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by chc 3y ago
They also wanted "without loss of performance" (compared to C, I think, based on the context), which also has tension with the other requirements. I don't think it's possible to make a memory-safe language that has easy
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by chc 3y ago
Cities: Skylines was sort of a follow-up to Cities In Motion, which was entirely about transportation, so that's a very essential part of its DNA.
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by chc 3y ago
Game dev in general is that way, but my impression was that Colossal Order had traditionally been a little better than most. I suppose I may have been mistaken.
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by chc 3y ago
They let you return the game no questions asked if you haven't played it for two hours.
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by chc 3y ago
Using web tech for the UI isn't a problem here. The article, when measuring the performance impact of different rendering phases, describes the time the UI requires as "an irrelevant amount of time."
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by chc 3y ago
Humans actually need to eat more than for-profit companies do.
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by chc 3y ago
I'm not gonna post my employer's proprietary code into ChatGPT.
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by chc 3y ago
AGPL is almost exactly the same as GPL except that SAAS counts as distribution. That's the entire purpose of the license — to preserve the copyleft protections of the GPL in a world where most software people use is hosted.
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by chc 3y ago
What of it, though? I noticed, but didn't think much of it because pseudocode doesn't need to be valid and usually isn't. What is the problem with these syntax errors that you are trying to address by calling attention to the
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by chc 3y ago
Literally any new technology could be the plot to a sci-fi horror movie. The entire concept of the genre is to show how progress could go awry.
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by chc 3y ago
Agglutinative languages say hi.
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by chc 3y ago
I think that's more a peculiarity of Russian than a necessary quality of flexible sentence order. For example, many deviations from the standard sentence order in Japanese can still be understandable and grammatical because particles d
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by chc 3y ago
A lot of Linux users tile their windows too.
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by chc 3y ago
The singular "they" is in fact about as old as the singular "you" (which was also strictly a plural before then).
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by chc 3y ago
This is also the origin of the "stake through the heart" trope. The stake was originally meant as a way to hold a vampire in place, just like these instruments.
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by chc 3y ago
That's not really here or there. Owning a house does not make it legal to, for example, use it as a brothel. We could just as well say that owning a house does not make it legal to rent out. You'd still have your right to the prop
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by chc 3y ago
He linked to the White House website. The occupant of the White House at the time was George W. Bush. I am not even trying to be charitable, that's just the most likely reading to me. Basically every talk show host made similar jokes a
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by chc 3y ago
The Bush Administration did not do any of those things. Reading his comments as a dismissal of those things, rather than the guy running the White House when he wrote it, seems uncharitable.
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by chc 3y ago
I don't see them drawing any distinctions from C++ or Rust there either. It really sounds to me like most of their low-level experience is in C, where the contrasts they appear to be drawing really do apply.
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by chc 3y ago
Why do you think that? To the extent that a correlation exists between the level of social benefits offered by a country and the amount of horrors committed by its government, I would expect it to go the opposite direction (i.e. brutal dict
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by chc 3y ago
To be clear, Twitter also shares the list of users who like a post, and people generally seem to view this as a good feature rather than an invasive one, so it makes sense that Mastodon implemented it as well.
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by chc 3y ago
In the same sense that Google didn't largely kill off the RSS ecosystem with Google Reader and Microsoft didn't stagnate the browser ecosystem for a decade with Internet Explorer, sure.
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by chc 3y ago
What does any of what you just said have to do with GDPR requirements?
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by chc 3y ago
The only entity that could realistically tell us how Meta linked the profile to that person's real name is Meta, and they aren't likely to share that information — so it's not exactly surprising that the tweet lacks detail on
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by chc 3y ago
There are absolutely people who go into B2B data integration startups with the belief that they are providing a useful service to their customers. Do you really doubt that?
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by chc 3y ago
If you define "believe in" as "thinking they were doing something amazing and world-changing," sure. If you mean it in the more normal sense of "Think it is a worthwhile endeavor that has a reasonable chance of succ
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by chc 3y ago
I don't think the suggestion here is to throw out all the ICE cars currently in production — just to focus all new development efforts on EVs. Everyone would still be able to buy ICE cars if they need them, but the suggestion is for EV
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by chc 3y ago
Many features of C do not directly correspond with most modern assembly languages. You cannot predict the exact assembly it will generate without knowing a lot of details about your compiler and platform, and even then it's often iffy.
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by chc 3y ago
Only one of those (inlining) is an optimization. Two are language features (implicit casts and volatile) and the other is a calling convention (passing arguments on registers vs. stack).
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by chc 3y ago
Wait until I tell you how the developers who made The Last of Us came to work at Sony.

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