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by maccard 8mo ago
> if you have enough resource to throw at it An i9 with 128GB RAM isn’t enough resources to open a menu?
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by maccard 8mo ago
I’m a game developer - this sums up my feelings perfectly. A lot of this middleware isn’t necessarily even game middleware - think of a turn based game that might use a custom DB instead of mongo or SQL. You’re effectively banning any non g
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by maccard 8mo ago
Why is this only targeted at games and not mobile apps, app subscriptions or websites. This pretty much removes the ability to use _any_ commercial software without a custom license which is just insanity. No using any AWS services in case
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by maccard 8mo ago
A single google search will tell you pretty unanimously that discord isn’t for kids, is rated 13+ and has risks of talking to strangers.
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by maccard 8mo ago
I live in the UK. By default your ISP will block "mature" content and you have to contact them to opt out. iOS, Android, Playstation, Xbox, Switch all have parental controls that are enforced at an account level. A child with an i
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by maccard 8mo ago
Spain is in Europe. Not all of Europe is Spain!
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by maccard 8mo ago
There’s one piece of information missing from this. > AWS has been charging me $1,500/month for near-zero usage. For over a year. That is more than $18,000 for infrastructure I barely use. Did you provision the infrastructure?
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by maccard 8mo ago
If you're going to be pedantic, you have to be correct. > In Europe, ISPs and CDNs just block websites willy-nilly at the request of La Liga, for instance There's so much wrong with this sentence. It's not Europe, it'
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by maccard 8mo ago
I'm in Scotland. Looking outside and seeing blue skies does not mean it's safe to leave without a rain jacket, or a thermal layer. Seeing fog in the morning doesn't mean you don't need shorts for the afternoon. It being
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by maccard 8mo ago
I aim for the Boy Scout rule - always leave things better than you found it. It’s always a balance and you have to not lose the forest for the trees. Always ask what is the end goal, and am I still moving forward on that.
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by maccard 8mo ago
> LLMs don’t usually fail at syntax? Really? My experience has been that it’s incredibly easy to get them stuck in a loop on a hallucinated API and burn through credits before I’ve even noticed what it’s done. I have a small rust project
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by maccard 8mo ago
I work in games, and we do commit directly to main. On a smaller team you can get away with pre submit review, post submit checks. On a bigger team you need pre submit checks but honestly the point where you need this is much much later tha
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by maccard 8mo ago
I got glasses 2 years ago for a very minor prescription. Your eyesight sucked before you’ve just forgotten how badly. I had an eye test very recently for Contacts and my prescription is the same 2 years later
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by maccard 8mo ago
> RAII has it's own complexities that need to be dealt with now, i.e. move semantics, which obviously C does not have nor will it likely ever. In the example above, the question of "do I put defer before or after the `if err !
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by maccard 8mo ago
This example is exactly why RAII is the solution to this problem and not defer.
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by maccard 8mo ago
We use perforce in work, and we use p4 swarm. It’s unremarkable, hasn’t changed in a decade and just works. Best part of perforce, by far
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by maccard 8mo ago
Thankfully it’s been a while but we had a similar situation in a previous job. There’s absolutely no upside to the company or any (ex) team members weighing in unless it’s absolutely egregious, so you’re only going to get one side of the st
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by maccard 8mo ago
I’m just going to paste a section of my comment above to you > I’m not trying to gish gallop you here - the point isn’t to cherry pick any specific example it’s that advertising isn’t just a billboard or a sponsored VPN segment in a YT v
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by maccard 8mo ago
I think I was pretty polite about but I just think you’re looking for excuses. There’s a wild wild difference between being fluent and being able to hold a conversation and go about your day. Nobody is quitting job to learn how to read a me
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by maccard 8mo ago
I think you’re very unlikely to garner any sympathy here for living somewhere for 16 years without learning the language. I also think it’s perfectly reasonable for a country to not allow someone who refuses to prioritise integration with t
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by maccard 8mo ago
I agree with your point - but to answer your question, none that take _more_ than 10 years but quite a few that take 10 years. Austria had particularly tough requirements - 10 years, language competency _and_ no dual citizenship
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by maccard 8mo ago
OPs comment isn’t a charade, he’s pointing out that it’s a very blurry line. If I receive compensation from company A for a product, and I genuinely like it, is it advertising if I talk about another item on their product line that I bought
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by maccard 9mo ago
Residency is citizenship light if you want to take that angle
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by maccard 9mo ago
It’s certainly an interesting quirk - it’s also not just everyone who is a commonwealth citizen, it’s everyone who is a commonwealth citizen who has a legal right to be in the UK, which is… not everyone. The UKs history is murky and I think
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by maccard 9mo ago
It’s going to wildly depend on the countries, but between the UK and Ireland, no. You do have to swear allegiance to the monarchy in the UK, which some people may feel more or less positively about.
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by maccard 9mo ago
To throw it back at you- should a couple who have been together for 10 years be afforded the same rights as a married couple? > you don’t think they’re committed at that point and should have a right to vote in the society they are contr
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by maccard 9mo ago
I’m acutely aware I’m an edge case - I hoped I made it clear above that I am cognisant of it and that I think of it every time I exercise that privilege > in this particular case the biggest difference is that you can’t get a UK passport
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by maccard 9mo ago
I’m an Irish citizen who lives in the UK. I’m entitled to vote for the upper house in Ireland (Seanad) and in both Uk and Scottish general elections due to our “special arrangement”. I have no plans to apply for citizenship, nor to leave th
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by maccard 9mo ago
Writing a micro benchmark is an academic exercise. You end up benchmarking in isolation which only tells you is your function faster in that exact scenario. Something which is faster in isolation in a microbenchmark can be slower when put i
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by maccard 9mo ago
£1100/mo is about the minimum I could get by on in Edinburgh, yeah. It’s a room in a flat share with bills, £60/week on food, and £150/mo for “everything else”. It’s about as low as I think you could do. The person I replied

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