maxlin

You are troll, No I will not elaborate, I don't feed fakers

Very interesting readup! I have some C# projects I've had in mind to try to compile to AOT. Quite different for complex programs of course, but the perf being very close to C is a great motivator.

Projecting? As I pointed out, Your other comment is literally unrepliable-to. I don't think I've even seen such cratering on this site before. Hell, the site's CSS makes your message almost impossible to read without copy-pasting it somewhere else first.

My messages are fact-based, I work in the industry and everything I create is of universal value. You instead just spam bullshit and slop links. YOU saying I don't argue in good faith is hilarious; but that doesn't mean I keep my standard merely _above you_, given how far down you've gone.

I don't need to follow your crazy tangent-driving and Buzzfeed-tier spam and attacking everyone capable of validly criticizing you. What you talk about has no grounding on how things get done, it's just a crazy man's collection of news clippings as if you were a fanatic fan to some singer. You are the kind of person who'll never be capable of creating value, just at best transferring it, with great loss in efficiency.

I'd tell you to leave the industry but I'm happy no notice that you already haven't been in a position to destroy more good work in a long time. Pie menus as one's life's work, LOL

I think you proved yourself wrong by saying "appealing to a subset of people, is NOT universal". (Though, "appealing to straight people" isn't an actual thing, as there's hardly anything that gays dislike that straights like. There's no things one could break universal appeal with by putting in things that straight people generally like.)

Exactly. You can make a game with cars in it, with jumping in it, with nice pastel colors in it, and there's no large group in the world that will decidedly dislike those. But when you start doing woke catering of whatever minority themes for example, as you said, the game loses its universal appeal. Often, to even those minority groups too, as such forcing is almost always extremely inauthentic, patronizing them and insulting their intelligence. The obtuse Veilguard clips being shared recently really drive this home. Game might as well make you play Hitler "correctly" at that point, a total universal appeal suicide.

Before you say "but I don't like those men/muslims/women/terfs/gays/dog eaters/dog loving people!!!", that kind of argument is EXACTLY what disqualifies something from universal appeal. This is not hard.

That's like saying the only way to experience happiness is to cut your leg off because someone somewhere has a fetish of wanting to live in a wheelchair.

No. Universal appeal means that something is liked by generally everyone, obviously without having issues that make it disliked by a ton. Like, idk, Mario Bros. Or water. Very few people dislike those. Basically everyone likes them. Straight people, gays, women, old people, young people, etc etc. Obviously your "but no it has to be gay and yellow and have a MAGA hat on and speak in tongues" kind of line of constraints only reduces the size of the group said thing appeals to.

Good thing is that in real life, universal appeal is also good business. And many companies doing stupid shit because some loud idiots that might not even be interested in the product itself told them to make it x

I so wish they didn't. We got plenty of forest, but them having acted too fast here will just lead to more irrational anti-datacenter sentiment.

<DonHopkins

Damn. I feel bad for a guy who has dug himself in such a deep hole they can't even hope to see the light ever again. Just Putinist tier firehose non-arguments one after each other. Like blaming firemen for fires. The point where a game developer starts blaming gamers, you know they have nothing positive to contribute anymore.

Now he got downvoted so hard I can't even reply to him directly. Maybe that's for the better. I tend to always put effort to responding to effort, even if said effort is unhealthy, but not even temporarily vouching for him will make his comment repliable now ...

You're talking about this like it's a programming problem. I work in games, and I can tell you it absolutely is not.

What do you even think I mean with "breaking teams" ? Harmony is hard to get back.

I work in games and have enough eye for things that are put in to fit, and what things are forced in, in the way I described.

I think you know and just play stupid.

The worst thing a developer can do is to take a side, then change it. It would be REALLY naive to think they'd just get back to zero doing that.

No. That's why serious studios put serious effort to try to avoid politics by a country mile.

I didn't support my country joining NATO either. Even voted against the president we had for 8 years for his 'strategic ambiguity' on it. But now that we've chosen to join, it's obvious we can't really change the situation or go back neutral, even while Trump is doing breaking ranks doing deals with Putin, which makes the whole NATO situation look silly.

Tell me you don't know what the word means without telling.

Love the power button nubbin doing the hard work

infamy*

bet it was written in PHP

Welp. Time to consider some redundancy for my own domains ...

Nah you're just projecting your own lack of foresight

You are free to think whatever ignorant thoughts about "people like me". I follow the whole field quite a bit, so I know what I'm saying when I say FSD has no real competition. For someone with a surface level image like you, it might look like there's a lot, but they are like Via to Intel. Or Google+ to Facebook.

No one else has the combination for affordability, custom silicon, deep hardware integration, market fit, manufacturing, and vertical integration like Tesla. Some people have some of the parts. Like NVIDIA. or Waymo. Or Comma.ai. But no one is even close to being in the same ballpark in ALL the areas required, and that has no easy fixes.

EU being corrupt and regulating themselves to the stone age is sad, but only makes them less relevant for the world of tomorrow.

Imagine thinking this means anything but that he's a chronically optimistic over-achiever.

FSD has no real competition in its capability and market fit.

This is what the Roadster is. You will see Roadsters in random parking lots, not just specialized areas, like it would be with the flying pinto (which failed) or some newer options that compromise arguably way too much to have long-term flight WITH driveability.

Your definition for "flying" is hard irrelevant. Any toy plane that we do call "flying" flies only for seconds, but has concepts like lift / and / or thrust and / or aerial control thru different ways like aerodynamic stability or in-air thrust. So did the first aeroplane too. Hell, even hyper-maneuvering multi-mach air-to-air missiles just "jump" with your worthless definition of "flight".

That's like commenting about needing a Chromebook on a post the newest Blackwell GPU that can serve inference workloads of thousands of people. Just irrelevant.

Tesla's efforts on the original Roadster made them be able to transform the whole EV industry to the point that EV's are nowadays actually affordable. Not everything is exactly about your specific needs, and you shouldn't shout people down when they're lifting the whole field.

It accelerates and maneuvers in-air, that is not a "jump". It legit flies.

This is not some suden demo, this is something they've promised and talked of along time ago and has been in development the whole time.

And Tesla is all about manufacturing so mistaking this for some "prototype-only" device is misled.

He literally made good on the long time promise of FLYING CARS and this is not the top post????

this site just toast

It's a small indie company, give them another 20 years and I'm sure they'll manage to get such basic things working ...

Obviously you picked a part that is the most expensive part of it by far, and a clone could just have a little bit smaller screen, even with the same resolution, to case for that, and the efficient price would never go beyond 50$ in any case. What I said about the devkits I've developed for is 100% true. The price is ~30$ with the screen, SoC, microphones, etc etc ALL peripherals, packaging, actually good documentation including datasheets and multiple example projects for TWO whole different ecosystems.

Nintendo's economies of scale is irrelevant here as A. They obviously have enormous markup compared to hardware price, because they can, and B. Those waveshare devkits aren't built with insane numbers, but they manage to keep their prices down very well.

These are just some of the examples I was talking about https://www.waveshare.com/esp32-touch-lcd-3.5.htm https://www.waveshare.com/esp32-s3-touch-lcd-3.5.htm?sku=309... https://www.waveshare.com/esp32-s3-touch-amoled-2.06.htm?sku...

To put nails down the coffin of the argument about "economies of scale" here, just check how many alternative devkits they have. I'm sure that some of these have barely sold to triple digits. But the quality has been good for all I've seen from them https://www.waveshare.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=touch+esp3...

And for the "retro emulation" hardware that goes way beyond in specs but stays at ~50$: https://anbernic.com/products/rg35xx

Panic has had their fun. Time to commoditize the ecosystem.

Most normal people that have a noticeable internet presence are there, as are those that would like to avoid places like Reddit, Truth Social or BlueSky which either have been founded as, or have became tribal drum houses.

These days, I feel like it might even be better than HN, due to both HN decaying a bit (it's still strong) and X getting better, especially due to a better fitting algorithm that gets me all relevant industry stuff while not having massive deadspots.

Funniest is, you can hit every single mine with no drawbacks.

I feel like there's some reference to the recent Wolverine game and it's unfailable driving sequences in that ...

>Peak extinctionist talk is to pretend we can go see what's beyond the mountains, especially without solving all our cave problems first, as we can only ever launch such a lofty expedition from the cave.

>Also, going past the mountains is a pipe dream for people that know more about children's tales than _actually_ going from the cave to the nearby shore.

I already like him for his previous, immense technological achievements. Go preach your ignorant hate somewhere else in the cave you live in.

Your math is off ~10x. The devkits I've developed for are literally 20-30$, both in 3.5 inch screen format, or smartwatch format, with a case, touchscreen, buttons, battery, realtime OS, RTC, wifi, tons of GPIO's etc. Only hardware things playdate has on top is marginally higher build quality, the swivel (that most games don't use) 10-20MB more RAM. Their decision to have a greyscale screen also saves them money, instead of a common full color one like those 30$ devkits have.

So it is beyond obvious that Playdate's price does not even closely match their bill of materials.

Even if you went up in power to a full Linux machine with 1GB+ of ram, there are obvious examples of devices like that like the RG3588 class. I have one, and it works nicely as a linux box running any software one can get running on aarch64 linux. Mine is relatively fancy and with postage cost me ~100$, but you can get a more "basic" one that is still way beyond Playdate on a hardware level, for about 40$.

What playdate has is a walled garden. I don't like walled gardens. Especially this far from release.

You comparing to Nintendo's first-party joycon pricing, I'm not sure you understand how deep walled gardens can be.