That’s metal

My take is that pretty much everything should start out as a monolith and evolve organically from there. You will know if/when you need a separate service.

One of my all time favorite games. The only thing that would have made it better for me is a time-based story a la Dead Rising. Though that would have probably made the game even less successful than it was.

Feels good to hear someone else say this. I regularly try switching and always end up finding bugs in the DE or clients. Some issues I’ve found have existed for years with no fix in sight.

I worry we’ll end up in a situation where X11 starts accumulating bugs due to lack of maintenance while Wayland takes ages to mature.

The fact that Russia is able to compete at all with a budget that is a minuscule fraction of NATO’s should be frankly embarrassing for MIC bootlickers.

I hated how the game just kinda assumes you’re racist if you let them die. From what I remember, people call you out for doing it, and you don’t even get dialogue options to defend yourself.

It was both, but the space-y stuff is what I’m talking about:

I think “nasapunk” is fine (but I don’t like calling it that), and that Starfield was just poor execution.

I would say Prey aimed for a similar style and pulled it off. There were even actual space shuttles.

There are lots of old boomer/arena shooters with open source code. See Cube or old id Software games (not sure if anyone has released fully free playable versions of these).

In case you haven’t tried them, “semi-realistic” multiplayer shooters are a good middle ground. Games like Rising Storm 2 or Hell Let Loose (haven’t tried that one, but it looks good).

They have no esport interest, so people only play them to have fun, and the people playing are usually older. They have a lot of depth to them too, since the gameplay can be very asymmetrical.

As far as singleplayer game recommendations, try Prey (2017). I bounced off it at first, then came back later and it became one of my favorite games of all time.

Sounds like the command pattern to me.

I bet these ads don’t show up in pirated copies.

Ignoring the obvious bias of the author, I will address some points:

In spite of its unequivocal accomplishments and successes, China has, during the past decade or more, spawned a mountain of bad debt, unprofitable and uncommercial infrastructure and real estate, empty apartment blocks and little-used apartments and transport facilities, and excess capacity in, for example, coal, steel, solar panels and electric vehicles.

The author fails to see the bigger picture. Empty houses built when labor is plentiful become occupied eventually. See Pudong, once a “ghost city”, now has a population of 5 million. Infrastructure which doesn’t directly pay for itself does so indirectly. It should be obvious that extra capacity in solar panels and electric vehicles has potential to be a very good thing.

China’s leaders have been vocal this year about strengthening consumption and about improving the business environment for private firms and entrepreneurs, who have been pressured or punished to align their commercial interest with the party’s political goals.

Oh no, how dare the government force their interests on the poor businesses.

Fedora is nice, not based on Ubuntu, and it mostly “just works” out of the box. The only obnoxious part is having to manually install codecs to play videos.

Some projects are worse than others.

From your description, it just sounds like a typical bad C++ codebase that uses every language feature under the sun, with no regard for readability. If you spend long enough trying to understand it, you probably will, but you may regret doing so. Frankly, I would just pick a different project to contribute to.

Faster than JavaScript

JS is usually fast enough.

Has a smaller file size

It really depends. If you aren’t careful, your Wasm blob can end up ballooning in size. If you start pulling in libraries and doing things like parsing JSON, your binary can get big, quick.

Wasm adds an extra layer of complexity that needs to be justified. In most cases, it’s just not worth it.