madpata | 4 years ago | on: Valve Steam Deck
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madpata | 4 years ago | on: Valve Steam Deck
1€ ~= 1.18$ US
So, probably not just a conversion thing
madpata | 4 years ago | on: A Plea for Lean Software (1995) [pdf]
> I just can't conceive of how modularity, in general, causes duplicate code rather than reduces it.
Yeah, like my node_modules folder doesn't contain tons of duplicate code.
/s
madpata | 4 years ago | on: Developing Games on Linux: An Interview with Little Red Dog Games
Don't play multiplayer games on Linux.
madpata | 4 years ago | on: Your CPU may have slowed down on Wednesday
That's true if one only talks about one person using an extra 200W.
But it matters when it's about millions of people using an additional 200W.
madpata | 4 years ago | on: Your CPU may have slowed down on Wednesday
No,
the obvious solution is paying a monthly subscription to use a cloud-based computer for such high-intensity tasks like web-browsing. We should all be using https://www.mightyapp.com!
/s
madpata | 4 years ago | on: Stride Game Engine
It's not a chicken and egg problem. It's Apples fault/intention.
They had really bad support for OpenGL and wanted developers to use Apple's Metal API. But developers stayed on DirectX (Windows-only) or OpenGL/Vulkan for Linux/Windows/Android crossplatform. It just wasn't economically viable to develop for Mac.
madpata | 4 years ago | on: Stride Game Engine
Maybe keep an eye out for S&Box, the successor to Garry'sMod.
It's not out yet, but uses the Source 2 engine and C# for modding, and will probably have an active community from launch.
madpata | 4 years ago | on: Stride Game Engine
You should keep an eye out for S&Box! It's the successor to the popular Garry's Mod.
Garry's Mod is, imo, the sandbox and modding game and I think that S&Box will be even better. It's based on the Source 2 engine, and the main developer Garry has collected a lot of experience with GMod.
While GMod mods are based on Lua, S&Box uses C#, which is an awesome choice, imo. C# is a bit more verbose than Lua, but it probably enables mods of higher quality.
It's not out yet, but some keys get distributed to chosen people. Sadly, I'm not one of those.
madpata | 4 years ago | on: Most hospitals aren't complying with price transparency rule
He didn't haggle over the price of the procedure.
He only asked how much it's going to be and was charged with over double what he was quoted.
madpata | 4 years ago | on: Abolish High School (2015)
What punishments would you suggest for bullies?
madpata | 4 years ago | on: I quit my job to focus on SerenityOS full time
It's educational, too.
Andreas has a lot of video content, which explains different OS concepts, available.
madpata | 4 years ago | on: Apple deletes Steve Jobs's “Thoughts on Flash”
> You can also wrap a page as an app on the App Store
For example Apple's store doesn't want these web wrappers: https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#min...
madpata | 4 years ago | on: “They introduce kernel bugs on purpose”
Is it illegal to intentionally create security risks?
madpata | 5 years ago | on: RMS addresses the free software community
You make it sound like only RMS' contributions were significant for our current state of software.
There are a lot of people with significant contributions without which the world wouldn't be in its current state.
madpata | 5 years ago | on: Human use of high-bandwidth wireless brain-computer interface
> cooking techniques that assume cheaply-available vacuum
That also assumes that the atmosphere you're venting for that "cheap vacuum" is cheap as well.
madpata | 5 years ago | on: Windows 95 – How Does It Look Today?
Maybe has something to do with cached driver configuration, but I don't know which version of Windows introduced it.
It has to do with remembering which drivers were loaded the last time the OS ran and loading those first on reboot. Saves time on checking the whole driver catalog.
madpata | 5 years ago | on: All my servers have an 8 GB empty file on disk
I talked about that topic with my principal when I was in school.
He told me that the school had to prevent those automatic budget cuts. His reasoning was that it's nearly impossible to get a higher budget if some big expenses had to be made. And suddenly needing a higher budge, after for example 3 years of low expenses, doesn't make a good impression on higher-level administrators.
madpata | 5 years ago | on: The S in IoT is for Security
I'd just say that both contribute and stop this whataboutism.
madpata | 5 years ago | on: Why use old computers and operating systems?
I am not GP ng to clutter my home with old, bulky and single-purpose computers.
> and the computers needed to run them are cheap
Old computers aren't always cheap. Retro PCs get expensive quick.
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Ubuntu is good as a stable platform, but it's probably too slow moving.