Cthulhu_

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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
> Consoles aren't specialized hardware for "magic experiences" and everyone knows this, it's just another "device" that happens to be connected to a TV with a controller where people are gatekeeping software
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
Sales is one thing, recurring revenue is another. Their mobile titles are also huge.
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
There's improvement in tech - check out the Unreal Engine's tech demos for example - but that doesn't really translate into visible end results because one, modern hardware can't handle all the bells and whistles, and tw
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
They're the same picture
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
It's... odd that while Steam is the biggest PC gaming platform and the biggest platform for new, unique, interesting games ever, Microsoft isn't investing more in the people developing games for it. Microsoft can use it to filter
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
A bit rude, this doesn't come across as spam but a genuine human sharing something interesting they came across. Peak old internet (2000s) content. The wiki article is very short and doesn't actually have more or better pictures.
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
I think (armchair analysis) it's a combination of two things, one is that it's by choice - people enjoy using LLMs, they find it valuable and convenient. As for social media, companies and society itself successfully managed to ga
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
I'm actually weirdly glad that they take this draconic step and basically say "this knowledge is forbidden", because it means that people can't solely rely on LLMs for research. They shouldn't to begin with (just li
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by Cthulhu_ 4mo ago
Yeah but you need to put that in a package that unlocks in case of your demise, timely or not. Password database and two factor authentication (back-up codes at the very least). Possibly a secondary password database if your primary one con
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by Cthulhu_ 4mo ago
Nah, licenses are already a thing - just because you have a license (or an NFT) does not guarantee you can do the thing that the license applies to. It's a job for piracy.
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by Cthulhu_ 4mo ago
Yes, up until it didn't.
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by Cthulhu_ 4mo ago
But that's not what's happening here - Sony can't take physical disks you own away from you. As for resale, interesting you bring up tickets as scalping / reselling them is a major issue, which is also hostile to consume
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by Cthulhu_ 4mo ago
Except you don't rent, you buy a license with no expiry date, but which can be revoked one-sidedly. It's all covered by the legalese, else we would've had the major lawsuits and consequent legislation changes back when the fi
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by Cthulhu_ 4mo ago
I'm sure in the various services' Ts&Cs they explain that what you buy is a license to the game, not the game itself.
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by Cthulhu_ 4mo ago
Looks like scaffolding/guard rails in a mine/quarry or mountain hiking path.
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by Cthulhu_ 4mo ago
There's a rule of thumb somewhere that booleans should always be named / represent something positive, so "enabled" instead of "disabled", "visible" instead of "hidden", and "has_been_v
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by Cthulhu_ 4mo ago
If the library wanted to get rid of them, they would've quietly removed the books; I suspect they want people to read them before they're removed, hence the "please give this book a chance" marker. A deprecation marker
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by Cthulhu_ 4mo ago
Mine was at a book publisher, so I got the books database example applied in real life lmao. The other part of that job was for a football (as in football, not handegg) magazine, they also had a database containing pretty much all football
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by Cthulhu_ 4mo ago
But for a lot of people, the focus there is in the "write on top" layer, because they enjoy it more (I suspect). Constraints etc are tested there. But this is caused by another shift (I didn't experience this firsthand so bea
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by Cthulhu_ 4mo ago
ORMs often end up defining their own domain-specific language which is neither SQL nor the language itself, so they don't really solve that problem except in the simplest cases.
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by Cthulhu_ 4mo ago
Or how to stay fit like an 1800s whaler. Where am I going to find a hook and a 200 pound chunk of whale blubber though?
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by Cthulhu_ 4mo ago
Houses where I live were fitted with those. People turned them down to the lowest settings because they were loud. Then people developed health issues due to high CO2 and they had to refit the systems.
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by Cthulhu_ 4mo ago
I think if you get caught exfiltrating data they'll sue you for much more than $200K.
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by Cthulhu_ 4mo ago
I wouldn't be surprised if they rejected it (if it were to happen), Notch is a horrible human being, only coming out as such after he sold his company. Microsoft mostly scrubbed his name from Minecraft besides one mention in the credit
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by Cthulhu_ 4mo ago
I just opened up that ray tracing tutorial and am slowly going through it, I've always been interested but never got around to it. Today I learned about the PPM image format, very accessible for this kind of thing! I mean writing a bit
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by Cthulhu_ 4mo ago
There's two dimensions here, one is US-American readers, the other is how a lot of the rest of the (non-English) world is mostly exposed to US culture through (social) media. But that's more of a thing for millennials, I would&#
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by Cthulhu_ 4mo ago
In theory, typescript doesn't need to be transpiled, you can run ts files using `node --experimental-strip-types file.ts` as long as you don't use any code that needs transpilation (like typescript enums). Still need tsx to do typ
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by Cthulhu_ 4mo ago
While that's true, in theory the company will have changed their policies and way of working already, and the industry will be aware and move away from it. In theory.
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by Cthulhu_ 4mo ago
Turns out knowledge alone isn't enough. I mean the knowledge of how to build a nuke, a microprocessor, or a rocket that can go to Mars is public information, yet building them remains elusive for a lot of countries.
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by Cthulhu_ 4mo ago
This is the part I don't understand about chip export restrictions; the argument used is that high-end chips would be used for high-tech weaponry, but most weapons don't need high-end chips, 2-5 generations old chips are good enou

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