistaken, He-Man was the one that started the boom of "cartoons that are actually 20 minutes of ads for a toy line", all thanks to the amazing profits that George Lucas was making off the toy rights of Star Wars.

Bucky o'Hare's characters were designed after the toys, ensuring that any holes a kid would see in the toys was also there in the cartoon. These holes were usually on the soles or hands to attach accessories.

2w ago

EU's age verification app: Zero-Knowledge, Plenty of Questions

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I Cast Fist @programming.dev 2w ago

Tell record labels that if they make a working, near foolproof age verification algo, they'll get a 30 years of copyright extension for free. They'll fix it today

2w ago

Tinder and Zoom offer 'proof of humanity' eye-scans to combat AI

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I Cast Fist @programming.dev 2w ago

Yeah, because that is certainly not going to be easily gamed like fucking facial scans that fall for games' characters

2w ago

Playnix: Boutique Linux PC released with better gaming performance than Valve Steam Machine

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I Cast Fist @programming.dev 2w ago

$1139

cries in BRL and 96% import tax

2w ago

If you were to die tomorrow, what’s something you would regret not having said?

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I Cast Fist @programming.dev 2w ago

Telling my family the passwords for my bank account. Should be pretty obvious why I haven't said it yet

2w ago

intriguing rule

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I Cast Fist @programming.dev 2w ago

Stick a hand horn between your cheeks. Don't let your dreams be dreams!

2w ago

What do you think of homeschooling?

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I Cast Fist @programming.dev 2w ago

The majority that defend homeschooling do so on pure ideological grounds. They accuse schools of indoctrinating kids, but they want to personally ensure their kids are indoctrinated the way they (the parents) deem correct. "Sex is evil! Women should submit to men!

is pure evil! Never question me!" - these parents should NEVER homeschool their kids.

There are very few situations where homeschooling would be better for the kid over traditional schooling, and those situations are usually remedied with the school getting its shit together and being at least decent.

The school can't always get better though and can even be harmful to kids, due to bad teachers, bad staff, bad classmates or general precarious conditions, especially if the kid has any sort of special need (autism, down's syndrome, etc). Changing schools isn't always an option, whether due to distance or cost of moving back and forth every day, and that's usually when homeschooling should be done.

2w ago

Anon has a very specific goal

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I Cast Fist @programming.dev 2w ago

Step 1: be rich. Like, rich enough that you could buy twins into doing that and still have money left to keep them

2w ago

Healthcare is a human right

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I Cast Fist @programming.dev 2w ago

"Yeah, ok, but why am I not charging them for health? Scratch that, why am I not charging them for their own work?"

2w ago

Streamer 'Troll' Johnny Somali Found Guilty on All Counts, Sentenced to South Korean Prison Labor Camp For Public Nuisance Crimes

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I Cast Fist @programming.dev 2w ago

I don't think a car crash is an apt comparison in this case, that is usually an accident and not something easy to ignore and pretend it didn't happen - it affects everyone who wants to use the road where the crash happened. Nobody is clapping and cheering.

What this asshole does isn't an accident, it's intentional. People follow him expecting bullshit and praising him for that. He's akin to people who like to drive recklessly and post and brag about it online.

2w ago

How do I manage multiple sprites on a character efficiently?

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I Cast Fist @programming.dev 2w ago

If you pack 10 objects in a 4000x4000 picture, but it has like 500px margins on every side, you're wasting memory for literally no reason, that's the point I wanted to bring attention to. Unused image space consumes memory. A spritesheet that only goes to 600px horizontally, but the image file has 1200px, it's wasting resources.

2w ago

Upload several pictures in one post

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I Cast Fist @programming.dev 2w ago

Not possible in the "post header", so to speak, but you can upload several pics in the post body and any comment

2w ago

How do I manage multiple sprites on a character efficiently?

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I Cast Fist @programming.dev 2w ago

One sprite node for the naked character, another for each part of armor (helmet, chest, pants, for instance). If every armor sprite is equally positioned in its image, you can then load different files as needed - on an equipment change, call a load("res://armor2.png") for the Texture of the armor node. You'll also need to keep the file path string saved somewhere, likely within the rest of the armor's attributes

While it may not be an immediate problem for you, keep in mind that each .png image the game keeps loaded will use some VRAM, according to its total size. For instance, each 1000x1000 png image will take ~4MB of VRAM. I recommend cropping as much unused vertical and horizontal space as feasible.