How democratic a regime is can only be measured in hindsight unfortunately

Just found out I have the gene for Alport syndrome. This thread has filled me with more hope than I've had in a while.

That's actually pretty cool, props to Apple for open sourcing it

Something interesting about the article was how ChatGPT seemed to take the left-wing position on all of the example scissor positions.

I wonder if this could be a side-effect of its existing alignment bias? By avoiding making right-wing statements, it even avoids to make them when giving examples of controversial statements.

Pretty interesting article, I'm always surprised how complicated spacing out vegetation is

An obvious explanation for why publishers overwhelming focus on multiplayer titles despite consumer demand is that multiplayer games are much harder to pirate

Everyone is trying to build AAAA "live service" games because fortnite and friends made a gazillion dollars. They did that by essentially being a very new experience (no, shitty arma mods do not count, they were so clunky you have to be a special kind of patient and weird to enjoy them), so everyone tried it, and that meant they could capture almost any whale, and Epic eventually figured out you could milk literal children and whales for all of their money, because kids will bully each other into buying freaking character skins that used to be just an unlockable or option in multiplayer gaming

The problem is that, to properly milk the whales, you have to follow specific strategies that encourage their "I'm better than you because I paid $100 instead of wasting 100 hours" mentality, which means you have to make it suck to not be a whale so that the whales can feel so superior, and to help drive potential whales into entering their payment info and becoming milkable whales.

That means that non-whale players, the majority, have to treat the game as a part time job just to keep up with released content (which is partially enforced by the game or community) or else just not get to experience the majority of the game. The game requires more effort per unit of "fun" you want to experience because it has to in order to trigger the whale catching effects.

However, most people only have time in their life for one of these part time jobs, including the whales, which means the market is fixed. There's only enough player time and whale money to support a small, fixed number of these games. That's why they keep failing, there are strong network effects, and nobody wants to "invest" in a new game.

Maybe? Seems like more and more publishers are trying to sneak in a required internet connection for single player.

I've never heard of this method, sounds like a great way to stay in the flow state without burning out

Small nitpick, instead of having a "back to home" button on the left, maybe just make the logo in the navbar a link to the homepage.

> Also you can't directly connect to steamVR without going through Quest link

Is this true? I have a quest 2 and just downloaded the steam link app and it seems to just work. Are you talking about wired?

Yes. The app will work over wireless. Not wired.

I've had a lot of luck with dokku. It uses docker so it's more heavyweight, but it's super simple and scales really well

Dokku maintainer here.

Dokku itself doesn't run anything in resident (there is a small go binary that listens to the docker event stream and restarts apps as necessary but thats it), so there shouldn't be overhead there.

On the Docker side, there is a _slight_ amount of overhead in cpu/networking, but its so negligible that its sometimes difficult to benchmark. While I can't really make changes to Docker to alleviate issues, I'd be interested in knowing what parts of Docker are heavyweight so we can better surface any such information to Dokku users.