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> I've said this already in another recent thread but Mobile games and PC/Console games are two entirely separate markets, with different potential customer pools.

Yes, agreed. But again, as I've already said, the reason to point out mobile games specifically is because that's where much of Unity's success has come from. There's really no point in discussing Unity's monetization efforts without also discussing the mobile games industry. PC and Console games just aren't written in Unity at the frequency or scale that it would matter.

> Conflating them together makes about as much sense as conflating console/pc games with accounting software.

Yes, which is why I pointed out the above post combining them when the ought not be.
the license allows it, there's nothing "malicious" about it

if people care about such things, then they should not contribute to projects using MIT
I don’t feel this counts as gallows humor.
What? Enterprise distros coming default with auto update?
> ”I find it funny people shell out an absurd amount of money for games”

People are always more willing to spend on entertainment where they get personal joy … than on tools.
But for most games Unreal still seems to be significantly more expensive after you actually start making significant money?
No, it's a traffic optimization to avoid loading images you don't see until they are visible on the page.
If you study the details of his youth, etc, you will learn that he lived in obscurity for many, many years, toiling alone on the most difficult questions of the time.

His "political standing" was a result purely of his scientific achievements and a general consensus of his high ability within scientific circles. He took great pains to reduce the number of acquaintances he had rather than increase them.

I think Newton was more right than wrong in the beliefs he took seriously (even outside the narrow confines of "science"). He was anything but naive. This doesn't mean he never lied; it just means that he lied way less compared to average standards for humanity.
> You already need to show ID for most medicine!

Do you? You have to show an insurance card to file a claim, but I imagine there is a lot of overlap between the people without ID and the people without insurance. And there appear to be free clinics that don't require ID, implying that it isn't required by law.
More and more people want air conditioning. I wouldn't be surprised if lots of people use more energy in the summer.

Even here in Montana, the heat going out in the beginning of winter for a few weeks was not really as obnoxious as some of the really hot days with no AC I've seen.
30% for distribution is fine, 5% for more than half the cost of development is not?

Fortnite is also a top selling mobile game developed with UE5. You can make great mobile games with UE5 now. Mobile hardware right now is comparable to last gen consoles.
The counter-intuitive finding here -- which is in favor of rule-utilitarianism -- is that everyone trying to optimize every difficult decision does reliably lead to unpredictable consequences that are worse than the "follow a rule that would lead to optimific outcomes if performed by 99% of the population" set of consequences.

That is, you can hold a belief that the optimal "decision criteria" for an act-consequentialist is actually a rule-consequentialist one, and this belief is fairly common.

Restated: being an act-consequentialist doesn't absolve you from having to determine act-consequentialism's best decision criteria, because if it did then you wouldn't be being act-consequentialist about it. It's recursive like that.
Sorry, you managed to trigger my pet peeve faster than I managed to properly read the whole conversation :)
I can just see people spamming emojis
> IMO 5% is totally deserved and justified. In fact it's a bargain and you save money by paying Epic 5% compared to anything else out there.

How? That’s significantly more expensive that Unity if you make more than $2 per user or so.
Considering that will just result in a lower quality of life for me, and everyone else not even noticing (and not moving the needle even a little globally) - why?

It’s like self flagellation in private. Maybe soul cleansing religiously or something, but utterly pointless in the real world.
That's just begging the question. The only reason it's BTC is that you have to show your ID to get it.
The starlink satellites decay after 5 years. The constellation costs $40B. That's an $8B annual burn rate just to maintain the current constellation.
I think a spectrum is a great way to look at it. If you're adding one service then it's no big deal but as you add more and more then you get a better sense of the requirements of the API and I think you're in a better place to build one out then.

We've used this in a few other instances but Corrosion is the largest database we've done it with.
Did Facebook roll this into their internal Devopps stuff? Is it available as a product or service from them?
> 30% for distribution is fine, 5% for more than half the cost of development is not?

Quote me where I said the 30% tax was "fine" please.

> Fortnite is also a top selling mobile game developed with UE5.

Yep! So we've gotten to the exception that proves the rule. Aside from Fortnite, which is written by Epic, Unreal Engine hasn't had even close to the success or adoption on mobile platforms as it has elsewhere.

> You can make great mobile games with UE5 now.

You can make great mobile games in javascript. This isn't really about "can".
Query-based sync to partially replicate is an absolute must. This was a key feature with Ditto: https://www.ditto.live
> One implication is that even things which are becoming less robust over time can display the Lindy effect.

Interesting. And somewhat counterintuitive.
Just to give some perspective: Without prior graphics programming experience, I was able to write a simplistic 3D engine (VERY simple, but enough for my purposes) in a week or two. I somehow assumed that it was just an impossible thing to do and so I've never tried, until recently. It turned out to be much easier to get something going than I could've imagined.

It's true that Unity and other engines offer tons of features, but most indie developers probably won't need them, and by the time they do need more than the basics they'll have so much experience that they can easily implement what's missing in their own "engine".

We're also seeing some interesting developments in this space with WebGPU, which is what prompted me to finally give it a try in the first place. I've never used OpenGL before and I was still able to get by (more or less), after failing miserably to complete the Vulkan tutorial...

If nothing else, I can only recommend people at least think about whether they really need Unity/Unreal and consider that there are disadvantages as well as advantages when using them.
Is a system where you only process orders every X minutes actually more complex? The current system is _full_ of stupid shenanigans specifically due to a lack of a timebox.
> 5% for more than half the cost of development is not?

The same can be said about Unity asking you to pay $0.05 per install (which is massively cheaper than Unreal for any non F2P game)
Two self-taught engineers building large scale data systems [video]
I have been thinking about this a lot lately. We have customers who run automation against us. They’re doing 10,000 API calls. Each one has to do a permission check, request signing, serialization, etc., etc. All just to mutate a blob of data less than say, 100MB. If they just downloaded the whole state, mutated it, and reuploaded it, the whole thing would be done in 2 seconds.

We already lock the entirety of each customer’s data when processing a request, in order to avoid data inconsistency from concurrent mutations.

One SQLite database per customer is a really appealing idea.
Contract maintenance software helps your company to conduct repetitive contract management activities with minimum monitoring. This allows your legal team to concentrate on other vital procedures.
If there's an issue, how are they supposed to know about it? Via osmosis? Even if they should have found it earlier, they didn't, so now what? You should tell them, so they can fix it.
Looks great, thanks
It's kinda crazy we have 2 kinds of whitespace.

Even the customizability argument makes less sense now, IDEs could just change the width of leading spaces, I'm not sure why they don't.
In games Blender is used at all levels. From indie to AAA. At most studios as a 3d artist you are able to use any package you want and for newer artists Blender is increasingly what they know. Sometimes there are custom toolchains that require Max or Maya but often then artist still use Blender for most of the work, export fbx and import that into another soft just for final steps.

I'm now at AA level studio and for this category Blender is eating competition super fast!
I agree that it's barely used in this day and age but worth noting that Titanfall 1, 2, and Apex Legends are all heavily modified Source
This was also my thought. Search for hypocrite commits, and a link to an lwn article: https://lwn.net/Articles/853717/ . They did ban their whole school
No, not mind-boggling at all. It's about a tenth of what is required to meet governments' signed-up-for targets for limiting global average temperature rise to 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial.

For reference about 2% of global GDP is spent on new fossil fuel mining and drilling investment, and another 2-4% on the fuels (including refining).
"In the first place, I’m skeptical. I don’t believe we have yet crossed the threshold where machines learn to solve interesting computational problems on their own. I don’t believe we’re even close to that point, or necessarily heading in the right direction."

I feel like this is pretty hard to believe, to be honest. How on Earth, given all that's happened last year, could we possibly not at least be "heading in the right direction" the way things are?
> I probably wouldn't use it because signing in is too much effort

What if the forum offered the following three options for sign in:

- Sign in with GitHub

- Sign in with Apple

- Sign in with Google
I hope Apple provides a giant plastic brick with the name and phone number of a French regulator laser-etched in it.
That's frankly one of the first thoughts that came to my mind.

I've asked the author about ethical review and processes on the Fediverse.

That said, both Wikipedia and the Linux kernel (mentioned in another response to this subthread) should anticipate and defend against either research-based or purely malicious attacks.
Talking about bazel (or buck, etc.), I wish there was a JetBrains IDE that supports all languages.
How do you plan to monetize Dozer? Will it become a platform where the company will seek to increase lock-in and revenue extraction from customers? The open source model with support contracts? Something else?

The overall idea sounds awesome. As a data engineer I’m interested.
My M2 pro gets plugged in to the work monitor most days and then unplugged and taken home and plugged in to my monitor at home - 10 or so screen configuration changes a week... I've never found I've need to restart due to any issues with any regularity with this one or my old 2015 MBP that this replaced.

I installed the most recent update five days ago, would have been weeks since the last reboot. From my experience, I'd probably put it down to some software they've installed, or yes, possibly an actual hardware fault with that particular unit.
Luckily since there is no expectation of an archive, migration is fairly straightforward if there is an alternative. If there are no alternatives, I guess they can try IRC ;)
Or they start a subreddit because you only have Discord
I'm of quite the opposite opinion. Within reason (importantly), I believe any public service, which is also managed by an anonymous, decentralized community, ought to be under test constantly and by anyone. What's the alternative, really?

Imagine if it was taboo to independently test the integrity of bitcoin for example.

The sibling mentioned the linux kernel case. I admit that one felt wrong. It was a legitimate waste of contributor time and energy, with the potential to open real security holes.

I don't pretend to have reconciled why one seems right to me and the other wrong.
Scala and Rust are both very complex languages.

I mean, how's rustfmt going?
People should be reminded that rules are more of a guideline than a strict plan to follow, especially in the online world. Banning people is a crucial part of forming a community, and you should feel no shame for applying it where necessary to guide the atmosphere towards a better place.
> Again, I predict a couple weeks.

I’ve made similar predictions in the past… these days, I predict that a couple years actually makes a lot more sense. Especially if you’re not familiar with game engines, and especially if you have to figure out: physics, input mapping, window systems, graphics pipelines, audio systems, game logic component systems (basically the game loop), level systems, transitions, platform support (switch, PC, PS5, Xbox, …), level editors, serialization, animation systems, particle systems, and more!

I have a big fat book sitting on my bookshelf called Game Engine Architecture by some of the developers at Naughty Dog. That bad boy is 1,000 pages and just gives a high level overview. It does not teach you how to set up a graphics pipeline, open a window or write a shader. I have other big fat 1,000 page books for those. Those do not teach you the mathematics needed to fully grasp linear algebra. I have yet more big fat 1,000 page books for that. Those books do not teach you C++, I don’t believe any book is sufficient for that big fat language, but I have a few anyways.

It’s cool if you enjoy tinkering on engine stuff, but boy am I glad that the Hollow Knight devs (I believe there were only 2 people) just used an engine. It’s an amazing game, and I could care less how it was made. I’m just glad that it was made.

Edit: I forgot to mention game HUDs, UI systems, font rendering in general, and asset management pipelines to the list of things that come with an engine but you’d have to either code it yourself or just not have it if you don’t want to use an engine. All of these subdomains can have years of effort poured into them (speaking from experience). The rabbit hole never ends haha.
The new economics of generating code
https://www.google.com/search?q=lindy+site:https://news.ycom...
One of my favorite things that’s happens is when you read a sentence like “FM Radio based early earthquake detection”, immediately understand how that could work, and then wonder why you never thought of it. It feels like the real genesis of novel ideas is putting two things together that don’t seem like they go together but thinking about how they _could_.
I may be mistaken on that one, but it looks like it may be available as a CLion plugin after based on their FAQ but certainly not for IntelliJ IDEA. I hadn't paid attention and noticed that they made the Go plugin available for IDEA, but for certain CLion and Rider are only available standalone.
I paid for SublimeText and SublimeMerge and will happily pay another time, when my v3 license expires. While I'm mostly in the FOSS camp, Sublime software, together with Bitwig Studio (https://www.bitwig.com) and Reaper (https://www.reaper.fm), are the pinnacle of commercial products in their categories.
They're not mutually exclusive!
Now we can both throw more iron and the textbook at problems....
Range Rover is also applicable.
Wonder if the sensors are still able to send data if you pull the fridge's power plug first? eg battery backup or similar
Fair, but you can probably help save both money and the environment by cutting back on beef, and replacing it with chicken. Chicken is FAR more resource-efficient than beef. It's too bad they haven't figured out how to make it taste similar (of course, chicken doesn't taste bad, it's just really different, just like vanilla and chocolate ice cream taste different but one is not better than the other except in terms of personal preference).
"not really breaking any rules per se"
I haven't seen Flarum in years, looks beautiful.
Internet Playgrounds
No, install a custom rom on it and use it for 6-7 years.
Well... trying to "fix workers attitude" is a thing that may easily lead to nasty scenes of tycoons, trees and ropes...
Right or wrong, it can be a really difficult thing to do when the problem behaviour is not due to malice. You’re taking away a community from someone, and in my experience, usually it’s someone who doesn’t have many other social outlets. It does not feel good to get pleading emails from these sorts of folks, knowing that you have to stand firm and say ‘no’ for the health of the wider community.
YAML has a big problem in that you can't work with it in standard tools.

Most every common GCedlanguage these days supports native JSONlike object, YAML can represent things outside of strings, lists, dicts, bools, numbers, and null.

Lack of nested structure is a positive in some applications. Flat is better than nested. I've seen way too many config files where someone says "add foo=3" to the file and you can't even figure out where in the structure it goes.

And worse, sometimes people reorganize things into options. They'll move all the stuff for one subcomponent into its own nested thing, and you can't configure it without knowing the full architecture.

With flat stuff you get an obvious single way to represent any given config options. Maybe not the nicest way, but it's obvious and unique.
No they don't. If they did they'd make their phones repairable and discourage people from buying new ones.
You completely left out the enormous impact that cars have. How about get rid of your car, move someplace walkable if you have to, and stop driving?
Significant numbers of people are not going to the pharmacy and buying Sudafed because they have a cold and consequently getting addicted to Sudafed, which is what had been happening with codeine.

It's clearly because you can make methamphetamine out of it. But you can also make methamphetamine out of other things which limiting access to cold medicine demonstrably hasn't prevented.
GDscript is arguably the strongest python dialect for game dev.

It's like python with a lot of inconveniences smoothed over plus game engine primitives
It cuts both ways. JetBrains is free to close source it, but likewise, anyone can continue to maintain it too. JetBrains has no more power here than anyone else, except for the dev time of their employees.
I'm going to add to this that "hang up" means physically do that. I've heard that many are tricked by the attacker playing a "dial tone" sound into the phone and thus keeping the line open and "answering" when you thought you called you bank.
I think one would have to weigh the pros and cons of this kind of research. In particular, the main cons (IMO) are:

* users are misled about facts
* trust is lost in Wikipedia
* other users/organizations use this as a blueprint to insert false information

Harm 3 seems to be the most serious, but I suspect it has happened/will happen irrespective of this research.
As opposed to the water reservoir example, these harms seem quite small by contrast. I would have liked to see a section discussing this in the blog post, but perhaps that's included in the original paper.
> Also most companies with "above AA" money aren't using Unity.

That not so obvious. Ad infested shovelware does make a lot of money.
I'm curious to hear what really is the difference between GoLand and IDEA Ultimate with go plugin other than flashy startup banner.
One problem with hardware keys is still SaaS vendor support. There is a very narrow path for effective enforcement: require SSO, then require hardware tokens at the SSO level. But even that is difficult to truly enforce, because the IdP often has "recovery" mechanisms that grant access without a hardware key. Google is also guilty of not adding a claim to the OIDC/SAML response verifying that a hardware token was used to login, so vendors cannot be configured to decide to reject the login because it didn't use a hardware token.

If you have any vendors without SSO (like GitHub, because it's an Enterprise feature), you're lucky if they support hardware tokens (cool, GitHub does) and even luckier if their "require 2FA" option (which GitHub has, per organization) allows you to require hardware keys (which GitHub does not).

Distributing hardware keys to employees is one thing. Mandating them is quite another.
I think the key difference is supervision, is there another party keeping an eye on what is tested and how. And maybe insuring no permanent damage is done at the end.
I used that plugin extensively to develop PHP websites 10 years ago. Great feedback loop
I don't think this is a reasonable understanding of the story. Chaloner cannot be called “Newton's rival” in any usual sense of the word: he was born destitute, turned to various horrifying crimes from a young age, was barely educated, was arrested multiple times even before his story overlapped with Newton's in any way, etc. He died only because his crime was a serious one, falling under the category of “high treason”. And for his part, Newton hardly had accrued enough power despite all his mathematical and scientific achievements — this job was obtained with great effort late in his life, and his (small) fortune came from his job's salary.

Regarding “context with respect to how history is formed”, I think this is best done by reading more primary sources, and not forming a quick opinion (as you seem to be doing, from a blog post). This is what the author of the book has done. From his article at http://www.executedtoday.com/2009/03/22/1699-william-chalone... —

> Some historians, notably Frank Manuel, have speculated that Newton pursued this work with implausible eagerness, out of a kind of frustrated blood lust born of his abandoned and unhappy childhood. This seems to me to be nonsense. The specific historical context matters here: Newton did not author the bloody code, nor did he send everyone he could to the gallows. Rather, the record of his depositions shows him to be simply a relentless practical man doing his job. He used little fish to catch big fish, and at least some of those low on the ladder received their escape from the gibbet. What you can see here, surprisingly, is the birth of a modern idea of a civil service. The Warden -– even Isaac Newton — was simply a man in a job doing the functions of that job, which included organizing the investigation and prosecution of counterfeiters.

> […] Newton did not expect as Warden to have to chase crooks; when he found out that was part of the job he wrote a rather whiny letter to the Treasury to see if he could wriggle out of the duty. When he found he could not, he responded as he always had to the job at hand.
Yep. I like the idea of spinning up a VM for any random crazy idea without having a tollbooth in my way. I have a Dell 740xd racked in Santa Clara.

Email, owncloud, about 2 or 3 dozen websites of personal or quasi-project status, and a few dozen other tinkerings.

Amusingly most of my clients have me doing AWS work these days, so my on-prem experience brings me nothing professionally anymore.

I do enjoy writing apps that "baseload" on my colo box and can burst into the cloud as needed. I feel like that's where everyone is headed when the cloud fees get thought about a little harder.
For true life and death emergency Im sure the others are great, but for a "my serpentine belt just broke on my 2004 4Runner, could someone deliver one to road #3223, 4 miles down in death valley" I think you'd do better with HAM radio.

AAA isn't going to come help you for less than $500+ (actually probably $1000) somewhere in death valley.

The community around something like ham radio, although technically not even a community, makes me think I'd get neighborly type help much easier, even if it took someone's entire afternoon to help.