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I’m pleasantly surprised Linux is way ahead of OSX. This looks really good!

I’m not the same person, but I’ve played a few levels now. I think it’s really good, especially for being early access. Reminds me of original Half Life, so if you like that kind of game it’s a strong recommend!

Started playing it and I’m liking it so far! The low health regen is very clever. Solves the problem in Half Life 1 where the player is always finishing encounters at 1 HP without the need for excessive health pickups. Now the player is guaranteed to have at least 35 HP.

The immersion is really great as well. Often I forget that all the enemies are just 2D sprites.

Silver Surfer has some of the most incredible bangers ever put on a NES. RIP Geoff.

Developers tend to think in extremes.

This practice is bad sometimes? Avoid it at all costs!

This practice is good sometimes? Use it all the time without question!

I have enough many other games to play on PC. I’m not going to buy a new expensive device just to play a few extra games.

I found this after a Google: https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/ParticleAndNuclear/gluons.html

There are 8 types of gluon particles.

That’s probably why they want to diversify. Different products for different age groups / target audiences.

I don’t think they’re dying just because they change one metric. It might just be that the old metric no longer aligns with their goals.

They’ve probably realized it’s not feasible to put all eggs in one basket and try to collect all users in one big platform. Instead they might aim to build a more diverse set of platforms.

There was a time when it was overused. That’s not the case anymore.

I would still be triggered when I see it, but I don’t think the hate is needed anymore.

I do that all the time. Sometimes I even realize I missed an even more obvious solution to the problem or how to better communicate the intent of the code.

Most YouTubers rely on sponsorships and/or Patreon subscriptions. Getting compensation is not a platform problem.

The reason why content creators choose YouTube is because that’s where all the viewers are. Few people know about peertube. Even fewer have used it.

Valve can’t count to 3

Eww, that’s OOP

It’s both. As you said it’s because of loss of floating point precision, but it’s also with some of the quirks how Python compares int with float. These two together causes this strange behavior.

TL;DR:

In Python, following returns False.

9007199254740993 == 9007199254740993.0

The floating point number 9007199254740993.0 is internally represented in memory as 9007199254740992.0 (due to how floating point works).

Python has special logic for comparing int with floats. Here it will try to compare the int 9007199254740993 with the float 9007199254740992.0. Python sees that the integer parts are different, so it will stop there and return False.

Even if AI is able to answer all questions 100% accurately, it wouldn’t mean much either way. Most of programming is making adjustments to old code while ensuring nothing breaks. Gonna be a while before AI will be able to do that reliably.

Flash was considered unsafe because it allowed malicious actors to write malware.

Reminds me of this classic: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/405783/why-does-man-print-gimme-gimme-gimme-at-0030

They probably developed, refined and scrapped 100s of ideas before they landed to the final game.