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As someone who makes indie games professionally, I taught myself how to program by making video games. Maybe it’s just my adhd, but I have a difficult time with organized learning, but I pick things up really quickly by doing. I wouldn’t get too caught up in the “I need to learn it the right way before I make games” part, since the making games part is exactly what kept programming interesting and engaging enough to prevent me from getting bored.

Second I also wouldn’t get too locked up trying to decide which programming language to use. Modern programming languages are all conceptually pretty similar. It’s really only minor syntax differences. Learning a new programming language is mostly just a matter of “how do I write a for loop in this language again?” It doesn’t take too long to adapt.

I use Unity and C# right now, and I’m in the middle of learning Godot to make the switch. I would generally agree with what other people have said. C# is a pretty good language to start with. Just low level enough to make sure you learn fundamentals without being so low level that you have to fiddle with memory addresses and pointers like c/c++.

As for codecademy, I tried it when I was first starting out like 10 years ago, so I can’t vouch for it now, but it seemed to very much be “Learn how to type code” and not “learn how to actually program.” Just explaining how to write if statements and for loops isn’t really teaching programming. I still don’t think there’s really a good universal way to teach it, even after taking programming classes in college. Everyone sort of picks it up differently, at different paces, and enjoys different parts of it, so I still think picking a project you think sounds cool and finding and following along with YouTube tutorials and just trying stuff out until it works is a pretty good way to get started. You can always take the time to read a book or take a course after you’ve determined if programming is even something you’re vaguely interested in.

That’s the 19xx’s the 20xx row is only bright up until about 2010. So it’s people born in the 70s using their birthday.

Ah, yea, sorry, my brain scrambled that. But same point really. Chatgpt doesn’t always pull from the current official website for its data either, so same problem. Chatgpt and Google are loudly marketing, “Hey you don’t need to search for the info, our AI will give it to you,” when the Ai is wrong a lot.

Well, sure. But if you go the PayPal website you can see the correct information. Before Google’s AI popped up at the top of the screen, the PayPal website would have. In this situation, Google is now prioritizing pushing the misinformation that their AI found from some outdated website instead of the official PayPal website that has the correct info. That’s the issue.

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Have you tried using proton yet? I know it’s not the same as games being native, but the compatibility list is growing pretty quick, it’s probably better than 10%.

https://www.protondb.com/

Also interesting, in Ukrainian, the U is pronounced “oo”, so if we said it the way they did, it would be “an Ukraine”.

Oh, here I see the problem, the N isn’t supposed to be there! It’s supposed to be “A nice napple!”

They’re not editing so people can’t read their comments. They’re doing it so it poisons AI trained on comments.

Yes.

I’m not planning on buying the book.

https://www.amazon.com/Delay-Deny-Defend-Insurance-Companies/dp/1591843154 No they mean literally literally.

I’ve put my ira into FNILX. Zero fees and consistently beats 10%

Spotify has a playlist called Daily Drive that does exactly that. It creates a playlist of music you like then between songs will play news snippets from the day. It’s pretty cool about half the time.

Sasan Goodarzi is a man, btw.

Okay, but I’d really like to not freeze to death this winter. I can’t afford to move right now.

Yea same issue on my end. Seems the balatro dev didn’t set up the shop properly.

I thought most drives were still TLC and QLC is still pretty new, right?

But yes, QLC has more like 1000 write cycles, but either way, like 5-10%ish of TLC/QLC drives are SLC cache, meaning you’d get fast write speeds and 100,000 cycles on that part of the drive, but yes they wouldnt last as long as a pure SLC. From what I understand though, a lot of these drives will copy under used files from the SLC cache to the QLC cache since read speeds are basically the same, in order to optimize the percentage of actively used files in the SLC cache.

So to answer your last question, yes. Video editing is probably one of the most demanding things you can do with a drive, and will shorten the lifespan of the device. But this is true for literally any kind of drive, and any operation you do with a drive. Hard drives may not have a write cycle limitation like ssds, but they have moving parts that wear with use. So theres not really anything you can do to avoid the issue. To video edit period, you’re going to put wear on your drive.

Also to give some context, average SSDs have about 100,000 write cycles per cell, before write failure can have a chance of happening. Since it distributes it out across the cells, you could write 1GB to a 1TB SSD about 100 million times. This isn’t a small number really, it’ll take a while to do that. I’ve been editing here and there on my ssd for 5+ years on top of full time video game development and it still works fine, with no signs of stopping. I read some guy online who edited video nearly every day for three years, and the ssd software still said he had about 10% of the ssd life remaining before write failures. So depending in your work flow your drive could last 4 to 10+ years.

The only real differences here are cost and speed. Do you want to wait around for a slow hdd while you’re editing, or do you want to edit quickly and enjoy the process? I personally would always edit on an SSD because you’re not solving the problem by using something else. Like yea, maybe a hard drive would last twice as long as an ssd, but it’s also twice as slow, so you’re just stretching those, say, 5 years of man-hours into 10. You’re not actually getting more work done.

Lmao the down votes on this are really funny to me