meheleventyone

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by meheleventyone 29d ago
Even that might be subject to shifting market trends as his audience ages eventually but it's definitely been a nice sticky niche.
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by meheleventyone 29d ago
It's a combination of all those things really. There's also a lot of people in commercial game development that get stuck in their thesis of success when the market has moved on. In particular I'd say right now it's real
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by meheleventyone 2mo ago
> Regardless of believing in the “singularity” or not, please explain how this sounds utopian in the slightest without borderline (if not literal) sociopathic anti-human worldviews. There was a guy on here the other day trying to argue t
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by meheleventyone 2mo ago
The US started the war though and have very recently been targeting civilian infrastructure as well. So by your logic should be replacing it.
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by meheleventyone 2mo ago
No, it’s a combo of a post-covid slump in spend, western markets becoming saturated and an assumption from the majority of industry that wouldn’t happen. Essentially games revenue has grown incredibly over the past twenty years and it’s now
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by meheleventyone 2mo ago
Have you ever considered that the high cost of contribution and low cost of moderation is why Wikipedia is successful? Inverting it would destroy any open contribution system. See open source projects blanket rejecting AI generated PRs as a
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by meheleventyone 3mo ago
What? Brave New World is Huxley’s famous dystopian novel. Like many dystopian novels it is presented as a utopia to begin with that unravels to expose it’s horrors as the plot unfolds. He did write a utopian book called Island.
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by meheleventyone 3mo ago
Just so were clear here the CSAM acronym stands for Child Sexual Abuse Material. Some Anime gets caught up because there is a lot of dubious visual depictions of that.
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by meheleventyone 3mo ago
Yeah I got given one by work and we make fresh sourdough pizza every Friday now. Absolutely great if you have the space for it.
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by meheleventyone 3mo ago
If you like food you should do both! There are plenty of things it's hard to cook at home or impractical to keep all the different things you need. A good example is ironically a really simple food. Pizza needs temperatures most domest
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by meheleventyone 3mo ago
> On one end £9 of labour cost for a plate of asparagus seems deeply inefficient and unrealistic, particularly when the cost of ingredients that also include (hard) labour is £2. Presumably the staffing cost is the front of house staff a
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by meheleventyone 4mo ago
I think that's just to have the domain complete their name.
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by meheleventyone 4mo ago
Fighting games usually run peer to peer either with deterministic lockstep or rollback both of which are managed on the client. For actual gameplay at most there’d be a relay as a server. But almost certainly a bunch of ancillary services t
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by meheleventyone 4mo ago
I think you're probably castrophizing the impact with statements like "it'd be impossible for a manager to ever become technical again" because that's not the likely outcome as I understand things. But yes people wh
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by meheleventyone 4mo ago
You're misrepresenting the potential problem. It's more along the lines of using AI stops you exercising the cognitive processes you would doing things yourself and those encompass skills, knowledge and brain function that can atr
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by meheleventyone 5mo ago
They could make it work like rewarded video ads in mobile games. Block progress until you watch the ad. Then as dutiful engineers people can consume ads to support the business and avoid being laid off. More seriously for software engineeri
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by meheleventyone 5mo ago
Yeah in a lot of cases it's much better to use integers and a fixed precision as the absolute unit of position. For games it's just that the scale of most games works well with floats in the range they care about.
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by meheleventyone 6mo ago
Russia pre-invasion of Ukraine probably said something very similar.
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by meheleventyone 6mo ago
You realize you’re essentially building a false dichotomy? I work in video games where code really is a means to an end but still see that authorship is important even if that code is uuuuugly due to it being the expression of the game itse
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by meheleventyone 6mo ago
I don’t think the air campaign against Iran and the campaign in the war game are similar at all.
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by meheleventyone 6mo ago
They are spending a lot of money on Fortnite’s UGC side in the form of paying developers for their games engagement as well.
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by meheleventyone 6mo ago
Yeah the main difference seems to be that he open sourced the games after he got very wealthy from them not before. So of course at that point you can easily feel magnanimous about bestowing gifts. Open sourcing something from the start and
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by meheleventyone 6mo ago
The collapse in this case being the murder of children at school.
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by meheleventyone 7mo ago
The JetBrains local autocomplete is hilarious but occasionally useful. I find it really hit and miss in terms of when it will decide to autocomplete and whether it will exhastively complete all elements, miss some out or get itself into a l
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by meheleventyone 7mo ago
I can see your perspective and relate to the strong emotions you’re showing but you’re not actually engaging with what I’m saying.
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by meheleventyone 7mo ago
Sure but this is back of the envelope and surely a question any legislators will be interested in. If you have better data I’m all for seeing it. For the record I’m not using the number of dead games from the last year just the number of re
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by meheleventyone 7mo ago
Thanks for the list! Mobile presents even larger problems as games and apps get orphaned by quickly moving APIs which don't have backwards compatability. It's not clear to me what the Stop Killing Games answer to that problem woul
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by meheleventyone 7mo ago
I'm trying to understand the scope of the issue. The reason I picked the last year is to see what the current landscape is. If this is a common practice in need of regulation then I'd expect a large number of current titles presen
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by meheleventyone 7mo ago
License verification via a server is a pretty common and normal method of copy protection. For example the JetBrains IDE I'm using at work right now does this. If it didn't work then players would have no issue with the server bei
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by meheleventyone 7mo ago
A form of copy-protection basically. I get the desire for the emotive framing though but I think the EOL implications were simply not considered. I also agree with the idea that at EOL that copy-protection should be removed. There are howev

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