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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
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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 · 1d
I regret to report that this is just hoyoverse
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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
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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
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Sheargrub @sheargrub.bsky.social · 5d
(Granted, for the example in the screenshot, best practice would just be to write `40.0/20.0` anyway)
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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)`)
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Sheargrub @sheargrub.bsky.social · 5d
the array indices in question:
(/lh)
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Trang ✦ MCM London @trangmn.bsky.social · 5d
dancing on the forest floor!
#animation #art
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Sheargrub @sheargrub.bsky.social · 5d
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 >_>
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Sheargrub @sheargrub.bsky.social · 5d
probably keyword stuffing on their part 🫠 still really obnoxious
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Sheargrub @sheargrub.bsky.social · 5d
...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 ...
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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 …
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snom @yukihami.bsky.social · 7d
happy snom
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Sheargrub @sheargrub.bsky.social · 7d
Ah that makes sense, cheers ^^
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Sheargrub @sheargrub.bsky.social · 7d
Seems very exhausting, wishing you the best. Very sorry if my recent reply thread contributed to this feeling, it wasn't at all my intention.
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Sheargrub @sheargrub.bsky.social · 8d
This is insane, folks.
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Sheargrub @sheargrub.bsky.social · 8d
Yeah, that's pretty understandable >_> Wish it were an easier thing to approach, but at the end of the day, some people are just here to lash out
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Sheargrub @sheargrub.bsky.social · 8d
(Sorry, I lost my train of thought halfway through -- this's where I was trying to go with this thread!)
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Sheargrub @sheargrub.bsky.social · 8d
Totally understand haha, no worries -- I just think that people maybe aren't broadly hostile to the idea and are responding to something else (i.e. the offloading of trust to something deeply unreliable) that ends up embedded in it
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Sheargrub @sheargrub.bsky.social · 8d
Totally understand haha, no worries -- I just think that people maybe aren't broadly hostile to the idea and are responding to something else (i.e. the offloading of trust to something deeply unreliable) that ends up embedded in it
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Sheargrub @sheargrub.bsky.social · 8d
That being said, I don't really haven a conclusive point from all of this. These're all just thoughts that've been rattling about in my head as I've seen these sorts of frustrating skirmishes play out. (fin)
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Sheargrub @sheargrub.bsky.social · 8d
I think that specifying that threat model might be a better place to start in this discussion, maybe? Like, many of the people who keep getting mad at you in the replies are conflating that excessive trust with stupidity, and it seems to lead to conversations where everyone's on a different topic.
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Sheargrub @sheargrub.bsky.social · 8d
My point is that: while I think we both agree that the parade of bunk "AI rots your brain!!!" studies is maddening, the traction they're getting comes from *some* underlying sense that AI is making people do things worse, and I think the trust differential accounts for that. (4/)
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Sheargrub @sheargrub.bsky.social · 8d
The trust that AI systems demand is very different and much broader. I'm sure you know all about that, so I'm going to gloss over it. (3/)
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