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> This has to serialize/deserialize the entire game state (everything that affects gameplay) into some format that can be later read from - conventionally, binary serialization, bu…

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Natively supporting Hebrew and other RTL languages is absolutely not worth the misery it has inflicted on programmers. > Nostalgia for the simplicity of the past ends up having ugl…

> I have no idea how the developers at Unity or Unreal stay sane. Isn't game dev famous for burning people out?

> cartoon twitter avatar This person’s political opinions are not worth listening to.

It’s a synecdoche.

You can’t have communist countries in “Latan” America because their industrial base and population expertise is even worse than the USSR. Not to defend the CIA’s actions, but Venez…

I like how you, with actual concrete real-world experiences you are sharing, are being downvoted by silent armchair enthusiasts who mostly just like GDPR because they get the sense…

When stories make baseless and grandiose claims like > While women have always made outstanding contributions in research, education, leadership, finance, and entrepreneurship in t…

Yes. Everyone disagreeing with you is just making excuses for manufacturers to turn customers into serfs.

Yeah, maybe when we’ve exhausted the sun’s net output.

> Under Proof-of-Stake, when the price of ETH increases, the security of the network does too This does not follow. Security level is independent of miner reward value under PoS.

You people obsessed with reducing humanity’s energy usage are so tiresome. Anyone who actually cares about the well-being of humanity should be focused on increasing the amount of …

What, exactly, is the “it” that you think has been proven false?

> No mystery that the effects of criminality seems to afflict entire families when the justice system is actively contributing to that. The overwhelming preponderance of evidence s…

> With improved laws, no one would be able to hold the web-accessible data hostage Could you explain this statement further? The way I'm interpreting it, it doesn't make any sense …

Sperm banks allow sperm to sit exposed to air (in a container) for 15-30 minutes to allow for liquefaction. Sperm actually have a rather long autogenous lifetime.

It's fairly expensive. You're looking at around $400/yr on a year-to-year basis for a single sample (which is only enough to get around a 30-70% chance of pregnancy depending on de…

You have to be able to guarantee that your liquid nitrogen powered freezer (expensive) will never fail even once over decades of storage (extra expensive). I'm not sure what kind o…

This kind of thinking is harmfully simplistic. When you rely on rules of thumb ("this sort of thing should go slowly") to make public health decisions, you are going to harm people…

The monotonic IQ increase can be attributed to improved nutrition and schooling. However, most evidence suggests that intelligence is genetically heritable to a large degree. Impro…

Freezing sperm costs on the order of $200-400 per year depending on how far you pay in advance. Worth paying if you're getting a vasectomy, but probably not worth it for this kind …