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That’s probably what’s going to happen.

”See? The weather service didn’t alert in time. What a waste of money.”

You know they’re just going to get bonuses and promotions.

How well do toilets fare if water is replaced with milk?

It’s for their servers. I guess it might have to do with cache optimization reasons. For performance reasons, they want to ensure they can fit as much as possible in the cache. One extra byte can throw the memory alignment off, which cause wasted space in cache.

Just my guess. There might be other reasons.

Static lifetimes confused me when I started learning rust. The error message guides the developer to the wrong direction.

It took me a while to realize that just using Arc is sufficient in most of those cases.

They have made it very clear that they don’t want any contact. Enough many people have been killed in attempts to get contact with the tribe. I think the ethical thing to do is to respect their wishes and leave them alone.

I think the problem is that many introductory examples use unwrap, so many beginner programmers don’t get exposed to alternatives like unwrap_or and the likes.

I’m a OOP programmer.

I wrap everything within Arc<Mutex<>>.

I’m a happy dev.

This is why I rarely use AI for coding. How to put my thoughts into code is not my main concern. My main concern is that another person should understand my thoughts when reading the code.

”Premium”

All hope lies in Gloomwood then

Yes, but it’s still a major challenge.

I’m responding to the claim that ”It’s not a challenge” and that the game developers can just ”release the server for free”. It might be doable, but not easy. Especially when there’s a lot of time pressure involved.

I’ve been involved in creating an on-premise version of a cloud server. We decided the best approach was just to make it a separate thing with barebones functionality. Just ensuring the client side software could connect to this on-premise solution without crashing was hard work enough.

The thing is that making an on-premise product takes deliberate effort. It’s rarely ”just ship an exe file” (or even ”just ship a docker compose file”)

I believe if this is passed game studios will resort to the same approach my team did - just ship a barebones version of the server side software.

They probably don’t test the entire server architecture locally. Maybe only a fragment of it, with the rest of the environment either mocked, or against a shared dev environment hosted in the cloud.

Server side software is rarely ”just an exe”. It involves databases, cron jobs, message queuing, and other internal tooling or cloud infrastructure. All of these must be in place properly for the software to function.

I’m just reacting to the idea that ”releasing server side software for free” is trivial. It’s not. It requires deliberate effort from the engineers.

I’m speaking from experience maintaining server side software. I haven’t watched Pirate Software.

you release the server for free

That’s easier said than done. The server side software might rely on proprietary software. Releasing the server side software can be a legal licensing nightmare.

Also, the software might make many assumptions about the internal infrastructure setup. For example, it might assume that it has access to a hard coded S3 path. It’s actually a lot of effort to ensure a software can be run on anyone’s computer.

HL2 still holds up after 10+ playthroughs.

Last time I played it was when the commentary track was added. Played 80% of the game in one sitting because I was so hooked.

Ain’t nothing but a heartache

People build their identities around their cars because society is making sure that you feel confined without a car.