@SebAaltonen I have not met a single person that does not hate these things...
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Tiago Magalhães
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Most Europeans actually like the new bottle caps. It's convenient that you don't need to hold the cap in your other hand. And you can't lose it.
There were some first-gen bottles with badly designed caps, but most manufacturers have fixed their initial design flaws now.
Rodney@_ChanFace
Why were Europeans so whiney about the attached bottle caps?? Regardless of environmental reasons, it does not interfere with drinking at all and it’s actually super convenient to not need to hold on the cap! 10/10 Canada should adopt!
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@BellularGaming How do you manage to have worse storytelling than COD, a game that only makes campaigns because they kinda have too
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@BellularGaming I don't even botter with the moment to moment storytelling anymore between what's actually happening the execution and the pacing it's soo bad that there is not point IMO.
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I completely believe that’s what they all earnestly thought at the time, and absolutely intended.
And it’s fair to say (and likely) that patches could continue it all this. But man, the first episode has to be good.
Feels like they’re left filling in gaps between big plot points while suffering from a large basket of biases, blindspots and production struggles.
serial orc enthusiast@eternalseething
@BellularGaming Remember when Maria said this wouldn't be something easy or quick to wrap up and then it was exactly that? Do the game's leads even know what is happening in the plot they're trying to sell to us? The incoherent Gamescom reveal feels like it wasn't a one-off issue with marketing
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One of these days we are going to finally let the lesson sink in. Package managers were a mistake.
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New blog post: A Decade of Slug
This talks about the evolution of the Slug font rendering algorithm, and it includes an exciting announcement: The patent has been dedicated to the public domain.
terathon.com/blog/decade-sl…
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@lemire Harder homework changes nothing. They simply don't have the fundamentals, they don't have the required skill to produce something and they will have a mindset of just asking the Ai to do everything. No AI is the only option to actually learn.
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How do you teach programming in 2026?
I have been teaching programming professionally for two decades.
It doesn’t work anymore.
I now consistently catch students who produced good software during a 15-week course be unable to write a simple loop at the end of the course.
« Just forbid AI. »
You can’t put someone in a cage for 100 hours and force them to program without AI.
We need to change the whole approach. Maybe go AI first. 🤖
This means MUCH harder homeworks.
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I've been following Louis Rossmann for a while and am continually impressed and inspired with his views on business, selling products, and so on. He's brought up numerous times how companies will kill a software but remove access to said software, even if the users "own" it. In most recent news we've seen Adobe cancel Adobe Animate and because its subscription based, customers will completely lose access next year. In my opinion thats similar to killing games and is a shit move.
In our own company we have a similar adjacent story. With our terrain and planet editor, GeoGen, we've more or less put the software on pause and though it gets periodic updates, we don't see a way forward to make it a commercial success and fund continued development considering we lost 99.9% of our investment in it. It has a few active users, it is a functional, useful tool that outputs great results and so its still available on our website and will continue to be.
We've also completely killed a tool in our past even though a small number of people paid for it, VectorayGen. It seemed smart at the time to just sweep our first born software under the rug, but in hindsight, if we follow Louis's belief system it was a shitty move on our part to remove access to download it on our website. Granted, if people ask for the tool we usually try to provide an exe to it, but that's not super artist friendly. What sucks for artists who did enjoy the tool is it was the only real and easy way to generate vector fields for games and this is still the case to this day. So within the next month or two we'll recompile VectorayGen, rip out the licensing and put it up on our website, as is, free of charge. In the off chance someone needs a vector field, at least they'll have a moderately shitty way to do it than no way at all.
In the future we hope that IlluGen will be a true successor and provide a wonderful modern vector field authoring workflow. Until then, VectorayGen will become available soon once again. No extended support or bug fixes from us, just provide the tool as is and restore availability to something that shouldn't have been pulled in the first place.
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@conservempls @Shadarek Personally I would never condome the method being copywritten ( I hate software patents), but the implementation absolutely can be protected because of how unique they tend to be to each project. In my mind there is 0 doubt either the code was stolen direclty or stolen via LLM
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@conservempls @Shadarek same variable names, same formating, same comments, same usage of ternaries. This does not happen by accident or coincidence. It's a dead giveaway of theft. Even the same person implementing the same thing two weeks appart could not manage to land on a wholesale copy of the 1st.
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Actually disgusting people are flaming lucky for ‘starting a witch hunt’ he posted about his code being stolen and quazii’s response clearly did the rest in short time.
Reloe@_Reloe
- call out stolen code - called out person crashes out and speedruns vanishing from the internet - lucky gets blamed for "running him off the platfrom" some crazy mental gymnastics going on here. He was clearly on the edge of quitting already if this made him tip over
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@conservempls @Shadarek It absolutely is a problem, code licenses exists and even huge companies get fined for not adhering to them.
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@Shadarek There is nothing wrong with copying small sections of code. That shit is done in the software development world all the fucking time, especially when there is a best practice approach to certain things. The code that he 'copied' is like 100 lines. Its a nothing burger FUCK elvui
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@SaasyEngineer @Luckyone961 My dude even the comments are the exact same, there is 0 margin for doubt he stole that code. Doesnt matter how little it is elvui foesnt have a permissive license. You should really understand how much of a no no this is of you are a swe.
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As an SWE, I respect the amount of work you've clearly put in to this product.
Your original post made the claim: "The UI/Addon Quazii is selling on his Patreon contains full 1:1 copies of ElvUI files and code" - you made this claim without providing evidence. Intentional or not, you weaponized your community.
Now 16 hours later you've posted several screenshots showing less than 100 lines of similar code - which represent fairly basic algorithms. This evidence doesn't support your original claim - not even remotely.
The damage is done and a beloved community member is now gone, we are weaker as a whole. If you had handled the matter privately, this all could have been avoided.
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🧵Since the conversations in the initial post comments are all over the place, here is screenshots of the copied code. The point in this claim is that without asking for permission, you don't get to copy paste All Rights Reserved code into a project locked behind a paid subscription to make profit off it.
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@towelthetank Anybody who actually decelops software for a long time knows that #2 is an overt admission of guilt by somebody who has no clue. Even if you are solving something the exact same way the likelihood of your code actually ending up looking 1:1 witbout it being copied is 0
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@cmuratori At this pace, there won't be a Windows platform left to market to.
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@scottastevenson Im sure that works great when you onow what you want to get to, but imagine the perspective of a new hire. Being able to go topic by topic is much better than just guessing
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Gen Z is right to not care about folders.
It's taken me a long time to accept as a millennial, but it turns out that nested folder-based organization of files or anything actually just sucks.
When you have tagging + good search, everything works much better and you no longer have to worry about the impossible task of categorizing things on one primary axis
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@cmuratori This is the opportunity desktop linix has been looking for, maintainers need to get their heads straight and make distros normy usable. Because god knows windows will be unusable after this rewrite
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Microsoft sets official target of 2030 for moving Windows customers to Linux:
thurrott.com/dev/330980/mic…
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@RandyyyTCG @LotharHS When you could do them IDs were far less common in YuGiOh than MTG
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This applies to every card game:
If, at any point of a tournament, it’s mathematically better to NOT play the game rather than playing the game - it means the tournament system is flawed and needs to be looked at.
And that’s what is happening with Intentional Draws.
I don’t blame the players for taking IDs. I also take them for my own advantage, but it literally makes no sense to travel to a tournament and ELECT NOT to play between 25-33% of the tournament because it makes no sense for the match to happen.
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@adamjmiles @fia I mean we all know his election was anything but democratic so idk why they even bother trying to hide it.
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Following a vote of the General Assembly in Tashkent, Republic of Uzbekistan, Mohammed Ben Sulayem has been re-elected as President of the FIA for his second four-year term, alongside Deputy President for Sport Malcolm Wilson OBE, Deputy President for Automobile Mobility and Tourism Tim Shearman and Senate President Carmelo Sanz de Barros.
Members have also elected the new World Council for Automobile Mobility and Tourism and World Motor Sport Council, who will serve until the 2029 General Assembly elections.
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@TRIPSTER0 It's not the developer's fault, the screen on the console sucks ass. The actual implementation while in docked mode is fantastic.
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DIGITAL FOUNDRY CONFIRMS:
Just like every other Switch 2 version of any game the Handheld Mode experience is Mediocre.
Calling it...
"Sluggish"
"Not true HDR"
"Blurry"
"Appears smeared"
"just can't get it done"
#NotMyMetroidPrime
🐕💩
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