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New comment by rafaelvasco in "A Video Game That Pays: Lessons Learned from Working Remotely"

rafaelvasco — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 23:04:09 +0000

Almost nothing in my career (13 years) was ever really fun. Very discrete moments. Only consistent fun I ever have is on my personal projects... Actually the more the things I'm working on on my clients projects resemble my personal projects (I'm into game dev) the more fun I have. Which is very very rare.

New comment by rafaelvasco in "A brain injury removed my ability to perceive time"

rafaelvasco — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 13:32:32 +0000

Time, as we perceive it doesn't really exist. It's much more complicated than what we perceive, as it should be otherwise we would not be able to live in society. Our brains create the apparent linearity of time to give us a sense of progression. But it doesn't really work that way. In my opinion, no evidence here, we could even communicate with someone that lived in the past. Because that's not the absolute past. That person lives still in another layer of reality. As such there's no such thing as past and future. It's just a construct from our brains. That's my view. Not affirming anything.

New comment by rafaelvasco in "Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation"

rafaelvasco — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 20:43:39 +0000

For me it was all about listening to a lot of people talking in English, memorizing the exact sounds and pronunciation. And then reading books out loud everyday. It helps that I have a very good ear, but it should work for anyone.

New comment by rafaelvasco in "People experience ‘new dimensions of reality' when dying: study"

rafaelvasco — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 14:28:13 +0000

And it's indeed heightened consciousness and not merely hallucinations as in several cases people describe scenes and events occurring around them or even far away from them, that are later confirmed and verified. My only conclusion is that somehow our consciousness is completely independent from our brains, is connected to everything like a huge network, and survives death to exist in another dimension of reality.

New comment by rafaelvasco in "The pool of talented C++ developers is running dry"

rafaelvasco — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 19:20:21 +0000

If having a VM/GC is acceptable then C# is the overall best language/framework today, meaning that it ranges from good to great in everything: Web, Game Dev, Desktop Dev, Mobile etc. Otherwise there's no general contender. With C#, these days you can go for unsafe code and dealing with native code in safer ways using new/ish features of the language: Span/Memory, refs, ref attributes etc. Or just use good old pointers directly and manage everything yourself.

New comment by rafaelvasco in "Dreamachine"

rafaelvasco — Sat, 03 Sep 2022 14:10:17 +0000

I have a pair of glasses with leds that pulsate light at different frequencies following a programmed routine on an arduino chip. You, of course, use it with eyes closed. First time I used it I felt pretty bad, but there was something intriguing going on. I tried it again the next day and it was amazing. It induces a state of very deep relaxation. As the routine progresses you get more and more relaxed. Your mind really changes from an alert alpha frequency, to a delta or theta frequency. At the end of it I feel like I did a session of deep meditation with mantras. So yes, this really does work.

New comment by rafaelvasco in "I fucking hate Jira"

rafaelvasco — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 23:33:10 +0000

Problem, is mostly with bad PMs, POs, Scrum masters and all the other potato heads, not Jira itself.

New comment by rafaelvasco in "The 'Batman Effect': How having an alter ego empowers you (2020)"

rafaelvasco — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 01:16:25 +0000

This enforces the idea, which I believe is absolutely true, that our identity, the concept we have of ourselves is actually a persona created by us, throughout our entire lives, built from our experiences, memories, traumas etc. It is not set in stone. It is a fabrication. We can change it at will. We could even destroy it and build a new one from scratch. Once you realize this, you can see how powerful this is. You can in fact do anything or be anything just by manipulating your persona and putting in the work to make it a reality.

New comment by rafaelvasco in "Is Elden Ring that hard? Well, it depends what you mean by “hard”"

rafaelvasco — Sat, 12 Mar 2022 13:47:30 +0000

It is. In its genre, I'm pretty sure it's now the best game of all time.

New comment by rafaelvasco in "Is Elden Ring that hard? Well, it depends what you mean by “hard”"

rafaelvasco — Sat, 12 Mar 2022 13:46:20 +0000

I'll probably die far more then in the previous games as things are going. And this is a great thing. This is now my favorite game of all time.

New comment by rafaelvasco in "Do birds have language? It depends on how you define it"

rafaelvasco — Sat, 26 Feb 2022 18:58:58 +0000

If language is just a means of communication. Then everything has one. Plants, animals, even a piece of rock. A rock may appear dead. But its atoms behave a certain way, following certain laws. As such it may communicate in some level as well.

New comment by rafaelvasco in "Arcane director of animation on how they did it"

rafaelvasco — Wed, 24 Nov 2021 01:54:05 +0000

I was in awe the entire thing. Best animated series I've ever seen. Textures, animation, lightning, facial expressions, overall effects. Everything is top notch. I don't even play LoL and I was left wanting a single player game with all the characters.

New comment by rafaelvasco in "WSL2 can now mount Linux ext4 disks directly"

rafaelvasco — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 12:58:06 +0000

There was a reason for me to dual boot Linux before. There's no reason now. Windows now fulfills all my needs. OS singularity.

New comment by rafaelvasco in "WSL2 can now mount Linux ext4 disks directly"

rafaelvasco — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 12:52:50 +0000

I use WSL2 daily for work. It's much better then using a fullblown VM, because it's much much faster to open and is completely integrated into Windows, and works seamlessly with Docker for Windows, which is now an order of magnitude faster compared to before. Soon, using VM applications like VirtualBox will make no sense at all for most use cases.

New comment by rafaelvasco in "Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, death by 85%"

rafaelvasco — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 18:34:39 +0000

Makes sense to me. Thanks.

New comment by rafaelvasco in "Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, death by 85%"

rafaelvasco — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 17:52:34 +0000

Maybe it could if left unchecked and mutating up and down ?

New comment by rafaelvasco in "In C++, is empty() faster than comparing the size with zero?"

rafaelvasco — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 12:30:48 +0000

Probably because , for this case, comparing for > or < is faster than equality comparison. Which from my experience is true.

New comment by rafaelvasco in ".NET Hot Reload Support via CLI"

rafaelvasco — Sun, 24 Oct 2021 12:36:35 +0000

Absolutely agree.

New comment by rafaelvasco in ".NET Hot Reload Support via CLI"

rafaelvasco — Sun, 24 Oct 2021 04:31:35 +0000

Been using .NET since 2010. To this day I haven't found anything better overall (for my use cases). Experimented here and there, but in the end I always come back to C#. And it keeps getting better.

New comment by rafaelvasco in ".NET Hot Reload Support via CLI"

rafaelvasco — Sun, 24 Oct 2021 04:28:40 +0000

VS2022 takes ~5 seconds to start. Auto complete is milliseconds etc. Starting anything is a couple seconds max.

There's something very wrong with your machine.

VS2022 is an amazing experience end-to-end.