GaelFG

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by GaelFG 4y ago
It does : the House and Senate, would lay down key ground rules for dominant firms including Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Amazon.com Inc., Apple Inc., Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. and Microsoft Corp.
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by GaelFG 4y ago
Ouch for wargammers :x they were a costly but wonderfull utilities for modular miniatures, sceneries and 'avoid broking your miniatures during transport'. Edit : after some research : - I dont know if that will affect wargames : w
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by GaelFG 4y ago
I don't know if it's related (but the goal is clearly the same : more transparency and state agency over money exchanges, probably genuine side bonus : less paperwork for everyone ) but France is currently rolling out mandatory di
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by GaelFG 4y ago
I would bet a great part of non-working-in-natural-science-population are geniously persuaded the theory of evolution imply 'intent' from an abstract entity called 'nature'. It was one of my mind blowing moment during st
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by GaelFG 4y ago
"clicking them to cost them that fraction of a cent." ahahah, I remember when I tried some paid advertising on facebook for my game, 2 weeks later I visited my mother proudly saying : - 'Me and my friends see a lot of your co
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by GaelFG 4y ago
I find it funny, Turkey was aldready a good test case for handling international users data :), I spend some hours on a bug in json with integer parsing of some users integer inputs in rares cases. It was because of the way they write/
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by GaelFG 4y ago
My two cents having 0 experience in building construction but having a fdm 3d printer is it's simply a 'market fit' optimization. It's a pretty new technology, at this point I think you can mainly hope to sell them to en
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by GaelFG 4y ago
An university courses about this, along with drugs, coma, burst of anger and various other 'non-standard states of mind' (sorry it in french but with a google translate you should be able to get researcher names and read some of t
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by GaelFG 4y ago
I'm glad for you to hear it was a "rational" response and you were really not interested. The fact the project was 1KB of code was also unknown of me be reading the tweets, and explain furthermore the reaction :)
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by GaelFG 4y ago
In fact my point is : I don't find a citation of the mail stating they refused to pay. What I understand of the twitter feed is : - someone sent a (probably mass vendor targeted) mail asking for a form filling. - The author interpreted
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by GaelFG 4y ago
Funny, probably a cultural thing, in France (in my experience, it maybe depend the context) when you have a special request from a professional entity (company or freelance), you describe your need, the professional say if he can do it, and
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by GaelFG 4y ago
I'm surprised the reaction is 'how they dare'. If you are personally contacted by one of the biggest game company wich would want to use one of your tools, a better response would've be a contract offer no (without tryin
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by GaelFG 4y ago
I don't know the collector personally, but for having been/witnessed friends being interviewed by entertainment press reporters a few times, it's totally possible the article author just wanted to make the story more dramatic
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by GaelFG 4y ago
That's the narrative and it may be true but do you know people doing this for such amounts ? I mean it's based on : - video game are a popular subject - some people like to collect things for disproportionate money values (it&#x27
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by GaelFG 4y ago
I totally see the point, and I wonder if true (really high price) buyers exist, the sums are lesser (but still) but there recently was another story, for simply fake rare games : https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022&#x2F
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by GaelFG 4y ago
Edit to clarify : I don't doubt this specific robbing story, and I'm sad for the owner. It's the narrative about million dollars game cartridge, which can be read "a lot" in press and appear in the middle of the art
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by GaelFG 4y ago
Totally not defending them, and depending how much staff you've seen (if it's in the hundred, yeah probably for the show) but I work in video game development with blockchain related stuff and even if I don't work in myself,
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by GaelFG 4y ago
"So using electricity instead of natural gas in your home is wasteful." I (genuinely) wonder if what's true. I remember thinking the same things about electric car "how can burning fuel in a factory, storing it, send it
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by GaelFG 4y ago
Living in France, the lie is also obvious for a very sad reason : we aldready don't do anything significant in case of a majority of 'obvious' child abuses (sex related or not, that's not even the point). I know a fair a
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by GaelFG 4y ago
Which country if it not indiscreet ? I know internet access quality vary a lot between countries and I'm curious.
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by GaelFG 4y ago
I also think the 'client side' mechanic is bad, but why does it should mater for investors and companies ? Is it morally so different than say an Apple fan (I pick a random exemple of more expensive products than average where not
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by GaelFG 4y ago
I think "effective rebranding for marketing purposes of database technologies" alone justify all the fuss, business wise. I'm working in gaming, and in pc gaming today, when you ask 5$ pretax and preplatform fee, customers th
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by GaelFG 5y ago
I would assume because the technic is absurd but it was not important during the trial. The important fact was they did find a human corpse where they were looking. You probably need to say how you found the corpse, if was probably labelled
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by GaelFG 5y ago
A bit off topic but as a game developper I see surprising often the opinion : "This is why games often make you buy some currency and then use that currency to buy loot boxes" ,it's even in my google search top : https:&#x2F
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by GaelFG 5y ago
I can't understand the sentence : "Each night, a different company would try to outdo the others with a lavish party designed for frat boys that would fall feebly at the feet of a Dungeons & Dragons crowd." can someone ex
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by GaelFG 5y ago
I would argue the 'standard' Unity game dev shop are made of experienced burned out developpers from 'standard tech' big shops managing enthousiastics but 'incompetents' (I quote the word i'm not sure it&
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by GaelFG 5y ago
I think they always had a ton of them, and they did generate money, but I remember a debate some years ago about I-dont-remeber-wich-game with "totally nsfw content" and Valve explicitely said they were open to the genre (probably
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by GaelFG 5y ago
The sad part is that a dedicated server don't cost that much. (a 60$/month rented server could handle a lot of users if the underlying engine isn't poorly optimizated). But like old time mmorpg guild basic infrastructure (tea
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by GaelFG 5y ago
If you have 'solved' the money problem for your personal life and seems looking for 'purpose' and 'positive feeling reward' have you considered giving time to charity/community (specificaly 'local&#x2
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by GaelFG 5y ago
Of course it may vary a lot but i would say a hundred of thousands of users (100 000). To explain the number, I assume a user will spend 1% of it's time on your app (that mean the average user spend around 15min per day (EVERY DAY) on

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