flohofwoe

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by flohofwoe 3d ago
I kinda of agree, but still believe that writing most of the critical(!) code yourself has long term benefits. IME the initial mental model hardly survives contact with reality and all those little micro decisions that come up during imple
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by flohofwoe 3d ago
IMHO getting rid of proper QA done by teams of QA specialists is the main reason for the current software quality crisis (and that already started 15 years ago or so). We should go back to QA teams and proper QA procedures! Automated test
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by flohofwoe 6d ago
It means it's about as good as C++ ;)
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by flohofwoe 6d ago
Optimistic to assume that modern day programmers even know what a debugger is, or if they do, consider it as anything else than some weird ancient shibboleth only used by the greybeards ;)
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by flohofwoe 6d ago
True, but he mainly seemed to have made a splash in the US with the colonialism angle. I don't think there was much of an outrage in either direction in Germany about that topic in the 1970s. I guess most people just shrugged and moved
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by flohofwoe 6d ago
> and more to do with the fact that the British were the first people on Earth to invent a way of measuring longitude at sea accurately ...OTH if Britain wouldn't have been a globe-spanning empire, they wouldn't have needed a m
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by flohofwoe 6d ago
...which seems to have been an entirely US-centric debate (especially when it was brought up again in the late 2010s), which explains why Europeans seem kinda baffled by the discussion. But projections that preserve size much better than Me
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by flohofwoe 6d ago
I would expect that most people have seen a globe at least once in their life though? ;)
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by flohofwoe 6d ago
Yeah but does the Indian education system actually use Mercator projection on their wall maps and geography learning material? E.g. how much is the average Indian citizen actually confronted with highly distorted map projections in their da
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by flohofwoe 6d ago
AFAIK in the past there were all sorts of 'up' conventions, for instance medieval European maps sometimes put East up, because Jerusalem is in the East. Ancient mediterranean maps often were South up, as well as maps of Islamic ca
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by flohofwoe 6d ago
> So I guess we’ll find out when their next game comes out. I doubt that any of us will still be alive at the time when GTA 7 releases - at least when looking at the trajectory of GTA release dates ;)
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by flohofwoe 6d ago
Let's not get too excited until the game is actually released. Cyberpunk was also irrationally hyped and then was released as a turd which then took 5 more years to become a merely 'good' but not great game.
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by flohofwoe 6d ago
> ...and everyone is getting paid fat bonuses... I wonder how many examples there actually are of the people in the trenches doing the actual work getting a 'fat bonus'. E.g. the idea that unionization might not be a bad idea u
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by flohofwoe 6d ago
I would really like to know which parts of the world use Mercator projection on their standard school wall maps. At least in Germany (and both former East and West) it certainly isn't in use since at least the 1950s (and probably muc
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by flohofwoe 6d ago
> Diablo 3 was highly regarded. Lol, Diablo 2 was the last good Diablo (it has a great remaster now btw).
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by flohofwoe 6d ago
Aguably those things would have happened with or without a union. E.g. it's extremely rare that any studio could repeat a masterpiece like Witcher 3, and CDPR's earlier Witcher titles also are far away from that quality. This game
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by flohofwoe 10d ago
> Europe and Asia are on the same continent on the same tectonic plate. By that definition India would be its own continent because the country largely sits on its own tectonic plate. Also Europe and Asia are continents, they're n
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by flohofwoe 10d ago
Funny, the same US "free speech absolutists" get upset about "censorship" outside the US (mostly in EU countries) all the time, so it would be completely on point.
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by flohofwoe 10d ago
Hmm, I would have expected more outrage from the US "free speech absolutists" over this US government decision ;)
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by flohofwoe 10d ago
> we were sold on this dream that Europe would become like the United States Sorry but that's just made up bullshit. The EU is not a "United States of Europe", and thinking along that line will ineviatably lead to tons of
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by flohofwoe 10d ago
There's a clearly defined border between the continents Europe and Asia. I guess the confusion comes from thinking of "European" as some sort of cultural identity (which frankly doesn't exist, unless you only look at the
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by flohofwoe 10d ago
> USA got the cream of the crop of the managers of the German missile program, while the USSR got the workers That's a bit oversimplified. The Russians got quite a few important scientists and engineers in other areas (aircraft desi
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by flohofwoe 10d ago
> Whether they are European is a matter of perspective What? Scandinavia isn't part of Europe now? The "EU" is an organization, "Europe" is a continent. "European" includes everybody living in Europe (a
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by flohofwoe 10d ago
Europe is a continent, not a nation.
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by flohofwoe 10d ago
That was just because the Russian's didn't trust "their" Germans as much as the Americans trusted "theirs". Operation Osoaviakhim was mostly about knowledge extraction, not about cooperation. The other differen
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by flohofwoe 12d ago
When did you last encounter or use a linked list ? :) Linked lists fell out of fashion once the cpu/memory latency gap opened up towards the end of the 1990s. For most use cases it's simply better to use a tightly packed array, ev
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by flohofwoe 13d ago
Regular linked lists were implicitly 'intrusive' long before C++ existed and introduced 'extrusive' lists in the stdlib.
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by flohofwoe 13d ago
Hmm interesting, the doubly linked list presented here is missing the elegant 'overlapped list header' trick from AmigaOS (at least that's where I saw it first): E.g. an AmigaOS list node looks conventional, it has two pointe
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by flohofwoe 13d ago
> When a game glitches because of a driver bug, its the game developer that gets the bug reports (and the heat) and often has to isolate the problem to convince the gpu driver-team to fix it. Exactly, and having a Vulkan-only codebase wo
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by flohofwoe 15d ago
> There were official native MacOS builds and now there aren't They probably stopped supporting macOS when Apple introduced the notarization bullshit. Can't blame the DF team tbh, macOS is a royal PITA to support (even without

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