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Re:I Live My Life a Quarter Century at a Time on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @12:03PM (#42624650)
The technology to do all of those things existed well before iPhones & Macs appeared. You may argue that "yeah but he made them popular", but the iPhone & Mac users were never in the majority.
Re:I Live My Life a Quarter Century at a Time on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @07:57AM (#42621871)
History would suggest otherwise. Ripping Woz off springs to mind. And is giving the world expensive Apple products making it a better place?
Ah, the golden age of Android where any app could make you money.
Re:My 25-year adventure in AI and ML on Thursday January 02, 2025 @08:30AM (#42574232)
It makes such a refreshing change to have a web page not cluttered with adverts and popups. Just nice, clean, well-spaced-out text and simple organisation.
Re:How Fast Does Java Compile? on Tuesday November 26, 2024 @08:29AM (#42245535)
I think it means "compile it into bytecode", which can then be run by the Runtime.
If it makes any kind of decision whatsoever (like an "if" statement), slap the word AI on it.
I'm going to call a non-chicken a chocken from now on. :)
Re:Israel's bulky pager fooled Hezbollah on Wednesday October 16, 2024 @08:40AM (#41858390)
Cos things were so idyllic for them before that.
When did the people specifically asked for this kind of system?
Re:Israel's bulky pager fooled Hezbollah on Wednesday October 16, 2024 @08:18AM (#41858216)
Let's not go down this route here.
I think they were just parodying the typical text that used to be shown against a page 3 girl bitd.
Re:Your Computer Is Not Yours on Monday September 30, 2024 @08:22AM (#41696341)
I'd be very surprised if things were better today.
Maybe this is the issue: 95% of the 2020 DGAC was found by an analysis to have at least one tie with a food or pharmaceutical company, and 50% had 30 such ties or more. (https://www.nutritioncoalition.us/news/usda-fails-to-fully-i...)
The irony is that the government is supposed not to interfere with people choice, but for-profit capitalism is allowed to interfere in everything.
Re:Core: New way to develop video games on Monday September 09, 2024 @11:09AM (#41489238)
GDScript is closely tied to the engine, making it incredibly easy to affect any part of your project. It's also very terse and simple to use, and anyone with a passing knowledge of Python should be able to pick it up in minutes.

I've used C# for my day job for years, but never felt the need to stop using GDScript for any of my projects.

Re:Core: New way to develop video games on Monday September 09, 2024 @10:58AM (#41489130)
Godot much prefers composition over inheritance. It's possible to use inheritance in Godot, but no-one recommends it, except maybe for a data structure.
Re:Core: New way to develop video games on Monday September 09, 2024 @08:43AM (#41487970)
I remember joking 10-15 years about how Sourceforge seemed to have far more game engines than actual games. Is this another one to add to the list?
Re:Core: New way to develop video games on Monday September 09, 2024 @08:37AM (#41487936)
I'm not sure why you were using Inheritance in Godot? Just use the "gameobjects" paradigm as you did with Unity.
Jeez, just don't go to Center Parcs already. Everyone knows it's massively expensive.
Maybe they're letting the big corps get fatter ready for a big EU-style lawsuit.
Re:The Empathy Punishment on Monday August 12, 2024 @11:46AM (#41225782)
Related: I clicked on "Start your trial now", and got a 404.
Re:Big Macs and the Cost of Living Crisis on Tuesday August 06, 2024 @08:22AM (#41170170)
By the same token, generalizing the whole of Europe to say "33% increase also applies to health insurance" is a very broad brush.
If (world_pace == false) solve_world_peace();

easy!

"The WhatsApp messages seen by Bloomberg didn’t come from Vigna’s usual business mobile number. The profile picture also was different.."

I think common sense was more than enough here.

Re:Bananas Don't Taste Like They Used To. Here's Why on Friday July 19, 2024 @06:10AM (#41004430)
Agreed, I think the statement should be "supermarkets want to sell us products all year round".
"No-one ever got fired for choosing Microsoft".
But we shouldn't have to, and just because Google is famous for it, it doesn't make it right or acceptable.
That doesn't change anything.
Re:Microsoft's Xandr grants GDPR rights at a rate of 0% on Tuesday July 09, 2024 @07:40AM (#40914917)
I'm not sure what your point is?

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