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  • I would imagine it’s more ChatGPT getting about as good as stackoverflow.

    Couple that with the ability to ask a question without someone closing it as off topic, or a duplicate, or telling you you don’t actually need to do the thing you need to do, or bringing up the XY problem, or… well the list goes on.

    ChatGPT might hallucinate sometimes but it’s nice about it and it fundamentally changes the barrier to entry to ask a question in the same way that stackoverflow once did.

    Stackoverflow was a step change because it excelled at being a a great place to ask questions because they gamified people actually answering them.

    ChatGPT is another step change because it makes it so you can get a similar quality answer instantly and without any of the social baggage. It also allows you to have follow-ups and get into a groove of question and answer. It’s not always right but I was pleasantly surprised using it to navigate unfamiliar libraries and apis and being able to drill down on something. Even when it got something wrong it got it right enough that I could course correct without having to argue back and forth with someone.



  • immutable@lemm.eetoGaming@beehaw.orgNeed help with pico-8
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    5 months ago

    Pico8 carts are just a special flavor of png. I would try running it directly or if it won’t run them with the png extension just rename the file from .png -> .p8 without converting and see if that works

    Relevant section of the user manual

    There are three ways to share carts made in PICO-8:

    1. Share the .p8 or .p8.png file directly with other PICO-8 users

    Type FOLDER to open the current folder in your host operating system.

    Although if you are having trouble you might have more luck getting started with the built in SPLORE command

    Relevant section of the user manual

    This might be easier to get started with since it will all get wired up automatically for you


  • Not really perfectionism just grammar

    I think the fact that using a neuter pronoun is so charged that we can’t even speak or write our language correctly is insane.

    I’ve written thousands of technical documents, if you are referring to a generic operator / user / whatever the correct term to use is “they.” That’s how you say “the person that I’m referring to that I don’t know anything about”

    There was a brief madness in the 90s when fucking morons used “he/she” for absolutely no reason.