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by TillE 3y ago
This is really cool, but it's funny to use C# primarily as an awkward substitute for C as you call Win32. For most practical purposes, the default .NET 8 AOT is great if you really need native code.
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by TillE 3y ago
Nobody artificially limits input rates because that would reduce responsiveness. You can analyze a series of inputs to detect humanly-impossible changes.
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by TillE 3y ago
In my various circles of diverse interests, I have literally only ever seen The Verge guys (as you mention) talk about Threads. They sure seem to love it, though I'm not entirely clear about why they chose it. Everyone else I care abou
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by TillE 3y ago
Portage is like 90% of what makes Gentoo Gentoo.
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by TillE 3y ago
This is an extremely uncharitable way to characterize how our understanding of a problem, our requirements, etc evolve over time and with feedback from users. Making a good API is really hard. I think there's plenty of room for discuss
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by TillE 3y ago
Ironically the most "message"-y Star Wars production is also widely considered the best thing Disney has done with the franchise. Andor is fantastic and it's not subtle about its politics.
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by TillE 3y ago
That's not a risk, because there's zero chance that Apple just abandons their latest Watches. The worst possible outcome for customers is that Apple pushes a software update to disable the feature, but it's a fairly useless f
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by TillE 3y ago
Rubbing alcohol is isopropanol, not ethanol. In the same way that amphetamine is not methamphetamine. Different molecules, different chemistry!
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by TillE 3y ago
It's an extremely bad idea to go and build from scratch a do-everything game engine with AAA 3D capabilities, but there is absolutely space for engines with a very specific focus. If you want to make a VN, would you rather open up a bl
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by TillE 3y ago
Yes, cetirizine and fluticasone are a good long-term treatment for allergies. Direct decongestants like pseudoephedrine are of limited use because you quickly develop a tolerance and they become ineffective. With corticosteroid nasal sprays
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by TillE 3y ago
I'm not clear on what precisely the Neural Engine can do, but Apple has put plenty of resources into improving their GPUs, which can definitely do compute well (see eg, MacWhisper).
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by TillE 3y ago
Apple's biggest problem here is that they've been consistently stingy with RAM, with only the latest iPhone 15 Pro featuring 8GB. If they want to make a really gutsy move for on-device AI, they could up that to 16GB at the very le
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by TillE 3y ago
The most promising thing about Bluesky is that engagement seems surprisingly high. Posts from the larger accounts I follow get maybe 2000 likes on Twitter, 1000 on Bluesky, and 10 on Mastodon. I really hope they manage to federate themselve
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by TillE 3y ago
I've listened to a lot of Books on Tape from the 80s and 90s where narrating in a mostly flat monotone was the norm, but even they would inject emotion and vary their delivery where appropriate. Good modern audiobooks are a true perfor
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by TillE 3y ago
Yeah it's a heartwarming open source success story in game development. Everybody uses it for internal tools (just check their sponsors list to start with), and it occasionally shows up as like a debug menu in production code.
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by TillE 3y ago
> This looks 3D but it’s not! It is SNES tech and is called “Mode 7“. To render it, Nintendo manipulated textures (trading height for depth) with some coder magic. Mode 7 essentially is a primitive 3D accelerator, it renders a single t
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by TillE 3y ago
A game is more than just rendering, and modern games will absolutely get bottlenecked on lower-end CPUs well before you reach say 144 fps. GamersNexus has done a bunch of videos on the topic.
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by TillE 3y ago
You're absolutely not in the minority, old C++ was awful and there have been so many improvements to the language and standard library to help write simpler, clearer code. I was just recently appreciating the if statement with an initi
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by TillE 3y ago
This is always my argument with "fangames", which frequently get nuked by the copyright/trademark owner. Like, you put years of effort into making a game from scratch, the code is all original, the design is new, why ruin all
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by TillE 3y ago
Nintendo makes a ton of money on first-party games, and they could easily continue releasing their games exclusively on their consoles. They'd lose very little. Random sideloaded games are just irrelevant when people are buying the sys
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by TillE 3y ago
That hasn't been a serious issue for 20 years. The overwhelming majority of big games are now being released for PC on day one, the only exceptions being platform exclusives and Rockstar games. Developers certainly have no problem maki
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by TillE 3y ago
Successful indie games tend to be released on all major consoles, so call it $2k/year for a small team or $10k for a larger one. That is more expensive than GameMaker (Undertale, Nuclear Throne) at a flat $800/year, but a lot chea
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by TillE 3y ago
I always think how DOOM was released in the heyday of the Super Nintendo, which had a 65816 CPU (effectively a 6502 upgraded to 16-bit and clocked at 3.58 MHz). There was such a vast gulf between PCs and console hardware back then, with gam
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by TillE 3y ago
De Icaza suggests that the GC hasn't improved sufficiently even in the modern .NET era, and maybe that's true in certain cases. But in practice, dozens of big-budget 3D games have been made with Unity, using a janky old Mono runti
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by TillE 3y ago
Hugely popular little indie game Vampire Survivors, for example, requires some thoughtful optimization to have a zillion objects on screen without lagging to death. ECS isn't the only answer, but it is a valid one.
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by TillE 3y ago
It's one of very very few issues where America and most of the west have stood firmly in support of violence and oppression for decades, even on issues like settlements where the US formally acknowledges the illegality and takes no act
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by TillE 3y ago
That does sound a lot like Darren Hayes, as Wikipedia suggests. Specifically the lower-pitched singing of "you've got"; it sounds exactly like a signature Savage Garden thing. Every artist has demo tapes with songs they&#x2
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by TillE 3y ago
The entirety of the disclaimer is "sequences shortened throughout", in tiny text at the bottom for two seconds. They do disclose most of the details elsewhere, but the video itself is produced and edited in such a way that it&#x27
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by TillE 3y ago
There's no process for verifying that a particular binary is built from known source code, or that the source code lacks any sneaky back doors. The gold standard is and probably always will be analyzing the binary itself, with disassem
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by TillE 3y ago
Fortunately Google isn't very strict about geofencing Bard. I can get Gemini Pro by just using a common VPN.

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