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by arlcode 3y ago
I wonder whether that is because most games are projects with a clear endpoint after which development mostly stops. That allows developers to experiment a little bit (internally or with smaller projects) and hedge their bets. If there is l
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by arlcode 3y ago
Thank you for pointing that out. That seems like it could be a profitable idea. It seems like 2 of the 4 founders are also members ins the Godot board of directors and if I recall W4 has a strong voice in the Godot development team. Maybe I
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by arlcode 3y ago
Yeah that's true.
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by arlcode 3y ago
Getting game engines in console and providing support for developers is certainly a business. I've met some people who brought their custom (more simple ) engines/games to consoles and there is money in providing a ready made solu
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by arlcode 3y ago
1. Congratulations to them. Godot is some great piece of open source software and everything that strengthens it is beneficial to the market segment as a whole. 2. Given the list and impact of 3rd party contributors and the absence of a CLA
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by arlcode 3y ago
Ah that didn't yet arrive in Germany I think
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by arlcode 3y ago
Well you see SOME venues reliably, in particular those that chose to get (aka pay for) a logo etc. Maybe I'm just being cynical but my pet conspiracy is that in order to make the map space marketable it needs to get worse first so comp
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Godot 4.2 Released(godotengine.org)
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by arlcode 3y ago
That's one of the reasons why Godot started brushing up their C# support recently. For that that small/solo team it's also easier to switch engine and since they can't get custom license deals like the big boys having th
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by arlcode 3y ago
Even for life sentences I believe it makes sense to have prisoners work and earn some small privileges inside. For one its possible to encourage good behaviour by threatening to take it away but also because a sense of purpose and achieveme
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by arlcode 3y ago
In particular if you consider that they recently started to implement features for EAA countries such as respecting the users browser choice and making default apps uninastallable. That seems to hint at compliance rather than fight as well.
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by arlcode 3y ago
Specifically in the digital space the DMA and DSA try (and will probably at least partially succeed) to break the plattform feudal rule and move their role more towards that of a public utility by restricting how they can use their market
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by arlcode 3y ago
Wild speculation: With iphones being forced to open their web engine there might be some apps interested in embedding their own engines across mobile devices.
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by arlcode 3y ago
Certification is super important in many industries like automotive. Your customers will do audits and send people to cover their own asses and stay in legal complience. Now a venturing software developer (or teamlead) can go to their bosse
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by arlcode 3y ago
For reasons unrelated to health, politics, or religion I never got into drinking in the first place and never had an issue with it. It was mostly neutral experience after leaving my teens since you grow a somewhat thick skin and select a bu
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by arlcode 3y ago
GenAI for art is indeed godsend for this humble software developer without any skills in that field.
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by arlcode 3y ago
Yes. I'm rapidly switching between Techs in my free time. A nice contrast to regular work ;)
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by arlcode 3y ago
I'm absolutely thrilled using Godot and Bevy for hobby projects. And with Blender you have a competitve 3D modelling solution. Good times for open source gamedev right now.
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by arlcode 3y ago
You pay full tax for the food + delivery. The delivery company pays VAT for the food and can substract that from their own VAT liabilities. In a strict B2B context it's also possible to do a net payment and that's why some (EU) st
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by arlcode 3y ago
Not even that most likely. These kind of people tend to be very annoying in their home countries so unless there is something unrelated happening no one will come to their help or explain that. And whatever Navy intervenes doesn't even
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by arlcode 3y ago
When people start to do something in a place that is "allegedly" outside of "the law" sooner or later some variant of "the law" will show up, with armed backup, and will remind everybody how the world works. No
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by arlcode 3y ago
I hope in the midterm most companies, which do not make their money with advertising, will ask themselves "do we even need that data??" My local dentist has a cookie consent banner up and it's certainly not because they need
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by arlcode 3y ago
you can go only up so far the country court chain before you either lose or EU courts get involved. If this goes to the Federal Court (BGH) in Germany they will "ask" the European Court of Justice for their interpretation of the a
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by arlcode 3y ago
It's all but certain that the App store will be opened up to the degree the DMA demands, when it demands it. The act will only fully come into force next year and until then nothing needs to be done (besides measures like reporting use
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by arlcode 3y ago
It's tricky. I think it makes sense that the national policy (set by member states government) is represented in their decisions in the council. Otherwise you could have the weird situation where the elected government and the elected
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I don't think influencing is the issue but being seen as defying them intentionally. The defence industry and big oil are seen as "unsantiory" but otherwise "allies" of the US government. A means to an end. (At leas
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by arlcode 3y ago
Google will remain a powerful and wealthy company for the time being. But don't underestimate the stupidity to publicly disregard the authority of important nation states. Once it seems like a company is arrogantly putting itself above
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by arlcode 3y ago
There are indeed majority requirements to pass a directive at EU Level. In this case in the Council (of member states) of the European Union needs to pass with 55% of the member states agreeing and they need to have 65% of the EU population
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by arlcode 3y ago
Tried it on math video and it was surprisingly good at getting the speakers tone and the overall content correct. Where it struggled a bit were terms like "X to the power of 7". Sometimes it chose the correct term and sometimes a
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by arlcode 3y ago
If you claim it's a fund to mitigate risk you probably should actually put money into said fund and not just pull some number out of your code. So technically it's not the randomness that's the issue, and a constant or manual

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