mpartel

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by mpartel 5y ago
Steam and GOG too
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by mpartel 6y ago
Scala and TypeScript have (partial) answers to this. In your example, Scala 2 would let Int32 and Int64 inherit a trait that Str doesn't. TypeScript would let you write a union type Int32 | Int64 that doesn't include Str (or add E
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by mpartel 6y ago
Some promising stuff here. My highlights: - they seem to recognize the problems caused by recommendation engines optimizing for engagement - they seem to oppose automated content filtering My main worry is that attacking targeted advertisin
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The EU must set the standards for regulating online platforms, say MEPs(europarl.europa.eu)
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by mpartel 6y ago
The JS code is under 500 lines so this is at least simple and auditable. I didn't see anything about encryption based on a cursory read. Does WebRTC have some built in or is this unencrypted?
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by mpartel 6y ago
> Cross-platform determinism: if the enhanced-determinism feature of Rapier is enabled, it will behave in a bit-level cross-platform deterministic way in all platforms that comply with the IEEE 754-2008 floating point standard. Impressiv
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by mpartel 6y ago
> Well, what you ask is what's written in the very first prompt screenshotted in the blog post; [..] I don't see how this choice of words is much different from your proposal. There are nuances about the UI and wording as discu
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by mpartel 6y ago
Heavily sandboxing apps by default is fine, and some Linux distros are, slowly, moving to do this - see e.g. AppArmor and Snap. Even giving warnings by default about unsigned apps requesting high privileges would be fine if the implied mess
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by mpartel 6y ago
That's peanuts. The 30% cut of revenue for app and in-app purchases is the real cash grab.
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by mpartel 6y ago
The power that tech companies accumulate with tactics like this, and the justifications for that power, are strangely reminiscent of autocratic governments: we decide which programs you can develop and run, and we can levy an arbitrary
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by mpartel 6y ago
https://www.oatly.com/int/about-oatly lists other owners as well, but I couldn't find who owns what percentage.
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by mpartel 6y ago
I agree that it helps (though I'm probably more pessimistic about how much it helps). I wanted to counter the assertion that "There's no way it can be banned today, though" (which I should have quoted). Even a disconce
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by mpartel 6y ago
Oppressors can (and I think some already do) subvert HTTPS by mandating installation of government-issued certs so they can do their MITM.
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by mpartel 6y ago
https://puri.sm/products/librem-14/ ?
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by mpartel 6y ago
The experience might vary a lot depending on ping times to their servers, if most interactions require a server round-trip (and if they don't have nice animations to hide the lag).
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by mpartel 6y ago
> Plenty of developers sell through the Epic Store (having development funded by Epic), or GOG, or the Humble store, or on Itch.io, or even via microsoft store. They do, and that's great, but rarely can they afford to not _also_ sel
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by mpartel 6y ago
This is one of those nasty Prisoner's Dilemma type problems where everyone would probably benefit from a collective action in the long term, but it's hard to agree and coordinate when so many individuals derive (smaller and/o
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by mpartel 6y ago
Even if it weren't the only option, the sad reality is that, for most, it'd be financial suicide to not be on the App Store. Compare that to games on PC: even though competition has fortunately started to pick up recently, it&#x
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by mpartel 6y ago
My main complaints about UNET could be summarized as "the order in which things happen is very chaotic" (in unbelievably many ways!). I've not checked to what degree Mirror has improved on this. Based on a superficial look, I
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by mpartel 6y ago
Of course you'd still have restrictions on the code if you want it magically optimized, just as with DOTS. But you're right to be skeptical, this is not something I've thought through that thoroughly :)
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by mpartel 6y ago
> Mind you, I'm a hobbyist in this field so maybe you could chalk it out to inexperience, but I shiver to think to what professional developers have to deal with if the small prototypes I cranked out were that painful. Careful adher
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by mpartel 6y ago
As a Unity user emphatically sharing these frustrations, I'd be really curious to hear from long-time Unreal devs whether the grass really is greener on the other side. How's Unreal's - API stability? - Editor stability? (I h
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by mpartel 6y ago
The reference source is pretty much useless for anything directly under namespace `UnityEngine`, because it consists mostly of forwards to C++, and the C++ was never released. At least that was the case around 2018. It might be getting bett
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by mpartel 6y ago
I'm not so sure that would have been impossible. Nothing fundamental seems to prevent the compiler+runtime from: - laying out instances of the same Component next to each other in memory - Burst.Compiling their Update() functions - add
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by mpartel 6y ago
> I have come to the conclusion that conciseness probably is only an experiential thing. It might not be able to control anything [..] Doesn't it cause us to at least have these kinds of conversations?
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by mpartel 6y ago
> Doesn't every CPU these days have onboard graphics? On laptops, pretty much. On Intel desktops, yes, aside from Xeons. On AMD desktops, only some lower end Ryzens have "G" models.
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by mpartel 6y ago
Wine / Steam's Proton does a decent job, and some older games even work better with Wine than with Windows 10. If you have a spare GPU, a VM with PCI passthrough does an even better job, except for some anti-cheat software that ar
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by mpartel 7y ago
It's always a method in Ruby because you can only access @properties in method implementations. What you're describing holds in e.g. Scala, where it's by design: they feel it should be an easy-to-change implementation detail
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by mpartel 7y ago
Good point about the memory leaks. Not aiming to contradict it, but I'll mention that https://www.eclipse.org/mat/ is a great help in debugging Java memory leaks. .NET probably has something similar.
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by mpartel 7y ago
I mean, it's no longer horrible I guess :) With mainstream languages, there's rarely any single clear and/or insurmountable problem, it's all the little annoyances you run into every day that add up, plus the cognitive

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