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by TillE 3y ago
I've had this issue a lot, usually secondhand (search for a solution to X, find a bunch of forum posts that scold about X being bad and wrong even though it is absolutely the correct approach in my scenario). But realistically, any kin
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by TillE 3y ago
Nobody actually wants to read LLM-generated soup. That's just a waste of everyone's time. If you're making a highly interactive, dynamic game, you don't even need detailed language for NPC interaction. You may as well us
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by TillE 3y ago
While there have been plenty of programming games, the idea of a bot-only MMO would be really interesting. Far more interesting than actually playing the typical post-WoW MMORPG. Like, Runescape was already distilled into a surprisingly goo
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by TillE 3y ago
I've flown long distance economy a lot, and business class a few times, and I just wish airlines would serve sandwiches instead of elaborate, mediocre meals. It would probably be better, and it would definitely be easier to eat in a cr
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by TillE 3y ago
Even poems are "easy". They're typically very short, there's a million ways to write one, so if you roll the LLM dice enough times you'll probably find something that's plausibly interesting. What I've yet
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by TillE 3y ago
> other gatekeepers Because they are not "gatekeepers", a term defined by the DMA which focuses on specific sectors. Also the video game ecosystem is pretty healthy these days, with nearly every major game available on Windows
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by TillE 3y ago
People really seem to enjoy the evil/powerful AGI scenario though. It's definitely a fun one. I would recommend reading "Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect", having a nice time with that, then coming back to the real world
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by TillE 3y ago
It would be really difficult to find an experienced C++ developer these days who isn't comfortable with the basics of CMake, and that's all the Pico SDK demands from you. If you're simply a hobbyist grudgingly writing C/
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by TillE 3y ago
Kotlin, Scala, and Go are garbage collected. Zig is a language that barely even has name recognition outside a certain niche that loves it. Swift vs Rust is a real question. Currently Rust is almost always the answer outside of the Apple ec
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by TillE 3y ago
Developer grievances about Apple have been simmering for years, and even longtime Apple fans aren't happy about what's been going on lately. This is not a smart path to follow. They need enthusiastic small developers to help bui
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by TillE 3y ago
That's the confusing part. With the DMA policy at least there's a strategy, even if it's a strategy that will ultimately be rejected as non-compliant. Picking these petty fights or whining about getting fined is not helpful,
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by TillE 3y ago
I really liked the first Moist von Lipwig book. The second one is ok. The third (Raising Steam) is just...bad. It's not funny, it's not anything. You can absolutely tell that Pratchett was losing his abilities.
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by TillE 3y ago
The DMA requires that companies like Apple provide fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory access for competition. The account is really neither here nor there, it's only an issue because Apple has chosen to make it a requirement to d
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by TillE 3y ago
Yeah like, Satya Nadella got his master's at UW Milwaukee. I went to a big state university and got a great education. If you're smart and you're not desperate to get into one of the "elite" schools, it's gonna
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by TillE 3y ago
My favorite little coincidence is that ending a sentence in "ne" turns it into a question in both Japanese and colloquial German, with exactly the same sense ("isn't it?").
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by TillE 3y ago
> They should immediately stop development of high end ML libraries and fix their basic shit. I always hate this type of comment, it's so disconnected from reality. Someone writing Python libraries isn't going to suddenly jump
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by TillE 3y ago
It only recently struck me, watching Ben Eater's new videos, that BASIC can almost be thought of as high-level assembly. That's why it was so popular in the early days of personal computing (look at all the articles here), that&#x
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by TillE 3y ago
There was an incredibly stubborn post-Cold War "end of history" complacency in Europe that really should have ended after the annexation of Crimea in 2014. Instead it lasted until the full invasion in 2022. What's been starkl
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by TillE 3y ago
NOVA's "ultra-processed" definition is hopelessly broad, ranging from fruit yogurts to liquor to chocolate to the actual packaged food products you're probably thinking of when you hear that term. This is useless if you
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by TillE 3y ago
Nothing's disappearing except for the official hosting of Citra. Citra already fully supported every notable 3DS game, I think, and recent development work has mostly come from outside contributors rather than Tropic Haze.
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by TillE 3y ago
The installers don't actually work, because wherever they hosted the updates is gone. I see a lot of people on Twitter lamenting that 3DS emulation is dead, but Citra was more or less a finished product, and third-party builds will und
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by TillE 3y ago
Indeed I suspect a large part of the motivation for this lawsuit is the upcoming Switch 2, which will be using essentially the same architecture. A huge part of the necessary work for emulating it has already been done by Yuzu and Ryujinx.
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by TillE 3y ago
It's a really weird return to the Steve Jobs attitude towards problems like this. Except then it was usually literally Steve writing statements and saying those things, and now it's just a faceless Apple Inc which is even less sym
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by TillE 3y ago
My favorite bit is their key highlighted argument that their anti-competitive behavior has been ineffective, therefore it's not anti-competitive.
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by TillE 3y ago
Vista is when that API was first implemented. It's doing a pretty weird thing with the locks, I wonder what the actual use case was. Readers should almost never care about other readers. Typically you just grab the lock, read the thing
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by TillE 3y ago
Like the comment says, filing an issue on GitHub would've also eventually led to a proper internal report, so the system isn't wholly reliant on one guy trawling Reddit. I have many complaints about Win32 (having half a dozen diff
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by TillE 3y ago
SNES ROMs have a checksum right in the header, but there were still bad dumps circulating for years. Presumably they escaped before the header was properly reverse engineered. I'm not exactly sure why that checksum exists, the console
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by TillE 3y ago
C++ is really a language that you want to specialize in and cultivate years of deep expertise with, rather than having it as one tool in your belt like you can with other languages. That's certainly a choice you can make, and modern C+
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by TillE 3y ago
I love Neuromancer, but I feel like it's much more about the vibes than the plot per se. If you've got a good visual design and don't mess with the main characters and setting, it'll probably be good. I mean I like the
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by TillE 3y ago
Of course nobody dumps their own games, but it's really common for people who already own the games to download a pirated copy to play on emulator. That's how I use Yuzu and Citra (which is especially great, so I don't have t

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