dleslie

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by dleslie 5y ago
I don't know you, but I honestly wish you the best. Start small. Who is paying attention to you, at all? Give them some kindness. It will grow.
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by dleslie 5y ago
They launched much earlier than expected, before really any meaningful library of games were available. Third party developers were taken completely by surprise by the early launch.
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by dleslie 5y ago
There's nothing about his suggestion that requires use of a Blockchain. IA could certify authenticity easily without it.
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by dleslie 5y ago
OCaml benefits from not looking like operator stew.
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by dleslie 5y ago
Houdini and ORCA immediately spring to mind as having intensely talented communities building things with these bleeding edge tools.
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by dleslie 5y ago
How many clicks does it take to find and change your DNS?
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by dleslie 5y ago
I'm a game developer; the demand from players for these measures is loud and persistent. The thing is that they're reasonably effective tools, and the harm, pain and misery caused by griefers and cheaters is real and widespread. A
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by dleslie 5y ago
VSCode can debug and build apps if you have the extensions and tooling installed. Even C/C++ apps. It's actually a pretty great visual debugger on Linux for that reason.
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by dleslie 5y ago
Ah yes, VS' hot reload that insists on popping up a dialog every time a file changes. Garbage.
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by dleslie 5y ago
CPP is woefully inadequate to survive on in most of Canada.
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by dleslie 5y ago
> even having a pre release game in steam and incorporating community feedback. Ah, so they leveraged unpaid quality assurance and design labour in order to cut financial corners.
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by dleslie 5y ago
I wonder what percentage of RPi devices sold were used only for emulation machines?
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by dleslie 5y ago
In my experience, spawning is generally a mistake. It brings a huge amount of potential pitfalls for join in progress, and often becomes an attack vector for griefing. On top of that, it makes hardware usage unbounded. What you usually want
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by dleslie 5y ago
Zig does not have a borrow checker and allows footguns with relative ease. It's a C replacement, after all. Sounds like you want Nim.
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by dleslie 5y ago
I find the author is missing the forest for the trees. The magic of their experience was created by automatic environment configuration. It's the magic that let them start working without spending a day preparing an environment to star
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by dleslie 5y ago
Unless the entirety of the built binary is free of the LGPL, then I can tell you without hesitation that the answer is _definitely_.
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by dleslie 5y ago
Worth recalling is the "primordial ooze" contained UnderNet, QuakeNet, TribalWar, PlanetQuake, 2ch and so forth; to this day, the likes of SA, 4ch, 8ch, Twitter and reddit are heavily influenced by gamer and anime culture. Somethi
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by dleslie 5y ago
The key with 90s web design is the relative absence of Javascript. There's virtually no asynchronous requests; and Castanet works fine with NoScript, most modern sites do not.
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by dleslie 5y ago
Castanet is gloriously imperfect. I hope they never change and never fade away. It's exactly what it looks like: a hodge-podged effort by some local folks with little experience and ability among them, besides an earnest desire to repo
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by dleslie 5y ago
For the same reasons that Google made a browser in the first place: it's an enormous source of data to sell to advertisers.
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by dleslie 5y ago
My experience predates the existence of cuteftp. I was using gopher and telnet before Windows 3.1; I remember when HTTP arrived and ruined everything.
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by dleslie 5y ago
> I had a big notebook next to my PC with all the IPs written down. Likewise! It was like having a secret code, or treasure map, and this data was much coveted among local young hackers.
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by dleslie 5y ago
The socialization on Messenger Kids is quite literally video chat and cooperative or competitive multiplayer games. They play things similar to pictionary, have video chats where they can digitally dress up in fun outfits, and so on.
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by dleslie 5y ago
Because a global pandemic made it so that in many regions of the world it was _impossible_ for children to play with each other in person. My kids, for instance, went around eight months where Covid restrictions meant that indoor gatherings
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by dleslie 5y ago
I'm no fan of Facebook's assault on privacy and exploitation of user data; I'd rather pay for a service than be the product. That said, Messenger Kids is a crazy good product that took off like fire among my children's c
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by dleslie 5y ago
I take issue with the final off-hand comment he made about Tik Tok[0] on one of the linked twitter threads: > Also: the tiktok algorithm has decided that I am a "foodie"; it's pretty much correct about that. Why should I s
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by dleslie 5y ago
Well, FWIW, the first people I knew using WhatsApp were my friends who were drug dealers or chinese nationals, and both lauded the encryption features.
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by dleslie 5y ago
Ensuring user privacy _from you_ can be an effective defensive measure for small companies who cannot afford to mount a meaningful legal defense. "Here's all the data we have, officers. We don't have the keys. Good luck.&quot
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by dleslie 5y ago
Also can't overlook that for many SMS was ludicrously overpriced, but the early basic smartphones (palm and symbian) often had wifi capability; WhatsApp provided secure, ludicrously cheap instant messaging across all meaningful handset
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by dleslie 5y ago
Anything of note we humble readers should take a look at?

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