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by qwytw 3y ago
> Too many of them are bigger than they need to be. But that also goes for new ICE vehicle models. That's a very American centric claim. The gap between ICE and EV weight is relatively much higher in many other places where smaller
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by qwytw 3y ago
> I would assume it would still make a difference. Alcohol and low pH might significantly slow down the risk of bacteria spreading. Which is relevant if you want to store. Obviously it's not really that relevant if were talking abo
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by qwytw 3y ago
> you're usually surrounded by tons of beautiful nature and again Also very high pollutions levels: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jan-Horalek/publication...
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by qwytw 3y ago
> in case of airport security or CCTV in some public space suddenly everyone is OK compromising personal privacy in the name of personal life and safety. These are not really comparable. Even without CCTVs you can't really expect th
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by qwytw 3y ago
> they can't do anything about it because they prefer life outside of prison So they can do something after all? Violence is always an option (if you have no other options).
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by qwytw 3y ago
> to stop evil It's not at all obvious whether stopping CSAM is really the primary goal of some of the people who are pushing these regulations. It seems just like a justification to invade personal privacy.
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by qwytw 3y ago
So you're saying that Russia under sanctions is not weaker than it would be otherwise? Crippling the Russian economy, their ability to project power and the living conditions for middle class Russians (at the end of the day they are to
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by qwytw 3y ago
> It's more than likely that class structures at the time simply didn't record deaths of commoners That's an interesting claim. Why do you think so? Considering cities were generally more or less run by "commoners&quo
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by qwytw 3y ago
It sound similarly in pretty much every Indo European language though.
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by qwytw 3y ago
That's mostly a myth. Also alcohol in beer does nothing to 'clean' the water (how would that even make any sense?) it's the boiling that kills the bacteria, parasites etc. (and people have understood that boiling makes w
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by qwytw 3y ago
True, but there are certain things (e.g. including spyware in games not using their analytics and/or ads solution) some of their important customers would never tolerate. Then again they might just make no-"spyware" a "f
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by qwytw 3y ago
Upgrading to a new Unity version was a significant struggle for many projects at least a few years ago (especially if you skipped a couple of version). So that probably.
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by qwytw 3y ago
They said that the fee will only apply to games made with the new version. from their website: > What are you changing in the terms? > The last changes were made on April 3, 2023. We will make sure that you can stay on the terms appli
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by qwytw 3y ago
I can't and I won't in any way justify the retroactive part (even though they seemingly promised not to do that again, they already made the same promise a couple of years ago..). But I'm not quite sure I understand your over
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by qwytw 3y ago
Is there any indication all of the IronSource or other ad stuff will not be optional? Not allowing developers to remove it from their games would certainly be a step too far (at this time anyway, who know what will they come up with in a co
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by qwytw 3y ago
> This isn't the usual group of MBAs looking for a quick buck. These are the people who have come in from ironSource I'm sure that Riccitello and Unity's execs who didn't come from IronSource are more than capable of
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by qwytw 3y ago
Presumably not retroactively though? The pricing model seems to only be applicable starting 2024 LTS version. Which seems pretty reasonable? I mean you can't really expect them to never change TOS for future versions.
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Unity U-turns on controversial runtime fee and begs forgiveness(techcrunch.com)
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by qwytw 3y ago
If you already have a prescription and just need a refill it doesn't seem reasonable at all (I mean charging $200+ for it, having some human oversight is fine).
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by qwytw 3y ago
> 4-8% of everything To be fair Unity is asking you to give them somewhere between 0.05% and 2.5% while Steam/Apple/etc. want 30%. > AAA studio builds their own client and game engine, it's cheaper in the long run I do
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by qwytw 3y ago
They have a business model and they would've been fine if they hadn't started increasing their headcount by 50% every year and focused on their core products.
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by qwytw 3y ago
> stock shenanigans They pay their employees and executives in stock. They'd have to spend much more cash if they stopped doing that.
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by qwytw 3y ago
Hiring is too much people is much easier than firing them. If you cut 90% of the staff keeping the people you'd want to retain is pretty much impossible (since obviously the management won't have any clue who they are).
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by qwytw 3y ago
> They essentially gave the market to ARM They also had the best ARM chips for years with StrongARM/Xscale (using their own cores). Which they killed because obviously Atom was going to be much better and lock in everyone into x86..
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by qwytw 3y ago
Because: > Trades executed by lawmakers or their families must be disclosed within 45 days of execution Is probably an issue (it's it's actually insider trading). People do track it, though: https://www.capitoltrades
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by qwytw 3y ago
Well because profitability was just a few years away according to their prospectus. Which to be fair wasn't that inaccurate. Had they stopped expanding like crazy for a year or so the company would've been profitable (with minimal
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by qwytw 3y ago
It's not at all obvious to me investors who bought their stock after they IPO wanted any of this. The board and upper management together with their VC backers (they also gave Unity a significant loan to fund the IronSource acquisition
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by qwytw 3y ago
You're right, it depends on the type of the game you want to build. Also I was really only thinking about the "programming" part of game development.
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by qwytw 3y ago
> Im thinking of libraries like torch, tensor flow, or pandas. Well the overhead doesen't really matter that much, who cares if you have to wait 10ms or 100ms etc. So yeah rewriting the Python bits is not worth it. It's an enti
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by qwytw 3y ago
> approachable language like python Python doesn't really scale though and it's fine only for simple games/scripting (on top of a game mainly built with another language). If you're serious about game development you&

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