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FWIW, just anecdotally I know of quite a number of people whose saturation levels dropped below 80 and then recovered after being hospitalized and given oxygen.
I would think that the main reason Adblock has become mainstream is because ads are extremely annoying and not because users are very concerned about tracking itself.
Re:Shapes is a real-time vector graphics library for Unity on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @07:53PM (#23483566)
Absolutely spot on! It's the same case with the Unity UI system as well. They seem to have stopped adding features to the existing UI system for over a year now since it's deprecated. However the replacement UIElements (the runtime version) is not expected to be ready until later this year.

Their behaviour is puzzling IMO. They treat their developer base like an in-house team for which they can change tech direction at will. They seem to think that they can simply tell their huge developer base to switch to the new tech and everyone will just do it overnight. There are tons of reasons why that's simply not possible.

Re:Ask HN: If you're so smart how come you're not rich? on Thursday June 04, 2020 @03:16AM (#23413604)
Why can't doing what you want also be valuable to other people? There are plenty of people who given financial freedom would want to start a business and even work harder on it than they did at their 9-5 job.
Re:What would you do if you lost your Google account? on Monday May 04, 2020 @10:25AM (#23068423)
- No Google Play reviews - No Google One (can't share storage with family) - No Google Drive->Photos sync (They have completely removed this feature now) - A few other limitations I can't remember. I switched to a regular Google account now.
Re:Ask HN: How do you record your personal finances? on Friday June 22, 2018 @10:34AM (#17374227)
I have been using buxfer.com so far. What I really like about it is that I need to manually enter only cash transactions. I can link my bank accounts and it will automatically record all credit card & bank transactions - I only need to categorize them. However of late they have been unresponsive to support requests. I wonder if there is even anyone working on the product.
Re:Godot at GDC 2018 on Monday March 26, 2018 @06:14AM (#16677844)
FWIW, they've announced nested prefab support in Unity 2018.3 (https://blogs.unity3d.com/2018/03/20/unity-unveils-2018-road...). It's mind-boggling that it has taken so many years to implement such a simple thing.
Re:Ask HN: How does an online game with AIs manage so many AIs? on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @07:43AM (#15237304)
This might be true for FPS and other genres where reflex and speed are the most important factors. However most competitive strategy games will definitely benefit from strong intelligent AIs. For example in Age of Empires, the problem isn't that the AI is too strong (they're not - with enough practice anyone can beat the hardest AI). The problem is that they don't play like a human would, and are exploitable with certain strategies which even a beginner player wouldn't fall for.
Re:Show HN: Lumix Engine – Open source C++ 3D game engine on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @05:21AM (#13762686)
Banshee3D is pretty cool too - https://github.com/BearishSun/BansheeEngine. The vast majority of the work is done by a single person.
Is this book relevant only to beginners? Do you think a programmer with about 7 years of experience (in C, C++, C#, Java) will find it useful?
Re:iPhone at ten: the revolution continues on Monday January 09, 2017 @08:54AM (#13356283)
For practical purposes, does the difference really matter? Most consumer phones come with Google services on them. Building a usable ROM without Google services on them is not an easy task.

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