Latest Comments by Seegras
Immersion Corporation sues Valve over Steam Deck and Valve Index haptics tech
17 May 2023 at 3:45 pm UTC Likes: 7
17 May 2023 at 3:45 pm UTC Likes: 7
The patent system is completely broken. FUBAR.
This is an NPE (Non-Practising Entity) in patent-system slang, meaning they don't produce anything, they were just able to secure a patent for some reason, that's suing a company that produces something. It's called extortion everywhere else.
And while the patent system might have been put up with good intentions, it only ever works for chemicals as intended (because CHOOH2 is an entirely different chemical than CHOOOH2, and not a derivative, and this is well understood); everywhere else it serves as an intertwined mess of a hedge that prohibits newcomers to enter a market, or as weapon of corporate warfare for incumbents to kill startups.
This is a relatively recent paper on this:
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.27.1.3 [External Link]
And here is a rant from 1851(!) in "The Economist"(!) that already understood why a patent system is total dreck:
https://seegras.discordia.ch/Blog/voices-against-the-patent-system-the-economist-1851/ [External Link]
This is an NPE (Non-Practising Entity) in patent-system slang, meaning they don't produce anything, they were just able to secure a patent for some reason, that's suing a company that produces something. It's called extortion everywhere else.
And while the patent system might have been put up with good intentions, it only ever works for chemicals as intended (because CHOOH2 is an entirely different chemical than CHOOOH2, and not a derivative, and this is well understood); everywhere else it serves as an intertwined mess of a hedge that prohibits newcomers to enter a market, or as weapon of corporate warfare for incumbents to kill startups.
This is a relatively recent paper on this:
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.27.1.3 [External Link]
And here is a rant from 1851(!) in "The Economist"(!) that already understood why a patent system is total dreck:
https://seegras.discordia.ch/Blog/voices-against-the-patent-system-the-economist-1851/ [External Link]
Valve gave Steam store search a very useful upgrade
8 May 2023 at 3:21 pm UTC Likes: 3
8 May 2023 at 3:21 pm UTC Likes: 3
> handling typos a bit better too, matching up names a bit closer
Not sure how I feel about that. The bigger the indexed body goes, the more your queries get answers swamped with irrelevant stuff. Case in point is "I decided to ignore the numerical parameters in your error message" google.
Not sure how I feel about that. The bigger the indexed body goes, the more your queries get answers swamped with irrelevant stuff. Case in point is "I decided to ignore the numerical parameters in your error message" google.
Valve limits Steam store pages to 2 trailers before screenshots
3 May 2023 at 3:43 pm UTC Likes: 4
3 May 2023 at 3:43 pm UTC Likes: 4
Yeah, I hate it when I have to guess from the trailer what the gameplay might look like. "Hm, it looks like 3rd person action -- oh nevermind, it's top-down real-time strategy, and the only time you see it this up close is in the cut-sequences".
Another Steam and Steam Deck Beta brings fixes and Steam Input improvements
2 May 2023 at 3:42 pm UTC
2 May 2023 at 3:42 pm UTC
My steam on the desktop bailed out right away after the update. Turns out, steamwebhelper needs "apt install libsdl3".
Big Ambitions drops Native Linux support shortly after the Steam release
21 Mar 2023 at 10:21 pm UTC Likes: 3
But no. I'm on Linux since 1995 or so, and deleted my DOS/Windows3.11-partition in 1996 when DOOM came out on Linux. So I've been a Linux-user AND a gamer years "prior to the advances of gaming".
And yes, if a game doesn't run on Linux, one way or another, native or with wine or with emulators, I'm not interested. I won't run (native) Windows ever again.
21 Mar 2023 at 10:21 pm UTC Likes: 3
Quoting: InhaleOblivionAnyone of us who has used Linux for years prior to the advances of gaming understands why those of us who are lifelong gamers have two PC builds.I can see why you would want to do that, especially if you want to play certain multiplayer games.
But no. I'm on Linux since 1995 or so, and deleted my DOS/Windows3.11-partition in 1996 when DOOM came out on Linux. So I've been a Linux-user AND a gamer years "prior to the advances of gaming".
And yes, if a game doesn't run on Linux, one way or another, native or with wine or with emulators, I'm not interested. I won't run (native) Windows ever again.
Big Ambitions drops Native Linux support shortly after the Steam release
21 Mar 2023 at 10:48 am UTC Likes: 11
21 Mar 2023 at 10:48 am UTC Likes: 11
Porting always increases code quality.
But in the end, if you're not developing all platforms together, in the same codebase, with continuous testing, you'll end up with diverging code and a mess that is difficult to fix.
But in the end, if you're not developing all platforms together, in the same codebase, with continuous testing, you'll end up with diverging code and a mess that is difficult to fix.
Minecraft 1.20 adding Archaeology, Cherry Blossom Biome and a Sniffer mob
20 Feb 2023 at 3:21 pm UTC Likes: 1
20 Feb 2023 at 3:21 pm UTC Likes: 1
I'm currently playing https://beta.curseforge.com/minecraft/modpacks/all-the-mods-gravitas [External Link] but yeah. Usually I don't play modpacks for old versions (this runs on 1.18.2), but I made this an exception.
But vanilla? Well, for me right now there's not enough https://beta.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/create [External Link] in it...
(If you don't know what that is, well, watch the intro there. Yes, that's all done in-game).
But vanilla? Well, for me right now there's not enough https://beta.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/create [External Link] in it...
(If you don't know what that is, well, watch the intro there. Yes, that's all done in-game).
Epic Games needs your birthday to keep your account working in Heroic Games Launcher
19 Dec 2022 at 2:48 pm UTC Likes: 2
19 Dec 2022 at 2:48 pm UTC Likes: 2
So they've been sued and convicted for privacy-violations, and they decided to add another one?
Hint: If your behaviour is violating the privacy of kids, the solution is not to ask for a birthdate (which, by the way, already violates the privacy of kids) to only violate the privacy of adults.
Hint: If your behaviour is violating the privacy of kids, the solution is not to ask for a birthdate (which, by the way, already violates the privacy of kids) to only violate the privacy of adults.
Steam with Linux now available in Tesla cars (Beta)
14 Dec 2022 at 3:06 pm UTC
14 Dec 2022 at 3:06 pm UTC
Probably too late to convince anyone to a Tesla, as people are now looking for alternatives, where the company boss hasn't gone over to the Dark Side #DarthMusk
Steam Beta lets you create a collection filtered by games you and friends own
22 Sep 2022 at 5:45 pm UTC
22 Sep 2022 at 5:45 pm UTC
Nice. There was https://vennt.twodaemon.co.uk/ [External Link] before, which could do that (and obviously display it as diagrams too), but that appears offline.