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by TillE 3y ago
Being able to fold out a basically normal laptop into a dual-monitor setup when you want? I don't see anything impractical about that. Dave2D was really enthusiastic, fwiw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6Cr73w8CJE
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by TillE 3y ago
"The RAD Debugger is currently in ALPHA " Wouldn't really call it launched, just in development publicly.
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by TillE 3y ago
Probably 90-95% of Macs sold come with a monitor, and they're all high-DPI now. Apple doesn't really care about optimizing for some giant 1080p monitor. An iMac is pretty cheap.
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by TillE 3y ago
They're fine at selling stuff, they're absolutely horrendous at being a place to search for a product if you don't know exactly what you're looking for. The solution is just to look for third-party specialist review site
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by TillE 3y ago
The super-generous interpretation here is that Substack is trying to hew as closely to free speech absolutism as possible, but I keep thinking about the interview where Nilay Patel asks simple direct questions about content moderation and S
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by TillE 3y ago
I have no idea who is personally responsible, but the idea that you can only tell stories about boring Jedi with no personality and Tatooine is just a massive failure of imagination. There's a whole rich universe of EU novels exploring
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by TillE 3y ago
Godot 4 has proper multi-window support. > schema validator > opening a TCP connection You should be using C# for stuff like that. Ignore the Godot API, just use .NET 8. But I agree that any game engine is a poor fit for general appli
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by TillE 3y ago
And they'll get banned by moderators. Ultimately that's the key ingredient in any good strategy here: human curation.
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by TillE 3y ago
The global financial system can handle considerably more than three (3) transactions per second.
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by TillE 3y ago
Software isn't a finite problem that gets solved. We make what we can, given our resources. Commercial software used to be painstakingly written in assembly, with little more than simple text editors. An average Python programmer today
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by TillE 3y ago
If you're in a typical situation (salary, investments), doing your own taxes isn't particularly hard. If you're a freelancer or business owner or you have a lot of weird sources of income, sure, paying an accountant is probab
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by TillE 3y ago
There's no need for transpilers these days, you can just compile HLSL to SPIR-V bytecode with dxc. https://github.com/microsoft/DirectXShaderCompiler
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by TillE 3y ago
Yeah the Marco Arment approach of "I'm one guy, please don't ask me to spend my time on support instead of development" is clearly the correct one at that scale. Like absolutely you want to accept bug reports and feedbac
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by TillE 3y ago
I saw some hysterical Twitter thread a couple days ago claiming that the end of AAA games was nigh. There are some weird vibes out there. It's absolutely true that there have been a ton of layoffs in the past ~12 months. But I've
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by TillE 3y ago
> Also the engine’s code is _very_ easy to follow This is one of the best parts of Godot, it's small enough to compile pretty quickly, and simple enough that you can jump in and understand the code and debug any problems with minima
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by TillE 3y ago
What other ID would a company that does business globally (eg, a cloud server provider) accept?
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by TillE 3y ago
You can do this with nearly any game engine. Ignore whichever pieces you want and use the lower-level APIs. I used to use Unity with a third-party 2D framework that bypassed all its game object stuff.
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by TillE 3y ago
The industry needs Unity, for the sake of competition and diversity of options. It needs a good, well-maintained Unity. Maybe they'll be able to refocus, maybe their new licensing scheme is good enough. If not, I really hope they get a
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by TillE 3y ago
That's true of video playback, it's not true for other apps I want to keep open without the phone auto-locking. People making those comments aren't like lying or delusional, they're just using different apps.
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by TillE 3y ago
It's really easy, "unstoppable" even, to send pirated music files over the internet. It sure was fun to have free music. And yet Napster was sued out of existence, and now the vast majority of people who listen to music pay f
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by TillE 3y ago
SpeedGaming is the place to go for retro game tournaments, both vanilla game speedruns and randomizers. The tournaments themselves are organized by various communities, and SG hosts the live streams. They've got a YouTube channel too,
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by TillE 3y ago
I don't even know what you're doing with a basic mobile phone these days, unless you're somebody who really needs to make tons of calls. The whole thing about a smartphone is that it's a computer in your pocket. That&#x2
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by TillE 3y ago
In the past nine (!!!) years, BioWare has only released two huge flops and a remaster, which probably explains their unremarkable reputation today. Outside of the unique situation in Quebec, I think it's tough for anglophone Canada to
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by TillE 3y ago
The Pro IntelliMouse is basically a minimalist gaming mouse, so that's the market to look at. Unfortunately its competitors tend to be more expensive, less reliable, and sometimes (in the case of Razer at least) require horrible softwa
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by TillE 3y ago
Technical ability and knowledge just doesn't correlate with critical thinking at all. At worst, it makes you more likely to fall into that common trap of believing you're "smart" and therefore know everything about every
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by TillE 3y ago
It's difficult to overstate just how influential D&D was in video games, I don't think there's anything else remotely at that scale. Ultima and Wizardry would inspire the creation of the first JRPGs, and on it went. Maybe
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by TillE 3y ago
I can't find even the sketchiest rumor claiming 96GB of VRAM on a 4090 Ti. That would be more than an H100, which costs around $30k.
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by TillE 3y ago
All of these platforms do far, far more than just basic payment processing.
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by TillE 3y ago
Vintage 8-bit hardware is extremely comprehensible, and it teaches you fundamentals which absolutely still apply today. Ben Eater's YouTube videos are fantastic for this, both his 6502 project and his homebrew "from scratch"
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by TillE 3y ago
Pointers are a really common stumbling block for a lot of people, maybe because it's a memory address stored in memory (at a different address). If you've written a little assembly, you understand all this stuff and there are no d

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