TillE

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by TillE 3y ago
He's also totally transformed the public image of Microsoft, from ruthless monopolist to one of the least evil, most open giant tech companies. With actions, not words. It's not all perfect and wonderful, but they're miles aw
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by TillE 3y ago
Yeah I think a lot of experienced developers are so immersed in software development that they forget how complex the process is, and how much knowledge they have to even know how to ask the right questions. I mean, I thought that website f
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by TillE 3y ago
For the technically knowledgeable, music fingerprinting is a concrete problem which is understandable but pretty difficult if you get into the details without looking at how other people have already solved it. It fits into that space of an
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by TillE 3y ago
Honestly the number one thing I miss about America is the big supermarkets and sheer diversity of food products available. Also much better restaurants on average. Germany is generally a better place to live if you have a low to average inc
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by TillE 3y ago
Yeah that's some extremely sparse discussion, on par with a really tiny subreddit. Maybe it's ok if you're just passively using it as an aggregator of interesting links?
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by TillE 3y ago
We're talking about multi-billion dollar companies with the potential to become truly enormous, I have no doubt that they can cut appropriate deals with large publishers. Art is a little harder because the infrastructure doesn't c
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by TillE 3y ago
That first one is probably the most common, you'll see .mm files for Apple-specific platform code in many big cross-platform C++ projects.
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by TillE 3y ago
Over the years, I've come to the strong view that America's free speech protections - more or less unique in the world - are by far the best model. Plenty of other countries gesture at the idea of free expression, even in their co
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by TillE 3y ago
I really think the board and the whole organization would've come out of this just fine (minus a handful of resignations) if they'd just outlined their reasons to employees. Of course you can't keep a CEO who you can't t
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by TillE 3y ago
Do college grades even matter at all? I mean maybe for your very first job or for grad school applications, but in both cases they're still going to be a minor factor unless the grades are awful.
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by TillE 3y ago
> "...pretty much all Macs are capable of running Triple-A titles, which is not what it was like five years ago.” It's interesting that Apple keeps making this point, and that they released the Game Porting Toolkit. I don'
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by TillE 3y ago
Modern open-source .NET feels like a totally different community and ecosystem compared to .NET Framework. The Ballmer era focus on Windows, versus Nadella embracing cross-platform software. The old stuff will stick around for basically the
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by TillE 3y ago
Yeah this just comes across as not understanding pointer ownership, or memory allocation in general. It's not a trivial issue, especially if you're dealing with weird C libraries. Sometimes you don't own a pointer you allocat
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by TillE 3y ago
Exporting to web from any major engine is an unavoidably complex mess, but developing for web first doesn't make a ton of sense. Who's playing games in their browser these days, just kids with Chromebooks? Web games are really con
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by TillE 3y ago
The editor restarts fast enough that, for me, it was a tolerable part of the iteration process. But yeah this is a massive improvement; GDExtension is a really important part of what makes Godot attractive for serious game development.
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by TillE 3y ago
> bad if you're OpenAI Just a few days ago there was a (somewhat cryptic) report about OpenAI developing a model that could do simple math. I'm certain they're pursuing quite a lot of research that's not directly rela
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by TillE 3y ago
Sure, but Apple's phone chips started out with performance comparable to low-end laptop CPUs. Looking at the TDP, these seem more promising than other Chinese silicon designs which have been terrible flops.
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by TillE 3y ago
I love my M1 Pro, it's great, but if money is no object the M3 Max is a massive upgrade.
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by TillE 3y ago
I used to often flip to the end of the book when I was in the middle of reading it, just to get the answer to some question that I knew wouldn't be resolved for a while. I wouldn't do that with mystery novels, but otherwise yeah s
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by TillE 3y ago
I think Microsoft would love to own Unity. Many of their game studios use it, it's C# (with a promised migration from Unity's ancient hacked Mono to modern .NET), they don't have their own public game engine. It would probabl
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by TillE 3y ago
jemalloc and mimalloc are very popular in C and C++ software, yes. There are few drawbacks, and it's really easy to benchmark different allocators against eachother in your particular use case.
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by TillE 3y ago
Google was also fast . Previous search engines would take multiple long seconds, and the results were worse.
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by TillE 3y ago
Nobody (except hobbyists and maybe an indie or two) is using Rust for game development, and it's unlikely they ever will. The cost of switching far outweighs any benefits in an industry where memory safety is not critical. C++ is here
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by TillE 3y ago
I have no idea about SF, but in Germany all the food delivery companies are 99% bike couriers.
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by TillE 3y ago
The huge intrinsic problem with phone games is that your only real I/O device is a tiny touchscreen. This is a massive, often underrated limitation. You can't just port over games which are designed for a controller, and you can&#
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by TillE 3y ago
I respect having firm criteria, but I'd say that games like Hearthstone or Magic: The Gathering Arena are in a totally different category from the typical F2P bullshit. Mostly because they're real games that are designed to be gam
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by TillE 3y ago
The "world model" is basically the old school idea of AI, which has been mostly abandoned because you can get incredibly good results from just ingesting gobs of text. But I agree that it's a necessity for AGI; you need to be
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by TillE 3y ago
Aside from bugs and driver issues, Wayland has some unfortunate design limitations. For example, Dear ImGui multi-viewports don't work because "Wayland doesn't let application read or write windows positions." https:&#x
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by TillE 3y ago
Yeah vcpkg.json is the appropriate solution. That plus one git commit hash pins and verifies everything. Make port overlays if you need em. And you really shouldn't get married to one particular version of a compiler toolchain unless y
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by TillE 3y ago
One of the many problems with the Turing test is that stuff like this is not well-defined, and it's up to any researcher to fill in the details.

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