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by TillE 3y ago
"Official" paid console ports are coming very soon (Q1 2024) from W4 Games, the company run by Godot's core developers. https://w4games.com/products/
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by TillE 3y ago
It's comparable to how open source code can also be patent-encumbered. It's MIT licensed but Nintendo's NDA still applies. The license can't supersede that.
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by TillE 3y ago
We're talking about a hundred billion dollar entertainment industry. Video games have come a long, long way from the odd circumstances in 1983 which notably only affected the nascent industry in America, not Japan or Europe.
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by TillE 3y ago
I've seen a couple people refer to BG3 as if it's some out-of-the-blue success. Larian has a strong history of consistent success, and reached another level by licensing an extremely popular franchise. Similarly, nearly every AAA
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by TillE 3y ago
It's 15% for any developer making under $1 million. Even if we think the SDKs should be free, you're not going to find a significantly better deal for payment (with Apple handling all sales taxes etc), auto updates, crash reportin
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by TillE 3y ago
The Mac Pro is enormous (5U) and wildly overpriced. It is absolutely not designed for a large-scale datacenter. You don't even get ECC RAM like back in the Xeon days.
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by TillE 3y ago
I'm really surprised at how many people are annoyed by this quiz. It doesn't specify a compiler/platform, therefore all the definite answers are clearly wrong.
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by TillE 3y ago
I used to really struggle with memory leaks in C++, until smart pointers came along. I think the only leak I've investigated since then wound up being an actual bug in the MSVC standard library. OS handles and such are still an issue,
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by TillE 3y ago
Yeah tons of games on Steam have zero DRM, many have trivially weak Steam DRM, and a handful have serious third-party DRM. Whatever the specific license may say about your rights, it's usually easy to make a completely portable backup.
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by TillE 3y ago
Raphnet adapters (designed by one guy in Canada) are the most popular option among serious speedrunners, if you want minimum latency. Their equivalent product is currently out of stock: https://www.raphnet-tech.com/products&
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by TillE 3y ago
When they say "products" they mean the specific licenses available to purchase. The original announcement linked on that page has all the details: > For customers seeking an HCI solution, we offer VMware vSAN as an add-on to vS
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by TillE 3y ago
My preferred approach for that kind of difficulty is just to look at how existing open-source projects have solved similar problems. You'll either figure it out or come away with specific, informed questions that you can ask on a Disco
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by TillE 3y ago
The silver lining is that the punishment for crimes in Germany is generally extremely lenient. The article mentions a 3000 Euro fine plus legal fees.
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by TillE 3y ago
Windows 11 for ARM64 is quite good (with full x86/x64 emulation for everything but drivers), the adoption of ARM in laptops has been going slower than I'd expected. Hopefully SoCs like this will accelerate that process.
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by TillE 3y ago
Can't use my desktop in bed. More importantly, I need to bring a computer when traveling but even then I'm not using it during the trip, I'm going from plug to plug.
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by TillE 3y ago
Google could have built a system like that from the start, where Google-certified Android means you have a vanilla base image, plus (openly available) drivers, plus whatever crap the manufacturer wants to layer on top. Basically not unlike
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by TillE 3y ago
That regulation seems completely irrelevant, PayPal charges much more than that in Europe.
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by TillE 3y ago
I like Microsoft a lot these days, but Apple's policies have remained essentially unchanged for the past 13+ years, so I'm not sure where the new anger is supposed to be coming from. They cut their fees in half for smaller develop
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by TillE 3y ago
A lot of (younger?) people in web development seem to forget that other software continues to be developed, much of it unglamorous and not consumer-oriented, but still interesting to work on.
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by TillE 3y ago
> you guessed it, $100 and 30% of gross revenue There is one interesting difference, which is that Steam charges a one-time $100 per game, rather than annually. It's very slightly cheaper in the long run, which is nice if you just w
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by TillE 3y ago
If you're into game engine development and C++, Godot is very accessible for new contributors. It's a great place to explore that stuff while also making (small or large) contributions which will actually get used and appreciated
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by TillE 3y ago
A recurring type of problem I've seen goes like: there's an API function f(x) where x can be any of half a dozen different object types. You want to do something similar to f(x) on a different object, which actually requires a com
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by TillE 3y ago
Bluesky invites have been abundantly available for months now, and they're processing the waitlist directly if you don't feel like asking someone. I've found engagement is surprisingly high, much much higher than Mastodon, bu
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by TillE 3y ago
Absolutely everyone (including the AAA studios) uses Dear ImGui for tools these days. Retained mode is probably more common for user-facing GUIs, though.
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by TillE 3y ago
> It's recommending that I follow channels That's a slight annoyance but it's extremely new, and doesn't reflect the typical WhatsApp experience over its many years of explosive growth. It's just a simple cross-p
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by TillE 3y ago
My code there is all MIT licensed, I think it's totally fair to interpret permissive licenses as allowing AI model training. They don't train on private repos. For people who work on GPL'd stuff sure, it's more questiona
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by TillE 3y ago
"Humans" in this case means specialist historians, but yes.
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by TillE 3y ago
I was confused about where/how SDL gets recompiled for WASM, but it looks like Emscripten specifically has built-in support for SDL and a handful of other libraries. That's cool. Other C dependencies could probably be managed with
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by TillE 3y ago
I think the fundamental problem with D is much simpler than that, it's the technical context. D is a better C++, but it's not better enough to escape the gravitational pull of C++. Rust is sufficiently compelling, with its foc
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by TillE 3y ago
There have been various rumblings about a "foldable MacBook" in development, I really hope it works a lot like this and not like a foldable phone with a giant crease.

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