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by simias 6y ago
It depends on the type of the game. Deus Ex, Vampire the Masquerade, (many) Fallout games and countless others have no or little driving and I don't think it would really elevate those games. Would Vampire the Masquerade be a better ga
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by simias 6y ago
The multiple path concept is evidence of CDPR biting more than they could chew. They spread themselves too thin, the game is less than the sum of its parts because half-finished subsystems weigh down what can be a very solid game when it fo
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by simias 6y ago
I have zero faith that a significant proportion of consumers will switch to iOS solely for privacy reasons. We've seen time and again that mainstream consumers would gladly surrender all their private info if it saves them $100.
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by simias 6y ago
The fact that these popups are contained within the frame of the website makes them less abusive, although it also makes it harder to dismiss them.
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by simias 6y ago
>This is a consumer problem - "you get what you pay for." It's pretty clearly not the case here. I've paid full price for what I thought were legit items on Amazon and received fakes. That's the whole point, the
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by simias 6y ago
I agree, I still think that git vs mercurial was the VHS vs betamax of VCSs. Git was better for the kernel, but mercurial was better for basically everything else. Saner defaults, much more user friendly, better CLI and GUI, better docs etc
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by simias 6y ago
You can learn quite a lot by writing a toy raytracer with things like textures, shadows, bump mapping and the like. Of course raytracers don't work like polygonal hardware rendering but a lot of the maths and concept do carry over I&#x
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by simias 6y ago
Correcting people when they use wrong pronouns is distracting but I get it, but can we at least not correct people for not using the right variety of neutral pronouns?
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by simias 6y ago
I wasn't talking solely about technical merits. I was also talking about marketing and everything else. Google can (and does) push Chrome aggressively through a multitude of channels. How can Mozilla beat that?
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by simias 6y ago
It's silly git nomenclature for "human readable output". Except it's not even used consistently within git. What the parent mean is that some tool rely on the human-oriented, potentially unstable output of git commands i
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by simias 6y ago
You won't be able to beat Chrome by technology alone. I actually don't know how Mozilla can beat Chrome. Google has an extremely strong incentive to capture the web client market. Whatever Mozilla can do to make Firefox more popul
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by simias 6y ago
FOMO is not a reasonable investment strategy.
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by simias 6y ago
Most tiling WMs are highly configurable, so the idea is that you script them to your tastes and then they do the work for you. I use a rather heavily customized version of dwm myself, and I have things like custom placement rule: I want my
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by simias 6y ago
The Signal devs have always been extremely hostile to anybody making third party clients, because they say they know better than everybody else. Instead of making a library or daemon that could interoperate with third party software and dec
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by simias 6y ago
You're right but I agree with the parent that it's still a bit misleading. When I saw the video at the top of the article showing a fluid, high framerate realtime video I knew there had to be a trick. Of course many games shipped
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by simias 6y ago
Signal desktop was missing basic features like answering calls not long ago. It also had at least one significant vulnerability (some code injection IIRC) so I don't know if I'd say that it does "encryption well". Having
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by simias 6y ago
Time to bring solenoids back into keyboards to mask the keystrokes: https://youtu.be/sGda5YrqJK8?t=50 If your coworkers complain, tell them it's a security feature.
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by simias 6y ago
Oh indeed it is! It looks very electrony so I just assumed that it was. That might be why it actually works decently.
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by simias 6y ago
The desktop app is very useful but it's mainly because there's no alternative. It's bloated, slow, under-featured. Telegram also has an electron desktop app but at least it lets me do ultra-advanced things like changing the s
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by simias 6y ago
I don't find my example contrived at all, having functions assuming non-NULL pointers call other subroutines that defend against such a thing is definitely a routine thing in my experience. Maybe "do_substuff" is called in co
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by simias 6y ago
It would sometimes work but I think this (very common comment) misses the general point, there's absolutely fine and non buggy on warning-worthy code that can be optimized away if the compiler relies on UB. A very simple example:
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by simias 6y ago
I would argue that the C for loop is a rather awkward construct. It's found its way in many languages, so I think most people are used to its idiosyncrasy but it's not great if you try to take a fresh look at it. I think the best
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by simias 6y ago
Isn't Pornhub's content always public, whereas Facebook's can be segregated to smaller groups of people? If that's the case it seems that illegal content could remain undetected for far longer on FB rather than Pornhub.
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by simias 6y ago
Remember that a group of Minecraft players managed to reverse-engineer the seed of a map based on a single low res screenshot using, among other things, the shape of clouds. Human ingenuity is really impressive sometimes.
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by simias 6y ago
I'm not usually very distrustful of mainstream news (at least, by internet standards) but I am very distrustful of the news' capacity to vet very technical issues correctly. Remember that Bloomberg "the Chinese put spy micr
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by simias 6y ago
I'm perfectly willing to trust that the WaPo is reporting truthfully and that their sources are legit, but without concrete evidence it's hard to judge how serious the allegation really is. Is it "they forgot to switch their
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by simias 6y ago
I wish we had more concrete evidence than "according to people familiar with the matter" though. That's kind of my issue: if these attackers are so sophisticated, how can they be sure it's this particular group? I realiz
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by simias 6y ago
I'm always skeptical of these "nation state" claims, it seems like an easy way out of any tough question about the security of these systems. "No, no, you don't understand, it's not that our systems are insecur
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by simias 6y ago
I can say the same think about any stock ever. That's the point.
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by simias 6y ago
It works every single time until it stops working. Playing the numerology game with charts and trends is astrology for people investing in the stock market. The only question you should be asking yourself is: is Bitcoin actually valuable or

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