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Cake day: October 4th, 2023
  • JordanZ@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.world•The current gaming situation right now
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    3 days ago

    I’m gonna agree with the other guy. That was the internet.

    When Valve released Steam back in the early-mid 2000’s internet speeds were like 1-3mbps. A 4GB download (less than a single layer DVD) would take ~3-8 hours. I bought a physical copy of HL2(2004) to load it onto the computer in Steam for that reason alone. I also had the Orange Box(2007) on disc.

  • JordanZ@lemmy.worldtoGames@lemmy.world•It's a peaceful lifeEnglish
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    7 days ago

    I love that the alt text is actually of a game I still play even now.

    I remember trying to log in to the original Command and Conquer servers a year or two back and feeling like I was knocking on the boarded-up gates of a ghost town.

    You just need to use CNCNet. There’s usually ballpark 1-2K players online across all the games.

  • JordanZ@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Software Engineers Are Facing an Existential Crisis As They Drown In Horrendous AI CodeEnglish
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    9 days ago

    I have coworkers with varying degrees of proficiency with AI. The ones that are better with it rein it in when it goes haywire. I have less of an issue with this. It still does awkward stuff here and there. The ones that are bad with it just commit the code for review and annoy me. When 60-80% or so of your PR can be refactored away then it’s a crap PR and honestly never should have been one. Don’t make me read through 2000 lines that should have been 400. It’s a waste of time. This mostly is it doing brain dead things like instead of passing a parameter into a method it makes 4 nearly identical methods.

    I mostly use AI to implement a solution, not come up with the solution. I don’t care how fast you can type…AI can type faster. That also means I understand what it’s trying to build and how it should be going about it. That does mean you still have to use your brain and not offload your critical thinking to the machine which is what I see a lot of people doing with it.

    In that regard I like AI but it’s still a love/hate relationship for sure. It both saves and costs me time just in different ways.