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> The Game Engine Trap.

What is that? I have a few theories.

One is that the developer doesn't really want to ultimately write a game.

Creating the assets needed for a game, as an example, can be daunting. Implementing high scores, audio, saving game state.... There is a lot of work to create a game beyond the rendering part.

Or the developer is intimidated by the more qualitative nature of the "game part" of the game. The engine can be measured in FPS, etc. How do you measure how fun the game is?

A recent approach I took was to write the game "firstmost" — the game engine was a necessity to realizing that goal. FWIW, I used SDL to create a kind of sprite engine. The "engine" was bare-bones but allowed me to recreate a shareware game of mine for Steam.

After the project was done I began a second (sprite-based) game by first moving over the same game engine code. But this new project required I extend the engine (there were new "feature requirements" unique to this new game).

In this way the engine can evolve from project to project, but never becomes a means to no end.

(And if you do it right, you ought to be able to pull the engine back into the original project with a minimal of refactoring.)

Maybe I'm just suggesting something that everyone already knows.
I avoid ChatGPT, because I want context around whatever I'm looking up, but I also use Google less - I switched to DuckDuckGo and Kagi. Google search seems to have gone off beginning maybe 6 or 7 years ago. Ads at the top of the search, plus SEO BS content farm swill predominating.
"We’re not a life search mission. We’re a habitability mission,” says Robert Pappalardo, Clipper’s project scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which manages the mission."

So we are going to wait 7 years, and spend $5B to actually not search for life on Europa? Why? Sometimes it feels like Nasa is doing everything possible for not searching for life outside earth, which would be a game changing discovery for humanity, several orders of magnitude more important than the habitability of Europa.
A New Kind of Hidden Networking Science
Interesting. What charging network were you using out of curiosity? I've never had any issue with Charge Points beyond the initial account and payment setup. I've used my NACS-CCS adapter dozens of times now mostly at hotels when I charge overnight.
I think our breakdown in understanding here is our concept of cables. When I say cable (and many others here) I mean fiber optic cable. Even with 25km of fiber optic cable it is rather small and light. Drones, missiles, and torpedoes are already doing this with many miles of cable in a tight space. The issue with this which I am not sure about is the dynamic of the ice on the fiber optic cable and how well it would hold up to refreezing of the ice.
Sure, but even if I switched back and forth, the keys would be in the wrong place (because you can only have a qwerty layout with macrons, right?). Somehow the model is wrong compared to Linux where I can do compose to get a macron on any "underlying" layout.
> only Europe

I'd say "wow, even Euripe". I would expect the European market, even just within the EU, much more fragmented the in the US. I may be wrong though.
It does seem like a lot of worthwhile submissions are DOA without any positive or negative commentary.

In a different way than it used to be a few years ago, and far more often.
I wonder if you would have linked this credits page had you been assigned the title "BREAST EXAMINER" OR "NUDE SCENES" like some others, haha
No disagreement. But I was talking within the scenario where you only get one. (Should have pointed that out.)
> I agree this is a false dichotomy, but also pretty sure dumping money into building houses and hiring every unemployed person at a socially inclusive minimum wage would eliminate both housing and unemployment.

It’s one of those things where the details of the implementation are critical. In the US specifically, large amounts of money have already been put towards these problems to little effect.

To be clear, I staunchly support spending money on these things; clearly, they’re dire needs that should be addressed, but if something isn’t done to increase effectiveness and hold those responsible for the spending accountable, increasing spending is unlikely to move the needle.

Additionally, even if the goal were to reallocate funds, space programs aren’t really the best place to look. The pile of cash that would be yielded by “just” cutting fat in the US military apparatus would likely eclipse that of shutting down NASA altogether.
This just goes to OPs portfolio site, so not working
Going to reply to my own post with a disclaimer: Go with HTML instead. As soon as you even try to position photos, you need HTML and CSS haha. Mine was a bit too simple but I was optimizing for absolute lowest friction possible to writing & publishing.
There's a lot of artists who write music that's inspired by chiptune or has chiptune instruments but is not pure chiptune -- they use modern production techniques, don't limit themselves to specific hardware, and often combine chiptune elements with modern instruments.

I agree that there's something special about music composed with the limitations of a platform in mind, but there's also something special about music that's not constrained by these limitations and just uses chiptune hardware as an audio production tool. They both have their place, some people will prefer one or the other, and that's fine. Making a tracker configurable like this makes it useful for both times of music.

Some examples of "unconstrained" chiptune-style artists:

Anamanaguchi: https://youtube.com/watch?v=cppRxHfmY403D https://youtube.com/watch?v=gpzAaJ1ikZ0

Lindsay Lowend: https://youtube.com/watch?v=EZjt9Jl3GGA

Fearofdark: https://youtube.com/watch?v=R4N_YrnUTC4
The combination with a different decision to remove the statute of limitations for new companies on old regulations does indeed make this a bit of a "doom" scenario. The courts are already backing up with these lawsuits, and it's going to only get worse.

It won't stop agencies from creating new regulations, but it's going to make enforcement depend entirely on the court that the lawsuits are filed in, and how backed up their caseload is.

The US isn't the same as it was 40 years ago.
The big question is, e-ink screens, how are they?
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did we need "machine learning" for this? is machine learning becoming the new term for basic statistics?
Something doesnt seem right. This website loads fine on Chrome's inspector design previews, but looks broken here:

https://viewport-tester.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fespncricinfo....
Searching for life to confirm would only be useful if you have lots of pocket change. We all know life exists outside the solar system, only the biggest ego maniacs will truly believe humans are the only life in the universe
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This is a neat perspective. I’ve heard conversation on how working with different programming languages affects how you code (“learn Haskell, it’ll make you think more functionally!”) but for some reason I never connected it to the linguistic side of things.

I remember learning about the effects of language on cognition in a psychology course I took a while ago, it’s interesting to think about how that could apply more broadly.
This totally isn't true.

Some languages make refactoring easier and some make it harder. FP languages make it easier
They risked one of the greatest public goods in the history of humanity on a battle that everyone knew they would lose.

That's not an admirable underdog fight and it's not a glorious martyrdom, it's at best a naive slip up and at worst an ignoble organizational suicide attempt.

Change isn't going to happen because people recklessly throw themselves against the draconian laws and get annihilated by them—it will happen when people strategically set up a battle that they can win or persuade Congress to fix it.
And so can all the other endpoints if they're not encrypting downstream traffic
I’m still kind of bummed that I can’t do a trip to eastern Oregon without renting a car. Even John Day is still iffy, I hope we can get more charging off the beaten track soon.
> A cool feature for sure, but, kind of ruins the whole concept of that a chiptune is.

It's called a band, or an orchestra. Or a guitar effect. Or using a brush instead of a stick to play the drums. Or defretting a guitar. Or a happy accident during recording that produces a unique tone.

An instrument has a limitation. Artist can work with, or around the limitation. It may no longer be "chiptune as you know it", but that's essentially how new genres are born - you can't discriminate creativity.
>Every new service and platform that contains social features — which is most of them — will support the ActivityPub protocol within the next few years. Service owners can use it to easily avoid the “cold start” problem when creating new networks, and to plug their existing platforms into a ready-made network of hundreds of millions of people. Publishers will use it to reach their audiences more easily. And it’s where the global conversation will be held.

This is spoken like someone with technical vision, not product vision.

Content owners don't want these networks shared. The data inherent - who follows who, what the pause over when scrolling, etc. - is where the value is and companies don't want to give that up.

I've worked in app platforms before, specifically trying to build this kind of "follow the entities you want across platforms, your network is unified" solution, and the companies do not want this and will not play ball. The users don't care about this - at least nowhere near as much as they care about being on the apps where their friends or the content they want to create is.
This is something we seriously considered. The SQLite dbs are several hundred megabytes in size (millions of IP ranges) so while it would be technically doable to send around rules files as JSON or something more specifically suited there's still a number of wins that SQLite gives us:

- Really strong support across multiple platforms (we have clients for most of the major web frameworks)

- Efficiency, sure we have lots of RAM on servers nowdays but on some platforms it's constrained and if you don't have to burn it, we'd just rather not.

- When we started mapping this out, we ended up with something that looked like a JSON format that we were adding indexes to....and then we were re-inventing SQLite.
Great find! I'll create an issue for this one. I'm guessing it's related to the media queries that are taking place (or possibly, JS). Will track this one and comment on your reply again once it's fixed.
I really just want to know the time frame you where thinking of when you wrote "until recently this was considered good design."

I would also like to what you think changed that general consideration.
Radian Aerospace completes ground tests of prototype space plane
At the university level you have tenured professors, who don’t need to secure a good academic job, and adjuncts, who do. I suppose some professors suffer from insecurity and make their classes difficult on purpose, but at the risk of failing too many students and losing enrollments, which will reflect poorly on the teacher.

Perhaps the students don’t want the challenge and hard work. I noticed that in my time at university. I wondered why some of the students bothered to pay for college since they put little effort into the work.

In 1964 Vladimir Nabokov, a former professor at Cornell, made his famous comment about the “The great fraternity of C-minus, backbone of the nation, steadily scribbling on.” Nabokov certainly did not need to polish his reputation.

I gave up teaching—that’s about all in the way of change. Mind you, I loved teaching, I loved Cornell, I loved composing and delivering my lectures on Russian writers and European great books. But around 60, and especially in winter, one begins to find hard the physical process of teaching, the getting up at a fixed hour every other morning, the struggle with the snow in the driveway, the march through long corridors to the classroom, the effort of drawing on the blackboard a map of James Joyce’s Dublin or the arrangement of the semi-sleeping car of the St. Petersburg-Moscow express in the early 1870s—without an understanding of which neither Ulysses nor Anna Karenina, respectively, makes sense.

For some reason my most vivid memories concern examinations. Big amphitheater in Goldwin Smith. Exam from 8 a.m. to 10:30. About 150 students—unwashed, unshaven young males and reasonably well-groomed young females. A general sense of tedium and disaster. Half-past eight. Little coughs, the clearing of nervous throats, coming in clusters of sound, rustling of pages. Some of the martyrs plunged in meditation, their arms locked behind their heads. I meet a dull gaze directed at me, seeing in me with hope and hate the source of forbidden knowledge. Girl in glasses comes up to my desk to ask: “Professor Kafka, do you want us to say that…? Or do you want us to answer only the first part of the question?” The great fraternity of C-minus, backbone of the nation, steadily scribbling on. A rustic arising simultaneously, the majority turning a page in their bluebooks, good teamwork. The shaking of a cramped wrist, the failing ink, the deodorant that breaks down. When I catch eyes directed at me, they are forthwith raised to the ceiling in pious meditation. Windowpanes getting misty. Boys peeling off sweaters. Girls chewing gum in rapid cadence. Ten minutes, five, three, time’s up.

Imagine the privilege of taking a literature course from Nabokov then fussing over the grading curve. Sadly I doubt many students in Ivy league schools today would even recognize Nabokov’s name.
There is something really powerful about using the same tools professional developers are using, as an 11 year old.

FWIW, I started modding UE1 games at about 12. Starting from something was nice, but it was otherwise accessible enough. And BP just makes it more so.
This doesn't seem aware of the non-MLS or local-only MLS markets quite common in high value areas.
I mean, I miss silly flash games and 0 other applications of flash. I can see why people miss it from a creator point of view, but it was extremely annoying in general.
Totally understand the need to curate free time.

> If the answer is "no, and we feel the view is fine", then just say that. I might not agree with your choices but it's not going to stop me using the app. ;P

It's more "no, and i can't understand the spacing problems which you're describing, and i'm wondering if you're on a strange aspect ratio screen or have zoomed the dynamictype lots or are RTL language or some other edge case that we haven't considered, so i'd like to see a screenshot to understand what you're seeing and if we're on the same page".

> > the green box sounds like an accessibility helper feature of some kind which has got confused?

> You mean in Element X itself?

Nope, in iOS

> I have no accessibility features enabled on my devices, so I doubt it's an OS-level control in the way.

Huh. this really sounds like Button Shapes in iOS (https://osxdaily.com/2014/06/25/enable-button-shapes-ios/) or similar - and it getting confused by the fancy half-rust-half-SwiftUI rich text editor that EX has.
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So malicious blocking is when the one doing the blocking is trolling?

Is it really better if you are able to continue viewing “conversation” from someone who is acting maliciously towards you?

Social media is like a relationship. If either person decides they don’t want to be in the relationship, the healthiest thing is for both to leave the relationship.

It doesn’t make sense for one person to leave but the other person to stay
I'm told there is a growing trend of men wearing "women's" clothing. Perhaps the eventual outcome is that we will all wear the same thing (whatever women consider to be fashionable)?
> But if PPA can show that advertising can function without surveillance

It cannot show that advertising can function without surveillance because PPA is surveillance (with privacy enhancements built in).

If it succeeds, it means that surveillance will be even further baked into things.
This Forbes article from 2017 seemed to hit the nail on the head, regarding their outsourcing to India being a major problem: https://www.forbes.com/sites/panosmourdoukoutas/2017/10/06/i...
OpenAI plans data centers each requiring city-scale power
I have a nearly identical issue. Do you recall the diagnosis? Also, when you do the wipes how "deep" do you go when wiping the lids?
Researchers are not sure about the thickness of the ice on Europa. Some scientists believe on a thick shell of 20Km (like Pappalardo) others on a much thinner of even 1Km or less.
I also love this visualization and remember being blown away when I first saw it!

Two notes:
1. These “stringlines” are also known as Time-Space Diagrams in the transit industry, and they’ve been around for a while. e.g. https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Time-space-diagrams-of-t...

In fact Vibien cites as inspiration the official NYCT stringline paper: https://www.worldtransitresearch.info/research/5936/

2. I’ve noticed that at least on the A, the viz is inaccurate? It’s missing a lot of trains.
Dropping a lump of plutonium on the heads of the inhabitants of Europa might be seen as an unfriendly act!
:)
Cloudflare Introduces Speed Brain to Instantly Make Web Pages 45% Faster
First time I heard someone asking for that. But I do indeed have that for my own blog and love it: https://www.splitbrain.org/

And if you're into random blog post, be sure to check out my project https://indieblog.page/
I replaced my Google fiber ONT by cloning the network parameters into a cheap SFP one because the Google supplied one only supports gigabit Ethernet but uses 2.5/1.25gbit optics. The upgrade reduced latency a small, but measurable amount, and improved my NTP jitter.
So you think we can always just tax them more, and they would accept that? That's equally absurd.

It's obvious that we can tax them a bit, but if we tax them too much they use their power to stop it. That power manifests in many ways. It can be to give money to right wing politicians, or it can be to move to lower-tax regimes. But anyway it's clear that there is not an unlimited pot of rich/corporate tax money out there ready for the picking without resistance.
I suppose I'm referring to people with established credit. I know when I was 22, I already had 7 years of credit history and was maxed out at 1k, then they upped it. I reached 2k at one point. I constantly received laters for credit cards, pre-approved. At the time, I'd transfer it over at 0% for a year, paying like 3% transfer fee or something like that. Started with Cap1, got offers from Citi and Chase on the regular. I had friends whose parents were doing this that eventually filed for bankruptcy. So I know first hand it works and that it's obviously a problem. If you have no credit history, then yeah, you can't do this but it's doable.

I'm not saying to do this but it's how it works. Some people have kids, give them lines of credit before their of legal age then start massing credit on their name and rinse and repeat their game on the kids credit.
Things might have changed since 2013, but the user is this post had their SFML game rejected by the mac store because of the menu bar not meeting spec.
https://en.sfml-dev.org/forums/index.php?PHPSESSID=ce5jim0on...

I just don't want to put all the effort into a cross platform app for it to be rejected for the same reason.
No it isn't. HTTP/3 was open-washed through the IETF by Google and Microsoft employees. Corporate needs shaped the next era of the web. And it's not even TCP. The next era of the web can't even connect to a webserver unless that web server gets continued regular permission to exist from a third party corporation (CA TLS only, no self signing, no plain text).

Regarding activitypub itself: it is a very heavy protocol that can only operate with cryptographic signing of communications. That means you need to be running an active program to compute the cryptography. Activitypub cannot be implemented statically like many better social web protocols can (ie, indieweb webmention). That means activitypub websites are fragile and won't last more than a few years without active maintainence. This is bad for the long term health of the web created by human persons.

I sure hope this activitypub-centric "Social web foundation" doesn't take over for the W3C like they say. But even if they do, it's too late, W3C's role was already taken over by the corporate run WHATWG years ago.
About time. It was always the weirdest "block" considering you could just log out and see the posts, even giving the wrong image of the posts being publicly hidden because no other platform did that
Take a perfectly smooth animation, add a fast-looking synchronous function call in the animation loop, get some jank. A modern GPU, even integrated into a CPU as usual on laptops, is ridiculously fast for the task of showing a globe, something like 100k triangles at worst. But you need to feed it on time.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41643991
If you've got the power (enough karma) to flag you also have the power to vouch. If you log into your profile and turn on the showdead flag you can rescue these worthwhile submissions.
Their interest in maps has transcended space time as your or I know it, now they only think about the 6-dimensional manifold of all possible maps embedded in The Cube.
Rust in Linux 6.12 Prepares for Rust Binder, Supports Sanitizers CPU Mitigations
I completely agree. There is a smart way to do renewables, and then there is the moronic California way.

For example requiring every new house to have enough rooftop solar.

Rooftop solar is one of the highest cost sources and we already have an excess of daytime solar.

It ignores basic economies of scale.

It adds a huge cost to every new house in a housing crisis.

I don't think it is cynical to think it was simply a handout to the rooftop solar installers.
That's an interesting take, but I'm not sold. It sounds a bit like claiming to be a family of firefighters because your grandpa participated in a drill once, passing along empty buckets.
Hi, developer of the app here. If you don't mind me asking, what is the biggest thing missing from the app that keeps it from being useful?
California Bans All Plastic Bags After Its First Effort Backfired
Yes, though I'd also say that Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks have similar (TNG) vibes to The Orville.

And I'd put all of Picard in the same bucket as Discovery. The characters in each of those felt like someone saw the fan-made Star Trek Renegades and pitched the core ideas with a bigger budget. And I expect more of that with the Section 31 show.
It's chicken and egg at this point.

Having an EV requires charging at home. People that can't charge at home don't buy an EV. People that would charge in a parking lot don't have an EV.

Public charging has really stagnated in the last 5 years.
For people who want to learn biochemsistry and subsequently be in awe and the complexity and mechanisms, there's a great beginner book, The Machinery of Life. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6601267-the-machinery-of...

I found my way there after an Alan Kay video -- OPSLA 1997 - The computer revolution hasnt happened yet: https://youtu.be/oKg1hTOQXoY?t=1787

On the subject of awe, here's another from Kurszsegat - The Most Complex Language in the World: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYPFenJQciw
> a SQLite database file which is then replaced on a scheduled basis.

You could look into WAL replication if you wanted an efficient way to update the copies. Something like Litestream.
Won't oh someone think of the enterprise!
Is UltraAV the CIA? They would be interested in 1 Million US customers which used Kaspersky before.
Google Issues Microsoft Antitrust Complaint in the EU