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by _bxg1 6y ago
I'm a programmer, who feels most comfortable writing code, so that was the route I took, and that route ended up being inaccessible. I've also heard that you can't really do everything for an entire game in just blueprints. U
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It looks well and good, but the point remains that it won't help you build for consoles out of the box.
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Can you give specific examples? I've only ever heard of this happening with Unreal.
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I'm so frustrated that Unity and Unreal are the only two real options. And it's all because of console vendors. Unreal is just way too inaccessible, as an individual, non-C++-veteran (used it a bunch in college, but modern C++ loo
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by _bxg1 6y ago
Depends what you mean by slow. Go is garbage-collected, Swift is reference-counted. Each has advantages and disadvantages. But also, that doesn't apply to stack-allocated values. It's not as simple as one being faster than the oth
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It just recently got official support for Windows and Linux, and it had low-key Linux support for a while before that. I've heard of people writing web servers in it. Like Go, it compiles directly to native machine code.
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by _bxg1 6y ago
If anything it seems like C++ is the one in decline. C is still the only option for lots of use-cases; C++ is a) succumbing to feature-bloat and b) having different parts of its userbase siphoned off by Go, Rust, Swift, even C# (games; both
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by _bxg1 6y ago
I'm pretty sure (from people I know that this happened to) you can apply for unemployment even if you're furloughed and "still employed".
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It's worth noting that secrets rarely live in front-end code, specifically because it's impossible to prevent people from extracting them.
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> QAnon's actions are mainly talk QAnon is an FBI-registered domestic terror organization: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/qanon-... They've been connected to multiple attempted
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And on the other end of the spectrum we have people being indoctrinated into violent conspiracy groups like QAnon, or being prompted to set fire to cell towers, or bringing measles back from the dead, because of YouTube videos. There's
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by _bxg1 6y ago
I was using "app" in the broad sense. > Not everything needs to be tested on mobile It does when it requires taking and uploading a photo in the year 2020. Especially when its target users are high school kids. What adult i
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It suggests that they didn't even bother to try the app on an iPhone, which is what probably half of their target users reach for when they need to take photos. That belies a significant degree of laziness and/or incompetence.
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by _bxg1 6y ago
> These failing systems were probably contracted to a politically connected company that subcontracted to lowest bidder. And what if that government body established a policy that all contractors had to be certified engineers who hadn&#x
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by _bxg1 6y ago
Guidelines are well and good, but they aren't really helpful when the people who care about them can't enforce them and vice-versa. What we need is accountability when it comes to the engineers who work on systems that are criti
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by _bxg1 6y ago
New sweat, tears and duct tape solutions are being created every day. Let's start by focusing on the ones coming down the pipe.
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I'm only talking about creating a certification, not enforcing which orgs do and don't use it. A lot of software isn't important enough for such a thing, but a lot of it is. The point is that even when decision-makers do wa
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Regardless, there's this contentious relationship between decision makers and engineers because the former can't properly evaluate the work of the latter. Because of this, they either a) let bad engineers get away with stuff they
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This is the latest in a string of incidents where critical software systems, facing new pressure due to the pandemic, are catastrophically failing their users. I think what's happened in the past is that most public-facing software sys
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It's so exciting to see science begin to gain such a deep understanding of the mechanisms at play. I'm hopeful we'll get an effective treatment long before the vaccine is available.
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Wind Waker Speedrunners Conquer Minigame by Reverse Engineering Its RNG(kotaku.com)
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It's very hard to survey with precision the exact state of a body of rich text. I don't even like using rich text editors for prose , for this reason. HTML/Markdown are the closest thing we have to "rich text that&#x2
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by _bxg1 6y ago
> "We are at war. Worse than defeat would be the shame of not putting up a fight." This is the same perverse, machismo ethos that's causing such poor decision-making across much of the US. Turns out beating your chest does
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Yeah, that too
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They take effort to read even when you know what they are; on top of that it's easy to not notice that they're logarithmic, and I'd bet a lot of people don't even know what "logarithmic" means .
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My point is that if YouTube stopped working on Firefox because they didn't agree to a new standard Google had invented, lots of people would stop using Firefox. It takes someone who really cares about these issues to bother switching b
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It might only be the video/audio chat that's broken, but I know something about it was broken
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I use Roll20, a popular web app for playing tabletop games with others over the internet. It doesn't work in Firefox or Safari; it's the only reason I keep Chromium on my machine.
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The web already has a user-facing permissions system; it wouldn't be hard to add many of these under that umbrella (USB, Bluetooth, and Sensors stand out as obvious candidates that should've been behind that barrier from the begin
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"And Gandalf said: 'This is your realm, and the heart of the greater realm that shall be. The Third Age of the world is ended, and the new age is begun; and it is your task to order its beginning and to preserve what must be prese

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