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by sph 4mo ago
It annoys me so much to have learned that GTK text fields used to have an Emacs editing mode, which they've hidden behind an unaccessible configuration option, and now it's hopelessly broken in modern GTK version.
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by sph 4mo ago
Likely because they haven't seen the light just yet. Or they are lost to the e vi l forces.
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by sph 4mo ago
I don't think you've read my comment as deeply as I hoped, so... > But somehow we grow up with the illusion that things matter, and I want that back! If you're going through hell, keep going. The way out is forward, not ba
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by sph 4mo ago
Some of us are still writing code.
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by sph 4mo ago
Minecraft targets kids. Of course they would rather use mom's credit card to host a server than learn Docker. I have a Minecraft server running for my friends, it took all of 15 minutes to set up. And what the hell has netcode to do wi
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by sph 4mo ago
Well, I could use this as a resumé, it’s a pretty generous (yet true) account of my professional skills and knowledge. I am a bit disappointed it did not catch my ‘subversive’ tendencies, such as defending anarchism, being critical of democ
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by sph 4mo ago
Despite its faults, what makes HN different is that it has principled moderators.
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by sph 4mo ago
> independent blogs > looks inside > american politics and culture war I guess my choice is Hacker News with its AI obsession, or just abandoning the internet. There is no escaping the shit that has infected the rest of social medi
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by sph 4mo ago
"I distinguish four types. There are clever, hardworking, stupid, and lazy officers. Usually two characteristics are combined. Some are clever and hardworking; their place is the General Staff. The next ones are stupid and lazy; they m
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by sph 4mo ago
> For a market to be stable, fair, and free of monopolies government intervention is required. I don't think that fact is at all controversial. It is. Government intervention is what creates monopolies, because economic value stops
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by sph 4mo ago
What bothers me is that this post is now flagged. Whatever happened to this place? I blame it on Reddit shitting the bed, and its milquetoast demographic invaded this space.
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by sph 4mo ago
I don't have an easy solution to your problem, so knowing that someone might have sensible words for you, I'll be the one to suggest to do something drastic. No, not that. If you have your back against the wall, why not completely
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by sph 4mo ago
They are all on this forum!
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by sph 4mo ago
Somehow other multiplayer games deal with it just fine (Squad, Arma, Satisfactory, Minecraft off the top of my head) and let players host their game. You're just spreading FUD.
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by sph 4mo ago
Are you aware that you don't need turnkey cloud services for indie multiplayer right? Even Godot lets you ship a server binary that allows people to host their own games. Many other indie multiplayer games do, we've been doing t
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by sph 4mo ago
> PEAK, on of _the_ multiplayer hits of last year from a small studio is built on top of Photon[0] for their multiplayer How did studios deal with multiplayer in the 1990-2010? That's right, server binary and in-game server browser.
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by sph 4mo ago
90% of games have no online conponent, and run in perpetuity after purchase. The multiplayer games usually ship with a server binary you can place on any machine you control. This only affects AAA game studios that produce micro transaction
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by sph 4mo ago
You guys had cubes? Lucky you, they did put us all in an open plan room like cattle.
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by sph 4mo ago
> unnecessary Satoshi name drop "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord in vain". I apologise.
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by sph 4mo ago
Past performance is not guarantee of future returns.
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by sph 4mo ago
> There is no reason for the models to stop their improvements in the near future. You speak as if "improvements to models" is just function of time, and resources are infinite. Models keep improving as long as there are resour
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by sph 4mo ago
Americans high on their own propaganda. It's cringeworthy.
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Send them all to Mars to build their Cult Mechanicus.
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by sph 4mo ago
It's an AI generated profile that posts this kind of slop weekly about popular developers and entrepreneurs. The type of feel good shit that makes the front page of social media. Not even Carmack is immune.
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by sph 4mo ago
I was thinking of sport players that have their stats laid out as a radar chart. One might be average on defense, but a world class striker. Is he better than a world class defender but average striker? And even that is a convenient and los
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by sph 4mo ago
> I think there’s actually a sharp contrast with John Carmack here. Fabrice might be smarter and faster but Carmack is perhaps a better software engineer. There’s few things I find more pathetic than trying really hard to show who’s best
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by sph 4mo ago
What kind of Mickey Mouse browser are you using?
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by sph 4mo ago
Except the ‘huge and heavy set’, you’re thinking of tokyospliff here.
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First time I see his picture, and it’s a bit like someone’s revealed the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto when it’s clear they are going out of their way to protect their privacy and stay out of the limelight. My impression is the guy had alway
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by sph 4mo ago
He has always replied to me, and has always been gracious, even when I felt a little too argumentative. It’s hard being an hotheaded internet keyboard warrior like me when the moderators are going out of their way to remain polite and court

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