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by Zhyl 6y ago
I know this sounds silly, but would you be able to confirm that this is based on actual conversations that you've personally had with game developers about projects they've personally worked on? There have been rumours stoked espe
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by Zhyl 6y ago
Thanks, I will read up on these. I was feeling fairly secure that this was a concern that hadn't materialised, but it seems I have since been proved wrong :)
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by Zhyl 6y ago
Not sure about the per-game config, but the Proton is definitely open source [0], as are DXVK [1] and D9VK [2]. Steam Play is part of the Steam client, so is proprietary. ProtonDB isn't open source but does data dumps to github regular
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by Zhyl 6y ago
It was mostly in response to the Windows 8 store. Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18996377
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I think it's worth differentiating between 'Proton' the compatibility layer technology and 'Proton DB' [0] the review platform and ratings agency. All the problems listed above are purely ProtonDB issues. It would b
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by Zhyl 6y ago
>Did none of those 7000 games work on Wine already? Not on Steam, and not without user time investment. Steam Play (which uses Proton) allows the Steam client to only show games that are known to run well on Linux, automatically installs
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by Zhyl 6y ago
Proton is Wine + DXVK + d9VK + custom patches. The 'secret sauce' is actually 'Steam Play' which is the automated wrapping, configuration and execution of Proton wrapped games without the user having to do anything (ot
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by Zhyl 6y ago
Could you cite some examples? I know of games that have dropped Linux support (RUST, Rocket League) but those are all to do with Anti-cheat rather than citing Proton as a feasible alternative to a native port.
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by Zhyl 6y ago
For those who missed it, Cliqz did a very in-depth series of blog posts on their tech [0]. Basically, it was "word2vec: The Search Engine". It was actually very impressive in terms of semantic understanding, but the index was pret
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by Zhyl 6y ago
I have now used this to explain some of our architecture to a client over Teams. If you guys haven't tried building up a diagram, live, step by step like an ad-hoc slideshow, I seriously recommend it.
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by Zhyl 6y ago
I'm surprised that Fish isn't used more for education. I don't know of any distros aimed at new users which have fish as the default. I don't think I've seen any tutorials that use fish to teach shell concepts. It
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by Zhyl 6y ago
Gabe Weinberg has previously stated on hacker news that DDG was profitable at about 4M queries a day (it is now over 100M). The economics are that you charge more for ads than you pay for API calls. That's all there is to it, really.
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by Zhyl 6y ago
This article doesn't really cover anything that the hacker news audience won't already be familiar with. What is notable, however, is that Duckduckgo has seen a pretty strong surge in usage recently [0], moreso than similar surg
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by Zhyl 6y ago
You still need trade volume. If there is no Bitcoin to buy, there is no Bitcoin to sell.
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It's also a possible butterfly effect. Would Bitcoin have taken off without those specific few thousand coins in the economy? If even half of Bitcoin holders at the time thought they'd make it big and held, how could Bitcoin have
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by Zhyl 6y ago
Firstly, this is frikking hilarious. I giggled so loudly while reading it that my girlfriend asked what I was laughing at and she was so captivated by it that I had to sit on the couch with her reading it, flicking to the next page of the d
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by Zhyl 6y ago
The mpv example was my main thought. If you want to add something to a playlist using mpv's playlist feature you have to stop and restart mpv.
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I think that's a fair statement in isolation, and I do find Blow's grandiose and loose use of language to get in the way of his message, but I believe the point stands. The knowledge was lost and that is the part that is most rele
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by Zhyl 6y ago
Would you be able to comment on the examples from the talk?
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I use SyncThing [0]. It can work without a server if your devices are often up at the same time. Otherwise you can get a small cheap server from the provider of your choice to suit your needs. [0] https://syncthing.net/
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by Zhyl 6y ago
To state the thesis of the talk: * Knowledge is ephemeral. Even recording knowledge doesn't imply or guarantee that it will be passed down the generations entire. In fact, throughout history there are times when humankind 'forgot&
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It's also amazing for analytics. "What are people not finding on our engine?" grep -F '!g' log
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That's interesting, I've only ever seen it being used in the context of mathlib.
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Is the reason it's easy to reason with mathematically because it was designed to be pure or is it pure because it was designed to be easy to reason with mathematically?
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No, although I don't think you'd try to make a website backend in lean.
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So the article goes on to mention a few individual features of the language which are good features and would definitely be appreciated by those that have already seriously committed to learning and using it, but are pretty opaque to an out
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The model dictates the medium. Advertising as a model has forced a need for engagement, notifications, stickiness, attention grabbing. I'd argue the term 'pay for the services [they use]' is too vague here to be meaningful -
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Ah, the Valve Proton model!
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b) is an oversimplification, but I'd consider it to be a thought experiment whenever a story about Google or Duckduckgo comes up. You will always find: ><Search Engine> is <bad/good> and the results are way <wors
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by Zhyl 6y ago
Understandable, and also a reason why I'd be interested to know if the infra is already being covered or is being stood up with runway. If I were to create a privacy first search engine, I would likely not go general purpose and would

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