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by gmueckl 6mo ago
Don't have public data, but industry contacts confirmed to me in private on multiple occasions that DRM increased sales. One really old example was a copy protected expansion pack selling much better than the unprotected base game that
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by gmueckl 6mo ago
Your first point seems flawed: Apple production numbers are to supply markets worldwide. All the other numbers focus on the US only. That alone makes the threat at the OS level evaporate. Lenovo reportedly sells around 50 million units per
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by gmueckl 6mo ago
I wonder whether it has to do with the actual installation being in progress in the background. There is probably a time window in some updates where an interruption leaves the OS in a bad state.
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by gmueckl 6mo ago
I understand the (narrow) hard guarantees that rust gives. But there there are people in the wider community who think that the guarantees are much, much broader. This is a pretty widespread misconception that should get be rectified.
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by gmueckl 6mo ago
I think that legitimate real world issues in rust code should be talked about more often. Right now the language enjoys a reputation that is essentiaöly misleading marketing. It isn't possible to create a programing language that doesn
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by gmueckl 6mo ago
There are ways to wrap adb in a friendly interface. I can totally see a desktop based manager and marketplace for phone apps as a workaround.
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by gmueckl 6mo ago
But are those users allowed to see all the data in the databawe by the law? Some privacy laws require that personal information must be hidden from employees unless they have a narrow and specific business reason to view it. Blanket full ac
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by gmueckl 6mo ago
Raylib is more of a low level runtime library than an engine. Godot, Unity, Unreal etc. come with very extensive interactive tooling for game creation. Modern engines are really about interactive content editing and collaboration in the dev
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by gmueckl 6mo ago
Ths is a massive misunderstanding of the technology. First of all, the amount of hydrogen in the reactor is tiny. The magnetic confinement severely limits the density of the plasma. The inner containment vessel is a ultra high vacuum chambe
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by gmueckl 6mo ago
I have two answers for you: 1. All that AI really does is a (partially) randomized exploration of the space that has been spanned by existing music. AI creativity, as far as it can be said to exist, is limited by this. You, on the other han
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by gmueckl 6mo ago
20% to 30% slower would be amazing for all the extra runtime work that is required in my limited understanding. This would be good enough for a whole lot of serious applications.
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by gmueckl 6mo ago
Well, I didn't mean for this to be patronizing, but rather as a warning that not everybody is at the same level and the spread is huge. I see it often enough.
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by gmueckl 6mo ago
Yes! Even closing the windows of programs that users no longer need is hard. It's easy to develop a disconnect with the level that average users operate at when understanding computers deeply is part of the job. I've definitely de
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by gmueckl 6mo ago
Racing like in Formula 1 is extremely different from normal product design: each Formula 1 car has a user base of exactly 1: the driver that is going to use it. Not even the cars from the same team are identical for that reason. The driver
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by gmueckl 6mo ago
The same line of reasoning leads to constitutions and laws being jokes, too. The simple fact is that rules matter if and only if they are enforced effectively by a community. And power is the ability to direct and control that enforcement.
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by gmueckl 7mo ago
When you look at the DM's guide guide to the game, one of the very first rules it teaches is that the fun trumps being a stickler for the rules and the DM is free to bend and break rules for a better plot, and even encouraged to do so.
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by gmueckl 7mo ago
Unless I'm overlooking something, the demo only requires DOSBox to have a machine with predefined execution speed. There are no DOS interrupt calls that I can see. Other than that, the program could probably even be trivially modified
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by gmueckl 7mo ago
You have the right starting point, but the wrong conclusion. Government services need to be inclusive of everybody. But you simply cannot build technical solutions that put technical requirements on devices owned by the users in a way that
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by gmueckl 7mo ago
You have the totally wrong expectations here. Some service that requires citizens to buy and bring their own devices in order to use a service will by definition always be exclusive. Whining about lacking compatibility with some niche sbowf
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by gmueckl 7mo ago
No, Germany punishes according to the laws at the time of the crime. It is not possible to retroactively enforce new criminal statutes.
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by gmueckl 7mo ago
There have been several talks about contracts and the somewhat hidden complexities in them. C++ contracts are not like what you'd initally expect. Compiler switches can totally alter how contracts behave from getting omitted to reporti
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by gmueckl 7mo ago
I've never observed a (non-LTO) linker exchange instructions. I want to see an example before I can believe this.
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by gmueckl 7mo ago
OK, I spent a few additional minutes digging into this. It's been too long since I looked at those mechanisms. Turns out my brain was stuck in pre-PIE world. Global variables in PIC shared libraries are really weird: the shared library
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by gmueckl 7mo ago
I can't reconcile this with the code that GCC generates for accessing global variables. There is no additional indirection there, just a constant 0 address that needs to be replaced later.
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by gmueckl 7mo ago
This assumes that executable code pages can be shared between processes. I'm skeptical that this is still a notable optimization on modern systems because dynamic linking writes to executable memory to perform relocations in the loaded
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by gmueckl 7mo ago
The UI has an awkward learning curve and some tools are weird, but it has become a rather solid CAD. Don't discount it in its current state, despite its warts.
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by gmueckl 7mo ago
FreeCAD: https://freecad.org
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by gmueckl 7mo ago
Do I have it right that the two projects that this deal kills off haven't seen any construction work yet? These aren't among the projects that the stop work orders were issued against in December, right?
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by gmueckl 7mo ago
Turing conpleteness is not associated with crativity or intelligence in any ateaightforward manner. One cannot unconditionally imply the other.
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by gmueckl 7mo ago
Well, if yo allow random users to just stop updates forever in a non-managed environment, then a good portion of them won't remember to reenable them. This would create new breeding grounds for security vulnerabilities. Remember Sasser

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