drorco

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by drorco 3d ago
As someone who advertised with them, they do seem to have an AI reviewer, and it also has false positives that no number of appeals seem to resolve. So in these cases you want to pay them money for good ads, but you can't because AI sa
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by drorco 3mo ago
Most of the discussions I've seen about this disregard the fact that on paper it's all nice, but in practice it's a rabbit-hole of constraints. Developers often use 3rd party SDKs and services that can render the game useless
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by drorco 3mo ago
I think regulation is a superweapon that should mostly be used in cases where there can be severe long-term damage (physical and health dangers, loans, etc.) or in cases where what it regulates is simple and easy to comply with. For example
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by drorco 3mo ago
If I have to watch ads, I personally prefer personalized ads as they waste less of my time if I happen to see an ad for something I would actually want. I think generally, scaring people with "oh noes they'll have your annonymuize
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by drorco 3mo ago
That's cool and all, I really don't have a problem with the requirement to tell players to their face that if they play the game for free, they are sharing their data and preferences with 3rd parties. Denying content creators the
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by drorco 3mo ago
This is my second business after already having experience with GDPR. Thinking of it in advance does make it easier but it can definitely still break a business and it's not a trivial cost. Moreover, it's still changing frequently
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by drorco 3mo ago
Yea good luck getting any reasonable visibility on App Store or Google Play without paying good amount of $$$ to meta, Google etc. Trust me I would have loved to throwaway this dependency on these platforms, I don't enjoy paying for ad
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by drorco 3mo ago
But there are 3rd party SDKs that rely on outside servers that will stop working and the app could have unexpected behavior. It doesn't have to be complete crash, but it might be enough to degrade functionality to a point where some pl
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by drorco 3mo ago
Did you ever build a commercial project or any business yourself? The nature of your comment implies to me you haven't. I highly recommend you give it a try, it might actually change your mind!
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by drorco 3mo ago
Well I'm talking from experience as a mobile indie game developer. Pretty much every year I'm getting warnings from Apple or Google, or 3rd party SDKs, that unless I make sure to update libraries, or comply with a new rule, they a
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by drorco 3mo ago
I'm a developer of a mobile indie game and it's not true. Just to get started you need to implement tons of third part SDKs like Meta Ads, AdMob, Google Analytics, etc. These require actual handling of player choices, data sanitat
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by drorco 3mo ago
If you're actually curious, to gate a taste of the cost of compliance, I recommend taking a look into the different standards for website accessibility, GDPR, etc. On paper it sounds great, who doesn't want a accessible websites
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by drorco 8mo ago
Or in the absence of other competing systems which can be shown to be more efficient, we could say OK seems like billionaires are part of this ecosystem. If you'd like, similar to how we don't like mosquitos but they are neverthel
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by drorco 8mo ago
> You know that human civilization exists because of all the people putting in work every day who are not motivated just by by money, right? Where did I say that? > If everyone was billionaire level money obsessed society would cease
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by drorco 8mo ago
> I cannot understand this conclusion at all. Why should the structural relationship to other species be reflected within the species itself? It's all an interpretation, never claimed it to be anything beyond a thinking model I like
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by drorco 8mo ago
I'm mostly trying to make sense of the world and so far I found out that looking at it as a chaotic thermodynamic-like system makes the most sense. So in regards to this economic issue, it seems that human personality traits that lead
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by drorco 8mo ago
I'm not American. I did stay for months though in the US (SF, NY) and Europe (Italy, France, Greece, PT, DE, more) at times. I think for competitive and talented people, US in general offers much more lucrative opportunities as long as
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by drorco 8mo ago
Maybe, I think it definitely happened with millionaires, there are probably many more millionaires these days compared to a few decades ago. Inflation helped too for sure. But I think still a lot of people would argue the distribution is to
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by drorco 8mo ago
Isn't this basically Entropy? Why do stars fuse and spread out their energy? Can't they just keep it all in? They are going to blow up/die out eventually, how is this sustainable? The notion I'm getting is that these fo
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by drorco 8mo ago
OK that's one thing, but still there are many new billionaires that didn't exist a few decades ago, let alone a few years ago. Why did they become billionaires and the wealth didn't distribute over a much larger group?
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by drorco 8mo ago
Then the next question is why does wealth, in practically all industrious countries seem to distribute disproportionally and not uniformly? One argument could be that maybe entrepreneurial personality traits aren't normally distributed
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by drorco 3y ago
> Hiragana being far more useful to know starting out, if you had to pick one. Before visiting Japan, I learned to read in both Hiragana and Katakana, but I didn't really know more than a dozen or so words in Japanese. While visitin
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by drorco 3y ago
So essentially one giant blob of cosmic background radiation was at the time its light was emitted, the size of an atom or so?
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by drorco 3y ago
Maintain low expenses, be OK with going down in life quality, be willing to burn through your life savings and be OK if you lose it all. I did it once, now doing it for the second time. I think most people will not bear it, but for me it fe
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by drorco 3y ago
:D I should probably give KSP a try again. I guess there's an initial threshold I got to power through first, as I got a bit exhausted after the first mission hehe. I'm actually working now on a game of my own, with themes of scie
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by drorco 3y ago
They call these kind of games "chocolate covered broccoli" and I totally agree. I think games, have lots to teach, but that most of the time they are a catalyst for learning or inspiration to learn, but on their own, they will rar
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by drorco 3y ago
It's just the way my mind works and motivated. Motivation is a very elusive feeling that I did not find easy ways to manipulate. It's not as if I'm totally blocked from learning stuff with no clear purpose, but it will requi
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by drorco 3y ago
Totally! One of the first thing I did after learning Newton's law of gravity, was to write down a small simulation of planets in orbit and how they "dance" around each other. This little exercise totally blew my mind and the
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by drorco 3y ago
Same. I really struggle to learn anything which I can't see a practical use for. Just as an example, in high school learning trigonometry was really difficult for me, like why would I even care about finding an angle in a triangle, etc
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by drorco 3y ago
At the quality of the current output, I think players still easily differentiate between AI generated art and hand-created art. Maybe in future versions this will be less noticeable. As a game dev, I think at this stage AI can be a helpful

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