Is there a good list of dark game patterns to avoid? I'm not really up on the latest research.
This website has a good list of common dark patterns: https://www.darkpattern.games/
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trinovantes commented on Ask HN: What are your saved side project/business ideas? · Posted by u/dbyc
> It would be convenient if there was some common unified interface/abstraction for browser extensions
These days Firefox and Safari support Chrome's API, so isn't there effectivly a common interface already? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_extension
Userscripts also use a common interface (for now)
Who knows what will happen after Manifest v3
trinovantes commented on The Seamless Communication models ai.meta.com/research/seam... · Posted by u/skadamat
Currently Steam bans games from using AI-generated assets (for good reason). I wonder if they'll back track on this or carve exceptions because this tech seems really useful for indie devs to add voice work to their otherwise silent games.
trinovantes commented on Are Condo Units Sitting Empty in Toronto? (2019) jacojoubert.com/writing/a... · Posted by u/jfil
These 5%-13% condo vacancy rates in Toronto in 2019 were happening against a backdrop of rental vacancies of 1.1% (for new rentals) and 0.8% (for all rentals in the Greater Toronto Area)[1]. That's what made that +5% of available condo stock vacant and unrented such a shocker.
[1] https://www.urbanation.ca/news/311-city-toronto-vacancy-rate...
My point is that it's terrible heuristic and likely overestimates the actual vacancy rate
e.g. legitimate units can go empty for longer than a week when transitioning between tenants
trinovantes commented on What's Coming in ESLint v9.0.0 eslint.org/blog/2023/11/w... · Posted by u/soheilpro
Wish they took performance more seriously instead of just reinventing another config file format to migrate to
trinovantes commented on Are Condo Units Sitting Empty in Toronto? (2019) jacojoubert.com/writing/a... · Posted by u/jfil
> take one photo every five minutes starting at sunset and stopping at sunrise for one week straight
Seems like a shitty approach to measuring vacancy. And even with this approach, it's only ~5% vacant which is where a healthy housing market should be. I don't doubt that there's a non-zero amount of long term empty condos held onto by investors but the problem is much smaller than what NIMBYs want everyone to think.
trinovantes commented on Microsoft gets green light in UK to buy Activision bbc.co.uk/news/business-6... · Posted by u/mystcb
They keep talking about cloud streaming, is anyone except executives at these companies taking cloud streaming seriously? Every time I've tried it it's been a mess of latency and fuzzy graphics. If I were at the CMA I'm not sure that's a factor in this deal that I would have given much thought at all.
Not everybody plays games that need such low latencies
e.g. Simulation games like Anno 1800 or Cities Skyline 2 require extremely good hardware if you want good frame rates late game
Besides most competitive players I know all play on lowest settings to minimize risk of lag spikes so they're unlikely to be the target audience anyways
Not surprising for a product/library that far down on the "magic" scale.
I don't know what it is about the TypeScript/JavaScript/NodeJS world that keeps seeking ever more magical and oppressive and comprehensive solutions to accomplish tasks and goals that software has been capable of achieving for some time now.
Knex is a good ORM for a NodeJS back-end. It's simple and generic. It does the job while giving developers sufficient flexibility. I just can never see the appeal of things like Prisma.
drizzle-orm is another good JS sql query builder
I'm able to write raw sql queries with the `sql` template literal function
trinovantes commented on University of Waterloo Co-op salary sharing docs.google.com/spreadshe... · Posted by u/nathanh4903
I'm not understanding the context here. What does coop in the values mean (4th coop, 6th coop)? Who are these salaries for, is it employees at those companies, or employees of the university?
They're 4-8 month internships depending on which program or study track you choose to pursue. A lot of Waterloo programs alternate between 4 months study/4 months internship.
My program's first coop starts after freshman year (after 2 semesters), 4th coop was after first half of 3rd year, and 6th coop was 4 months before graduation.
Why not just use the free version of Live2D?