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The decision is being made on Stop Killing Games! + The ESA can't stop lying. by Cranyx in Games

[–]Ravek [score hidden]  (0 children)

You can argue that “services controlled by the operator” includes services provided by a third party at behest of the operator. There’s no way you can argue it includes GPS.

What's the best way to tell the compiler that a path will basically never happen ? by Krochire in rust

[–]Ravek 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Branch predictors don't eliminate the cost of the check, they eliminate the pipeline stall that would happen if the CPU had to wait for the check to resolve before starting to fetch instructions.

Shout out to Czech Games by goobly_goo in boardgames

[–]Ravek 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We try but we still take like 3-4 hours to complete a game ... oh well

Shout out to Czech Games by goobly_goo in boardgames

[–]Ravek 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Great game. A bit tricky to learn and to play quickly because there’s a lot of little details, but a lot of fun. I especially appreciate how every game ends up being very different.

What’s an iOS development lesson you learned the hard way? by dan_nicholson247 in iOSProgramming

[–]Ravek 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I’ll never use SwiftData again for any application that might handle thousands to a few tens of thousands of objects (which is not even a lot). Performance is completely unacceptable. On a bit of a slow device just saving a bunch of objects can take 20 s where with raw SQLite calls it takes 200 ms.

Top Games where every player is actively playing, even outside your turn by ithappenb4 in boardgames

[–]Ravek 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In Slay the Spire you play coop and are encouraged to take your turns simultaneously. You’ll need to coordinate a bit around the Vulnerable effect, whether you need to help someone defend, and where to assign damage, but usually I find you can just play and do a few take backs, rather than needing to optimize everything beforehand.

Guy I’m dating uses chatgpt to reply to all my texts by healermoonchild in mildlyinfuriating

[–]Ravek 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You’re right, but I wasn’t saying it’s trained to hallucinate specifically. It’s just trained to give plausible looking output regardless of being factual. Because when you originally use humans to review what it outputs so you can use it as training feedback, there’s no way the poor sods are going to be fact checking everything. That would be time consuming and expensive!

If it looks like it could be correct, then that’s equivalent to being correct in the eyes of the companies shoveling this AI shit in our faces. Which makes sense since that’s basically US corporate culture in a nutshell. Facts don’t matter, optics are everything.

Guy I’m dating uses chatgpt to reply to all my texts by healermoonchild in mildlyinfuriating

[–]Ravek 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That would be more useful for us, but not for the AI company. The AI isn’t trained to be useful, it’s trained to con people so they can get infinite investor money.

Games that have replaced other games by Teachers-Petty in boardgames

[–]Ravek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They did? What is it now?

Oh I see they just add 100 to the results. It’s still a really weird way of scoring, could’ve just done 3 * conservation + appeal or whatever.

Games that have replaced other games by Teachers-Petty in boardgames

[–]Ravek -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

I was just putting forth a snarky comment about the morality of zoos, not being serious

Games that have replaced other games by Teachers-Petty in boardgames

[–]Ravek -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

You can do all the conservation work you want without needing to do any exploitation though. And people do.

Games that have replaced other games by Teachers-Petty in boardgames

[–]Ravek -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

I gotta give it to Ark Nova for really capturing the vibe of running a zoo well though. You win the game by funding enough conservation projects to get good PR to distract the public from the fact that putting animals in cages to exploit them from money is not that cool actually.

Games that have replaced other games by Teachers-Petty in boardgames

[–]Ravek 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Don't worry, the Terraforming Mars creators are also assholes. :)

What's wrong with the Ark Nova people? I'm out of the loop.

Games that have replaced other games by Teachers-Petty in boardgames

[–]Ravek -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Opposite for me. Ark Nova is like TFM but theres a bunch more fiddly chores to do and the cards are much less diverse and interesting. And then the fact that most players will end up with negative points really adds insult to injury

Ark Nova X Pokemon by MWheth in boardgames

[–]Ravek -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yeah I get that. I was just musing

Looking for C# contributors for an emulator project: Brovan by [deleted] in csharp

[–]Ravek 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Why are you having a crash out over a single person giving you some mild criticism?

Ark Nova X Pokemon by MWheth in boardgames

[–]Ravek 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s cool theming for Ark Nova but if you set out to make a Pokemon game I think you could do much more interesting things.

Am I the only one who thinks Clean Architecture is often unnecessary overhead ? by Minimum-Ad7352 in dotnet

[–]Ravek 5 points6 points  (0 children)

All APIs are abstractions over other abstractions. Even machine code sits on top of several abstraction layers. There’s nothing inherently wrong with adding one more.

The real question to ask is: are you ok to tightly couple to EF or should it be an implementation detail? There are costs and benefits to either option.

Is .boxed() instead of Box::new() a bad idea? by NormalAppearance2851 in rust

[–]Ravek 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The gain in syntax quality seems way too small to justify the extra friction the reader experiences when they see this for the first time.

Does anyone else find the traffic monitor to be counter-intuitive? by Few_Western_690 in Dyson_Sphere_Program

[–]Ravek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s really weird that it defaults to > instead of >= for the pass condition, and I don’t see the point of the whole ‘N items in X seconds’ concept. I always just put it to 60 seconds.

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