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Narann··on Linux 7.3
Congrat for your patch. Would you mind sharin the merge mail?
Narann··on RimWorld 1.7 moves from Unity to Ludeon's in-house Waylith engine
Mmh, impossible is maybe too strong.

> RimWorld isn’t the only game on Waylith. We’re working on something new! It may be a little while before we can share more details, but we couldn’t resist telling you.

I suspect Waylith is in dev since long time on this new project and they pushed it to make it prod proof before pushing the game further.

A statement about AI could be great, yes.

Narann··on Ogre Battle 64 Recompiled Project at 99.05%
IIRC, EU have some laws protecting "interoperability", i.e. making a program work on other platforms. I suspect decompiling is considered as "interoperability".
Narann··on France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US
Fun fact: In french, Github, is pronounced « Guy Teube », where « Teube » is the backslang of « Bite », which can be literally translated by “Dick”.

So to give an example, is as if English speaking peoples would use a service named “Davedick”.

Narann··on What Most People Miss About Getting Promoted
Many executives consider managing peoples is harder than managing machines, and that having many people working together have a better value than a single person.

As such, many want a raise, but no-one want to manage peoples and have responsibilities that involve human factor (state otherwise, it is easier to be sure about the result of your own work than the work of your whole team). That’s the reason why it is easier to ask for a raise as a manager than a single coder.

Narann··on Keep Android Open
In this case, it was precisely the act of "allow nazis" that led Google to its current situation.

People aren't stupid, but the fact that Google is in this situation proves that we should have been less naive.

Narann··on Wealth tax would be deadly for French economy, says Europe's richest man
> LVMH owner Bernard Arnault, who could take €1bn hit, says proposed 2% levy ‘aims to destroy liberal economy’

I don't know why what Bernard Arnault says is on HN, he has no competencies in economy.

No dumb rich-hate here, simply that Bernard Arnault is definitely not best person to talk about the subject.

Narann··on Long Term Support
The second sentence is also very good to see:

> Our aim is to produce timeless code that will be readable, understandable, and maintainable by programmers who have not yet been born.

Narann··on I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad
I’ve never been a fan on ThinkPad looks, until I get a second hand one, in 2014. It had 4GB or RAM and starts to have hard time with browsing, so few month ago, I bought 16GB for 20€. I’m almost sure It could live for 5 or 10 years.

My only complain is Ctrl cap sensor having some inconsistencies, I have to push strong on it.

For the rest I consider ThinkPad as the way to go for second hand.

Narann··on You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a legacy project (2023)
One of my most educational personal project has been to update a ten y/o mupen64plus OpenGL plugin (Rice) to OpenGLES for RPi.

So much code that looks weird that I had dig in a lot and finally understood why this tiny piece of non-sense code is actually what make the whole system working, and think about how smart the previous dev was and how dumb I would have solve the problem myself.

Narann··on The year I didn't survive
> Friends have told me that they’re relieved I seem “like myself” even after everything that’s happened. I don’t understand how that’s possible when I frequently don’t feel like I have a self to be. Jake and I became so entangled in these last few years that it still seems like many of my thoughts belong to both of us.

I can only recommend to read « Éloge de l'amour » from Alain Badiou (and Nicolas Truong). It defends love as a conscientious and willing alterity of yourself, but a non-controlled alterity, an alterity puts in the hands of another.

That’s why, I think, people does not help that much someone that lost a love saying him/her will be more focused on them-self. Because the lost was absolute part of them-self, and not something they actually suffer from.

Narann··on First time a Blender-made production has won the Golden Globe
I had the chance to work with Léo at its first job (Princes et Princesses from Michel Ocelot). It’s a wonderful guy, very fun and pleasant to work with.

TBH, the rest of the Ocelot’s team was the smoother peoples I had opportunity to work with.

Narann··on The 10x developer makes their whole team better
To continue the analogy: Rock stars want to rock, not to teach music.
Narann··on SSSL – Hackless SSL bypass for the Wii U
All of this is weird. Leaving a SSL CA open to anyone ~~the day official servers are close~~.

EDIT: Bug exists since 1 march 2021.

At first, it seems nice. But its impossible that Nintendo being nice in anyway, and even less more by adding a bug. This, and Pretendo that seems to expect the bug before the release.

I find this really suspicious.

Narann··on The design philosophy of Great Tables
Nothing in the product page explains how you generate the HTML code and/or the image.
Narann··on The road to hell is paved with asphalt
I suspect asphalt has some important gains on the security side, especially with ABS.

I’m surprised security is not discussed at all here.

Narann··on Fossil is quitting smartwatches
Wanted to say the same. Don’t get too much expectation on the feature side, but its a no-bullshit hardware. 25 days without charging, I can accept/refuse my calls, read messages and one of the dumbest yet most useful day to day feature is light my path inside my home without turning on lights and annoy the rest of my family.
Narann··on Qt Widgets Rendering Pipeline
I didn’t know AGG library this article is referring to. It seems to have a big legacy yet not much is known about the author.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Grain_Geometry

Narann··on AMD's New Threadripper Chips Have a Hidden Fuse That Blows When Overclocking
Does it means that CoreCtrl can blow the fuse when underclocking? I’m doing this to avoid my CPU push the fans when doing casual browsing.
Narann··on An Open Letter to the Python Software Foundation
>> Political pluralism should be the default.

> Agreed.

> But that doesn't mean that EVERY and ALL political view should be respected.

Exactly, the difference is called “relativism”.

Narann··on Unity Software to cut 3.8% of staff in 'company reset'
> internal tools are both very advanced and also fragile foot guns if you try to do anything that isn’t exactly down the golden path.

HT: That’s also an important point explained when we talk about internal VS commercial (or build VS buy) in the animation/VFX industry.

Internal softwares does less than 5% (or less) of commercial products, but they are doing it in a straight, fab compatibility way. No effort is made in making the tool working with your fab, the tool is shaped for the fab from scratch. That’s the value of internal tools. Converting those is viable product is very risky.

Narann··on Raspberry Pi receives strategic investment from Arm
We arrive to the point that anything RPi touch see a massive foundation solidification.

Even if RPi release an electronic RISC-V hardware, this foundation solidification would harm ARM on the long run.

Narann··on Why is Debian the way it is?
Have you anything to point? I don’t remember any non-sense in packaging a deb.
Narann··on Clearview doesn't let Europeans delete themselves anymore
> The libdvdcss thing is probably just the French being awkward in that way they love to do; if it had been the UK they would have rolled over without a word of complaint.

As much as we have fun co-bulling with UK, this statement does not make sense.

Allowing libdvdcss is consistent with a long story about the medium/support/distribution not being legally sanctified against the content. Beyond the chiming about entertaining content (MP3/MP4 VS CD/DVD), the point is to never let anyone/anything (individuals, professionals, and most important public services), being locked to a particular support if their think its not in there interest. Before the DRM mess, this has been a source of problem when some software editors fall down and we had billions of documents in a closed format and some research project to convert those files back to something readable (which is kind of non-sense). If support and distribution sucks, you should not being locked to it and can choose to invest time and money to change it. The simple fact you are ready to invest in unlocking yourself is almost considered good enough. The “Cour de cassation” (most important juridical instance) always decides in favor of content owner than content distributor. I suspect the globalization makes those statement even more important as you don’t want your public service to be locked down to software solution of another country.

I don’t think it’s that much award. Many countries are doing the same and some considers copyright as an American soft power, especially for softwares. Content openness is such a thing it has modified the way even big software companies are making money.

Hope this helps.

Narann··on OpenAI is too cheap to beat
OpenAI is not cheap, it’s selling at lost.
Narann··on Why is Debian the way it is?
> the .deb ecosystem still feels like its stuck in the late 90s linux era to me.

Can you elaborate, please? What do you mean by this?

Narann··on Epic Games is laying off 16% of its staff
To return a feel of stability and contrast with your main competitor at a moment everyone is reassessing it’s technological choices.

Epic actually shows its business model is doubtful.

Narann··on Unreal Engine Pricing Changes
Unreal for VFX is hard to scale, but have some interesting iterative advantages. If Godot is the alternative, VFX will likely fall back to path tracing.
Narann··on Epic Games is laying off 16% of its staff
Just after Unity reveal they have no long term plan. That was fast.
Narann··on VCMI: Open-Source Engine for Heroes of Might and Magic III
When H3 released, I expected H2 colored art with more pixels, but have been disappointed by the CG-like approach with undersaturated colors.

H2 keeps a hand colored vib.

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