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LoSboccacc··on The Future of RTS
"From the depths" just turned into a logistic based rts, there's a block building aspect to it but plenty units on the workshop if you want to skip that part

It's also fairly often on good sales

LoSboccacc··on The Future of RTS
planetary annihilation disagrees, not that your analysis is wrong, because it touches many pain points of the rts genre, but indie succeses with simple graphic do exist.

(also: castle story, darwinia, star ruler in the simple graphics and indie category, zero-k and uncountable space rts in the indie category)

on the other side, Hearts Of Iron and Total War Warhammer sit quite high on steam charts, maybe not runaway success, but they aren't obscure, niche titles either, they both have more players and in-game hours than DayZ and Red Dead Redemption 2, to give you a point of reference, which were both considered hits.

I think the list it's missing two major points: developing a rts cut you off the largish console market (albeit some success exist, it's an uphill battle) and a rts has both a large time commitment and skill ceiling, especially in today online dominated market, so it's a thought sell to the ever growing casual gamers market.

LoSboccacc··on UK and EU agree Brexit trade deal
lol you lot downvoting have you ever heard of the Maastricht criteria?

this site is a riot

LoSboccacc··on UK and EU agree Brexit trade deal
> it already meets the requirement

I wonder whether that is actually true, isn't the state budget coming in significant part from the UK? I wonder how would that be stacked against Maastricht treaty parameters

LoSboccacc··on Google told its scientists to ‘strike a positive tone’ in AI research
yeah no, imagine watergate without the address book, the tapes and the bank records.
LoSboccacc··on PC DOS Reimagined
Idk, waiting on a task kick me out of the zone real fast, and as I age it takes longer for me to get into it.
LoSboccacc··on Google told its scientists to ‘strike a positive tone’ in AI research
journalist should at the very least receive, see and validate documents veridicity. here it's "internal correspondence read to Reuters."

from a highly politicized topic with a lot of disinformation being thrown around from both side, it's hardly sufficient.

but apparently you all happy enough to live in a post factual society where journalist have no longer to validate sources' claims, so be it

LoSboccacc··on Google told its scientists to ‘strike a positive tone’ in AI research
> internal correspondence read to Reuters

so, all of this opinion piece is based on hearsay?

LoSboccacc··on Bare-Metal Kubernetes with K3s
same, I tried for my test environment server but there were too many undocumented configuration steps, eventually just went with a single node minikube and that was that, I'd love an article with all the kinks worked out.
LoSboccacc··on Why can’t you buy a good webcam?
Eh, do really consumer want them? Like not pros that do streaming for a living etc, but the people doing conferencing or the occasional capture?

They will hit local, isps or teleconferencing bandwidth cap well before sending all the bits a webcam captures, with subsequent recompression to crap quality.

Why would they bother then?

LoSboccacc··on Startup Stock Options – Why A Good Deal Has Gone Bad (2019)
It's not the CEO that became more effective tho, it's the money.

You can't do a Tesla without PayPal exit level of money, you can't do a PayPal without zip2 exit money and you can't make a zip2 without a real estate agent footing the initial bills

It's financial levers all the way down

LoSboccacc··on Ignore AMP
> Users also get the short end by being served low quality pages instead of the full experiences they expect.

exactly this, it's WAP/WML all over again

LoSboccacc··on Hallucinations re: the rendering of Cyberpunk 2077
We're kostly hearing people having troubles of course as they're the most vocal so it's hard to paint a complete picture, but I think it's in part from how fragmented console performances have become.

So you hear complaint from people with PS4 Pro and people with standard PS4 that swear they only have few issues but playable performances, which makes no sense unless the game is dependent on some less visible spec, like the performances of the media it has been saved to, which circles back to the original point, consoles are no longer this stable, uniform hardware that's hard to master but easy to support, and the requirement to target every hardware combination is anachronistic

LoSboccacc··on Amazon disallows pointing out paid reviews
Careful with battery and always connected devices, local market items and export market items are likely to run trough different lines with different markup targets and fault tolerances
LoSboccacc··on Amazon disallows pointing out paid reviews
The factories will want to sell you pallets of the stuff.

What you want is the export agent, he will likely send a sample if you can produce a valid company profile

You will even pay reduced taxes for a sample, but make sure they have already a business relationship in your general area because they will have already done the legwork to certify the product and it'll clear custom straight away

LoSboccacc··on LiquidPiston's “inside-out” rotary X-Engine wins Army research contract
> 40-lb (18-kg), 6.5-hp engine out of the go-kart in the video above, and replaced it with a 4.5-lb (2-kg) X-Engine making 3 hp.

This is a completely flawed comparison power and weight don't interchange linearly as cooling requirements and seam inefficiencies drive size up and power down as power grows.

LoSboccacc··on Gmail having issues
> the same quality of service

and the weight of google as well!

an individual mail getting onto an blacklist is most often than not a dead sentence for the address, the domain and sometimes even the ip.

but if google is at fault and email get into a permanently removed bucket, like in this event, it's in the interest of the other to play nice and accommodate for the fault.

I think people severely underestimate how hard it actually is to consistently deliver email in 2020 between dkim, spf and domain keys while tiptoeing around everyone else ip/email antispam services.

LoSboccacc··on A palm oil alternative could help save rainforests
there's an abyss between "saturated fat are evil" and "eating a stick of butter every day is great for your health" but apparently the forum is looking for a science based dichotomy, which cannot exist because nutrition is all about daily intake - hence why my original post topic was about proportions and only tangentially related to saturated fat health, and why I carefully avoided to answer to the clear bait: notice how the same poster is claiming two post above that palm oil is good for health, but he doesn't provide any citation, instead pretending that everyone else does the homework for him.
LoSboccacc··on A palm oil alternative could help save rainforests
the health angle comes from the proportions of monounsaturated, polyunsaturated and saturated fats presented in the mix, but so does the mechanical angle that makes one mix more useful than another in recipes, i.e. spreads and biscuits; the saturated fats that are responsible for soft spreads and buttery biscuits are also the one that are bad for health.

on the other hand palm oil is just a collection of acids, primarily the saturated palmitic acid, but while the naming stuck because it was firstly isolated there, most oil and fats contains a similar set of the same fatty acids in different proportions; pure butter contains like 15% of naturally occurring palmitic acid, and olive oil contains likewise 5-10% of the stuff.

so well you can take any kind of oil, dilute or reinforce it with saturated / monounsaturated fats, and change it's healthiness in proportion of the rest of the recipe, but in doing so you also change their mechanical properties.

LoSboccacc··on Europe's Biggest Vertical Farm Will Be Powered by Wind and Planted by Robots
> I wish we could just remove the word 'chemicals' from the English language

and I wish people would read the full sentences before entering a debate, because it was completely clear this wasn't about the specific fertilizers usage in situ, but pollutant released during production ( one of many examples https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/06/190606183254.h... you can find, about every precursor can and is leaked in the environment ) and after usage (even assuming it's closed off, which it isn't, you need to scrub waste and put it somewhere or reprocess it at some cost)

is it so bad to be curious about these cost in hyper intensive production, especially since they aren't available in this press release?

LoSboccacc··on Europe's Biggest Vertical Farm Will Be Powered by Wind and Planted by Robots
all these mechanical parts will cause pollution both in their production and their disposal.

365 days of production will also require some heavy fertilization cycles, so more chemicals to be produced and disposed.

I don't see that talked much and might very well come ahead with the efficiency of scale in having all these thing stacked instead of dispersed over a large tract of land, but these thing are an important aspect and hopefully what will come out of this deployment is some hard data about the impact they have.

LoSboccacc··on U-2: The veteran spyplane too valuable to replace
http://www.cadhistory.net/13%20IBM,%20Lockheed%20and%20Dassa...

another likely inflexion point was the introduction of CADAM around the period

LoSboccacc··on A QR code built from Emoji
The 2015 spec clearly call for support for both dark over light and light over dark, and doesn't constrain light and dark to black and white.
LoSboccacc··on My Son Was Killed Because I’m a Federal Judge
Unless you correct for education, wealth distribution and Asher things like gang affiliations that's be selection bias too; there's just much more than "firearms deaths/firearms ownership" going on.
LoSboccacc··on My Son Was Killed Because I’m a Federal Judge
But these are budget items, not laws
LoSboccacc··on If All You Have Is a Database, Everything Looks Like a Nail
Most of the app I write have a sla and a load balancer is a great piece to have ready for simplifying/automating rolling updates, even if the backend has a single node
LoSboccacc··on If All You Have Is a Database, Everything Looks Like a Nail
I think a lot of people here conflates using kubernetes (not actually more difficult than any other container service) with running a kubernet cluster (a difficult mess and it was even included in the original post)
LoSboccacc··on If All You Have Is a Database, Everything Looks Like a Nail
you need something to run the containers anyway, and with all the management overhead docker and other systems adds, one can just cut the chase and let an orchestrator do it
LoSboccacc··on If All You Have Is a Database, Everything Looks Like a Nail
I agree against microservices where they aren't in real need, and that a single database can go along way if well designed, since ram today is abundant everywhere and stuff like moving indexes on dedicated disks with dedicated iops is as easy as ever. but why the hate against kubernetes?

even your bog standard java three tier app gets some tangible benefit from being dockerized (repeatability, whole os image versioning) and placed in a node that abstract everything else (load balancing, routing, rolling deployments etc)

at the lowest level, it's just a descriptor for infrastructure, it impacts nothing of your app or business logic unless you want it to.

even single node testing environments are covered one way or another (my fav now is minikube), the only real limit is one having a requirement for self hosting.

LoSboccacc··on Uber sells self-driving unit in deal that will push Aurora’s valuation to $10B
because they have something tangible on their books producing value: the line for the cars.

without the self driving vertical promises, uber is a middleman with a booking app, and they're one squeeze away from tesla or waymo into irrelevance.

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