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Comment · 3 years ago
I don't understand how OP could take that seriously. I can't think of anyone who has built a successful business and can trace their origins back to "I was very inspired by people on Twitter". I thought it would have been obvious that real success takes real work. "Digital influencers" are nothing more than sad people craving for attention online. Their success relies on idiots trying to mimic their "success". It's an emotional Ponzi scheme. Don't get stuck swimming in their vomit.
Comment · 3 years ago
I like meself a well-written and formatted article. Thank you.
Comment · 4 years ago
Did you mean 'hear, hear', or is 'here, here' something I missed?
Comment · 4 years ago
Of course they will. What they are less likely to do is to rewrite it in a completely different language (e.g. Rust.) C++ became popular in the first place because it could easily go along with C. No need to rewrite in bulk.
Comment · 4 years ago
"Building something from scratch is rarely a good idea."

Except when you actually want to learn something. Worst possible advice to give someone and I haven't even read the second sentence of this blog post.

Comment · 4 years ago
I see, so it seems to be taking off then.
Comment · 4 years ago
Rust doesn't even have a formal specification at this time. Technically speaking, everything in Rust is undefined behaviour. That's a hard sell for, e.g., people writing safety-critical systems.

Another problem recently was that compiling Rust required downloading a binary blob from Mozilla. That's a no-go for many projects.

Comment · 4 years ago
I see, I imagine the server you put on is by default public and joinable by anyone. This kind of stuff typically has some form of whitelisting or password protection to keep the server semi-private.
Comment · 4 years ago
Why is this downvoted? This is literally the TOS of much proprietary software out there. People don't read the TOS?
Comment · 4 years ago
> I guess I don't understand - the troll will report your 6 year old for dropping f-bombs?

They'll report for no reason, that's the point of trolling.

> And the chat logs (which MS will now have) will back then up?

I have not played Minecraft, but I'd be surprised if the server admins of any game of such scale acted on logs.

Also, I wouldn't want my kids to be logged on a corporate server.

> And why are you inviting trolls to play with your 6 year old?

Are the rooms invite only? Then what's the point of Microsoft's draconian measures here? I thought the point was to censor public servers, but again, I haven't played this much.

In any case, this situation already looks like defeat for an online community.

Comment · 4 years ago
Regulate them.
Comment · 4 years ago
'Fog Reveal'. I'm sure there's a secret tool out there called 'map hack'.
Comment · 4 years ago
You wouldn't use Teams if you cared about privacy. It's not the other people on the call you need the blur the background from.
Comment · 4 years ago
Does Australia have no property tax? In what Earth do you sink a one-time $10.5m payment into a house you can't maintain? Perhaps I am missing something very fundamental here. I can think of much better uses for those funds anyway.
Comment · 4 years ago

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