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by catapart 3y ago
I can thoroughly suggest that you revisit your assumptions post Unreal 5. Since it's current, I would suggest 5.3, but anything post 5 should do. There were plenty of improvements made that are well documented by Epic and many things h
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by catapart 3y ago
Try not to worry too much about the zealots backlash. Ne thinks I'm attacking a worldview instead of just pointing out factually incorrect information. It's true that 70MB is very small for games, especially if you're talking
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by catapart 3y ago
In case anyone cares, this commenter is absolutely incorrect; Unreal does support mobile development, and it obviously uses a more lithe package than its full GPU stack. Using only the UI objects, 2D is pretty simple and I haven't had
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by catapart 3y ago
Awesome video and, I'll admit, the timing makes me curious to know if that video maybe inspired some devs to either pick up this kind of encoding work, or maybe just to finish up some encoding work that they had already started. Most l
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by catapart 3y ago
Mostly for automation. Bots don't need to read and they are very happy to parse data. People like to use bots to run thousands or millions of simulated games to test how good their bot is at chess and have it ranked. Other people like
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by catapart 3y ago
Personally, I fully support this "Willingham copyright". 20 years for the creators (I would have said 50, but I guess I'm greedy), and then a limited private run so that the creator can sell it and get a nice mature payment f
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by catapart 3y ago
Man, this is fucking awesome. Thank you for building this! Not just free, but local, without installation, and generalized to common use-cases too? This is a standard of development that I aspire to, so thank you for being a great example!
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by catapart 3y ago
Right on. Different strokes for different folks! I was only speaking to what I find problematic or less than optimal. My personal experience with browser pointer APIs, native pointer interfacing through libusb (a subset) via wasm, the WebGP
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by catapart 3y ago
I'm actually a big fan of ImGui (via DearImGui, at least) for immediate mode stuff. I can also appreciate Qt for what it's good at. As far as experimental stuff, I'm a very big fan of Makepad's 3D rendering context even
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by catapart 3y ago
Yeah, I understand this reaction, but I feel like maybe you're limiting your scope of web app to "browser ui, native-library-consuming application". What I'm actually talking about is the WASI and wasm projects and the e
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by catapart 3y ago
I mean "if this app comes out and has limitations on either your OS (desktop or mobile), your method of file replication (iCloud integration can be done even if you're using an agnostic file type but it could, alternatively, be ti
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by catapart 3y ago
Hell yeah! Even if this app is problematic from a cross-platform or usability standpoint, the fact that people are making real investments in re-thinking our design tools for different contexts is very exciting. I can't wait until we g
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by catapart 3y ago
It's wild how many people can't seem to wrap their heads around the very simple framing of tolerance as a contract. We have chosen to engage in tolerance, which means that we will BOTH be tolerant of each other. Once you engage in
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by catapart 3y ago
Yeah, that's how I see it. I try to code small, assertion-like "invariants" into my programs via guard clauses and... assertions. When I get an error, it's usually handled by those, so I pop open the debugger, break on t
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by catapart 3y ago
I'm kind of surprised here, myself, and am very interested in seeing real numbers because, just from the replies to this comment I'm seeing a lot of difference of opinion. Personally, I always use a browser full screen and most ev
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by catapart 3y ago
Agreed. This is a weirdly negative and short-sighted article. It's like... yeah, maybe lasers aren't the way to go, guy. But the fact that we proved it in a practical, empirical test - regardless of the method we used - means that
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by catapart 3y ago
Oh, neat! Thanks for posting this! I hadn't seen it before. I wish there were more actual data, personally, but it's still nice to see unrelated parties seeing similar trends. Especially when they are able to cut out lots of noise
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by catapart 3y ago
There are public resources available; from what I understand Bloomberg did a report on this a little while back? My evidence is anecdotal and only referenced against third-party reports of the same kind of content. There is one that I think
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by catapart 3y ago
Oh, no, nothing empirical! Musk, the "free speech absolutist" is actually very closed-mouth about actual numbers. Loves to tout metrics that no one can validate, but will not, under any circumstance that I've seen, let anyone
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by catapart 3y ago
Like most of Musk's ideas, this one is "good but doesn't work". When he's got good people around him, they turn that into "good and works!", but when he's left unchecked we get dumb bullshit like Comm
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by catapart 3y ago
The docsend link still requires an email. But the docs link is a great start! Maybe I'm missing it, but it doesn't seem represented on the product website, so if it is there, maybe make it more obvious? And if your docs aren'
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by catapart 3y ago
In case anyone is interested: websites like this, that do not show any way for me, as a developer, to get started with the development make me skeptical that the people in charge of advertising said product or service are aligned with the n
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by catapart 3y ago
Ahhh, thank you! I was wondering what the seed corresponded to. Pretty neat little thing! I was just trying to figure out if they were using some novel system to categorize procedural synths as "good", because that seems pretty us
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by catapart 3y ago
If your product is simple enough to not need a tour, you should design it like that; MOST products are definitely simple enough to not need a tour. But if you're making Photoshop, or a deep-functionality video editor, or an enterprise
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by catapart 3y ago
Ah, nice! That looks like a method I had tried, for sure. My first setup was to use .NET core to build an API that registered users with session variables and broadcast that session to new users. It required a "host" because they
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by catapart 3y ago
Quick QA ticket: Saving a "link" type expression with no value will is allowed, but will cause an Internal Server Error when trying to visit the persona page where the expression is displayed. That aside, I was surprised to not se
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by catapart 3y ago
Would you need to manage page settings, like margins and tab stops, or are those things more than you need? If it really is just a local-first, rich text editor with syncing, searchable documents that you need, there might be something on t
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by catapart 3y ago
Right; should have been more specific, thanks! I meant to ask if the app syncs P2P over the internet, rather than just through their provided storage. My solution is to have short-lived data so that they can't reach more than a few MBs
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by catapart 3y ago
"Knowledgebase apps" try to reconcile the fact that people (most people? all people?) think in sporadic and unstructured ways with the fact that maintaining data is mostly about codifying it into a structure. So, instead of forcin
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by catapart 3y ago
This is awesome! Love to see more local-first, security-focused apps! Especially ones that are free. Asking because I'm currently working on a local-first app that I am gaming out how to sync to non-local networks: The docs state that

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