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slikrick··on John Riccitiello steps down as CEO of Unity
most of the 2d ones are looking to Godot
slikrick··on Homebrew to deprecate and add caveat for HashiCorp
did you miss the memo?
slikrick··on How to compete with Patreon
on the contrary, it's completely unsurprising that the literal only critique to be found of the video on HN (a site made by and for VC) to write off the entire video because of one of the errors.

maybe reflect inwards a bit more

slikrick··on My personal C coding style as of late 2023
gasp blasphemy! C programmers literally can't have nice things
slikrick··on My personal C coding style as of late 2023
if you like typing _, go ahead, but it's not 1 key press and shouldn't be treated as a keystroke like the letter a...
slikrick··on My personal C coding style as of late 2023
so... what I'm seeing is that C got it wrong relative to the way things actually work and get used.

the fact that you had to have tribal knowledge about all of this is why C shouldn't stay for the long term and we should phase out languages into ones with stronger more correct defaults.

would a new programmer use "long long"? would they notice immediately that things didn't work if they didn't use it?

Rust got it correct by labeling the bits with the type directly

slikrick··on The FTC sues to break up Amazon over an economy-wide “hidden tax”
you can't use 99% of apple services on Android. no apple maps, no find my, no iMessage, no apple calendar, no reminders.

nobody forces people to use windows either, but yet a company having 60% of the global phone market is pretty comparable considering that's literally probably more phones than people actively using windows daily

slikrick··on USB inventor explains why the connector was not designed to be reversible (2019)
and that can happen with literally every cable, people have abused USB-A and RJ45 for many decades...
slikrick··on USB inventor explains why the connector was not designed to be reversible (2019)
USBC has been out for over a decade, have you ever run into 2)
slikrick··on USB inventor explains why the connector was not designed to be reversible (2019)
That doesn't help vertical orientation of USB-As
slikrick··on It's Cheaper to Live on a Boat Than Rent an Apartment in These U.S. Cities
that's a large assumption, instead of assuming that the boats were already paying taxes as they already existed in the waters before, and the government saw an opportunity to get more tax money from people who couldn't argue otherwise.
slikrick··on Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month
or get bought out by an advertising agency
slikrick··on Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month
if you don't want to install a browser extension then safari having customizable search engines wouldn't help you anyways. you would need to login to the account which is additionally functionality that wouldn't be provided without the extensioj
slikrick··on Terraria developer bashes Unity, donates $200k to open source alternatives
native console support does not just mean compiling to console architectures
slikrick··on Terraria developer bashes Unity, donates $200k to open source alternatives
GPL doesn't require upstream to take in features from PRs/Forks, that's a complete misunderstanding of the license and fairly laughable
slikrick··on Terraria developer bashes Unity, donates $200k to open source alternatives
correct. GPL zealots completely ignore usecases that are incompatible though
slikrick··on Terraria developer bashes Unity, donates $200k to open source alternatives
you would need to release those assets for the project to be buildable under the GPL. you can't just not provide build assets
slikrick··on Terraria developer bashes Unity, donates $200k to open source alternatives
you do realize the GPL is completely incompatible with games right?

if a developer sells a game they must then provide the code to build the game, then the person can distribute that code to everyone else, bypassing the need to pay for a game.

It literally makes the need for cracking unnecessary, which I agree with, but I'm not going to pretend like any game company is going to release their source code in the year 2023... intentionally

slikrick··on The Death of Unity
what about it?
slikrick··on Brian Bucklew Porting Caves of Qud from Unity to Godot
no, a rendering engine just handles rendering, they listed multiple other things. don't conflate your definition to mean more than it actually literally does.

using game engine's builtins for the things you don't want to abstract yourself makes complete sense, keep the game to "game logic"

slikrick··on Modder Turns Framework Laptop PCB into a Handheld Gaming PC
indeed. and it's why in certain areas the steam deck can do better than counterparts like the ROG Ally
slikrick··on Memory-efficient enum arrays in Zig
it's not at all about "quality of programmer" and you should never reduce extremely vague arguments to that. it's literally about time for quality program to be made an completed.

those C++ emulators have often been in development for 3-5x as long as a similar Rust one.

slikrick··on RustRover – A standalone Rust IDE
lol, it literally doesn't change the resource allocation, just makes it a cash grab instead of open
slikrick··on Tell HN: JPMorgan Chase forcing arbitration agreement to log in
that's why all these companies are adding arbitration clauses, obviously. because it helps people and they give out more money with them versus normal lawsuits.
slikrick··on David Tolnay on the "RustConf Keynote Fiasco"
it's very weird of you to basically only call out the above user's actions of... being in the thread, and not the actual merits of what they're saying.

many of us will laugh at you as well, because you don't add anything to the conversation but pretend like you do

slikrick··on Ask HN: Is paid search-engine model like Kagi viable?
Not until they offer a privacy respecting way to pay like mullvad
slikrick··on Portal 64 – A demake of Portal for the Nintendo 64
and here you are commenting on HN. Nobody asked for your input on how others spend their time
slikrick··on ISPs should not police online speech no matter how awful it is
where are they attacking and maligning the user? they're clearly stating important background information for readers
slikrick··on ISPs should not police online speech no matter how awful it is
do people here consider comment moderation to be online speech policing? Seems pretty clear that there are certain things hosts don't want on their platform

there's an economic bottom line where advertisers drive a lot of the need as well. users themselves aren't paying for the service.

slikrick··on ISPs should not police online speech no matter how awful it is
it's value proposition looks exactly the same as it did before because literally nothing has changed
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