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Sheargrub

@sheargrub.bsky.social

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writing code and looking at bugs (and other critters) 🏳️‍⚧️ github.com/sheargrub

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Sheargrub @sheargrub.bsky.social · May 16

He's finally out! Mallow and I have been putting a ton of love into this character over a long period of time, so please consider checking him out!!!
#rivalsofaether #riskofrain #gamedev

mallow @marcymallow.com · May 16

Commando, the Cornered Gunslinger from Risk of Rain, is out now in Rivals of Aether! Fight your way out by any means necessary with this aggressive all-rounder, and grab highly variable Items to change the way you play. Luck is on your side.
Link below!

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Sheargrub @sheargrub.bsky.social · 31m

they're a crate investment

Sheargrub @sheargrub.bsky.social · 34m

Sorry I know it's already been said 20 times but like

That is literally a normal nose lmao don't let insecurity claim you

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 3h

Newspapers aimed at consumers: AI IS THE FUTURE

Newspapers aimed at investors: *frantically making finger-across-throat gesture*

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 5h

"Ten lossmaking artificial intelligence start-ups have gained close to $1tn in valuation over the past 12 months, an unprecedented increase that adds to fears about an inflating bubble in private markets that could spill over into the wider economy."

‘Of course it’s a bubble’: AI start-up valuations soar in investor frenzy

Unprecedented funding leads 10 groups including OpenAI and Elon Musk’s xAI to gain almost $1tn in value in past year

www.ft.com

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Sheargrub @sheargrub.bsky.social · 46m

Cheers for making this happen. This wasn't an author byline I'd ever have expected to see in a major publication, and it's great to see these sorts of voices elevated in this day and age

Sheargrub @sheargrub.bsky.social · 56m

That seems like a bad diagnostic condition to me? Like, people are going to be into what they're into. It does seem like a risk factor for psychosis, but that's an outcome of uncritical AI use more broadly, and the proper diagnostic condition would probably be active detachment from reality

Sheargrub @sheargrub.bsky.social · 1d

I regret to report that this is just hoyoverse

Sheargrub @sheargrub.bsky.social · 1d

If anyone here has three minutes to spare, the conflict of interest here seems to be a freebie layup to pile some additional dissent into CBS's feedback form: www.cbs.com/showfeedback/
Doubt it'll make much of a dent, but doesn't hurt to register some additional dissent

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lucy @lucydotdev.io · 4d

ronaldinho soccer

regional variant of tarountula that looks like a soccer ball. it has socks

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Sheargrub @sheargrub.bsky.social · 5d

It just happens that you're having to deal with the other side of it now, which can be really intimidating when you're first thrown into it
Still, you'll get a sense of things with time, it's definitely within your reach

Sheargrub @sheargrub.bsky.social · 5d

That's understandable, it takes time to learn to navigate the tradeoffs of a new language
Loosely-typed languages like GML and Python hide away many of the semantics, but they take on significant performance overhead and wonky edge-case behaviors to do so

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Sheargrub @sheargrub.bsky.social · 5d

Ah sorry ^^; I'm super minutae-brained with programming stuff so that's what's at the front of my mind when type discourse comes up
If you want me to do a tl;dr writeup shoot me a ping on discord and I can try and summarize

Sheargrub @sheargrub.bsky.social · 5d

(Granted, for the example in the screenshot, best practice would just be to write `40.0/20.0` anyway)

Sheargrub @sheargrub.bsky.social · 5d

what language is it? there might be an explicit float typecast that'll be less jank than the *1.0 hack (e.g. C and C++ use `(float)`)

Sheargrub @sheargrub.bsky.social · 5d

the array indices in question:
(/lh)

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Trang ✦ MCM London @trangmn.bsky.social · 6d

dancing on the forest floor!
#animation #art

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Sheargrub @sheargrub.bsky.social · 6d

You'd be surprised how strong and varied opinions on this are lol. For me it's implicit casting between floats and ints that drives me up the wall; if I'm dividing two integers I'd rather not have the computer change the type on me unless I tell it to >_>

Sheargrub @sheargrub.bsky.social · 6d

probably keyword stuffing on their part 🫠 still really obnoxious

Sheargrub @sheargrub.bsky.social · 6d

...utterly crushed that that isn't an actual mastodon instance 😔

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 6d

I once asked a very skilled and experienced rower how people who make every boat they are in better do it. He said that he'd known two people like that, and they weren't the fastest or stronger rowers, but their superpower was adding stability where the boat needed it. Not something you'd see ...

Lorin Hochstein @norootcause.surfingcomplexity.com · 7d

New blog post: The illegible nature of software development talent

surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/10/08/t...

The illegible nature of software development talent

Here’s another blog post on gathering some common threads from reading recent posts. Today’s topic is about the unassuming nature of talented software engineers. The first thread was a …

surfingcomplexity.blog

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snom @yukihami.bsky.social · 8d

happy snom