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New comment by dontlaugh in "Bill to block publishers from killing online games advances in California"

dontlaugh — Sat, 16 May 2026 12:28:32 +0000

Plenty of games (especially MMOs) have lots of gameplay logic in the server. In many cases that is intertwined with the rest of the intrastructure, like databases, logging, deployment or even subscription services. Lots of games simply wouldn’t be functional without the publisher’s infrastructure.

Of course that is regrettable and could be changed, but it would require a significant change in incentives.

New comment by dontlaugh in "How to make a fast dynamic language interpreter"

dontlaugh — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 10:29:09 +0000

Python is worse, but not by all that much. After all, PyPy has been several times faster for many years.

New comment by dontlaugh in "MacBook Air with M5"

dontlaugh — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 18:27:33 +0000

It does actually help. All heat radiated into the aluminium isn’t in the copper, so makes it to the environment. The copper remains cooler overall.

New comment by dontlaugh in "Why is Claude an Electron app?"

dontlaugh — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 09:40:34 +0000

Gmail was free, undercutting has always worked. Amazon does similar.

Using market success to excuse poor UX is pointless.

New comment by dontlaugh in "CXMT has been offering DDR4 chips at about half the prevailing market rate"

dontlaugh — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 09:22:35 +0000

Why would they bother to invade Taiwan when they’re winning economically and diplomatically?

Public opinion in Taiwan is rapidly changing towards peaceful re-unification and no one anywhere on earth trust the US will help them with anything.

New comment by dontlaugh in "How far back in time can you understand English?"

dontlaugh — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 03:57:04 +0000

The other big problem would be the lack of intelligibility of English written by native speakers from different places.

New comment by dontlaugh in "Wine-Staging 11.1 Adds Patches for Enabling Recent Photoshop Versions on Linux"

dontlaugh — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 08:07:04 +0000

They’re killing Xbox themselves already, I doubt they care anymore.

New comment by dontlaugh in "Linux is good now"

dontlaugh — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 15:17:39 +0000

All major consoles support keyboard & mouse or similar.

The problem is more the audience. Console players generally expect to be able to just connect the console to the TV, sit on the sofa and play with the official controller. That’s all the game are required to support to be published on the platform.

Even if you were willing to play at a desk, you’d be matchmaking into a special (and small) mouse pool on the console game. Anyone willing to go through so much faff will accept the extra annoyances of a PC, even with kernel anti cheat.

New comment by dontlaugh in "The Origin of the Terms Big-Endian and Little-Endian (2003)"

dontlaugh — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 01:00:27 +0000

I was wrong about QUIC, for some reason I was sure I'd read it's little-endian.

I'm just pointing out that UDP is an extremely thin wrapper over IP and the preferred way of implementing new protocols. It seems likely we'll eventually replace at least some of our protocols and deprecate old ones and I was under the impression new ones tended to be little endian.

New comment by dontlaugh in "Linux is good now"

dontlaugh — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 22:48:06 +0000

Sure, that helps.

But even then, when everyone is trying out a new indie game there’s a chance it won’t work on non-Windows. It’s happened to me.

New comment by dontlaugh in "Linux is good now"

dontlaugh — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 22:33:56 +0000

They don’t care, they’re defunding Xbox and even the Windows team is hollowed out.

New comment by dontlaugh in "Linux is good now"

dontlaugh — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 22:32:52 +0000

If you want to play games with friends, you have to play whatever the group plays. This is especially problematic as the group tries out new games, increasing the chance you can’t join because you’re not on Windows.

New comment by dontlaugh in "The Origin of the Terms Big-Endian and Little-Endian (2003)"

dontlaugh — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 18:44:05 +0000

Oh really? I must’ve misread.

New comment by dontlaugh in "Sony PS5 ROM keys leaked – jailbreaking could be made easier with BootROM codes"

dontlaugh — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 18:38:34 +0000

More like it only happened because Sony restricted hardware access under Linux. If they had allowed GPU access, there would have been no motivation to attack the hypervisor.

New comment by dontlaugh in "The Origin of the Terms Big-Endian and Little-Endian (2003)"

dontlaugh — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 18:35:59 +0000

UDP is an implementation detail of QUIC, just a way to give IP-ish functionality to userspace. In practice, QUIC is a TCP alternative.

The OSI layer model is not necessarily as relevant as it used to be.

New comment by dontlaugh in "The Origin of the Terms Big-Endian and Little-Endian (2003)"

dontlaugh — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 11:44:20 +0000

For example, Cap'n Proto and QUIC are both little endian.

TCP is becoming increasingly less relevant, although I don't know if it'll ever actually disappear.

New comment by dontlaugh in "The Origin of the Terms Big-Endian and Little-Endian (2003)"

dontlaugh — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 09:40:44 +0000

Which will also become a historical artifact as new protocols are made to use little endian.

New comment by dontlaugh in "Iron Beam: Israel's first operational anti drone laser system"

dontlaugh — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 19:32:33 +0000

Yes, that’s exactly the kind of language the Nazis used. You merely further prove my point.

New comment by dontlaugh in "A super fast website using Cloudflare workers"

dontlaugh — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 15:06:37 +0000

Over 800ms is not even a little fast. I’m on WiFi to ADSL, lights static websites are way faster than that.

New comment by dontlaugh in "Loss32: Let's Build a Win32/Linux"

dontlaugh — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 22:16:07 +0000

Sure, although every distro has a default.

systemd/Linux maybe? Lots of things are more significant than GNU, either way.