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You're talking about the minimum necessary for just drawing a triangle, as if that's what "hello triangle" means. That's nothing. That's pointless.

The construction of hello triangle program marks the end of setup, and the beginning of actual work.

Skipping parts because they're boilerplate, or don't directly serve to draw the triangle, defeats the purpose. That's like typing the words "hello world" into notepad because it's faster than setting up an IDE.

Drawing a triangle is not the end goal. That's nonsense.

Ground textures, cliffs, and ramps are tiles.[1] A heightmap modifies tile corners.[2] Everything else is an individually-placed object.

[1] https://www.hiveworkshop.com/attachments/wc3search-tutorial0...

[2] https://www.hiveworkshop.com/attachments/15-jpg.7734/

I think a service should focus on how it provides value to users, not the other way around. People use it because of what it provides to them, not because they desire to support the company's bottom line.

GitHub built a remarkably valuable product, which attracted 100M users and $1B in revenue. It has tons of public features that never required login. They could have put search, or any number of other things, behind a login at any point in the last 15 year. But they didn't, because that's not actually a good thing to do. Doing that can only ever make the feature less usable.

What drives them to do it now is unclear. Perhaps just wanting to juice their login numbers or whatever. But, performing little bait-and-switches on random features isn't going to make people use them more or spend more money. It's going to make them seek hedges against the destruction of the features they enjoy.

As for my link, the search result speed for users is directly related to cost per query, unless you believe that all of this is fake and the new search system is secretly just a bunch of expensive new hardware.

Or, maybe this is all value-destroying nonsense that only makes the service worse.

In any case, the performance of the new search system is supposed to be better, not worse. [1]

[1] https://github.blog/2023-05-08-github-code-search-is-general...

> The well-insulated tanks where molten salt is stored contain enough thermal energy for up to a week

A false claim. It has enough energy for 7.5 hours. (149.7MW/1123MWh)

In any case, is says nothing about duration. The wiki writer may have just mistaken capacity for duration. I couldn't find any evidence of this power station storing energy for any amount of time. It's used on the night immediately after the day that charged it.

[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=Y693JNsoS4gC&q=375

Building larger heat storage capacity, for example, would be useless if it cools down before being used. Long-term storage is an area of active research. There is reason to believe[1] that the technology could improve in the future, but until that is proven to be viable the state of the art for duration is "a few hours".

Speculation doesn't keep the lights on. The grid can only be powered by things that actually work in the present.

[1] https://spectrum.ieee.org/long-term-energy-storage-molten-sa...

This reads as "building nuclear is pointless because we have already have plenty of coal"

I think you'll have a hard time persuading anyone of anything after dropping that turd.

The only reason new power sources are even a topic of discussion is because continued use of fossil fuel is off the table. The existing base load sources need to be replaced with something, and nuclear is the only game in town.

Screenshot: Any image of any screen (noun), or the creation of such an image (verb)

Screengrab: Not a thing. lmao.

TLDR A game market flooded with shovelware crap is a disaster for everyone.

Modern day consoles intentionally add hurdles/friction/cost to publishing in order to weed out the less serious studios.

I think the idea here is that the planes and pilots are perfectly capable of hitting themselves at any time. Or in other words, this type of accident doesn't require the presence of any random one-in-a-million conditions. So, the low event frequency that is actually observed should be attributed to the fact that they intentionally avoid doing the dangerous action.

Players tend to focus their complaints on Epic's "customer service", and use of exclusive titles in their store, with somewhat less attention going to the invasive DRM/spyware aspects of EGS, EOS, and EAC [2]

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/03/... [2] https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckepic/

However for something like an RTS, the amount of data in game state updates can be prohibitively large to transmit to clients. The deterministic lockstep networking model described in the article is a solution to that problem. In that system, the only data transmitted is input, and each client updates locally, so it does require them to have a copy of the entire game state.