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MPV is on android too. But VLC is alright

Look at ECS and game dev. Some may say games are just products, yet some real engineering is done in some places.

Scientists come from all facets of life you know? Some might've even been at FAANG at some point :)

The license is the way it is not by choice. We should be clear about that and acknowledge KHTML, and both Safari and Chromium origins. Some parts remain LGPL to this day.

They "own the web". They steer its standards, and other browsers' development paths (if they want to remain relevant).

It is remarkable the anti-trust case went as it did.

I would reccomend one to take a look at the usual frequency response of cheap drivers or the inherent flaws of the consumer tech over time and compare it with the evolution of pop music.

Audio engineers are for sure taking all this into account, and more (:

Can assure you it has been happening for a while.

There are also many other classical thresholding algos. Don't worry about it :)

Have you thought that you may want the window for this to be super small and that whitespace you see no longer exists?

Thing is, they only help to an extent. There are many golden nuggets out in wild waiting to be seen, most don't realize this and end up writing or thinking along the same lines as others already have. You are limiting the potential of your review by doing this, and finding those golden nuggets is your true goal. You need to get out of the local maxima my brother. Your goal is to give these golden nuggets the sunlight they need.

I believe that many of the criticisms are either naive or intentionally ignore the importance of ethical oversight in research. The existence of these processes ensures that research is conducted with rigor and thought, which is crucial for maintaining high standards. Some examples suggest they aim at those high standards, and yet fail to see the value on these.

These applications allow you to dissect, discuss and reason about every presumption you had coming in, how you handle people's data with care, understand the risks and be prepared for anything.

They help both you and your participants. Help you not be an idiot, help you to grow and question your own procedures, and ultimately help you write the damn paper as you have clearly given the matter enough thought at that point. You need to prove yourself, and that is a good thing.

> This maybe didn't exist at the time of writing of this blog post. But this is not super difficult now a days- though it does take some time. You can use services like connectedpapers.com which will build out graphs of references and will at a glance tell you which papers are sited more. You can find the more reliable stuff .. ie the "node papers".

True, but the aim isn't really in finding which ones are cited the most, although it does help you in the ordeal. In a sense those tools help having a macro understanding, but are very prone to an initial seed bias. It is difficult to get out of a closed sub-section of the field. This is especially the case in technical papers, which often fail to address surrounding issues. These issues might still be technical, just not within the grasp of that particular sub-group of authors.

In the end, like you said, it is very time consuming. You do need to go through each one individually and build an understanding and intuition for what to look for, and how to get out of those "cycles" for a deeper understanding. And you really are better off reading them yourself.

> The review paper is the traditional way. It's usually okay.. but very biased towards the author's background. > > If it's very "fresh of the press" stuff then you judge it based on the journal's reputation and hope the reviews did their jobs. You will have more garbage to wade through. To me recent is generally bad...

Some guidelines like PRISMA, or the various assessments of self-bias are generally good indicators the author cared. Having sections like these will help you getting the aforementioned intuition for what else to look through, given you have a recognition from the source itself of their bias (your own assessment may be biased, so some ground truth is good). Plus really thorough description of their methods for gathering the information (databases, queries, and themes they spent time on).

Agreed recent is generally bad, you need to allow some time for things to have a chance to get looked at.

> It is a hobby project by a dilettante.

You could say the same about thousands of open source projects on which trillion dollar companies depend on. Maybe these kind souls deserve more respect, buddy.

It is a small company in a niche, they were just by trying to survive.

I've not used their OS but have been thinking for a while, and spent some time in their forums. I remember some dev saying this along those lines.

Using Steam as a benchmark for Mac users will always result in lower percentages, as Apple has a more established gaming hub / store themselves.

For example, this game is on Apple Store (for Mac)⋮

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/resident-evil-village-for-mac/...

Not on Steam:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1196590/discussions/0/3484123...

Same happens with Ubisoft titles.

But, regarding the source, here you go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_syste...

I do agree the way these are gathered is not perfect. But closer to reality, or would you assume Mac presence in lower than Linux?

Yeah, a sad state of affairs.

Europe would be more concern if there was more trust in the current US government. Besides, European politicians have been so naive they have let China use their financial power to exert pressure, they are slowly waking up to it, but not fast enough.

Looking into the past everyone looks like a barbarian. And yes, the use of the word was meant as sarcasm.

Thanks for that. It's really incredible how much stigma GPLv3 has, makes you wonder sometimes.

I'm counting Mac, as other posts in this thread suggest.

Steam Deck does about 8w.

Yup, right on target.

DirectX has such a pull for game devs Sony has made a so called PlayStation Shader Language (PSSL), made to be very similar to the HLSL standard in DirectX 12. Granted this was an effort to meet where devs are, given how difficult it was to develop for the PS3. But then again, that's where devs are.

I mentioned DirectX as a clear enough example, but there are other decisions just like it.

Hell, most studios use Unreal nowadays, it already has their own RHI (Rendering Hardware Interface) between them and the graphics API. It really isn't much effort to start new projects targetting Metal or Vulkan.

Some have noticed this section of the market, in which they can grow, like Ubisoft and Capcom (see their games on Mac and iOS) which is why I said it's slowly changing. And that demonstrates it really isn't difficult.

Funny note: Have heard from a bird that Ubisoft's many engines had Vulkan support so their games could run under Google Stadia's servers. As soon as that got killed so did those engine branches. This just shows it isn't difficult at all. And it isn't a surprise they also acknowledged this by now using Metal to reach Apple's users.

The industry is failing, and there is still plenty of market to grow. Ubisoft and Capcom have realized this, others can as well. It makes no sense to leave 19% of the market on the table. It isn't 2006 anymore.

I apologise not being clear before, I really wanted to mean kernel level anti-cheat.

Besides, in privately owned servers you were protect via human mods, who were there playing with you. They would bring down the banhammer when a sufficiently suspicious player was deemed as cheating. That is the biggest issue nowadays, one that has brought the bar even higher for anti-cheat solutions. They are now the ONLY line of defense. It really is clear as day that anti-cheat solutions got more and more intrusive as more games stopped allowing third-party servers to exist.

I'm a game dev, I see this, I understand the intentions, I get the consequences. In many ways the intentions weren't bad, it does create a more unified competitive experience. But it made it impossible to not resort to kernel level anti-cheat, even though it is a fruitless effort as so much of the game still needs to be rendered by the end-user's machine (of course, the grim reality is that cloud streaming is the end goal for any competitive game if we continue down this path).

Punkbuster isn't tied to a kernel, that was what I meant.

I feel better having a physical token like an ID than it being on my phone, however.

It's the product of a government owned company... in China. What do you expect?

Moreover, what you write is monitored, and you may loose documents based on what you write [1].

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-frozen-document-in-china-unle...

Doesn't look comfortable. Either way the same happens in humans, doesn't mean it is a good genetic mutation.

GPUs are needed for plenty of reasons. I assume plenty have a decent dGPU, even on laptops.