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by tormeh 1y ago
I'd argue that currying is actively harmful (I suspect you agree). I've seen functions take one argument in one source file, and the next argument in another source file. In JavaScript no less. Horrendous stuff. One of my most hat
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by tormeh 1y ago
Also curious about any comparison to Fluvio.
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by tormeh 1y ago
I get the feeling it's basically an old-fashioned application server like Wildfly or Tomcat. So the developer doesn't worry about system-d config or whatever, but just adds their application files to a folder. Of course someone ne
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by tormeh 1y ago
Because DirectX is a success and Metal is not. If Apple wanted Metal to be a success then they'd need Windows devices to support it, and ideally a console too (like DirectX with Xbox). There's a lot of bad things you can say about
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by tormeh 1y ago
It's my impression that the WebGPU spec design team went to extreme lengths to accommodate Apple's wishes, and Apple in turn does not even support WebGPU in Safari. Why not express vitriol? Apple does not seem to act in good faith
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by tormeh 2y ago
You also probably know this, but they don't really care about the console per se. What you buying the console means is that Nintendo gets to stand on the bridge between your console and game developers and demand 30% or whatever it is.
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by tormeh 2y ago
Okay, but then you could also keep it running on an old OS. Fork out the money for a RHEL license, and just never upgrade.
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by tormeh 2y ago
People object to this approach, but Apple does this, and they seem to be doing fine.
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by tormeh 2y ago
I think this is a bit outdated. Veloren started out as a Cube World clone, but the goal has changed over time to Veloren being its own thing.
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by tormeh 2y ago
Note that Tiny Glade implemented their own Vulkan renderer, although they do use the rest of the Bevy code base, I think. At least the ECS. Bevy's WGPU renderer is a lot less fancy than Tiny Glade's Vulkan renderer.
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by tormeh 2y ago
If I remember correctly it actually is a typo. Someone typed "verloren" wrong and thought it was a good name for the game. The story behind names is often not so glamorous.
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by tormeh 2y ago
Oh, and the (Siemens, at least) trains also take like 30 minutes to boot up. And rebooting a train is often a way to fix problems. So delays can happen because a train is sitting on some important piece of track while rebooting. This reboot
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by tormeh 2y ago
Agreed. I've contributed to the game, so I feel like I have some sort of insight here. Veloren is a bunch of cool features in a bag, but my impression is that there is little focus on the gameplay loop and the holistic player experienc
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by tormeh 2y ago
The only currently maintained generally available engines used by major studios are Unreal and Unity. Maybe you could count CryEngine, but afaik only one major developer besides Crytek themselves use it. Some indies use Godot, but that&#x27
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by tormeh 2y ago
The American voting system only permits two parties. You're welcome to think otherwise but it'll just lose you elections. If you want the left to win elections you need to start a new right-wing party to split the vote for the Rep
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by tormeh 2y ago
Let's be real. The Republicans would absolutely ruin any such institution the moment they'd get the chance. Better to keep health care private and instead socialize insurance. A hollowing-out of insurance is far easier to reverse
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by tormeh 2y ago
Probably just means the decision to use Scala was taken back when it looked like it could really be the next big thing. These days it's clear that Scala has lost all momentum. Scala 3 was an attempt to fix that by appealing to Pythonis
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by tormeh 2y ago
I do think Rust would be better for web dev if it had GC, but it doesn't, and no other language comes close to having as good ergonomics otherwise. And the memory management is something you learn once and then it's a bit verbose
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by tormeh 2y ago
Jackson is awful. Serde on the other hand is the smoothest JSON library I've ever used.
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by tormeh 2y ago
This is Keybesian counter-cyclic policy. It makes sense but is hard to do in practical politics.
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by tormeh 2y ago
The law in Romania is certainly not known for its perfection, but what legal system doesn't flex when the US (or a regional equivalent great power) leans on it? This is not a reasonable benchmark.
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by tormeh 2y ago
> Research project As if everything created after 1979 is a research project.
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by tormeh 2y ago
The Pocketbook Era Color is the best e-reader right now if you don't care about stores. Or at least it was the best device out there when I was in the market for a reader.
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by tormeh 2y ago
What? That sounds less than ideal.
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by tormeh 2y ago
It's easier to run a startup in the US, so why do it anywhere else? The financing is easier, the labor laws more business-friendly, and the native market bigger. And that's how it's going to stay for the foreseeable future. E
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by tormeh 2y ago
Canada and Australia are immigration nations. The UK definitely is not.
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by tormeh 2y ago
Once everything has made it through the jungle telephone you're lucky if it's 80% correct. 20% wrong is a downright reliable source by human standards, at least about topics which people care about.
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by tormeh 2y ago
I got 15 minutes for basically a useless compiler and programming language that I spent 6 months on. Just for the effort-to-result ratio I feel like it's possible to do quite a lot better.
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by tormeh 2y ago
Partly. But the effect of turning off the nuclear plants and simply hoping for the best shouldn't be ignored.
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by tormeh 2y ago
This is a disease that has infected the entire West. It's just become impossible to do anything that requires space. Even industrial giants like Germany are now de-industrializing because it's just too hard to get permits for buil

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