Jonathan Hartley / is on Nostr

Made out of meat.

Class III sentience. Singular biological manifestation. Mortal. Human. He/him.

Computer programming sparks joy. Linux lover. Test obsessed. Mostly wrangling Python.

Loving the current discourse in the science fiction scene, of a critical need for metamodern myths to rally around, provide meaning, and heal the culture wars, by integrating the best of the ancient, modern and postmodern views of the world and our place in it.

blog: https://www.tartley.com
code: https://github.com/tartley
books: https://bookwyrm.social/@tartley

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2024-10-13 01:32:47

Hobbyist vector graphic Missile Commander. Still have to add a few features but it's playable. #ScreenshotSaturday #Godot
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2024-10-11 03:19:58

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This whole thread assumes the point of testing is to catch bugs. While that is a lovely benefit, it's only third on my list.

2024-10-09 20:15:29

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thank you for posting! Huge fan here.
Is it an artifact of data collection that maps.me seems to drop to near zero then zero in its final two data points? Or did it really do that for some reason I don't know about? Next time, it might be worth clarifying that on the graph itself, eg. Omitting that part of the line

2024-10-07 16:02:22

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Earth Analog: A brain-bending fractaline spaceflight sim. My review on Steam: https://steamcommunity.com/id/tartley/recommended/1203470
Apparently there's a big update brewing, which will include a big overhaul of the flight model. The last update was fabulous and far-reaching.

2024-10-04 17:59:10

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I guess it depends on how the decision was reached. If it was by authority, then your observation is right. If it was by a consensus of most of the team, then DaC seems like a useful way to lessen ongoing destructive minority dissent.

2024-09-26 15:56:41

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I am reminded of Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolution, which points out that when a paradigm shift is attempted, it is the most senior and experienced practitioners who resist it most strongly, because they are the ones who best understand all the things that would be lost. Meanwhile, the juniors, and immigrants from other fields, try out the new tools and discover they can do things with them that they, personally, could not have done before. Jury still out on this outcome.

2024-09-25 12:58:13

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yes, very much. Everyone around me was writing them into word processor documents, I thought wtf and just started writing source code outlines, thinking I might as well get the complete to check it. But we were, for reasons, using PHP, and the compiler was not actually much help. 🤷

2024-09-25 12:42:12

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I was not a fan, but it did help, if your goal was predictability rather than throughput.

2024-09-25 12:41:25

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I agree with your sentiment, but when I did a stint at IBM Cloud, after my amazing boss retired, we regressed to IBM norms and up front estimating really meant doing a very detailed design of the code before writing it. Planning out functional decomposition, signatures, and enumerating loops and conditionals that would be required. Using that exercise to uncover some of the unknown unknowns earlier in the process, before producing a personal finger in the air estimate.

2024-09-20 12:57:56

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why is that "No" not on a pink background!?!

2024-09-16 15:07:22

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We can recruit a former president for the job, since the supreme court will apparently grant them immunity.

2024-09-06 12:23:54

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ooh this sounds right up my alley. Thanks for posting! 🤗

2024-08-28 18:47:21

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it can do that because it's been trained on a million videos of Doom. Now try getting it to generate a game that isn't already written. Useless.

2024-07-08 18:36:38

@npub1h7w…zlyr hey apologies for the drive-by randomness but the drawing style of your avatar is really cool looking, so I wanted to just say thanks for being an inspiration for new styles I should try doing for myself. Thanks!

2024-06-09 13:11:07

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alternative solution: stop installing new plugins? I'm using the same six I've had for about ten years.