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by soup10 3y ago
Altitude is a very nice multiplayer game inspired by biplanes https://store.steampowered.com/app/41300/Altitude/
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by soup10 3y ago
They also had exile back in the day, among other punishments between life and death and incarceration.
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by soup10 3y ago
No, most people will use whatever the default is. The vast majority of search is for a few popular queries: facebook.com, wikipedia article, current event, celebrity, product etc. This isn't the 90s anymore where search engines were
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by soup10 3y ago
if someone files litigation, that's obviously gonna sour the relationship, even if "retaliation" is legal or not
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by soup10 3y ago
i believe in science, i just think sometimes it goes a little too far with what it claims to know as fact if we knew all the secrets of the universe we wouldn't be stuck on this rock and dying every 80 years you have to admit there&#x2
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by soup10 3y ago
Many textbooks and scientific resources describe phenomena from hundreds of millions of years ago as "indisputable facts", this include everything from the origins of life on earth, to the big bang theory, what happens in black ho
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by soup10 3y ago
Winds of winter might be out before that happens.
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by soup10 3y ago
4D in games is something that sounds funner then it is. In theory it's some braintwisting geometric/spatial effects. In practice it's just a lot of geometry clipping into and out of view that doesn't lend itself to int
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by soup10 3y ago
well said, this is an ugly part of capitalism, anything that can be turned into a product, will be turned into a product. And greed and the profit motive and the hunger for growth will usually lead to some corporatized version becoming the
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by soup10 3y ago
there's also a third much more likely possibility: VR is still a novelty/gimmick experience and neither apple or zuck or any other company will make it mainstream, no matter how much money they burn on it.
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by soup10 3y ago
Reads like an onion headline: Employees of large corporation shocked and angered to learn they were hired to make money for owners and senior management.
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by soup10 3y ago
The automation revolution has been "just around the corner" forever. Still hasn't happened, some jobs are lost, some jobs are created, some are displaced, the welfare safety net gets a little bigger.
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by soup10 3y ago
> That Apple is swimming in money just makes things like this more jarring. This is a common theme. Big Tech Company X is rich therefore they should be able to do Y. But corporations don't really work that way, they build a monopo
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by soup10 4y ago
the modern graphics API landscape is a disaster. they killed opengl es, they basically killed opengl. Apple is trying to lock everyone in with metal, khronos group is trying to get everyone to move to vulkan, microsoft is doing the same w
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by soup10 4y ago
I'm working on a custom engine myself and one thing i'm having trouble sourcing is an efficient animated model renderer with hardware accelerated mesh deformations. Currently I have the autodesk fbx sdk but it's performance
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by soup10 4y ago
it's also well known that if you put a bunch of functional programmers in a room and let them marinate its only a matter of time before they make another functional programming language
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by soup10 4y ago
I don't know what press releases you've been reading, but the model is closed so they can make money off it, that's pretty obvious.
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by soup10 4y ago
that's not how it works, arm wants a bigger cut, they aren't trying to make the pie smaller
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by soup10 4y ago
most people work harder when they have a boss watching over them in person, but nobody wants to hear that
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by soup10 4y ago
It's true that state surveillance infrastructure is mostly built on top of civilian infrastructure, the original post just made it sound like the NSA didn't have its own enormous datacenters and wasn't slurping and processing
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by soup10 4y ago
And parent's point is wrong, because A) the NSA has broader legal powers to collect and use data, and B) the NSA's mission is literally signal intelligence. They aren't in the business of making phones or serving ads. Of
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by soup10 4y ago
>The NSA is incapable of building the type of mass surveillance infastructure we see today. That infrastructure is built and maintained by private tech companies. This is false, the snowden releases showed they have extensive infrastruct
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by soup10 4y ago
It's been proven again and again that privacy rights are not that important to mainstream consumers. VR's actual problem is there are no killer apps and the novelty wears off
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by soup10 4y ago
a bunch of industry lobbyists that run committees decided to kill it, the alternatives are worse for many applications though
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by soup10 4y ago
If you were hoping for an insightful article or analysis about game engines, you won't find it here. It's just FUD about Unity and Unreal then surprise turns out it's an advertisement for Godot.
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by soup10 4y ago
That's more a discussion of wealth distribution, systems of government and the flaws of capitalism. Theoretically speaking if you free human labor through the use of machines you're creating wealth because the same or greater out
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by soup10 4y ago
Not sure that US really wants to set a precedent of protectionism when so many large US technology companies operate globally.
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by soup10 4y ago
no
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by soup10 5y ago
C++ is not a generalist language, its strengths are high performance, direct memory access and native compilation. If an application doesn't need any of that, a higher level language is usually better.
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by soup10 5y ago
Can't they already track people that way using car or phone gps?

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