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by debugnik 1y ago
I did, actually, because on my phone it's in a burger menu hidden below the Internet Archive banner; thanks for pointing that out. I see the project itself didn't accept donations but they pointed visitors at each dev's perso
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by debugnik 1y ago
> Thanks in advance. I understand the spirit of this post but this makes it sound like HN is FAANG's support forum. Maybe as a last resort it is, but too on the nose for me.
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by debugnik 1y ago
I don't see where you've read that they accepted donations. Every article and Reddit post I find says they didn't? It was indeed releasing on Steam for free, but I don't know if they had contacted LEGO before doing so. A
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by debugnik 1y ago
Most gamedevs haven't really researched numerical integration, they've just heard that the naive method, which is very often hand rolled outside of physics engines, is Euler; and that particle simulations should use Verlet because
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by debugnik 1y ago
> the bad optics of taking legal action against a random fan project Just last month LEGO shut down Masks of Power, the Bionicle fan game. They were really close to a release and LEGO had allegedly met the team and given them permission
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by debugnik 1y ago
Roblox accounts for 0% of stock Lua users, they run Luau. And many uses of Lua you come up with will be using LuaJIT or pinned to an older, possibly forked, Lua release. I'm not agreeing with the comment you replied to, just nitpicking
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by debugnik 1y ago
Spain and Italy are closer to the Poland bracket than the UK/Germany one, possibly even lower for some roles.
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by debugnik 1y ago
I love the concert/busking framing, I'm definitely using that from now on.
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by debugnik 1y ago
Not the same poster, but: Products and services that someone actually signed a contract to pay for. Google is free to not send me free video if they don't want to, I'm just connecting to their website using my browser. But the onl
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by debugnik 1y ago
> ads are trying to get you to buy things Are they? The last time I made the mistake of watching youtube without an ad blocker I got served US right-wing propaganda. I live in Spain, always have, and Google knows enough about me to know
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by debugnik 1y ago
Tell that to the writers of Diablo. In the context of the game, those two characters are brothers.
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by debugnik 1y ago
They said Counter Strike: Source, that's 2004-2013. I'm still curious though, if it worked at all performance must have been awful.
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by debugnik 1y ago
This article is about the bzip2 crate, not the bzip2-rs crate, despite the repo for the former having the name of the latter.
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by debugnik 1y ago
Yes I did, I'm used to working with opam, and when I first changed the switch it worked until I restarted VS Code. But since then I haven't managed to make it work again.
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by debugnik 1y ago
In Spain, most people who didn't pay in the first few days after the free period expired then received a free renewal.
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by debugnik 1y ago
They said as much: > I asked Claude to write a post about the experience. > Check below to see Claude’s original post.
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by debugnik 1y ago
Fable is the complete opposite direction to .NET and OxCaml, though. Nice for people doing web I guess (I'd rather do TypeScript than deal with interop), but the JS runtime and ecosystem are pretty much useless for my use cases. Maybe
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by debugnik 1y ago
Given how poor LLMs are at regular OCaml, which has so much more training data that OxCaml, probably none. An MCP for docs would have been more productive for that purpose.
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by debugnik 1y ago
You can avoid GC in hot loops in F# with value-types, explicit inlining, and mutability. Mutability may not result in very idiomatic code however, although it can often be wrapped with a functional API (e.g. parser combinators).
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by debugnik 1y ago
I do think Jane Street fell into a sunk cost fallacy when they first stuck to OCaml. But after having invested further into an OCaml/OxCaml codebase, teams and tooling, switching tech stacks has lost most of its value. Also, their effo
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by debugnik 1y ago
This did actually halt my hobby programming language project, whose features overlap a lot and is advancing slowly anyway. At the very least I'll give OxCaml a try to compare. Best case I drop mine and use this, worst case I learn what
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by debugnik 1y ago
I actually see this as an escape opportunity for F#-ers. I love the language, but the runtime and C# ecosystem are not only holding it back from having cleaner semantics (until the C# team sees the value in them), they've been actively
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by debugnik 1y ago
Error squiggles and ocamlformat stopped working for me after the first time I restarted VS Code, compared to regular OCaml. They do work fine through the Dune CLI though.
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by debugnik 1y ago
Cool to hear there aren't any technical blockers to add Windows support! You just convinced me into giving OxCaml a try for a hobby project. 128-bit SSE is likely to be enough for my use case and target specs.
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by debugnik 1y ago
I wasn't aware that this fork supported SIMD! Between this, unboxed types and the local mode with explicit stack allocation, OxCaml almost entirely replaces my past interest in F#; this could actually become usable for gamedev and simi
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by debugnik 1y ago
Immutable arrays were ported from this fork as well, and merged for 5.4; although with different syntax I think.
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by debugnik 1y ago
Correct, Jane Street has been publishing a series of blog posts titled "Oxidizing OCaml" for a while.
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by debugnik 1y ago
I make myself the same question every time I use US services. Which is why I want to drop them.
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by debugnik 1y ago
> Countries like Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal PIGS, really? Some of the top growing EU economies right now, which have turned their deficit around, show the future of a slowly stagnating Europe?
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by debugnik 1y ago
Noted! First time hearing about it, I'll have to consider it even if I'm growing tired of "living in a simulation" stories.

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