DacoTaco

DacoTaco, 18 hours ago (edited 18 hours ago)

Has nothing to do with their closed eco system. They basically did similar stuff with some of the stuff in the sm3d collection thingy.
Nintendo is a company that only wants make new stuff, innovations.
For example, they ( mostly miyomoto ) has been quoted to not understand that people want another f-zero, as the game’s principals and ideas have been fully flushed out and no new ideas could make it feel like something new.
They also usually dont do remakes/remasters unless its so new/different it can be considered a new game ( see metroid 2 on 3ds ).

If that is a smart business position to have, i will leave for you to decide, but do get your facts a bit straight :)

EDIT: also, nintendo has used open source projects for internal projects before, so idk how “closed ecosystem” is part of their stuff :)

DacoTaco, 9 hours ago

Haha, i kinda expected it tbh. The internet hates nintendo and doesnt know how they operate internally. Still wanted to make the comment, as it is needed.

DacoTaco, 5 hours ago (edited 2 hours ago)

Ye, the sm64 was just a jit emulation, you are correct there. Not gonna deny that either. The sms and smg emulations are interesting and impressive though. They basically use a combination of jit compilation and aot compilation to basically take in the rom and adjust code as they go, but its technically running +/- natively, if i read the switchbrew wiki page correctly, thanks to the aot compilation. I find that impressive, from a technical standpoint.
Could they have added more and do more changes? Yes, ofcourse. Im not saying the fan made stuff isnt impressive, it is and i love it!
But for nintendo, who strives to create new experiences and things, not rehashing older stuff, is why they kept it basic. For them adding that stuff doesnt make sense as the game doesnt add new enough experiences. They dont care if a bug is fixed or graphics are improved. Those dont get you new experiences or gameplay mechanics. Thats what nintendo strives for.

Again, if that is a good stance to have as a company i leave up to others to make opinions on, thats not up to me to decide or voice my opinion on ^^

Fyi, since you seem to know what youre talking about, nintendo’s r&d have used open source projects before internally and we assume it is done to look at older games and see how they worked or if they could be used to make projects like sm3d ( without doing what the license doesnt permit )

DacoTaco, 2 hours ago

And on top of that, latest versions of their tools are always free until the next release ( which is every 2-3 months ). Their words when i talked to them on some convention.
Subscriptions are bad as hell, but jetbrains is doing them alright imo

DacoTaco, 2 hours ago

Dotmemory, dotpeek, ryder, … :)
I have yet to get my hands on any good memory profiler and il decompiler in vs/vscode that didnt suck.
Ilspy/dnspy for il stuff, dotmemory is my go to for profiling.
Source : im a .net/c# desktop developer

DacoTaco, 1 hour ago

Nono, only female safety and men feelings! Read the sign! /s

DacoTaco, 2 days ago

The developers were told 6 months before release that it needed to have psn required. Granted, thats waaaaaay too late to tell a dev that, but they could have delayed the game. Instead, they made it half arse and still told sony it was good to go.
Imho, both have gone wrong here

DacoTaco, 2 days ago (edited 1 day ago)

Except thats not how it works here. Legal sexwork exists here, and pimps is are illegal.

DacoTaco, 3 days ago

“Je ne parle pas français” There you go, everything you need.

DacoTaco, 3 days ago

Nope, i also get that kick out of it haha. Love it.
Though, i must say that my french is really terrible so i might as wel just not speak it

DacoTaco, 3 days ago

Wouldnt “je ne sais pas parler francais” be more of a “i dont know speak french”? Like, sounding more gramatically broken?
The ‘parler’ is in an unconjugated form, i read that like its some broken form hehe

DacoTaco, 5 days ago

I will be honest, i am fully against tiktok and everything it stands for. It should burn in hell.

…However, the law the us passed to ban tiktok makes no sense whatsoever. At its core its as bad as china’s grasp on a lot of markets. I believe a more correct way is to ban the practices tik tok does and ban it from federal devices. However, such a law needs more effort and would also get us-based companies in trouble.
But even then, its a way better solution to the problem

DacoTaco, 4 days ago

… You didnt read my whole comment did you :p
I said the same thing, but more neutral and political :')

DacoTaco, 4 days ago

I agree fully, but pushing for a law that basically says “apps from a list of 6 countries are not allowed here unless moved to the us” is a bullshit thing and forces them to give the us more power and control over the data. Hence my comparison.

I believe they should put laws in order a la gdpr to protect users from the data stuff. You know, the actual issue of tiktok.

DacoTaco, 4 days ago

Hm, youre right. It is an uphill battle, and its a battle the eu has been trying to fight with big us tech for a few years now. They too should be punished and limited, just like tik tok. There has to be a way to punish them all, without forcing tik tok to become part of the big us tech family that the us can leach off. Its causing a shit ton of issues and problems that this does not solve imo.
Also, they cant ignore fines if you do it right, but the us will never do it right hehe :p

So, lets just kill off data hoarding and data sharing between platforms. Kill all shit like tiktok, meta, twitter, … In one fell swoop.

DacoTaco, 4 days ago

Oh, my idea isnt perfect. Not even close haha
It would cause platforms to become subscription based or be backed by large companies for their own profit ( see linux, github, and every open source, non profit organisation backed and/or managed by bigger companies ). No person on the internet would agree with that and its a hard bullet to bite.

Its just that from a eu citizen standpoint, this ban solves nothing for them. Its like giving the keys to everything for some bad guy to some other bad guy that both want to be above you.

And american citizens also dont benefit jack shit from this. If not, makes it worse for them as the tiktok data can now be used to make their lives worse, easier.

I will say that i agree something is better than nothing and something had to be done, dont get me wrong. I just think it was a half ass, political war bullshit choice they made with the resources they had that solves nothing besides “oh no, china be harvesting more data than us. Quick! Respond!”.
Meanwhile some eu countries took on a grander scale and banned tik tok apps on government devices, which does a better job than this imho ( source : edition.cnn.com/2023/02/28/tech/…/index.html ) AND they did it last year :p

There were also ideas pitched around to extend this to all social media apps, but i assume that was shut down due to obvious reasons.

DacoTaco, 5 days ago

I dont get it, anyone that can explain this one to me? I am completely out of the loop haha

DacoTaco, 5 days ago

Aaahhh, i know which comic youre talking about. I didnt know its title was loss. Thanks!

DacoTaco, 9 days ago (edited 5 days ago)

Vlc has hardware acceleration afaik. I think its more a case of the ffmpeg codec not supporting it yet because what the actual fuck haha

DacoTaco, 9 days ago

I do this with my .net barcode parserbuilder project. I make a few comments on the pr for them to fix, merge it and then go over it myself to clean it up. This way they feel appreciated because its merged and the code stays clean and consistent :)

DacoTaco, 12 days ago

Left? Dont you mean right?

DacoTaco, 13 days ago

Or empty if neither (shell access), but thats obvious hehe

DacoTaco, 15 days ago

It doesnt, it cant as the ads come from the same hostname as the videos itself afaik

DacoTaco, 15 days ago

Old gray mere aint what she used to be, aint what she used to be

DacoTaco, 15 days ago

I dont know, could be used to target tv’s and embedded devices. A user has less control there and they have free reign there. Wouldnt be surprised if they knew this