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Mamy had to pull demos since a lot of engines ship with stuff that's easy to decompile gated features
I think it’s closer to 4 when you grab some basic upgrades for usability. I just got one for 3800
Re:Electrification Could Cut Global Energy Use in Half on Sunday November 01, 2026 @08:36AM (#50325574)
And an induction cooktop is more expensive than a normal electric one.
So only send text to France?
Re:Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance on Thursday October 29, 2026 @06:19PM (#50296998)
Don’t you only win with a small finite #of deck shoe? I’d assume online casinos just make all cards independent
I'm starting to have them gather info to feed into automated tooling for drafting tasks. It's just there's no good harness for my field (and only recently have models been able to read symbolic things well enough)
Re:Switzerland. Block by block. At 1:1 scale on Monday October 26, 2026 @07:15AM (#50241920)
The exactly for something with a scale and rounding hurts to read
Re:No Signs of AI Payoff Outside the Tech Sector on Sunday October 25, 2026 @11:02AM (#50232276)
"There's insurance for that, another domain that's a harness around a model"

Yes, but the PE's at engineering firms have the ability to say no and demand redesigns since it's their name on it, unlike programmers.

I frequently see firms design way beyond the bare minimum so that there's no question and it's an easy sign off rather than spending months on a back and forth.

Re:No Signs of AI Payoff Outside the Tech Sector on Sunday October 25, 2026 @12:20AM (#50228290)
No one's stamping Opus's work, there are too many load bearing caveats.
Re:Code Is Clay Now on Thursday October 22, 2026 @11:54AM (#50197138)
How do you do business logic with less OOP? I find FP to be a mess for that
I found that formulation of the 9ball deceptive by using object instead of side
Re:"I'm on a War Footing": Terry Tao and the Crisis in Math on Sunday October 18, 2026 @06:18PM (#50146068)
They steal from the commons! They add to the commons!
And what about the 5% who are making a really cool online co op game who can't vendor any dependencies now?

Does an LLC shield this? Do you have to carry the perpetual 25% on your balance sheet indefinitely?

I'm pointing out it's potentially a few weeks of effort.

"The right to own games" is just an entitlement. I don't see an argument for where this originates; it's entitlement to someone else's effort, or effectively mandating only selling games with that extra effort bundled in.

I don't think it's fair to expect hobby projects or small studios to be legally obligated to carry this, and open sourcing it because you sold it once is a big jump. Not all binaries are simple to ship, either.

I'm fine with the Californian law where they mandate marking it as a license and not a purchase, but a flat fee for minimum 10 years service I think is reasonable.

So if steam shuts down P2p relays, all the companies owe patches or damages 20 years in the future?
150 a month isn’t negligible at all. Maybe upper east side that’s fine
I’d rather live in a box with half the rent personally
I hope there's an indie carveout or something for less than like 200k revenue.

And maybe a carveout if your licensing gets pulled.

I really want copyright to stay the hell out of the way of just letting players reverse engineer old games, but it's an international thing at this point

I think there's a fair argument here for the other way.

No [reasonable] person expects a free game to not sell microtransactions or ads or something, but a paid game doing that would garner some anger or squints.

What about steam relay? Any APIs at all? I think a revenue floor is simpler and more future proof.
Please Jesus. Making a ton of online games as an indie would be suicide. Not to mention the obligations going on a balance sheet when they need funding.

Like functionally should probably be like that 200k revenue or more since it’s potentially a few weeks of labor obligation

Depends heavily on how hard it is to get through the wall.

Also adding a new circuit to a panel is different than extending one from inside

Why is there no option to prevent it stealing focus?!?
Re:Amazon pushes up prices across the Internet on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @11:06AM (#50088803)
This is a terrible argument. It’s only margin if they get the service but no one wants to pay the same to get slower shipping. Amazon has made the choice for the consumer.

Sure their logistics are better but it’s functionally tying Amazon’s logistics to access to selling on Amazon. It’s not a fair burden to say “you must convince customers to buy inferior shipping at superior shipping prices in order to not use us.

It’s crazy they act like this but then make a campaign to use their deliberately inferior thing
Re:Gemini 4 Argon on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @05:37PM (#50079196)
I feel like the LLMs used them "wrong". They use them for hard breaks for disconnected thoughts rather than one thought that disconnects.
Yeah if it were like being in office then the request to make it less frequent would have been the same and been granted
I think there’s a famous book about man hours that attempts to answer this question
Re:The Auditor's Opinion on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @02:51PM (#49997192)
Gives me a kimi k2.5 vibe
Re:Forever Junior: The Skills AI Can't Develop for You on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @07:43AM (#49991377)
Is writing a blog post one of them?

I found all the breaks grating.

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