Definitely not everyone's cup of tea, but IMO Path of Exile helped me understand just how much spaghetti a code base can actually contain, with all of its interwoven mechanics and calculations. People spend hours theory crafting and optimizing a character to make numbers get bigger, and it takes a lot of planning skill to, well, plan all of it.
Servers are not interoperable by default. There is 3rd party software that acts as a proxy letting Bedrock players connect to Java servers but it'll just remove anything that the more limited client doesn't support.
They both use completely different network stacks, Bedrock using RakNet over UDP, Java using Netty (?) over TCP, so they have to be translated accordingly.
Yes. So clearly it's not a question of being able to run, or of weird graphics quirks or something. It's a strange omission. Given that Mojang is now owned by Microsoft, it's slightly suspicious…
You can use Geyser [0] to "bridge the gap" to Bedrock clients. There are bugs here and there, but it works pretty great to get everyone on the same server.
This kinda looks like an attempt to get a commit into a bigger open source repository. It'd look nice on a resume to say you "contributed to Unreal Engine on GitHub".
As someone who works with a lot of junior devs in India, I know the competition for early career roles in tech is immense, and so folks look at "open source contribution" as a "brownie point" to add in your resume. Having a "contributed to Unreal Engine" sounds great on paper and 3/5 companies would just take it at face-value and move this guy's resume higher up the stack.
And we have enough seasoned devs who try to be helpful to these junior folks and point out that the easiest way to get started in OSS is to provide/fix documentation for OSS since it's usually low barrier to entry + usually lacking in most OSS repos (The people praising the rr documentation is a great anecdote). But looks like the "quality" bit is lost in translation somewhere.
A company really wouldn't at least ask what the contributions were? What kind of 'competitive market' is it where you can lie so easily and get away with it?
When we hire people I usually check out the Person's github account and see for myself what the contributions were. For me it's more of a hint "these forked repos are worth a look". But that's because we are a small startup and everyone in the hiring pipeline knows how to use github. I can easily imagine that you can get some of the early filters in larger companies with meaningless OSS contributions because the people involved at that stage lack the knowledge or time to verify.
But that's so weird because even if that's on the resume, any interviewer would be interested in know what the contribution was. Maybe revealing that you only "fixed typos" would do more harm than good?
Depends on your level of honesty. Given that you're fixing typos to say that you contributed to a project, you'd probably double down and quote the number of PR (remember to only do 1 typo fix per PR) and then add a real bug you may have fixed or make one up.
Unfortunately the entire interview process is why I usually try to hire former co-workers.
Not sure if you'd consider this a "complete application" that is bigger than a "Hello-World-esque example" but I've worked on a Discord bot in SWI Prolog[1] for a while with a friend. It was an interesting experience and although a lot of the work (e.g. SWI has a ready-made library for interfacing with WebSockets and sending out HTTPS requests).
Some interesting applications of Prolog specifically include using predicates to filter messages by certain criteria (e.g. if it was sent by the bot's account or not), being able to hot-reload by invoking the make/0 predicate, and homoiconicity to (in theory) easily evaluate random code supplied by a user.
This sounds really americentric. Have you considered that the every non-US citizen'd PII is fair game for US companies one in the county? As a European I wouldn't want my stuff to be routed through the US the same way you don't want your data going through Russia.
Yeah, it sucks that the US doesn't respect non-citizen data. But TBH I really don't think it respects citizen data either. Consider that Snowden discovered all kinds of ways the CIA and NSA were hoovering up data, in defiance of the law. But did the American people get pissed and force a change in those agencies, and call the leadership to account for disregarding the law because it was convenient? No: they successfully demonized the whistleblower who is still on the run. (Although I will say that excessive snoopiness is a lesser evil than censorship).
In the end, though, there is a high-tech solution here, and that's to migrate to 100% asymmetrically encrypted messaging, at the application level, regardless of underlying transport. This would force nation states to risk large scale hacking of devices, but that's more visible and easier to combat, as long as we remain free to make (and buy) the compute hardware we want to make.
The U.S. doesn't even respect Citizen@s data half the time. Remember, the Courts ruled that expectation of privacy, and therefore 4th Amendment protections are waived as soon as you engage with a Third Party.
His whole comment was about how he want to let traffic route through Russia even though he doesn't like it... but it's really Americentric? Could you explain that point please?
It also probably wouldn't exist anymore. last time I heard anything about it YouTube was in the red and only sustained with income from other Google services. (I might be wrong on that, if so please correct me)
I heard that Google was able to get it to break even after a substantial investment to improve efficiency (custom ASICs for transcoding, machine learning models for prioritizing allocation of storage and computing resources).
I think I agree that it probably wouldn't exist. Not very many companies would invest that much to just to break even.
> This is an issue bigger than Patreon (In the climate of FOSTA/SESTA) It probably goes beyond even the payment processors. it’s a world wide, online AND in person crack down on freedom of expression, on women, on marginalised people, on sex and sex work, on non conventional forms of labour that counter the status quo: the domination of corporations and the patriarchy. On dissent.
(Taken from the blog post mentioned because it provides a bit more context than the quote on the linked site; emphasis not mine)
How is this a crackdown on either women or freedom of expression? Isn't every sex worker equally affected? Not like Patreon still shows penises on their platform. Neither is any company forced to allow arbitrary personal expression on their platform if I understood it correctly. Freedom of expression only protects you from the government, like freedom of speech, no?
If anyone intends to respond to this comment please consider that I'm genuinely asking this. I really want to understand.
> Freedom of expression only protects you from the government, like freedom of speech, no?
No. In the US, the first amendment to the US Constitution only applies to the government. "Freedom of speech" is a concept with general applicability. People opposed to freedom of speech often intentionally conflate the two but they really are separate things. There may be a genuine argument about what any particular actor should do w/r/t speech - should they adopt a permissive, "freedom of speech" attitude, should they restrict speech, etc. But "freedom of speech only applies to the government" is not a genuine argument, because it's not an argument at all, it's a conclusory statement (and false).
In regards to Steins;Gate and the main character being "over the top": this probably won't make his antics any more bearable but maybe put them into some much needed context which the anime is kinda bad at providing. After his childhood friend, Shiina Mayuri, lost a grandparent she fell into a kind of PTSD, which caused him to assume the persona of a mad scientist, claiming he'd take her hostage because he didn't want her to go/leave. This helped her get over that death somehow but he still regularly lapses back into that persona.
