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Jare
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8mo ago
I remember a magazine cover that labeled you a gaming god, hard to peak beyond that! The quote you provided back then resonates perfectly with what you describe here: "If there's one message I like to get across to people, I like
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8mo ago
Nobody says there's no money to make anymore. But the space for that is limited, no matter how many millions hustle, there's only 100 spots in the top 100.
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8mo ago
I think the keyword here is "some". It already seemed like we were approaching the limit of what it makes sense to develop, with 15 frameworks for the same thing and a new one coming out next week, lots of services offering the sa
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8mo ago
Mike is really classy handling all the replies which of course can sometimes get a bit incendiary https://www.reddit.com/r/adobeanimate/comments/1qv5yju/comme... > To be clear, this isn't a "
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8mo ago
From their FAQ: > Starting March 1, 2026, the app will no longer be available for purchase. >> I have already downloaded Animate. Will the app still work? > Yes. Animate will continue to work. I wish they were more explicit in d
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9mo ago
Normally you don't want to read the comments, but if you're curious about the topic please make an exception here.
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9mo ago
> I certainly wouldn't start by reading the commit log Me neither, for what is worth. But even if the idea is "when in order to figure out this issue, you have to go to the history", a linear history and a linear log never
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9mo ago
> How do you define "clean"? In the context of merge vs rebase, I think "clean" means linear, without visible parallel lines. Quality of commit messages is orthogonal. I agree with the poster that this particular flav
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9mo ago
I thought the reason for this to be a visa is because their fields' activities were in-person (acting in movies/plays/shows, academic life & research, sports training & leagues, etc). A streamer / OF worker is no
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9mo ago
When I recently installed Windows 11 on my new rig, it didn't recognize the built-in motherboard wifi and I could only connect after installation of Windows + mobo drivers. How would that work now?
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9mo ago
Kinda depends on the size of your current one.
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9mo ago
IIRC someone did exactly that around 15 years ago, a game renderer using div strips, first with Wolfenstein and then Doom. It may have been "Jacob Seidelin" who was very active experimenting with early HTML5 tech, but I've lo
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9mo ago
Thank you, that made perfect sense and in a very simple (simplified but relevant) way. Besides the idea that such risks get aggregated over a portfolio, I can also imagine how the raw numbers flipping from - to + may be useful to paint as
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9mo ago
> For the right investor base, $10B in annual losses at OpenAI could be worth $2-3B in tax shields (depending on their bracket and how the structure works). That completely changes the return calculation I know nothing about finances at
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9mo ago
When you are making predictions about what you are going to do, "correctly" is spelled "honestly".
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10mo ago
> we're burnt out because everything we want is simply too expensive Perhaps the problem starts with the fact that we continue to steer society in the direction where everything we want costs money.
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10mo ago
Just because it's legal and in the open doesn't mean it's sound or not creating perverse incentives. Investors that "should be taking that into account" probably are, and hoping that they come out on top when the bu
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10mo ago
I never had any hope or interest to compete in the leaderboard, but I found it fun to check it out, see times, time differences ("omg 1 min for part 1 and 6 for part 2"), lookup the names of the leaders to check if they have somet
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11mo ago
I remember laughing so hard at this, during their GDC lecture about Jak's tech. I haven't verified it but I suspect it's this one https://gdcvault.com/play/1022734/The-Technology-of-Jak-Daxt...
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11mo ago
Jak and Daxter is as legendary for its charm and tech as it was for its crazy tricks. The one I cherish the most is how if Jak was running to the next zone before streaming had completed loading it, Jak would just trip and fall for no appar
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11mo ago
> it's still the best OS by a mile. I wish I could disagree, but Microsoft won't let me thanks to their determination and speed in destroying what was good about Windows. Right now I find myself forced to use macos for iOS dev,
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11mo ago
Obligatory "this painting is a mathematical formula, a big function on the x and y coordinates of each pixel" video from Iñigo Quilez. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8--5LwHRhjk
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1y ago
It's full of little quirks and annoyances in my experience. I find it gives me random problems a lot more often than Win10 or Linux gave me. Wifi connectivity, unable to wake from sleep, video playback causing flashes. Nothing constant
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1y ago
My recent experience with Linux Mint on a new PC is the opposite. I went from USB installer to a fully functional system with drivers, chrome, my fave web pages, and my fave games on Steam and Battlenet, etc running flawlessly without ever
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1y ago
Ahhhhh PDS the memories and the crashes and the corrupted source files... I used it for 2 years against the ZX Spectrum (and I guess Amstrad and MSX but I don't actually remember) hosted on an Atari ST, and it was fast to iterate. But
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1y ago
After my recent (and dismayingly poor) experience with a new PC on Windows 11, I wonder: Windows 11 installer did not recognize my wifi card (integrated in asus motherboard), so my installation was purely offline. I had to install manufactu
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1y ago
I recently bought a big new desktop and before putting Windows 11 on it I decided to check out Linux (Mint, can't even remember why that one). The experience was amazing, everything worked out of the box and every Windows game I tried
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1y ago
> high expectations with minimal empowerment to achieve those expectations One of the things that I've done multiple times over my career is, to be completely open and clarify expectations on the other side / higher ups. One of
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1y ago
> Of course it’s the goddamn filename. Cue in a few dozen oldschool game developers thinking, right from the first paragraph, "did he name his game game.exe"?
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1y ago
I recall that handling disc eject was an explicit part of the Tech Requirements Doc (things the console manufacturer requires you to comply with). They'd typically check while playing, while loading and while streaming.
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