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by eestrada 3y ago
> Epic is privately held, Valve is too, Unity is not and we ended up here. I think that says a lot. I've been thinking a lot about private versus public companies. Most of my favorite products come out of privately held companies. T
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Baby Steps game by Bennett Foddy Will Launch in Summer 2024(gamerbraves.com)
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by eestrada 3y ago
I remember hearing from my mother about how her grandmother (my great grandmother) got her chinaset. It was during the great depression, and some flour companies held long running promotions where a piece of China would be placed inside the
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by eestrada 3y ago
A while ago I checked to see how much gold actually exists in circulation. It is less than 22 meters cubed. That's it. Diamond mines regularly dump more than that in the ocean to create artificial scarcity. And at the end of the day, i
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by eestrada 3y ago
That moment when you learn natural diamonds are literally dumped into the ocean by the boatful to created artificial scarcity...
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by eestrada 3y ago
Lots of studios still build engines from scratch for this very reason: get exactly what they want and avoid vendor lockin. A good FOSS engine that gets them 50% of the way there for free? Seems like a pretty good deal to me. So long as the
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by eestrada 3y ago
I think more than anything it is the nickle-and-dime frustration of being charged multiple times along the way. It would be more like if McDonalds charged per bite instead of per sandwich. Even if the final bill isn't much different, i
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by eestrada 3y ago
It seems like they fell more inline with Semantic Versioning when that format came in vogue. Semantic Versioning is what most devs expect now; it makes sense to communicate the version in a format that has a broadly understood meaning for d
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by eestrada 3y ago
Physically based rendering support is already pretty robust. The bigger things holding Godot back were more game centric, like screen space occlusion object culling to help with rendering large scenes. However lots of those sorts of feature
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by eestrada 3y ago
Yes, this. So many devs get caught up on which language is used. I have my pet languages that I prefer too, but at the end of the day a game engine is about creating games. So long as the language offered is reasonably usable and one can de
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by eestrada 3y ago
> For smaller indie studios, there are definitely better alternatives, but when it comes to the big packages, there's really just Unity and Unreal. Or big studios can just build their own engine. Lots of big studios still do this. O
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by eestrada 3y ago
> Uber's CEO says his time delivering food for his company revealed a "lack of quality" with its product from a driver's perspective. Dogfooding can't ever stop. "Why is our product terrible?" Because y
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by eestrada 3y ago
> tell kids how/why to be “good” , and largely they won’t be bad. That is only part of the solution. Kids do more modeling than critical thinking. Parents and other role models need to show kids a good example. Bad behavior in kid
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by eestrada 3y ago
> Everybody in the US likes to talk about the golden age of the 50s. The top marginal tax rate was pushing 90%. The effective tax rate was never actually that high. There are always carve outs to lower the rate. https://www.ae
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by eestrada 3y ago
Thomas Jefferson said "...the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods & errors." Disencha
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by eestrada 3y ago
This solves basically all the issues I have with JSON.
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by eestrada 3y ago
> There’s a very large chasm between being successful, and having $10s of billions of dollars in net worth. Because of marginal utility, there really isn't such a large chasm. Every additional dollar has less utility than the dollar
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by eestrada 3y ago
So long as the cost (fines, legal fees, lost revenue due to bad press) is less than the increase in revenue they receive from forcing users to buy their overprices cartridges, HP's behavior won't change. My most recent printer is
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by eestrada 3y ago
An obscure hippie commune would like to talk to you about an early stage investment opportunity. /s Seriously though, to your point, existing and historical communes require 100% voluntary buy-in to work. That doesn't scale beyond
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by eestrada 3y ago
> with modern networking, data speeds and computing capacity, a centrally-planned economy could work. Ludwig von Mises' whole point is that you are working with unknowable inputs, so you can never calculate correctly. This is why a
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by eestrada 3y ago
> When I was younger though (and child free), I'd jump at these sort of events, and loved them. I think this is the key point. After hours parties only focus on one demographic (young and/or without children). Some non-zero per
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by eestrada 3y ago
This is how I get my news. Not every news source has an Atom or RSS feed, but plenty of aggregating sites (like HN I might note) do have feeds. Nothing is stopping anyone from doing this now. But apparently, this is not how the masses want
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by eestrada 4y ago
That is a good point. It would be interesting to see these same numbers as a ratio against worldwide album sales over time. That would give a better sense of popularity relative to their time.
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by eestrada 4y ago
This reminds me of the Is-Ought problem defined by Hume. "Ought" has to do with value judgement, and that is squarely in the realm of human morality. Only humans know what humans value; generative AI can't replace that and it
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by eestrada 4y ago
I thought the original title meant that people are less likely to order excess food when ordering online. Still an interesting article, but not what I was expecting.
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by eestrada 4y ago
To bolster this point, the bestselling album of all time is still Michael Jackson's Thriller, released in 1982. So it has been literally over 40 years and nothing else has topped that for mainstream popularity, musically speaking. It h
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by eestrada 4y ago
I think the reason Unreal Blueprints and cousins work and are useful is: they are used in a relatively narrow domain, the primitives of that domain are well understood/defined, and the primitives are easily compossible. Once you create
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by eestrada 4y ago
I'm guessing the stickiness of Unix is that a lot of useful software, espescially FOSS, just compiles and works on Unix-y operating systems, assuming the right syscalls are implemented. There is far less reinventing of the wheel by goi
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by eestrada 4y ago
Also at Amazon currently. Similar situation; I have coworkers across all timezones in the contiguous US.
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by eestrada 4y ago
Because native multithreading is expensive when it comes to (a) memory consumption per thread of execution and (b) context switching. Also, if your program spends a lot of time just waiting on outside resources (most notably slow/block

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