[-] Mmagnusson@programming.dev 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

“boomer” as a term is here to stay and a moving target

Kind of like how "Millennial" for a while meant 'teenager' despite the oldest Millennial being 40.

[-] Mmagnusson@programming.dev 27 points 6 months ago

I'll be sad to see it go, but it has been a great run so I cannot complain

[-] Mmagnusson@programming.dev 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I mean, it isn't meaningless, just culturally subjective and lacking a rigerous definition. Berries are a set of specific fruit, which fruit being included being determined by the culture in question base on percieved similarities and historic uses. We use it to quickly bring up the specific group and whatever vague characteristics we percieve them to share.

So, the definition for berries that you seek is simply "the fruit people you're interested in would point at and identify as a berry", which is a vague definition and not rigerous at all, but most people would in fact think of the same thing you do if you say "I put berries on top of my cake". If I ask my wife "hey, on your way home swing by the store and buy some berries, any type will do", she will not bring a watermelon. She in fact will buy what we both agree are berries, and so the word has useful meaning.

You'll find most classifications humans have do this too. The real world is really good at refusing to fit into the neat boxes we made to classify it and the things in it, and yet we can still use them fine enough as long as we don't get lost in semantics and wondering if a hot dog is a sandwich or cereal soup.

[-] Mmagnusson@programming.dev 4 points 7 months ago

Are grapes not considered berries in the anglosphere? In Icelandic they literally are named "Wine berries" and considered as such.

[-] Mmagnusson@programming.dev 5 points 9 months ago

Or GameMaker if you are doing a 2d game, or Unreal if you don't mind the learning curve. Plenty of other options beyond Unity.

[-] Mmagnusson@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago

I personally am a fan of jet-lagged, the game. Sam, Ben, and Adam from wendover productions/Half as interesting compete in various travel-based games across the world.

[-] Mmagnusson@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

I feel that given the current trendyness of AI and large language models it seems prudent to mention Façade, an interactive play that used AI and language processing to let the player "speak" to the characters and influence tha narrative. It was very janky and you could break it rather easily, but the concept was solid - the technology was just a decade and a half away.

[-] Mmagnusson@programming.dev 10 points 1 year ago

I'm Icelandic. The water is potable straight from the tap: no filtration or boiling required, albeit the hot water may smell a bit of sulfur due to being heated with geothermal energy.

Mmagnusson

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