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  • I think the platforming zeitgeist has shifted to 2D.

    • Metroid Dread, Hollow Knight, Mario Wonder, Shovel Knight.

    But 3D platforming is still alive as a genre.

    • Mario Odyssey, Sonic Frontiers, Yooka-Laylee.

    And the remake scene for 3D is popping off right now.

    • Crash, Spyro, Ratchet, Mario 3D All Stars, Metroid Prime Remastered.

    Specifically for the subgenre of 3D third-person platform-shooters, check out Splatoon 3. For 3D first-person open-world platform-shooters, Metroid Prime 4 is in development.

    But for "3D open world third-person platform-shooter," that genre is essentially Ratchet & Clank. But these days I think Insomniac is busy with Spider-Man. You can maybe count Jak in there, but Naughty Dog hasn't touched that franchise in ages.

    I think the take away is that each franchise has it's own niche. What you've described is so specific that you're really just talking about Ratchet. Open your requirements a bit more, and you'll find plenty of great, new platforming experiences.

    Also, if you think there's untapped potential, I encourage you to make something! Unity is actually pretty easy to use.

  • To be clear, when I say "corporate support," I don't mean the company pays you.

    I mean that the company pays someone (like an existing employee) to maintain their internal fork and contribute patches back upstream.

    That's how all of the projects I listed operate.

    If you don't care about interfacing with the industry like this, that's totally fine, and the AGPL works. But if your goal is to write a piece of software that is used by the industry, then it can't be AGPL without a strong and exceptional business model.

    And I'm not trying to make a statement about whether you should write this kind of software. It's only a statement about what to expect if you write this kind of software.

  • FWIW, the stat structure in Linux does not include birth time [1]. It only gives you:

    1. atime: The time of last access.
    2. mtime: The time of last modification.
    3. ctime: The time of the last change to the inode.

    I assume the stat command is using a filesystem-specific method to get the birth time.

    Anyway, I don't think any of these stats is guaranteed to be consistent with the rest (or even correct). For example, it is common to disable atime tracking to improve I/O performance.

    Assuming the data is accurate, I think the other comment about the file being a copy is the best explanation.

  • Linux, coreutils, LLVM, GCC, Chromium, Firefox, V8, Python, Postgres, Java, systemd, kubernetes, Docker, Bazel, Buck, Abseil, Guice, Fedora, Ubuntu, Android, Hadoop, Apache, Nginx, Spark, TensorFlow, PyTorch...

    Yeah, companies never contributed to open source.

  • AGPL is a sure-fire way to steer off corporate support.

    GPL is usually fine for corporate use.

    For example, Google and Meta actively contribute to Linux (GPL) but neither would ever touch an AGPL project for fear of infecting their other IP.

  • People who push for private healthcare are either the type that could afford it or are the sheep following them.

    And the thing is, private healthcare is great for those who can afford it. Both specialists and PCPs are readily available for appointments in the US, and the quality of care is good!... You'll just end up bankrupt if your employer doesn't provide good insurance.

    It's fucked up, and it's not equitable. But I understand why it's appealing to the wealthy.

  • Waymo seems to be the best and most successful robotaxi service. My friends in Pittsburgh and the Bay speak highly of them.

    But it's a shame that none of the other robotaxi companies in the US were able to succeed.

    We had a thriving robotaxi scene in Pittsburgh (R&D, no actual taxis), mostly because of CMU. But most of the work has shutdown since the pandemic (Uber ATG, Aurora, ...). Waymo still seems to be doing well here though.

  • One in Twenty.

    The 95th percentile means you're in the top twentieth.

    In a group of 40, one will be better than you. In a group of 100, four will be better than you. In a group of 1,000, which is still a small number of people, 49 will be better than you.

    The article doesn't once mention what 95p actually means, as a number. When you think about the actual number, it's clear that it's not a big deal.

  • That page is a pain to read on mobile. I copied the main part of the announcement here for readability.

    The Wine development release 9.0-rc1 is now available.

    This is the first release candidate for the upcoming Wine 9.0. It marks the beginning of the yearly code freeze period. Please give this release a good testing and report any issue that you find, to help us make the final 9.0 as good as possible.

    What's new in this release:

    • Bundled vkd3d upgraded to version 1.10.
    • Support for DH encryption keys with a recent GnuTLS.
    • Keyboard layouts support in the Wayland driver.
    • Various bug fixes.

    The source is available at:

    https://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/9.0/wine-9.0-rc1.tar.xz

    Binary packages for various distributions will be available from:

    https://www.winehq.org/download

    You will find documentation on https://www.winehq.org/documentation

    You can also get the current source directly from the git repository. Check https://www.winehq.org/git for details.

    Wine is available thanks to the work of many people. See the file AUTHORS in the distribution for the complete list.

    Detailed contributions are given in the announcement.