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by TillE 3y ago
I'm surprised Microsoft still isn't pushing .NET 6 (and the MSVC runtime, for that matter) to everyone with Windows Update. They're not very large, most consumers will want them, and picky enterprises could opt out. It's
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by TillE 3y ago
I dunno that it's surprising. Every time the subject of books comes up here, everyone's like yeah I read non-fiction. And it's never anything interesting, it's all self-helpy fluff with titles like Business Warrior: Brai
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by TillE 3y ago
Stuff breaks in software all the time, it's really not a huge deal. You either update your code or stick to an older version.
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by TillE 3y ago
I can slap together a few high-res textures in SDL_Renderer, and maybe hack in some pretty shaders. Doesn't mean it's a good API.
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by TillE 3y ago
I wanted to play certain games from that era (Spiderweb's Exile series), and the best solution I found was to just play the MacOS versions with SheepShaver. You can technically get Windows 9x software running in a VM, but not without l
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by TillE 3y ago
It's worth noting that Godot 4 is using actual .NET instead of Mono, so you get all the tooling support that implies, including seamless debugging with Visual Studio, etc. Unity has been promising that transition for years, but I'
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by TillE 3y ago
It would be insane to even try to compete with Unreal, an engine focused on AAA games that's been around for decades, with a large full-time staff. No open-source project will ever match them, because it's a moving target. Fortuna
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by TillE 3y ago
Exactly. It's a really big leap for a pure software/services company to start making hardware, and there's no way you get the Steam Deck - at least not a good Steam Deck - without the experience that comes from making those
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by TillE 3y ago
There's a world of difference between a well-written, well-edited book and SEO spam. The latter is not making a genuine attempt to actually teach you, that's not the point.
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by TillE 3y ago
I've noticed the same thing recently: Googling for common programming stuff (in a language I don't normally use) will turn up results that usually answer the question, but they're bloated with preamble and filler. I wonder ho
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by TillE 3y ago
Funny, I've always hated scrolling down and accidentally seeing comments on news articles, which are almost uniformly garbage. I think it's a terrible way to present any kind of serious story, it makes for a worse experience. If I
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by TillE 3y ago
Just to give one example, I (and many others) have tens of thousands of blocked accounts. How do you implement that efficiently, at scale? Are you gonna do an extra database check for every single tweet that comes my way? Hopefully not. And
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by TillE 3y ago
Unless you're running at 100% load most of the time, it's atypical to run a server on bare metal these days. Much more flexible, maintainable, and cost-saving to stick servers in a VM. We sell a product that used to be delivered a
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by TillE 3y ago
It's useful if you want your LLM to be able to generate tweet-like microblogging text. That does have some value. Or maybe you want to get an aggregate idea of what people are currently talking about in the world, stuff that doesn&#x27
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by TillE 3y ago
I haven't dug into the details of either protocol at all, but I hope they find a way to interoperate with ActivityPub. In the longer term we really don't want two completely isolated networks doing the same thing.
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by TillE 3y ago
I'm 50/50 on whether they're actually dealing with catastrophic technical issues, or if this is just Musk being mad about something and insisting on an incredibly silly solution. Both are entirely plausible!
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by TillE 3y ago
Game consoles like the SNES (65816) had a coprocessor for multiplication, division, etc. You load the values into a certain address, wait a couple cycles, and retrieve the result. Not pretty, but those CPUs were designed to be really cheap.
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by TillE 3y ago
You need to do this anyway if you're implementing saved games. Most modern PC games/engines have a really good instant quicksave system which dumps the entire world state very quickly.
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by TillE 3y ago
Instagram doing a fediverse thing is a big deal, and makes me really optimistic about the future of ActivityPub. We don't have it all figured out just yet, but I do think we're going to see a decentralized future of social media,
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by TillE 3y ago
I think a ton of users will hit 600 "posts read" really quickly, if that's what they're measuring. Refresh your timeline, load 20 new tweets. Tap a tweet, load 10 replies, etc.
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by TillE 3y ago
I'm increasingly concerned that Bluesky has missed its moment. It got a ton of hype when it started rolling out invites, but that died down pretty quickly. Now it's been a couple months and they're still not open. Events like
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by TillE 3y ago
I'm not sure about compute, but in graphics NVIDIA is still winning by a lot in terms of performance per watt. That's a huge challenge for AMD even if the card itself is priced competitively, especially as you scale beyond single-
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by TillE 3y ago
Hell, if you were making a game that looked like Ultima VI (1990) in the mid-late 90s, that would be treated as embarrassingly retro. Call it 5 or 6 years. Once we settled on quasi-realistic 3D games with a mostly consistent control scheme
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by TillE 3y ago
I think even the idea of significant economic disruption is edging into science fiction territory. Even if (and it's a big if) AI art and prose evolves far beyond its current flawed mediocrity, there's a massive legal and legislat
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by TillE 3y ago
The most popular formats of Magic by far are "kitchen table" (totally casual, play with whatever cards you own), and Commander, a casual multiplayer format where super-powerful decks are generally frowned upon. Competitive Magic i
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by TillE 3y ago
The SNES controller is a beautiful thing because it's literally just a bit shift register wired up to the buttons. Super simple to emulate it, make an adapter for it, or be compatible with it.
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by TillE 3y ago
That's exactly what's been going on with Twitch for the past several months, and frankly Twitch is winning. All of the ad blockers are now pretty jank. Sometimes they don't work at all, sometimes you need to refresh a couple
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by TillE 3y ago
It's a fine analogy , but the map is not the territory. Machine learning is not human learning, even if it works in a vaguely comparable way. It's still a computer program that uses an enormous amount of copyrighted work as its i
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by TillE 3y ago
The whole point of DVCS is that everyone who's run `git clone` has a full copy of the entire repo, and can do most of their work without talking to a central server. Brief downtime really only affects the infrastructure surrounding the
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by TillE 3y ago
Every major game publisher has an enormous archive of in-house artwork, and probably a decent amount of hardware they could use for training. They'd be stuck with open source software like Stable Diffusion - or have to cut a deal with

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