DivisionSol

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by DivisionSol 6y ago
Er, no one is forcing any developer to make an app for iOS.
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by DivisionSol 6y ago
Saw this come a mile away when they started jacking up the subscription cost for hobbyist licenses (~late 2019 according to my emails.) Instead of being an on-ramp for their serious offerings, it was just too good and needed to be hooked up
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by DivisionSol 6y ago
What? How about make a product that actually works? Epic Games Store is a slog to operate, with weird UX decisions across the board. People hated Ubisoft trying to cram their platform down their throats because it was a buggy mess. People a
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by DivisionSol 6y ago
Apple & Google both did it, and are doing nothing to stop others from entering the (phone) market. Just because a market is hard or expensive to get into doesn't mean it's not a market worth entering. The real crux is Epic doe
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by DivisionSol 6y ago
There is nothing stopping the Browser from providing AAA experiences, today, other than... Most likely, only a 'good' game engine. JavaScript + WebGL are very capable, right now, and for the past ~5 years.
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by DivisionSol 6y ago
Epic has no interest in doing things that are for the good of average gamer. Just trying to slice of various pieces of pies, and Linux gaming is too small to care.
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by DivisionSol 6y ago
I wonder what the price would've been without AMD dipping their toes into the GPU market again. I very much assume Nvidia slices price, to not only compete but also crush the AMD GPU market. Nvidia's innovation is crazy huge, but
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by DivisionSol 6y ago
Just like Apple holds a gun to developer’s heads to develop for the iOS. Epic is at least bringing the joy of console exclusives to the desktop. Innovative!
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by DivisionSol 6y ago
But there are 2 stores, and you make the choice of packaging for one or the other. You can also make your own store, if you want. (In this analogy, that is. You cannot make a store inside a store, that’d be silly.) Basically, you can still
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by DivisionSol 6y ago
Not to whataboutism too hard, but Epic made an animated short mocking a past Apple advertisement. Further, tried to brew up a hashtag shame campaign. And finally ending with a holier than thou email over this whole ordeal. Apple is just pro
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by DivisionSol 6y ago
Yes. Game consoles are just as much “general purpose computers” as phones are. Volume and ubiquity doesn’t change that (modern) game consoles have the architecture required to run anything you want, even easier than needing to compile for A
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by DivisionSol 6y ago
I think this argument is on shaky ground when Epic Game Store can only be installed on Windows. Rocket League lost MacOS/Linux support when absorbed into the Epic Game Store. Imagine if Windows was the only way to distribute games. Fur
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by DivisionSol 6y ago
They're tacking on a recurring revenue stream (App Store) onto their one-time sale (iPhone). Margins on both fund the innovation machine. Also, with the outrage over companies needing to layoff/cut hours during(now) Covid-19 becau
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by DivisionSol 6y ago
But did have everything to do with developing the hardware capable of running the game on a handheld device?
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by DivisionSol 6y ago
Developers have a choice when it comes to Apple as well. They make their software, and they chose to sell it on Android and iOS devices. Is it just because Apple is “big” and has cultivated themselves a valuable customer base the reason the
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by DivisionSol 6y ago
Sounds reasonable, thanks! Didn’t know of the Google search deal.
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by DivisionSol 6y ago
I’m just curious as to why. Bigger market share == bigger marketing/advertising share, specifically? Or something else?
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by DivisionSol 6y ago
How do I pay for Firefox directly? Donating to the foundation seems noble, but like other commentators have mentioned it all gets absorbed into the foundation or is part of a 'bonus product' bundle that (in my mind) overvalues a s
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by DivisionSol 6y ago
Uh oh, you used the 'steal' word when referring to digital goods. A non-insignificant group of pirates don't consider downloading content to be 'theft.'
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by DivisionSol 6y ago
This is a problem I've encountered on my projects. I just want to nestle them all in a `config/` folder. Alas, lots of the tools really dislike if you would like a configuration in a spot other than the root directory. Suddenly yo
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by DivisionSol 6y ago
Anecdotal: Got hit with a password lock on a pretty unused Instacart account ~7 days ago (Jul 15). Possibly a password leak from another site resulting in a targeted large-scale account access to download customer data from a leaky API? (Ba
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by DivisionSol 6y ago
When I’m working with Unix utilities like grep or doing stuff with xargs... it genuinely feels like I’m playing with legos. I feel like this is trying to argue for more “consulting surgeons” when we need more “tooling machinists” who know h
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by DivisionSol 6y ago
No talking points, but since everyone finds the value in it and you don’t, maybe you’re wrong and should give it a try?
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Nvidia CUDA support in Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 in insider preview(blogs.windows.com)
2 points by DivisionSol 6y ago|0 comments
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by DivisionSol 6y ago
I agree with you entirely. In terms of productivity, having been given a MacBook Pro at the places I've worked, versus the hoops I needed to climb through to try and develop on Windows in my free time: The experience is miles beyond. A
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by DivisionSol 6y ago
Miserable. Even if it wasn't officially supported, I have fun messing with the iCE40 open source toolchain on my dev boards. In fact, the whole reason I know of Lattice is because of the open-source toolchain that was scraped together,
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by DivisionSol 6y ago
I was working on a reply and wanted to do some research into verifying some things, but here is an article (there may be better articles out there): https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/06/defining-tetris-how-c
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by DivisionSol 7y ago
"dangerous"? Edit: I personally know a good amount of people for that is a life goal.
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by DivisionSol 7y ago
http://www.cs.uu.nl/docs/vakken/magr/2017-2018/files/SIMD%20... https://bisqwit.iki.fi/story/howto/openmp/ The two guides I found useful to get started.
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by DivisionSol 7y ago
Sorry, not much to back it up other than lack of knowledge of any shared-wafer fabs in the US. From what I can tell, having a fab in the US is more a consequence of wanting to make one's own chips, not 'chips as a commodity'

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