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by TillE 2y ago
What's the plausible worst case scenario here? GitHub accidentally trains on private repos (or Microsoft is, insanely, lying) and leaks some random tiny snippets of your code? That would be a personal violation but the actual damage se
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by TillE 2y ago
Is "may contain traces" / "made in a facility..." no longer adequate labeling in these situations? I know that used to be the norm in America, and it still is in Europe. My experience with moderately serious non-ana
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by TillE 2y ago
It's touched on in the article, but I think by far the biggest problem with complex games on mobile platforms is the lack of a controller. And secondarily for phones, the tiny screen. In some bizarro world where every iPhone had Switch
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by TillE 2y ago
Sure but we're talking about personal/hobby pages made by people who are overwhelmingly not artists and designers.
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by TillE 2y ago
It was one of the few places (along with Angelfire) anyone could get a free web page those days, and the most interesting thing you could do with web design was add a background and some animated GIFs. MySpace in the mid-2000s had a very si
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by TillE 2y ago
Surely not the most popular language among tourists in South Korea, who would be mostly from Japan, China, etc.
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by TillE 2y ago
> While the DMA may eventually force Apple to slide on this rule, currently it doesn't actually solve the problem at-hand. People keep saying stuff like this about the DMA and it's very confusing to me. Of course Apple can choo
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by TillE 2y ago
It is not beyond the wit of man to dig a hole. (Of course you can build pumped hydroelectric storage anywhere, it's just cheaper in some places.)
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by TillE 2y ago
> It's still possible with a remote ssh connection, and gdb scripting, but it's inconvenient. In this situation, don't gdb breakpoint command lists give you exactly what you need (printing stack traces at certain points) w
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by TillE 2y ago
I hate when a cute little piece of jargon like "malicious compliance" becomes a fad, because it just does not accurately describe what Apple is doing. It's not any kind of compliance. Apple's strategy is pseudo-complianc
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by TillE 2y ago
Writing assembly really isn't that scary, especially in small doses for performance-critical code. That was a very common practice in the 80s/90s, though it's faded as compiler optimizations have improved.
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by TillE 2y ago
> it sits uncomfortably between parody and not Yeah that's a thought I've had too, and the vast majority of idle games are just putting a new theme on top of the same crappy formula. But the ones that try something new are usua
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by TillE 2y ago
Graphical adventure games were largely parser-driven for like a decade. Sierra's AGI parser worked well; my recollection is that it usually looked for a verb and a noun and ignored any extraneous text.
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by TillE 2y ago
> The game is built from the same foundation as the Link’s Awakening remake I'm always annoyed when developers don't reuse assets. Like, Bethesda made all this state-of-the-art (for 2011) 3D stuff for Skyrim. You could make a
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by TillE 2y ago
Right, "struggles" implies bad performance when in reality it simply doesn't work. Windows' translation layer handles user code, but not kernel drivers.
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by TillE 2y ago
> The in-store video game terminals will allow players to select the game they want to record and add it to their cart at a price ranging from $10 to $40. I hadn't heard of this before, but it's clearly a successor to the Famic
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by TillE 2y ago
Ever since the Vision Pro was announced (months before it shipped), people were saying "this is a dev kit". And it clearly is. It's just not a "product" in any typical sense. It's a moderately large bet placed
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by TillE 2y ago
The idea of the EU as "radically anticapitalist" is very funny. I'm sorry the DMA happened to you or whatever, but it's just another boring market regulation.
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by TillE 2y ago
Making errors, generating nonsense, being wrong. It's a catchy term but it's not accurate in any meaningful way.
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by TillE 2y ago
If you're doing stuff with the GPIO, I'm sure there's far more software written for the Raspberry Pi than anything else. If you're just using it like a normal computer, then it's not special.
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by TillE 2y ago
I think the best thing to do in a scenario like that is standard procgen where you randomly, logically generate the rooms with a bunch of descriptive tags, and then LLM-ify the room descriptions, with some context for what the world/ar
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by TillE 2y ago
How? Aside from their tacky generated images, the only real gen AI thing they're doing is providing a quick interface to ChatGPT.
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by TillE 2y ago
One side is open-sourcing .NET and VS Code and running GitHub well and making vcpkg. The other is crapping up Windows with embarrassing ad-ridden F2P games. It's really weird.
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by TillE 2y ago
OpenAI's problem is that it's not at all clear where the profit is going to come from. Average users aren't going to pay a subscription just to make the occasional query. I think GitHub Copilot is a good LLM-based product wit
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by TillE 2y ago
Europe has generally done a very good job with urban transit. The real problem is that long-distance train trips cost a fortune, typically several times more than a budget airline. And ticketing systems between countries (within the EU) are
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by TillE 2y ago
That's always what I think when I see adults complaining that they hate their phone. It's just a portable computer, you control how and when you interact with it.
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by TillE 2y ago
No, it was by importing liquefied natural gas. You can't convert the myriad applications of gas to electricity in a matter of months.
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by TillE 2y ago
Implicitly, people who are too old (or too European) to have grown up with an NES. But yeah, I 100% agree that the overwhelming draw of Nintendo consoles is their exclusives, so it's mostly orthogonal to Xbox/PS/PC. If you wa
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by TillE 2y ago
I dunno how they got the text ("SD3 at FAL") to appear like that in the example. If I change it to anything else it's either completely garbled or placed on a shop sign.
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by TillE 2y ago
I'm glad Jeff is still keeping his head above the water, but I feel like his fundamental problem - as a guy who was making consciously niche, retro games from the very beginning with the 90s Exile series - is that he's failed to e

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