whoisyc

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by whoisyc 1y ago
> I admit that I am surprised that I am finding myself wishing that we, the Western world, were poorer again. Luxury belief. Doesn’t it feel a little suspicious that the only people to ever say “we should become poorer” are people from r
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by whoisyc 1y ago
Car prices are affected by ease of financing and a huge second hand market. The former make it easier to “afford” a fancy vehicle (whether or not you actually afford it is another question) and the later means fierce competition in the lowe
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by whoisyc 1y ago
Yeah, this is why neighboring countries never go to war. If anything, being able to just fly over the ugly parts and arrive directly at your plastic wrapped all inclusive resort is a good way to increase the social divide and drive us close
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by whoisyc 1y ago
Realistically “my website fits in 14kb” is a terrible signal because it is invisible to 99.99% of the population. How many HNers inspect the network usage when loading a random stranger’s website? Plus, trying to signal your way to societal
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by whoisyc 1y ago
> This is why almost all applications and websites are slow and terrible these days. The actual reason is almost always some business bullshit. Advertising trackers, analytics etc. No amount of trying to shave kilobytes off a response ca
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by whoisyc 1y ago
There is something deeply disturbing about your attitude towards making mistake. You think you shouldn’t give advice because your feedback is not valuable and may even cause your son to give up writing, but you have so far given no reason w
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by whoisyc 1y ago
You think the only game you will lose are generic Unity shovelwares when in reality you will also lose good games made by people with good sense in game making but likely not the resources or technical expertise to make their own engines. T
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by whoisyc 1y ago
Any mature game engine also comes with mature developer tooling. Think profiling, debugging, assets management, map editing etc. That’s a lot of initial hurdles to overcome before you can even start working on your game ideas. For indie &#x
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by whoisyc 1y ago
Given how the UK works, chances are sooner or later they will only teach the answer to the exam in “public”[1] schools. [1] They are actually private and selective.
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by whoisyc 1y ago
I doubt the typical Godot Engine user is in that segment of the game industry but the big players in microtransaction ridden “gaming” are definitely very interested.
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by whoisyc 1y ago
> Songs are shorter (<3 minutes) and lyrics simpler as a result. People don’t want to think anymore. Beatles songs are around 164 seconds long on average. https://www.aaronkrerowicz.com/uploads/6/5/4&#x2
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by whoisyc 1y ago
I wish more game developers adopt the “no sales, period” policy of Factorio. Here’s a relevant quote from the developer. > Not having a sale ever is part of our philosophy. In short term, they are good and bring extra money, but we are t
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by whoisyc 1y ago
I remember Firefox crashing on me nearly daily around the time Chrome came out. I didn’t need anyone to push Chrome on me. Chrome was just simply technologically superior. But of course today there is little reason to not use Firefox.
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by whoisyc 1y ago
Another day, another well-meaning internet community falling victim to the creative writing major testing water on Reddit before trying to make it in Hollywood.
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by whoisyc 1y ago
We are not past peak PC gaming. What we might see soon is the end of big budget AAA game production. It’s not even that AAA games are bad, it’s just they require such a ridiculous amount of production value that they have to be blockbuster
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by whoisyc 1y ago
Universal connectivity was the internet’s biggest promise and it turned out to be its biggest flaw. It turns out if you allow literally anyone on this planet to walk up to your front door, you will end up with the world’s criminals, psychop
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by whoisyc 1y ago
Name change after marriage is not a tradition in east Asia regardless of how they treat families. To this day Chinese and Korean people keep their names after marriage. Name change only became a thing in Japan during the Meiji restoration.
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by whoisyc 1y ago
That’s what GP said about “harder to model the editor’s behaviour mentally” though. In a dumb editor you type a quote and you get a quote, in a “smart” editor whether or not you get two quotes, one quote, or no quote at all is context depen
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by whoisyc 1y ago
In Factorio you throw iron ore in an electric furnace and it turns into iron plates. In reality you need coal or coke or charcoal to reduce iron to its metal form. Steelmaking is one of the largest single source of CO2 for a reason. This is
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by whoisyc 1y ago
“College” is underselling it. He went to Harvard. He sold a friendly down to the earth image early one and people bought it. But don’t forget he went to Harvard.
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by whoisyc 1y ago
> He was likewise confident that a shooting game would be less thoughtful than a turn-based strategy game because the moment-to-moment decisions were less complex Sounds like a classic example of Moravec’s paradox: https://en.
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by whoisyc 1y ago
Validating input and physics is easy and is effective against some of the crazy cheats people ran on eg PUBG. But it’s much harder to “limit information”. For example in CS if someone is 95% hiding behind a smoke screen with just one foot s
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by whoisyc 1y ago
What makes you think the PC gamers who do the PC master race things are the same people as the ones playing games with invasive anticheat? Just because they both game on PCs? Your assumption tells more about yourself than those mythical “PC
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by whoisyc 1y ago
AFAIK, HN’s “speed limit” is not an anti bot or anti spam measurement. It is an anti flame war measurement.
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by whoisyc 1y ago
Given how many complaints about Google search you regularly see on this website and elsewhere, you would think there will be a lot more people willing to pay for non shitty search. And yet Kagi does not have enough paying users to fill a fo
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by whoisyc 1y ago
The hard part is how to acquire that 10000 paying users and how to make them stay. I think a the problem is for every social media user who finds it valuable enough to pay, there are ten more who don’t use it enough justify paying. And if y
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by whoisyc 1y ago
Thank you for the snark. I am sure this will work wonders to persuade more people to take their privacy seriously.
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by whoisyc 1y ago
Facebook is used to coordinate real world events. Think weekend hikes, dog shows, garage sales, you name it. If you have to hide your real world identity to post on a forum, then it will not be able to replace Facebook.
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by whoisyc 1y ago
Your comment would be much more persuasive if you provide a concrete actionable suggestion instead of vague handwringing about “finding a better user agent” (and don’t get me started on how “user agent” is basically just an ingroup signal t
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by whoisyc 1y ago
Limiting the spread of the information is a feature, not a bug. You don’t want others to take your 2009 forum post out of context and ridicule you in front of a million angry YouTube viewers.

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