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by needle0 4mo ago
And exactly why Apple's push for Mac gaming (which still puts native ports as the ultimate goal and treats things like GPTK, despite having made it, only as "ways for developers to preview how the port would end up" and not i
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by needle0 10mo ago
A major advantage of using modern game engines is the multiplatform support. This seems pretty weak on that front.
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by needle0 2y ago
"Yoke" is pronounced like "yo K", not like the control wheel of an aircraft. (Then again, seeing how nobody pronounces Pokémon as Pokémon, I guess striving for accurate pronunciation is a lost cause)
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by needle0 2y ago
To be pedantic, two cameras were enough for the headset to track itself (eg. Lenovo Mirage Solo). The reason that headsets nowadays have 4 cameras is for it to also track the hand controllers that are being held by the user and being flung
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by needle0 3y ago
Right - the fact that Emoji and Emoticons share the first 3 letters is a complete coincidence; The word Emoji is a portmanteau of the Japanese words É (絵; picture) and Moji (文字; letters).
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by needle0 3y ago
How many "____, the Japanese ____ of ____" exist?
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by needle0 3y ago
So, whatGate is the scandal's name this time?
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by needle0 3y ago
As a Japanese native I'm torn on this. On one hand, respecting the local ordering & notation seems to be good manners. On the other hand, this creates an ambiguity where some people are writing Asian names in local notation and som
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by needle0 3y ago
Not covered here: fonts and glyph appearances, which will nearly always end up displaying wrong in certain Asian languages -- https://heistak.github.io/your-code-displays-japanese-wrong/
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by needle0 3y ago
Gonna be eagerly waiting for the time when we can finally change our behavior at will, be it neural implants or nanomachines or whatever other method of direct intervention to the brain.
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by needle0 3y ago
Only one paragraph for l10n and i18n? A GUI framework written only by people speaking English is 99% most definitely going to get font display wrong ( https://heistak.github.io/your-code-displays-japanese-wrong/ ) and
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by needle0 3y ago
I can't be the only one who initially misread UAE as UAC.
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by needle0 4y ago
Despite all the renovation, the newly installed 2023 toilets don't look that different from the ones it replaced. Electronic bidet toilets should really be the norm by now. Sad that the expectations haven't changed.
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by needle0 4y ago
Well, "never" is a strong enough word to extend even into science fiction land (or 100, 1000, 10000, 100000 years into the future and beyond). Hence the reaction you got.
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by needle0 4y ago
I myself don't strongly agree nor disagree with the individual arguments -- I'm not knowledgeable enough on the subject to form an opinion either for or against -- but the point was rather on the very strong hostile emotions displ
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by needle0 4y ago
Looking at social media in Japan, I tend to see strong enmity towards solar -- eg large solar farms destroy the surrounding environment, they don't fit in with Japan's mountainous terrain and are prone to breakage during storms an
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by needle0 4y ago
This was probably written with only the English-speaking part of Twitter in the writer's field of view. English in Twitter doesn't comprise even a third of all tweets ( https://www.vicinitas.io/blog/twitter-so
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by needle0 4y ago
Both the Japanese video sharing site Nico Nico Video (nicovideo.jp) and art commission site Skeb (skeb.jp) have regularly made statements about their intent of regulating their services based on Japanese law, and explicitly NOT what US-ba
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by needle0 4y ago
Personally I am strongly on the opinion of favoring openness, but since you asked, there was this: https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/xofxo3/a_j... The hoax was pretty quickly debunked, as
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by needle0 4y ago
512x512 is standard for SD generated images, but seems pretty low res when you look at it as a stock photo. Might be good to provide an AI upscaled version of the image for download.
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by needle0 4y ago
Which is the reason that Apple is never going to conquer "traditional" gaming. Traditional games (ones that are NOT perpetually updated live services) and rock-solid-stable development targets have always been very close -- game c
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by needle0 4y ago
You can say that when that's true for all global markets.
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by needle0 4y ago
Came to say this. They operate under the same rules of physics; it should just be as likely that their planetary motions and cultural history will also force them into weird counting systems.
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by needle0 4y ago
Japan uses the Western calendar pretty much as-is. One addition is the Japanese gengou system of year/era counting, which resets with a new era name every time a new emperor is enthroned (at least in recent years). Most people are awar
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by needle0 4y ago
I've gotten it running with a Radeon RX 6800 on Ubuntu Linux 22.04 (with overwriting PyTorch with a ROCm-supporting version), and on Windows 10 (in a very barebones way using ONNX), but are there better, more full-featured ways to get
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by needle0 4y ago
The inspiration for the title of Pink Floyd's album "Atom Heart Mother".
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by needle0 4y ago
What exactly is "software" though? Is it just the code, or does it include the whole tech infrastructure that runs it, or even all the business agreements that makes the service possible and makes it all available to the end user?
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by needle0 4y ago
I think Windows' focus on backwards compatibility is part of what made it the default gaming platform on personal computers. Macs will never be a serious platform for gaming, even if they begin offering more performance, as long as t
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by needle0 4y ago
If they were pressuring/coercing creators into creating only works that avoids a specific depiction, I think it'd be a problem. But this seems only to be a service for the receiving end of media, so I don't see the problem th
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by needle0 4y ago
VR development is very video-gamey, so tools used for videogame development is used the most: Unity, Unreal Engine, bespoke engines written in C++, Godot, etc. The default Oculus browser supports WebXR, so if you want a more webby tech stac

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