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by alberto-m 4mo ago
> It's surprisingly hard to know what your team has to do to get through with the new regulations. As an Italian, I disagree :-) Really well made site. Good info density, plenty of data presented in a logical order. Thanks for shari
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by alberto-m 4mo ago
I think because a proprietary IP owner can allocate some budget to sue the infringers. A community of OSS contributors may lack the money, the will or the know-how to do that. They will also face a much harder task when explaining their cas
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by alberto-m 4mo ago
The dev blog is one of the best retro-reversing journals you can find. Happy reading!
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by alberto-m 4mo ago
Unless you develop your AI agent from scratch or you clone a never-released game, it would be extremely easy for the rightholders to claim that both agents have most certainly ingested the binary during their training phase, since it's
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by alberto-m 4mo ago
I got 96/100 with minimal guessing. Being a native speaker of a Romance language is a huge advantage here; words like “Quotidian” and “Defenestrate” might be exotic in English, but are almost trivial for an Italian.
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Firefox Roadmap and Team AMA next week(old.reddit.com)
2 points by alberto-m 4mo ago|0 comments
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by alberto-m 4mo ago
Decades ago, Sid Meier's Pirates had a more realistic sailing model, which made you feel the difference between triangular and square sails, in a game where the player had a lot of other challenges to master. And Meier is a designer wh
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by alberto-m 4mo ago
Eh, it's not so clear cut. LLMs have definitely killed a lot of fun in reverse engineering old games by making it trivial to solve riddles that in the past would have been interesting problems to work on. But the field still offers man
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by alberto-m 4mo ago
Mountaneering nerdery is in some sense nobler, since people practising it put their health and lives at stake. Debates about C++ undefined behaviour would get a different flavour if every now and then some high-profile developer were killed
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by alberto-m 4mo ago
In my final attempt I managed to reach 1000+ tractors at the 120th turn exactly, only to be immediately shot by the workers. Task accomplished unsuccessfully.
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by alberto-m 4mo ago
The premise is interesting, but an incremental game with learning-by-dying mechanics seems a bad idea. I am not going to click the same button hundreds of times only to be faced by the n-th identical “game over” message.
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by alberto-m 4mo ago
I very much hope newly-produced cars in Germany must obey the TÜV regulations from the start. Imported cars also must immediately undergo certification. Fun fact: some Italian cars have the left light pointing somewhat lower to avoid blindi
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by alberto-m 4mo ago
Related: Malus – Clean Room as a Service https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47350424 Just like for 1984 and the Torment Nexus, someone took the concept not as warning but as instruction manual.
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by alberto-m 4mo ago
> It's a tradition, not a rule Amended, thanks!
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by alberto-m 4mo ago
The strong point of the Swiss political system is that the government is, by (EDIT) convention, made up by all significant parties. No major political force can say “if only we were in power...” because they already are. Also, no party can
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by alberto-m 4mo ago
Lots of people named like him, so worth noting that his profile is at https://www.linkedin.com/in/lcamtuf/ Pretty proud to recognize the “propane and propane accessories” reference, especially given I had mostly h
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by alberto-m 4mo ago
(minor typo: repeated --> repealed. Sorry for the nitpicking but it confused me when I first read it)
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by alberto-m 4mo ago
I used the MT32 audio. Not only because it sounded better, but because it would overload the CPU and slow down the game making it playable on my Pentium 75.
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by alberto-m 4mo ago
The community is still active! In the meanwhile the car format has been figured out, so that modern-day tournaments like ZakStunts feature vehicles not included in the original game.
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Apple seeks Supreme Court review for Epic Games case(9to5mac.com)
3 points by alberto-m 5mo ago|0 comments
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by alberto-m 5mo ago
The site pirates games that are still being sold by their original devs, like “Ports of Call”. Even for some games published by bigger companies, some of the original developers get a small cut on lifetime sales. So I don't need to “pr
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by alberto-m 5mo ago
What about: if the extender is provided with the game (like DOS/4GW) then it's a DOS game; if it needs to be provided by the user (like Win 3.11) it's not.
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by alberto-m 5mo ago
> allow for being paid for life for a craft that has been made once It costs on average 7$ to buy a craft that took maybe 2 years for a team of 10 developers (since we are speaking of DOS era games). Are you suggesting such works should
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by alberto-m 5mo ago
Yandex is not obscure, nor “lowest quality, most bottom dollar crap”. It has very good technology behind, though not the trillion dollars of investments Google can afford. Just because it does not come from California it does not mean it&#x
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by alberto-m 5mo ago
I am certainly missing a lot of nuance here, but it seems to me Nate Silver managed to have his cake and eat it too. He surely got good money for selling FiveThirtyEight, and now that the buyer has erased the product, Nate can get back a hu
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by alberto-m 5mo ago
I appreciate this balanced take! Let's hope one day we'll get the best of today's and yesterday's era.
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by alberto-m 5mo ago
> Any alternative is better than the current state of things. I don't know, the incentives for creators are already low enough. Any book one writes lands immediately in Anna's Archive and is digested into LLM slop for the profi
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by alberto-m 5mo ago
I might be a contrarian in that I actually like using unsigned integers for sizes and indexes. In my experience, most of their trappings can be prevented by treating any subtraction involving them as a `reinterpret_cast`: i.e. * Do your utm
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by alberto-m 5mo ago
> An alternative view is that any C "unsigned" is both positive and negative. For example the unsigned short "1" is the same number as "65537" and as "-65535". This can be disproven by the fact tha
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by alberto-m 5mo ago
The official announcement contains many interesting complementary links: https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2026/04/28/continuing-...

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