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by pdpi 3y ago
I know I own (all on Steam) and actively play a few games built on Godot: Brotato, Turing Complete, Virtual Circuit Board, Halls of Torment.
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by pdpi 3y ago
Yikes. That’s not exactly a great look.
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by pdpi 3y ago
At least felling trees to build things serves a purpose. Are those things worth the cost? Debatable, but at least there’s some attempt at justification. This one is particularly heartbreaking because you can’t even apply that cynical utilit
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by pdpi 3y ago
> The simple fact that these skinny scroll bars exist are evidence that designers do not sit with non technical users to conduct usability testing. This kind of hits one of the superficial symptoms of the problem, but I think it’s a much
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by pdpi 3y ago
I've been in London for over ten years, and family back in Portugal still struggles with the idea that Flat <number> <Post code> UK is enough to uniquely identify my address.
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by pdpi 3y ago
Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
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by pdpi 3y ago
The thing that most impresses me about Blackmagick is how they seem to scale with you from tiny projects to pretty big stuff. From the ATEM Mini all the way to big consoles, from the pocket cameras up to the Ursa etc. This just looks like i
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by pdpi 3y ago
We also have the notion that fixing bugs at design time is easier than in dev, which is in turn easier than in prod. Publications can simultaneously be praised for “rolling back a bad build” while being criticised for letting that build rol
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by pdpi 3y ago
Learning modules are useful when they fulfil some need. There’s no specific regulatory or business need being fulfilled here, near as I can tell, it sounds like they’re stopping everything for a week to pad a vanity metric. What the article
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by pdpi 3y ago
> Apparently they wrote their own rather than using something established like LLVM, and this is the result. Go is self-hosted, and compilation is much faster than any LLVM-based compiler I know. Those are valuable properties. We can arg
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by pdpi 3y ago
> What's the benefit of the internal structure at all? Purely random identifiers are the bane of DB indices. The internal structure is sequential-ish and therefore indexes well.
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by pdpi 3y ago
> You put enough solar panels on enough geographical locations (and connect them together) you get permanent solar without storage. In theory? Yes. In practice? You have one whole hemisphere powering the other hemisphere, which makes tr
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by pdpi 3y ago
The issue here is users complaining that the phones get too hot to handle, which immediately eliminated conductivity. A thermal conductivity problem would've looked like the phone overheating without the outside getting too hot to hand
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by pdpi 3y ago
It's plenty solid, and there's a good library of packages on there. It's a package manager, doesn't take more than that.
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by pdpi 3y ago
All else being equal, the one thing Java can do that the OS can’t is avoid paying for context switches. There is a cost to crossing the user space/kernel space boundary that you can avoid with user space lightweight threads.
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by pdpi 3y ago
I kind of consider algebraic data types (the combination of this style of enum (sum types) and structs (product types)) paired with pattern matching as the core feature set that any modern language must support. It makes for really simple,
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by pdpi 3y ago
Sure, but then you have the really interesting challenge of trying not to block your next door neighbour who’s accessing your service via tor/satellite.
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by pdpi 3y ago
That's the reality even with smaller yachts. Some family friends have a 70' yacht and even at that size they have two full-time crew members.
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by pdpi 3y ago
I’m curious what the introduction of the steam deck has done to these numbers. With regards to sales, on the one hand, I expect that the number of players on Linux has spiked by at least an order of magnitude. On the other hand, I expect
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by pdpi 3y ago
Even without knowing much of anything about DotA 2 in particular: for any game with asymmetric information, the crowd reacting to what your opponent is doing is always going to be a major tell. At least in LoL, managing that information a
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by pdpi 3y ago
> There is no such obligation And, insofar as such an obligation to “maximise shareholder value” might exist, that obligation doesn’t necessarily translate into “maximise profit”. The shareholders of a theatre company might care more abo
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by pdpi 3y ago
If Tim Cook had calmly said what he did, I’d believe it was just toeing the party line. The fact that he actually got angry, though? He doesn’t strike me as the sort of person who’d fake that, I don’t think that’s the image he wants if noth
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by pdpi 3y ago
> Epic is not doing this out of the goodness of their heart Tim Sweeney founded Epic and wrote the Unreal engine himself. John Riccitiello’s whole career is in management. Even if they’re both entirely motivated by profit, they have diff
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by pdpi 3y ago
I was really really hyped for a new Bethesda game. After a few weeks playing Baldur’s Gate 3, though, Starfield just landed completely flat with me. Characters just feel completely lifeless, both in terms of voice acting and in how they mov
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by pdpi 3y ago
Jokes aside, given all four combinations of serif/sans * proportional/monospace, with a good variety of weights and italics, and you’ll have covered the vast majority of use cases.
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by pdpi 3y ago
I’d say that AAA are the rough equivalent of major Hollywood productions. Looking at Wikipedia for budgets and box office for a few high profile films: Everything Everywhere All At Once had a budget in the $14M to $25M range, for a $141M bo
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by pdpi 3y ago
IIRC Facebook used to provide a small wifi router that you’d plug into your home network and it would connect itself to the office VPN, then just provided office wifi at home. Sounds fairly similar to what you’re suggesting.
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by pdpi 3y ago
I have gone back to a previous employer once. Got separated/divorced shortly after changing jobs so just needed to go back to a place where I already had a support structure built. At any rate, you're not just burning bridges with
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by pdpi 3y ago
Anything that sounds like Apple making a 15+ year commitment to the ARM platform is going to benefit ARM's IPO massively , so the real question is what Apple got from this.
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by pdpi 3y ago
> I think Node is still single core by default? It’s complicated. Node itself has never been single-threaded. The execution model for JavaScript is single-threaded, so there’s no working around that, but libuv uses threads to build async

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