ferm

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What are the best games for connecting with old childhood friends (casual gamers) that have drifted apart? in c/gaming
[–] ferm 3 points 1 year ago

I play Minecraft with old friends primarily as a means to chat with them

*Permanently Deleted* in c/technology
[–] ferm 3 points 1 year ago

I love them and I wish Apple would support them better. wefwef doesn’t have >60fps animation support and it’s very annoying

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When should I stop writing? (self.learnjapanese)
 

Hey all, my goal is to be at an ability level where I would be comfortable living in Tokyo while working at a company that speaks English in the office.

To that end, I've been working through Genki and its workbook. I've noticed that the slowest part for me is the workbook exercises, because of all of the writing I'm doing. Additionally, while I'm learning kanji (through WaniKani) I'm not trying to learn how to write it. So I'm doing all of these exercises by writing down kana. This is starting to seem a little ridiculous because trying to read my kana-only answers is challenging (the kanji apparently helps me read).

Do I keep going like through all of Genki and even through Quartet? Or should I call it quits and start typing my answers?

Was anyone else surprised to see Kbin being written in PHP? in c/programming
[–] ferm 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Having spent my college years writing dozens of Node apps, when I got a job writing PHP I actually loved it. It was weird at first, the syntax looks old and gross, and it certainly doesn't have the sex-appeal. That being said, I didn't have to spend hours setting up an environment, I didn't have to think much about how to pull in packages, and concurrency via async/await made my life so much easier. The just-copy-everything mentality also meant I could basically never make a mistake ;)

I write C++ (for games) now and often wish things were as easy as when I wrote PHP.