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by tpush 5y ago
1) Porting costs are not per game but per engine, which can be shared between multiple games. 2) The majority of costs is ongoing support, not writing to a different API.
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by tpush 5y ago
Different graphics APIs aren't a reason not to develop for a platform. Game consoles have unique APIs, yet both AAAs and Indies happily develop for those platforms. What matters is whether the prospective income from those platforms ou
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by tpush 5y ago
That wouldn't accomplish anything, as cookie banners have to do with tracking and not inherently with third-party cookies. Tracking via first-party cookies is still illegal and would require consent.
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by tpush 5y ago
So, I genuinely do not get the "controversy" over the Veritasium video. AFAIU, the entire point of the video was to show that electricity travels not through wires but via electric fields ("through the air" so to speak).
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by tpush 5y ago
> They've quite literally made the statement that [...] They've very literally not made that statement.
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by tpush 5y ago
Germany is not dependent on Russian gas to survive, Russia's just the cheapest source of it.
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by tpush 5y ago
A self-hosted Gitlab instance would make the most sense, IMO.
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Microsoft quietly told Apple it was willing to turn Xbox games into iPhone apps(theverge.com)
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by tpush 5y ago
> Apple have abused their hardware position to artificially restrict and abuse devs via their app store. A monopoly on their own product is an incoherent market definition that isn't flying anywhere. > Amazon - Being a market pla
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by tpush 5y ago
> All I'm doing is claiming that the American approach leads, in the end, to greater and more permanent personal liberty. Well, that's just it: Europeans would look to America and claim the same for them. (Specifically with emp
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by tpush 5y ago
> [...] and also there were events in history like china's cultural revolution, Stalin's great cleansing and the killing fields in Cambodia (to name a few) [...] Under the assumption that is meant to be a sincere argument: The
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by tpush 5y ago
Do you have an example of that where C++ struct returns are optimized but not C ones?
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by tpush 5y ago
> Now that most of Apple's top talents from its CPU division have left for greener pastures, [...] ?? > [...] somehow delay their competitors from launching new and better chips while Apple scrambles to find new talents in the li
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by tpush 5y ago
Stating something that's painfully, obviously not the case with the confidence of someone who thinks his opinions define reality is somewhat of a staple of HN.
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by tpush 5y ago
Conspiratorial nonsense.
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by tpush 5y ago
> If that community likes these ideas, that is not anybody else's business. That's obviously not the case in most countries on this earth. Holocaust denial for example is illegal across the EU.
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by tpush 5y ago
The palmitic acid content of palm oil (or anything else) has nothing to do with what you're describing here. Like, absolutely nothing.
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by tpush 5y ago
What effect are you talking about? And what does the production process for vegetable oils have to do with anything? This article is about palmitic acid which apart from obviously palm oil, is most abundant in animal fats like butter (~30%)
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by tpush 5y ago
> Reverse-engineering is not illegal (at least in Germany, to my knowledge). Up until like 2 years ago or something reverse engineering was only legal for interoperability purposes AFAIK.
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by tpush 5y ago
> Their initial foray into games (Firewatch, Untitled Goose Game, Nour) were all excellent and novel. Note that Panic hasn't developed any of those games; they published them.
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by tpush 5y ago
> They may find it creepy, but why should it be illegal or regulated by the government in any way? Because that society has decided that it wants no creepy restaurants at all. Same with unclean ones, discriminatory ones, etc.
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by tpush 5y ago
> If you are blocking people from reading books in the public domain […] ‘Public domain’ doesn’t exist in Germany.
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by tpush 5y ago
Can you please not start a dick measuring contest between cultures in these comments. Thanks.
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by tpush 5y ago
Presumably there are more "Trump is bad" (weird simplification, but ok) books than ones on Biden because a) Trump has been president longer and b) Trump's actions harmed more people.
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by tpush 5y ago
> Yeah, M1 was a great innovation, but before that, the iPhone was the previous innovation. Watch and AirPods are literally the most popular and profitable products in their market. The iPad dominates, too.
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by tpush 5y ago
The top percentile has much, much more ability to influence society than poorer people do. And with more power should always come more responsibility. To suggest that there's equally distributed chance, ability and responsibility is pe
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by tpush 5y ago
> I was laughing when every single one of these changes was presented as "revolutionary" in the keynote. Exactly none of these changes were presented as "revolutionary", that's just in your head.
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by tpush 5y ago
Apple's desktop market share is actually 15% world wide [0] and 27% in the US [1]. [0] https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide [1] https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-sha
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by tpush 5y ago
That’s undefined only in C++ but not in C, AFAIK.
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by tpush 5y ago
> stated mission of upending norms and forging new territory HN has no such stated mission. But even if it did, that doesn't mean that every upending of a norm or forging of new territory would be view uncritically. Nothing happens

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