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Cake day: April 8th, 2026
  • HeHoXa@lemmy.ziptoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's that video game boss you've never been able to beat, or took you the longest to beat?
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    8 hours ago

    I barely remember it, but I remember that the hardest mode of Shinobi was ridiculous. Basically just had to memorize and execute a perfect movement / attack pattern.

    And if memory serves, it was like 2 levels before the final one that was actually the hardest on the hardest difficulty? Getting flooded with some kind of tricky enemy while way in the air?

    But then you unlocked God mode and got to just slaughter everything with your OP abilities and sword… actually I think there were at least two levels of those upgrades. One had a life draining effect and the next was just absurd

    Oh yeah! And some of the songs on Amplitude

  • HeHoXa@lemmy.ziptoFunny@sh.itjust.works•You Monster
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    1 day ago

    I used to prefer light mode until I first got into MUDs.

    Not because of anything about the interface or mechanics, but because I got REALLY into them. Several consecutive nights reading digital text until 4AM makes you appreciate dark mode.

    Light mode is for people with healthy computer habits

  • HeHoXa@lemmy.ziptoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•How bad is the software engineering job today?
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    2 days ago

    1940: “These mechanical monstrosities lack the intuitive check of a human mind. A mathematician can spot a stray digit through reason; a machine will blindly process an error to its conclusion. We are trading the elegance of thought for a noisy, fallible crate of glass and wire.”

    1950: “Direct control is the only honest way to command a machine. If you cannot visualize the specific vacuum tube you are firing, you aren’t truly programming. To delegate this to any intermediary is to invite a loss of precision that the hardware simply cannot afford.”

    1955: “These ‘mnemonics’ are a crutch for the lazy. By using words instead of addresses, the programmer loses the vital ‘feel’ for memory layout. We are seeing a five-fold decrease in efficiency; no automated assembler can ever match the tight, hand-calculated loops of a master of bits.”

    1965: “Compilers are the death of performance. These languages allow ‘programmers’ who don’t even understand the CPU architecture to bloat memory with generic subroutines. Software is becoming a black box—impenetrable, unoptimized, and dangerously detached from the reality of the silicon.”

  • HeHoXa@lemmy.ziptoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Before/beforer
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    2 days ago

    There’s definitely an important distinction between mentioning it in casual conversation vs getting a workout buddy / nutritionist / whatever to genuinely hold you accountable and support you.

    I’m sure it also depends on personality. I used to assert it held me accountable too, but over the years I’ve had to admit that was delusion.

    Apparently I’m very motivated by positive feedback and need to withhold it until I’ve actually done the thing.

    Certainly not universal. We all gotta find our own way