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by cwyers 7y ago
Why? The Forza games look that good, and Microsoft can just ask the Forza people for the code, they own Turn 10 and Playground Games. It's certainly possible to do that, although I shudder to ask what sort of a rig was required to do t
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by cwyers 7y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20250149 Red Hat is a lot more than Linux, but that revenue disparity is huge, and I bet they are licensing out RHEL to everybody who buys other stuff from them.
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by cwyers 7y ago
Over the thousands of years we were eating foods before the inventions of GMOs, we had plenty of other ways to breed crops and livestock to be more desirable. We also tended to die a lot of malnutrition.
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by cwyers 7y ago
It's mostly passive revenue from the 30% cut of games sold on Steam, and revenue from cosmetic items (many of which are user-designed, anyway).
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by cwyers 7y ago
That "weird enterprise tangent" is a billion-dollar business, and no matter what the market share is for Ubuntu in the enterprise, the revenue share is very, very much in Red Hat's favor.
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by cwyers 7y ago
Right. Valve wants gaming on Linux as a hedge against Microsoft. They are swimming in money from selling cosmetic items in TF2 and Counterstrike and DOTA. So they can subsidize a bunch of Linux development that has no short term revenue val
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by cwyers 7y ago
Speaking as someone who used to use a Google-branded chat app to keep in touch with people daily and now doesn't use one at all: I am not sure that the ability to look at something and go, "That looks like it won't work"
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by cwyers 7y ago
Using classes at all is unnecessary for most R users. R is really, to the extent that paradigms matter to the average R user at all (which is: not much) a functional-first language. The idiomatic way to deal with the things you would use cl
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by cwyers 7y ago
WSL 2 supports Docker now.
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by cwyers 7y ago
If someone wants to use Windows applications to interact with other users, using a 15-year-old version is really not going to cut it. Office, Photoshop... all of those big ticket Windows apps have added a lot of things in 15 years. You coul
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by cwyers 7y ago
Which is one of its big selling points - old DOS games were used to direct hardware access. Some of them even depend on the clock rate of the PC they're running on. So an emulator that can convert Roland and Soundblaster to modern soun
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by cwyers 7y ago
Even if you ignore the tidyverse, the example code for "roll your own linear regressions by hand" uses the R6 object system, which is... not even one of the two popular object systems for R (which are S3 and S4). No beginner needs
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by cwyers 7y ago
Google shot themselves in the face trying to make ChromeOS happen at the expense of making Android tablets that don't suck. Hell, Kindle tablets kinda do suck and they still sell fine.
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by cwyers 7y ago
Looking at the examples in there -- what exactly in that is simple to you? It's fully 3D, which is hard as fuck. I learned a lot of skills doing Doom WADs that were less close to real coding than what this lets you do (full Javascript
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by cwyers 7y ago
Nothing different than extolling that you're using Wagyu beef, or anything else where you're citing a specific supplier.
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by cwyers 7y ago
This is the exact opposite of what I'm interested in -- the UI for cloud files should be the UI for files on my local machine. Pretty much every time I have to abandon the Windows file folder UI in OneNote, I feel like something has fa
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by cwyers 7y ago
A lot of people don't set out to write a million LOC web service, they build a smaller web service and it grows.
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by cwyers 7y ago
Sometimes the job is "maintaining existing code," and nobody is going to pay for a ground up rewrite.
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by cwyers 7y ago
You can do a lot when your entire machine is built around getting data to the GPU, and when your developers are allowed to sink large amounts of effort to maximizing for a single GPU instead of all GPUs on the market. An Xbox One X has a GP
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by cwyers 7y ago
I really hate stuff like this. Bad things happen some percentage of the time when you're doing any thing complicated. And the sort of paradox is that in a large enough sample, rare events happen all the time. Air travel is pretty close
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by cwyers 7y ago
I tried switching to Edge because it has better touchscreen support, better battery life and some other niceties. But the number of websites that only test in Chrome is... not small.
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by cwyers 7y ago
If you've never seen a spreadsheet used for all three of those, I envy you.
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by cwyers 7y ago
Because lots of people have lived through a spreadsheet that had grown too large and too important, and the original author might be gone, and reverse engineering a spreadsheet that's hundreds of megabytes in size and has a dependency
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by cwyers 7y ago
Having Vulkan for Stadia is about as useful for getting games ported from Stadia to Linux as having DirectX on Xbox One is for getting games ported to Windows. Probably less, really.
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by cwyers 7y ago
Well, this isn't a hiring situation, this is a getting contributors to an open-source project. When you're looking for volunteers, the tolerable amount of friction is often less than if you're paying someone for their time.
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by cwyers 7y ago
> As America gets closer to full employment, workers are suddenly finding themself with the most power they’ve had in decades. This... does not comport with the available evidence. Workers in the US right now do not have a lot of power r
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by cwyers 7y ago
I suspect the reason Netflix is better here is because Netflix goes out and chooses its content, and has few incentives to discriminate between what it shows me -- its incentive is largely to keep me using the service enough to justify rene
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by cwyers 7y ago
Amazon has all of my ebook buying history, and they have shown me hundreds of ads for ebooks on my Kindle lock screen, and they have never once shown me an ebook that I would have interest in buying. It is spectacularly awful.
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by cwyers 7y ago
> nobody will judge you, nobody will call you evil I don't think this is true. Lots of people will call anything other than their preferred licenses evil.
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by cwyers 7y ago
Do you have any links?

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