kungtotte

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by kungtotte 6y ago
Going back to the OP though that talked about settling on the WIMP model, you're not really contradicting their point. If you take a hammer from 1920 and lay it next to the most jazzed up hammer from 2020, they would be recognised as t
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by kungtotte 6y ago
Hm? All titles on Steam when played with Proton are registered as being played on Linux, not just the ones available officially, and if you do this with something you just purchased it will show up in Steam's statistics as a Linux sale
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by kungtotte 6y ago
Sure, but my point was that this shows the value in making a game that's easily portable to begin with. This is more for future games rather than converting existing ones.
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by kungtotte 6y ago
Yeah, there's never any issues keeping games working on Windows...
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by kungtotte 6y ago
One thing that's important for Linux gaming is that games played under Proton on Steam are counted as Linux sales, so publishers and developers get accurate statistics on how many Linux gamers there are. If the market is big enough, cr
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by kungtotte 6y ago
Here in Europe they're experimenting with using EVs to deliver goods to restaurants and shops at night, since they're so quiet they can operate at night without disturbing anyone. This massively cuts down on the hours needed to ge
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by kungtotte 6y ago
Roughly 1/3 of the operating costs of trucking is the fuel, another 1/3 is wages, and then the remaining 1/3 covers everything else (facilities, maintenance, repairs, purchase cost of vehicles, insurance, etc. etc.). So ~33%
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by kungtotte 6y ago
One point to consider there is how poorly managed our elderly care is, well before this crisis. It's hard to determine for sure but I can't imagine that it didn't factor into our high mortality among the elderly. Staff went t
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by kungtotte 6y ago
Sure, that's true. In that scenario it would also be appropriate to wait for a driver to sober up before driving you to the hospital if neither ambulance nor taxi were available (or delayed). One glass of wine would be out of most peop
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by kungtotte 6y ago
Maybe we should, as a society, invest in taxis equipped with medical facilities and trained personnel so that they can provide first response medical treatment while on the way to the ER. I'm sure that would save a lot of lives. An amb
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by kungtotte 6y ago
Animals who die to feed us aren't really relevant, are they? These 200-ish animals killed by housecats are on top of the food they're already receiving at home, which is made from slaughtered animals. A sports hunter who doesn&#x2
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by kungtotte 6y ago
Yeah, but this behaviour is not really bred into cats the way we've bred behaviour into dogs. Cats and humans is more of a mutually beneficial arrangement where we get pest control and they get shelter and a steady food supply. They ki
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by kungtotte 6y ago
Common housecats that are allowed outside are some of the bloodthirstiest predators on the planet. They can kill up to 200 animals per year, despite being well fed and cared for. They're doing it for sport essentially. They will hunt a
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by kungtotte 6y ago
I absolutely agree that performance matters a whole lot, it's one of the most important considerations in software. It's also true that many developers are not very good at spotting where and how to improve performance, and what t
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by kungtotte 6y ago
I think a lot of the time people think they have performance issues when they in fact don't, likewise with stability and flexibility. In most cases, writing the readable and straightforward version first and only moving to the less rea
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by kungtotte 6y ago
This kind of ties back in to the point of the article. For people who have used $EDITOR for 20+ years there's little incentive to change to something else, but if you want to bring in fresh eyes to your project so that there'll be
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by kungtotte 6y ago
Take a look at Jurassic Park sometime, the Spielberg one from 1993. They used animatronics for most of the dinos and they look almost real still, almost 30 years on. The same with the original Star Wars trilogy, they're all models lit
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by kungtotte 6y ago
In that article the primary purpose seems to be to reduce soundwaves rather than preventing fish from passing through, so both sources are in agreement there that it lessens soundwaves. Also the pressures could be different. It's not h
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by kungtotte 6y ago
Maybe that's what I've been experiencing. He's four and a half so mostly we've been buying slightly "younger" Lego I guess. Those 3-in-1 sets really impressed me though! We've got two of them and as you sa
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by kungtotte 6y ago
I was a kid in the 90s so that's when I bought my Lego. One specific example I can give is with the chassis for small cars. In the 90s they were fairly generic. They were obviously intended to make cars with but you could build any kin
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by kungtotte 6y ago
You should secure everything in your car. If you crash into something going only 50 kilometres per hour, things that are the same weight as your average smartphone will have enough force on impact to kill you.
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by kungtotte 6y ago
I'd hazard to guess that most people have notifications turned on on their phones and typically not on their computer. Take Facebook as an example. Your phone will ding on FB updates or incoming messages on Messenger, even when the pho
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by kungtotte 6y ago
Some people aren't motivated by trying to eke out every last cent out of a business venture, they're happy making as much money as they are currently making. So while income could be maximized by acting differently, Stavros choose
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by kungtotte 6y ago
Reading the replies you're getting here makes me understand why there's so many rude people contacting customer service... I have a customer facing job and I work closely with the customer service department so I'm exposed to
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by kungtotte 6y ago
John Carmack has some ideas on how to use immutable copies of the game state and functional programming concepts to create something that's easily parallelized. I saw it in an old QuakeCon keynote: https://youtu.be/Uooh
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by kungtotte 6y ago
Oh it was absolutely fine for everyday desktop/office type stuff, if I weren't into gaming I wouldn't have upgraded it at all. It still worked for gaming, but newer games were taking their toll.
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by kungtotte 6y ago
As a datapoint to support your argument: I bought a new PC in 2020, the one I bought prior to that was in 2013 and it still runs here at home only relegated to server duty as the HW is good enough for that but lags behind for gaming. I don&
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by kungtotte 6y ago
I don't have a good idea about the compilation speeds of C++, so I don't doubt you on that point. That's hardly the only other AOT language competing with Rust though, and while some of them are simpler on a language level (i
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by kungtotte 6y ago
Other languages are able to compile much faster than Rust on the same hardware. So while adding hardware helps (up to a point), Rust is definitely an outlier when it comes to compilation speed.
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by kungtotte 6y ago
They haven't made it a priority until the last year or two, no efforts were made to improve it before then.

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