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You would think that, and you'd be wrong. Many streamers dislike Twitch, in the same way many YouTubers dislike YouTube for their policies. Most stick around, because they saw what happened to Ninja, and he represented the best of wh
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Very few of AWS's costs are in the hardware. Nearly all of Hetzner's costs are in the hardware. That's why AWS, and Azure, and GCP are so much more expensive. Margin is a really weird statistic to calculate in the "cloud
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Right, but that's not what I'm saying. Whether or not the added network quality offers a tangible benefit to most customers isn't relevant to how it is priced. You, as the customer, need to make that call. The reality is, the
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I don't feel as sure about this; there's very little evidence that Amazon is putting a "50% margin", or any significant percent, on x86 servers. Sure, they're more expensive than, just for comparisons' sake, Li
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Game consoles don't have the kind of monopoly market that smartphone makers have. Firstly, because smartphones have evolved to become a generally indispensable item for most people, whereas game consoles don't have the same broad
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I do too. But, a better middle-ground needs to be found which services both consumers and developers. It could literally be as simple as something closer to a 90/10 split.
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"Xbox" is more than just the console; the Microsoft Store is a unified platform used to distribute both their console and PC games.
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I would be willing to bet a non-zero amount of money that, much like the average Hacker News reader would woefully under-estimate how much .Net code is out there being written today, so to would we woefully underestimate how much usage the
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For a full view of not just what an executive says, but Microsoft's actions here: The Windows app store gives a 95/5 cut to developers, as long as the download happened from an external link to the page. If the discovery happened
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So, because it may not be possible in what is legitimately a small minority of cases, it should never be done in any case?
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There are some general tricks that are language-agnostic, like allocating a huge "buffer" object when the app starts, the size of which is some significant portion of the memory you allow the process to use, which always has a ref
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Yeah; I think your timeline is off. I don't remember React being the very clear choice until probably 2017. It was still up in the air in 2016, and certainly moreso in 2015. > by 2015 React "won" the framework battle. Th
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Bad link. This is just some random person on Twitter asking about it. No relation to Github. Nat does have a reply buried in the responses; that should have been linked.
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Then why do even modern games still use these map and character movement tricks? According to you, this problem should be solved! Because its not solved. Games have only gotten bigger; assets are bigger than ever. Having a hard drive in eve
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Predicatively caching assets will absolutely still happen, but the critical point is that it has to happen less ; if developers had to "predict" the next 20 seconds of viewports a player may see on a hard drive, an SSD may drop t
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Right; this isn't a Nintendo 64 situation where the jump is so technologically huge that it enables fundamentally new experiences because of the jump. Its a situation where all the pieces were already out there, and now they're ju
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> Erm, texture loading from RAM to the GPU memory already is critiqued in games, since players can see the slowdown when it happens. Well then, its good that the PS5 doesn't have system memory; like the PS4 before it, it uses a unif
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There is a really critical component of having an SSD, and knowing you'll have an SSD (as a game developer) which is easily missed (the article may cover this, but just to reiterate). Lets say you only have 8gb of memory. Most importan
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> If you want k8s, you really do need people that know how to maintain it on a more or less full time schedule. I think this is roughly similar to saying "if you want linux, you need people that know how to maintain it." Which
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Maybe this is mentioned somewhere in the article, I haven't read the whole thing, but its important to elaborate: SMR is only in-place on WD Red drives between 2TB-6TB [1]. Everything smaller and larger than that uses CMR, and SMR isn&
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There are definitely several lines which suggests that Galactica is older than most of the fleet. I recall one line where they say something about how everything is hardwired, and there's no central computer, or something. Something ab
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"Give me Liberty, or Give me death" - Patrick Henry "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." - Ben Franklin Everyone falls on one of two side
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Zero issues with the S20. It works great; not as great as TouchID on older iPhones, as if that were still an option, but barring super wet fingers or gloves, it unlocks every time while declining the fingerprints of my other fingers and the
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Countries which I do not live in, and people whom I do not interact with. It'll get there. But, right now, it works great for me.
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People definitely do. The worst part is, an excellent upgrade exists. The RCS experience between Android users is pretty much as good as iMessage. Apple could support this; not to replace iMessage, but to upgrade SMS conversations. My tech-
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> After an attempt to stop global warming via climate engineering catastrophically backfires, creating a new ice age in 2014, the remnants of humanity have taken to a circumnavigational train, the Snowpiercer, run by recluse transportati
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I agree. Its an impossibly thin and weird line that Facebook has to walk; there are no overarching, simple policies which, when applied unilaterally, would produce an outcome that everyone finds desirable. I do think that a non-unilateral p
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Though, you risk the nuances of the comparison being lost. Lightsail is not comparable to Heroku or App Engine. Its comparable to Linode or Digital Ocean. Its not a PaaS; its a simplified VPS provider. Heroku and App Engine operate at the a
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> Lightsail: Amazon’s hosting provider (vps, dns, storage) Doesn't feel like accurate description for Lightsail, nor a useful one. Maybe something like "simplified deployment and billing for some AWS resources, including VPS,
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You can also replicate Dropbox quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, then use SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem [1] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

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