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by dleslie 4y ago
The government of Canada funds the development of a fair amount of video games through the Canadian media fund.
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by dleslie 4y ago
That's not the future, that's basically now for any Ubisoft games.
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by dleslie 4y ago
A few years ago Steam began showing labeling on store pages for games that use third party DRM; and if you buy a game that has it and you did so unwittingly, then you can return it without issue provided you played less than two hours and y
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by dleslie 4y ago
Indeed. People think of Unity as a game engine and it's really not. Unity is a service provider, whose major services is the asset store, analytics, ad platform, and so forth. The game engine and editor is just the hook. Most long-term
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by dleslie 4y ago
As someone who has a mortgage and children to feed ... Unity acquiring an ad company is encouraging. For years now Unity seemed to be lost and directionless; having them merge with an ad company shows that they're serious about focusin
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by dleslie 4y ago
Yah, but what about all those hyper-productive impromptu meetings where someone interrupts you at your desk, or when you're on the way to the loo, and they spit out something that could've been sent in an email? Super important st
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by dleslie 4y ago
The toolchains support helps embedded developers, mainly. For example, Xtensa and AVR toolchains are generally byzantine monstrosities of makefiles, Python, dialog, etc; so having them be given a low effort means to consume rust is a boon.
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by dleslie 4y ago
Cargo support for gccrs is part of this project: https://github.com/Rust-GCC/cargo-gccrs Moreover, modules are less interesting to me in embedded development, for which I'm interested in access to Rust's borr
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by dleslie 4y ago
Because that doesn't use the GCC frontend interface, requiring build tools and embedded toolchains to be modified to understand the rust compiler interface. By using GCC it's just another language that the existing toolchain can u
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by dleslie 4y ago
This is great! Gcc support opens up more platforms, more targets, and the opportunity to more easily integrate with the various common embedded toolchains that are built around gcc. And it's free software, for those that care, this mat
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by dleslie 4y ago
Gcc has more stable hardware targets than llvm, for starters.
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by dleslie 4y ago
I use a near-monotone, dark and monospaced font and coloring; italics and bold replace color differentiation. I find color themes with more than one or two front face hues to be tiring to look at.
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by dleslie 4y ago
It's neither in the PYPL nor TIOBE top-20, or even top-50, for popularity.
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by dleslie 4y ago
It's neither in the PYPL nor TIOBE top-20, or even top-50, for popularity.
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by dleslie 4y ago
AFAICT, it's an opinionated refactoring of the core because... Reasons. The devs might want to consider the lost time, and ultimate impact, of Flickr rewriting its internals for... Similar reasons. Sure, the project may seem unwieldy,
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by dleslie 4y ago
I can't think of a single grievance fork of an already-unpopular esoteric language that went on to become a serious industry-shifting project. What's the elevator pitch, is it just social grievance with the Nim developers? Because
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by dleslie 4y ago
I downgraded my machines to windows 10, did the necessary bios changes to prevent Microsoft from trying to force 11 on me, and have not looked back. They roped me in with the wsl improvements, but everything else was such a massive step bac
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by dleslie 4y ago
It reviews positively among users on Steam, now. Release problems have long since been patched, and the game is fun.
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by dleslie 4y ago
Good thing it's a good map for other reasons, then.
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by dleslie 4y ago
The wrong kind? That's a bold claim. It was developed with the design oversight of Mike Pondsmith; based on lore, maps and art from his original source material.
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by dleslie 4y ago
_Eventual_ total deletion is ethical, yes, but having a grace period after cancellation where data is temporarily retained is both obvious and established practice.
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by dleslie 4y ago
The obvious ethical alternative is to make it an easy process to cancel and an easy process to renew and restore cancelled accounts.
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by dleslie 4y ago
Still no m68k, sh2, etc?
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by dleslie 4y ago
Gnome3 and Unity drove me to use MATE, and though I give KDE, Gnome, and XFCE a shot every six months or so I still use MATE. AFAICT, for someone who prefers verbosity, purposeful display usage and textual clarity over all else, it doesn&#x
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by dleslie 4y ago
Without technology, you'll never see mechanical engines powered by chemical energy, either. Neither option I gave requires impossible technology, only improbable and unlikely technology. I don't think FTL is such a barrier if you
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by dleslie 4y ago
You asked about plausible FTL technology, and I provided examples.
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by dleslie 4y ago
You counted over a dozen dozens, which is eyebrow raising. That doesn't sound like presenting structured failure opportunities, it sounds like you're imposing an environment that creates aggravation for all of you. I have severely
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by dleslie 4y ago
Two centuries ago we argued whether heavier than air objects could fly, or if machines could reach the moon. I think it's hubris to think our current models of the universe are the rules of the universe; and that our technological abil
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by dleslie 4y ago
They require things far outside or current technological ability; both are grounded in our understanding of physics. Yes, it's possible they are forever outside our ability, but that makes them improbable but not impossible.
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by dleslie 4y ago
It sounds like you are struggling with your understanding of what the cadence, character and interests of an educated person should be as it contradicts what you've experienced when watching Taylor on television. Truth be told, this th

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