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by protomikron 7y ago
It's an older engine, but it checks out. The games Torchlight 1 and 2 use Ogre and they look very pretty and never needed a high-end machine to perform well (even when they came out).
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by protomikron 7y ago
Cool project, but ... that website gave my browser cancer (if you scroll down too far, your history is messed up and back button does not work).
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by protomikron 7y ago
> [...] we're pumping the brakes on the telemetry changes So you revert (don't implement it)? Thx! Reverting it is the right decision (I hope that means "pumping the brakes").
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by protomikron 7y ago
How big is the vendor-lockin though? Let's say I want to use both Hetzner Cloud and GCP instances - I am sure it's possible, but the question is how much of a hassle it is ...
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by protomikron 7y ago
Thanks, that looks interesting. I hope I don't get toooo many different suggestions. ;)
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by protomikron 7y ago
And yet I still have to deploy my first Kubernetes setup and have used Docker multiple times ... Is there some kind of "Kubernetes-light" out there? So something like in-between running services like NGinx and Postgres on bare Lin
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by protomikron 7y ago
That's really cool and I hope Elm keeps getting better. I like the opinionated approach it takes and I will probably build my next web UI in Elm. I just have to figure out what's the best way to wrap JS libraries, but I am sure th
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by protomikron 7y ago
But what's the point then? If there's a tool, that can make "documentation" out of source code, I can just look at the source code?
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by protomikron 7y ago
> I do not share your experience, because in my experience the auto-generated docs will be kept in sync with the code/API while a separate specification will become outdated over time. Does it? You can just alter the code and forget
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by protomikron 7y ago
Yes. Now if you use human language to document your functions (methods) that is not a problem, but too often I see something like: public class BookStore { ... /** * @param book The book.
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by protomikron 7y ago
My pet peeve is auto-generated documentation from configuration files or source code. It is absolutely useless and I would rather prefer no documentation than auto-generated. Some time ago Swagger (nowadays OpenAPI) got really popular and m
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by protomikron 7y ago
So the endgame is probably that we have to switch from "adblockers" to "contentallowers": Filter everything and whitelist content?
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by protomikron 7y ago
> If using GPLv2 means companies stay away from the project instead of building on top of it, that's not a win for anyone. Companies having problems with GPL is a problem of companies and not a problem of the license. If the library
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by protomikron 7y ago
Blender is a great piece of software and I appreciate their choice of license (GPL). Obviously the GPL put a lot of thought in the development of their licenses and it's important for software developers to know about the subtle differ
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by protomikron 8y ago
My main problem with functional programming (mostly based on some experience with Haskell) is that I find it really hard to estimate the performance (in terms of runtime and memory consumption) of programs. It's really nice to struct
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by protomikron 8y ago
How is this related to programming languages - I think these are platform issues and design choices. How does Erlang help there (curiously interested)?
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by protomikron 8y ago
But there was definitely a time where Linux was competing with Minix, which was low price (affordable to a Hacker) and had more features. However its development wasn't done in the open and it was not "free" (in the FOSS) sen
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by protomikron 8y ago
But Android is still based on Linux and you need GCC to compile the kernel (yeah I know, other compilers can do it too, but GCC is in some kind of symbiosis with Linux, which is a good thing I guess). I know about the Fuchsia project, but s
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by protomikron 8y ago
More and more services recognize disposable e-mail domains and don't allow such addresses. Obviously they can't block the gmail.com domain. I like the idea, but it probably is against Google's TOS, so there's that ...
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by protomikron 8y ago
Interesting work. This proves that the Borg's collective voice uses " DNN + Spectrogram" to synthesize their voice from the drones auditory cortex, compare: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql83z8yBx2M&feat
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by protomikron 8y ago
> They cut off our internet during Christmas because allegedly our Windows XP computer was part of a botnet. But isn't that the right step to do? From the ISPs point of view they had an intruder into their network, so they have to d
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by protomikron 8y ago
Maybe I have expressed myself unclear, but I don't want to advocate against networked software and loading resources over a network in general. I would like to have a more "typed" API to networking services (including web-pag
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by protomikron 8y ago
Nice work, but citing the FAQ: > How does it work? > We use sophisticated AI technology to detect foreground layers and separate them from the background. You use "sophisticated AI technology"? Why can't you write, that
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by protomikron 8y ago
What I would like to see is some kind of "white-list" browser - I think it's our best chance to keep an ad-free environment. Maybe it is a bad idea in general to allow a remote page write pixels to your screen: images, videos
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by protomikron 8y ago
I thought you might agree ... ;) E.g. there is this (not yet released) language JAI especially built for game programming and if i remember correctly the author ruled out Rust because he claimed that game developers sometimes (often?) have
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by protomikron 8y ago
A very old discussion where Rust's syntax was heavily in flux, so that ship has probably sailed ... In my opinion the author has a point: some libraries (e.g. stdlib) need to use 'unsafe' to implement certain concepts, but
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Rust: rename 'unsafe' to 'trusted.' (2014)(github.com)
3 points by protomikron 8y ago|7 comments
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by protomikron 8y ago
Levenshtein would argue they differ the same way.
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by protomikron 8y ago
> One thing I wish QGIS had though is a command line interface. You can do lots of geodata transformation using the wonderful GDAL suite and lots of QGIS' transformations are just wrappers around it anyway - in fact QGIS often tells
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by protomikron 8y ago
Wow, thanks. QGIS is a wonderful piece of software, I hope it continues to improve and it's already a valuable tool for all things map related (raster- and vector-based).

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