I’m leaning heavily towards faked for the meme.

If you actually were trying to get collisions, you’d save all previously generated ids and check all of them for a match with the newest one.
Not only would this increase the chance of a collision (not enough that it should matter, but still), but it would more closely approximate a real use case - if you use UUIDs you’re not just in trouble if one specific id is duplicated, it’s usually a problem if any id is not unique.
But the presented snippet is simpler and shorter and is close enough to what a naive test might look like, so it’s well suited to getting the joke across.

The only way I could imagine this not being fake is if it was achieved in a noncompliant Js implementation. Which seems highly unlikely given the screenshot looks like the Chrome console.

I passed, but I’m fairly confident I wouldn’t have if it weren’t explicitly a test. I listened to all of them twice, with the express purpose of identifying the ones that are AI-generated.
Even then, I wasn’t as confident in my prediction as I would have liked.

I’ll say, I did enjoy all of them musically, but when I paid closer attention to the lyrics, I noticed something really odd and hard to describe in the ones generated by AI. Like some new kind of cringe. Like it would be embarrassing for a human to have written those lines, but not in a relatable kind of way. Not in the usual “I’m embarrassed for you” kind of way.
I was torn between “I hope this isn’t AI, I’m vibing with the music” and “I hope no human wrote these lyrics”.

The whole exercise also shattered my perception of my own taste in music - I liked all of the AI-generated ones and I’m not happy about it.

Side-rant:
I rarely write Python code. One reason for that is the lack of type safety.
Whenever I’m automating something and try to use some 3rd party Python library, it feels like there’s a good 50/50 chance that front and center in its API is some method that takes a dict of strings. What the fuck. I feel like there’s perhaps also something of a cultural difference between users of scripting languages and those of backend languages.

What you described sounds so much worse though holy shit.

Not a game dev either but my guess would be the main reason is server performance/compute cost.
Any checks that are done on the client run on the users’ hardware instead of the publisher having to pay for more/better servers and electricity.

I think the disconnect with most other types of developers stems from the respective goal hierarchies. In most fields of computing, correctness isn’t just a high-value goal - it’s a non-negotiable prerequisite. With online multiplayer games, one of your chief concerns is latency and it can make sense to trade some cheating for a decrease in lag. Especially if you have other ways of reducing cheating that don’t cost you any server processing power.

Also, aren’t many of the client side anti-cheat solutions reused in several games? If you’re mainly checking that the player is running exactly the same client that you published, I imagine the development cost for anti-cheat is lower.

TLDR: Money. It’s always money.

TIL

My keyboard is very keen on completing “it’s” regardless of context. I imagine this is the case for most people, since usually I see “it’s” when “its” would be correct.

I also think it’s difficult to know that “it’s” is wrong to use because it feels like it follows the common apostrophe for possession rule:
“Australia’s capital is Canberra” -> “Australia is the largest country in Oceania. It’s capital is Canberra.” (wrong, but intuitive)

This is a really good point.

I’ve also found myself messing up the run back but committing to the fight anyway with a few masks down. You can either heal back up by breaking the cocoon, or practice starting the fight low and keep the silk for later (one of the best changes from the first game IMO is making the cocoon an asset in contrast to the ghost that would harass you).

Another aspect is the run back itself. When you struggle a lot with a boss (as I often do), you will have to do the run back so many times that you passively start getting better at traversing the map. And even if the specific combos you used on the boss itself don’t necessarily translate to other bosses, the movement skills likely will keep being useful.

Didn’t personally watch the interview in question (or forgot by now) so I don’t know what they meant, but it definitely feels like lore wise Silksong can stand as an independent game with what I’ve discovered so far.

Regarding difficulty, Hollow Knight isn’t the only game that could have prepared you for Silksong I think.
I think what it helps a lot with is familiarity and mindset. The overall game loop is very similar.

That said, I think it’s wise to give HK a try before buying Silksong. It’s a cheaper game, worth playing through if you’re into these kinds of experiences and if you don’t enjoy it, chances are Silksong will not be much fun for you either.

What do you mean? For what purpose would you sort variables or functions?

The nastiest typos are autocompleted similarly named (and correctly typed) variables, functions, or types. Which is why it’s a good idea to avoid such name clashes in the first place. If this is impossible or not practical, at least put the part that differs at the start of the name.

Yup, Reddit fucked us all after we gave them our knowledge for free.
Trick people into thinking they’re contributing to a commons, steal the contributions and run. Very understandable that many people decided to retaliate after the betrayal.
I really hope decentralized knowledge bases take off. Aggregating niche knowledge from experts and non-experts everywhere the internet touches is such a valuable proposition!

I had like one useful comment posted to Reddit. I’ve left it up, and once every few months I get a comment being appreciative for the info.
Reddit gets the traffic because of Google indexing the original post of a user with the problem. People are going to visit it regardless of whether they’ll find the answer or not. In fact, if they don’t find it, they’re more likely to keep browsing posts in the hope of finding something.

Unfortunately, the data used in that map don’t appear to be corrected for population size.
So the high numbers in China and India don’t really mean much without some additional context.

The map on Wikipedia is based on deaths per 100k inhabitants, which seems more useful for gauging overall road mortality rate.

Before they knew it, the search had turned into a wild goose chase.

You can’t just say “perchance”

Can only speak for myself, but bookmarks are not at all the thing I want.

There’s more cognitive effort needed when creating a bookmark (not to mention several clicks and key presses) - I need to classify, organize, assign a folder, think about relevant tags.

More importantly: while I expect to need the tab again in the near future, it is likely to be completely useless in a few days. Creating a bookmark for that is going to be wasteful clutter that I need to spend more mental energy cleaning up.
The parent comment expressed incredulity at being able to manage that many tabs. I’m not sure how converting them to bookmarks instead helps. It just seems like I’ll need more clicks to get to my site.

Also, I care about the state saved in my open tabs and don’t want to reload the page every time I visit it. Many websites are built in such a way that loading the URL again doesn’t even restore the same state, and sometimes it doesn’t work at all.

Bookmarks are useful, and I do use them, but they are not a workable replacement for tabs, at least to me.