Since you haven’t said it either… This is in France.

Programming is just part of making a game, but can easily take all your capacity to learn it. You need to learn planning, estimation, graphics, music, either creating them yourself or working with artists, marketing, writing, dealing with distribution, community management, the list goes on.

You could say “making your own music is a good way to learn” and you’d be right, but if your goal is shipping a game, and learning game development, making your own music and building your own engine is not the way to do it. Unless your goal is learning these disciplines, not making a game.

Which is how I learned about Lemmy. I opened Boost one day and was like… Wait, something’s off. : )

It’s in Kotlin and some other languages. C# has it but there it’s actually A ?? B.

It’s a shorthand for writing this:

variable = if (input != null) input else default

This is equivalent:

variable = input ?: default

“Show all posts from newest to oldest” is an algorithm.

“Shows random 10 posts, unordered” is an algorithm.

It’s not possible to show a list of items without an algorithm. You may of course take issue with what the algorithm is, but you can’t not have one.

It’s a shorthand for writing this:

variable = if (input != null) input else default

This is equivalent:

variable = input ?: default

The answers confusing it with the ternary operator are wrong.

Because it’s not one. Ternary operator is A ? B : C, Elvis operator is A ?: B. The same two characters are involved, but both the syntax and effect is different.

Fair enough. Yeah, I never thought of open and closed source as two exclusive options, but two of many.

I myself publish an application which isn’t open source, but I publish the source code, as I believe my users have the right to know what runs on their computer, and have the freedom to audit, modify, and compile their own builds if they so wish. But I don’t want someone to take and resell my application. I have yet to encounter someone calling my app closed source, but I can see how someone could.

To make it more specific I guess, what’s the problem with that? It’s like having a “people living on boats” and “people with no long term address”. You could include the former in the latter, but then you are just conveying less information.

I am not aware of any definition of closed source published by OSI.

Closed source (or proprietary software) means computer programs whose source code is not published.

It’s not closed source, since the source is publicly published. It’s source available.

I said Vivaldi is not open source a 2 comments ago. I said I recommend Firefox and derivatives, including Librewolf, I said Brave may be more secure, but shouldn’t be used for reason that have nothing to do with it. Since you are not reading my comments anyway, I won’t spend the time.

I don’t dispute Brave may be private in the current version, but with all the things they did they are not trustworthy, with many write ups online, some going as far as to call it malware. You are of course free to disagree, if you don’t think your browser adding extra tracking to your links is a deal breaker.

I don’t know where you are reading that Vivaldi is closed source. The source code is right here: https://vivaldi.com/source/

It does have fingerprinting protection, it has blocking trackers and ads built-in, and you can enable site isolation and turn off third party cookies if you choose to.

I’ve never heard of Cromite so don’t have an opinion, but Brave is super shady, with crypto-shilling, ad-injecting, adding tracking codes to clicked URLs that didn’t have them, something so privacy ruining you’d be better of using Chrome. They can’t be trusted, and I’m not even getting to the CEO being a questionable figure. Nobody should use it, let alone anyone caring about privacy. People prioritizing privacy should be using Firefox or Vivaldi, both privacy focused browsers.

Vivaldi is not closed source. It’s not open source either (they don’t accept PRs), but the source is available.

I use it for a few years now, it’s very customizable. In my opinion the best Chromium-based browser. I recommend either Vivaldi or Firefox depending on your needs.

A drone is an unmanned vehicle, e.g. SpaceX drone boats serving as mobile landing pads, Ukrainian drone boats carrying explosives, drone research submarines, ground drones for mine defusal, etc.

This is definitely not a drone. It’s a quadcopter.

I imagine if such a candidate won, they would forfeit their win by not attending the inauguration and not getting sworn in.

And how does that handle a candidate who is in prison, and how is it different?

I don’t think he wasn’t believing in the force, he knew Jedi were real, he just wasn’t buying the mysticism surrounding it and didn’t think it’s such a big deal. He knew Vader is a powerful force user, but the Death Star is literally one shotting entire planets, so the force didn’t feel that significant to him in the grand scheme of things.