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by loupol 3y ago
Choosing installs to collect revenue on is stupid because it isn't tightly correlated to revenue for a game: Demos, bundles, free week-end tryouts on Steam, free-to-play games and other specific cases all lead to high install counts wi
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by loupol 3y ago
From news article : > Diese Form des Freiheitsentzuges ist umso problematischer, da den Protestierenden, sollten sie für eine Blockade verurteilt werden, keine Haft droht. Die entsprechenden Verfahren enden regelmäßig lediglich mit Gelds
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by loupol 3y ago
> Now, Scotland is hoping to see similar outcomes when it pilots the scheme for some of its civil servants, The Times reported Sunday. > The move, set to be unveiled by First Minister Humza Yousaf, will impact a range of departments a
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by loupol 3y ago
It wouldn't surprise me if after an email telling them to lower their consumption, consumers would anticipate the worst and instead decide to recharge any electrical appliances reliant on batteries (Power banks, EVs, etc...) "just
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by loupol 3y ago
But we are a part of nature as well, and have no choice but to interact with it. There is no such thing as a perfect ecosystem equilibrium (If only because of entropy), life is constantly evolving, whether there are humans involved or not.
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by loupol 3y ago
I feel compelled to mention the still very relevant xkcd on voting software: https://xkcd.com/2030
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by loupol 3y ago
Last post was made in 2019. (If you click on the name of the post it shows the timestamp at the bottom) Blog author stated on Reddit in 2021 that he wasn't maintaining it anymore[0]. [0] https://old.reddit.com/r/pr
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by loupol 3y ago
PFAS non-sticking cookware is quite deadly for pet birds[0]. Teflon themselves have an article acknowledging it[1]. Now I know that our respiratory systems are much more resilient than those of birds, but out of precaution I'd still ra
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by loupol 3y ago
The dynamics at play at play are definitely similar, but not completely so. In the prisoner's dilemma, the highest theoretical yield for each prisoner is achieved by everyone "cooperating", but that isn't really the case
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by loupol 3y ago
This feels like an extremely dangerous slippery slope. The more patents on gameplay are granted, the more they'll be applied for by big companies who will eventually end up with big patent portfolios they can use to shut down other gam
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by loupol 3y ago
> The French had invented a new acronym: GAFA. GAFA stood for “Google Apple Facebook Amazon” and if you were a member of this group you weren’t to be trusted. Author seems to characterize this as an unreasonable stance to have, but I per
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by loupol 3y ago
Having also used both for several months each, I feel the same way overall. I will say that Unity has better documentation and more learning resources due to the much bigger community around it, but I still found myself reimplementing sever
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by loupol 3y ago
Also managers that think "time spent with butt on a chair where I can see him" is a good metric for estimated productivity. But yeah you've got a ton of competing dynamics which make the problem hard.
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We Found and Saved 10 Years of Lost Video Game History [video](youtube.com)
28 points by loupol 3y ago|8 comments
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by loupol 3y ago
In French, the way the word "bit" is pronounced sounds the exact same as the French word for cock (not the rooster). I can assure you that French CS programming students get over it quickly. There's noone really asking for it
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by loupol 3y ago
If I recall properly, Minetest started out as an open-source Minecraft clone hence the aesthetics. Best looking modern voxel games I know of are Teardown[0] and Shadows of Doubt[1]. [0]: https://store.steampowered.com/app&#x
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by loupol 4y ago
Cosmopolitan[0] is indeed worth mentioning here. It's an amazing project. [0] https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan
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by loupol 4y ago
I've definitely seen the same model used. Small company also.
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by loupol 4y ago
From the first result I skimmed through searching Mounjaro, I would assume GP meant switching away from metformin to Mounjaro : "...Mounjaro can be used on its own in patients who cannot take metformin (another diabetes medicine)...&qu
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by loupol 4y ago
Bookmarking that for later use. It can be hard to be certain an image is truly public domain. Museum collections are nice because you're generally certain of the origin of the image. I also found the following section ("Clearance
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by loupol 4y ago
Very comprehensive resource for someone trying to get into rom hacking in general. The GBATEK specification [0] mentioned several times in the guide (not limited to the GBA, it also covers Nintendo DS, DSi and 3DS) feels like a real treasur
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by loupol 4y ago
This is a really long read. If you want a summary the Factual rebuttal at the end and the TL;DR are good. Really damning account regarding Id's management and Marty Stratton in particular, and it seems like he's got a rather thoro
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by loupol 4y ago
There's a 1959 Asimov short story where a futuristic government overrelying on automation realizes they can replace expensive computers driving ships and missiles with humans to save on expenditures. [0] https://en.wikipedia
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by loupol 4y ago
I personally understood GP comment as vindicating in favor of the law by implicitly trying to preempt those who might argue that this used to be (and should remain) private information. The counterargument it makes is that it isn't pri
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by loupol 4y ago
This is amazing, some of the images have an incredible sci-fi feeling to them. Current link doesn't show all of the photos, the photographer's website has some more : https://www.charlesbrooks.info/
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by loupol 4y ago
Cool article. An excellent resource for grids of all kinds is Red Blob Games' site. It's mentioned in the article, but only with a link leading to a somewhat empty page and not this very useful one : https://www.redblob
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by loupol 4y ago
Also the blog from the book author, with visualizations and separate blog posts for several different maze generation algorithms: http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2011/2/7/maze-generation-algorit...