kroltan

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by kroltan 3y ago
There is a name that we used, for a few precious years, that describes most digital advertisement nowadays: spyware! (And uh, yes, adware, but that's usually the programs themselves. A website with intrusive ads is adware, but the ads
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by kroltan 3y ago
I pay for Premium. I also run an ad blocker, with extra rules to ban content I don't want to see, such as the terrible "shorts" mind-ebola, as well as a bunch of regexes for clickbait titles and a big ban list of channels tha
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by kroltan 3y ago
Welcome to the wonderful world of A/B testing and/or gradual rollouts! I have had the "continue playing from another device" feature for a good couple months at least, and it is clearly labeled as a "Premium" b
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by kroltan 3y ago
I do genuinely appreciate that, but that's the point: the graphical clients that do visual diffing and merging like the ones I listed all work with a bare repo as the remote. Heck I think even the Github Desktop application also works
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by kroltan 3y ago
How does the choice of hosting change this? Bare repo on a server is exposed to people exactly like Github: a remote URL you put in once and forget about it. How people use their local git repository is their business, command-line, Sourcet
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by kroltan 3y ago
Fair enough, but please only use that with strictly USA audiences. (And remember that public information likely will not be targeted to strictly USA audiences) Names don't carry any information intrinsically, they are only a reference
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by kroltan 3y ago
Semi-related: if you ever feel the need to report times to a global audience, not only make sure to always report the timezone (even if it is the same as the user's), but also use UTC offsets rather than timezone names. Life is too sho
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by kroltan 3y ago
That is precisely the point, hit 'em where it hurts.
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by kroltan 3y ago
I mean, it is indeed labeled as not experimental, but even the documentation does not show the up-to-date usage of the ECS APIs.
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by kroltan 3y ago
I suspect some might be able to rise up by injecting themselves at framework level, since it's very likely that the programs will still keep some sort of in-memory representation. Though I don't think that injecting code into othe
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by kroltan 3y ago
"Under development" is the operating word here, DOTS is very much still strongly experimental. The development workflow is chaotic and best practices unclear, somehow even more so than the regular workflow. And even more errors no
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by kroltan 3y ago
That depends on the implementation, but its just a fundamental technology difference. On the web, the default way to do things is to use a bunch of HTML elements and whatnot, which are user-agent-introspectable, even if they are modified us
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by kroltan 3y ago
Yes, use the User Agent that best represents your needs as an user. (In other words, pester Google to revert the junk, or use a non-junk browser)
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by kroltan 3y ago
As someone who has >1000 hours in VR (and is also a game developer), the simple answer is that there really have been only maybe a dozen games. And lots of mostly identical alternatives. Boneworks/HL:Alyx/Pavlov: Shooter, VRCha
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by kroltan 3y ago
If you use advanced search features say 10 times in 10 minutes or whatever (a reasonable amount when refining a search if you ask me), you're quite liable to be elected to have a trial of endurance against the "prove you are a hum
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by kroltan 3y ago
A VR MMO social software is bound to be soulless if it is designed and operated by a company whose customers are advertisers that want to minimise risks and have the broadest possible audience. Advertising is cancer, marketing is a blight u
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by kroltan 3y ago
But think of the ease of conferencing!!!! You just have to whip out your calculator (likely an app on your mobile device), type all the participants' numbers in, and... Wait a minute!
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by kroltan 3y ago
Give everyone prime numbers and a N-way conference can be done with multiplication.
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by kroltan 3y ago
Tomato tomato, it is a templating system for a tree like data structure, rather than going through the middleman of a textual representation.
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by kroltan 3y ago
The params are something that indicate where the badge service should go to get the latest information, not the information itself. Which is why there is a value in having a badge service rather than just updating badges with a commit hook
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by kroltan 3y ago
As someone who worked on a smaller, but still millions-of-users live-service game, profiling of average resource usage and the loading screens was done periodically even if there were no code changes to the area of the game in question. Giv
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by kroltan 3y ago
Well, CSS pixels are not literal device pixels, they are kind of like the Android "device independent pixel" measurement. The exact definition evades me since it's been a couple years I did any web development, but your px-ba
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by kroltan 3y ago
Semi related, but you also need to agree to Facebook using your camera feed if you enable the hand tracking feature. They probably use it to train the tracking models further, and to be fair it is a cool feature, but it costs a video feed
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by kroltan 3y ago
I am a game developer :) But principle would be enough for me, I don't like that the Quest is a brick without phoning home (you have to install and log into the Oculus software at least once to be able to use the desktop computer lin
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by kroltan 3y ago
They are continually improving coverage, a 3D artist friend of mine worked with an agency that was providing 3D models for them (wasn't the best workplace though, very factory-floor-panopticon-y). Though last time I tried it, about a y
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by kroltan 3y ago
I'm curious, what games would you need Windows for? Between Wine frontends and Steam, I haven't really booted Windows for almost a year now, and I play a healthy balance of modern and ancient games of every production quality. The
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by kroltan 3y ago
Very pretty, but not accurate. Most of the world is not authored, but a best-guess by an AI with procedural models. (They do have legitimate 3D-scanned areas, and even hand-authored content for specific landmarks and well-known cities, thou
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by kroltan 3y ago
Still on my trusty Vive due to third-world-itis, but would upgrade to another PC-tethered device like the Index or some other SteamVR-compatible (since I'm on Linux), as to be less at the mercy of the manufacturer. Stern look at requi
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by kroltan 3y ago
The controversiality is exactly that in the Real World(TM) it's possible to either anonymously verify a certain age (by trivial visual inspection in most cases) or handle it in a way that does not require the potential storage of infor
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by kroltan 3y ago
Also, where in hell is anyone even expected to find the privacy policy of a part of their product? In the box manuals before turning on? By then it's too late. It's not possible to agree to something you're not made aware of.

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