DagAgren

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by DagAgren 6y ago
Why is it not? People use it in plain text millions of times a day.
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by DagAgren 6y ago
Because all of those symbols are used as part of text, while the external link symbol isn't. It is not part of the text itself. If you copied that text, you would not really expect the link symbol to be copied along with it.
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by DagAgren 6y ago
The backspace symbol makes perfect sense. You may very well want to say "Press ⌫ to delete the selected object".
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by DagAgren 6y ago
It is not. Coroutines are a much more fundamental feature. They can be used to implement cooperative multitasking, and since that is such a common use case, they have gotten confused with the concept of cooperative multitasking. Actual coro
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by DagAgren 6y ago
Why exactly would the left want a union-busting, worker-absuing billionaire on its side? He is everything the left should be opposing.
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by DagAgren 6y ago
I think it might be more helpful if he just stopped being a massive asshole.
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by DagAgren 6y ago
Is it really that much to ask them to do their part to keep hundreds of thousands of people from dying painfully. Is that really not something they are prepared to do.
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by DagAgren 6y ago
Never trust a billionaire.
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by DagAgren 6y ago
He is mad that the lockdown is losing him money, and he wants to force people to risk their lives to go back to work making him money.
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by DagAgren 6y ago
There is no such thing as "technology by itself".
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by DagAgren 6y ago
I've seen people try to use YOLO for homebrewing a self-driving car. There's not even any need to go as far as assume evil intent on the users of the software, just plain recklessness can easily cause people to die.
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by DagAgren 6y ago
So the author goes, "wait, this actually causes more evil than good, I will not work on it any longer", and the other guy goes "don't worry, I will keep doing the evil for you!" Sigh.
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by DagAgren 6y ago
Doesn't that tend to give you washed out colours, though?
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by DagAgren 6y ago
I'd say the really exciting stuff happening in smartphones are the things going on with computational photography, like Apple's Deep Fusion. This is moving beyond the limitations of single lenses and single sensors and enabling so
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by DagAgren 6y ago
This is not at all "very likely".
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by DagAgren 6y ago
It is not "pixel perfection". It is many things besides, such as behaviours, generally agreed-upon layouts, spacings and margins, accessibility, the list goes on and on and on. I have not seen a Qt app on macOS that did not stand
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by DagAgren 6y ago
Pixel-identical to itself and nothing else. That is useless.
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by DagAgren 6y ago
Neither of those are anywhere near good enough. "Looking reasonably native" is miles away from the goal.
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by DagAgren 6y ago
In reality, if you want to actually make a serious, usable and comfortable GUI, there is no cross-platform solution. There are many attempts, but none will let you create a GUI that actually fulfils all those requirements. If you are making
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by DagAgren 6y ago
You're still going to be updating at 60 FPS which will absolutely murder your battery on a mobile device. These are meant for use in games that already do this. They are not suitable for building regular apps.
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by DagAgren 6y ago
This is nowhere near as bad as things would be if it was left unchecked.
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by DagAgren 6y ago
The one who misunderstood is you. When people talk about a "game engine" in 2020, they are not talking about drawing code. They are talking about something much, much bigger.
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by DagAgren 6y ago
Sure, but that is a ton of work. Getting it for free, even if it is not perfectly suited to your needs, it a huge time saver.
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by DagAgren 6y ago
That is the whole point of lockdowns, to bring the outbreak down enough that these methods are reasonable again.
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by DagAgren 6y ago
It will most definitely reduce the number of infections. It allows us to reach the point of where measures like test-and-trace become possible after a smaller number of infections, and those measures can further suppress and even eradicate
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by DagAgren 6y ago
Why do you assume those jobs could be saved? Do you think they would have carried on as normal if the pandemic had been allowed to spread unchecked?
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by DagAgren 6y ago
You are still severely underestimating what a modern game engine does. The technical side is only one part of it. Integrated content creation and editing is a huge part of it.
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by DagAgren 6y ago
You wouldn't, you'd compile it yourself at that point.
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by DagAgren 6y ago
The nice side effect here is that even if you are not targeting browsers, if you want a modern, fast, usable and cross-platform 3D API, there now is one, which hasn't been the case for a long time. And there are at least two different
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by DagAgren 6y ago
1. Vulkan, Direct3D, Metal, and OpenGL are all native 3D APIs on different platforms. 2. WebGPU is a new 3D API, designed to be used in browsers (but not limited to them) and implemented on top of one or more of the native APIs. 3. wgpu-nat

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