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by gmueckl 7mo ago
This applies to non-GC languages as well. Memory management is slow. Even with manual memory management I have been able to dramatically speed up code simply by modifying how memory is allocated. Parts of the GC language crowd in particula
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by gmueckl 7mo ago
Show a set of random persons gameplay video clips from TTD and OpenTTD in its default settings and ask them which one of the two games they are watching. They'll be struggling. It is about the entirety of the product, not its parts.
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by gmueckl 7mo ago
But OpenTTD is explicitly a faithful copy of the original. It replicates the original product in appearance and behavior and is open about it. If you were to dig into source code history, mailing list archives, chat logs etc. I'm certa
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by gmueckl 7mo ago
At that point it's better to do the glass entirely in post.
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by gmueckl 7mo ago
You are reporting on a deliberately curated effort vs. what I understand is effectively voluntary data donation without incentives. It's not surprising to me that the later dataset ends up biased due to the differences in sourcing.
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by gmueckl 7mo ago
I am not a lawyer. Still, my two cents are: You didn't geobock the download or prompt for then user's address first in your scenario. So it may constitute export because it would be reasonable to assume that you clearly intended
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by gmueckl 7mo ago
Alright. Now I feel extremely dumb amd embarrassed for not picking up on ANY of this!
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by gmueckl 7mo ago
The US isn't the navel of the world. It is one country that is slowly removing itself from international trade and the international scientific community. The European Union has many friendly trading partners left in the world and is a
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by gmueckl 7mo ago
This is an downright evil take on the current situation. The supply chains are so complex that no single country is capable of replicating them entirely. It starts with the fact that the required natural resources are distributed around the
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by gmueckl 7mo ago
Some early binary formats followed similar concepts. Look up Interchange File Format, AIFF, RIFF, and their applications and all the file formats using this structure to this day.
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by gmueckl 8mo ago
How did you decide between assembler and C for various parts of the kernel? Some choices are very different from what I would have picked, so I'm curious about your thought process.
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by gmueckl 8mo ago
I had a weird build recently with the Luxo Jr model. There are a couple of cavities in the model that are partially filled in with very small parts. These parts don't connect in a way that makes then structural. I'm still puzzled
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by gmueckl 8mo ago
Back then, the market was much, much smaller than it is today if I'm doing the math correctly. Zynga reached an early peak in the early 2010s, but multiple companies, including Zynga (at least pre-acquisition) reach bigger revenue numb
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by gmueckl 8mo ago
In very simple terms, Roblox is an MMO based exclusively around user generated contents (games, items, assets...), including its own virtual currency, microtransactions, marketplaces and convertibility to/from real money. Roblox as a c
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by gmueckl 8mo ago
XP did have somewhat better backwards compatibility to 95 and 98 if memory serves correctly, especially for games. Also, I remember that Windows 2000 required new drivers for lots of devices, but XP stayed compatible with most Windows 2000
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by gmueckl 8mo ago
The irony here is that Windows used to be a good shell on a truly terrible kernel around Windows 3.1/Windows 95. Now, it is a bad shell and UX on an actually really good kernel.
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by gmueckl 8mo ago
Less than perfect solutions can make certain types of video games more interesting because the domain of potential results is generally larger and can include many more variations of challenges to the player.
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by gmueckl 8mo ago
This might be mitigated somewhat by offering female drivers a similar options to limit themselves to female passengers. It would ovviously only work whwre demand is actually high enough.
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by gmueckl 8mo ago
Only if you're limiting yourself tok those two countries. A lot of countries use the entirety of a 4 or 5 digit range for their codes. Any given 5 digit number is likely a valid ZIP code in at least half dozen countries.
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by gmueckl 8mo ago
A watchdog guards against unresponsive software. It doesn't protect against bad data directly. Not all bad data makes a system freeze.
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by gmueckl 8mo ago
For safety critical systems, one strategy is to store at least two copies of important data and compare them regularly. If they don't match, you either try to recover somehow or go into a safe state, depending on the context.
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by gmueckl 8mo ago
I think you have missed the wristband input device then. It gives the user fairly subtle finger gestures to interact with the device. I wonder how far that input tech can be pushed, not necessarily (only) in comination with glasses.
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by gmueckl 8mo ago
I had a lot of success when having agents write D code. The results for me have been better than with C# or C++. I hadn't considered Go. Does anybody have some experience about how D fares vs. Go?
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by gmueckl 8mo ago
I think that tt's more likely at this point that we turn the depleting quantities of exploitable resources on this planet into more and more data centers and squander any remaining opportunity at space exploration/colonization at
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by gmueckl 8mo ago
The price tags are wild for sure. But the sheer number of supported features is what makes them attractive. Cloning that completely is practically infeasable.
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by gmueckl 8mo ago
MathWorks offers a huge list of "toolboxes", domain specific extensions that cover a lot of features in each domain. Replacing Matlab isn't about the core language alone.
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by gmueckl 8mo ago
This doesn't follow. There are clear technicaö means to achieve complience in all of these scemarios. All those installers can, for example, check a file in /etc to determine the pirported user's age. If this does need extern
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by gmueckl 8mo ago
This is giving me strong Dark Star vibes with the intelligent bomb forcing a philosophical discussion about existence and perception at the end. (Spoilers for the ending of the movie: https://youtu.be/h73PsFKtIck?si=tTm9Tidm
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by gmueckl 8mo ago
That still doesn't justify mass surveillance.
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by gmueckl 8mo ago
So I was about ready to rant about bloat in modern software, but I checked first: the new edit.exe for Windows is 260kB. The old editor for DOS 6.22 was actually provided by qbasic.exe, which had the editor and a full BASIC interpreter pack

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