The JIT compiler of Java does the optimization you’re talking about. So that advantage of C++ is not really there.

You can compile C++ for all architectures you want as well. The reason you don’t normally use Java for clients is that the garbage collector runs at undefined times, causing stuttering. This has been rectified through new algorithms though, so the real reason why you don’t wanna use Java is because it simply doesn’t have the best tooling and libraries that C++ has, no Unreal engine and no Godot.

Why the fuck would you go for Backend in C++ and frontend in Java 🤣 just the wrong way around

I think what people mean when they say this is that they are looking for the same price point as the equivalent Windows device… I don’t know all these companies but every time I looked for a Linux PC/laptop it was 25-30% more expensive than the equivalent Windows thing.

The reason this is as public as it is is because an archive like this is more useful the more is archived. If you manage it in an entirely hidden way, you basically won’t get it accessible from the clearnet and are relegated to keep it on Tor or similar. And once you do that, a lot less people will use it and thus it’ll be a lot less useful.

Also, they are not only fighting for an archive to exist, they’re fighting for it being a societally acceptable thing to exist.

That doesn’t work, you can’t train models on another model’s output without degrading the quality. At least not currently.

You’re the one who brought up runit and insinuated it doesn’t have this problem ¯_(ツ)_/¯

I don’t know runit. Maybe runit didn’t even have a way to delay or customize shutdown, maybe it always just waits 5 seconds and then forcibly terminates a process, resulting in you never noticing when a cleanup job was too slow. Maybe you just randomly never installed a particular program with a slow shutdown job while using runit. There’s a bunch of reasonable explanations and possibilities for why this difference exists, and they can all mean systemd is perfectly reasonable.

systemd moment in the sense that someone not affiliated with systemd used systemd to write a stop job that doesn’t terminate quickly? Or that you willingly installed software that brought along a slow stop job with it?

This is like so far away from systemd’s fault, idk, it must just be a meme right?

It does indeed work on Firefox mobile with tampermonkey. I should know, I implemented this and am using it that way mostly :D Don’t like many of the apps.

I use this on the Android Firefox browser :D didn’t like the apps at the time I made this, that’s why I made sure that it’s compatible with mobile Firefox as well.

You can’t really. Only solution for me was to just not work 5 days a week. If you have a good job now… likely 3/5ths, so 3 days a week, will also make you able to support yourself.

This is one of the funniest posts I’ve seen here so far. Thanks for that! I unfortunately don’t otherwise have anything to add that hasn’t already been said, just wanted you to know that I enjoyed it a lot :)

Sure, I’m not unreasonable. I hate against exclusives, because I’m sure it’d be better without them, but Nintendo is not entirely terrible. It’s never completely black & white.

Yes but can you really know that Bayonetta would not have been made without exclusives? Maybe if exclusives didn’t exist Bayonetta would’ve just secured funding some other way. You can’t know that now anymore, because that’s not what happened, but it’s not entirely unreasonable to believe that Bayonetta could have turned to other funding sources, if the situation was different at the time.

Yep this is extremely weird. Public voting is reaaaally bad at this. I’m sorry, but Minecraft has sold over 300 million times. That’s literally 3.75% of the whole world’s population. It’s what a whole generation of kids grew up with, what shaped their minds massively.

Shenmue has sold 1.2 million, I had never even heard of it (which admittedly is not a measure of influence, but it does mean something), and while it apparently was one of the first games with such an extensive open world, open worlds in general were already very desired, Shenmue didn’t influence anything really, it just tried to do it on a more massive scale, and even failed spectacularly economically.

Probably not a person on the world (that does computer games at all) exists who hasn’t heard of Minecraft.

It’s quite obvious that Minecraft should be ranked higher than Shenmue, but this questionnaire quite obviously only reached a very old demographic.

You for some reason assume that games would not have existed if not for being exclusive. But you do not actually know that. Yes, exclusive games do exist. But also quite obviously non-exclusive games exist. It is obviously possible to get games funded without being exclusive.

It is impossible to predict the future, or similarly, predict alternative versions of the past. I do not claim to know for sure that the same amount of games would exist without exclusivity. But since non-exclusive games are possible, and actually in the majority, it seems very likely to me that when a consumer demand is there, supply for it would be created.

In the end, this is an argument about cooperation vs competition. The argument for exclusives is basically an argument for competition. The argument against exclusives is one for cooperation. My base thinking is, why create many different consoles, that all just contain a CPU, some graphical processing unit, some way to load games on it, when you can just save the work of everyone developing their own thing and duplicating work, when everyone could just work together to create the same thing, just with more minds working together and without duplicating work.

Yep. But aren’t we glad we have competition! Aren’t we glad we duplicate research/work all the time! We’d never think of improvements without this.

Which, reasonably, should work anywhere and not only on Switch. But of course we must arbitrarily create scarcity for more profit.

Exclusives are cancer. Computers should be able to compute everything. Nintendo’s/console strategy is an absolute travesty for human progress, like almost all capitalist strategy.

Of course they’re fucking leechers, only 0.3 ratio? Pathetic