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by andersa 3y ago
> and it produces text that it would rather not do that ChatGPT already does that all the time.
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by andersa 3y ago
It gets even more cursed if you look under the hood. You've probably seen Electron, right? Well they didn't invent that so clearly they can't use it. How about we use an old version of Unreal Engine, then use this to embed an
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by andersa 3y ago
It's actually mind blowing how much money they spend on user acquisition while the thing is still full of bugs! Why does it take ages to open? Why did downloading some games launch another launcher that downloaded the game again? Why d
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by andersa 3y ago
Sometimes you have some boilerplate-ish code with complicated but repeating patterns, but it's only like 3 or 4 sections, so figuring out how to combine it isn't really worth the effort compared to spending 10 seconds for copilot
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by andersa 3y ago
Wow, that's scary. Did this happen while it was charging, or completely at random?
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by andersa 3y ago
They already are. Engineer gets paid $200k so the company can make $20M. Sound fair right?
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by andersa 3y ago
You guys have friends in real life? I don't even know the names of my neighbors.
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by andersa 3y ago
> Why would this need to be addressed so singularly? I don't know, I didn't write the law. They must have thought this is the better approach to start with. Perhaps they consider fighting one gigacorp at a time to be easier. Af
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by andersa 3y ago
The point of the law isn't to fine Apple. The point is to ban their tax collection entirely, relieving society of this pointless money drain. Most people currently don't have a choice to not pay an extra fee to Apple - we'll
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by andersa 3y ago
It's just BS. Privacy and security are OS functions, not part of an app store. iOS has a good base here already - certainly much better than windows where every app can just arbitrarily read every file on the computer...
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by andersa 3y ago
People already use their phones for everything in our modern society, so they have simply declared them to be that, regardless of what Apple thinks about it. Even if I'd personally like it, I don't think the same argument makes mu
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by andersa 3y ago
Likely for the same reasons people defend billionaires that are actively doing everything that can to shift more wealth away from them.
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by andersa 3y ago
Protections against malware are the job of the operating system not an app store. And I don't understand the point about ads. The vast majority of apps currently available on the app store is already plastered with ads?
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by andersa 3y ago
Those are not considered general purpose computing devices under the current legislation, so no. It's currently targeted at mobile phones.
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by andersa 3y ago
It just shows you how important of an issue this is.
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by andersa 3y ago
Good. It's high time to end these gigacorps trying to place an unnecessary toll booth in front of entire markets.
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by andersa 3y ago
Sounds fake. Sony would have like a hundred million files, not 6000.
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by andersa 3y ago
What could a password managing service possibly need this amount of money for - or worse - what could they possibly plan to be doing with it to convince the VC that they will get even more money back from this deal?
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by andersa 3y ago
In the context of game development, "quaternion" almost always refers to a normalized one that represents a rotation. Many engines aren't even capable of representing anything else with their quaternion types and enforce th
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by andersa 3y ago
Wow, I had never seen this explanation before. That makes so much sense! Now I finally understand why we always normalize the quaternions and why that is a sensible operation...
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by andersa 3y ago
A quaternion is not a 4x4 transformation matrix. In game development context, it usually refers to a structure consisting of 4 floats and is always assumed to be normalized. Maybe reading this comment helps: https://news.ycombina
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by andersa 3y ago
Unreal is similar. All of the gameplay code runs on a single thread. The game framework tricks you into building slow OOP stuff by default with far too much pointer chasing. You can easily make an Unreal project that performs worse than the
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by andersa 3y ago
It sounds more like an intermediate strategy, if you're eager to discover some tricks you missed. First do some small projects to familiarize yourself with the basics. Reading the API before really knowing the context of anything you&#
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by andersa 3y ago
Blueprints are not performant, they are potentially the slowest scripting language to ever be used in a significant way, worse than python even. If you don't believe this, try implementing some basic number crunching routines in pure b
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by andersa 3y ago
They could do what Authy does. Codes are backed up to the cloud, so you're not completely fucked if the phone is stolen. But the backup is encrypted, and to access it on a replacement device you must enter the backup password.
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by andersa 3y ago
The thing is though, there is no open source project even close to what Unreal Engine currently offers. It's just lightyears ahead in everything kinda? Editor tooling, asset pipelines, advanced rendering features, ... While you could b
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by andersa 3y ago
Only for future engine versions - you are able to continue developing and release your project with the one you already have under the previous version of the terms.
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by andersa 3y ago
Why is it on Apple to defend everyone against hackers sponsored by another country to begin with? The governments should be providing any resources necessary to defend here...
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by andersa 3y ago
This can't happen to you if you use Unreal Engine.
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by andersa 3y ago
They can be very useful for: - bypassing antiquated per connection throttles on otherwise fast servers by downloading chunks in parallel - downloading files such as videos from sites that don't really want you to download the file I ha

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