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And exactly why Apple's push for Mac gaming (which still puts native ports as the ultimate goal and treats things like GPTK, despite having made it, only as "ways for developers to preview how the port would end up" and not intended for general consumer use) is never going to work, no matter how much cash they throw at it.

A major advantage of using modern game engines is the multiplatform support. This seems pretty weak on that front.

"Yoke" is pronounced like "yo K", not like the control wheel of an aircraft.

(Then again, seeing how nobody pronounces Pokémon as Pokémon, I guess striving for accurate pronunciation is a lost cause)

To be pedantic, two cameras were enough for the headset to track itself (eg. Lenovo Mirage Solo). The reason that headsets nowadays have 4 cameras is for it to also track the hand controllers that are being held by the user and being flung around nearby...which this also seems to lack.

Right - the fact that Emoji and Emoticons share the first 3 letters is a complete coincidence; The word Emoji is a portmanteau of the Japanese words É (絵; picture) and Moji (文字; letters).

How many "____, the Japanese ____ of ____" exist?

So, whatGate is the scandal's name this time?

As a Japanese native I'm torn on this. On one hand, respecting the local ordering & notation seems to be good manners. On the other hand, this creates an ambiguity where some people are writing Asian names in local notation and some others writing in western notation. (This is even true for Japanese people themselves, as mentioned in the other comments.)

At least things were consistent when everyone wrote them in western notation; now we can't be sure which part is the family name and which part is the given name, especially if it's from a country that you're not familiar with the order/notation rules. There's the "write the family name in all caps" rule to assist with it, but not everyone follows that rule either.

Not covered here: fonts and glyph appearances, which will nearly always end up displaying wrong in certain Asian languages -- https://heistak.github.io/your-code-displays-japanese-wrong/

Gonna be eagerly waiting for the time when we can finally change our behavior at will, be it neural implants or nanomachines or whatever other method of direct intervention to the brain.

Only one paragraph for l10n and i18n? A GUI framework written only by people speaking English is 99% most definitely going to get font display wrong ( https://heistak.github.io/your-code-displays-japanese-wrong/ ) and will have a plethora of locale-specific behavior bugs ( https://heistak.github.io/your-code-displays-japanese-wrong/... ).

I can't be the only one who initially misread UAE as UAC.

Despite all the renovation, the newly installed 2023 toilets don't look that different from the ones it replaced.

Electronic bidet toilets should really be the norm by now. Sad that the expectations haven't changed.

Well, "never" is a strong enough word to extend even into science fiction land (or 100, 1000, 10000, 100000 years into the future and beyond). Hence the reaction you got.

I myself don't strongly agree nor disagree with the individual arguments -- I'm not knowledgeable enough on the subject to form an opinion either for or against -- but the point was rather on the very strong hostile emotions displayed by the people posting them. It's like the hatred comes first and the individual arguments are brought up afterwards to justify it. I'm wondering where and why such negative sentiments come up.

Looking at social media in Japan, I tend to see strong enmity towards solar -- eg large solar farms destroy the surrounding environment, they don't fit in with Japan's mountainous terrain and are prone to breakage during storms and landslides, failure to generate after snow, processing of obsolete units, etc. While there seems to be merit to many of the arguments made, the overall hostile attitude towards solar in general comes off as surprising; it's as if they think solar is by default evil. Wondering what shaped this attitude.

This was probably written with only the English-speaking part of Twitter in the writer's field of view. English in Twitter doesn't comprise even a third of all tweets ( https://www.vicinitas.io/blog/twitter-social-media-strategy-... ); in fact, for pure tweets that aren't RTs nor replies, the above data even shows there are more Japanese tweets than there are in English, albeit by a slim margin.

So, I agree it's about the people, but I don't see the people leaving, at least in the languages I use.

Both the Japanese video sharing site Nico Nico Video (nicovideo.jp) and art commission site Skeb (skeb.jp) have regularly made statements about their intent of regulating their services based on Japanese law, and explicitly NOT what US-based tech companies impose on their services.

Skeb is even in the process of launching its own cryptocurrency, intended for use in payment within the service, to avoid pressure from US-based credit card networks like Visa or MasterCard.

Personally I am strongly on the opinion of favoring openness, but since you asked, there was this: https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/xofxo3/a_j...

The hoax was pretty quickly debunked, as the attempt was pretty crude. The images were full of artifacts and the image sizes were all 512x512 squares (the default image size for Stable Diffusion) with no attempt made to crop it to more common aspect ratios. So in terms of harm "done" I guess it was pretty minor, but I'm still leaving it out here since it made big enough of a commotion to make it to nationwide news stories.

512x512 is standard for SD generated images, but seems pretty low res when you look at it as a stock photo. Might be good to provide an AI upscaled version of the image for download.

Which is the reason that Apple is never going to conquer "traditional" gaming. Traditional games (ones that are NOT perpetually updated live services) and rock-solid-stable development targets have always been very close -- game consoles would always be guaranteed to run any game that's ever been officially released for it, even if it's an unpatched launch-day game running on the final hardware revision of console 8 years after release.

Even if Mac hardware manages to vastly outrun the top end gaming PCs on raw performance, they'll never be seen as serious mainstream targets for this reason alone.

You can say that when that's true for all global markets.

Came to say this. They operate under the same rules of physics; it should just be as likely that their planetary motions and cultural history will also force them into weird counting systems.

Japan uses the Western calendar pretty much as-is. One addition is the Japanese gengou system of year/era counting, which resets with a new era name every time a new emperor is enthroned (at least in recent years). Most people are aware of and use both the Western and Japanese methods of year counting, though.

The last reset was in May 1st 2019, when Heisei year 31 switched to Reiwa year 1. (Yes, a single year can have two era-based names since the switch doesn't necessarily occur on New Year's Day. Annoying.) It is now Reiwa 4.

I've gotten it running with a Radeon RX 6800 on Ubuntu Linux 22.04 (with overwriting PyTorch with a ROCm-supporting version), and on Windows 10 (in a very barebones way using ONNX), but are there better, more full-featured ways to get it running on Windows? Would love to know.

The inspiration for the title of Pink Floyd's album "Atom Heart Mother".

What exactly is "software" though? Is it just the code, or does it include the whole tech infrastructure that runs it, or even all the business agreements that makes the service possible and makes it all available to the end user? For the average user, the perception of software is increasingly shifting towards the third definition.

I agree the first definition can be cloned fairly quickly, but the second is tougher, and the third requires cloning of practically the entire company operations. Imagine how hard it would be to, say, make an open source clone of something like Netflix, INCLUDING the vast majority of the video content provided -- all legally, of course!

I think Windows' focus on backwards compatibility is part of what made it the default gaming platform on personal computers. Macs will never be a serious platform for gaming, even if they begin offering more performance, as long as they keep their obsession with wiping the slate clean and throwing developers off every 5-10 years or so. (I mean... 680x0, PowerPC, Mac OS X, x86, 64-bit-only, Apple Silicon, just how many breaking transitions do they have to go through?)

If they were pressuring/coercing creators into creating only works that avoids a specific depiction, I think it'd be a problem. But this seems only to be a service for the receiving end of media, so I don't see the problem there.

It's no different from using a user CSS or a Greasemonkey script on the client-side to filter what we want to see on the web; it works only for that specific user and doesn't directly affect the server/creator side.

VR development is very video-gamey, so tools used for videogame development is used the most: Unity, Unreal Engine, bespoke engines written in C++, Godot, etc.

The default Oculus browser supports WebXR, so if you want a more webby tech stack you can start building using stuff like A-Frame or Mozilla Hubs. Though, be aware that whatever you can run in web-based VR is still pretty much second-class citizen status, with heavy performance/usability restrictions.