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SteveSmith16384

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    Comment #42624650

    The technology to do all of those things existed well before iPhones & Macs appeared. You may argue that "yeah but he made them popular", but the iPhone & Mac users were never in t…

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    Comment #42621871

    History would suggest otherwise. Ripping Woz off springs to mind. And is giving the world expensive Apple products making it a better place?

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    Comment #42610411

    Ah, the golden age of Android where any app could make you money.

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    Comment #42574232

    It makes such a refreshing change to have a web page not cluttered with adverts and popups. Just nice, clean, well-spaced-out text and simple organisation.

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    Comment #42245535

    I think it means "compile it into bytecode", which can then be run by the Runtime.

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    Comment #42137604

    If it makes any kind of decision whatsoever (like an "if" statement), slap the word AI on it.

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    Comment #42077358

    I'm going to call a non-chicken a chocken from now on. :)

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    Comment #41858390

    [flagged]

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    Comment #41858238

    When did the people specifically asked for this kind of system?

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    Comment #41858216

    Let's not go down this route here.

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    Comment #41847929

    I think they were just parodying the typical text that used to be shown against a page 3 girl bitd.

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    Comment #41847919

    https://www.gov.uk/government/news/dangerous-daffodils-and-1...

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    Comment #41696341

    I'd be very surprised if things were better today.

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    Comment #41625369

    Maybe this is the issue: 95% of the 2020 DGAC was found by an analysis to have at least one tie with a food or pharmaceutical company, and 50% had 30 such ties or more. ( https://w…

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    Comment #41625333

    The irony is that the government is supposed not to interfere with people choice, but for-profit capitalism is allowed to interfere in everything.

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    Comment #41489238

    GDScript is closely tied to the engine, making it incredibly easy to affect any part of your project. It's also very terse and simple to use, and anyone with a passing knowledge of…

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    Comment #41489130

    Godot much prefers composition over inheritance. It's possible to use inheritance in Godot, but no-one recommends it, except maybe for a data structure.

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    Comment #41487970

    I remember joking 10-15 years about how Sourceforge seemed to have far more game engines than actual games. Is this another one to add to the list?

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    Comment #41487936

    I'm not sure why you were using Inheritance in Godot? Just use the "gameobjects" paradigm as you did with Unity.

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    Comment #41434300

    Jeez, just don't go to Center Parcs already. Everyone knows it's massively expensive.

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    Comment #41320367

    Maybe they're letting the big corps get fatter ready for a big EU-style lawsuit.

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    Comment #41225782

    Related: I clicked on "Start your trial now", and got a 404.

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    Comment #41170170

    By the same token, generalizing the whole of Europe to say "33% increase also applies to health insurance" is a very broad brush.

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    Comment #41129974

    If (world_pace == false) solve_world_peace(); easy!

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    Comment #41101047

    "The WhatsApp messages seen by Bloomberg didn’t come from Vigna’s usual business mobile number. The profile picture also was different.." I think common sense was more than enough …