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by eridius 7y ago
A digital key is not the equivalent of "new in box merchandise". A digital key is a technical means by which to add a purchased item to your digital library. The ideal behavior is to not have a key at all but rather, once you purc
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by eridius 7y ago
Except you don't. Every bundle I've been a part of says you can't resell the keys. That's kind of the whole point of the bundle; you're not expected to actively want to purchase every item in the bundle, but the val
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by eridius 7y ago
It's not supposed to be a bad decision. Bundle economics actually work¹ in the absence of key reselling. Bundle keys are not allowed to be resold by the terms of any bundle I've ever looked at, so it hardly seems fair to blame the
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by eridius 7y ago
Because the business model of reselling keys is built entirely upon a combination of fencing stolen goods and encouraging people to violate the terms of service of the stores they're buying keys from. There's no legitimate market
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by eridius 7y ago
I'm not talking about like "buy Awesome FPS 2, get Awesome FPS 1 in a bundle for $1 more", I'm talking about bundles that collect a bunch of disparate games. People buy these bundles because they only want a few of the g
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by eridius 7y ago
The problem with resellers like G2A is there's no large legitimate source of keys to resell. They may not be responsible for stealing the keys / breaking terms of service on key sources themselves, but they are acting exactly like
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by eridius 7y ago
I do too. I actually didn't even realize new accounts are on a yearly subscription model.
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by eridius 7y ago
That "simple" fix won't solve the problem where G2A makes bundle economics completely unsustainable for indie games.
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by eridius 7y ago
If you ping 0.0.0.0 on Linux it pings 127.0.0.1. That's the behavior I'm talking about. Binding to 0.0.0.0 is something completely different and not Linux-specific.
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by eridius 7y ago
I didn't realize Pinboard is only 10 years old. It feels like it's been around forever.
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by eridius 7y ago
What's the explanation for why Linux treats 0.0.0.0 as 127.0.0.1?
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by eridius 7y ago
Is there any legitimate reason for a site like G2A to exist? Reselling unused digital purchase keys isn't equivalent to reselling used games; once you redeem a key, you can't transfer it to someone else, so these are keys that hav
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by eridius 7y ago
What do you mean? Bundle terms usually forbid redeeming of the keys by anyone other than the bundle purchaser, but that generally can't actually be tracked (I know Humble Bundle always tells me that the steam keys should only ever be r
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by eridius 7y ago
What's rather curious is it uses what appeared to be a nodejs server stored in ~/Library/Application Support/Blue Jeans/, but it passes the path to that to the app bundle (I can't inspect it further since I alr
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by eridius 7y ago
It looks like if you delete Blue Jeans.app and then restart (or log out), the webserver won't relaunch. It will attempt to run on load, but the actual script to start it invokes the app binary with a special argument, so deleting the a
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by eridius 7y ago
Why should people in underprivileged markets have to wait years before they can play the game?
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by eridius 7y ago
Reselling keys from bundles is also a problem. I don't have a link handy but I was reading just the other day some indie developer complaining that they're seeing more keys from Humble Bundle being redeemed many months after the b
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by eridius 7y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20395158
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by eridius 7y ago
Having it be a physical key, no matter what, can screw with trying to debug key chords in an app. And Xcode doesn't use a function key to pause, since that would also interfere with any apps that use function keys. The default keyboard
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by eridius 7y ago
You don't need to tap twice. Put your finger down on the button and just drag; yeah your finger isn't actually touching the visible slider that opened up, but it work anyway, and the slider will collapse itself again automatically
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by eridius 7y ago
As a developer, the thing that excites me the most about the Touch Bar is the fact that there's a dedicated Xcode "pause" button on it when you're debugging an app in Xcode. If I were developing a macOS app that would f
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by eridius 7y ago
I'm sure Zoom intentionally failed to tell you how to remove the web server. After all, if it's still running, then it's just that much easier to reinstall Zoom on your machine.
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by eridius 7y ago
"deterministic" just means with a given set of inputs you get the same bitwise-identical output each time.
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by eridius 7y ago
Right, but the point is you could pick almost any arbitrary language, show some basic examples, and people would be able to read it. For example, take someone who's never seen Lua and show them the exact same set of examples written in
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by eridius 7y ago
"Can you read something written in the language and figure out what it does" is wildly different from "can you write something new in the language". This is testing the first, but I would argue that any even moderately-e
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by eridius 7y ago
What applications directly consume Haskell code? The only examples I can think of off the top of my head are apps written in Haskell that actually get recompiled any time you change the "configuration" Haskell code. As for Python,
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by eridius 7y ago
Dhall is also a JSON generator. And you could write your own Dhall implementation that lets you consume it directly from an application if you want to, it's just nobody's considered that worth doing.
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by eridius 7y ago
I learned about that function and the resulting output back in high school, but haven't looked at it since then. I wish he'd have given at least the beginnings of an explanation as to why you can't go over 4 for lambda though
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by eridius 7y ago
Adding a sensor to the double slit experiment to measure which slit the particle goes through removes the quantum effects from the experiment.
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by eridius 7y ago
I can manually type in a 30-letter password that I can see from my password manager on my phone. I'm pretty sure I'm not going to be manually typing in an RSA private key stored on my phone.

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