But if we’re wrong about climate change we’ll have made the air breathable for no reason. ლ(ಠ益ಠლ)

Small Basic is about equivalent to Scratch in terms of what you can do, but you have to actually write the code. It reinforces various coding principles in a more explicit way than Scratch.

The website has a printable curriculum that looks reasonable.

I think it’s an excellent stepping stone.

http://smallbasic.com/

It’s characters from a popular TV show as knitted figures.

Which works were sampled for this?

Installs, not downloads.

That’s my understanding as well. You could have a game on Steam that you haven’t even updated in years, and then you suddenly have to start paying for new installs from existing owners.

Actually, it’s potentially even worse. You could have a game that you released and then later removed from every storefront, but if people keep installing it, Unity will demand payment.

How does your engine compare to MonoGame?

Still sucks if you’ve got a team that’s really good at Unity, but yeah

Microsoft has Unity games. I can’t imagine they’re happy.

Same guy: https://kotaku.com/unity-john-riccitiello-monetization-mobile-ironsource-1849179898

Hindsight is 20/20, but maybe devs should have seen this coming 😑

I also watch it despite the “humor” 😅

Because DRM usually gets cracked within weeks, if not days?

Humanity is not a hive mind. We can’t just inform everyone instantly.

I am not sure of the relevance of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter is the cravings of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter

Yeah, totally. Repeating the same nonsensical sentence over and over is also how I converse. 🙄

It’s fine if you think so, but then it’s a pointless argument over definitions.

You can’t have a conversation with autocomplete. It’s qualitatively different. There’s a reason we didn’t have this kind of code generation before LLM’s.

Adversus solem ne loquitor.

Does AlphaGo understand go? How about AlphaStar?

When I say LLM’s can understand things, what I mean is that there’s semantic information encoded in the network. A demonstrable fact.

You can disagree with that definition, but the point is that it’s absolutely not just autocomplete.

https://thegradient.pub/othello/

LLMs are neural networks and are absolutely capable of understanding.

I agree you should use a switch where applicable, but ternaries are the expression equivalent of if-else statements. If I have two conditions and a default, and each branch simply evaluates to a value of the same type, I’ll probably just use a ternary.

Yes, you need to read code to understand it. If else statements can also do the job of a switch, so the exact same argument applies.

PHP is the only language in existence with a left associative ternary operator. Ignoring PHP, the operator has worked exactly the same way for decades. And even PHP has now fixed the operator.

I don’t think it’s reasonable to avoid a very commonly supported pattern just because a single badly designed language implemented it wrong.

How is it unsafe?

In the given example I’d probably use a switch / match expression, but ternaries are usually more flexible than switches and I don’t think it’s an issue to write a nested ternary instead of if else statements.

Ternary expressions aren’t switches though

Why?

It’s perfectly readable.

OP mentioned Holodomor, so I’ll just point out that ML’s generally don’t deny that there was a famine, or even that it was exacerbated by bad policy. The specific point of contention is whether it was intentional.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor_genocide_question

Even historians debate this, so I don’t think it’s reasonable to characterize it as “genocide denial”.

We still have more jokes than anarchy chess, though

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