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  • dog@suppo.fitoProgrammer Humor@programming.devExam Answer
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    8 months ago

    Yes, it’s a full 24 hours, but a library doesn’t use 24:00:00 to represent the last hour, it’s 23:59:59. Once it hits 24:00, it rolls over to 00:00:00.

    Hence my initial error of answering 23.

    It’s not valid, but I don’t edit out erronous answers because I believe all data should be preserved, no matter how dumb it makes one look.












  • Now if only CDPR would eliminate their crunch work environment, and release games when the DEVS say it’s ready.

    If you can’t afford advertising the game prior to launch, just don’t. That’s where for example Bethesda saved a ton of money. Released “complete” games within 1-3 months of the first announcement. (Do mind I’ve lost all hope in Bethesda)

    In other hand, over-promising in terms of what’s actually currently out is fine. The issue is when you …

    1. Don’t have the devtime. (Board releasing the game way before it’s ready, because marketing is so damn expensive, and the stockholders want it now not later)
    2. Don’t have the skill. (Which means re-training all your employees constantly)
    3. Don’t have the work morale. (Which leads to talent bleed, further exaggerating point 2.)

  • Interestingly, if they use UE5/6, a LOT of the growing pains of Cyberpunk 2077 are immediately solved.

    They wanted long-distance, high-detail scenes, but that led to the game running like shit.

    UE5+ is excellent for that. It allows for more detail than any other engine.

    Essentially they can now actually focus on producing a GAME, rather than a next-gen engine + a game, as was the case with Cyberpunk 2077.

    So I give them the benefit of the doubt here.

    Witcher is also a world they’re highly experienced in, so they don’t really need so much worldbuilding work either.


  • The same reason they’re currently going after big corpo for bundling in random shit in OS. Microsoft recently had to remove or make removable a lot of their bloat on Windows. Google recently had to allow search engine selection at first install.

    So antitrust legislation.

    To further the point: in Chinese brands, this is a NOTORIOUS issue, because they do everything in their power to try stop the user from:

    1. Uninstalling their bloat
    2. Installing any of their competition’s products
    3. Not having a shit ton of hidden trackers, which imo amounts to Spyware, even if you opt out of everything you can.

    I know Chinese phone brands sell for low prices because they’re selling Spyware, that dualpurpose as phones.

    And if everything was above board, I’d have no issue with that.

    Want to fill your “phone” with ads so it pays your loss back in time? Go ahead.

    Just let the user disable ALL of it if they so choose.