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I'm sure there's some great schema implementation that you can bolt onto JSON, but personally I have never seen anyone actually using one in the wild. With protobuf the schema is essential, it is the foundation. I feel this is a h
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It's simple, lightweight, safe serialization. If you need to convert data structures to bytes, you're going to use protobuf or something comparable.
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Absolutely. One guy making big public claims should be treated with particular skepticism, even if they have relevant credentials.
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Yeah there's no problem with the general concept of the ad, and a cartoonish squish solves that. But they wanted dramatic images of destruction because it looks cool or whatever, without thinking that it's really odd and dissona
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Binding generation is really difficult to approach as a general problem, which is why I've found that SWIG unfortunately doesn't help much in non-trivial cases. All the good bindings I use are generated by custom systems (ie, usua
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Pound-for-pound, science fiction short stories are perhaps the most worthwhile and personally enriching literary medium. I love an endless series of giant fantasy novels, but I've read so so many SF short stories that really stick with
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Gibson's "Burning Chrome" casually predicts lifestreaming ("simstim"). We don't have the sci-fi tech, but as a social phenomenon it's exactly Instagram, parts of Twitch, etc.
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Battery replacement costs $200. It's not like you just have to throw it in the trash if the battery dies.
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> or Apple’s silicon game is racing far ahead of what I considered possible Gruber's strange assumption here is that a new number means some major improvements. Apple has never really been consistent about sticking to patterns in pr
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Like others have said, I think this really just comes down to experience. Keep at it, become comfortable with the languages, and it shouldn't be an issue. Writing beautiful idiomatic code in multiple languages is a big challenge, but
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Time limited trials are always a feels-bad moment for me, an extra deadline I now have to plan around. Another option I like is providing some amount of free credit that doesn't expire. So you're not on the hook for providing a &q
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I'd say quite a lot of people are not particularly invested in any "side" but are repulsed by obvious war crimes. What makes this situation uniquely toxic is how America and most of its allies vehemently insist on total impun
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I'm guessing that happened almost exactly a year ago, which is when I was astonished to find that they'd junked up their perfectly good Weather app with ads. Microsoft does plenty of cool things these days, but it's bizarre h
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> preserving the movies as they were shown in theaters Well, sort of. Some people are definitely doing exactly that. But the edit everyone has recommended for many years, the Despecialized Edition, largely embraces the parts of the remas
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I really wonder about the programmers who feel threatened by LLMs. The vast majority of my daily work in software engineering does not remotely boil down to "write code for a discrete isolated task". It's all about solving di
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Exercise (and sunlight!) are proven treatments for mild to moderate depression. It's probably not all you need, but it's a very good start. Exercise does nothing for severe depression.
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Just eyeballing Geekbench scores for iPhones, CPU/GPU/NPU are all about 3x faster, and RAM capacity has doubled. Do you need all that extra power? I dunno, but it's a pretty big difference.
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Except for some graphics code, Ultima I was written in Applesoft BASIC. Akalabeth was entirely BASIC, but that's somewhat less impressive.
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The AI Pin is at least a wearable that puts a camera and a projector on your chest. That's not much, but it's something vaguely novel. The Rabbit thing is literally just a terrible phone.
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> the wealthiest members of society, who are the most international and most likely to have two passports Bizarre to wield this argument immediately after referencing Germany's recent change in nationality law, which overwhelmingly
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That's pretty much the ideal use case for LLMs, as a tool for creative brainstorming where the question of accuracy is irrelevant. I've used them like that frequently for help in writing/worldbuilding. But I think it's s
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Speaking as a Godot supporter, I don't think sales numbers of shipped games are relevant to anyone except the game's developer. When evaluating a newer technology, the key question is: are there any major non-obvious roadblocks? A
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CPUs are way way faster, but RAM latency has barely improved in the past couple decades. That's why cache-optimized systems like ECS can still be a dramatic improvement when you're simulating a lot of stuff. Like, thousands of a
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Mostly for dumb historical reasons, currently justified as slightly protecting them from the government cutting their funding. Objectively European TV licenses are just a terrible wasteful idea, basically creating an entire parallel tax col
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I'm not sure anyone under like 60 is frequently using Facebook as social media, but Facebook Marketplace is huge, Instagram is huge.
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> they often disregard mobile games as an inferior product Have you seen the type of mobile game which accrues the vast, vast majority of the revenue? They are literally designed as addiction engines first, and games a distant second.
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There is absolutely nothing wrong with making and selling proprietary software. If you want to make money, you should probably just do that. I'm very happy to have created a mildly popular permissively-licensed library. It's a con
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I think the pseudo-tangibility of an electronic card game is a key factor, as well as generally having rules that are fully comprehensible. You also see a lot of games with explicit dice rolls these days. Complex games with a lot of obscure
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Yeah I think it's far more interesting to view this as a series of people making probably the best possible decision at the time, and winding up in a slightly unfortunate, suboptimal place. That's hardly uncommon! Examine the hist
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Or use fs::path with the / operator. If you're doing anything with file paths in C++, that class is a godsend. https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/filesystem/path

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