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by rkido 6d ago
Minor correction on the article: Kunrei-shiki doesn't have a 1-to-1 mapping between kana and letters. You can see that directly in the table they show. Only Nihon-shiki does. Kunrei-shiki is the worst of both worlds. That's why Ni
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by rkido 17d ago
While individual game developers choose whether to support macOS, the broader phenomenon of developers dropping macOS support is Apple's fault. They either have no interest in being a serious gaming platform, or else they've made
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by rkido 3y ago
It's not a cult, 40 is just a sweet spot between performance, battery life, and comfort for a large number of demanding 3D games. If you often play in docked mode, the battery life doesn't mattery so you can probably achieve 50 or
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by rkido 3y ago
The bigger the display, the easier it is to visually detect a difference in refresh rates
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by rkido 5y ago
Why would users need to re-purchase everything just to adopt a different store launcher as their primary platform? GOG Galaxy for instance interfaces with most existing stores and friend networks. As long as you're buying games on PC,
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by rkido 5y ago
That Steam was a first-mover is basically irrelevant. PC gamers are a particularly demanding audience and they will abandon your product in a heartbeat if a vastly superior one comes along. For instance, TeamSpeak and to a lesser extent Ven
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by rkido 5y ago
The cost of translating input calls from Linux to Windows APIs through Wine/Proton is so much less than the cost of rendering a single frame that it's effectively 0. The only real overhead Wine/Proton might be adding is in th
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by rkido 5y ago
What features does Windows have that Linux doesn't? The only one I can think of off the top of my head is HDR support, but that wouldn't affect these benchmark results.
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by rkido 5y ago
That's just because no one actually uses HaikuOS or RedoxOS (no offense to these wonderful projects of course). If these came even remotely close to the popularity of Linux, you'd have remixes, spin-offs, and eventually full-blown
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by rkido 5y ago
The Link hardware just wasn't necessary anymore once the software became good enough to run on any device as an app. I have Stream Link on my TV as an app now.
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by rkido 5y ago
This is news to me. What is an example of a portable gaming PC that has flopped? I'm honestly just not aware of any major company trying to make one. As for Valve hardware, the only clear flop was Steam Machines -- which weren't V
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by rkido 5y ago
It's a 7" screen, so this resolution is comparable to an Apple Retina display in terms of ppi.
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by rkido 5y ago
Playing PC games on a cell phone is painful. You can't even see half the game because your thumbs always obscure the screen to operate the touch controls.
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by rkido 5y ago
The mere fact that NVIDIA Shield Portable didn't take off doesn't tell us much. It had poor design sensibility (i.e. it looked like ass, like some kind of portable Xbox designed in the early 2000s), and it ran Android, which lacks
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by rkido 7y ago
> However an optional is really just a list constrained to size 0 or 1. What?
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by rkido 7y ago
You wrote on ihateracket.com: > Which language should be used in a CS1? There isn’t very much research to suggest conclusively what makes the biggest difference in a classroom, and it doesn’t seem like the language debate will ever end.
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by rkido 7y ago
I would argue that some research is better than none, and that some intentionality in the design of a curriculum is better than an ad hoc curriculum. The design recipes give you an excellent foundation for transitioning to a statically-type
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by rkido 7y ago
I agree. I have been a very regular user of Webflow for the past eight months and it has given me a 10x productivity boost despite being capable of coding it all by hand. It does have serious limitations though. Many times I have needed to
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by rkido 7y ago
The way this article described Salesforce makes it sound like generic database frontend software, like a more powerful, complex, and customizable Airtable. I'd love to read a comparison of the two if anyone has used both.
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by rkido 7y ago
> Note: I've applied for SIBR funding in the past. Huge waste of time. Similar to an RFP, by the time a SIBR request is written, the preferred vendor has already been chosen. This is misinformation. SBIR funding is the #1 source of
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by rkido 7y ago
VC funding is completely inappropriate for early stage startups, and it's a last resort even if you're mature enough. Aside from that, there are entire industries that VCs don't touch until after SBIR, such as life sciences s
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by rkido 7y ago
I backed this. Visual data should be edited visually.
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by rkido 7y ago
"Open process" might be a good term for everything else that goes into producing open-source software. Free software is not about licenses; they're a very limited means to an end. If we didn't have copyright, some other
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by rkido 8y ago
I don't understand why they shut this down before they even attempted to start charging money for it.
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by rkido 8y ago
Even if treating this not as a roadmap to becoming a web developer, but more as a map of what an expert-level web developer might be familiar with, it's still scary. Why does modern web development have to be so convoluted? Here is a w
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by rkido 8y ago
This is a question of margins, so you're neither right nor wrong. It normally isn't just 0.1% of sales when developers do get everything right, although whether or not the usual 1-5% of sales is worth it depends on the particular
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by rkido 8y ago
I mention the Steam runtime because this affects the Linux version to this day: I am unable to launch the game (on a fully supported system and OS, mind you) without deleting some files from their install. > He points out that a very lar
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by rkido 8y ago
Linux is the perpetual scapegoat. They selected a middleware, Coherent UI, that didn't work properly on anything but Windows. They also didn't make proper use of the Steam runtime, a mistake that continues to cause issues. Most ga
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by rkido 8y ago
Yes and no. OCaml already has one of the fastest production compilers in the world, acceptable error messages (better than Haskell's, anyway), a great REPL (utop), a high-quality and well-documented build system (dune), a powerful pack
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by rkido 8y ago
Example of OCaml's object system in use by the creator of OCaml: https://github.com/xavierleroy/cryptokit/blob/master/src/cry... OCaml's object and class systems are excellent; I prefer th

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