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by m12k 2y ago
"This button lets you edit the blog post. This button saves it. And this one lets you pour a stream of water over it"
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by m12k 2y ago
We don't yet know if there's actually any gold in the mine or not this time around, but we know for certain that there is money to be made selling pickaxes to the miners.
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by m12k 2y ago
Poor man's CDN?
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by m12k 2y ago
Some percentage of those are missing their actual targets due to GPS jamming (others, just straight up terror bombardment). Also, part of the purpose is to create dilemmas for an air defense with limited resources - save the ammo factory or
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by m12k 2y ago
See also https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@runevision/11050883717334359...
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by m12k 2y ago
I'm glad the pendulum is swinging back with this one. With UI paradigms, we seem to have this tendency to throw out the baby with the bathwater, or be so intrigued with the possible new benefits we can get (buttons can change according
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by m12k 2y ago
Casey's Contraptions is a mobile game highly inspired by The Incredible Machine
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by m12k 2y ago
Same on iOS Safari. I guess it matches the headline, since only scrapers can read the content, while humans can't
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by m12k 2y ago
Also, one of the most important UX principles is for things to work the way the user expects. And unless you are the market leader, those expectations are mostly built based on all the other designs that your users interact with, rather tha
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by m12k 2y ago
Yeah, building a repository of knowledge naturally leads to the question of "how do we define knowledge"?
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by m12k 2y ago
Also, here's an example of another 3D dithering technique, inspired by Obra Dinn: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@runevision/11050883717334359...
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by m12k 2y ago
I find it to be a great way to look up syntax or APIs, and generate simple examples of using these. So for example "In [language] how do you parse JSON?" will give me a usable example to follow much faster than trying to find the
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by m12k 2y ago
Conversely, the recently released surprise hit Helldivers 2 is a very prominent AA game has sold millions of copies and seems well poised to win a bunch of game of the year awards (recently concluded PSN account linking controversy notwiths
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by m12k 2y ago
A webview is an embedded browser view within a native application. As an end user, you typically encounter them during the login, "pay with credit card" and "terms of service" sections of mobile apps.
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by m12k 2y ago
Also https://www.theguardian.com/law/2011/apr/11/judges-lenient-b...
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by m12k 2y ago
But also: Facebook/Meta got burned when they missed the train on owning a mobile platform, instead having to live in their competitors' houses and being vulnerable to de-platforming on mobile. So they've invested massively in
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by m12k 2y ago
This is remarkably similar to the situation you get with visual scripting in game development - it's intended as a way for designers and artists to do small coding tasks on their own without needing to bother a programmer (e.g. set up
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by m12k 2y ago
I still make a living writing ruby every day, but the meta-programming is easily the part I like the least, and that I try to avoid at every opportunity (which thankfully, if you're not trying to write a framework, is all the time). I&
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by m12k 3y ago
> It would be nice to see actual examples If you click "Toggle output" on the linked page, you can see the code for the page itself
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by m12k 3y ago
I believe the comment you are replying to meant "with human vision expanded to see more frequencies of light" (i.e. infrared and ultraviolet)
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by m12k 3y ago
Probably fear that this is the kind of red flag that would show up in due diligence, and that having piracy as part of the foundation of the tech stack that you build your business on is not a worthwhile risk to take.
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by m12k 3y ago
In 2015, Chuck Palahniuk (author of Fight Club) talked about the same concept in an interview he gave about the graphic novel he was making as a sequel to Fight Club[1] > my dream, or idea was that Project Mayhem and the whole organizati
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by m12k 3y ago
"friendcode" seems to be pretty standard in multiplayer video games
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by m12k 3y ago
> Scientists say a new handheld device is capable of testing for breast cancer in less than five seconds using just a small sample of saliva Second sentence in the the linked post
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by m12k 3y ago
I find this idea interesting, because it's my impression visual programming is generally considered less powerful than textual programming, but it sounds like the described setup where you visually edit an AST could be a sort of middle
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by m12k 3y ago
>Without reading everything there is on the subject Everything, or in this case the second answer on the linked page ;) I do believe you are (both) on to something though.
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by m12k 3y ago
There was a nice blog post a year ago from someone that used this framework and a rack of iPhones to OCR images in order to build a searchable meme database: https://findthatmeme.com/blog/2023/01/08/image
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by m12k 3y ago
I think in this case it's much like the difference between understanding what Pokemon are, and actively playing each game so you know the names of most Pokemon.
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by m12k 3y ago
It's sometimes "free" in the "as in beer" sense - in certain places, when the sun is shining and/or the wind is blowing enough, so much electricity is produced that it's too much for the grid to handle, so
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by m12k 3y ago
Engineering is the cumbersome real world tweaking and trial-and-error that engineers do after they take over from the scientists, in the hopes of finding techniques that will let them produce something robust and useful in the real world. S

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