Mikeb85

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by Mikeb85 4y ago
I mean, the main shortcoming of Ruby is that it was designed 25 years ago and is being used for far more than it was designed for... Pony is a great language though. And yes it has an amazing concurrency and parallelism model and showcases
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
Literally the whole West's defense spending for the last 70 years has been to counter Russia. Supporting Ukraine is the single most cost-effective thing any Western government can do right now...
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
Well that's not anytime soon at this rate...
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
With RCpp writing a function in C++ that you can then use from R is easy. So you do as much as you can in R, then if you reach a bottleneck, use a lil CPP, then R. It's still nice.
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
This. I was hoping Julia would be a quicker and more pleasant R. Instead it's turning into a super ambitious language that wants to be as fast as C++ but that makes it slightly less pleasant and useful than R. And if I need C++ spee
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
They can, they just usually don't, as more dangerous viruses kill their host before they can spread as far...
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
> Elixir is pretty widely considered to be the Ruby successor Ummm what? Elixir is just a friendlier Erlang. It in no way replaces anything Ruby does...
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
JetBrains was founded in the Czech Republic ~2 decades ago. While what you say is no doubt true for many of their employees, I'm guessing their founders have had enough time to distance themselves from Russia given their exit was alwa
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
They closed their Russia offices and no longer do any business in Russia. https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2022/03/11/jetbrains-stateme...
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
Yes, it's inevitable. Russia can't lose to Ukraine so they'll pick a fight with the West. China needs Taiwan and is betting that the West won't stop them. The West not directly intervening in Russia/Ukraine signa
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
> Russia won the war in the first 72 hours, This is a hilariously bad take considering they attempted to take Kyiv in the first 72 hours and now they're grinding for minimal gains in the south while losing most of their modern equip
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
They're popular because they're good. Other board games existed long ago that few have heard of and no one plays. But chess and go stuck around for a reason...
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
Or you can just use the hardware the employer is paying for, plus paying you to use...
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
> what's not used is not tested What are they going to test on Windows? It's a web platform that runs on a Linux server... And Rails is kinda annoying to develop on using Windows, you definitely won't put it on a Windows
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
I mean, they use Rails, and Ruby/Rails are annoying to use on Windows. I imagine Windows is a massive headache not worth dealing with considering their stack...
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
Still silly considering their solution is a large amount of complexity for limited benefit. Most roads have lower speed limits (thus aerodynamic drag is not nearly as significant) and long-haul trucking isn't really a thing in the Ame
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
Godot, Defold, GameMaker.
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
> Make it more aerodynamic. EU trucks today have flat fronts and flat back. They're super aero-inefficient Since you obviously haven't driven on the roads these trucks need to navigate, I'll just say it: they're flat
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
> black plastic body is just horrible It might not "feel" premium or durable but it's way more durable than aluminum... Also doesn't heat up as much on your lap.
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
It's not distributed outside Google so yes, you can. Read the GPL...
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
> How many PSY PSY was successful before and after Gangnam Style... But he's a Korean artist and never meant to go global so of course his appeal might be limited beyond one funny video.
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
There's plenty of techniques you can learn in 5 minutes. The key is to show something in 5 minutes. Whether it's just an egg, or just assembling a salad, making something in a blender, anything. On TikTok you can see a whole r
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
Fair enough but while I've used list comprehensions or similar constructs while doing stats, never seen it in game code. Usually it's just incrementing things in a loop, rather than creating lists... Like why wouldn't you jus
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
Maybe look at the code of real games out there to find out why list comprehensions aren't needed in a game engine specific language and what typical code looks like...
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
> gimped, less expressive That's the point. Lots of what Python does isn't required in a game engine and is slow. It's basically visual scripting but quicker to produce, the whole thing is C++ underneath.
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
> It's certainly easier for devs coming from C++ or Java than "weird python-like scripting language that we had to invent and are now stuck with". ??? You can do everything in Godot in C++... And GDScript isn't exact
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
Just curious if you've ever actually taught someone to cook before? Like, I can definitely see a market for something that teaches skills versus recipes. I've thought about doing it myself. But if someone wants to learn to cook
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
I wish you good luck but I don't get it either. The thing that makes Duolingo great is that right away you learn words in a new language. It hooks you. Within 1 lesson you know several words or a phrase with a few variations. This is
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
Why would you want list comprehensions in a game engine? It's just sugar to make looping over a list or array look more functional but not particularly useful in a game.
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
They do, it's called the master GitHub branch. But generally if you're shipping something that doesn't get updated as often (you don't want to update via Google Play or Steam as often as a website would) you'd like

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