Now with 17 % less adds?
Readit NewsDayDollar commented on Open Source CLI tool blocks ads on Spotify, use custom CSS, & more spicetify.app/... · Posted by u/krpl
This is the product of writing your own history ... The irony is this is still going on today.
And then replaced by someone who rewrites the history of his predecessor.. result a mad reign of madmen..
DayDollar commented on Zero-k: A libre sci-fi RTS game, with an economy based on metal and energy zero-k.info/... · Posted by u/azalemeth
It's pretty much the inverse : http://zero-k.info/Forum/Thread/29067
BAR used to stand for "Balanced Annihilation Reloaded" - so it's sticking very close to TA, while Zero-K has been experimenting much more freely with what is possible in the Spring/Recoil engine.
It's also probably a factor that BAR has spent a decade in development hell (under a different team than now ?), so it just didn't have the velocity to fork away sufficiently, even if it wanted to.
Eh, no? Zero-k was there first, and gathered vital info.
The original setup for spring rollout of games was thoroughly inadequat to supporting large number of gamers.
Fuck, the first lobby server wrote match infos into a freaking textfile.
The first indicator of that popped up, when valve ended greenlight, and just greenlit all the things. Which propped Evolution RTS upon the steam front page for half a day, flooding the original lobby system and showing how inadequat the whole ecosystem was for that. The original Evo dev Forb learned from the whole mess after he returned from his day job.
Zero-k then learned the lessons, developed a ingui lobby, started the whole matchmaking and better server deployment, detached from the whole "one central server" thing of the spring eco system.
BAR did some graphical overhaul, with Floris, Beherith, Sprung and the whole original crew supported by new faces like Teifion and on and on. They optimized the Spring engine into a new version- more tailored to BARs needs and reworked alot of the stuff.
Its gpl open source, so the project order and who invented what is pretty flowy.. everybody copies from everybody, one progress is everyones progress..
DayDollar commented on Zero-k: A libre sci-fi RTS game, with an economy based on metal and energy zero-k.info/... · Posted by u/azalemeth
Not really a successor, but as the poster above said, a cousin.
This lineage of open-source games started from Total Annihilation, which had a lot of mods that ran into engine limitations. This resulted in a bunch of enterprising open-sourced devs to develop a compatible engine, without those limitations. This engine (Spring Engine) has then evolved into something much more impressive and capable. Zero-K was implemented on this engine. Beyond All Reason uses the Recoil engine, which is a fairly recent for of Spring.
Eh, the engine was a accident. It started out as a 3d-viewer, capable of replaying ta games by the svedish yankspankers (clan sy).
What started out as a viewer, escalated into a 106.0 version long engine, providing a war that consumes planets, each side with only one final wish - Total Annhilation at Zero-k, beyond all reason.
Naw, the community comes and goes ebbs and flows. Its mostly on recoil discord, some are still on the irc server, the rest is on the BAR discord.
DayDollar commented on Humid Heat Can Kill Us Much Faster Than We Thought nautil.us/humid-heat-can-... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
So what can create dry air? Circulation chimneys and cool caverns were the moisture runs down the wall? I wouldnt want to rely on electricity in a wet-bulb.
DayDollar commented on Generative AI could make search harder to trust wired.com/story/fast-forw... · Posted by u/jedwhite
I wonder if there will be a human information/knowledge equivalent of low-background steel (pre-WWII/nukes). Data from before a certain point won't be 'contaminated' with LLM stuff, but it'll be everywhere after that.
There will be a web of trust, with a valuation of nodes by trustworthyness. And people will get only one id for this. Ones name is ones value and a reputation will be a hard earned thing again.
DayDollar commented on Pocket gets worse the more you use it (2019) web.archive.org/web/20190... · Posted by u/ColinWright
I wonder if it wouldnt make more sense to just train a Commentator Neural Net with the pages you collect. It then can "remind" you of similar pages you have seen before, directly in the page, with little floating comments like "..skip..." "..contradicts.. http:/link/x/y/z " "..actual paper link.." "..paper is p-hacked shovelware.." "..authors reputation.."
It could be trained to become your personal pre-reading assistant, similar to information accumulators and pre-evaluators in governments agencies or company hqs.
DayDollar commented on Why is desalination so difficult? practical.engineering/blo... · Posted by u/mrzool
> the water in the tank was so pure it had dissolved a spanner/wrench that was left in the bottom
"Apparently somebody had left a wrench there when they filled it in 1995," he said. "When they drained it in 2000 the wrench had dissolved."
I dunno, I think if you left a wrench soaking in regular water for five years there wouldn't be much left of it after that either.
It would rust and crusted with chalk and beneath that layer untouched.
It also suspicously starts to look like planned economics, once the mono-duo-poly stage is reached.
Rare goods, long queues, no choice, bad products and the leadership is off, chasing its own tail in some basebal metric detached from the world. It even features market-libertarians having to defend practices like shredding perfectly fine goods in ware houses.
The moment the ussr was gone, the race horse finally could binge and become something very similar to the ussr economy, but instead of obsessing on tanks & steel, it focused on excel sheet virtual wealth wankery, disguising the slide back into the gilded age feudalism.
* Is your company selling software development hours (consulting)? I'm this car you'll be valued for client relations skills and the ability to bang out acceptable software.
* Is your company selling a software product (product company)? In this case you'll be valued for your ability to build and run software.
* Is your company selling something else that has a software component or that software enables (pretty much every other company)? In this case, you'll be valued for your ability to deliver on or below budget and you'll never be the star of the show.
Funnily enough, these seem to map well to the three categories the author mentioned. Consulting to sales/marketing, product to research and development, everyone else to maintenance.