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by pdpi 3y ago
This has long been one of World of Warcraft's strengths as well. Even with incremental improvements, that engine is still almost twenty years old. Their great art direction with distinctly stylised art has let the game age way better t
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by pdpi 3y ago
This is one of those cases where terminology matters. A blockchain is just a content-addressed linked list (that is: the "pointer" to the next node is actually hash of the contents of the next node, then you have a big hashmap of
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by pdpi 3y ago
This is more or less a solved problem. Tamper-resistant/tamper-evident datastructures like blockchains and merkle trees make it fairly hard to make things vanish without a trace. You dont need all of the Nakamoto consensus machinery of
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by pdpi 3y ago
Python has been getting a bunch of similar features too. ADTs+Pattern Matching form an incredibly powerful pair of features that leads to code that is both concise and easy to read, so it doesn't surprise me that it's getting retr
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by pdpi 3y ago
There's competition for high-end engineers everywhere, and you can't really afford to lock yourself out of the markets where those engineers congregate.
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by pdpi 3y ago
What does "Finished" mean to you? BG3 was "finished" on release. If it never saw a single update after that, I'd have been happy with it anyway. What they're doing is providing excellent ongoing support to an a
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by pdpi 3y ago
You just described why I entered the space, and for a while I was proud to say that were actually catering to those needs. Unfortunately, the whole industry has turned into get rich quick schemes and investment toys for rich kids.
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by pdpi 3y ago
> My framework is both portable and the absolute easiest to work with. It’s hard to overstate this. I bought the 13” DIY edition a few weeks back, and it was almost disappointingly easy to set up. I was expecting a bit of a project, but
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Researchers have discovered magnetic monopole quasi-particles(cam.ac.uk)
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> One of the sneakily genius things Apple seems to be doing is, it goes to developers of some of the most "popular" apps and works with them to make their apps work well This has been part of their playbook for decades. I disti
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by pdpi 3y ago
Nobody’s complaining about Facebook’s use of ads as its primary income stream. Hell, the complaint isn’t even about targeted ads. The complaint is specifically around the pervasive tracking that goes hand in hand with this particular form o
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by pdpi 3y ago
My Canon printer is much the same. The only feature I insisted on when I bought it was that I wanted it to be ink tank-based instead of cartridge-based. Other than that, it's completely unremarkable. People really need to assign more v
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by pdpi 3y ago
A newspaper intervented and arranged for an amicable resolution. If they had taken this to court, I'm sure they'd have won, but they were happy to accept a refund plus a voucher, so they didn't. The 20% off voucher is a slap
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> but you can design a good foundation to your code which prevents tons of problems out of the gate in C++, And there is an almost perfect overlap between the people capable of pulling off a rewrite like this and the people who would wri
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by pdpi 3y ago
I wish I could dismiss that as a joke, but I have in fact seen some of those.
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by pdpi 3y ago
The roman style is pretty legible, yes, and I . The italic, though? It's not a 157ms vs 158ms difference, I legitimately struggle reading it at all, which is a shame because I really like the roman style.
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by pdpi 3y ago
> If he decided to quit immediately after the vote then why would the board issue a statement saying he was going to stay on? Why would they issue a statement saying that he was going to stay on without some form of assurance from him? I
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by pdpi 3y ago
In a sense, subtraction and division don’t really exist as full fledged operations on the reals anyway. They’re just convenient notation for additive/multiplicative inverses.
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by pdpi 3y ago
EC2, k8s, etc all abstract the hardware away, but they still use the server as a core abstraction. Serverless does away with that abstraction entirely. It’s obviously nonsense from a low-level point of view (as you say: one of many classes
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by pdpi 3y ago
Parity with Unity/Unreal is very much a non-goal for MonoGame. They're very different abstraction levels with very different purposes.
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by pdpi 3y ago
> Some of the shots would fit right in with a Portal cutscene. The music really helps sell that idea.
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by pdpi 3y ago
Thanks for the original source. This is pointless nonsense, but it’s exactly the sort of pointless nonsense I want to read on a Friday evening!
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If it's good for reading, it's especially good for Github itself, which is a largely read-only interface for code.
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by pdpi 3y ago
At that point, Amazon’s data will be up for sale for everybody else to buy too, which fixes the problem.
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by pdpi 3y ago
Yup. I’ve been looking at the Framework laptop, and it’s barely any thicker than the current MacBook Pro.
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by pdpi 3y ago
> It is fun to think I can never really replay uplink, short of some rather severe amnesia. That's the feeling I got out of Return of the Obra Dinn. Turns out that a carefully crafted whodunnits becomes a lot less interesting when y
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by pdpi 3y ago
If they said "The game is locked to 30fps" I'd probably have been ok with that. It's not a fast paced game, and capping the framerate at a low value is probably a decent enough design choice for that particular game. As
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by pdpi 3y ago
Dog breed matters loads there too. “Man with pit bull” is perceived very differently from “man with Labrador”
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Most of the serious programmer oriented editors support LSP to some degree now. Vim, emacs, Sublime, etc. Even JetBrains’s IDEs support it in addition (or alternative) to their own custom tooling.
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Sort of, except not really. It’s largely the other way around: LSP gives the editor a way to declare its capabilities to the language. The key insight with LSP is that languages are _way_ too different to have that notion of language capabi

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